Box 11

Activity reports; correspondence with legal counsel Bernard Ashe re individual teacher cases; memos between Jim Conti and Ray Samson re possible NYEA challenges; ways to collect dues in anticipation of PERB prohibition; staffing issues; Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) rulings; Improper Practice Charges

Memos from Jim Conti to legal counsel Bernard Ashe re individual teacher grievances (tenure, layoffs, certification, insubordination), arbitration

Memos between Jim Conti and Charles N. Rodgers re Improper Practice Charges, including Avoca Central School District (Corning/Elmira), individual cases; health plan for George Jr. Republic employees; PERB decision and order re Harpursville Central School District; legal memos by NYSUT attorneys re tax-deferred annuity deduction at Unatago Central School District

Covers 1965-1999, with greatest focus in the 1970s and 1980s during Jim Conti's tenure as director of field services. Includes correspondence of Conti and of individual regional offices, activity reports and requests for legal assistance.

State Supreme Court documents in sexual abuse case, Haff et al. v. Peterson

Memos between Jim Conti, Frank Squillace, and counsel Bernard Ashe re long-litigated suspension case of Lorraine Gargiul (Liverpool Central School District); East Syracuse-Minoa Retirement System decision; tenure decision re Milton Bieber, Onondaga Central School District; seniority cases and procedure for breaking a tie; activity report re organizing nurses from Community General Hospital

Correspondence re 3020a charges (conduct unbecoming, insubordination), Onondaga-Madison BOCES District, North Syracuse, and Auburn Enlarged City School District; failure to hold election for retirement convention delegates; retirement, layoff, seniority cases

Letter to Commissioner Gordon Ambach, report to NYS Department of Social Services, and related material re Parents' Concerns about the Onondaga-Madison BOCES Program for the Deaf, Camillus Junior High School, 1979-1980; transcript of hearing in dismissal of bus mechanic, Lafayette Central School District, 1980

List of field representatives and their locals, 1978; PERB decision in Improper Practice Charge against Hampton Bays Teachers Association re agency fees, 1981; letter from NYS Public Employees Federation, AFL-CIO, thanking AFT president Al Shanker for assignment of negotiators, August 21, 1981; memos re individual teacher cases

Improper Practice Charges against Mohawk Central School District and Mohawk Valley Community College; newspaper clipping re federal court finding that NYS Teachers Retirement System discriminated against female teachers, with cover memo from Jim Conti noting opportunity to use issue in organizing retired teachers, October 6, 1981; memos re unemployment insurance cases, state health insurance