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Professional Staff Association (PSA), 1971-1979

 File — Box: 43, Folder: 27

Scope and Contents

NYSUT - PSA Collective Bargaining Agreement, effective September 1, 1974 to August 31, 1979, as amended February 18, 1976; letter from head of the PSA to Tom Hobart, outlining main items of concern re workload and organizing, April 12, 1979; letter from head of PSA to Hobart, putting him on notice that if any PSA member's workload was increased, PSA would file an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, April 16, 1979; correspondence over whether a new public relations position would be part of the PSA bargaining unit, 1978; PSA Officers' Reports; letter to executive director Vito DeLeonardis from former employee Ira Goldman, asking to return to employment with NYSUT, noting his resignation from position at NBC, November 8, 1976; letter to Hobart advising him that PSA president Fred Day had resigned, and that the vice president, Donald Ehrhart, was assuming duties, April 14, 1976; letter from Day to Hobart, informing him of resignation, April 5, 1976; personal and confidential letter from Hobart to Day, expressing condolences at resignation, praising his work, April 7, 1976; requests for meetings between PSA and NYSUT leadership; letter to Hobart from Jim Conti as president of the PSA re transfers of PSA members to UniServ positions, September 25, 1972; letter to Hobart re new EEOC guidelines re maternity leave, prohibiting employers from forcing a female employee to take unpaid leave, May 26, 1972; correspondence re request by assistant directors to withdraw from PSA, December 1971; correspondence from several individual teachers (NYSUT members) and presidents of local teacher associations, most expressing support for striking PSA staff and settlement, September 1971; issues of Staff Line, PSA newsletter, re strike, September 1971; memo to NYSTA officers with attached list of PSA members who would be deleted from payroll, September 3, 1972; legal memo to executive secretary of NYSTA re petition for recognition by Professional Staff Association, March 11, 1971

Dates

  • 1971-1979

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

100.56 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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