This series contains many press releases concerning new bills, Button's comments on current events and materials related to Button's speaking engagements. There are a number of teleprompt papers from televised events. The teleprompt paper remains connected together like an accordion and is delicate to handle. There are also a number of different drafts of Button's speeches, with handwritten revisions.
Materials are made up of correspondence, budget reports, and O'Leary's Curriculum Vitae.
Administrative Records from the term of Vincent O'Leary (1977-1990)
The Governor's Office of Employee Relations (GOER, also referred to as OER) ensures that all state agencies, including SUNY, observe all policies regarding state employees. It is with GOER that UUP negotiates its contracts and to whom UUP turns when it feels that SUNY is not following the contract or the state's employee rules. The correspondence in this series documents the wide variety of issues that UUP has brought to GOER's attention when it felt that SUNY was attempting to "unilaterally change the terms and conditions of employment" for members of the UUP bargaining unit. The primary correspondents are UUP's President, Executive Director (later Director of Staff), and Associate Director of Staff, and the various directors and assistant directors of GOER over the years. The specific topics covered vary widely, and have included over the years increased teaching workloads, changes in required office hours for faculty, the subcontracting of work by campuses, campus smoking policies, sabbatical leave, promotion guidelines, and clinical practice plans, to name just a few. The correspondence in this series also reflects UUP's concerns, as expressed to GOER, regarding activities of SUNY management seen as inappropriate such as the alleged harassment of grievants, alleged interference with attendance of members at union meetings, alleged disparaging remarks made by SUNY representatives regarding UUP or union activity in general, and in the late 1970s in allowing the presence of representatives of the American Association of University Professors on campus and providing them with meeting space and access to campus mail services in direct violation of UUP's recognition as sole bargaining agent.
Primarily outgoing correspondence from UUP's President, Executive Director (later Director of Staff) and Associate Director of Staff to representatives at SUNY Central Administration, including the Chancellor, Director of Employee Relations, Employee Relations Associates, and the Vice Chancellors of various areas including Academic Affairs, University Affairs, Employee Relations and Personnel, and Faculty and Staff Relations. The correspondence in this series requested SUNY to investigate practices on specific campuses that UUP objected to or requested clarification on. A wide gamut of issues were covered, such as the application of SUNY policies from one campus to another, vacancy announcements listing below minimum salaries, attendance reporting systems implemented on campuses, the ranking of professional positions, discretionary salary increases, concerns with building security on a campus, and SUNY's patent policy to name just a few.