NYSUT Officers Meeting, 1996

August 13, 1996. Agenda; letter to Hobart and related materials from National Alliance of Business, including brief paper, "Navigating the New Workplace," and newsletter, Workforce Development Trends; letter to Gov. Pataki from Paul F. Cole, secretary-treasurer of NYS AFL-CIO, conveying unanimous resolution by Executive Council deploring characterization of NYS AFL-CIO president Ed Cleary by state Commissioner of Labor as representing "everything that's wrong with the American labor movement," July 22; letter from the Urban League of Northeastern New York, updating on recent and planned activities; resolution by AFT condemning burning of churches; full-page ad in New York Times condemning burnings; letters of thanks for financial and other support from individuals and organizations; title page, table of contents, and acknowledgement of NYSUT for Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on Recruitment and Retention of Minorities in Education, "Forty Years after Brown: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on the Recruitment and Retention of Minorities in Education," April 9-11, 1995; materials from Service Employees International Union to shareholders of Beverly Enterprises re illegal replacement of 400 nursing home workers in Pennsylvania, including letter from NYS Comptroller H. Carl McCall, urging resolution of issue; resolution and cover letter from the Warrensburg Central School District Board of Education, calling for abolition of tenure, July 9; correspondence with Andrew Stern, president of Service Employees International Union, over inadvertent organizing contact with NYSUT affiliate at Suffolk Community College, July