Box 11

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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

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Legal memorandum by NYSUT counsel Bernard Ashe re U.S. Supreme Court decision re Northwest Airlines v. TWU re union responsibility for contribution to back pay awarded to female employees under Equal Pay Act, December 3, 1981; memo from Jim Conti to Bernard Ashe asking whether Mohawk Valley Community College should be forced to comply with Freedom of Information request; memos re disability and unemployment insurance claims

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Activity reports; regional office newsletter; memos to Jim Conti re ongoing organizing efforts, NYEA activities

Scope and Contents State Education Department Notice of Substantial Question as to Moral Character in the matter of the certificate held by John H. Swem, Peter Caesar Zeppeiro, Kenneth Snyder, and Donald H. Poole to teach in the public schools of New York, with memos re legal rights, question of whether NYSUT should defend in 3020a hearing; arbitration decision re salary grievance in Elba Central School case, and related memos; Court of Appeals memorandum upholding Tonawanda arbitration award re Central Square...

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Appointment calendar

Scope and Contents Memos to all regional coordinators re State Education Department procedures for 3020a hearings; booklet on the perils of self-funding health insurance, by the Blue Cross/Blue Shield marketing department; updates on (Reagan administration) Federal Labor Relations Authority decertification of air traffic controllers union (PATCO); memo re NEA contract settlement in San Francisco; summary of state Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) inspection standards for school buildings; memos re...

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Memos re Services Committee, self-funded health insurance meeting, strike report on NYC Catholic schools, organizing substitute teachers, request for statistics on 3020a (usually alleged sex abuse) cases, BOCES issues