Representatives for SUNY/United and
the office of Banloves Relations (OE) ‘met
on October 1 with PERB Hearing Officer
Janet Axelrod on the OER proposal for
designation of management/confidential titles.
From SUNY/United were President Larry
Debucia, Attorney Richard Symansky, and
SUNY/United Executive Director Fred Lambert. Our position
was that not only did we object to the titles
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well as “position specifications."
According to President DeLucia, "The union was prepared to use
subpoena powers, if necessary, to secure the position information for
each title. The job specifications demanded are vital information for
establishing our position on the OER proposal."
SUNY/United has demanded that Central Administration withhold any
and all action that may affect the terms and conditions of employment
for any employee whose title is being proposed as M/C while the procedure
is in progress.
In preparation for the conference with PERB, Larry DeLucia conferred
with resource people including: Vice-President Pat Buchalter of SUNY-
Albany; Secretary Dorothy Gutenkauf; and two former Vice-Presidents,
Alan Willsey of Cortland and John Valter of Stony Brook H.S.C.
As a result of the conference, OER agreed to supply the requested
information no later than October 17. PERB indicated that both parties
would be reconvened at the end of October.
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The SUNY/United chapter at Oneonta held a campus social on October 4.
Secretary Dorothy Gutenkauf brought the greetings of the Central SUNY/
United office.
Chapter President Dennis Shea acted as host and others present
included Fred Miller of the Executive Board and Ed Wesnofske, Legislative
Committee Chairman; NYSUT Regional Coordinator Bob Manners and Field
Representative David Kleinstuber were also in attendance.
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Leila Moore, chairperson of SUNY/United's Grievance Committee,
has ce Tee eer oon oe sepue-guisvanes chelpersone is be at_a survey of campus grievance chairpersons is being
conducted in order to obtain input for the contract reopener. Material
obtained from the campuses will be reviewed the week of October 8, with
an update report due to the Delegate Assembly on October 13.
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On Thursday, October 3, two third-step grievances were presented
by si ed. Questions revolved around sabbatical leaves an
retirement. Director of Administration Harvey Randall represented
the Office of Employee Relations and Jack Stein and Ellen Suarez
represented the grievants.
The next voice you hear. . . You may have noticed a new and
pleasant greeting on our Central Office telephone. This is the voice
Of the latest addition to our staff, Mrs. Linda Sloan, who is now
functioning full-time as receptionist-secretary.
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Tuition waiver surveys coming in. . . Eleven campuses have
responded so fer with reportson the toition waiver situation whe
matter is being reviewed to develop the most appropriate course of action.
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Secretary Dorothy Gutenkauf and family are ensconced in their new
Albany home. eir ress is Myrtle Avenue, 12208; telephone,
518-482-6177.
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Preparations are nearly completed for mailing the ballots for the
new zeisvandan on Reticle # <p eooeerat ‘as authorized at the last Executive
Board meeting.
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PERB has notified CSEA representatives Attorney James Roemer and
Richard Glasheen that their presentation of showing that splitting our
bargaining unit would be appropriate had "not met the test." The PERB
notice followed a pre-hearing conference held September 21.
PERB allowed the petitioners until today, October 5, to file an e
affadivit with any additional claims they would like to make. Failure
to provide information or evidence to meet the "test" would obviate the
need for a hearing.
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Qn October 3 eighteen campuses were represented at an Advisory
Committee on 1 Magoriacions Tee eng which tock which took place at Albany. The all-
day session generated input for the Negotiating team headed up by Leland
Marsh. Officers present to greet the members included President DeLucia,
Vice President Fred Burelbach of SUC-Brockport, Vice President Patricia
Buchalter of SUNY-Albany, and Secretary Dorothy Gutenkauf. Approximately
forty members were in attendance.
The Negotiations Committee met the next day to advance the preparations
for the upcoming reopening of the contract. Negotiations Specialist
Ron Uba of NYSUT attended both sessions.
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President DeLucia was the guest speaker at the recent Plattsburgh
annua. ‘a. mner meeting, hoste: y ‘esident Herman Doh of the SUNY/
United chapter. In his speech, President Delucia expressed concerns
that any action indicating internal difficulties might be fatal to the
Article XIX settlement as well as to future negotiations.
Lee Clark of NYSUT's regional office at Plattsburgh was also on the
program. Other guests included: Gary Duesberg, NYSUT Executive Board e@
member and NEA Director; and representatives from the Police Benevolent
Association and Labor.
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the subject of discussion throughout the university.
For Your ‘The Chancellor was alerted to the concerns
of the officers relative to any change in the
funding of tuition waivers on campuses. During
i the exchange, the officers also pointed out the
SUNY/United need for funding promotions without reduction
Septenber 28, 1973 of other
programs.
_The SUNY/United officers in attendance aoe
Gepimes aroun ts state ere elerting SUNY/United Central of local administration
attempts at ition 0! i conditions. SUNY/United is standing
strong against any arbitrary decisions or dealings with any other organization or body.
Copies of Chancellor Boyer's letter, dated September 8, 1972, reaffirms clearly that all
@ ee isting salary, hos, ete, would be carried on only between the university
and SPA-SUNY/United. ‘These copies have been distributed to all Chapter Presidents.
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President Lawrence A. Delucia is in the process of surveying all state campuses to
determine where the problem areas exist.
SUNY/United's position—tuition waivers are a benefit which cannot be reduced
unilaterally—is that appropriate action will take place if necessary to prevent such
action.
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SUNY/United menbers in the news - John Grosvenor, Professor of Arts and Languages
at Cobleskill has been named as "Distinguished Teaching Professor" by Chancellor Ernest
Boyer. The new rank was awarded to eight other professors within SUNY.
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‘The Office of Employee Relations has been notified that SUNY/United intends to
rs ‘on ten pending arbitration cases. OER has assured
SUNY/United that they will cooperate fully. ‘The newly-formed Grievance Cammittee—
Ieila Moore (Albany) and Fred Burelbach (V.P. Academic)-participated in the review
of all pending cases at the arbitration level.
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the Advisory Committee on iations will consult with the Negotiations Committee e
before it returns to the "table" early in November.
‘According to chief negotiator, Leland Marsh, the new Committee consists of one N.T.P.
and one Academic from each campus, selected by the Chapter Executive Committee.
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A ing conference before PERB ing CSEA's petition was recently held
in Albany.
Representing SUNY/United were President Lawrence A. DeLucia, attorney Noel Cohen,
and Executive Director Fred Lambert. CSEA participants and representatives from the
state were also in attendance.
PERB hearing officer, Janet Axelrod, said she would "take the matter under advisement
and make a recommendation as to whether or not a hearing should be scheduled."
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correlating information from various campuses. President Delucia was in attendance,
as was NYSUT Negotiations Specialist Ronald Uba of Buffalo. The next meeting is
scheduled for October 4.
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Talks between the Chancellor's office and Suites began last week as the initial @
meeting for the new Joint Committee on Articles was set for early October.
Committee menbers—appointed by Lawrence A. DeLucia-are Patricia Buchalter
(V.P.-N.T.P.) and two former N.T.P.-V.P.'s—Alan Willsey (Cortland) and John Valter
(Stony Brook H.S.C.).
Joint meetings will be held on a regular basis to discuss and review problems of
Article 33 and 34 implementation.
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public about our unhappiness with the salary situation.
Contact Secretary Dorothy Gutenkauf-Central Office-for further information and
resource materials. Notify this office and the local news media of your plans.
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Reminder — SUNY/United Fall Delegate Assenbly is scheduled to convene on Friday
evening, October 12, in Albany.
Since officers relinquish their seats in the Assembly, new delegates must be
elected to replace them.
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dispute met this week to continue developing
For Your their response to the fact-finders' report.
He has already assured the committee that we
are prepared to present supportive evidence
or any additional input they may require.
September 20, 1973
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Women teachers are entitled to receive sick leave pay for absence due to childbirth, the
‘Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities ruled recently.
In a precedential case, financed by the Connecticut Education Association and NEA, the
commission decided that teachers are entitled to accumilated sick leave pay for the
time they are on maternity leave.
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Strategiés for the upcoming PERB hearing on Management/Confidential Titles were
Tecently formulated by President Larry DeLucia, John Valter (S.B.HSC), Pat Buchalter
(V.P.-NIP), Alan Wilisey (former SPA-V.P.) and Dorothy Gutenkauf (SUNY/United-Secretary) .
Also present was the attorney who will represent SUNY/UNITED at the hearings, as well
as Fred Lambert, SUNY/UNITED Executive Director.
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‘Iwo academics at the New Paltz campus won term renewals, thanks to the successful
negotiations by the Chapter leadership.
Happily-—after a direct appeal by the grievance chairman at Step 1-—the orievants were
awarded redress through local channels.
Congratulations to New Paltz!
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At the Buffalo College Campus, the SUNY/United Chapter leaders took a strong stand
against the administration and won!!
The college President attempted to change tuition waivers from the customary 1008 to
only 753.
In an open confrontation with him, SUNY/United defended the waivers as a condition of
employment, hence only negotiable.
‘The recent campus bulletin contained an announcement of waivers remaining at 100%--
good work - SUNY/United.
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Chancellor Boyer on Friday, September 21st. Such meetings are in implementation of
contract Articlé Ix, Section B.
Presidents meeting
SUNY/United chapter presidents from across the state met with President Delucia and’ the 8
Executive Board last Saturday in Albany. Also at the mesting was Dan Sanders, NYSUT
First Vice-President, providing .details about the NYSUT supportive services package
unanimously approved by the Executive Board Friday evening. Chapter presidents and
grievance chairpersons have already been informed that the NYSUT regional service
centers are at their service for assistance with local problems and Step 1 grievances.
Many campus leaders--who have already taken advantage of the availability of higher
education specialists at the regional offices--report that response to their requests
for information and assistance have been quick and thorough.
‘The chapter leaders also received a thorough briefing from President Delucia on current
developments relating to salaries, the management confidential problem, and challenges
to SUNY/United. In addition, packets of informational materials for use in campus
activities and recruiting were distributed.
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President DeLucia will be the key-note speaker at the annual SUNY/United dinner at
Plattsburgh.
Also scheduled to speak will be Gary Duesberg--a menber of the NEA Board of Directors
and the New York State United Teachers.
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SUNY/United Central has been asked to survey all campuses to discover local policies
dealing with Personnel File:
Plecee let us Poor Week dontients.are available, low facility oo ebout getting atcess to @
their files and any particular policies used by your administration to deal with the issue.
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New service cuts prescription drug onst - NEA is announcing this week a new program designed
fo Save menbers money on quality medicines and health-care items. Pharmaceutical Services,
Inc., a mail-order pharmacy associated with Kansas City Research Hospital, has been
selected to administer the program, which will offer NEA members and their families
more than 1,500 prescription and nonprescription items at discount prices.
Menbers interested in the program should write to NEA Special Services, Room 4045,
1201 - 16th Street, N.W., Weshington, D. C. 20036, for a copy of the "NEA Prescription
Service Catalog."
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We are receiving reports from chapter leaders at several campuses of new attempts by
SUNY campus administrations to attempt to impose subtle changes in terms and conditions
of employment through consultation with faculty governance bodies. Such activities are
showing up in regard to tuition waivers, parking fees, and semester length--to mention
just a few. Should similar problems arise on your campus, please let us know 1
50 that we can help you resist such potential improper practices successfully.
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President Larry DeLucia recently met with
representatives of the New York State Legislature
regarding the status of the legislative hearing on
negotiations.
The meeting, which was held in New York City,
came as a result of continuing efforts to get a
September 7, 1973 favorable response.
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The SUNY/United negotiating team met Friday, September 7, in a planning session for
upcoming negotiations. The team, which is chaired by Leland Marsh of SUC at Oswego, includes
Gail Hotelling (SUATC-Delhi), 0. Michael Lilien (Upstate Medical Center), John Valter (SUNY-
Stony Brook Health Science Center), Janet Havens (SUNY-Albany), Bruce Lercher (SUNY-
Binghamton), Michael Robbins (SUATC-Farmingdale), Edward Schaffer (SUC-Plattsburgh), Samuel
Wakshull (SUC-Buffalo), and Samuel Shaw (SUC-New Paltz). President DeLucia was also on
hand at this session.
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Fred Lambert, Assistant to President Tom Hobart of NYSUT, has been working in the
UNY/United office for the past several weeks. Lambert is assisting in carrying out staff
luties.
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President Larry DeLucia attended the AFL-CIO Convention which concluded September 6 at
Kiamesha Lake.
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Ed Purcell, Assistant Executive Director, has resigned to take a position in Pennsyl~
vania. Larry DeLucia wished Ed the best of luck in his new endeavors. "Ed's services
will be missed by SUNY/United. Our loss is Pennsylvania's gain," he said.
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ent Pat Buchalter and former NIP Vice-President Alan Willsey have agreed
to participate with Larry DeLucia in upcoming hearings on State proposals to reclassify
members of the unit as Management/Confidential. They will meet September 10 with legal and
professional staffers. The first hearing is scheduled for September 13.
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Ginny Carpenter, Administrative Assistant, has notified the SUNY/United officers that
she wishes to terminate her employment effective September 14. Ginny plans to move to the
Great Wide West.
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Although we have not yet received official notice, it appears that a petition for
eparating Non-Teaching Professionals from the bargaining unit has been filed in behalf of
SEA. We are confident that this effort to divide our organization will be unsuccessful.
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Quote of the Week: "The success factor of any organization is directly proportional
to the percentage of membership." Let us know if we can help you to enlist more of our
colleagues in SUNY/United. e
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President Larry Delucia has been appointed by the United Teachers Board of Directors
to serve on the Political Action Committee headed by NYSUT President Tom Hobart, as well
as the Committee to Study the Goals for Elementary, Secondary and Continuing Education.
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At Washington---AFT Convention Report
Political power for education through Congress +- political strength for teachers
through a merger of AFT/NEA -- were priority topics at the AFT'’s 57th Annual Convention
held August 19-24 in Washington, D.C.
More than 2,000 delegates convened at the Sheraton Park Hotel, including more than
700 delegates from New York State.
The SUNY/United delegation -~ led by President Larry Delucia -- included Fred Miller
(sUC-Oneonta), Joseph Drew (SUNY-Buffalo), Edward Wesnofske (SUC-Oneonta), John Valter
(SUNY-Stony Brook Health Science Center), Alan Willsey (SUC-Cortland), Sam Wakshull (SUC~
Buffalo), Margaret O'Bryan (SUNY-Buffalo), Doris Knudsen (SUATC-Morrisville), Dorothy
Codkind (SUC-Potsdam), Donald Duell (SUATC-Cobleskill), George McGinn (Maritime College), @
and Dorothy Gutenkauf.
The main thrust of the four-day meeting was teacher unity through merger. In his
"State of the Union" address, President David Selden told the delegates that "the oppor-
tunity for teacher unity is at hand... demanding entry with the voices of three million
teachers."
Attention at the Convention was also lent to the election of a veto-proof Congress
in 1974, Delegates heard Senator Birch Bayh (D) of Indiana attacking President Nixon
for his irresponsibility and abuse of power in impoundment of educational funds. The
Senator stressed that the most important issue facing the nation was the separation of
powers and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights inherent in the United States Constitution.
"All workers have more in common than in conflict" -- words of President Selden borne
out by members of the Convention including SUNY/United delegates as they picketed the
White House and a leading Washington department store to support striking employees of
Farah Slacks.
A full report on resolutions from the Convention will follow.
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where active chapter leadership brought
about grievance victories.
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Rogust 31, 1973 | In one instance, the college Presiden
| faculty members. He issued a memo to his
deans stating that continuing appointment
was to be denied because "tenure to the
faculty involved would contribute to a
tenure percentage in excess of that recommended in a certain nationally-
published discussion of tenure."
In so acting, the President established a tenure-quota by
department for his campus. The chapter president - recognizing the
seriousness of the situation - contacted SUNY/United officials.
With a combination of skills and energy - a significant settlement
was won - as all six faculty received the continuing appointment
requested.
At another campus, an NTP alerted his campus grievance chairman to
improper procedures regarding his evaluation. The grievance chairman
set about the task of filing a grievance and gathering the necessary
documentation for the case.
As a result of quick action taken on campus, and in SUNY/United
Central, correct procedures and rights were awarded to the grievant.
SUNY/United Officers met with Tom Hobart, NYSUT President and
other NYSUT officials on Thursday, August 30, to discuss ways in
which our affiliates can contribute to solving our immediate and long
range problems.
REMINDER: Chapter Presidents and Executive Board plan to meet on
September 14 in Albany.
Extra copies of the recent issue of VOICE are being distributed
to exch senpas via Charter Erepitente:< tk conteinesan up-date of the
salary. negotiations - please be sure they are distributed - possibly
as good recruitment literature.
It also contains information on retirement systems in the
university which are important to new faculty.
decided not to grant tenure to six qualified
The following is an excerpt of recent pension reforms from
the special session of the legislature regarding New York State
Teachers' Retirement System.
More complete information will follow to all members.
A. Chapter 1046 of the Laws of 1973, S.1-A.1, affects retirement
plans for existing and new public employees. Generally, the
statute embodies the recommendations of the Select Committee, @
chaired by Judge Milton Alpert.
1. FOR MEMBERS who last joined this System BEFORE JULY,1
1973 all existing temporary provisions, except those relating
to death benefits, are now permanent. Death benefit provisions
are extended for an additional year.
2. FOR ANNUITANTS, the cost-of-living supplemental
retirement allowance is increased by 60% for those retirees who
retired prior to October 1, 1957. (The present cost-of-living
supplemental retirement allowance and widow's supplemental
allowan7e were extended for an additional year by Chapter 383 of
the Laws of 1973. Under Chapter 382 of the Laws of 1973, restrict-
tions on hiring pensioners apply to those hired as consultants.)
3, MEMBERS “ho join(ed) this System ON OR AFTER JULY 1
1973 are covered during 1572-74 under previous existing temporary
provisions, except those pertaiuing to death benefits. However,
the following are applicable. =
A minimum of five years of credited service will be
required for retirement.
Final average salary will be based on the highest three
consecutive years with certain exclusions, one of which will exclude
that portion of any increase exceeding 20% of the average of the
salaries for the two previous years. Five years of service with the
current employer will be required for inclusion of salary in final
average salary.
These members may retire at age 55 or older upon completion @
of at least 30 years of service, or at age 62 or older with less
than 30 years of credited service, without reduction in benefits.
Retirement between the ages of 55 and 62 with less than 30 years of
credited service will be on a reduced benefit basis.
Persons who rejoin this System will be able to reclaim
credit after five years of service under their new membership.
These members will have the choice (irrevocable) of 1) an
ordinary death benefit including a death gamble provision of one
month's salary for each full year of service up to a maximum of three
years' salary after 36 years of service, or, 2) a death benefit
(tapering after age 60 at the rate of 10% per year) of one year's
salary after a year of service, two years' salary after two years of
service, three years' salary after three years of service. The death-
benefit provision for members who join at age 52 and later will be
reduced.
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For these members, Option 1 is discontinued. In its place
are two new options--a "five-year certain' and a "ten-year certain,"
guaranteeing payment for five or ten years respectively following
retirement. In case of the death of the retiree before the end of the
"certain" period of time, each of the new options provides the
xetiree's estate or beneficiary with the undisbursed balance of the
guaranteed amount. If death occurs after the "certain" period, the
estate or beneficiary receives no payment.
B. Chapter 1047 of the Laws of 1973, S.10-A.10, an amendment to
S.1-A.1, exempts teachers from statutory provisions in re to r)
crediting part-time service, provided the System's pertinent
rules and regulations are approved by the Permanent Commission on
Public Employee Pension and Retirement Systems.
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S lated same 900 votes cast for delegates to the
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Participating in the task of counting the
votes were Doris Knudsen (Morrisville), Donald
Duell (Cobleskill), Edward Wesnofske (Oneonta) ,
Leila Moore and Patricia Buchalter (Albany).
‘Twenty delegates were elected to represent
i SUNY/United at the meeting.
Those attending were led by President Lawrence Delucia.
Dorothy Codkind Fred R. Miller
Joseph Drew Margaret O'Bryan
Donald Duell John Valter
Dorothy Gutenkauf Samuel Wakshul1
James Gill Edward Wesnofske
Doris Knudsen Anne M. Willcox
Gearge Alan D. Willsey
Attention! When reproducing dues deduction cards for local use, be
absolutely sure that the rigid size requirements of the Comptroller's office
are adhered to.
Maximum size is 71/4 inches wide and 31/4 inches deep.
Mass distribution of menbersiip blanks (as in your newsletter) can be
an effective recruitment tool, be careful of the size.
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‘The SUNY/United Executive Board expects to meet Septetber 14-15 in Albany.
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‘The State-wide AFL-CIO Convention has been scheduled for September 5-7
at the Concord Hotel, Kianesha Lake, New York.
SUNY/United has been designated as Local #2190.
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NEA Convention Report By Doris U. Knudsen
ITEM: Talks between AFT and NEA re: possible meryer will begin this year.
ITEM: 95% of the delegates voted in the election of officers and By-Law amend-
ments--almost twice the usual percentage.
ITEM: A new Constitution and By-Laws and Schedule of Transition was adopted.
ITEM: New President-Elect: Jim Harris, Iowa; Elected Executive Committee Members:
Roberta Hickman, Illinois, incumbent and Vivian Bowser, Texas.
A softening of the previous NEA stance against merger with AFI-CIO affiliates
was apparent both in statements made during the week by Pres. Catherine Barrett and
Pres. Elect Helen Wise to the convention delegates and to the press, and in business
items adopted by the delegates. The only remant of the previous hard-line attitude
is the apparent refusal to consider actual AFL-CIO menbership--at at cost of 10¢/
menber/month.
The large voter turnout seemed to be due in large part to the issues of merger,
unity, desires for full professional status and full bargaining rights. These issues
were forcibly brought to the attention of all delegates through the Cortese campaign
for President-Elect, and the actions, on and off the floor, of the New York State
delegates.
‘A second factor in the voter turnout was the amendment by substitution of the
new Constitution and By-Laws. This document, written by a Committee between the pre-
sent Constitution and the proposed Con Con Constitution, will go into complete effect
1 Septenber 1975. ‘This document moves the NEA closer to the times but 1) fails to
accord a ‘one-man one-vote' to the delegates to the Representative Assembly; 2) retains
the requirement of 5 years active NEA menbership for candidacy for office; and 3)
institutes ethnic-minority representation which is difficult to interpret—much less
comply with.
All of the candidates for office gradually altered their campaigns from per-
sonality, motherhood and apple pie to positions on the above-mentioned issues. Walter
Tice, potential candidate from New York for the Executive Committee, was declared
ineligible as he did not meet the 5 year active NEA membership requirement. This
requirement was probably adopted to prevent an inexperienced (hardly an appropriate
adjective to apply to Walter) person from obtaining a high policy determining position.
Other delegates representing SUNY/UNITED in Portland were Gary Barber (Fredonia) ,
(Farming-
Minerva Goldberg (Buffalo) , Dorothy Gutenkauf (Cortland), Kathleen Herbermann (
dale), Margaret O'Bryan (Buffalo), and Mary Lou Wendel (Oneonta) .
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I suny/United will be held October 12th
Ss and 13th at the Central Avenue Holiday
a Inn in Albany.
For Your There will be a constitutional
amendment submitted by the Executive Board
dealing with our change of name. As you
know, we are not legally permitted to use
the name of SUNY/United. Once legal
counsel has ascertained the availability of
certain names, a recommendation will be
forwarded to all delegates next month.
August 17, 1973_
Credential forms will be forwarded to chapter presidents early in
the Fall. Since officers relinquish their seats in the Delegate
Assembly, new delegates must be elected to replace them. Please refer
to the procedures specified in the By-Laws as amended.
Proposed Bi aws Amendments, in order, to be considered by the
Fall Delegate Assembly, must be circulated at least two weeks prior to
the Assembly.
If you have any proposed amendments to be considered by the
Executive Board and the Assembly, please forward to Central Office,
prior to September 5th. :
available for inspection. smbership as of August 15, stands at 3,772
members which is down from 3,853 of June 30.
Plentiful copies of the Agreement are readily available from Central
Office - this could be used by chapter leaders as a recruitment tool
for the new faculty members on your campus.
The Board of Trustees' Policies is available to all at local per-
sonnel offices.
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SUNY $$ impasse holds; ®
local official is angered
Ottaway News Service
ALBANY — The impasse
between the State and SUNY-
United, which represents some
32,000 ' professors and non-
teaching professionals in_ the
State University of New York
(SUNY) system, seems to be
still just that — an impasse.
Spokesmen for both sides in
the contract dispute say there
hhas been no movement and no
negotiations,
Without a continuation of the
talks that broke down last
spring there is not likely to be a
seitlement until the Legislature
convenes next January.
‘A. legislative committee has
teen considering the impasse,
Dut it didn’t make a report on
its hearings to the Legislature
in time for action during the
special sesion that adjourned
earlier this week.
‘The failure of the Legislature
to move to seitle the dispute
érew sharp criticism from
Dennis Shea, president of the
SUCO chapter of SUNY-United,
yesterday.
“The failure to act «
‘gross display of insensi 5
those who were responsible,”
Shea said.
“Our representatives
bargained in good faith through
out the vear and aereed, for the
sake of settling the “current
Congratulations to the SUNY/United Chapter at Downstate Medical
dispute, to accept the impartial
factfinder’s report. That report
recommended a five per cent
across the board increase for
197374 and an additional
amount of 114 per cent to be
allocated for selected salary in-
creases for meritorious per-
formance,” he said,
Shea argued that the overall
cost of living has risen more
than five per cent this year and
that food prices have risen even
more. “These facts of life have
Please send an’
een recognized in other stare
‘employees’ contracts this year.
By failing to act the legislature .
has callously cut by @ least five” *
per cent the purchasing power
of the academic and prov
fessional employees of the State
University,” he said.
It is generally expected that
when the contract dispute is
settled, even if it does not come
until “January when the
press clippings you may
Legislature reconvenes,
raises will be retroacti
Shea said SUNY-United
officlals’ discussed their situa-
tion with Sen. Edwyn Mason (R-
Hobart), long a critic of the
SUNY system, “He stated that
our position was reasonable and
agreed to sup}
cent increase,
adding that SUNY-United
appreciates that support.
pay
pick up in your local newspaper to Central
Office for state-wide distribution.
Feel free to adapt news items from FYI
and THE VOICE for use as local press releases.
If your Chapter does not have a local com-
munications program - be sure to organize one
during the early part of the school year.
ae
Center for leading the organization in net membership gain this month
with a total of 13 new members, followed with 5 new members recruited e
by the Plattsburgh Chapter.
: Albany Times Union August 13, 1973
Cases on Maternity Leave
Taken to Supreme Court
By SYLVIA CARTER,
Newsday
‘The battle over whether teachers have the right to work
while pregnant may finally be settled by the U.S. Supreme
Court, which has agreed to hear a case involving a social
studies teacher from Virginia. Meanwhile the mandatory ma-
ternity leaves imposed by some school distriets already have
been toppled in several lower courts.
‘The Supreme Court accepted July 6 a brief filed by Susan
Cohen, the Virginia teacher, and is expected to accept briefs
in a case involving two junior high school teachers from
Cleveland. The National Education Association. 1.200.000
members strong, is providing legal expenses and support to
all three teachers.
THE TEACHERS ARGUE that forced maternity-leave
poricis.'violate the teackers' rights to equal protection under
the Mth Amendment
‘Also when they are forced to take maternity leave instead
of sick leave, pregnant teachers are not paid for a period of
time specified by the district. If they were allowed to use sick
eave, they would be paid their regular salaries plus fringe
benefits.
Schoo! boards have defended the maternity leave policies
mostly on the grounds that they are protecting the health of
the mother ard the unborn chilé, thot they a for
children and that insurance
m if tea lowed to work in the last
month of pregnancy.
Ms Cohen, who in 1971 became the first teacher to suc-
cessfully challenge such a policy in the lower courts. said in
hher petition that the maternity poliey “must be viewed for
what it truly is, an anachr ‘
MS, COHEN, who teaches in Chesterfield County, Va..
asked that her maternity leave begin on April 1, 197. alter
she learned that her baby would be born near t
April. The county's board of education insisted that
teaching on Dec. 18, because its poliey required teae
fon maternity leave at the end of the fitth month ot pregnaney.
1 quit
cision was then overturned by the Fourth U.S Circuit Court of
“Appeals. Ms. Cohen is appealing that ruling.
‘The Cleveland teachers, Jo Carol LaFleur and Ann Eliza-
beth Nelson, were forced to take unpaid leave from the fourth
month of pregnancy until the beginning of the first school
term after their babies became 3 months old. The Sixth US.
Circuit Court in Cincinnai reversed a lower court ruling and
ruled in favor of the teacher. But the Cleveland board of Edu-
‘cation has appealed to the Supreme Court.
IN A LONG ISLAND case, the appellate division of the
New York State Supreme Court this summer ordered the East
Williston District to pay back pay and fringe benefits to two
teachers for the month they were kept off the job. A Farming-
dale, LL, teacher also won a similar case in the Appellate
tin July, but the district is appealing the decision to the
state's highest court, the Court of Appeals.
In the Farmingdale case, the district is appealing a deci-
sion by the state's Appellate Court that Mrs. Cyla Allison
should be awarded more than six months in back pay, about
$7,000, The ruling in Mrs. Allison's case was based on the rul-
ing ordering the Bast Williston district to pay Susan Arluck, a
social studies and English teacher, and Rachel Curto, a physi-
cal education teacher, for four-month maternity leaves that
they were forced to take.
fy While the appeats goa and on in ese Inclvng second
EY ary School teachers, the State University of New York ha
Fonte lieerelized maternity poliey, mating Ht possible for
4 employes o-eotlect accrued sick leave and vacation pay dur-
jie pregnancy and aiterward. The presious jh not al
cy ai
low the use of sick leave for maternity, and the use of vaca-
tion time had to be approved by college presidents.
Ip MAY TERY OUT :
a losing battle against women and doctors who,
Cleveland case, cordirm that the wornen are ale 19 conti
teaching as lone as they wish. In that case. the court of ap-
peals in Cineiinatt noted that the board's rule originally was
Established partly so that prosnant teachers would not be sub-
jected to pointin, xissling and snide remarks by stutents
But, the couM noted, prevent students are auiowed to attend
live Gevelaid seuvuis witout “aay appareut il elbests Upeat
the
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DELEGATES
Lawrence DeLucia Fred Burelbach John Valter
Joseph Drew Alan Willsey | Dorothy Gutenkauf
Anne Commerton Fred Miller Donald Duell
Margaret O'Bryan Dorothy Codkind Samuel Wakshull
Doris Knudsen Mary Lou Wendel Barbara McCaffrey
ALTERNATES
Bernard Parker Lyle McCaffrey
James Gill George McGinn
Alfred Messier Nicholas Harding
John Deeb Armand Kamp
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Doris Knudsen, President (SU Ag & Tech, Morrisville) will be
Delegates
elected |
Election results show the
following delegates representing ;
SUNY/United at the AFT Convention:
Patricia Buchalter
Anne Willcox
Robert Granger
Edward Wesnofske
Stanley Goldstein
speaking on "Teacher Unionism” at the Teaching and Research Center;
Cornell University-Dryden, New York during their annual 3-day event.
The Special Session of the Legislature adjourned without acting on
suny Salaries. Governor Rockefeller failed to assign the Article 19
Question to the agenda after the Special Committee failed to make a
recommendation.
Failure of the legislature and Governor to resolve the salary question
will result in no salary action until January when the Legislature
reconvenes.
Governor Rockefeller's priorities are seen clearly - the union repre-
senting the State Troopers received their salary settlement.
MORE
The full Delegate Assembly is scheduled to meet on October 12 to 13
in Albany. An official Shonen along with details will be sent to
delegates in the near future.
Pat Buchalter (NTP-VP) has been campusing the state in order to
discuss problems facing NTP's.
Intensive action by NYSUT officials prevented attempts to damage
the TIAA-CREF pension plan.
A full report detailing Teachers Retirement systems will be released
to all members shortly.
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EVEN “WE” WILL HELP...
HELP THEMSELVES |
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SUNY United?
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THOSE Wuo
AFT CONVENTION
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E: elections must be returned to Central
S Office no later than July 25, 1973.
= Official tabulation will take place
= on Friday, July 27, 1973.
For Your
The Convention is scheduled to convene on
August 19 and run through August 24 in Washington,
D.C.
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Trustees of Bloomfield College, New Jersey have recently abolished tenure
despite petitioning of faculty AAUP members to NLRB.
NEA -- at the recent convention, voted to lend full support to the
Bloomfield faculty in restoration of tenure and positions.
wee
Frederick, Maryland - Community College has fired the majority of its
faculty - 32 out of 38 members.
NEA - pledging its full support to the faculty - called the administration's
action a breach of good faith in collective bargaining.
nae
At_its recent meeting, the SUNY/United Executive Board approved the recom-
mendation of Secretary Dorothy Gutenkauf to the payroll, effective August 1, 1973.
Professional Staff Congress -- collective bargaining agent for the 16,000
members of the Instructional Staff - City University of New York -- have voted
overwhelmingly 4-1 to strike on October 1, 1973.
Negotiations, mediation, and fact-finding have all failed to bring about
agreement to this point.
A resolution by the Representative Assembly at the NEA meeting pledged
support to the staff in reaching a centract agreement.
Grievance Settlement - An NIP at New Paltz grieved the administration's
failure to provide him with a position and budget line consistent with his function.
MORE
As_a result of a step two ruling, he received an appointment appropriate
to his NTP status. Additionally, the grievant was awarded a 1/2% across the
board increase and a performance program in accordance with Article XII of the
Policies. aa. ea e
Delegates to the 1973 NEA Convention approved plans for merger talks
between NEA and the Anerican Federation of Teachers (AFT), but they voted to
require that any resulting merger be outside of the AFL-CIO.
"The Representative Assembly reaffirms the NEA's willingness to enter into
discussion looking toward the goal of uniting all educators in a single national
organization. At the same time, there are certain basic concepts which the NEA
is not prepared to compromise during such discussions. These include the following
(1) No affiliation with the AFL-CIO and no obligation to the institutional
Positions and objectives of the AFL-CIO; (2) Guaranteed minority group partici-
pation in the governance and operation of the new organization; and (3) The use
of the secret ballot to elect the officers and change the governing documents of
the new organization."
"The Representative Assembly affirms the proposal authorized by the Board
of Directors, as reflected in the statement of President Barrett, which includes
@ one-year moratorium on all merger discussion at the state and local levels
and that there be a one-year moratorium on organizational rivalry at the local
level, adequately preserves the concepts and endorses its submission to the AFT."
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The SUNY/United Executive Board has approved the following appointments
to Standing Committees: -
Negotiations
Leland Marsh
Chairman SUC - Oswego
Gail Hotelling SUATC - Dethi
0. Michael Lilien SUNY - Upstate Medical
John Valter SUNY - Stony Brook Health Science
Janet Havens SUNY - Albany
Bruce Lercher SUNY - Binghamton
Michael Robbins SUATC - Farmingdale
Edward Schaffer SUC - Plattsburgh
Samuel Wakshu11 SUC - Buffalo
Samuel Shaw SUC - New Paltz
Legislative
Edward Wesnofski
Chairman SUC - Oneonta
C. Lindquist SUC - Oswego
Ann Mitchell SUC - Plattsburgh t )
Fred Levine SUNY - Stony Brook
James Blackhurst SUNY - Buffalo
Allen Horn SUC - Forestry
James Cretekos SUATC - Alfred
OTHER
Legislative Con’
Chery] Carlucci
Donald Leon
Patricia Rizzo
Budget
Joseph Drew
Chairman
Lawrence Seligman
Lauchlin MacDonald
Richard Lea
Reuben James
Thomas Matthews
dames Gill
James Higgins
John Schluep
Membership
Anne Willcox
Chairperson
Akira Sanbonmatsu
Robert Lightburn
Malcolm Nelson
Stanley Weisberger
Philip Livingston
Curtis Mettlin
COMMITTEES:
Election
John Schroeder
Chairman
Doris Knudsen
Donald Duel]
Mary Lou Wendel
John Deeb
Sami Boulos
Article 38
Zebulon Taintor
Chairman
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SUNY - Stony Brook Health Science
SUC - Cortland
SUNY - Downstate Medical
SUNY - Buffalo
SUATC -. Morrisville
SUC - Fredonia
SUC - Forestry
SUC - Oneonta
SUC - Geneseo
SUATC - Delhi
SUNY - Binghamton
SUC - Oswego
SUNY - Upstate Medical
SUC - Brockport
SUC - Potsdam
SUC - Fredonia
SUC - Oneonta
SUC - New Paltz
SUNY - Buffalo
SUNY - Maritime
SUATC - Morrisville
SUATC - Cobleskill]
SUC - Oneonta
SUC - Plattsburgh
SUC - New Paltz
SUNY - Buffalo Health Science
Portland
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‘June 29-July 6
} SUNY/United delegates to the NEA Convention in
Portland will be leaving on June 28. The meeting is
planned June 29 through July 6. Those attending are:
Doris Knudsen, Margaret O'Bryan, Mary Lou Wendel,
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At the top of the agenda for the July 13-14 Executive Board meeting is the question of cur
wee ‘The corporate structure of SPA remains the same until the corporate oostitutic
is amended to allow a new name.
President Delucia advises the continued use of the SPA name locally as well as statewide
in any official contacts with management, i.e. negotiations, grievances etc.
cored
SUNY/United has been assigned the American Federation of Teachers Local Number 2190.
thee
President DeLuica and Secretary Gutenkauf met with representatives of TIAA-CREF recently.
@iscussion centered on the impact of new pension legislation on SUNY retirement systems.
Public employee pensions will be the subject of a special session of the legislature in July.
eoeed
Trustees of Blocmfield College in New Jersey recently voted to abolish tenure over strong
protest from AAUP.
ing to the AAUP representative, the college fired 13 faculty menbers of whom 11 had
tenure. All were placed on contract subject to periodic renewal with no teaching nor governance
responsibilities.
AAUP in the process of campus certification is said to consider the administration's
activities as little more than "union-busting".
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The Negotiating Comittee headed by Leland Marsh (Oswego) is gathering data in preparation
of the special legislative hearing scheduled for early July.
‘The hearing on Article 19 salary questions has moved ahead with the appointment of a speci=
six-menber Joint Legislative Conmittee to hear arguments from both SUNY/United and the Executive
Branch.
coer
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on June 24 released its latest figures showing the cost of
living in the New York area rose 5¢ last year for middle income families.
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Nancy R. Auster (Canton), SUNY/United menber was recently elected President of the
University's Faculty Senate.
Associate Professor Auster is the first woman to hold the position and the second Agri-
gultural and Technical College representative to be named president. She will serve a term of
two years at the helm of the organization which represents approximately 14,000 professional
staff at all University campuses.
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e € position
2 ‘The SUNY/United Executive Board at its recent
f= meeting voted tmaninously to endorse the position
‘on the fact-finder's report as outlined by President
For Your DeLucia in his letter of May 24.
‘The position was as follows:
1, Accepted recommendation for a 58 across-the-board
increase.
2. Accepted 1.5% increase with the stipulation that
Vol. 1, No 39 June 15, 1973 it be provided in an equal per capita amount to
each member of the unit.
3. Rejected the recommendation for the lack of need
of salary minima.
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‘The Executive Board voted unanimously to put the President of SUNY/United on a full-tine
salaried basis at the rate of $25,000 per year beginning June 13, 1973.
‘his will enable him to function more effectively for the increasing needs of the
menbership of SUNY/United.
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President Delucia spent time this week talking with the menbers of the Binghamton
He expects to visit many of the SUNY/United chapters throughout the sumer and fall.
freed
Plans have been made for the S/U delegation to attend the NEA Convention scheduled for
Sune Z=July 7 in Portland, Oregon.
‘The Board has also voted to send 20 delegates to the AFT Convention to be held in
Washington, D.C. from August 19 until August 24.
Nominations for AFT delegates are being solicited from the menbership according to labor
law. ‘The deadline for submitting nominations is June 24. Ballots will be mailed on July
9; votes, will be counted July 25. Gi
sok
Copies of minutes for all Executive Board meetings are available to any SUNY/Unitea
menber on request; requests should be directed to Dorothy Gutenkauf, Secretary at the
SUNY/United Central Office.
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Four menbers of the Negotiating Committee have been appointed by the Board,
are:
Leland Marsh - Chairman (Oswego) Gail Hotelling - (Delhi) S
John Valter - (Stony Brook) Michael Lilien - (Upstate Medical)
‘The committee has already begun making plans for the legislative hearing
scheduled for the last week in June.
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Approval by the Board has also been made for the appointment of three members
to the Budget Comittee, they are:
Joseph Drev - Chairman (SUNY-Buffalo)
Lawrence Seligman orrisville)
Lauchlin MacDonald (Fredonia)
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In spite of the academic year coming to a close, the grievance machinery is still
actively in operation.
A number of grievances are in process at all levels of the grievance procedure.
If any problems arise at your campus, or if new/old grievance chaimren find their
records lacking any information, please call Ellen Suarez at Central Office. j
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Here's a way to make your sumer break count, attend an AFT sumer workshop ——
on a cool, green campus, spread over a leisurely three-to-five day pace.
Each seminar will include clinics, panel, and other activities with a first-rate
faculty.
the “Topic: Collective-bargaining campaigns and techniques.
‘The Courses: Negotiations, grievances, arbitration, commications, public
relations and more ....
Schedule: July 22-27
At the Tarrytown Conference Center |
Tarrytown, New York
For full information write to: |
American Federation of Teachers
Sumer Workshops
Washington, D.C. 20005
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Panel named
Preparations for the legislative hearing on
Article 19 salary questions have moved ahead with
the appointment of a special six-menber Joint
Legislative Committee to hear arguments from both
| SUNY/United and the Executive Branch.
Although no date has yet been set for the
public hearings, best indications at this time
point toward the first weeks of July -~ probably
the week of July 9.
2 The legislative hearing -- authorized under
Vol. I, No. 38 dune 8, 1973 section 205[e) of the State Civil Service Law ==
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ployee contract disputes after all other attempts
at resolution have failed.
SUNY/United President Larry DeLucia meets with State representatives on Monday,
dune TT to discuss the maternity leave question.
The Equal Employment Act states emphatically that pregnancy-related illnesses
should be treated the same as any other sickness in the granting of sick leave.
The State and the University continue to contend, that discriminatory policies and
contract clauses transcend federal law.
A national_conference on collective bargaining in higher education is being ”
offered to AFT members. The weekend of November 2-4 in San Francisco will be devoted
to discussions of collective bargaining, academic freedom, tenure, and all other areas
of concern in higher education.
Besides stimulating conversation and debate, delegates will be able to enjoy
excellent facilities at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which has been described as a
"Twenty-First Century” facility by AFT members in California.
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President Thomas O'Connell of Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Mass...
recently received the Alexander Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom. He received
recognition for his role in a recent loyalty oath controversy in that state.
Thirty-one faculty and staff at the college challenged the reinstatenent of
the oath as a requirement of employment. O'Connell refused to dismiss them, and he
alone among the presidents of conmunity colleges, the state colleges as well as the
state university, supported efforts of those who tried to overturn the statute through
the courts and the legislature.
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June _3 New York Times
“The basic rights and freedoms guaranteed!
‘by the Constitution of the United States stand
in the company of other rights which are not
‘constitutionally: guaranteed of protected, but
‘without which our nation would not be 2 froe
society. Antong these is the rivbt of collective
‘bargaining—the right of workers to join unions,
to havo a bargaining repreenttive of te
ren eoce, to withhold thir serves (if nec-
essary), and to reach agreements which ae
binding on both sides.
“The right to collective hargaining was won
through Jong and bitter struggle. In the
private sector a hich point in that strursle
‘came in the 1930's with the enactment of the
‘Wagner Act, estabiisbing collective bargaining
as the publi¢ policy of the nation,
‘The Wagner Act did not, of itself, make
collective bargaining work. Many employers
Continued their efforts to keep their employees
‘ont of pnions, or to influence their workers in
theie choice of union, or to break freely chosen
unions by forcing long and costly strikes on
the workers. Apart from the economic issues,
there was tho prostem ofthe disinclination of
management to accept the new role of labor—
its inability and unwillingness to negotiate on
the basis of equality.
‘This problem, in vatious forms, es emerged
again and again as new groups of employees
organized and came to the bargaining table.
‘An interesting Variation appeared in the mid-
sixties when New York City hospital workers
earning as little a8 $23 a week had to enzize
ina lengthy conflict with hospital managem
Many of the hospital board members were
‘wealthy philanthropists who gave time snd
‘money’ 10 the hospital's health eare prosram.
Their feeling was that, since hospital
not a profit-making business but a ci
public service, there was no reason
fo bargain with the hospital workers.
the trustees fought to keep the worker
poverty condition, Tt is ironic that as
Perseverance was shown here in exploit
{workers in the name of philanthropy 2s,
private sector, for reasons of economic
interest.
‘Similar problems have arisen in the Tastf
‘years in the public stctor. The 1967 T
Law, lke the Wagner Act in the private sex
tor, proclaimed collective bargaining to &
public policy of the State of New York. (C
like the Wagner Act, it contained a probibision
against strikes) In the private
employers fail to comply with the labor
‘unions can appeal to government for en:
ment, invoking either stato or national
ns statutes, But, when government f3
yer, there is no impartial s.
of redress, Two current disputes illustrate
problem.
«.+A Basie Right Endangered
‘The first of these has arisen in the notin
tions betiween the Professional Stait Coneress
(PSC) and the City University of New York,
‘The PSC represents 16,000 CUNY employees,
Negotiations began in June 1972. In August
4972 the old contract expired, and CUNY
froze all salaries pending conciusion of an
agreement. Now, almost an entite yest as
gone by in which efforts, first at mediati
‘then at fact-inding, were exerted. On M
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the fact finders’ recommendations were issued,
‘As in most such documents, the panel's report
Fesents a compromise between the PSC and.
CUNY positions. The compromise was reluc-
wecepted by PSC; CUNY has not ¢
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‘After «fall year of nezo‘iations, she Tame
duck Board is now proposed, itor
by *
it would ike to pick and choose
theory underiying the Taylor Law was that
fact finders’ reports. would stisiulate public
pressure and compel governmental agencies to
‘eat their employees justy. if the col-
lege faculiy is forved by C
intr: ton s
more likely to be surprised than sympathet
deprived as it has been of news ot the iact
finders’ recommendations,
‘The Govecnors Ose of Employes Rela-
tions (OER) has been sin
Degoustions wit SUNY) Unica tho talon
‘Which represents the State University's 17,000
professional emplovees. ‘The talks, which he-
gan in November 1972, reached impasse i
April, A fact finder repo
“Though the OER iad approved a 0.5 percent
pay hike for sa month earlier,
sionals be given a 5 percent increase. The OER
refused to give the SUNY professors more
than a 3.5 percent boost. Here again the funda
‘mental principle of equality in negotiations is
rendered “inoperative,” since itis planned that
the state itself, one of the partics to the con-
troversy, will tnilaterally determins the issue
bewveen SUNY/United and the Governor's
fs
Stil another threat to the bargaining process
is represented by the actions of the Governor
and the legislature with respect to public em=
ployee pensions, Under the Tayior Law, pen-
sion benefits have heen patt of the negotiations
package. In order to obtain these beuefits, em
ployees have sacrificed other items in the pack-
age. When their apceements were ratified and
signed, and their pension benefits enacted by
the legislature and signed by the Governor,
they had every risht to believe that those benes
fits would not be moditied except through fu-
ture bargaining, Unfortunately, this bas not
‘been the ease. In the Inst fexy months the state
negotiated an agresment with one of the many
unions the Civil Servies
¢ CSEA
ot a Bonelits for.
all future Employees ‘whom ‘ey represent in
fits, but in order to counteract future criti=
isin, the CSEA and the Governor agreed that
the CSEA peasion reductions would be ime
posed upon ail her employees of the stats,
a well x show of county and nunicpal gor.
ecomplished doring the fast. levistative sese
sion—but 2 special session, to be held this
summer, will consider the pension problem.
Aside trom the questions of substance ine
ieee Goes
not collective hare!
policy of thie state
ining is indeed the public
Are employees to be rep=
resented by unions of their own choice, or by
on selected BY the state as the boxy it
ies to negotiate with? Are
or can they be broken unilaterally? Are
they the lowly subjects of a sovereign power
which ean, at its own discretion, so alter agrees
ments as to make yegotiations meaningless?
| Fact-Finding
In a letter to the Public Employment
Relations Board, President Lawrence A.
DeLucia outlined SUNY/United's position
on the salary recommendations of the fact
finding panel as follows:
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mendation of the 5 percent in-
crease across the board for all
Vol. 1, No. 37 dune 1, 1973 employees in the bargaining unit.
2. SUNY/United accepts the 1 1/2 per
cent increase, and states that
this money should be made available
in an equal per capita amount.
3. SUNY/United rejects the recommendation on salary minima. We contend
that money should be made available to correct salary inequities within each
rank.
In rejecting that fact-finding report, the Rockefeller press office
claimed that it found only the merit pay and minimum salary findings to
be acceptable. In place of the 5 per cent recommendation, however, was in-
er a 3.5 per cent figure.
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The legislature recently passed a compromise pension bill that appears
to kill efforts to impose a new and inferior pension system on all public
employees.
The compromise measure was put together by legislative leaders who
realized how unacceptable the CSEA settlement was to teachers and public
employees.
Tt is an.embarrassment for the CSEA, which has "sold out" in bargaining
with the state -- accepting pension changes that would place all under the
same pension guidelines.
The compromise measure in effect puts off the question of how to deal
with the ‘future pension plans of public employee unions until 1976. The
bill also directs the State Pension Commission to make further recommenda-
tions for "coalition bargaining" on pension changes.
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The City University of New York may shut down in the fall as the
result of administration tactics against the college's 16,000 instructional
staff members.
The teachers, working without a contract and with salaries frozen
at 1971-1972 levels will take a strike vote June 1. It would authorize
a walkout on October 1.
The staff is represented by the AFT/NEA/NYSUT-affiliated Professiona
Staff Congress which has demanded around-the-clock bargaining sessions.
At issue are proposals to eliminate salary increments, to allow
college presidents to make unilateral personnel decisions without cause,
and to downgrade non teaching professionals.
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Donald F. Webster (V.P.-Academic) has been appointed head librarian
at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Mr. Webster was
director of libraries at SUC-Oswego.
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President Larry DeLucia has been covering a lot of ground in the
past few weeks. He was present at the Brockport and Upstate Medical
Center membership meetings recently as well as the campus officer's
meeting at Geneseo.
Larry is anxious to meet with campus units so that important issues
and opinions can be shared.
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Mrs Anne Commerton (Oswego) has been named president of her campus
chapter, Because of demands from his state-wide office, President DeLucigy
recommended Mrs. Commerton for the post. si
She is currently serving as chairwoman of SUNY/United's Committee
on Academic Rank for Librarians.
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Picketlines are still up at Lake Michigan Community College in Benton
Harbor, Michigan as the 50 teacher strike goes into its fourth month.
The teachers were back at work one day after obtaining a federal
court order for their reinstatement. Negotiations were to resume under
the order. But the board obtained a stay, a hearing is set for June 14.
Reports are that about half the student body has dropped out of the
college in protest over the strike.
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If you haven't made summer plans yet, you may want to consider attend-
ing one of the five week-long summer workshops planned by AFT to help
teachers build negotiating and organizing skills.
A first rate faculty will guide each program, and there will be plenty
of opportunities for group and individual participation.
Attend an AFT summer workshop---Eastern Region, July 9-13 at Stony
Brook, N.Y. or for further information, please write:
American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO ec
1012 14th Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
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= the State has rejected a fact-finder's reconmenda-
= tion for a 5% across-the-board pay increase for SUNY
For Your professionals. Accepted by the Governor, however,
were recommendations that the settlement include a
merit pool of 1.5% and exclude SPA requests for
movement toward minimum salaries.
The announcement was made Tuesday, May 22.
In a related development, the Governor immediate-
Vol, I, No. 36 May 21, 1973 ly submitted to the Legislature a bill which if passed
would implement in total the State's bargaining posi-
tion -- 3.5% across-the-board and 1.5% merit.
When word of the State's rejection hit the public media, SUNY/United President
Lawrence DeLucia and Secretary Dorothy Gutenkauf were already meeting with PERB's Director
of Mediation and Conciliation Harold Newman to discuss the seriousness of the situation
and to begin laying groundwork for the calling of a legislative hearing, -- third and final
step under the Taylor Law.
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AAUP-1973 records show a decrease of 5,692 members from the 1972 figure of 91,316.
The membership reached a total of 97,106 in July 1972 showing a decrease of 11,842 members
in the last five months of 1972.
According to General Secretary Davis, a loss of 8,000 to 9,000 members is expected
during 1973 and 1974. If borne out, of course, this will mean the Association has lost
membership three years in succession.
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DSN members and their fellow school nurses are urged to attend the Annual Convention,
June 29-30 Jantzen Beach Motel, Portland, Oregon.
Although non-members cannot vote, they are encouraged to come and see the Department
of School Nurses in action, to participate in general sessions, workshops and the hospital-
ity hour.
A registration fee of $2 will be charged to DSN members; $5 to non-members, $3 of
which may be applied to DSN membership dues for those enrolling at the time of registra-
tion.
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The NEA Board of Directors, during a spirited three-day meeting early this month,
modified the proposed 1973-74 Association budget and studied ideas for changes in NEA
governance.
One of the Board's actions includes changing the item on UniServ from $6.3 to $5.67
million. Debate focused on how the estimate was computed rather than whether UniServ
was to be funded or not. There was agreement that all qualified UniServ units would be
funded during the coming year.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Susan Cohen and Jo Carol La Fleur
maternity cases. In both cases, the teachers are alleging that mandatory retirement
leave policies violate their rights.
Mrs. Cohen has asked the court to reverse an adverse decision rendered by the
Fourth Circuit in January; the Cleveland board of education has appealed a Sixth Circui@
ruling in favor of Mrs. La Fleur and another teacher.
Arguments will be heard during the Supreme Court's’ fall term.
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“When to Enter and How to Win" highlighted a recent workshop at the AAUP conference.
The main points coming out of the meeting were: NEA brings in "outside organizers,"
believes "money and power" can win elections and "doesn't understand" higher education;
the AFT “creates overkill with endless reams of paper."
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The State has rejected a fact-finder's recommendation for a 6.5% pay hike for the
State Police in an attempt to impose pension reform on the troopers.
According to the president of the 3,175-member union, the settlement being offered
by the Office of Employee Relations calls for a 5.5% pay raise and continuation of the
20-year, half-pay retirement plan the troopers now have.
In a letter to members of the Legislature, Donahue is quoted as saying, "It is
obvious to us that Governor Rockefeller dictates all contracts to state*empioyees and
the Taylor Law, as well as its provisions, are meaningless."
"If the state does this to us, for the first time, I will go back and ask for a job
action," he states.
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The NEA Executive Committee has approved adoption of "NEA: Helping Teachers Teach" .
as the official motto of the Association.
Local and state NEA affiliates may order reproduction sheets of the new design
from Internal Communications at NEA Center.
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.-helping teachers teach.
The important David Kreh arbitration proceedings began on May 24 in Albany.
Presiding was Arbiter Daniel G. Collins of New York University School of Law with
NYSUT attorney James Sandner presenting the case for Mr. Kreh and SUNY/United.
Mrs. Anne Commerton (Oswego), chairwoman of SUNY/United's Committee on Academic
Rank for Librarians as well as librarians from across the state were present.
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DELUCIA ERECTED
The Delegate Assembly of SUNY/United held its
historic first session last Saturday in Albany.
Elected to lead the organization was Professor
Lawrence A. DeLucia - president of SUNY/United
Chapter at Oswego.
Others elected to join DeLucia were officers
Fred Burelbach (SUC-Brockport), academic vice
president; Patricia Buchalter (SUNY-Albany), pro-
fessional vice president; Dorothy Gutenkauf (SUC-
Cortland), secretary; Joseph Drew (SUNY-Buffalo),
| Vol. I, No. 35 May 14, 1973 treasurer; and Anne Willcox (Upstate Medical),
car membership development chairperson.
Also elected to the 1l-member SUNY/United Board
of Directors were Michael Lilien (Upstate), Fred Miller (SUC-Oneonta), Samuel Wakshull
(SUC-Buffalo), Dorothy Codkind (SUC-Potsdam), Stanley Goldstein (Downstate), Barbara
McCaffery (SUC-Geneseo), Alan Willsey (SUC-Cortland), Constantine Yeracaris (SUNY-Buffalo),
Bernard Parker (Empire State), Raymond Jesaitis (SUNY-Stony Brook), and Thomas Hines
(Farmingdale).
The new board met after Saturday's meeting for an organization session. The next
full Board Meeting of SUNY/United will be held on June 4 in Albany.
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SUNY/United member Dr. Laurence M. Hauptman (SUC-New.Paltz) announces the college's
second annual Conference on the Native American. The conference topic this week will
focus on "Native Americans in the cities."
Dr. Hauptman is serving as conference director.
Chapter President Steven Jonas (Stony Brook Health Science Center) has stressed the
need for joint collective bargaining in Science Magazine, Volume 180.
Protection against dismissal, tenure denial and prejudiced promotions he sees as
problems only to be solved through professional organization.
Quote of the week: "Medical schools are academic jungles. Many of the denizens
are not even aware that there is law anywhere. There is cannibalism, and the sacrifice
of faculty members without anesthesia is conmon." ... James Metcalfe, University of
Oregon Medical School.
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Members of the Hawaii State Teachers Association ended a three-week strike last
month after voting to accept a mediation-arbitration proposal that binds the state to
decisions of an impartial third party on unresolved issues. The strike was called when
the state failed to negotiate in good faith on workload, preparation periods, fringe
@ verefits and satary.
The waikout was called despite an anti-strike: injunction. The members face fines
of $100,000 for the first strike day and $10,000 each day after that.
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Travelling? Mountain-climbing? Available now through AFT -- a comprehensive
accident protection plan. For only $28.50 annually, your entire family can enjoy
complete coverage.
No more need for costly travel accident policies. Contact an AFT representative
for more information.
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A series of orientation meetings for NEA convention delegates has been announced by
Albany NYSUT.
The meetings will examine procedural and key issues as well as providing the dele-
gates with preliminary logistic information.
The list includes meetings to be held. across the state.
SYRACUSE
Nay 16: Ramada Inn, Crossroads of Rt. 81 7:00-9:00 p.m.
BINGHAMTON
May 17: Treadway Inn, 2 Hawley St. 7:00-9:00 p.m.
ALBANY
May 21: Holiday Inn, Central Ave. 7:00-9:00 p.m.
LAKE PLACID
Nay 22: Mirror Lake Inn, Adirondack Mts. 7:00-9:00 p.m.
KINGSTON
May 23: Holiday Inn, Truway Exit 19 3:30-6:30 p.m. _
NYACK
May 23: Tappan Zee Motor Inn, Mountain View
Ave. and Route 59 ‘ 7:30-10:30 p.m.
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May 24: Colonie Hill Inn, Motor Parkway 4:30-6:30 p.m. |
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A district court judge has struck down as too vague an academic freedom policy of
the University of Nevada at Reno. The regulation said that a professor has "special
obligations" when making utterances on public questions.
The court said the regulation could be used to infringe on "a wide range of con-
stitutionally protected activities." It ordered the university to reinstate with back
pay an assistant professor dismissed under the policy after his participation in a Nay,
1970 disruption of R.0.T.C. activities on the campus.
A University spokesman said the decision would be appealed.
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Tenure has been recommended for a controversial University of Florida faculty member.
A hearing examiner appointed by the Florida board of regents has recommended the tenure
for an assistant professor, a leading supporter of student activists and a state leader
of the American Federation of Teachers.
The hearing examiner found the tenure position was "not supported by the evidence
and testimony presented" during hearings on the case.
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5 dndey Aricle 4 Weneste GrlgT Tet week as the
<€ Association attempted to prove bad faith on the part
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The hearings were held Thursday and Friday Ma:
For Your 3rd and 4th at PERB Headquarters Th Albany bie
inane The State's arguments centered on three points:
the leadership of the 1) It never intended (nor led SPA to believe) to con-
Senate Professional Association duct a comprehensive evaluation of each NTP Job before
slotting. 2) PR ranks were always to be ASP grades.
Vol. I, No. 34 May 7, 1973 3) The University Review Panel was intended to be no
more than a facade for the workings ef Central Admin-
istration's Office of Classification.
During the two days of hearings, PERB Hearing Officer Harvey Mylowe on two occasions
reserved decision on motions by the State to dismiss all SPA charges. Briefs in the case
are due in about six weeks with a decision by the hearing officer expected some 3-4 weeks
after filing of the briefs.
Presenting the case for SPA was attorney Richard Symansky.
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Nelvin Osterman, Director of Employee Relations, was recently quoted by the Associated
@ "ess 25 Saying that SPA in regard to salary levels is "taking the position thet @ professor
at Farmingdale should be paid the same as a professor at one of the university centers."
Also, regarding the demand for minimums: "I think there are legitimate reasons for salary
differentials."
“Osterman's gross mis-statements again prove that the State has given little examination
to SPA salary demands or their documentation. Osterman also says that the non-teaching
professionals represented by SPA, "such as librarians," already have minimums.
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Joseph Bongo and Ronald Greene continue to he victims of the State's continuing refusat
to negotiate Salary settlements. SPA has appealed to arbitration in both cases.
To date, Bongo's grievance has been refused hearing at both Step 2 and Step 3, while
Greene was refused a Step 3 hearing.
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A summary of CSEA three-year contract has been released which supposedly offers em-
ployees new benefits. One of these is the Dental Insurance Plan, which is to offer a
reduced deduction as under Major Medical. FYI reported long ago the State's acceptance
and agreement of this plan.
Other benefits include a 6-1/2% salary increase as well as a fixed work week, guaran-
teeing five days on the job and 2 consecutive days off.
In the "sell-out" for a slight salary gain, however, was also a substantial weakening
of the public employee united front on preservation of retirement benefits (CSEA agreed
@ itet,g1! future employees will receive reduced benefits as well as hedging the cructal
question of excluding social security from benefit computations).
Also weakened beyond repair are the dismissal for cause sections of the Civil Service
Laws. With CSEA agreement, it will now be relatively easy to fire employees on almost any
pretense. :
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information from the three national
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surveys, An asterisk (*) indicates in-
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teacher's union, which is affiliated
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SPA President Robert Granger received
word this week from AFT President David
Seldon that SUNY/United is now fully
affiliated with American Federation of
Teachers, AFL-CIO.
As of May 1, members will receive
American Teacher newspaper and will be
eligible to send delegates to the AFT con-
vention beginning August 20. The charter
is being processed and will read,
SUNY/UNITED, #2190 AFT.
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Union College plans to avoid tenure
squeeze by approval of a plan which will
permit the college to keep non-tenured
professors beyond the expiration of the
seven-year "up or out" probationary period.
The policy will offer renewable con-
tracts to "tenurable faculty members if
Positions are not open within their depart-
ments
Meanwhile, Antioch College is con-
sidering dropping the tenure system com-
pletely.
SPA Executive Director, Philip Encinio.
met with SPA's Committee on Academic Rank
for Librarians on April 30 to discuss
stalled negotiations on implementation
academic status for librarians. SPA is
moving forward with David Kreh's grievance
in order to settle some of these questions.
Article 19 Negotiating Team has re-
ceived word fan erold Netman PERa's
Director of Mediation, that the fact-finding
session will be held in PERB's Manhattan
Office. SPA has objected and requested
that the site be shifted to Albany for
proximity to its resources and NYSUT.
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Panel named
The New York State Public Employment Relations
Board (PERS) has appointed a three-member fact-finding
panel to conduct an impartial evaluation of the State-
SPA salary dispute.
Named to the panel are Dr. Walter Oberer (Chair-
man), Colunbia Law School; Dr. Clara Friedman,
For Your economist; and Louis Caden, New York City Board of
Nediation.
Curent news for First meeting of the group has been tentatively
the leadership of the setter Tiscali os
Senate Professional Association According to Harold Newman, PERB's Director of
i Nediation and Conciliation, a calendar has been set
| Yor. 15 No. 33 AOE A) toe ac fieig at less irs cautious resort
prior to legislative adjournment. A maximum of five
days has been allotted for hearings at which both
sides can present to the panel data in support of their bargaining positions. The fact-
finding panel will then be required to issue its report within one week. The parties in
dispute then have one week to respond to the report. ?
Director Newnan terms the panel one of the "bluest blue ribbon" panels that PERB has
ever established.
Under provisions of the State's Taylor Law, the report of the fact-finding panel is
binding on neither party. Should either SPA or the State refuse to accept the recommenda~
tions made for settlement in fact-finding, a legislative hearing would then be necessary.
@ 1 Msstative pocy of the State oF New York would then inpose a settlenent in the dispute.
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NEA Special Services has announced an important improvement in the Association's life
insurance program. Plans C and C+ will now provide a monthly Family Income Benefit in
addition to regular benefits with no increase in premiums.
Under the new program, surviving spouse (and/or children) will receive payments of
$400 or $600 per month in addition to the regular death benefit offered under the C and Ct
Plans. The additional payments raise the value of the C plan by a maximum of $10,800 and
the C+ plan by $16,200.
The NEA life insurance plan - one of the best in the industry - can be an important
promotional device for recruiting and maintaining memberships. In SUNY, it is especially
important to note that the NEA program is substantially better than anything offered by CSEA.
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Initial mediation efforts between SPA and the State over medical and dental salaries
produced no significant results last week as the SPA medical group met with OER representa-
tives in New York City. Assisting the SPA team chaired by Dr. Stanley Goldstein (Downstate)
were SPA attorney Jerome Sturm and Assistant Executive Director Edward Purcell.
Mediator in the talks is Prof. Benjamin Wolf.
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Latest report from CUNY indicates that a fact-finder's report in the contract dispute
@ between the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) and management is expected May 15. The sub-
stantial delay was caused both by the number of issues to be decided and the time-consuming
process of preparing briefs.
Insiders say that the most important (and difficult) issues are a pay raise for next
year and maintenance of an incremental pay raise. i
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In other news from CUNY, PSC has won an extremely important case in the State's Court
of Appeals that may have a profound and immediate effect on SPA-State relations. . The
case -- the matter of Christine Antonopoulou -- establishes for the first time that the
City of New York (and by extension the State of New York) cannot refuse to pay back salary
for periods of time during which an employee has been improperly denied employment.
The standard "dodge" in both the City and the State has been that salary cannot be @
awarded in a grievance settlement because it constitutes an illegal "gift of public funds.”
In the unanimous decision, the State's highest court also reaffirmed the binding force
of the grievance procedure. The Court held, "A Step One or Step Two grievance settlement
is as binding as a Step Three arbitration award." (CUNY has a three-step procedure.)
Representing PSC was counsel Judy Vladeck. New York State United Teachers provided
financial assistance.
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The long-delayed arbitration case of David Kreh has been scheduled for Thursday,
May 24. The case -- delayed as SPA librarians attempted resolution of the problem of im-
plementation of academic status for librarians at the bargaining table -- will resolve
questions of academic promotions for librarians.
Negotiations on the. subject broke down several weeks ago as the State continued to
delay in presenting a counter offer to SPA's implementation plan.
The arbitration which will be held at NYSUT Headquarters is to be presented by NYSUT
attorney James Sandner -- one of the best teacher lawyers in the State. A number of SUNY
librarians have been invited to observe the proceeding.
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Today, April 30 marks the first day "on staff" for SPA's newest employee, Ellen Suarez.
rs. Suarez te to assume responsibility for publications. and public relations. :
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SPA local campus grievance coordinators met in Albany last Friday and Saturday to
discuss weak points in the current SPA contract and methods of improving same. Among the
areas discussed were appointments, non-renewals, grievance procedure, scope of arbitrability,
personnel files, consultation, local campus participation, release time, and maintenance
of standards.
The group will issue a report on its findings for consideration of the SUNY/United
Negotiating . Team.
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Reminder -- Send additions, deletions, corrections of your merged membership lists to
SPA Central immediately, if not sooner.
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New names in order. With SUNY/United only several weeks away, staff is currently
“prain-storming” new names (and looks) for pudlications. If you have any suggestions,
send them along.
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A current political squabble within AFT seems to have involved two New York Staters
as its chief antagonists. At issue are the set of AFT referenda now in process.
On the one side, AF st Vice President Albert. Shanker has recommended defeat of a
proposition that calls for direct election of the AFT President through referendum. “He
says it would mean that all AFT resources (under the direction of the president) could be
used toward the election of the President. Current AFT President David Seldon calls dirt
election "real democracy."
At real. issue is New York State (and UFT) voting strength in AFT.
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Ba SPA Article 19 negotiators have requested fact-
S finding in stalled Salary talks with the State. The
E request came Thursday, April 19 when it became
5 apparent to the team that mediation of the impasse
€ was having little effect.
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percent ~~ 2 percent across-the-board and 1-1/2 per-
For Your cent to be distributed at the discretion of the
Conenteees tor Chancellor. This was coupled with a continued re-
the Ieadership Of tee fusal to deal with any of SPA's concerns for treating
Senate Professional Asvoclation structural inequities.
- Chief Negotiator Alan Willsey outlines the con-
Vol. 1, No. 32 April 23, 1973 | tinuing dispute in these terms: "We have two very
basic problems at the tables" Willsey explains, "too
P few dollars, distributed in unacceptable ways. When
it became clear to.us that we had received the State's only offer in mediation, there was
no longer any reason to postpone fact-finding.”
Under provisions of the Taylor Law, PERB has been requested to assign a fact-finder
(of fact-finding panel) to examine the positions of both sides in the dispute and to
render an impartial, third-party judgment of what the 1973-74 salary settlement for SUNY
should be. Although the fact-finder's report is binding on neither party, the assessment
of fact carries with it a strong moral persuasion for settlement.
Should the report be unsatisfactory to either party, the next and final step of
Taylor Law procedure is a legislative hearing to impose settlement.
Fact-finding and the possibility of a legislative hearing takes on added importance
in the SPA-State dispute because it will be the first time since the inception of the
Taylor Law that a statewide bargaining unit of State employees has requested use of the
Procedure. It will therefore be the first time that the validity of the State's position
in negotiations with its employees has been laid open to assessment by an impartial third
party.
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Preliminary tabulation of combined SUFT, SPA membership lists indicates a SUNY/United
membership in excess of 3,900. The preliminary breakdown by campus is Albany-237, Bing-
hamton-95, Buffalo-300, Stony Brook-194, Buffalo HSC-137, Downstate-168, Stony Brook HSC-
88, and Upstate-186.
Also, Brockport-143, Buffalo-224, Cortland-162, Fredonia-103, Geneseo-152, Old
Westbury-34, New Paltz-168, Oneonta-10, Oswego-271, Plattsburgh-177, Potsdam-128,
Purchase-11, Empire State-31. :
Also, Alfred-137, Canton-87, Delhi-86, Cobleskill-49, Farmingdale-164, Morrisville-90,
Forestry-54, Maritime-45, and Central Administration-13.
Chapter presidents are reminded to send any additions, deletions, or corrections to
merged menbership lists to SPA Central as soon as possible.
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Dr. Stanley Goldstein, chairman of SPA's Article 20 Negotiating Team, reports impasse
in medical and dental faculty salary talks with the State. Issues include the State's
insistence on maximum salaries with no minimum salaries, establishment of a professional
practice plan, and insufficient dollars to fund salary boosts.
The first mediation session with PERB Mediator Benjamin Wolfe is set for April 25 in
New York City. ;
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In a significant victory before PERB, SPA has won access to complete information on
the distribution of last year’s merit and equity pool. An improper practice suit: filed
on behalf of the SPA Chapter at SUC-Geneseo was settled favorably last week when the State
retreated from its "no information" stance at a PERB pre-trial conference.
Representing. SPA was Executive Director Philip Encinio with the assistance of NYSUT
legal counsel. [ }
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The Spring issue of the AAUP Bulletin carries news of an October meeting of the AAUP
Council at which it was decided to restructure the AAUP governance structure to conform
with requirements of the Landrum-Griffin Act.
AAUP has been in violation of the act since the date of its first collective bar-
gaining contract.
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Rumor has it that on the very day that the SPA Representative Council was overwhelm-
ingly approving merger with SUFT, State AAUP Council members were in Albany attempting to
form a "grand alliance" with CSEA to challenge SUNY/United in a fall election.
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SPA campus grievance chairmen gather in Albany this weekend, April 27-28 to discuss
thety-tupresstons OF the CurFenE SPA contract and how best to Improve it. Special enphasis
in the discussions will be given to the grievance procedure and the role of Board of
Trustees' Policies.
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NEA higher education reports recent progress in several representation campaigns and
in preparation for several others. In Iowa, the first unit -- theological seminarians --
has been. organized by NEA at University of Dubuque. Bellvue Community College (Washington)
has been won as has a large unit of NIP's in the Pennsylvania State College system.
Petition campaigns are under way at University of Massachusetts, Miami-Dade Communi
College (largest two-year college in the country), University of Nevada, and Albion College
(Michigan).
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In a management/confidential dispute somewhat reminiscent of SPA's own problems,
Temple University continues to be embroiled in controversy.
A December runoff election for bargaining rights at the school had apparently produced
a significant AAUP victory. Now, however, comes a university management challenge to the
composition of the bargaining unit, especially as it relates to department chairmen and NTP's
A determination by the Pennsylvania PERB affecting the status of only 23 employees
will reopen the entire question of bargaining rights. The AAUP margin (which put that
organization into a runoff election with AFT instead of NEA) was a mere 23 votes.
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The improper practice suit on improper slotting under Article 34 of the Agreement is
set for hearing on May 3-4 at PERB Headquarters in Albany.
Representing SPA will be Vice President Alan Willsey, Executive Director Philip
Encinio, and NYSUT legal counsel.
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Don't forget category. The NEA Convention convenes June 29 in Portland, Oregon.
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Representatives of SPA's Merger Implementation Committee met with its SUFT countero@
last Tuesday, the 17th in Syracuse to establish election procedure for SUNY/United. The
procedures (already distributed) as well as any unforeseen problems will be administered by
Co-Chairmen Lawrence DeLucia and Robert Granger.
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Unity a reality
Members of the SPA Representative Council have
voted by a 55-4 (with one abstention) margin to merge
with the State University Federation of Teachers.
The resultant union -- "SUNY/United" -- with
almost 4,000 members becomes one of the largest
education union locals in the country.
ap Y. Merger was accomplished on a motion by delegate
For Your Robert Potter (SUC-Srockport) to amend the SPA Con-
Giasaeanes stitution and Bylaws by substitution of the SUNY/
the leadership of the United Constitution and Bylaws. Following a short
Senatd Professional Asocltion debate, the motion was carried with support from 29
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I, No. 31 April 16, 1973 | Also voted by the Saturday meeting was the
establishment of the order of business for the first
meeting of the Deiegate Assembly of SUNY/United.
In line with the recommendation made by SPA Treasurer Joseph Drew (SUNY-Buffalo), the
first matter of substance to be discussed by the new organization will be a series of
amendments to the SUNY/United Constitution and Bylaws.
These amendments -- already distributed to each SPA member -- deal primarily with
representation by type of unit on the SUNY/United Executive Board and proportional represen-
tation on the new Board for NTP's.
The calendar for merger now calls for the merger of local campus SPA and SUFT member-
ship lists on April 17. Official SUNY/United membership lists will then be immediately
distributed to each chapter to allow the completion of local campus SUNY/United elections
} prior to May 1.
The first SUNY/United Delegate Assembly has been set for May 12 in Albany. Among the
highlights of that meeting will be the election of SUNY/United officers and Executive Board.
During the interim period between April 16 and May 12, any potential difficulties in
merger implementation will be handled by the SUFT Merger Implementation Committee chaired
by Lawrence DeLucia (SUC-Oswego), and the SPA Merger Implementation Committee chaired by
Robert Granger (S.U. Ag. & Tech. at Alfred).
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Allan West, long-time member of the NEA administrative hierarchy, has announced his
retirement effective May 1. West has been associated with the organization's conservative
wing as represented by former Executive Secretary Sam Lambert.
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n between SPA and the State will be held today, April 16
The impasse -- declared on April 4 by SPA -- is over salary negotiation under
Article 19 of the contract.
Mediator Dale Beech from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been assigned by PERB
to handle the case.
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Staff news: The SPA Executive Board has voted promotions to staff members Virginia
Carpenter and Edward Purcell. Mrs. Carpenter becomes Special Assistant to the Executive
Director while Purcell has been named Assistant Executive Director.
Also, the Board has voted to employ Mrs. Ellen Suarez as Communications Associate.
Mrs. Suarez -- a graduate of Boston University with considerable publications and higher
education experience -- will join staff early in Nay.
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Impasse Sidelight: In an incredible show of childish attitudes, the State has
reacted to SPA's declaration of ‘impasse in a series of strange moves.
1. OER Director Melvin Osterman for nearly a week refused to admit to the news
media that impasse existed. Instead, he characterized the last negotiations session as
"normal" despite the fact that he was informed face-to-face that SPA could not buy the
State's position. ;
2. Osterman also has ordered all OER and SUNY personnel employees to avoid any
conmunication whatsoever with SPA even on routine matters.
The State has "cranked up a duplicating machine" in the issuance of grievance
decisions giving uniform, one-paragraph denials of over a dozen cases. Grievances of
an extremely complex and important nature -- with substantial amounts of documentation
and testimony to be reviewed ~~ have been denied in one day.
4. The State has purposely "leaked" misinformation to various campuses and members
of the unit in an apparent attempt to split the ranks of the union.
Why? There is strong speculation that OER has engaged a furious pressure campaign
to force Article 19 settlement and avoid further "loss of face.”
Apparently, the State's strategy was to settle SPA talks prior to settlement with
CSEA and, in the process, provide SUNY with a substantially smaller pay hike than other
bargaining units. “In a serious misreading of the mood and intent of the bargaining unit
and its representatives, OER thought settlement was "in the bag" and reported this to
the Governor and top legislative officials.
Instead, the SPA team responded to the State's pitiful offer with firmness and
declared impasse under the Taylor Law.
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SPA was represented last week at the first annual Baruch College symposium on
collective bargaining in higher education by Executive Board Members Herman Doh and
Robert Fisk. Both participants report an excellent and useful program. e
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The SPA Executive Board has authorized the establishment of a special committee to
study the structuring of next year's full contract negotiations. The committee which will
be established within the month will deal with all mechanical and procedural suggestions
for providing maximum membership input and structural development of the negotiations.
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Dr. Stanley Goldstein, chairman of SPA's Article 20 negotiating team, reports his
team has declared impasse in salary talks for medical and dental faculty. While some
progress has been reported in the negotiations, the State was simply unwilling to
provide sufficient dollars for settlement and to treat numerous structural concerns
expressed by SPA.
Impasse talks will be coordinated with Article 19.
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Anne Commerton, chairwoman of SPA's Committee on Academic Status for Librarians,
also reports the breakdown of talks with the University. Difficulties boil down to
SUNY's refusal to guarantee in fact academic status for its librarians.
Further discussions in this area will be handled by SPA Executive Director Philip
Encinio.
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Merger, 4-1 yes
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gat SPA members have voted approval of the SPA-SUFT
S merger by a margin of 1225 in favor to 311 opposed.
E Results by category of membership show academics
S in favor 925-232 and professionals in favor 300-79.
= Of 30 SPA units, merger was approved at 28 with
a= | Binghamton tied and Central Administration voting in
opposition.
For Your In the category breakdown by campus, merger was
Current news for approved in all categories with the exception of
the leadership of the Binghamton academic (14-15), Central Administration
Senaie Professional Astociation (2-4 professional only), Fredonia professional (5-5),
Vol. I, No. 30 April 9, 1973 ieee professional (4-5), and Forestry academic
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The ballot return of 1540 or slightly over 50
percent represents the largest return of a membership-wide poll (including questionnaires
and contract ratification).
The SPA Representative Council meets this Saturday, the 14th, in Albany to consider
the referendum results and the merger question in general.
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SPA Article 19 negotiators declared impasse in the salary talks with the State on
Wednesday, April 4. Impasse in the 5-month old talks developed over the State's refusal
to address itself to structural salary inequities identified in SPA's 13-point salary
proposal and the State's insistence on a $6-million discretionary fund as the sole salary
increase for members of the bargaining unit this year.
The SPA team led by chief negotiator Alan Willsey also found substantial disagreement
with the State's position that the $6-million should be a “one-time only" payment (not to
be applied to base salary) and be distributed solely and completely at the behest of the
University Chancellor.
Chief Negotiator Willsey has been in constant communication with PERB's Office of
Conciliation and Mediation since the breakdown of the talks in hopes of insuring a rapid
convening of talks under the aegis of PERB. The SPA team had requested that mediation be
waived in the dispute so that fact-finding through an impartial third party could begin
immediately. At this point, however, the State has refused to waive the mediation step.
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The first strike under Hawaii's new public employee negotiations law was begun April 2
when talks for a new statewide K-12 teachers contract broke down. The Hawaii law provides
for a "limited right to strike."
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NEA has gone strongly on record as opposing President Nixon's nomination to the vacant
post of U.S. Commissioner of Education. The nominee -- John R. Ottina -- is currently a
deputy commissioner for planning, evaluation, and management.
In a statement before the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, NEA President
Catharine Barrett expressed fear that Ottina's confirmation would “perpetuate the Nixon
Administration's negative focus on errors and failures, never on the tremendous good that
resulted from numbers of federal education programs."
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In the State's first contract settlement with its employees this year, the prison
guard's unit has won a salary boost of about six percent. Newspapers have reported that
regular increment will also be paid, although this report may prove incorrect.
Rumor has it that CSEA salary talks have also been completed and that pension issues
remain the final bar to complete settlement.
The state police bargaining unit (troopers) declared impasse last week. e@ |
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The SPA Rep. Council Committee on Affiliations has completed work on its report to
be formally presented to the Council meeting this weekend. Participating in the actual
drafting of the document last week were committee members Edith Cobane (Albany),Joe Burns
(Cobleskill), Fred Burelbach (Brockport), and Margaret O'Bryan (SUNY-Buffalo). Other
committee members made contributions via telephone to the drafting group.
The written report -- which will be supplemented by an oral presentation at the
Council meeting -- is the result of meeting with officials of CSEA and AAUP.
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SPA Executive Board Member Fred Miller and Chapter President (Morrisville) Doris
knudsen were among those attending a recent meeting of the SUNY Faculty Senate Committee
on Equal Employment Opportunity. The Senate's desire to coordinate its activity in this
field with SPA was discussed.
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A mobile teachers' retirement assistance bill has been filed in Congress at the re-
quest of NEA. Sponsored by Reps. John Dent (D-Pa) and Carl Perkins (D-Ky), the bill would
establish a portable retirement program for teachers that would not seriously lessen the
retirement benefits of teachers moving from state to state.
The portability feature -- a prime selling point of TIAA-CREF -- would be of sub-
stantial benefit to SUNY employees who participate in thé NYS Teacher Retirement or NYS
Public Employee pension plans. ~
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SPA's Executive Board meets this Friday evening in Albany's Holiday Inn on Central
Avenue. The time is 4:00 p.m.
The Central Avenue Holiday Inn is also the site of Saturday's Representative Council
meeting.
The special committee established under Article 38 of the SPA-State Agreement meets
this Friday at 10:00 a.m. in Albany. Chairing the SPA contingent is Executive Board
member Dr. Stanley Goldstein of Downstate Medical Center.
‘Also on the conmittee are Dr. Robert Bartlett (Downstate), Dr. Robert Dougherty
(Upstate), Dr. Richard Aubry (Upstate), Or. Charles Lipani (Buffalo HSC), Dr. Ruth Walsh
(Buffalo HSC), Dr. Campbell Lamont (Stony Brook HSC), and John Valter (Stony Brook HSC).
Anne Willcox (Upstate) and Jack Illari (Downstate) serve as alternates.
On the agenda for the meeting will be the operations of health science centers as
they relate to funding; student-faculty ratios; professional liability insurances
ancillary support for professional staff; appointment, promotion and tenure questions.
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NEA membership in New York is reported up by over 40,000 this year. SPA membership
has remained essentially static for the past three months.
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Vol. I, No. 29
Association
April 2, 1973
Refore Clark Kerr went through the
revolving presidential door at Berkeley,
he defined the modern multiversity
president's job. It was, he said, to pro-
vide “sex for the students, football for
the alumni, and parking for the fac-
ulty.” Eight years later, after my own
maiden year as president of the Uni-
versity of Cincinnaticwhose 36,104
students make it the lurgest urban mul-
ity-in the country alter New York
# Sex is so taken for granted as to rate
no priority.
Ft Se euies change, however,
they grow no fewer. All of them, wheth-
er from outside the university or from
within it, no matter how trivial or ir-
relevant, wind up on the president's
desk, Throughout my first year the
mere job of clearing it often kept ine
there until the small hours—far longer
than what 1 accomplished seemed to
justify. 1 appreciated more than ever
the pertinence of Hennan B. Wells's ob-
servation, after leaving Indiana's presi
dency, that a college president shoul
tbe bein with “the pnysial stamina of
a Greck athlete, the cunning of a
Machiavelli, the wisdom of Soleinon,
the courage of a lion, if possible,” bu
above all, with “the stomach of a goat.
As, goatlike, I chew the ruminative
cud of that first year’s academic detri-
tus, T think 1 begin to understand why
$0 many first-class men, often the finest
and the best, decide to qnit the presi-
dential chair before they have scarcely
warmed it, staying in some eases less
time than it took the search committee
to find them.
My moment of wuth camé toward
the end of my-fist ten months. It was
one of those ‘nights in the office. The
clock was moving toward four in the
ning, and 1 as stil wot through
with the incredible mass of paper
stacked Lefore me. 1 vas bone we
and soul sear and 1 found mvself
wuttering, “Bither I can’t manage this
face, or it’s unmanageable” 1 feached
for my calendar and ran my eyes down
each hour, half-hour, quaiter-hour, to
see where my time had gone that day,
the day before. the mor
Nobel laureate James
he always recognizes a moment of di
covery by “the feeling of terror th:
seizes me.” 1 felt a trace of it that morn-
ing. My discovery was this: I had be-
come the cictim of a vast, amorphous,
unwitting, unconscious conspiracy to
prevent me from doing anything what-
ever to change the university's status
quo. Even those of my associates who
fully shared my hopes to set new goals,
new dircetions, to work transforinin
and creative change were unconsciously.
often doing the most to make sure that 1
would never find the time to begin
T found myself thinking of a friend and
former colleague who had tken over
fone of our top universities with goals
and plans tht fred up all those around
him and who said when he left a few
years later: “I never could get around
to doing the things 1 wanted to do.”
This discovery, or rediscovery, has
Jed me to formulate what might be
called Bennis'’s First Law of Academic
Pscudodynamics, to wit: Routine work
drives out nonfoutine work, or:
smother to death all creative planning,
all fundamental change in the univer:
¢ training and a
of its practical application as a «
ant to business and other organizations
had concerned the rational develop.
ment of managerial strevigths and the
tactics and strategy’ for their optimal
fee Now Lwe borne enfant
the acid test: whether T, as a "lea
theorist” of the principles of creative
eadership, actually could’ prove
: rigine
_ Ieader
BY WARREN BENNIS
Riding a white horse?
Tlsettle for a dray
horse, even one ready
for the glue works.
a leader. I resolved that in the year
ahead 1 would either do so or eonifess
that I had better go back to the
room to develop some better theory.
Bw first, some illustrations of the
First Law. To start, there are 150 letters
in the day’s mail that require a response.
About fifty of them concern our you
dean of the School of Education, Hen-
drik Gideonse. Gideonse’s job’ is tw
bring about change in the teaching of
teachers, in our university's relationship
to the public schools and to stud
in the deprived and deteriorating 1
horhood around us. Out of these vr
schools will come the bulk of our s
dents of the future—as good or as back
as the schools have shaped them.
But the letters. ‘They're not about
education—they’re about a baby, the
dean's ten-week-old son. Gideunse fee!s
very strongly about certain basie vals.
He feels especially. so about sex roles.
about equality for
ing sure she has the time and freedom
to develop her own potentials fully. So
hhe's been carrying the baby into his
office two days'a week ina fittle bars!
net, keep! is desk while h.
does his w heard
about all this, took a p
to and plaved it on
ge ane. TY splashed it across the fae
tion—and my “in” basket has been over~
flowing ever since with letters th
his arvest, or merely his immediate
missal. My only public comment ws
that we're a tax-supported institution
and if Hendrik can engage in this fv
plicd umanism and still ac
chiskey, Va gladly seud hus
several new babies for adoption, Nevee-
theless, Hendrik’s baby is eating up
quite a bit of my time.
Here's a note from a professor, cor-
plaining, that his classroora teinperat
is down to 65; I suppose he expects i
to grab a wrench and fix it. A student
eredit for acti
ug aS assistant to a
councilnan, Another was unable to ge
into. the student health center. ‘The
teacher at my child’s day school, who
also goes to UC, is dissatisfied with her
ides. A parent complains about four-
letter words in a Philip Roth book being,
used in an English class. Tie track
coach wants me to come over to see
for myself how bad the track is. An
alumnus couldn't get the football seat
he wanted, Another wants a coach
fred. A teacher just called to tell me
the squash cuurt was closed at 7 p.m.,
when he wanted to use it.
A number of letters concern the ris-
ing rate of felonies on campus. We have
4,000 students living in high-rise dorms
d the campus. As they grow more
afiluent and have more things to steal
and as the neighborhood around us de-
teriorates still more, the rise in crime
Becomes frightening, Now the dorms
‘can be entered only with a key after
midnight, but here’s a letter complain-
ing that gil could he raped while
hunting for:her key, And so it goes.
Last year perhaps 20 per cent-of my
time was taken up by a problem at the
General Hospital, IU is city owned but
is administered by the university and
serves as the teaching hospital of our
medieal school. Some tenninal cancer
patients, with their consent, had been
subjected to whole-body radiation as
possibly beneficial therapy. Since the
Pentagon saw this.as a convenient way
to gather data that might help protect
Civilian populations in nuclear warfare,
it provided a series of subsidies forthe
work, When this story broke and was
pared in such a way as to call up
‘comparisons the Nazis’ experi-
fear vatican guinea pigs, it became
almost impossible for ine or anybody
else to separate the essential facts froin
the fantasized distortions. The problem,
hopefully, has subsided (after a blue
ribbon task force recommended signifi
tant changes inthe experiment’s. de
n). But T have ako invested endless
ne in a matter only vaguely related
to the prime purposes of our university
«wound up being
some of interfering, with
dom. Together with th
drik’s baby, the episode illustrates how
the medi make the
cadet tera global village
$2 8Geh bowl, By foresing on Ue lr
the superficial, they can disrupt a
president's proper activities, while con-
Uibuting nothing to the advancement
of knowledee.
This leads me to Bennis’s Second
Law of Academic Psendodynamics:
Make whatever grand plans you. will,
wy be sure the unexpected or the
} will disturb and disrupt ther.
VW. ‘grand. phins"—what_funda-
mental change, what creative reshaping
of the university’s goals and purposes—
should I (and other presidents) be
making? In order to see where we are
Boing, WH may be helpful, as Lincoln
Suggested, to see frst where we are
igher education is now at a great,
historic watershed—what Clark Kerr
has aptly called “Climacteric 1.” The
first climacteric was that great period
of growth between 1870 and 1900, fol-
lowing on the Morrill Act, establishing
land-grant colleges. But’ the growth
following World’ War IL was simply
staggering. The wartime baby boom
flooded campuses with an ever-increas-
ing influe of students. Bhink checks
from federal and other subsidies Nood-
ed them with seemingly limitless re-
sources for expansion, Since 1941, when
my own board chairman joined the trus-
tees, she has seen its budget rise from
83 million to $120 million; its student
body increased in the Sixties alone by
75 per cent, its faculty by 96 per cent,
its space by’ 300 per cent.
For administrators growth became
its own object, without form, plan, or
coherence, “Maiagement by addition”
added programs mitch as.a supermarket
stocks its sheives, taking any grab
that offered funds, without thought for
its relevance to teaching and knowl-
edge or for its consequences. Sheer,
monstrous size became higher educa-
tion's Achilles’ heel. The excess ereden-
tialism of employers, abetted by witless
counselors and demanding parents,
jammed campuses with millions of stu:
dents who did not really want to be
there, were all dressed up with no place
to go, and who often treated college
as two more years of high school—
with ash trays. The growing impersor
ality of multiversities brought first
apathy, then anomie, then alienation—
flaring into the 1964 Berkeley demon-
strations and the Columbia riots and
culm the 1970 Kent State-
Cambodia crisis
Now the merry-go-round is over, the
music has stopped, and the piper must
be paid.
Our overgcown universities are con-
fronted with a sharp decline in the
number of customers (high school grad-
uates), and the rile of decline’ will
sharpen, The publie increasingly de-
mands that higher education eam its
future support by proving that ts prod
nets have soine direct relation to the
job needs of the society. Where for-
merly six new faculty members were
hired for every one who died or
tired, now the ratio is only one to one
and may grow less. In the next decade
scores of small, private colleges may: go
under for lack of funds. Others, stifled
by a tenure system, watch their facul-
ties grow older and less flexible while
al, yninger teachers find
themselves the captives of dwindling
mobility, fewer job offerings, and less
chance for advancement on merit.
All our major institutions, but partic-
ularly the university, are afflicted with
a thicefold sense of loss: loss of com-
munity, loss of purpose, and loss of
pot
z
Perhaps there was never a true
versity community” any more than a
Camelot. But the image does suevest a
time when professors recognized their
colleagues on sight and could even re-
member the name of a senior who asked
for a recommendation to a graduate
school. Today the faculty, once unified
by a common definition of the nature
and. purposes of scholarship, is fr
‘mented into competing professional eit-
adels. Many have shifted their concern
from the intellectual and moral content
of education to privilege and ritual
Students in the multiversity find very
little real personal contact or summon-
tng call of the spirit. "The real enemy
is not anarchy but apathy. Alumni, too,
are estranged, many of the older are
outraged by the weird sea changes of
the campus they remember, while the
younger fecl no affectionate bond for
the institution. And the greatest loss of
community, the greatest estrangement,
is among the general public—the citi-
zens and parents and their mirror
images in legislatures and Congress—
on whom the very life of public institue
tions depends arid who are no longer
at all sure it isa life worth
With the loss of community has come
the loss of power, For example, at Cin-
ccinnati we have not only a faculty sen-
ate and a student senate but sixty-nine
other committees that are inyol
one way or another, versity gov-
ferance—including a junior faculty com-
mittee, a black faculty committee, and
a Jewish faculty council, (In all f
ness I must note that despite the diffi
culties in touching base with all these
groups they all have tied to cooper-
ate with, and be supportive of, ‘my
administration.) Vast splintering’ and
fragmentation arise from the new pop-
ulisin of those who felt denied in the
past and who, rightly, want to be con-
sulted in those decisions that affect
them. All this is supposed to add up to
“participatory democracy” but adds up,
instead, to a cave of the winds where
be agreed
upon is to do nothing (like the bumper
sticker “My Vote Cancels Yours”)
among programs. One inevitable result
was that cach university and college
began to resemble all the others, be-
coming a sort of service station from
which a student could plick what he
v, as the flow of resources
ip, colleves and uni
versities are forced for the lirst time to
determine what is essential and what is
expendable. A tangle of conmitments
that were none too purposefully “a
quired now demands what I call “erea:
live retraction”—a task made all the
more difficult and painful by the h
hazard, heedless way that Topsy grew.
Unquestionably, universities are
among the worst-managed institutions
the country. Hospitals and some state
and cily adininisteations may be as bad;
no business or industry except Penn
Central can possibly ‘be. One reason,
incredibly enough, is that universities
—which have studied everything from
government to Persian mirrors and the
number 7—have never deeply studied
nn administration,
of Cincinnati, with a
staff of 6,000, is the second Jargest em-
ployer (after General Electric) in
Greater Cincinnati. 1t is in the hotel
business (high-rise dorms housing 4,000
students), the restaurant business (ten,
all told), the investment business (a
$53-million endowment portfolio), and
must- manage a total plant bigger than
many utilities
Its situation is complicated because it
is ‘extremely libor-intensive (instruc-
tional compensation is 84 per cent of the
budget) and estremely vulnerable to
inflation (our costs rise at an annual rate
‘of 12 per cent, versus inflation’s recent
average of 4 per cent), And, unlike in-
dustry, it has not increased “productivi-
ty” (only the construction industry
education's failure to increase
ivity in twenty-five years). It
: further by beiig almost
uniquely “flat” in its managerial struc;
ture. That structure is not “transitive,”
as it is in business, where executives can
expect an orderly’ rise from step one to
step two as their experience and abilities
merit. In the university the final locus of
power is really the individual professor,
‘who can be “transitive” only to the ex
tent of heading his department; he
advances along’ a competence hier-
archy, not a power hierarchy—one that
confers influence and status but not the
ability to isstie orders or to confer emol-
uments, In sum, it is society's closest
realization of the pure model of anarchy;
he locus of decision making. is the
al.
Make whatever grand
plans you will, you
may be sure the trivial
will disrupt them.
doing, what his true priorities should
be, how he must lead.
Lead, wot manage
portant difference. Many am ins
is very well managed and very poorly
‘This is the cat's cradle in which uni- led. It may excel in the ability to handle
versity presidents are presently en- each
yy all the routine inputs—yet
ineshed. The crisis calls for leadership, may never ask whether the routine
r
but leaders aren't leadin;
ting, pleading, tempori
, uotting, putting out fires
avoiding or taking the bi
ing too much
They've got sw
They're con- shou
di be done at all
Frequently, as I have noted, my best,
most enthusiastic deputies were un-
{and spend- _wittingly keeping me trom working any
nergy in doing both, fundamental cha
ty palms, and they're was wheedfing
One, for example,
ito a personal “aie
seared. Owe reason is that many’ of son” visit to the manager of a huge,
them don't have the faintest concept
of what leadership
Auden's captain, they
igation while the ship is sinking.
aun, in ny trivia-clattered office,
tying to stra
out in mg own mind what the univ
ew governmental complex that will be
all about. Like our ticighbor. Twas about to do this,
studying nav- but th
ay moment of ruth
intery
1 will hear are things he is going to
want from the provost, from the lihrar-
1 my moment of truth, that wear’ fan, and soon. Twill hive to come
and back and relay this to them, F may not
eflective hours of the following do so nearly as clearly or persuasively
as Ihe would fasthand; furthermore,
it be les cooperative.”
ive,
sity president should be doing and not AIL of us find ourselves acting on
routine problems because they are the
easiest things to do; we hesitate to get
involved too early in the bigger ones—
we collude, as it were, in the uncon
scious conspiracy to immerse us in
year Ihave talked with
the biggest mistake he mace was to take
‘on too much, as if proving oneself de-
pended on providing instant solutions
and success was dependent on imme-
diate achievements.
My entrapment in routine made me
realize another thing. People were fol-
owing the old army game. They did not
want fo take the responsibility, or bear
the consequences, of decisions they
properly should make. The motto was
‘Let’s push up the tough ones.” The
consequenice was that everybody and
anybody was dumping his “wet babies”
(as the State Department old hands
call them) on my desk, when T had
neither the diapers nor the information
to take care of them.
So I have decided the president's
first priority—the sine qua non of effec-
tive leadership—is to create around
him an “exccutiye constellation” to run
the office of the president. It can b
a mixed bag—some of them vice-presi
dents, some’ presidential assistants. All
‘of them must be compatible in the
sense that they can work together but
neither uniform nor conformist in the
sense of yes men—they will be men
who know’ more than the president does
about everything within their areas of
competency and can attend to. them
without dropping their wet babies on
his desk. ‘They must be people who
take very seriously the functions of the
office of the.president. They ask what
those functions are now and what they
should be. They .ask what various in
dividuals want to do, are motivated to
do, and are competent to do. And they
try to work out the “ft.”
What should the president himself
do? He should be a conceptualist. That's
nore. than being. just an
Te means a leader with
ial yision and the time to
ng"about the forces that
ject the destiny of his institution
He must educate the trustees so they
not inderstand the necessity. of
distinguishing between leadership” and
management but also can protect the
chief executive from getting enmeshed
in routine machinery. If he fails to do
this, the trustees will collude with the
other constituencies to enmesh hin—be
more concerned about putting out fires
than considering whether the building
is worth saving.
‘The leader must create for his i
tution clear-cut and measurable goals,
based on advice from all elements of
munity. He must be allowed to
toward those goals without
being rippled by. bureaucratic ma-
chinety that saps his strength, energy,
and initiative, He must be allowed to
take risks, to embrace error, to use his
hilt and’ encourage
nts 40 use theirs
Man on a white horse? Some would
say so. But consider the situation of
the President of the United States, as
Richard Neustadt portrays it; “Under-
neath our images of Presidents-in-boots,
astride decisions, are the half-observed
realities of Presidents-in-sneakers, stir-
rups in hand, trying (o induce particu-
lar departinent heads, or Congressinen,
or Senators, to climb aboard.”
T don’t want to ride a white horse.
Il settle for a dray horse, even one
ready for the glue works. All 1 want
to do is to get one foot in the stirrup.
ssuming I ean do so, what goals
would I wish to shape, what divections
would I offer to help miake the univer-
sity control events, rather than, as in
the past, being controlled by ‘them?
Here are a few, necessarily brief, daubs
at the future's canvas.
Outside the university more educa
tional consortia are needed, perhaps
spanning entire regions and embracing
Public and private institutions alike.
In addition, we must establish a direct,
and seminal, relation with the public
schools around us, and with the dete-
hborhoods where they
out. For one thing, faculty tenure must
be taken seriously—and by that I mean
systematic evaluation of ‘performance,
something that has rarely been done.
Tenure was never meant to shield in.
competence but rather to give a strong
measure of economic security in order
to protect academic freedom, For an-
other thing, we will have to increase
“efficiency.” New techniques are avail
able, from computerized instruction to
cable TV, For still another thing, all top
administrators, including the president,
should be placed on term. appoint:
ments. Let the leader lead; if he doesn’t
move the institution measurably toward
agreed-upon goals within a certain num:
ber of years, oust him.
Above and beyond the set of prob-
Jems such actions would help to solve
lies a larger set, It relates to the nature
of work in our society, To begin with,
thore and more of our well-educated
young itre eager to enter into some
‘eceupation related to the “management
of human services.” (4 majority of stu
dents at the top 100 universities, ace
cording to a recent Office of Edivcation
report, indicate that's what they: want
0 a
t At the-same time there is a
growing need for these services among.
the poor, the old, the infirm, and all
those people left, not “beyond the
“but behind it. “We seem
ing those individ
nd the drive to help together with
hose individuals who require such
help. What's needed is some new social
invention, equivalent to Hemy Ford's
assembly line, that will create an ap-
propriate -mechanisin. for this badly
needed fusion.
Universities can help. But as matters
stand now, interested students have a
fairly difficult time in finding the sorts
of curriculuns or “majors” that would
enable them to learn about the art and
science of the development, delivery,
and management of human. Service
At least, they seem to find the univer:
sity not altogether congenial or forth-
gaming in this rea. Yet, in any case
1980 fully 75 per cent of the Ameri-
os hes loce ol be working in
“service” activities, many of them car-
ied on by giant public institutions (in
education, health, welfare, and so on).
In the light of these facts what
should we be doing?
We should create more cooperative
(work-study) educational programs,
They should embrace not only «
ments and colleges that have
tionally used them, such as business,
engineering, and architectural design,
but those that haven't. I mean, of
course, the departinents most responsi-
Dle for general, or liberal, education,
usually found in the arts and sciences,
We should create co-op prograns
for faculty, too. Especially in the pro-
fessional “areas faculty would profit
enormously by sustained experience as
practitioners in their areas of compe
tence, Indeed, rather than the stale fad
of inary” teaching or re-
search, it might be’ wiser to create op-
portunities for faculty to engage in
“metadiseiplinary” work—that is, work
in the occupational sector related or po-
tentially related to their discipline, Pro-
fessors of education, of business, of soci
ology, of political ‘science, would not
only” profit personally and profession.
ally from such experiences but would
eventually add to the body of knowl
edge that defines their “fields.”
Changes are being made, though not
rapidly enough in my view, to create
earefully chosen experimental compon-
ents (sot Just emop jobs) that would
igment the theoretical/eognitive/ab-
stract side of education. Medical schools
manage (sometimes clumsily, but nev-
ertheless they manage) to provide a
system that combines classroom work
and clinical apprenticeship,
car colleges, despite theit pop-
uhwity and enornous growth over the
past decade and a half, must concern
themselves with the general traditions
of the 3, humanities, and social
sciences. We've produced enough
ained idiots,” ehough specialists with
“trained incapacity.” Segmented edu-
ation, without the ability to make the
right “connections between scientific,
humanistic, and sociocultural concerns,
helps to create segmented and com:
partinentalized people, when we des
perately need generalists. We can't af-
TE our ber yest colleges to edu-
cate a “technostineture” without this
base, any more than we can in our
year colleges. All of this means
that ‘our educational “futures,” to use
gon of the day, must once again
Pay special attention to the atts, to the
sciences, to the humanities—in short, to
a really vital and integrated liberal edu-
cation. Against the pressures of a totally
utilitarian education, this voice must not
only be protected but amplified
In order to keep our huge university
physical plants at full capacity as well
as to add badly needed tuition dollars,
industry and government should create
minisabbaticals for their people. Many.
emplovees could profit both themselves
and their sponsoring organizations
through advanced studies,” or simple
“repotting,” or some other form of con-
tinuing education,
It isn’t only for-economie reasons that
this “new clientele” should be encour-
aged. (At the present time it is any
thing but encouraged; try calling your
local college or university to. ask how
to register as a part-time student in or-
der to take one graduate course during
the day.) It's just possible that “older
people” (over twenty-five) may enrich
and animate our campuses in a
hat hasn't occurred since the golden
lays of the GT Bill of Rights. 1's just
possible that people with work exper-
fence, plus commitment to leaning,
will turn out to be the best students
we've ever had. It's just possible that
age diversity may be as exciting as
ethic and religious diversity (and per-
haps more so—T suspect that there will
be far greater integration among the
ages than has yet arrived among the
races). T've never yet read a novel in
which at least three generations didn't
play a role; that*may soon prove to
fe trie for Maher educated as wel
In sum, I believe that changes in
higher education during the Seventies
will come about not merely for the sake
of change but rather for the sake of
humanity, Without, however, a thor-
ough understanding of the processes
of change, the leadership needs of uni-
versities, and the social architecture of
such multifaceted, giant educational
institutions, we all might just as. well
contimie to work diligently on blue.
ribbon “tisk force” committees, Noth
ing ingmies the status quo so much as
pulting the best minds and best talents
on these task forces. For their reports
continue to get better as our problems
get worse.
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Convention news
Billed as ‘the "historic first convention" of the
New York State United Teachers, last weekend's
assembly in Montreal, Canada may nieve fallen short of
the "historic" tag, but did prove that teachers in
the State can work together for strong union.
Highlight of the meeting was the near-unanimous
re-election of Thomas Hobart as NYSUT President.
Also elected to officer positions were other menbers
of the “unity team" Albert Shanker (Executive Vice
President), Dan Sanders (First Vice President), Toni
Cortese (Second Vice President), and Edward Rodgers
(Treasurer).
SPA President Robert Granger was also elected
Director 01
Both groups solicited funds during the meeting and
elected leaders to coordinate internal political action during the coming year.
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CAPE, the NEA-organized lobby on behalf of public employees, has announced plans for
an “all-out attack” on legislation which restricts the political rights of public employees.
First step in the program is the filing of an amicus curiae with the U.S. Supreme Court
seeking to strike down the federal Hatch Act which Tfimits the political involvement of
federal employees.
Joining CAPE in the filing are the American Federation of Government Employees and
the American Postal Workers Union, both AFL-CIO affiliates.
CAPE, which will be financed by
unsuccessful in expanding beyond its
Association of Fire Fighters.
Thirty-two SUNY representatives
a minimum of $200,000 per year, has thus far been
founding members: NEA, AFSCME, and the International
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to_the NYSUT Convention have elected SPA president
Robert Granger as Direct
r of NYSUT Election District 38 (higher education outside New
York City). Challenged in a three-man race by Constantine Yeracaris (SUNY-Buffalo) and
Edward Wesnofske (SUC-Oneonta), Granger polled 21 votes to six for Wesnofske and five for
Yeracaris.
Attending the meeting were 26 SPA delegates and six delegates from the State University
Federation of Teachers.
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Due to some delay in the mailing and receipt of merger referendum ballots, the dead-
line for receipt of the votes in SPA Central has been moved to Thursday, April 5. As per
the tentative Merger Implementation Calendar, the ballots will be tabulated an Apri] 6
with results to be inmediately distributed to all local units and Rep. Council delegates.
The Council's Credentials Conmittee headed by John Schroeder (Maritime) has been
charged with responsibility for the count.
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The battle against so-called pension reform for public employees in the State continues
with Tumors of many proposed compromises in the winds. Latest to surface is a deal to make
all current temporary benefits permanent in return for an end to organized union resistance
to the Governor's pension proposals.
At this critical juncture, it would be extremely useful for local chapters and indiv@>
dual SPA members to contact their local legislators to discuss the dangers inherent in the
reform plan. ®
In-depth information and analysis of the proposed pension moves can be found in recent
issues of the New York Teacher, NYSUT, with the strong backing of the state AFL-CIO, con-
tinues to be the most vocal (and probably most effective) voice against the diminishment
of public employee pension benefits.
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Article 20 negotiators meet again today in Albany to continue attempts to settle salary
questions for SUNV's medical and dental faculties. With progress reported last week, the
group was rapidly reconvened to continue the push.
SPA's team has also reserved Tuesday, the 27th for talks if fruitful.
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NEA President Catharine Barrett, AFT President David Seldon, and well-known civil
rights activist Bayard Rustin were featured speakers at the NYSUT Convention. Garrett and
Seldon, as expected, continued their “at-a-distance” feud over teacher unity and how to
achieve it. 2
The real hit of the program was Rustin who addressed himself to the social impact and
conscience of teacher unionism. Rustin noted that teachers through contract -- and strike --
have been able to achieve benefits for the underprivileged that 100 years of civil rights
activity had not been able to crack. He included reduced class size, upward-mobile jobs
and scholarships for the underprivileged on his list.
Rustin -- who is currently director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute (founded to
promote unionism in the Black community) -- also pointed to the fact that unionized members
of his race have incomes some 50 percent above the community as a whole.
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ferry Herndon, Executive Director of the Michigan Teachers Association, has been
selected to fill the slot of NEA Executive Director, the association's top staff post.
The 34-year-old Herndon is a former teacher with previous experience on the NEA field
staff.
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SPA's first filing with the Wages and Hours Division of the U.S. Labor Department
will be made this week. The case involves salary discrimination because of sex against
an academic employee at SUC-Oswego.
SPA's Grievance Chairman at Oswego Fred Fischer and Central staff member Edward
Purcell assisted in the preparation of the case.
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In a recent grievance settlement, SPA was successful in obtaining a one-year re-
appointnent for ar acadenic at SUNY-Stony Brook who was improperly notified of non-renewal..
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SPA membership this week stands at 3096. e
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State and critical need to inmediately test several
contract points, SPA has reslotted several grievance
cases pending arbitration.
Withdrawn from arbitration is the sex discrim-
For Your ination case of Nirmala Bidani. The hearing had
been previously set for April 12.
According to SPA Executive Director Philip
Encinio, it became necessary to withdraw the Bidani
grievance after the University had moved successfully
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to seek remedy.
“Ms. Bidani, in her effort to seek ress," Encinio notes, “had eriginally sought
help from the State Human Rights Commission as well as SPA. When the initial Human Rights
Commission hearing was held on her case, however, the University was successful in stopping
any further Commission action until the grievance process was exhausted."
"In an effort to put a stop to the University's uniform denial of 211 discrimination
cases," Encinio continues, "we had previously determined that the outside pressure of
investigation by the Human Rights Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, and Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission was needed before the State itself would undertake a
serious review of any discrimination case. To mount this immediate pressure in the case
of Bidani, it therefore was necessary to call the bluff of the two possible collusive
State agencies and withdraw the arbitration so that the Human Rights Commission would be
forced to continue its investigation."
SPA will now assist Bidani in her Human Rights Commission appeal.
The April 12 arbitration date will now be used to argue the case of James Simon
(SUNY-Buffalo). At issue is the University's improper use of qualified academic rank.
A second case, John Everett (SUC-Fredonia), will continue on the arbitration agenda,
but will not be scheduled until other more pressing cases are heard. This grievance in-
volves reduced load for SPA Chapter Presidents which in the specific case at hand has
become moot (Everett is no longer chapter president at Fredonia).
In the matter of Ervin Kedar, SPA is currently investigating the possible of DuShane
assistance from NEA to seek a court reversal of an unfavorable arbitration award.
The decision in the case of William Bruce has been somewhat delayed due to the
necessity of submitting extensive post-hearing briefs. |
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SPA's Article 20 Negotiating Team met last Thursday, March 15 to continue discussions
on the Tong-outstanding arou Tamra salaries fom med cel and dettat personnel. The meeting
centered on a proposal for settlement made by OER's John Hanna.
Included on the Article 20 Team are Dr. Stanley Goidstein, Dr. Zebulon Taintor,
Dr. Steven Jonas, and Dr. Michael Lilien. SPA consultant at the session was attorney
Jerome Sturm.
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Article 19 salary negotiations reconvene in Albany on the 20th.
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Empire State's Labor College has announced registration for its Spring term.
Include in the course offerings are a number of labor-oriented courses on collective
bargaining, union history, union administration, etc. that should be of particular
interest to SPA leaders. e
Information can be obtained from Dr. Betty Lall at the Manhattan Learning Center
(212-0X7-2247), Registration begins April 9th.
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SUNY's College of Optometry has cast an eye toward active participation in SPA.
Responding to-a Special wailing to all college professional staff, menberships have
begun to arrive in SPA Central.
As the number increases, a chapter will be formally organized.
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OER attorneys continue the State's battle against free parking for its employees.
The most recent move last week was a suit in State Supreme Court seeking to overturn an
arbiter's decision unfavorable to the State's unilateral imposition of a parking fee.
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Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Norman Walker has proposed
several steps to ease the critical strain on the nation’s system of arbitrating labor
disputes. Citing the growing problems of cost, time lag, and availability of qualified
arbiters, Walker suggests the following:
“Weak and frivolous grievances should be screened out. Parties should avoid cluttering
up the process with grievances brought only for political or tactical purposes."
"Similar grievances should be consolidated for hearing in a single case." @
"Issues should be clarified before hearing and only necessary witnesses called."
“Hearing transcripts and legal briefs should be avoided where necessary."
"Arbitrators should be encouraged to issue bench decisions, without written award
or formal argument, where the parties agree no fundamental question is at issue."
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Under the banner of. “Unity Team," the current leadership of NYSUT has selected its
slate of candidates for the union's first election. Heading the team as nominee for
president is current Co-President Thomas Hobart.
Nominee for Executive Vice-President is Co-President Albert Shanker.
Also-nominated are Dan Sanders (First Vice President). Antonia Cortese (Second Vice
President), and Edward Rogers (Treasurer). The Unity Team has also endorsed a slate of
nominees for the at-large director posts.
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Three SPA members have announced their candidacy for NYSUT District Director of
Election District 38. They are: Robert Granger (Alfred), Edward Wesnofske (Oneonta),
and Constantine Yeracaris (SUNY-Buffalo).
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NEASO, staff union for proféssional employees of NEA, has officially announced its
affiliation with AFL-CIO -- the Conmunication Workers of America. r
As NEA top management and a majority of the Association's Board of Directors contin
to disavow any ties with "organized labor," the affiliation of the organization's own
staff may prove some slight embarrassment.
Granger elected
SPA President Robert Granger led all candidates
last week as tabulation of votes was completed in the
twin elections for NYSUT and NEA delegates. Granger,
who received over 350 of the approximately 600 votes
cast, will lead the SPA delegation of 31 delegates to
the IYSUT convention later this month.
Also elected as both NYSUT and NEA delegates were
Executive Board members Joseph Drew, Robert Fisk, Alan
Willsey, Gail Hotelling, Stanley Goldstein, Herman Doh,
Fred Miller, and Mary Lou Wendel.
Others elected to NYSUT's new Election District
Vol. I, No. 26 March 12, 1973 | were Patricia Buchalter, Leila Moore, Fred Burelbach,
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Robert Potter, Margaret O'Bryan, Constantine Yeracaris,
Minerva Goldberg, Charles Lalorte, Zebulon Taintor,
Steven Crane, Donald Duell, Bernard Parker, Armand
Kamp, Gary Barber, Barbara McCaffery, and Willard Mlott.
Also, Doris Knudsen, Anne Commerton, Sam Waggoner, John Caramia, John Gardiner, and
Anne Willcox. -
The first five alternates to the NYSUT meeting include (in order of selection) Else
Carter, Edith Cobane, Robert Graham, Allen Horn, and Philip Livingston.
Elected as delegates to the NEA convention (in addition to the Executive Board members
listed above) are Doris Knudsen, Donald Duell, Patricia Buchalter, Willard Mlott, Barbara
McCaffery, William Cashman, Sam Waggoner, Robert Potter, Philip Livingston, Minerva Goldberg,
Charles LaMorte, Bernard Parker, and Steven Crane.
Also, Leila Moore, Edith Douglas, Anne Willcox, Margaret O'Bryan, Fred Burelbach, Lyle
NeCaffery, Constantine Yeracaris, Murray Andersen, and Kathleen Herbermann.
Alternates in order of selection include Allen Horn, Gary Barber, Daniel Frisbie, Paul
Nanke, and Katherine Rossi.
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A pre-hearing conference between SPA and the University was held last Friday on the
question of SPA"s improper practice suit on the slotting of NTP's under Article 34. The
Association has charged the University with "bad faith" in negotiating a career ladder
program for NTP's which they never intended to implement.
Particular points in dispute include the failure of SUNY management to seek the re-
classification (upward) of 50 NTP titles and its failure to implement a rational slotting
Process based on actual evaluations of jobs performed.
Executive Director Philip Encinio represented SPA while OER attorney Joel Hodes pre-
sented the State's case.
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The special Representative Council Conmittee on Affiliations has set two meetings this
month to discuss the possibility of widening SPA's affiliations and support within its
SUNY constituency. The committee received the necessary funding for its work at a special
meeting of the SPA Executive Board held March 3 in Syracuse.
The Executive Board at that time also moved to fill several vacancies on that committee.
The committee as now constituted includes Cheryl Carlucci (Stony Brook HSC), Marion Sonnen-
feld (Fredonia), Allen Horn (Forestry), Fred Burelbach (Brockport), Robert Granger (ex
officio member) Zebulon Taintor (Buffalo HSC), Edith Cobane (Albany), Joe Burns (Cobleskill),
Nargaret O'Bryan (SUNY-Buffalo), and Philip Swarr (Cortland).
The group will meet on March 19 in Brockport with representatives of AAUP and on
March 20 in Albany with representatives of CSEA.
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The U.S. Office of Civil Rights has held up a $1.9-million federal contract for Columbia
University pending 2 meeting to determine if Columbia's sffimative action plan has been
violated. A Columbia women's organization complained to the civil rights office that two
recent appointments violated the plan that was approved last year after the government had
held up previous contracts until a plan was filed.
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SPA's Regional Meeting for this week is scheduled for March 13 at SUNY-Albany. Region I
Schools -- Cobleskill, Central Administration, Empire State, Oneonta, Delhi, Plattsburgh, and
New Paltz -- are invited to attend.
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New York State has fallen into fourth place on the list of teachers strikes this year.
New York's 9 ranks behind Pennsylvania (35), Illinois (15), and Michigan (11).
Nationwide, the strike figure is up from 60 last year to 106 so far this school year.
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Article 19 negotiations continued last week in Albany as the SPA Team presented the
State with an overwhelming compilation of data to show the vast salary inequities that exist
within the University.
Team Spokesman Alan Willsey says the data also indicates that "last year's merit and
inequity pool was completely ineffective in lessening the tremendous scope of the problem."
SPA also presented documentation to show the University's salary comparisons with other
institutions as incorrectly drawn and essentially irrelevant. s
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SPA's special Merger Implementation Committee -- Robert Granger, Herman Doh, Alan Wilgmey.
Gail HotelTing, Joseph Drew, and Mike Lilien -- met last week to draw up amendments to the
SUNY/United Constitution and Bylaws as specified in the merger agreement between SPA and SUFT.
These amendments with a cover letter will be distributed to each SPA member.
Frat ace materials for the merger voting are in the mail. The return deadline is
arch 30.
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NEA Higher Education has prepared a new set of promotional brochures and posters to
stress higher education participation in the United Profession. These will soon be
available to SPA units for use.
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With labor trouble still plaguing the Concord Hotel, NYSUT has been forced to shift
the scene of its first Delegate Assembly to another site. Chosen was Hotel Queen Elizabeth,
Montreal, Canada.
The strike of hotel and restaurant workers at the Concord has now been in progress for
some two weeks.
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A belated "congratulations" to Philip Livingston, recently-elected chapter president
at SUC-New Paltz. Phil will complete the term of Dr. Milton Jacobs who is on leave.
Phil is also New Paltz NTP Delegate to the SPA Representative Council.
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: Ballot count
= Members of SPA's special Committee on Nominations
S and ETections have begun the Tabortous task of tabu-
=I ating the results of the NYSUT and NEA delegate elec-
5 tions.
tre Work on the 500-plus votes cast began Friday,
= March 2 at SPA Headquarters in Albany.
y The elections -- conducted under the procedures
For Your. of various State and Federal statutes -- allowed each
Current news for SPA member to both nominate and elect 31 SPA represen-
the leadership of the tatives to the NYSUT Delegate Assembly and 31 repre-
Senate Professional Association sentatives to the NEA Sears crear ive teem
Those elected to the delegate slots wili be
Vol. 1, No. 25 arch 5, 1973 | notified by mail and general Peat published in the
Spokesman. The Nominations and Elections Cormittee
‘consists of Doris Knudsen (Morrisville), chairpersons
Leila Moore (Albany); Bernard Parker (Empire State);
and Donald Duell (Cobleskil1).
Final results of NEA's recently-completed constitutional referendum-show New York State
as one of the few states to support the proposals of the NEA Constitutional Convention.
New York voted 15,175-3,323 in favor of the reforms that would have lessened the "senatorial
voting power" of smaller states in NEA representative councils.
Also voting "yes" against the general tide were Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiane,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,
Washington, ‘and Wisconsin.
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A special meeting of the SPA Executive Board was held Saturday, March 3 in Syracuse.
This meeting replaced the regularly-scheduled session planned for March 9-10.
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As FYI goes to press, word has it that CSEA management has reached agreement with its
Headquarters staff on a new contract that would end the week-long staff strike against CSEA.
The strike had become complete when CSEA Field Staff enployees joined their colleagues in
a sympathy strike.
A federal mediator had been called in to assist in settlement. At this time, there
are no details on the new agreement.
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In other CSEA news, rumor has it that CSEA foot-dragging at the bargaining table has
infuriated State negotiators. With professional staff on strike, CSEA had tried to contin
talks minus its professional consultants. They were unwilling (or unable), however, to do
any serious negotiating without staff.
Consequently, the State is now seriously contemplating a declaration of impasse -- a
first in statewide bargaining in New York. Other informed sources say that the State has
its money on the table and is awaiting a reply from CSEA.
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A revised version of NEA's Mobile Teachers' Retirement Assistance Bill was introduced
in both the House and Senate on February 20 and referred to committee. The measure, if
passed, would establish a system of portable retirement benefits for publicly-employed
teachers.
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The first Delegate Assembly of the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) will convene
Friday, Warch 23 at the Concord Wotel. NEA and AFT people across the country will be
watching closely to ascertain if merger in New York State has "really worked."
Probably the most interesting item on the agenda will be the election of new offic °
and an end to the current dual presidents concept. Opinions are divided on whether Shanker,
Hobart, or a "new face" will carry the day.
Of particular interest to SPA will be the convention showing made by higher education
units and their effectiveness in the political arena of a large convention. Due largely to
merger, higher education will have its greatest delegate strength ever, especially from
CUNY and the private colleges represented by the old United Federation of College Teachers
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SPA will have 31 votes at the convention.
pre-arbitration hearing on the matter of management/confidential designations in
the University is scheduled for today, March 5. The arbitration grew out of the dispute
between SPA and SUNY management over the University's unilateral designation of certain
Professional Services Bargaining Unit titles as management.
Executive Director Philip Encinio will represent SPA.
Executive Board Nember Gail Hotelling (Delhi) has become SPA's third registered
lobbyist entitled to represent the interests of the organization before the State Legisla-
ture. Staff members Philip Encinio and Edward Purcell have also registered to fulfill
this function.
SPA officers, by virtue of their positions, are also entitled to represent the
Association.
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A meeting with state representatives of AAUP has been set for March 19 in Brockport.
The session is part of SPA's continuing effort to forge alliances both inside and outside
the SUNY system that will strengthen the cause of the bargaining unit.
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The sophistication of SUNY campus presidents in finding ways to thwart the purpose of
the grievance procedure appears to be growing. In one recent Step 1 decision, a president
employed this twist:
A step 1 grievance involving the evaluation of an academic is denied -- the reason,
no violation of procedure. So far, so good; this is a common decision. Then comes the
twist.
The president states that while procedures were not violated, there may have been bad
substantive decisions and remands the case back to the department for a second evaluation.
The inconsistency is staggering.
Once again, the procedures are used for the benefit of the campus president and no one
else. Mhen substance is important to the employee and not the administration, substance
is not grievable. When the president wants to use substance as an excuse for lessening
political pressure on his campus though, (in this case from students), he uses for his oun
purpose a substantive argument.
The effect in this case is to impugn the legitimate academic prerogatives of the
department and throw the onus of a management decision onto members of the, bargaining unit.
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Rep Council meets
Members of SPA's Representative Council, meeting
in special sessfon, have overwhelmingly voted to send
the question of merger with the State University
Federation of Teachers (SUFT) to the SPA membership
in referendum.
The action came on a vote of 51-15.
The special meeting, one of the best-attended
Rep. Council meetings in SPA history, was called into
session to reconsider the merger referendum question
after substantial progress was made in treating sub-
stantive objections to the SUNY/United Constitution
raised at the February 10 Council meeting.
Vol. I, No. 24 Feb. 26, 1973, According to SPA President Robert Granger, the
are cr initial five-vote defeat of the referendum propos‘ tion
pointed cut possible procedural and substantive weac-
nesses in the merger documents which deserved an attempt at resolution. "During the tuc-
week interval between Rep. Council meetings," he says, "SPA's Merger Negotiating Team met
twice with representatives from SUFT in an attempt to resolve the questions raised by our
Rep. Council delegates. Although renegotiation of the SUNY/United Constitution was not
possible (SUFT had already begun its ratification process based on the original document),
it was possible to commit to writing certain guarantees and understandings that had been
developed during the merger negotiations.
"What we came up with - and what the Rep. Council overwhelmingly approved for refer-
endum - was a merger agreement per se and an implementation calendar for possible merger.
With these documents added to the proposed Constitution and Bylaws, we now have a complete
package to submit to membership."
Alan Willsey, SPA Vice President for NTP's, notes that the most serious objections
to the proposed constitution and bylaws involved representation questions on SUNY/United's
Executive Board. "We had many readings of concern about lack of proportional NTP repre-
sentation on the Board and the abolishment of SPA's current system of caucus representa-
tion," Willsey explains. "We were able to handle these concerns by guaranteeing that the
Delegate Assembly of the merged organization will consider amendments to the articles in
question at its very first meeting.
"The democratic process will prevail at that meeting and give each member of the body
the opportunity to form the Executive Board in whatever manner they see fit.” é
The question of the term of officers will also be handled in this manner.
Under the merger implementation calendar approved for distribution, referendum
materials will be mailed on Narch 9 with the deadline for ballot return set at arch 30.
The SPA Representative Council, which must implement merger by amending the current SPA
Constitution and Bylaws, will then meet on April 14 to consider the referendum results.
If merger is approved, local SPA and SUFT membership lists will be merged and new
campus elections held between April 17 and May 1. The new Delegate Assembly is then to
convene between ay 1 and May 15.
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SPA's Article 19 Negotiating Team returns to the table Wednesday, February 28. Talks
have been recessed for several weeks as both sides analyzed local campus salary data.
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Return of NYSUT, NEA election ballots has thusfar been low. Chapters are urged to
encourage all members to vote in this important election prior to the Feb. 28 deadline.
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Headquarters staff members of the CSEA went on strike last Thursday against the
organization’s management. The basic 1ssue appears to be that of salary -- the staff
has requested a seven percent raise plus increment, while management has offered only
five percent.
A management spokesman puts the problem this way: "To give the store away to the
staff would certainly be against the best interest of our members who pay the dues."
Sixty-five staff are affected. CSEA operates with a $7.3-million budget.
Question: Has the State of New York used the phrase "give away the shop" in its
current salary negotiations with CSEA?
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Correction: Last week's FYI carried a resolution passed by the Executive Board
of the Cobleskil1 SPA Chapter. The vote on that resolution should have read, "4-1 in
favor of passage." ;
SPA staff members Philip Encinio and Edward Purcell travel to New York City this
week to participate in a special NYSUT staff training session on higher education. The
meeting will be devoted to updating NYSUT staff from its various regional offices on the
current issues and problems in higher education.
NYSUT has designated staff in each of its regional offices as special higher ed.
contacts.
A federal judge has ruled that Florida State University cannot continue to ban AFT
from using campus facilities while allowing AAUP that privilege. AFT had been banned
because of its advocacy of collective bargaining.
The University is now attempting to decide whether to ban AAUP as well or allow €
both organizations the right of access. -
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As the income tax filing deadline approaches, many SPA members have requested
verification of union dues paid for the year. The amount of dues paid during the year
can be tabulated from the employee's pay stub where the bi-weekly as well as year-to-
date amount'is listed. Cash members should use their cancelled checks for the proper
amount.
If further proof is required by IRS, SPA Central will attempt to provide assistance.
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Avrecent survey of some 9,200 faculty members reveals that 1 of 3 professors sampled
sees collective bargaining as the most effective way to influence decisTons on campus.
Although this percentage seems low, it should be noted, however, that only about
one-third of the states have collective bargaining laws for public employees and many
states still contain no organized higher education bargaining units of any sort.
The survey was conducted by the Stanford School of Education.
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SPA's affiliation with AFT through the requirements of the NYSUT Constitution
becomes effective May 1, 1973. Chapters wishing copies of the AFT Constitution and
Bylaws as well as brochures on AFT programs and benefits may obtain them through the
NYSUT Special Services Division. ©
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Stony Brook Health Science Center.
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E special meeting of the Association's Representative
Council to continue consideration of a proposed men-
< bership referendum on the question of merger between
= SPA and the State University Federation of Teachers.
7 The special meeting -- as provided for in
For Your Article IX, Sec. 3 of the SPA Constitution -- will
be held Saturday, February 24 at 12:00 noon in
Albany's Northway Inn.
The call for a special meeting resulted from the
immediate and widespread reaction of numerous SPA
Vol. I, No. 23 Feb. 19, 1973 | Chapters and members to the Rep. Council's Feb. 10
~~ yote against sending the propcsed Constitution and
Bylaws of "SUNY/United" out to referendum at that
time. (See resolutions below.)
Two items constitute the agenda for the special meeting: 1) Mergers and 2) Election
of Officers.
In line with Rep. Council concerns for more information on “costs and benefits" of
the proposed SUFT merger (as well as costs and benefits of any alternative mergers and/or
affiliations), SPA staff has made the exploration of these facts a top priority since the
February 10 session. Several reports will be distributed at the special meeting.
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Three members of the SPA Executive Board -- Messrs. Valter, Glasheen, and Drew -~
have called for a Special meeting of the SPA Executive Board in accordance with Article IX,
Sec. 1 of the SPA Constitution. This meeting will be held Friday, February 23 at SPA
Headquarters in Albany.
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The regular monthly meeting of SPA Region 4 schools held February 15 in Morrisville
unanimously adopted the following resolutions:
Ve ie SPA membership should have the opportunity to express themselves on merger
with SUFT.
2. Everyone present at this Region 4 meeting favored a consideration of merger;
however, we recognized that the Pro and Con posi papers did not provide
the information expected by many of the Representative Council delecates.
3. When the Representative Council votes on February 24th to submit the merger
proposal to referendum, the Representative Council members must commit them-
selves to the task of widely disseminating among their constituents the issues,
Pro and Con, on the proposed merger. Only an informed electorate can make wise
decisions.
4. We believe in collective bargaining and negotiations. Effective negotiations
emanate from unity and strength. There is a need for a unified position.
5. Merger, in the strictest sense, can at present occur only with SUFT. To
associate outselves with AAUP, CSEA, AFSCME or others is not merger. It is
affiliation. Affiliation with one of the above would require disaffiliation
with NYSUT. We do not believe that consideration of affiliation/disatfiliation
is implicit in the October 14 resolution of the Representative Council.
6. After a brief consideration of features of the merger document we felt there
were some advantages that were completely ignored in the Representative Council
discussions.
Present at the meeting were Steven Crane (Canton), Horace Ivey (Upstate), Jeanne
Resnick and Dennis Sands (Morrisvilie), Henry Stukuls (Cortland), Herbert Garber, John
Schluep and Samuel Waggoner (Oswego), and Doris Knudsen, Morrisville Chapter President.
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The Representative Council and Executive Board of the SUC-Buffalo SPA Chapter
telegraphed the following resolution to SPA Central on February 15:
SUC Buffalo Representative Council and Executive Board C )
express utter dissatisfaction at SPA Representative
Council failure to vote a referendum on merger with SUFT.
Regard this as capricious subversion of democratic
processes. Threatens total collapse of bargaining under
Taylor Law. Poll of SUC Buffalo campus SPA membership
shows overwhelming support for merger. We demand merger.
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Chapter President Donald Duell has telegraphed to SPA Central the following
resolution unanimously adopted by the SU Ag. & Tech. at Cobleskill-SPA Executive Board:
The Executive Council feels that SPA menbers have the
right, to consider the question of merger with SUFT in a
secret election and formally endorsed such a motion at
a special meeting tonight. (Feb. 19, 1973)
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Priority guidelines
SPA and NYSUT research analysts have completed
work on SPA's Article membership questionnaire,
The results from 999 valid responses show “cost-of-
living" increases as the top salary concern of the
Association membership this year.
Cost-of-living registered number one on both
opinion scales contained on the questionnaire.
One opinion indicator showed cost-of-living as
the top priority followed by percentage across-the-
board, minima, lump sum across-the-board, merit and
inequity pool, retirement, longevity, promotional
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and area cost-of-living differentials.
The questionnaire's second scale showed cost-
of-living followed by across-the-board and incrementals pay system (tie); improved retire-
ment and promotion pool (tie); minima and comparable retirement (tie); tuition waivers,
merit pool, and summer session pay (tie); area cost-of-living differentials; and academic
year appointments and holiday pay structure (tie).
Results tabulated from each class of University institution (4-year college, etc.)
generally reflected the same ordering of priorities as shown in the totals. This was also
true of results broken down by type of respondent (academic, academic librarian, and
professional).
The questionnaire results were a prime topic of discussion last weekend as the SPA
Negotiations Committee met to begin the difficult task of establishing priorities in the
current salary talks. f
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NEA Higher Education has managed to salvage one major election out of the important
group of representational contests that were conducted this fall. The win came at Ferris
State College in Michigan where a run-off election produced 221-161 margin for NEA over
"no representation."
The AAUP chapter at Ferris State threw its support to NEA after withdrawing its
challenge to the results of the first election held in October.
The Ferris State unit is comprised of 425 full-time faculty.
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SPA Central will file this week two improper practice charges against the State of
New York, resulting from two long-festering problems in the SUNY system.
The first charge accuses the State of denying the Association access to information
needed for negotiations and contract enforcement. A second facet of this charge raises
the question of the State's manipulation of information so as to cover up its improper
distribution of last year's Articie 19 merit and equity adjustment funds.
The second charge seeks to restrain the State from unilateral changes in the con-
ditions of employment as they relate to campus parking regulations. A successful challenge
would require the State to negotiate with SPA over any change in the terms and conditions
of employment.
SPA Executive Director Philip Encinio notes that while these charges have been filed
to relieve pain experienced at specific campuses within the system, they will have a
University-wide impact. “If we are successful,” he says, "the relief will apply to each
of our units and be of substantial benefit to each employee. Ne also will have made a
ae gain in our drive to end the State's cavalier attitude toward the SPA bargaining
unit." ie
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AAUP has again demonstrated its strong “management leanings" by advocating -- in condunc-
tion with the Association of American Colleges (a management group) -- that tenure quotas be
applied in, higher education. A study conmission composed of the two groups and funded by the
Ford Foundation selects one-half to two-thirds as the optimum quota level for any department
or institution.
Commission Chairman Hilliam Keast (2 former college president) also recommends on behalf
of his group "that collective bargaining (should) not extend to academic freedom and tenure
and related faculty personne] matters and that grievances involving the issues of freedom and
tenure (should) be referred to academic procedures outside" the collective bargaining process.
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SPA membership during the past month has increased by 31 to a total of 3,077. SUNY-
Buffalo and SUC-Brockport reported the greatest growth, each reporting 5 new SPA members.
Binghamton, Albany, Buffalo College, and Buffalo Health Science Center each recorded three
new menbers. '
Canton, Delhi, Empire State, SUNY-Stony Brook and Upstate Medical listed membership
decreases during the month.
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SPA's Article 19 Negotiating Team returns to the table Wednesday, February 14.
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Grievance representatives for 10 SUNY campuses met with SPA staff and members of the SPA
Executive Board on February 2 to discuss past performance and future direction for SPA
grievance processing. A prime topic of discussion was the Association's desire to divert
rie of discrimination from the grievance procedure into the various alternative forums
that exist.
As explained by SPA staffer Edward Purcell; discrimination grievances (including sex, ace,
and national origin have been consistently and uniformly-denied by both the University and
Office of Employee Relations. To combat this posture, SPA will now assist "grievants" with
this type of complaint resolution to process their complaints through the appropriate state
and federal agencies.
Such filings will include cases to be taken before the State Human Rights Commission,
the U.S. Labor Department's Wages and Hours Division, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, and the Contract Compliance Division of HEW's Office for Civil Rights. ~*
"We believe," Purcell says, "that when faced with the prospect of numerous and continuing
federal investigation, loss of federal contracts and punitive damages assessments, the
University may suddenly decide it is easier to comply with the various anti-discrimination
statutes than to preemptively wave aside all cases of discrimination within the SUNY system."
Filing forms were distributed to all participants at the February 2 session as well as
mailed to grievance representatives who were unable to attend because of weather conditions.
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Region 4 schools (Oswego, Upstate, Forestry, Binghamton, Canton, Cortland, and Potsdam)
should keep their calendars open for this week's SPA regional meeting scheduled for Morrisville.
The regional session will be from 2-4 p.m., on Thursday, Feb. 15 in the Student Activities
Building.
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Enclosed with this edition of FYI is a clipping that appeared in the student newspaper
at SUNY-Stony Brook -- The Statesman. This type of publicity can be effective and useful.
If your campus has not responded to an earlier request for campus newspapers to add to SPA's
news release list, please do so.
Thanks to Steve Jonas, president of the Health Science Center SPA Chapter for the clip.
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$20 Million in Benefiis at Stake
As SPA Reopens Salary Talks
By GILDA LePATNER
‘The 16,000 teaching and
non-teaching professionals of the
State University systems are now
in the process of negotiating for
benefits in excess of $20 million.
‘According to their contract,
the Senate Professional
Association (SPA), the
bargaining agent for these
professionals, “shall have the
right to reopen
negotiations ...to smend this
agreement with respect to
changes in employees basic
annual salary.
“We have chosen to interpret
that phrase in 13 different
ways,” was the response given
by Ed Purcell, an Albany
spokesman for SPA. These
demands include crea and
longevity pay differentials,
academic year appointments for
all employees, improved
retirement benefits, incremental
pay system, —_cost-ofliving
escalator, and money to reward
meritorious service, The
academic year appointments are
important to the’non-teathing
professional staff as they have
“legally very little job security,”
according to Edward Fiess,
associate professor of Bnglish
and president of the Stony
Brook chapter of SPA.
Bonuses
‘The question of issuing
bonuses is also an important
issue, In the past, explained
Fiess, the individual schools have
had jurisdiction over the criteria
for awarding bonuses. At Stony
Brook the individual
departments were given the job
last year, and gave monetary
rewards to ‘“25 to 30 per cent of
the people in any pool,” said
Fiess. However, he added, it is
not certain “whether there will
bbe such equity money at all” in
the years to come,
“Discussions have not gotten
that intense,” according to
Leonasd Kershaw, a researcher
for the State office of Employee
Relations. Four meetings have
thus far taken place between the
state and SPA in Albany. Daily
meetings will go into effect
when necessary. SPA hopes to
January 26, 1973
reach a settlement before the
1978 State Legislature adjourns,
‘as the Legislature must vote on
any changes, but plans to use the
Taylor Law to secure the
adjustments. Does SP/\ hope to
receive all of its demands? “No
one ever does in a bargaining
process,” commented Fiess.
No Strike Plans
“We have no intentions
whatsoever of going out on
strike,” Fiess added, It is not
known where the money will
come from to pay for the
possible increases; whether the
state or the students will have to
foot the bill. Although SPA
represents 16,000 teachers
state-wide, membership is only
3,100, Purcell indicated that the
low membership percentage is
‘due to the fact that the people
are “not yet well informed of
‘what we are doing and what we
want to do.” He added that
there were also. “free-iders.”
Non-union members will receive
the same benefits as union
members if the negotiations
work out.
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Kedar decision
Arbiter Louis Yagoda has ruled that Prof. Ervin
Kedar” oF SUNY-Binghaniton was properly non-renewed by
authority of the Chancellor and therefore is not
entitled to protection under Contract provisions on
retrenchment nor continuing appointment because of
procedural violations in his evaluation.
The Kedar case was the first grievance to pro-
con ceed to binding arbitration under the SPA Contract
For Your and among the first binding arbitration cases to
Garréat eins for come froma statewide, lew York State public employee
the leadership-ot the bargaining unit.
Sint ahensonal Auesidise Conmenting on the decision, SPA lawyer Richard
| Vol. 1, No. 21 Feb. 5, 1973) Symansky notes first of all his'belief that the
** | arbiter in reaching his decision missed at least one
crucial piece of testimony that resulted in a factual
mistake in the decision. "The arbiter,” he says, "missed our evidence regarding Kedar's
seniority position within his department, but more importantly failed to comprehend the
basic difference within the University and under the Contract between retrenchment and
non-renewal."
Symansky, in conjunction with SPA staff, is currently reviewing the rules of the
American Arbitration Association to determine if SPA can move for rehearing of the arbi-
tration on the basis of this factual error.
Despite the denial of relief to Kedar, the decision did, however, appear to contain
an affirmation of one SPA position -- namely that management, including the Chancellor, ~
is required to follow procedures as outlined in campus bylaws.
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SPA President Robert Granger has announced that arrangements for the February 10
meeting of the SPA Rep. Council have been expanded to allow delegates to arrive in Albany
on Friday evening, the 9th.
The starting time of Saturday's session has also been advanced from 11:00 a.m. to
9:30 a.m. It is hoped that the additional time, including the possibility of informal
meetings on.Friday evening, will be useful in facilitating thorough examination of the
‘important merger question.
Delegates planning to arrive Friday evening are required to make their own double
occupancy reservations no later than February 7. Rooms have been made available at the
Northway Inn, 1517 Central Ave., Albany - call 518-869-0277.
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Prof. Bernard Parker (chapter president at Empire State) and Prof. Doris Knudsen
(chapter president at Morrisville) have been named to a special SPA committee to supervise
the election of SPA delegates to both the NYSUT and NEA Conventions. Additional SPA
members may be added to the committee.
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SPA's Regional Meeting for February 7 is scheduled for SUC-New Paltz. Representatives
from Region I schools (Albany, Oneonta, Cobleskill, Central Administration, Delhi, Platts-
burgh, Empire State) are invited to a luncheon meeting at 12:00 noon in the Student Union
Building, Rm. 402. A meeting of chapter officers is set for 10:00 a.m. in Student Union
Lecture Hall 2 and a general meeting will take place from 3:30-4:00 in Room 104.
Please note that the meeting is set for Wednesday instead of the usual Tuesday date.
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The February meeting of the SPA Executive Board begins at 2:00 p.m. this Friday,
the 9th. Place: Rowntowner Motor Inn on Wolf Road.
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The SUNY Board of Trustees’ new policy of naming campus presidents to the University
faculty presents some interesting possibilities for the Professional Services Bargaining
Unit. If members of the faculty, will the presidents be covered by the SPA Contract, and
will they be eligible to file grievances and join SPA?
Better yet, can a campus president nov be non-renewed as a faculty member? It
certainly appears that non-renewal in the job of campus president can occur. The big
question is whether or not an honest review and appraisal of top management can be or
will be made by top management itself.
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The NYSUT Board of Directors has completed the redistricting procedure for distribu-
tion of representation on the merged organization's Board. Districts have been drawn to
include 5,200 active NYSUT members plus or minus 10 percent.
Under the system, one district has also been established for higher education members
outside New York City. It is this district (still without name or number) which will en-
compass al] SPA members.
The NYSUT Constitution also provides that where a local is larger than the average
sized election district, election districts will be established within that local. SPA
thus has the potential to become three complete election districts unto itself.
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NEA‘s Office of Special Services has announced a major improvement in the Association's
Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance Program. The improvement -- coming to a
program which is already listed as one of the best in the industry -- establishes an op-
tional disability income benefit of $500 per month for 10 years. Cost of the new benefit
only $4 additional to the basic fee of $19 per year for the $120,000 accidental death
coverage.
Contact NEA Special Services for more information.
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Hot Line: The NYS Senate has again established its toll-free hotline for up-to-the
minute information on legislation. The number is 1-800-342-9860.
During its first two years of operation, the line has averaged over 300 calls a day.
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Agency fee has won the support of two state supreme courts in recent decisions. The
courts in Rhode Island and Michigan took the position that -- in the words of the Rhode
Island court -- "it would be manifestly inequitable" for non-members to be allowed a free
ride when the association is bound by law to negotiate and enforce contract provisions
for both members and non-members alike. NEA was instrumental in both favorable decisions.
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Be advised that the Region 4 meeting scheduled next week for Morrisville will be held
at a special day and time -- Thursday at 2:00 p.m.
See next week's FYI for details.
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Pressures to Limit Tenure Pose
‘Hard Choices for Universities
By Larry'Van Dyne
Many. colleges and universities,
‘forced by enrollment and financial
problems to freeze the size of their
faculties, have been pushed into a
‘quandary over academic tenure:
Should they continue granting tenure
generously and risk becoming “ten-
tured-in,” or should they limit it severe~
ly and dump a new crop of frustrated
young scholars onto the job market?
This dilemma is beginning 10 arouse
considerable worry and debate. For
example:
In New Jersey, the state board
of higher education has ordered the
governing boards of six state colleges
to limit the percentage of their facule
fies on tenure, an action that led to a
egal challenge from the faculty bar-
gaining unit. .
& At Tufts University, a commit-
tee of the local chapter of
‘can Association of Universi
sors his issued a position paper
strongly attacking a new tenure tim
tion there as a “path of mediocrity’
and demanding that it be lifted
At the University of Massachu-
setts, trustees have said in a new
policy statement that they will con-
sider future tenure recommendations
in Jight of “present and anticipated
percentages of tenured faculty” be-
cause having too high a proportion
of the staff on tenure would threaten
the university's capacity “to develop
major new programs and to adjust to
future needs.”
> At Union College in New York,
a proposed change in personnel pol
cies would allow the college to retain
promising young professors on shor
term conracts if there were no “ten-
ture slots” open—even after they had
passed the usual sixth-year tenure
checkpoint.
Challenge to AAUP Rule
‘The Union College proposal is a
direct challenge to one of the factors
that have created the tenure dilemma—
's widely accepted seven-year
ip-or-out” rule. ‘The rule, part of the
‘association's 1940 Statement of Prine
ciples on Academic Freedom and
Tenure, says that an institution must
decide in a junior faculty member's
sixth year whether it will give him
‘A person who fears that
administration recognition
in the form of tenure is
unlikely no matter how well
he performs his duties, will
inevitably grow discontented.”
tenure. If not, he mu
hhe automatically. gets
‘of employment in which to look for
a new job,
leave, although
PORTIONS OF FACULTIES WITH TENURE
uttiee, Apel 1972)
Universities
Public Private
23% 0.0%
00% 0.0%
47% 3.2%
13.3% 0.0%
28.9% 32.3%
25.0% 38.7%
15.6% 19.4%
5% 0.0%
0.0% 0.0%
0.0% 3.2%
Fesponse 4.7% 3.2%
Total
B4% 1.4%
3.0% 81%
19.2% 12.1%
29.9% 13.7%
13.8% 19.9%
78% 18.4%
2A% 12.4%
13.2% 6.7%
24% 4.5%
0.0% 1.1%
0.0% 0.0% 1.6%
RATE OF TENURE AWARDS
(Soring 3570)
Universities
100% 14.8%
9.7% 32.3%
io
response 29.7% 22.6% 5.3%
75%
2.4%
62.3%
44% 0.0%
75%
NOTE: Figures in bth tables are forthe 5 per cent of ealleges ats vavesites that man
{ola enre systems. ia lated
Although the up-or-out rule is fore-
ing the issue, the fundamental cause
Of the “tenure squeeze” is the change
in staffing patterns that has accom-
panied higher education's “new de-
pression.”
The climate now is far different
from that in the fall of 1967, when
‘many of the young scholars now be-
ing considered for tenure were teach-
ing their first classes as new assistant
professors,
‘About 20,000 new doctorates came
out of the graduate schools the pt
vious spring, according to the US.
Office of Education. Enrollment that
fall was up about 8 per cent over the
previous year, state appropriations
for higher education were growing
about 40 per cent every two years,
new legislation promised to unleash
in federal money, student
unrest at Columbia University and
San Francisco State College was still
in the future, the job market for
holders of new bachelor’s degrees was
good, and hardly anyone took ser
ously the predictions of a” coming
PhD. glut.
A Recruiting Device
All this meant that departments
usually had openings every year,
openings created through expansion,
through the death or retirement of
folder professors, or through resig
ons of those who moved on to other
institutions, .
Tenure could be granted to « high
percentage of those who were eligible
fn fact, early and generous tenure
was used’ as a recruiting device—and
there would still be enough openings
to allow a steady influx of new peo-
ple at the junior level. At some in-
stitutions, tenure became a normal
expectation. As late as the spring of
1971, a survey by the American
Council on Education found’ that 42
er cent of the institutions with ten-
tre systems gave tenure to everybody
who was eligible for it that year.
But now: Enrollments are leveling
off, growth ratas in state and federal
spending on higher education are
slowing, memories of student unrest
linger, bachelor’s degrees are no
onge? job tickets, and the Ph.D. glut
is a reality,
‘Steady-State Staffing’
This means that colleges are faced
with a need to plan for what W. Todd
Furniss of the American Council's
Commission on Academic Affairs calls
“steady-state staffing.
Faculty openings are much rarer
than they used to be, Few develop
from expansion of institutions. Few
come through deaths and retirements,
since the median age of many facul-
ties is now between 35 and 45. Be-
cause mobility is down, few openings
develop through resignations.
The result is that any decision to
rant tenure now is likely to mean
fone less opening available at the
junior level for infusing “new blood,
fresh ideas, new specialties, new tech=
niques, and other virtues of youth—
real of imagined—into the faculty. If
most people coming up for tenure get
. the percentage of faculty members
with long-term tenure commitments
begins to ereep up, and an institution
faces the possibility of becoming “ten=
ured in.” Nationally, the American
Council's survey found, many facul-
ies are around 50 per cent tenured,
although individual institutions and
departments varied widely,
‘A good illustration of what is hap-
pening is provided by Hobart and
William Smith Colleges, private co-
ordinate colleges in upstate New
York. The smail colleges now have a
joint faculty of 108 members, 55.of
them on tenure, If current’ trends
hold—nobody moves, people retire
fon schedule, the faculty is not ex-
panded, the junior faculty members
get tenure at current rates—99 of the
108 positions will be tenured by 1979.
Many administrators. believe that
such a situation would lead to stag-
nation in their faculties and limit
their ability to respond to new
situations.
‘A small number of institutions al-
ready have instituted tenure quotas
in their departments, either exact or
approximate, and many are busy
projecting what their tenure per-
centages will be ina few years.
Earlier this month, in a speech in
San Francisco, William R, Keast,
director of a national commission
tices,
mend that institutions go
set tenure quotas, These
should be" expressed “as ranges
for limits rather than as fixed per-
centages” to allow flexibility in their
Tn @ position paper outlining its
arguments for tenure limitations, the
New Jersey board said that ‘high
tenure percentages could prevent col-
leges from adjusting to new enroll-
ment patterns and budgetary de-
mmands: could threaten efforts 10 hire
more women and and
Could shut off the flow of new blood
into departments.
Other Advantages,
Although they are rarely _men-
tioned publicly, there may be other
advantages for institutions in denying
tenure to an increased percentage of
candidates and replacing them with
new junior-level Ph.Ds, Junior pro-
fessors are likely to command lower
salaries. New Ph.D’ available in the
current’ market may be somewhat
better quality than those hired six
years ago.
Obviously, these arguments are not
likely to carry much weight with the
individuals affected. Being denied
tenure can be a cruel and disturbing
experience.
It_means a person must go back
into a job market that may be the
worst in history. He is older, prob-
ably needs a higher salary, and has
the burden of explaining’ why he
didn’t get tenure,
“Why Didn't They Keep Him?"
“These people have about as much
chance of getting s job as a leper.”
said one department chairman who
was involved in a discussion of the
problem at last_ month's Modern
Language Association meeting in New
York. Inevitably, said another chair-
man, someone will ask: “If he's so
ood, why didn’t they keep him?"
‘At Tufis, the saup committee
pointed out some of the morale
problems that tenure quotas may
eate among junior faculty members.
‘Almost all of them are
face criteria of high standards, recog
nize the need for them, and will put
ut their best efforts in order to meet
them,” the commitice said. "But it is
jte another maiter to face a new
jentire quota] which bears
no relation to their performance and
‘over which they have no control,
They find this eriterion frustrating
and unfair.
“A person who fears that adminis:
tration recognition in the form of
tenure is unlikely no matter how well
he performs his duties, will inevitably
grow discontented, We cannot expect
him to offer his good will and. best
efforts to an institution which is not
prepared to recognize and reward
them. It is more likely he will devote
himself primarily to activities which
most effectively improve his market-
ability.”
Tougher Standards Urged
‘The solution, the Tufts commitice
said, is not a quota but stiffer stand-
ards,
‘Same people, like Robert Skotheim,
the provost at Hobart and William
Smith, are skeptical about whether
faculties will really standards,
If senior faculty members were
usually unwilling to deny tenure to
more than a handful of their junior
colleagues when the job market was
good, he wonders, what are the
chances they will turn more of them
‘out when the market is as bad as it is
Longer Probation Suggested
What then is the solution? The
most often suggested—and one that
is perhaps being used secretly by
some institutions—is the Union Col-
lege proposal to ignore the up-and-
‘out rule and extend the probation
period beyond seven years
Jordan E. Kurland, the aur exec
tutive who handles these matters, says
that requests to allow this. arrange.
ment are fairly frequent. "Sometimes
we get a dean on one telephone ex-
tension and an assistant professor on
the other, both pleading with us to
allow them to extend probation
through a bilateral agreement,” he
says,
So far, however, the aur has de-
clined to assure these institutions that
will not eventually investigate such
Violations of the up-or-out rule
“These things can get very complex,”
Mr. Kurland says. “An element of
coercion may be involved, for in-
stance, or there may be the possi
of exploitation.”
‘The advantage of the up-or-out
rule, he says, is that it forces inst
tutions t0 take a hard look at a
professor's quality. “If they can say,
Wal, et give tle, core. tnd
wait a couple of you may get
Traine pes tibatay oreo
| Competing tor ower
in Today’s University
By George A.
ierson
Administrator as manager,
teacher as laborer,
student as consumer:
will this way be better?
winst became aware of the major change taking place
today in university governance’ while attending an ad-
ministrator’s workshop. The year was 1968, and a
group of deans amd professors of higher education
Were meeting to struggle with the problem of the dissident
student.
We had reviewed the history of higher education in
America. We had tried to define the role of the university
in a democratic society. We had said much about the unique
and precious nature of the university as a social institution,
We had almost convinced ourselves that the idea of a uni-
versity was indeed sacred,
In the midst of our cuphoria, one of the professors of
higher education sprang 10 his feet and exclaimed, “All this
talk makes me sick! The American university is no mofe
significant historically, mo more precious, and no more
sacred than Sears Roebuck and Company. The sooner we
face this reality, the sooner we will begin to solve some of
the management problems that plague us.”
T remember being shocked. My life had been devoted to
the university. I had risen through the ranks from student
to professor 10 dean. I had served in three different uni
versities. 1 believed in academic freedom and tenure: “the
right of the professor to teach and the right of the student
to learn.” I was convinced that my colleagues and 1 were
primary custodians of culture, We were pursuers of truth,
‘goodness, and beauty. T was proud of the fact that we
could be satisfied with nothing less than excellence.
1 did not realize then that the professors of America
‘were about to join the proletariat. Since 1968, thousands of
college teachers have embraced the trade-union mavement,
At least 200 college and university faculties now bargain
collectively with their governing boards. Even the staid and
conservative American Association of University Professors
hhas become a bargaii
Universities are repla wuthoritative,” traditional
method of academic governance with the management
labor model developed by business and industry. Three
groups within the university are now beginning to compete
for power: the administration (management), the faculty
(labor), and the students (consumers). Administrators are
organized by the nature of the system. Faculties are being
unionized. And students are being forced to unionize in
onder to obtain the services they require,
Relationships between and among these three adversary
groups are rapidly being negotiated, formalized, and set
forth in union contracts, Each administrator-manager,
teacher-laborer. and student-consumer will soon know
exactly what his rights, privileges, benefits, responsibilities,
and conditions of employment or conditions of learning
are, The business-industrial system of governance does not
tolerate ambiguity. And the power group to which one
belongs cannot be left in doubt: one must be a manager,
a laborer, or a consumer,
Production is the goal of industrial organization. It is the
system’s ultimate criterion of success. Each person within
the system must be evaluated in terms of quantifiable
‘measures of output.
Teachers must now be concerned with number of stu-
dents taught, number of hours spent in the classroom, num.
ber of preparations, time for preparations, the percentage
of students enrolied in their classes who earn credit, rest
periods, and coffee breaks,
Researchers must be concerned with new knowledge pro-
duced, discoveries made, honors achieved, and medals won.
Student personnel and guidance workers will be evaluated
in terms of hours scheduled for student contacts, number
Of students served per day, the student drop-out rate, and
the number of failing students rehabilitated,
Students must now expect to do ‘much of their work
throvgh programmed learning units. As consumers, they
will contract in advance for the amount of work to be done
in order to obtain a particular certificate or degree. Theit
Production will be measured by means of tests, specific
activities performed, or particular programs completed,
Even managers will be evaluated, At regular intervals,
data will be assembled 10 reveal the number of workers:
for whom each manager is responsible, the number of
arievances filed by workers in his or her particular area of
administration, the rate of employee turnover, and the an-
‘nual cost of instruction per student.
iE managed university is shifting its primary
focus of attention from the learning opportunities
available to the individual student to the nature
of students as a finished product—from equality
of opportunity to equality of output. The groups which con-
stitute American society must. soon be proportionately
(that is, equally) represented among graduates: male and
female: rich and poor: black, brown, red, yellow, and
white, A well-managed and efficient university will settle for
‘no less. Failure will not he tolerated
Think how problems will be solved in the industrialized
university. For example: :
> The student who receives @ grade of “C” in some
unit of instruction when he believes that he earned an
“A Rules governing this kind of situation can be care
fully drawn. The agerieved student will be able to appeal 10
4 Faculty-Student Committee on Faculty and Student Rights,
«The student will file a formal complaint with a committee
secretary, The teacher-defendant will be notified by certified
mail that a complaint has been filed and the alleged griev-
ance will be described. The teacher-defendant will be di-
rected to appear at a specified time and place before a
Faculty-Student Committee on Faculty and Student Rights.
‘The teacher-defendant will be ordered to bring any and all
relevant evidence. He or she will be informed of his or her
rights: the right 10 counsel, the right to employ and bring
expert witnesses, the right {0 cross-examine the student
complainant and the complainant’s witnesses, The teacher-
defendant will be notified that the committee hearing will
be open to the public and that a transcript record of the
hhearing will be available for public scrutiny. Finally, the
teacher-defendant will be told that, should the decision of
the Faculty-Student Committee on Faculty and Student
Rights be in favor of the student complainant, the teacher
defendant may appeal to a Faculty-Student Senate Com-
mittee on Appeals. .
& The faculty member who is denied promotion by an
‘Administration-Faculty-Student Committee on Faculty
Promotions. Procedures can be established so that individ
tual faculty members may apply for promotion directly 10
an Administration-Facully-Student Committee on Faculty
Promotions, An application form can be designed so that
the specific requirements for promotion are defined and
Histed, and the evidence that the applicant has met these
requirements can be presented systematically. The form
may also describe appeal procedures. It might indicate the
mittee did not take into account; or (2) failure on the part <.
‘An aggrieved faculty member may appeal to a Union
Administration-Student Committee on Faculty Grievances.
He or she will be given a specified time in which to prepare
land make an appeal. The aggrieved member will be notified
by certified mail of the time and place when a grievance
hearing will be conducted. The member will have been
notified in advance of the deficiencies found in the mem-
ber's original application by the Faculty-Student Com!
fon Faculty Promotions. The aggrieved member will be ine
structed to assemble and present all evidence to refute the
committee's decision not to promote. The member will be -
informed of his or her right to bring expert witnesses to
the grievance hearing and to be represented by counsel.
‘The member will also be informed that, should the deci-
sion of the Union-Administration-Student Committee on
Faculty Grievances be negative, the member may appeal
further to a Committee on Faculty Appeals of the board
of trustees.
ost of us who knew and loved the old univer
Jty wonder if this extraordinary change in ui
versity governance has not come about as a re-
sult of a misconception. Obviously, many students
and faculty have perceived the old university as an institu-
tion controlled by an autocratic administration. During the
‘student rebellion of 1968-69, there was a story of a frus:
trated student-protest leader trying to negotiate with a
weary university president, When the president explained
that the demands made by students would require approval
of the faculty, the governing board, and the state Tegisla-
ture, as well as the administration, the frustrated student
was said {0 have exclaimed, “Who the hell is in charge of
this institution?”
‘The genius of the American university has been that no
individual, or group of individuals, has had full control
over it. No one person was ever “in charge” of a university.
The power of the administration has always been limited,
and members of the faculty have heen inclined to disagree
‘among themselves. They have usually been preoccupied with
their teaching, writing, and research interests, What has
‘appeared at times to be chaos and mismanagement in uni-
versity communities has probably been the basis of the very
freedoms that have enabled us to discover, to create, to
teach, and to learn,
‘The most importa
this:
Will the American university be a more effective edu
cational institution than it now system of
governance is changed to the management-labor-consumer
model? Will the processs of teaching and learning be im-
proved? Will researchers be more productive? Will scholar
ship be advanced? Will excellence be pursued more dili=
gently? Will the freedoms characteristic of the old university
be expanded? Will a feeling of faculty-student community
be enhanced? Will a system of governance in which
students, faculty, and administrators compete for power as
equals enable the university community to provide more
effective intellectual leaders for the people of the United
States?
‘Man, is anybody serious?
st question in higher education today
‘The author is professor of education at Queens College of
the City University of New York.
FEDERAL LAWS! AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING
SEX DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS?
October 1972 gore,
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which INSTITUTIONS ARE. nan n
WHAT IsPROMIBITED?
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GENERAL
6
State emolovment snr human slaions ans ray seo apy fo educational iaiuion. The Eaalighs Amendment ene
tt fnsed by the Condress and now in the process of ratification would, when ratified, forbid discrimination ia publicly supported
{chooks stall levels, including students and faculty.
Unless otherwise specified, “institution” includes public and private colleges and universities, elementary and secondary schools, and preschools,
A bona fide seniority or merit system is permitted under all legislation, provided the system is not discriminatory on the basis of sex oF any
‘other prohibited grou
“There are no restrictions against making a complaint under more than one anti<scrimi
jon law at the same time,
This time limit cefers to the time between an alieged discriminatory act and when a complaint is made, In general, however, the time limit
it interpreted liberally when a continuing practice of discrimination is being challenged, rather than a single, isolated discriminatory act.
Back pay cannot be awarded prior to the effective date of the legisation.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11246 as amended by 11375
2
a.
Tr
“The definition of “contract” is very broad and is inter
involve a benefit to the federal government,
reted to cover all government contracts (oven if nominally entitled grants") which
‘Although public institutions are not exemat from the affirmative action requirements, they need not have a written affirmative action plan.
‘Alproposed regulation (Federal Register, October 4, 1972) would delete this exemption for public institutions.
TLE Vil OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act
10. Due to an ambiguity in the law as
‘of 1972
{In certain stator that have fair employment tans with prohibitions similar to those of Title Vil, EEOC automatically defers investigation
Of charges to the state agency for 60 days. (At the end of this period, EEOC will handle the charges unless the state is actively pursuing
‘the case, About 85 percent of deferred cases return to EEOC for processing efter deferral.)
lates to public institutions, itis not yet cleat whether EEOC or the Attorney General will file suit
imall situations whieh involve public institutions.
EQUAL PAY ACT OF 1963 as mended by the Education Amendments of 1972 (Higher Education Act)
1.
2
cull
‘Over 95 percent of all Equal Pay Act investigations are resolved through voluntary compliance,
Unless court action iz necezsary, the name of the parties need not be revealed. The identity of a complainant or @ person furnishing
information is never revealed without that person's knowledge and consent.
TLE IX OF THE EDUCATION AMENDMENTS OF 1972 (Higher Education Act)
13,
a
Final regulations and guidelines for Title 1X of the Education Amendments of 1972 have not yet been published. This chart includes
information wivich is explicitly stated in the law, as well a how the law is likely to be interpreted in light of other precedents and devel
opments.
‘The sex discrimination provision of Title IX is patterned after Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids discrimination on.
the basis of race, color and national origin in all federally asisted programs. By specific exemption, the prohibitions of Titie VI do not
cover employment practices (except where the primary objective of the Federal zid is to provide employment). However, there is no
Similar exemption for employment in Title IX.
Title 1X stotes that:""No perzon .... shall, on the basis of sex, be exclucled feom participation in, be denied the benefits of, oF be eubjected
10 discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistanee,
‘The following are exempted from the a
Private undergradute institutions.
Elementary and secondary sehoois other than vocational schools,
Single-sex public undergraduate institutions. (If public single-sex undergraduate institutions decide to admit both sexes, they will hove 7
‘years t0 admit female and male students on a nondiscriminatory basis, provided their plans are approved by the Commissioner of Education.)
Note 1. These exemptions apply to admissions only. Such institutions are still subject to all other anti-diserimi
Note 2. Single sox protesional, greduate and gocatonel schools at
provided their plans are approved by the Commissioner of Education.
Under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which Title IX of the Education Amendments closely parallels, federal agencies which extend
{id to educational institutions have delegated thew enforcement powers to HEW, A similar delegation of enforcement power is expected
Under Title 1X,
Tevels have until July 1979 to achieve nondiseriminatory admissions,
TLE Vil & TITLE VIII OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT as amended by the Comprehensive
20.
Health Manpower Act & the Nurse Training Amendments Act of 1971
Final regutations and guidelines for Title VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act have not yet been published, This chart includes
information which is explicitly stated in the law, es well as how the law is likely to be interpreted in light of other precedents and «ievelop-
ments,
‘Schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, allied publie heath
Bersonnel and muri are speciicly mentionain Tiles Vil ond Vill. Regulations aiued June 1, 1972 bythe Secretary of HEM specity
that all entities applying for awards under Titles Vi or VIII are subject to the nondiserimination requirements of the
HEW regulations state: “Nondiscrimination in admission to @ training program includes nondiscrimination in all practices relating to
applicants to and students in the program: nondiserimination in the enjoyment of every right, privilege and Opportunity secured by admis-
sion to the program; end nondiscrimination in all employment practices relating to employees working directly with applicants 10 OF
students in the program.”
is dcamentmey be mprolued iho prmisin roiled haces geno he Trot on he Stata & Ect of
Momens Msccaton of Secran Coleges, 618 Steet Nie Washington Be
today
Ji.
tion provisions of the Act.
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Delegate elections
Procedures have been initiated to provide
for the election of SPA delegates to the rep-
resentative assemblies of the Association's
affiliates -- NYSUT and NEA.
The nomination and election procedure for
both elections will be open to all SPA members in
good standing as required by the Labor-Management
Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffith Act).
Notice of the election and open nominations
will be mailed to each SPA member this week with a
deadline of February 9 for the return of nominations.
Vol. I, No. 20 dan. 29, 1973 | Each member will then be sent a ballot containing the
\—___________—*_""]' entire slate of nominations for each post. Votes must
be returned to SPA Central by February 29,
Current SPA membership entities the organization
to 31 NYSUT delegates and 31 NEA delegates.
tee
The recently released results of a 1970 NEA survey on faculty attitudes on the adequacy
of fringe benefits in higher education show parking to be the least satisfactory benefit in
the fringe benefit group. Following in close order were travel expenses and educational
trips for professional growth. Over 30 percent of those responding to the questionnaire
reported these benefits as inadequate.
The largest endorsement of any benefit came for sick leave provisions which only 5.6
percent of the respondents registered as unsatisfactory. In reporting the results, NEA 5
Research qualified interpretation and validity because of the extraordinarily large proportion
of {no opinion" responses, In many categories, no opinion was registered on 20-40 percent
of the questionnaires,
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Current news for
the leadership of the
Senate Professional Association
kee
AL1_SPA grievance chairmen have been invited to a very important meeting scheduled for
February 2 at Albany's Northway Inn. The meeting -~ 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. will treat
crucial issues with respect to the grievance procedure both in terms of decisions al ready
rendered and effective advocacy in the future.
Conducting the session will be SPA Executive Director Philip Encinio with the assistance
of NYSUT legal staff.
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Students at Fitchbura State College (Mass.) will join faculty and management at the
bargaining table as the NEA-afriliate association begins this year's round of contract
negotiations. Although allowed to participate in all discussion, students will not be able
to prohibit the staff and administration from reaching agreenent,
Fduardo C. Robreno ~~ Massachusetts Teachers Association higher ed. rep. and former
NYSTA staffer -- says the agreenent “opens the way for the construction of a truly repre=
sentative governance mechanism on campus."
Fitchburg students will also vote in a referendum on all provisions of the contract
@ieting to student participation in decision-making.
ae
‘The next SPA Regional Meeting is set for Region 3 schools tomorrow January 30 at
SUC-Brockport. A Tuncheon meeting will be held from 12:00-2:30 at the Faculty Dining
a
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“Hall "White Tower" located on Utica Street (eastern edge of the campus).
Representatives from Buffalo, Geneseo, Fredonia, and Alfred are invited to attend.
nee ®
The SPA Negotiations Committee will meet Friday evening, February 2 in Albany to dis-
cuss the progress of current Article 19 talks as reported by the at-the-table negotiating
team. Data and a preliminary analysis of the SPA membership questionnaire on negotiations
will also be discussed.
tae
Political Fires continue to rage within NEA over the question of merger with AFT. The
National Council of Urban Education Associations (NCUEA) -- a NEA sub-governance group --
recently censured its president Mrs. Marjorie Beach for what in its opinion amounted to
consorting with the enemy. Mrs, Beach -- much to the chagrin of the NCUEA Executive Board --
has ‘become a leader of the. New Coalition for Teacher Unley
Mean is also fuming over the
coalition for what she claims is interference in NEA Governance and association efforts
to unify public employees through CAPE (Coalition of American Public Employees).
NYSUT is a prime mover in the National Coalition for Teacher Unity effort.
The SPA Executive Board has voted to associate SPA with the new National Center for the
Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education now forming at CUNY's Baruch College. By
virtue of its "subscriber" status, SPA will gain access to the extensive research and
cataloging effort planned by the Center. ®
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The winter meeting of the SPA Representative Council is set for Saturday, February 10
in Albany. The Tocation will be the new Rowntowner Motor Inn at 200 Wolf Rd. Main topic
of discussion on the agenda is the proposed SPA-SUFT merger.
The session begins at 11:00 a.m.
wee
NYSUT staffer Bill Carpenter reports contract negotiations at Columbia University
College of Pharmaceutical Sciences are progressing satisfactorily. The Columbia college
is the first private higher education unit organized by the old NYSTA organization.
Among issues already settled are a job security clause including retrenchment pro-
visions (a prime goal at the financially pressed institution), freeze on current jobs,
a tie between staffing and enrollment increases, agency shop, binding arbitration of
grievances, and a hiring hall concept for new staff appointments,
eee
Higher ed. organizing continues: The wheels have been set in motion to bring collective
bargaining to two more major universities -- Penn State and Syracuse. Both schools are
currently in the unit determination stage with a decision in Pennsylvania expected early
this year. 7
The Syracuse situation, however, is more complex as the case winds its way through
the NLRB.
Petitioner AAUP is seeking a unit of all full-time staff including department chairmen.
The University wants chairmen and directors excluded. An independent group is also trying
to split off the law school for a separate unit.
Debate format
The SPA Executive Board at its January 11 meeting
voted to adopt and immediately implement a specific
plan for the distribution of information on the pro-
posed merger with SUFT.
Under the plan, a two-pronged informational ef-
fort will be conducted in the 4-week period preceding
the February 10th Rep. Council meeting.
Part One of the plan calls for the compilation of
written position statements by both the proponents and
opponents of merger. These will be distributed to Rep.
Council Delegates and Chapter Presidents, and will ful-
fill the Rep. Council mandate for advance evaluation
Vol. I, No. 19 Jan. 22, 1973 of any proposed merger.
a —_ During the same period, local campus chapters
which feel it advisable are encouraged to conduct debates or question-and-answer sessions
on merger. Representatives of both factions will be asked to attend the meetings to explain
their positions.
Coordination of these efforts will be accomplished by two ad hoc caucus groups formed
from within the SPA Executive Board. Favoring the merger position is a group composed of
Fred Miller, Stanley Goldstein, Alan Willsey, Herman Doh, Gail Hotelling’, and Allen Horn.
In opposition to merger are Joseph Drew, Richard Glasheen, John Valter, and Robert Fisk.
Alan Willsey has been selected to coordinate the activities of the "pro" caucus and
Joseph Drew the activities of the "con" group.
At the February 10 meeting, Rep. Council Delegates will be asked to decide the question
of submitting the proposed merger (constitution and bylaws) to SPA membership in referendum.
The Merger Exploration Committee of the Executive Board has previously voted unanimously to
recommend the merger, while the Executive Board as a whole voted to endorse merger by a 6-4
margin.
Chapters wishing to hold local debates should notify Ed Purcell at SPA Central so that
the ‘request for speakers can be formally made to both the proponent and opponent caucus.
Information
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Current news Tor
the leadership of the
Senate Professional Asspeiation
The NYSUT Representative Assembly -- highest policy-making body of the State organiza-
tion -- has been scheduled for March 23-25 at the Concord Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y.
Mrs. Kathy Demos has joined the SPA staff as a receptionist and general office
assistant.
In another personnel change, Miss Annalee Ziman is no longer with the SPA organization.
Grievance inquiries should be directed to any member of the SPA professional staff.
ka
SUNY administration's move to much-heralded new headquarters in Albany's old Delaware
and Hudson Railroad Building has run into an unexpected snag. The building -- or at least
half of it -- had previously been sold to private developers.
The situation is somewhat complicated: The projected new headquarters -- an Albany
landmark -- is in reality two identical, but separately-owned buildings. The University
Purchased one structure for $1.7-million, but then discovered that the twin -- also needed
for the move -~ had previously been sold to private interests.
If the entire plan is now to proceed, the State must seize the Albany Evening Journal
Building under the right of eminent domain - and pay the penalty such a move would entail.
Tt is interesting to note that the developers paid only $56,000 for property identical
to the University's $1.7~million purchase. :
RAK
Activity in the Capitol picked up last week as the Executive Budget was released.
Included in the package is a $564-million grant for State University -- an increase of
some $43-million. The State's share of CUNY costs is also up to $129,8-million -- a
$26.6-million boost.
In other bits and pieces of budget news, the document provides money to fund 19
weeks of salary for temporary "session" employees of the State Assembly. This figure
indicates a projected adjournment date for the Legislature of Wednesday, May 16.
The budget, as submitted, contains no funds for increased State employee salaries.
A $19.6-million item is included, however, to fund the CSEA "productivity" increase.
It is not unusual that no funds are apparently budgeted for wage boosts.
kkR
Speaking of pay hikes, what would be your idea of a "reasonable" increase for SUNY
professional staff? The Governor has already moved to raise the salaries of at least
one group of State "employees."
Included in the budget is an allocation of funds to provide the State's prison
inmates with a 10% per hour wage hike. Will this 8% increase set a pattern?
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PERB has issued its final ruling on the issue of unilaterally-imposed parking fees
and regulations -- and that answer is "no." The full PERB board ruled last week that
the State had overstepped its authority and must negotiate the change in the terms and
conditions of employment.
SPA is currently carrying a Step 2 grievance on this very issue, and will file an
improper practice charge against the University this week.
RAK
SPA Central has recorded several informal grievance resolutions in the past weeks:
At Albany, grievance on prior credit led to a 3-year term appointment for an NTP.
In Potsdam, the SPA Chapter won retroactive pay for an academic who had been improperly
paid. At Canton, the arbitrary denial of sick leave was stopped; at Stony Brook, a
grievant won reinstatement of his pay.
In a Step 2 win, an academic at Oswego who had been evaluated on the basis of
documents not in the personnel file won the right to have all materials placed in the
file (with appropriate response) and a personal reconsideration of the tenure decision
by the campus president.
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No regional meeting is scheduled for this week. The next meeting will be for
Region 3 on January 30. Host for the meeting is SUC-Brockport.
Peay
The first hearing on President Granger's Step 2 grievance on use of NTP evaluation
forms was held on Tuesday, the léth, in Albany. Due to the complicated nature of the
issues, the hearing was adjourned after partial discussion and will continue at a later
date.
RAK
SPA librarians held a series of regional meetings throughout the State recently to
discuss current negotiations on implementation of academic status for librarians. Over
150 librarians attended the five meetings.
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Strategy bared
Salary talks between SPA and the State resumed
last Tuesday, Jan. 9 as representatives of the two
sides met in Albany for a "clarification" session
on SPA's 13-point demand package.
The meeting, however, took on added significance
when the State's line of questioning appeared to tip
both the State's bargaining position and strategy. for
Information
- For Your: later rounds.
Three specific "suggestions" seemed to emerge
Sree a from the questions: 1) elimination or limitation of
he seats os We the outside earnings of the SUNY professionals; 2)
Semin Sozenatinet deeecitice: extended obligation periods for academic enployees;
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eke eee | and 3) the establishment of rigid salary maxima for
all ranks in the University.
in the SPA package, such as across-the-board and area differential pay hikes.
On the strategy side, the State has immediately resorted to use of a "stalking horse”
tactic to introduce provocative statements at the table. One member of the State team --
who would not ordinarily even be considered a likely menber for.the group -- has engaged
in extensive and provocative discussion at the table. When confronted by the SPA team on
these issues, the State's chief spokesman then immediately pulls back or denies the dis-
cussion represents the State's position.
Team members Alan Wilisey, Patricia Buchalter, Armand Kamp, and Fred Miller return to
the table tomorrow, the 16th. 7
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Interested in a job? NEA has begun a nationwide search to fill its vacant position
of executive secretary. Deadline for application is March 15.
Applications and nominations should be addressed to NEA President Catharine Barrett
at the Jefferson Hotel, 16th. and M Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036,
kee
With SPA Central now comfortably situated in its new location at 15 Computer Drive,
the next step is to "cover the bare walls” in much the same way as anyone would do in a
new home, To that end, SPA Executive Board Member Fred Miller has already donated a
piece of original art work of his own creation and other such works are actively solicited
for display.
If ‘you or anyone in your chapter would like to have his work displayed as part of the
new look, please send it along.
kam
SEA has taken a blow where it hurts the most -- in the pocketbook. Last week, the
State's Public Employment Relations Board suspended CSEA dues checkoff as a result of last
year's Easter Weekend strike of State employees.
Although the loss is not expected to be a death blow, the organization will now be
forced to collect on its own some $1.6-million in dues. Experience in many other unions
has shown this to be no easy task ~~ especially in a group as large and organizationally
unwieldy as CSEA.
Longest suspension period will be in the institutional services unit where 4,779 un-
authorized absences were recorded during the strike. Dues checkoff will be stopped for 10
months in institutional services unit and for lesser periods of time in the other 3 units.
kee
SPA librarians met with the State on the 10th and reported substantial, but tentative,
agreement on seven of nine points in implementation of academic status for librarians.
Anne Commerton, spokeswoman for the team, guardedly suggests that if agreement can be
reached on the two outstanding issues, that settlement is near.
The pace of talks will now accelerate as Mrs. Commerton, Evert Volkersz, Mary Cassata,
and Herbert Sorgen return to the table again on the 17th.
tee
Professor Robert Sindermann of the famous "Roth, Sindermann” Supreme Court decision
has received a final settlement of $48,000 from his former employer, Odessa College (Texas).
The college became willing to negotiate an out-of-court settJement, on’ Sindermann's ¢laim, «
of ‘improper dismissal when the’ Supreme Court ordered that Sindermann be given’ a hearing,
"where he could be informed of the grounds for non-retention and challenge their sufficiency.”
Sindermann's three-year fight was financed and carried by NEA's DuShane Emergency Fund.
Rae
SPA membership froci December 15-January 11 showed an increase of 45 members. Leading
“athe way.yere Upstate dedical. Center. 04) , Stoay: Brook USC GO), and SUNY Buffalo, (2)...
‘Unfortunately, however, much of the membership “increase” resulted from the reinstatement’
of cash members who had dropped from the rolls for a short period of time.
Seven chapters experienced a net drop in membership while four remained the same.
eRe
The SPA Executive Board met last weekend in special session in Binghamton to discuss
the philosophical basis of SPA and engage in long-range planning for the Association.
Also on the agenda for the four-day meeting was the regular, monthly business session.
Pry
Enclosed with this week's issue of FYI is a copy of "Giving Reasons for Nonrenewal
of Faculty Contracts" by W. Todd Furniss, director of the Awerican Council on Education's
Commission on Academic Affairs. The pamphlet makes interesting reading and will make a
good addition to your library.
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Governor Rockefeller's recently-submitted deficiency budget includes some $12-million
for the State University system. It appears, however, that the funds are earmarked solely
for State-mandated support of community colleges.
kee
The arbitration of Prof. William Bruce (Plattsburgh) has been scheduled for Jan. 22
with Dr. Irving Markowitz of the SPA-State Permanent Arbitration Panel to arbitrate.
The Bruce case involves the mechanics of the granting of an academic appointment. 7
An arbiter's decision on SPA's first arbitration case (Kedar-Binghamton) is due
at the°end of the month,
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The Personnel Policies Committee of the SPA Executive Board met last Thursday to con-
tinue the review of applicants for SPA Assistant Executive Director.
kee
The Jan, 16 Region 2 meeting scheduled at SUC-Purchase will be in the Administration
Building, Room A-108, The standard regional meeting time schedule applies.
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Few Academic
Complaints on
By Cheryl M. Fi
id
WASHINGTON
Department of Labor officials are
concerned that more professional
‘academic women are not taking ad=
Vantage of their new right to file
salary complaints against colleges un-
der the federal Equal Pay Act.
“The cold, hard truth is that the
Equal Pay Act has brought the
reatest economic advantage to wom-
en of any federal provision,” said
Morag M. Simchak, special assistant
to the Assistant Secretary of Labor
for employment standards.
“We have only a 90-day backlog of
ceases, nothing compared with most
other agencies. The complaint does
not have to be written, and we keep
‘the complainant's identity confiden-
tial,” Ms, Simchak added,
‘The protection of the Equal Pay
‘Act, which requires the same pay for
men and women doing. substantially
‘equal work, was extended to execu-
tive, administrative, and professional
employees of educational institutions
by last June's Education Amendments
of 1972,
Few Complaints Filed
Few complaints involving academic
women have been filed since then,
Ms, Simchak said.
Although employees recently cov-
ered by the act cannot receive back
pay prior to July 1, the date the
college-aid act took effect, Ms.
Simchak pointed to examples of the
effectiveness of the equal-pay pro
sions for nonprofessional employees
covered under earlier extensions of
"
‘Women custodial employees at the
University of Washington received
nearly $100,000 in back pay after one
investigation by Labor Department
officals, she sai
Some 95 per cent of the cases
vestigated under the Equal Pay Act
are settled without litigation, accord-
ing to department figures. However,
fone case that was taken to court re-
sulted in the Montana State Board of
Education's being ordered 10 pay
nearly $45,000 in back-pay adjust-
Women Filing
Unequal Pay
ments to women housekeepers at state
educational institutions.
“There seems to be some misunder-
standing on the point,” Ms. Simchak
said, but women who have filed com-
plaints of sex discrimination under
other federal statutes can still file
complaint under the Equal Pay Act.
‘Academic sources said that because
‘a number of sex-discrimination pro-
visions were included in the recent
higher education act, it might be sev-
feral months before academic women
generally would become aware of the
equal-pay coverage.
Local offices of the Labor Depart-
ment’s. Wage and Hour Division
hhandle complaints under the act, as
well as making spot checks of em-
ployers on their compliance.
“Because it is known that Wage-
Hour has this authority to act with-
‘out any corgplaint, it is possible to
protect the Identity of an individual
who may have made a complaint, to
fa far greater degree than would
otherwise be the case,” one depart-
ent official said. “There is also au-
thority under the law to subpoena
records if an employer should refuse
to make them available for inspec-
tion.”
the employer agrees with the
compliance officer's findings at the
time of the investigation, the com-
pliance officer can close the case right
Away, make arrangements for imme-
diate payment of any back pay due,
‘nd insure future compliance,” the
official said
From June, 1964, through last June,
almost $48-million’ in back pay was
found to be owed under the federal
act—almost all of it to women.
. | Negotiations resume
<
a= The SPA Negot4ations Team returns to the table
= tomorrow, Tuesday the 9th, for the first session since
E the holiday recess. Team members Alan Willsey (spokes—
2 man), Fred Miller, Patricia Buchalter, and Armand Kamp
= net prior to the bargaining session with staff con-
ms sultants to formulate strategy.
For Your It is expected that the State team for the session
; will be substantially reduced in size from the 12-
Current news for member group present at the first meeting. Included at
he leaders oO that time were 3 representatives from the Bureau of the
Senate’ Profesional: Asnoctetion: Budget, 3 representatives from the Office of Employee
Vol. 1, No, 17 Jan, 8, 1973| Relations including Spokesman Leonard Kershaw, 5 menbers
of the University's employee relations staff, and one
campus president.
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NEA has issued an important correction in its interpretation of the Supreme Court's
Roth and Sindernann decisions. In its original release, DuShane Fund lawyers stated that a
non-tenured teacher threatened with non-renewal may in certain cases request and receive an
administrative hearing prior to non-renewal if:
“He alleges and can prove in federal court that the non-retention is in reprisal for
his exercise of First Amendment rights."
In fact, the June 29 Supreme Court ruling assures that if a non-tenured teacher can
prove in federal court that his non-renewal is in reprisal for exercising a constitutional
right, he is entitled to reinstatement.
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President Granger's regional meeting schedule resumes next week as he travels to SUC-
Purchase for a Region 2 session. Representatives from Stony Brook, Farmingdale, Downstate,
Maritime, and Old Westbury will be contacted when preparations are complete.
tae
Is there an alternative to compulsory arbitration or the legelized strike in public
sector negotiations? Merton C. Bernstein, writing in the December 1971 Harvard Law Review,
suggests what he calls the "nonstoppage strike" and the "graduated strike.
In a nonstoppage strike situation, the public employee union would be free to declare
a nonstoppage strike after all other bargaining procedures failed to produce a settlement.
Work would continue, but employees would be required to forego a portion of their take-home
pay’ which would be remitted to a special escrow account. The employer would be required to
match each employee payment with increases permitted each week.
Upon settlement of the strike, the monies in escrow would be allocated by a special
commission to projects that would not specifically benefit either the union or the govern-
mental body.
The graduated strike system would provide for a "stage in" of complete work stoppage.
During the first week or two of a strike, employees would not work for perhaps one-half day
per week. The strike period could then be escalated to one full day per week and so on.
To insure that employees actually suffer a proportionate loss of wages, overtime and make-up
days would be prohibited.
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SPA member Dr. William Chazanof of SUC-Fredonia has been given the American Association
for State and Local History's Award of Merit for his book Joseph Ellicott and the Holland
Land Company. Fifteen years in research, the book is one of only 18 so honored.
hae
SPA Librarians return to the table on Wednesday the 10th in Albany in continued quest -
of implementation of academic status for librarians, The team will respond to a State
proposal made in December.
kK
The 1973 version of the New York State Legislature held ite first session of the new,
year last Wednesday the 3rd, in Albany, Sen. Robert Stafford of Plattsburgh has been =@®
turned to the chairmanship of the Senate's Higher Education Committee, while it is strongly
suspected that Assemblywoman Constance Cook of Ithaca will again chair the Assembly
Education Comittee.
The chairnanship of the Senate Education Committee -- vacated by defeated Sen. Thomas
Laverne -- has been given to Sen. Leon Giuffreda of Centereach.
Peay
The NYS Teachers Retirement System has published a new pamphlet on the vesting rights
of system members. Single copies may be obtained directly from NYSTRS, 143 Washington Ave.,
Albany 12210,
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SPA's Article 20 Negotiating Team will meet with State representatives Monday, Jan. 15
at Downstate Medical Center to continue salary talks for medical and dental personnel. The
8-menber team chaired by SPA Executive Board member Dr. Stanley Goldstein will be assisted
at the table by SPA staffers Phil Encinio and Ed Purcell. SPA attorney Jerome Sturm will
also be present.
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Results from SPA's Article 19 questionnaire are expected to be available next week as
computer tabulations and evaluation are completed. Preliminary indications point to an
excellent return of questionnaires.
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Forms scored
SPA State-wide Vice President for NTP's Alan
Willsey reacted sharply on December 19 to the Uni~
versity's standardized form for appeal of Art. 34
slottings.
Characterizing the content of the form as the
"responsibility of the supervisor, not the employee
Willsey asked that all NIP's avoid using the form
until there can be a resolution of the issues in~
volved.
For Your SPA President Robert Granger has personally
filed a grievance on the issues raised by the form
and the case will be advanced as quickly as possible
to exhaust administrative procedures for remedy. If
it appears that such resolution will not occur before
Volt. « How 16 Dec. 25, 1972| the expiration of the 90-day appeal deadline, SPA
Information
Current news for
the leadership of the
Senate Professional Association
Central will advise further.
In the meantime, it is recommended that the form
not be used.
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The Office of Employee Relations has refused the SPA appeal to reopen contract talks
on sick leave provisions as they relate to maternity. SPA had made the request so that
illegal contract provisions could be brought into conformity with new federal law. The
State maintains that its contract interpretations supersede these federal regulations.
SPA has consulted appropriate legal counsel and will proceed to court on this issue.
kK
NEA President Catharine Barrett (from Syracuse, N.Y.) has branded as “intervention in
NEA policy-making" the formation of a "National Coalition for Teacher Unity." The new
organization is attempting to promote both local and national NEA-AFT merger despite tight
restrictions on merger dictated by NEA's Representative Assembly.
NCTU was formed on December 11 by AFT and various individuals and groups within NEA.
‘Among these are Mrs. Marjorie Beach, president of NCUEA (National Council of Urban Educa~
tion Associations) and NYSUT.
Mrs. Beach - it was noted - is operating without the approval of the NCUEA Executive
Board.
At the same time, Mrs. Barrett has restated her dismay that AFT has refused to par-
ticipate in CAPE (Coalition of American Public Employees). Presently consisting of NEA,
the International Association of Fire Fighters, and the American Federation of State,
County, and Municipal Works, CAPE hopes to enlist the active support of additional unions
in the near future for the benefit of all public employees.
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Whim and fancy of the telephone company notwithstanding, the phone number of the new
SPA office will be (518) 458-7935.
RRR
Dr. George W. Taylor, father of New York State's "Taylor Law," succumbed to natural
causes on Decenber 15. Harnwell Professor of Industry at the Wharton School of Business
and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, Taylor was instrumental in the 1967 drafting
of this state's first public employee negotiations law.
A famed labor mediator and arbitrator, Taylor is credited with some 1,200 settlements
in his career. He was 71.
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A draft policy statement on the modular calendar plan has been submitted to the SPA
Executive Board for consideration. Drafted by Academic VP Herman Doh, the statement will
be discussed at the January meeting.
kRR
In one of its most unusual rulings, PERB has refused to recognize the inmates of Green
Haven State Prison as a bona fide public employee bargaining unit. The prisoners were
called "technically inmates, not public employees."
kaR
No issue of FYI will be distributed on January 1.
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Clarification: Last week's issue of FYI reported that the State has released merit
and equity money distribution information to SPA. While this statement is correct, it
should be noted that the release was made to the SPA Negotiations Team for use at the bar~
gaining table.
This information will not be made available to local campuses until it is certain
that to do so would not interfere with the vital and delicate negotiations now in progress.
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The first group of 1973 pre-filed legislation that involves the State University system
has been identified by SPA staff and distributed to the SPA Executive Board for examination.
Included in this group are bills to provide: for tuition deferments for children of
veterans still entitled to veterans' education benefits; for the establishment of a State
University security system; for the establishmeht of a temporary state commission to study
performance contracting in SUNY; and for the prohibition of any mandatory student activity
fee at all SUNY units.
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SPA clip art materials for Chapter Presidents are enclosed with this issue of FYI.
Courtesy of the Morrisville Chapter, they should be useful in "spiffing up" local communica—
tions.
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Copies of a proposed Constitution and Bylaws for a merged organization within SUNY -~
“suny/United" -- were mailed from SPA Central on December 21 to all chapter presidents and
Rep. Council delegates.
The documents -- approved by the SPA Executive Board for submission with reconmendation
for approval to Rep. Council -- represent agreement on language expressing principles
mutually acceptable to both the SPA and SUFT Merger Negotiating Teams.
In the cover letter accompanying the documents, President Granger notes that in
accordance with Rep. Council directives, a survey of merger ‘costs and benefits" as well
as costs and benefits of any alternative to merger will elso be distributed for study and
scrutiny before the next Council meeting.
‘Although SPA and SUFT leaders have also reached substantive agreement on a specific
implementation program for possible merger, formal language for the implementation agree~
ment has yet to be drafted.
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Foes of collective bargaining in higher education come from strange places: Over 400
professors in the State of Ohio recently received letters from the National Right to Work
Committee in Washington warning them of the evils of collective bargaining and "unionisn"
in higher education.
The letter implied that unionization would inevitably lead to "agency shop." Once
this has been accomplished, the letter said, academic freedom and tenure will be out the
window.
; RRR
=F
A number of recent public opinion polls
have shown that labor unions in general are
currenily held in Jow esteem. This is scarcely
surprising in view of the customarily harsh
‘treatment accorded the union movement by
the press. Cases in point are two sets of
negotiations now taking place — that of the
16,000 member staff of the City University
of New York, represented by the Profes-
sional Staff Congress, and the 10,000 para-
hers.)
In a very lengthy editorial entitled
“Unionized University” December 6,1972),
the New York Times appears to accept to-
tally the stand of management against the
college teachers and non-classroom profes-
sionals, The Times editorial, claiming that
this is “no ordinary labor-management con-
frontation,” argues: “What happens at the
nation’s largest public urban university
could set a pattem fundamentally changing
policy control in higher education across
the country. In less cosmic terms, the salary
scales fixed at CUNY will have in immedi
ate impact on the capacity for survival of
dozens of public and private institutions in
the metropolitan area and upstate.” By state
ing the issucs in this way, the Times con-
Yerts the simple understanduble desires of
the college teachers for economic improve-
ment and job security, which are plainly
subject to tiegotiation and compromise, into
questions of moral principle which cannot
and must not be compromised,
Jn the matter of money, the Times is at
pains to paint a picture of great aiiluence
among the CUNY teachers. The editorial
states that the “average salaries for full pro-
fessors at the City University’s four year
colleges are $6,000 to $8,000 a year hizher
than those at Columbia and New York Ui
What the Times fails to point out
at CUNY only 17% of the faculty
WY7 ‘
2/7/72 Double Standard at the Times:
Loud Tirade vs. CUN
Staff Demands...
hold the rank of full professor, whereas
40% hold this rank at N. Y. U, and 50%
at Columbia, What the Times does not see
fit to mention is that fewer than 4,000 of
the 16,000 CUNY teachers carn more than
$18,000, (The Times itself recognizes that
its reporters and photographers who have
worked for the paper for two years are
worth over $18,000.)
This true that the salary of City University
teachers has been increasing each year — as
have salaries in other sectors. Under city
policy in the past, these increases were based
on parity arrangements with other city and
school employees. But these increases were
never criticized by the Times —not even
increases greater than those now bein
sought ~ until the college teachers formed
union, One cannot avoid the conclusion that
the concern of the Times is not so much
swith the compensation of the faculty as with
the fact that it is now an organized union,
‘One other question raised by the ‘Times
hias to do with the desire of college teachers
to enjoy ordi 1, With provie
sion that if a faculty member is to lose his,
oo her position, the reasons must be gi
wwith-the right of appeal to arbitrat
dismissal is allegedly arbitrary, capricious
oF discriminatory. The Times editorial, while
granting that the present system isnot with=
Out flaws” and is subject to “human and
professional misjudgments, and even to oo-
casional abuse and injustice,” nevertheless
‘opposes due process procedutes for the rea
sson that the granting of job security is “ill-
suited to the maintenance of high scholarly
standards ia universities.” Hore again the
‘Times has a double standard: Tis own em-
ployees enjoy the very same protections that
the Times would deny to CUNY. Ttis hard
to understand why the City University can-
not maintain high standards if it adopts the
sume reasonable due process procedures en-
joyed by Times employees.
RIGA ONY
Hayeyits
“
lie
Times has devoted much space
on the college teachers, it
cly ignored the public school
araprofessionals this year. These parapro-
Fesnonals assat teacher ithe clisvoom
Most are former wellare recipients, minosity
soup menbets, who are now fulfilling a value
able edueatior
oppottunities
‘function in the schools. Using
fovided by their previously ne-
gotiated contract, most are now attending col-
lege and some have alveady become fully
licensed teachers.
At first, paraprofessionals were empl
ed
ais part-time, hourly workers. The program
was ¢
perma
these employee's
Tar sta
of Fu
they should. have a regular annual sa
regular
considered periment” — tempor
n nature. But now the program is a
nent one, and there is no reuson why
ould be denied the re
tus of all others working for the Board
Mueation, Like other city cniployces
ick leave, maternity Ieave, legal
representation in case of assault, and, if
cmpployed beyond a certain number of years,
Silence on Public School Paraprofessional Negotiations
professional contract expires on
= Talks with the Board of Edu-
in cid not begin until December 1
, Which has frequently reported
wlalized on discriminatory prace
ous, has yet to ell ypon
the Board of Education to negotiate with
the parsprofessionals or to. support their
demand that they be considered regular
employees of the Board of Education rather
than. second class temporary: employees.
h plan of the Times seems
unionized employees carn bi
s, criticize the salaries; where the
Tow wage earners (parapro-
a rom $3,800 to $6,113 an=
ually) maintain silence.
Both college professors and public school
paraprofessionals will come away from the
nis with an important les
ining justice
eins not front the “sympathy” of the press,
but from their own collective union strength.
© 1072}by Abert Shanker
1s, Shankes’s comments will appear in this section overy Sunday. Correspondence by:
readers is welcomed. Address letters to
ds pald advertising by the Uniled Federation of Teachers, Local 2, American
Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, 260 Park Avenue Soulh, New York, N.Y. 10010.
SfameratUrte ne coum aa |
, 12/16/72
Le
Bargainin ; at the City University
To the Editor:
‘The Times editorial “Unionized Unie
versity” (Dec. 6) misrepresents the is-
sues in the negotiations between the
Professional Staff Congress and the
Board of Higher Education (B.H.E.).
The board would abolish the City Unie
versity salary system by which an-
nual increments are earned for service
and experience, and substitute a pork.
barrel by which individuals must nogo-
fiate alone for increases beyond a
fixed range.
The board would also assign to the
administration—and thus to itself and
to the Mayor, who npoints the board
absolute authority over the life,
@eath and progics: of professional
‘careers, By the system it has proposed
land The Times has endorsed, a colleze
president may deny reappointment,
tenure or promotion to an individual
judged excellent by his colleagues and
students; the president may not give
reasons for his decision, and it may
rot be appealed.
‘The Times justifies tis BILE. posi-
tion by arguing against instant tenure,
sutomatic promotion and a takeover
by the union and “outside” arbitrators.
They are straw men. All we are de-
manding is that the presidents be
required to justify the'r actions, espe-
cially when they veto the results of
ction procedure,
rrwise, the presidents’ “academic
judgment” may not be academic, but
capricious, erbitrary, d'seriminatory or
politically’ motivated,
Such absolute administrative and
political control would result not
+ merely in “occasional abuse and injuse
tice,” as The Times susgests; it would
destroy academic freedom and quality
control at City University.
Further, the board has proposed rev
ducing the actual dollars provided un-
der our present salary schedule, The
average sau, at City Unversity is
under $18,000, Comparisons w
other universities mu:: take into ace
count the niuch slowe: rate of promo-
tion at G.U.NY. and € > years it takes
to reach vie top.
The ratio of fuli professors is 40
per cent at N.Y.U,, 50 per cont at
Columbia, and 17 per cont at CUNY.
According to Chanecllor Robert J.
Kibbee's Oct, 20 budrct message to
the board, “CUNY, his become one
of the fowestcost_nstitutions of
higher education In the country.”
‘The Times also supprrts the board's
demand that the proc:edings of the
fact-finding panel "be open to public
‘ignoring the panel's judge
‘ment that the proceedings are an ex
tension of the negotiating process,
the panel's recommendations, which
‘are made public, are not a fait accom
pli, as The Times scys, but advisory,
‘And the final decision on accepting
the public fact-finders’ recommenda-
tions is assigned by law to none other
than the public employer.
Dette ZELLER, ISRAEL KuGLER
New York, Dec, 12, 1972
The writers are, respectively,
‘and deputy president of. the Projes-
sional Staff Congress, C.U.N.Y.
To the Editor:
‘Your straightforward position [edt-
torial Dec. 6} on the “Unionized Unik
versity” deals with an issue which is
statewide and national in scope.
In their “Statewide Plan for the De-
Yelopment of PostS:condary Fdvea;
tion, 1972," the Regents expressed
{helt concsen over the impact of cole
lective bargaining on educational
quality, They accepted as viable some
aspects of collective bargainin, but
recommen ‘ed that certain aco temic
matters 1 main outside the purview
of negotia ion,
‘Specific: ly, they recommended ex
clusion of he following, areas from the
collective bargaining ' process—deci-
sions on <cademic tenure; curriculum
developme t and revision; the proces
ses for faulty evaluation, promotion
and retenti m; staffing ratios and class
size, and is stitutional governance.
The Stat : Education Department re-
views colle tive bargaining agreements
to assure compliance with Regents
policy.
‘Academi: self-governance is an es-
sential feat ire of our lisher education
system, Its rosion at on’ of the largest,
universities in the country migat
establish a precedent that could seri
ousiy under nine the academic viabil-
ity of higher stitutions,
TT. Ewaro HotLaNoer
Depity Commissioner for Iicher
ad Professional Eduration
We Education Depariment
‘Albany, Dec. 6, 1972
To the Editor:
Your Dec. 6 editorial “Unionized
University” equates faculty unionism,
along with “automatic promotion and
instant tenure," with an “adoption of
the public school staffing m¢¢el,”
teachers being “interchangeable.”
Such a thought might strike scrious
terror among my colleagues except for
two facts: (1) The C.U.NY, faculty
merely makes recommendations re-
2 ov Seren
Santelli
tiers to the Editor
garding tenure and promotions; the ,
faculty proposes but the administra: «
ion disposes. (2) The CU.N.Y. admine
nis rapidly moving in the di-
ection of providing a compliant staff
that will offer courses to “fit the
needs" of underprepared students
(temedial reading,- remedial English,
remedial math, ets).
On my own campus, CCNY, the
administration has lately taken a’ firm
stand on its legal rights, as against
traditional faculty prerogatives, Tt has
freely by-passed the faculty's ‘recom-
mendations on promotions in favor,
apparently, of candidates wno accept
the ” This means that the
college administrations enjoy carte
blanche in cll matters of faculty con-
cern which are not protected by either
the union or the law.
My recent protest regarding the ig-
noring of faculty recommendations was
answered by a letter from the Vice-
Chancellor for Academic Affairs of
ting that the “Chancellor's
Office has neither the wish nor the
authority > interfere in matters of
nit the individual colleges.”
"the tresd toward virtually une
checked acministrative power at the
various colieges can only spell. doom
for academic freedom at CUNY,
Stanuey W. Pace
Professor of History
The City College
New York, Dec. 8, 1972
The writer is Chairman of the Aca
demic Freedom Committee, C.U.N.Y.
Faculty Senate,
NY.
~ Consultation progress
SPA leaders -- meeting with Chancellor Ernest
Boyer on December 11 -~ made progress on several
fronts and clarified issues that have been the sub-
ject of intensive discussion throughout the University.
It was agreed that the Chancellor would accept
from SPA specific recommendations for implementation
of an affirmative progran for SUNY. The report -- to
For Your be ready by January 15 -- is being authored by Execu-
tive Board member Robert Fisk and chairwoman of SPA's
Current news for Commission on the Status of Women Anne Willcox.
the leadership of the It was also specifically agreed that the Univer-
Senate Professional Associat sity would furnish SPA with a complete record of all
No. 15 Dec. 18, 1972 Board of Trustees' resolutions currently in effect.
““| On the issue of release of merit and’ equity money
distribution information to SPA, the University de~
ferred to OER for a response. (That response -- in the affirmative -- was given to the SPA
Negotiations Team on the 12th.)
Concerning the modular calendar plan now being circulated in SUNY, the Chancellor ex-
plained that the plan was solely the product of a committee deliberation and in no way has
the Chancellor's endorsement or carries the weight of University policy. It has been dis-
tributed merely to provake discussion.
Likewise, Boyer reported, the SUNY Academic Vice Presidents’ resolution on tenure quotas
in no way constitutes policy and, in fact, has never been formally transmitted to the
Chancellor.
In another action, SPA President Robert Granger proposed to the Chancellor that SPA and
SUNY administration jointly pursue changes in the Agreement to bring it into line with
federal requirements on the use of sick leave for maternity purposes.
Information
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SPA librarians met with Central Administration on December 14 to continue negotiations
on implementation of academic status for SUNY librarians.
The meeting produced the first specific response by the University to SPA demands.
The University offer is now under scrutiny by the SPA team.
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Experience has shown that student newspapers represent an effective vehicle for dis-
tribution of SPA news to members of the bargaining unit. The SPA press release list, however,
is incomplete in this respect.
Please send the name and address of your local campus paper to Ed Purcell at SPA Central
as soon as possible to insure complete news coverage on your campus.
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NYSUT has launched a drive this week to recapture community college menberships lost to
the Associated Community College Faculties (ACCF) when that group disaffiliated from the
merged state organization. The ineffectiveness of ACCF because of under-financing and the
loss of NYSUT special service programs are stressed.
Faculty at the 12 "rebellious" schools (term used in the NYSUT mailing) are invited to
become at-large members of NYSUT for a $55 fee. At-large memberships do not require the
unified membership (NEA) that is carried with other classes of membership.
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Office Closing. SPA Central will be closed on Friday, January 5 to allow mind and
body to reorganize at the new Association headquarters at 15 Computer Drive, Albany.
The office will be open for business again on Monday, January 8.
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For those SUNY employees who are members of the NYS Teachers Retirement System, a
field representative from that agency will visit several SUNY communities during the month
of January.
Buffalo (January 9, 11); Cortland (January 25); Oneonta (January 30); Rochester
(January 24); and Syracuse (January 29).
Call NYSTRS at 518-436-0821 for specific time and place.
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AAUP efforts to fund a growing deficit in their organization through voluntary con-
tributions has met with failure. A scheme whereby members would voluntarily remit an
amount 20 percent in excess of actual dues has fallen $100,000 short of the desperate need.
In other AAUP news, the association was recently defeated in an attempt to gain
bargaining rights at Baldwin-Wallace College (Ohio), The vote was 82 for no representa~
tion to 58 for AAUP.
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A growing militancy among doctors across the U.S. and throughout the world continues
to grow. Some 7,000 doctors and dentists recently paralyzed health care delivery in
Austria with a strike,
In nearby Pennsylvania, a 1,000-member unit of licensed physicians, medical research
scientists, dentists and podiatrists employed in the state's mental hospital system has
voted to go the route of collective bargaining.
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The December 19 Region 3 meeting scheduled for SUC-Brockport has been cancelled.
Brockport, which will be in recess during the 19th, will host a session later in the year.
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Quote of the Week: "Unless we organize -- and that means getting the power to say
‘or else’ to our adversaries -- we will become wage slaves to bureaucrats and politicians..’
Dr. Stanley A. Marcus, president of the fledgling Union of American Physicians.
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Congratulations to the SPA Chapter at Delhi for leading the Association in net
membership gain last month with a total of 10 additional members. Morrisville and Down-
state were close behind with 8 followed by Cortland and Geneseo at 6.
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SPA members in the news, Dr. Gilbert 0. Brink (SUNY-Buffalo) has been named chairman
of the physics department at his school. Dr. Elof A. Carlson (SUNY-Stony Brook) is one
of 12 recipients of the 1972 E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching sponsored by
the Danforth Foundation.
‘Alan F. Klein has authored Effective Groupwork, a text designed specifically for
undergraduates. Worth T. Harder (Geneseo) has authored A Certain Order, The Development
of Herbert Read's Theory of Poetry.
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’ Higher Education
Needs to Lobby
The simple fact is, legislatures
N 1961, my state ranked near the bottom of the 50
states in its per-capita support of higher education. In
that year, our legislature appropriated $45-million for
higher education. By the end of the decade, appropris-
tions for higher education had increased by 475 per cent.
To raise the money, the legislature increased taxes more
than once. Lawmakers went home to the voting public and
explained that they had raised taxes to provide more money
for education.
Where did we stand in the national rankings after our
substantial efforts of the 1960's? In 1970, we ranked 46th
in the nation in per-capita state support of higher education.
‘We had made, comparatively speaking, no progress at all
during the 1960's, despite what we thought were strenuous
efforts.
‘There are good reasons for this lack of progress: the
avalanche of new students during the decade: rapidly
the economy generally and in higher
larly: the fact that other states were re-
sponding to the same kind of demands as we. All this
‘meant that we had to run fast just to stand still, and would
have to run very fast to move ahead. We ran fast, but not
fast enough.
‘ov know that and so do I. The averaze legislator
does not know that, and the average citizen does
not cither. Neither the average citizen nor the
average legislator believes that he is anti-education,
nor does he believe that he treated education shabbily
during the 1960's, Bewildered by the continuing demands
year after year for more money, people are beginning 10
wonder whether education is a bottomless pit.
T suspect that my state is not unusual: that legislators and
citizens in other states have had similar experiences and are
not feeling guilty about their efforts on behalf of education
during the past decade
‘You will do well to remember that, as you deal with
legislators and the public in the years ahead.
Going into the 1960's, Americans still hada simple faith
in higher education as the road to success for any person
of humble origin who wanted to beiter himself. The rapid
growth in enrollments made expansion of higher education
so obviously necessary that there was no argument about
greater appropriations; the only question was one of de
free. Furthermore, because more room had to be made for
‘more students, the 1960's saw an emphasis on bricks and
mortar, which are always popular with taxpayers who wish
to see what they are getting for their money.
Contrast those advantages with the disadvantages that
higher education bears now. Egstujwill be hard to sustain
help those who help themselves
the effort_of the ‘60's inadequate though it was—for_ 10
more years, There wil he fewer new campuses capac ot
STs rons
Tie tecn atom
enna GUS OF DISSE ESS
Tin recent years Oy swudent unrest and by differences mn Ife
styles between students and their elders. Beyond that, young
people and others increasingly question the value of higher
education at a time when there are few jobs for graduate
engineers and teachers coming into the labor market. Addi-
tionally, there is a genuine tax revolt, especially against
property taxes, under way in this nation which will make it
difficult to increase taxes for any purpose. Finally, there will
be strong demands from other state agencies, some of which
‘were not strong competitors for scarce state resources dur-
ing the 1960's
Environmental control will be increasingly popular and
inereasingly expensive. State appropriations for mass tran-
sit were unheard of in the 1960's, but may be coming by
the end of the 1970's. The Serrano. Priest decision in
California established the principle that exclusive reliance
on the property tax to finance education is unconstitutional,
If that principle is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, state
legislatures will be thrown into a real turmoil. It is almost
a certainty that a great deal of legislators’ time, energy, and
appropriations will go into elementary and secondary educa-
tion in the years ahead,
‘The only conclusion one can draw from all of this is that
higher education is in for a difficult time in the 1970's in
terms of operating funds, not to mention all of the other
ways in which legislatures can impinge upon higher educa-
tion,
AcED with this bleak prospect, how will educators
‘respond? Will it be with despair and retreat from
the arena? Or will it be with valiant, but ineffec-
tive, efforts to save higher education?
It could be either. I hope it will be neither.
Rather, I hope that college teachers and others who value
higher education will enter the legislative arena actively
‘and effectively in the 1970's. It is tragic to me that higher
education has no effective lobby in my state capitol or, 1
suspect, in many others across the nation,
Dozens of other interests do have well-organized lobbies:
auto dealers, railroads, township trustees, retail merchants,
elementary and secondary education, sheriffs, Christian
Scientists. But not higher education—at Teast not to any
real degree.
If a bill affecting retail merchants comes before the
legislature, I know that:
> A lobbyist for the retail merchants will contact me to
: over
explain the content of the bill from his perspective;
> The lobbyist will urge my constituents back home to
‘write to me with their views on the bill:
> Some of them actually will write to
> The lobbyist will record how I vote on the bill and will
communicate that information back to my constituents who
are members of his organization:
> Some of my constituents who are retail merchants will
remember at election time whether or not Twas a frend of
theirs.
Hts is mot true for higher education, and more’s
he pity, since higher education has a tremendous
potential for effective lobbying. In the first place,
it has a good cause. It is not as if you were
lobbying for uglier strip mines or bigger auto junk yards.
‘Then there are the numbers of people who are constituents
of lesislators around the state. In my state alone, there are
20,000 faculty members, 340,000 college students, and hun-
dreds of thousands of graduates who presumably are in-
terested in what happens to higher education. It could be
a very helpful and powerful lobby—if it were organized.
Such a lobby would not be necessary if reality encom-
passed the idealized view of a legislature calmly, carefully
-KN—us **
‘Monday, Des. 17,
1972 6A
.CSEA Chief
Plans Bold
Program
‘Theodore Wendl. president of
the stat
Associal
te Civil ervice Employes
atiop, appears tbe
adopting @ militant stance in
the
wake of two resounding
victories for the CSEA in rep-
res:
wi
ation elections.
enal, a scholarly appearing
man not given to. histriontes,
8
ed phrases like “
“very strong,
‘and “the employes Rave
mine which union would
Giahing the needs of the state But thats not the real ‘ia
world. Actually, the legislature operates in an atmosphere faiven us the ball and we're| Se 1: 44,000 institu.
Dhect pieaiece Canis GC iat tee cies os Feepred to nin with ee
jon" want to pay higher taxes for an reviewing the CSEA’s election) NF ble vietpry|
deers of cir iatreasconpaling for ar sera leat i ae se‘tne (OER a Very
Solna we once paren, ne by cates Pong sar athe bering
gram come: labor proessona arm at the barzaining
‘What higher education and the public interest badly need ee ‘
isan effective lobby 30 tha " that be Ce was “computs| se Rocktaled amin sation,
Sec seal drs not ser veka abc «uty MA avy Fa] ae emolpe have even ms
and private agencies competing for scarce state dollars; and Eoundiy drubbed the Service|‘ ball, a8, Wes P
Higher education joins in the effort to help create the
climate for greater overall revenue to the state. Helping to
create a climate for adequate financing of public services is represent aout TR ae | oad a aan oa
as important as lobbying for specific legislation or appro- ployes in two bargaining units. |{T/0S na benefits during
priations. ‘The Public Employment Rela-g
As I wrote several years ago for the Ohio University
alumni magazine, the idealized view of the legislative
process sees elected statesmen exercising their stewardship
through impartial deliberation and balancing the needs and
resources of the state. While legislative
gotirely lacking. a. rei
Tatin general the Tegnianire helps tho
shes
The author is a member of the Ohio House of Represen-
tatives and editor of the Oberlin News-Tribune.
Employes International Union| 7
in contests to see which would]
SEIU
Board reported Saturday
EA had beaten the
13,5246212 in balloting to
it about 34,000 profes.
|, scientific and technical|
Colleges Are Urged to Chech.
temporary disability insurance or
leave plan available in connection
‘with employment.”
‘A Medical Decision
The amount of leave a woman
needs for pregnancy and childbirth is
to be
Maternity-Leave Policies
medical decision, the association's
kel
WASHINGTON
In line with recent federal guide
lines, the Association of American
Colleges is urging its members to
make sure their policies for maternity
and child-rearing leaves are not dis-
iscrimination
js treating each person not on the
basis of group membership but on the
basis of individual capacity to work,
said a statement adopted by the asso-
iation’s board of directors.
"Women should not be penalized in
their conditions of employment be-
cause they may require time away
from work for pregnancy and child-
birth, the statement said.
Likewise, it added, “parents should
not be prevented from assuming ap-
propriate responsibility for the needs
of their families, All policies relating
to insurance and leave should be ap:
plied without regard to sex."
The Equal Employment Opportun-
ity Commission, which enforces the
1964 Civil Rights Act's ban on sex
has adopted guidelines stating
isabilities caused or contributed
to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abor-
tion, childbirth, and recovery’ there-
from are, for all job-related purposes,
temporary disabilities and should be
treated as such under any health or
statement said, "to'be treated in the
same way as other sick leave.”
Regarding time off for child-rearing,
the statement said that parents of
either sex should be entitled to unpaid
eaves of absence according to the
same policies covering other kinds of
personal leaves.
“Parents who request such leave
should have the same employment
rights with respect to benefits, promo-
tion, and tenure as other employees
‘on personal leaves of absence without
pay,” it continued.
Chronicle. 12fn
1e basis of group
ons of preg.
membership or for rea
M/C appeal readied
Representatives from SPA and OER met December 6
with Mr. Paul Klein, PERB Director of Public Employ-
| ment Practices and Representation, on the dispute over
designations of Management/Confidential status.
Mr. Klein was given the basic issues of the dispute,
without presentation of specific titles.
On the advice of counsel following Mr. Klein's
remarks, SPA will take to arbitration the entire list
of Management /Confidential titles. As a result of
the PERB meeting, SUNY Central Administration and OER
Current news for will waive hearings at steps 2 and 3 and the matter
the leadership of the will go directly to binding arbitration.
Senate Professional: Association, SPA has demanded that Central Administration with-
hold any and all action that may affect the terms and
Unistbel Dec. 11, 1972} conditions of employment of any employee whose title
has been newly designated Management /Confidential,
while this appeal is in progress.
Note -- no one who is in the bargaining unit, and whose title was redesignated Management/
Confidential, is obligated to forego his membership in SPA.
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Consultation between SPA leaders and SUNY Chancellor Ernest Boyer was held today,
December 11, in Albany. Representing SPA were officers Robert Granger, Herman Doh, Alan
Willsey, Joe Drew and Mary Lou Wendel, as well as Executive Board menbers Stanley Goldstein,
John Valter, Robert Fisk, Gail Hotelling, Allen Horn, and Fred Miller. Mrs. Anne Willcox,
chairwoman of SPA's Commission on the Status of Women, also attended.
Agenda for the meeting included the SUNY Affirmative Action Program; Board of Trustees
Policies as they relate to campus bylaws, academic year, and evaluation and promotion for
NIP's; modular calendar; release of information to SPA on merit and equity distribution;
Article 38 of the SPA/State Contract; and the SUNY Academic Vice Presidents’ resolution on
tenured faculty.
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Election Follow-up: The University of Hawaii representational run-off election has
produced a 995 to 805 victory for AFT over AAUP. The victory was accomplished through a
coalition between AFT and the NEA affiliate at the University. Merger is considered
imminent between the two groups.
It is interesting to note that AAUP carried the vote on the University's main campus,
672-549, but was overwhelmingly defeated in the six branch campuses, 435~i14.
In the aftermath of another important election at Michigan State University, a NYSUT
staff man (10 New York State staff participated in the election) reports that the surpris~
ing victory for "no representation" was probably financed by the University itself. The
“unorganized” no-representation forces had the best financed effort in the election.
Although a loser, NEA outpolled AAUP in its own back yard in that election.
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SPA Regional Meeting for this week will be held at Upstate Medical Center on Tuesday,
the 12th. Region 4 schools of Oswego, Canton, Potsdam, Forestry, Binghamton and Morrisville
are invited to attend.
The regional meeting will be held in Room 2334 (use main hospital entrance).
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In other news from Upstate, the SPA Chapter reports the election of new officers.
Dr. Sidney Orgel has been elected president, VP-Academic Dr. Henry DiStefano, NIP-VP Horace
Ivey, Secretary John Pennisi, Treasurer Dr. Warner Hammond, Academic Delegates Dr. Gilbert
Ross and Dr. Otto Lilien, and NIP Delegate Mrs. Anne Willcox.
NYSUT now offers a special program to give discount room rates at Sheraton Hotels
across the country. For information, write directly to NYSUT Special Services Department,
80 Wolf Road, Albany, 12205.
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A special issue of the SPA Spokesman was mailed to each SPA member and non-member
today. Designed as an information piece to members and a promotion piece for non-members,
the two-page issue deals entirely with negotiations.
Spokesman will return to its regular schedule in January and to its members-only
distribution with the second December issue.
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Inconsistency of the Week: In the current controversy between the University and SPA
over the validity of recently-distributed management/confidential- designations, the State
maintains that the lists are binding and final even though SPA has the right of appeal.
ast week, however, newspapers across the State reported that on the parking dispute
between CSEA and the State, the Office of Employee Relations has taken the position that
the PERB ruling in favor of CSEA is not binding and not final until the State completes
its appeals.
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Final election results show VOTE-endorsed candidates successful in 38 out of 53
contests. 5
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The holiday schedule for SPA Central has been set to include December 26 and 27
(Tuesday and Wednesday) and January 2 (Tuesday) as holidays during which the office will
be closed.
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The merger implementation discussions between SPA and SUFT scheduled for Friday,
December 1 were cancelled due to weather. The rescheduled meeting was held December 8
in Syracuse.
This phase of the talks is intended to produce an implementation procedure for
possible merger to supplement the proposed Constitution and Bylaws already developed.
If the talks are successful, the document will be presented to the SPA Executive Board
for consideration and possible submission to the Rep. Council along with the Constitution
and Bylaws.
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Leases were signed last week to provide the SPA Central Office with new, expanded
facilities. The move was necessitated by growing space requirements of SPA's current
landlord, NYSUT, and SPA's own staff expansion,
New address for SPA Central will be 15 Computer Drive, Albany, N.Y. 12205. Computer
Drive is a "side street" off Wolf Road and less than a half mile from the present facilities.
The office will be located on the top (third) floor of the MONY Building.
The move -- expected to be completed on or about January 3 -- will cause no increase
in the SPA budget. As yet it is uncertain whether the SPA telephone number will change.
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The $UC-Cortland Chapter reports the election of Alan Willsey to fill the unexpired
portion of President Phil Swarr's term of office. Swarr, who felt it necessary to step
aside for personal reasons, will remain active in SPA. Also elected was Dr. Henry Stukuls
who will £111 the vacant slot of Academic Delegate from Cortland.
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Potential Retired Menbers? Sign them up. The cost is low, only $29.50, and they are
entitled to all NYSUI-NEA benefits including the free accidental dealth insurance policy.
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TEACHER ADVOCATE
VUUULiG Val ig
. .
‘or many years, the academic world has been the
when the faculty governed the university through
an Academic Council or Senate and the departmental
Structure, with the individual professor negotiati
his own salary privately with his department chair-
san or dean—while the AAUP looked benignly on as
a kind of friendly umpire to see that everyone ob-
served the Marquess of Queensbury’s rules (otherwise
known as Academic Freedom-and-Tenure).
That academic utopia—if it ever really existed—
has disappeared like the lost continent of Atlantis,
leaving behind only a tantalizing legend,
December 1972
Many factors have contributed to the passing of
the old order, but perhaps the most important have
been the tremendous expansion of our colleges and
universities during the past 25 to 30 years and the
managerial revolution which has accompanied it,
In all areas of American life, the last three decades
have witnessed the triumph of organization and bu-
Feaucracy, and our colleges and universities are no
exception. Nothing has aifected the role and status
of the college professor more than the emergence,
within these vast organizations, of a new managerial
class that exists solely to keep the organizational ma.
chine running
This new class has gradually arrogated to itself all
the real decision-making power. Decision making in
our colleges and universities has imperceptibly drifted
‘out of the hands of the faculty and into those of the
managerial bureaucracy.
The traditional centers of faculty decision making
Ge., the various departments and the Academic Coun-
cil or Senate) have been bypassed while the important
decisions are made at the levei of bureaucracy, which
traditional faculty agencies are incapable of reach-
ing effectively. The decisions left to faculty agencies
are not, by and large, the ones that really matter.
Furthermore, whenever the faculty clashes with the
bureaucracy, the faculty is bound to lose, for it has
no effective means of enforcing its judgment. In
this way faculties have, during the past three decades,
gradually lost any significant voice in the academic
decision-making process.
Further, the new managerial class applies the prin-
ciples of industrial management to the operation of
our colleges and universities. This means that deci-
sions affecting the life of the university as an aca-
demic community are not based on educational ©
teria, but on management criteria (such as planned
program budgeting), because they are being made not
by educators, but by managers.
Finally, the managerial bureaucracy views faculty
as a group of employees like any other group of em-
ployees under the authority and direction of man-
agement. Faculties have been slow to recognize this
(or at any rate to admit it even to themselves), pre-
ferring instead the illusion of the independent pro-
nal entrepreneur. It is time to cast aside the
illusion and to face the facr that it is not possible,
in the long run, to retain the status of independent
professional entrepreneurs within an institutional
framework that is organized and run according to the
principles of industrial management.
Realistically we cannot expect a return to the
simpler era of the decentralized, departmentalized
university. How, then, can faculties hope to deal ef-
fectively with the power of this new managerial class
in the megaversity?
Experience has shown that while a few persons may
benefit from individual bargaining, overall faculty
salaries are depressed by the process. (Research from
the University of Wisconsin indicates that faculty
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salaries should have risen higher and more rapidly
than they actually did during the 1950's and 60's in
relation to the funds then available. This lag is at-
tributed to the widespread practice of individual bar-
gaining.)
In a period like the present when inflation, com-
bined with decreasing federal and state support, is
putting a squeeze on college budgets, the individual
bargaining on his own behalf is a pathetic figure.
Furthermore, faculties must not delude themselves
into thinking that the role of the departments in de-
cision making can be very extensive. The funda-
mental decisions affecting budget, staffing, salaries,
conditions of employment, educational programs, and
priorities are now made at a level of bureaucracy well
above that of the department.
As for the faculty Senate or Academic Council, it
no more able than the departments to reach the real
centers of power and authority in the university and
must deal with the power structure on a secondhand
basis through its agents and messengers. The tradi-
tional Academic Council has no legal basis for its
existence outside of the policies of the university and
hence exists on the suiferance of the power structure
Since the Academic Council has no effective machin-
ery for the enforcement of its “decisions” when the
governing board and administration are unwilling to
accept them, its “actions” are little more than recom:
mendations that can be ignored or rejected by the
university power structure. Lacking an adequate finan-
cial base or source of outside resources and support,
the Council is ultimately unable to require the power
structure to deal seriously with its proposals.
In sum, the Academic Council or Senate is all too
often a device by which faculties are given the ap-
pearance of democratic participation in the decision-
making process without its substance,
No more effective today are these traditional
methods employed by the American Association of
University Professors
¢ The proclamation of abstract principles of aca-
demic freedom and tenure
* The admonishment of university administrations
to follow the procedures enunciated by the AAUP
* The public denunciation of universities that vio-
late its principles
¢ The rating of universities according to the s
they pay.
Industrial management is not susceptible to moral
suasions. Its function is to get the most for the least—
whether in selling a product or employing a staff.
This is not a cynical statement; it is a fact of life.
The managerial bureaucracy is immune to pleas of
humanity, decency, democracy, or academic freedom.
It is equally immune to sanctions that are not backed
by the power of enforcement. University manage-
ment is well aware that the general public couldn’t
care less about what the AAUP (or any other organi-
zation) thinks of this or that university. They also
know that, given the present condition of the job
market, professional sanctions cannot hurt them.
alaries.
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As we have seen, traditional instruments for faculty
involvement in academic decision making have all
proven inadequate to cope with the centralized power
structure of the modern university. We must, there-
fore, look elsewhere for an effective vehicle for faculty
Participation in the decision-making process.
Let us begin with the premise that centralized
power can only be met by a balance of power at its
‘own level. Obviously, faced with the power of the
modern university and its managerial class, individu-
als must organize in order to counter this power
with the collective power of their own organization,
If an effective faculty organization is the vehicle
for faculty power, the instrument by which the power
can be effectively utilized is collective bargaining.
This is because authority is not shared between men
who are inherently unequal. Only when inen or groups
of men deal with each other as equals is authority
really shared. Those who possess power share author-
ity only with others who possess power and know
its uses. Governors, legislators, trustees, and college
presidents are such men. They will share authority
only with those who have the power and the means to
make them share it. Collective bargaining is that
means.
As Professor Donald Wollett of the University of
California at Davis points out: “Collective bargain-
ing is the only effective instrument by which facul-
ties can achieve genuine shared authority, because
it is that which makes the faculty—through its duly
elected bargaining agent—equal under the law with
the academic power structure. It is at the bargain-
ing table—and only at the bargaining table—that they
can achieve that equality
What then is collective bargaining? It is a system
of shared authority based on a process of bilateral
decision making between two agents (eg., the uni-
versity and the faculty organization), utilizing legally
established procedures for reaching mutual agree-
ment. Thus, collective bargaining provides the basis
for the first really effective instrument of faculty
power and participation in the decision-making pri
ess, because for the first time, faculty is able—
through its bargaining agent at the bargaining table—
to come to grips with the real decision-making
authority of the university.
The resulting written agreement or contract is a
legal document enforceable at law. But it is more than
that. The collective bargaining agreement establishes
a code of governance for the university in which the
policies and rules affecting the faculty are clearly de-
fined. It also establishes procedures to regulate the
relations between the faculty and the university
administration—procedures designed to protect the
rights of faculty members against arbitrary and ca-
pricious action and to resolve any conflicts that
might arise between faculty and administration.
In sum, the master agreement is the charter of in-
stitutional democracy
—Donald Keck, associate director,
tion, NEA.
Higher Educé
Today's Education + NEA Journal
Art. 19 hearings set
The SPA Negotiations Committee is currently con-
ducting @ series of campus hearings to survey local
sentiment on this year's basic annual salary reopeners.
Chapter presidents at each unit have been invited to
schedule such a hearing with the guarantee that at least
one member of the Committee would attend each session.
At this date, according to Committee Chairman Alan
Willsey, only 11 campuses have scheduled hearings.
Included in this group are Forestry, Cortland, SUNY-
Buffalo, Oswego and Morrisville, which held meetings last
week, and SUC-Buffalo, Canton, Stony Brook H.S.C., Delhi,
Plattsburgh and Geneseo, which will gather this week.
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The New York Teacher newspaper reports this week that the State University Federation
of Teachers (SUFT) Executive Board has unanimously approved the proposed Constitution and
Bylaws for a new merged organization. The action came at a Nov. 19 meeting in Syracuse.
Excluded were minor sections requiring editorial change.
The SUFT Executive Board has also selected a team to represent their organization in
talks to establish an implementation agreement between SPA and SUFT. Selected were President
Edward Wesnofske (Oneonta), Dorothy Gutenkauf (Cortland), Lawrence DeLucia (Oswego), Fred
Levine (Stony Brook), and Sam Wakshull (SUC-Buffalo). Representing SPA will be President
Robert Granger, Vice Presidents Herman Doh and Alan Willsey, and Executive Board member
Gail Hotelling.
The first working session on the implementation question was held Dec. 1 in Albany.
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Syndicated columnist John Chamberlain reports that private colleges and universities
across the country are "coming under the gun" to give an arbitrary ethnic balance to both
their faculties and student bodies. The government club is the feared loss of tax exemption.
Higher education -- organized in groups such as AAPICU (American Association of
Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities) -- are priming to fight any and all
affirmative action programs.
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Chancellor Ernest Boyer and members of the SPA Executive Board have tentatively agreed
to December 11 for a consultation session. The agenda will be extensive.
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A step in the right direction came on November 17. Central Administration's Tom
Peterson issued a directive to all local campus personnel officers concerning the system-
wide distribution of all professional job openings. The directive conforms with the
Article 34 agreement on NIP promotions.
‘All job openings throughout the University will now be systematically posted on at
least one official bulletin board on each campus. In addition, SPA Central has ensured
that its office will be included in the distribution. SPA will then attempt to notify
chapters on a weekly basis so that these openings can be distributed to SPA members locally.
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SUFT -- Who Are They? State University Federation of Teachers (local 2190) is an
officially chartered local of the American Federation of Teachers. According to AFT
membership rolls, the unincorporated organization currently lists some 493 members in
the SUNY system, a drop of 41 from last year.
Within the organization are 13 individually chartered locals at the local campus e@
level. These include SUNY-Binghamton-Local 2128 (26 members), Delhi-Local 1736 (42
members), Brockport-Local 1679 (36 members), SUNY-Buffalo-Local 1733 (53 members),
Farmingdale~Local 1905 (61 members), Alfred-Local 2049 (42 members), Cortland-Local 1655
(32 members), Fredonia-Local 2076 (27 members), New Paltz-Local 1669 (24 members),
Oneonta-Local 1910 (24 members), Oswego-Local 2055 (23 members), Plattsburgh-Local 2066,
2073 (26 members), and Potsdam-Local 2045 (20 members).
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Dr. Richard Hubbard of Oswego has been elected president of the New York State
Educational Communications Association. Dick -- a SPA member of long standing -—- has
served as membership chairman and secretary of the Oswego-SPA Chapter.
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In case you missed it, SPA's state affiliate did indeed change its name. The new
handle is New York State United Teachers (NYSUT).
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SPA officers Robert Granger, Herman Doh and Alan Willsey, together with staff
consultants Philip Encinio and Edward Purcell, met with representatives of the State on
Wednesday, Nov. 29 to formally reopen contract talks under Article 19 of the SPA-State
Agreement.
The meeting, which dealt with strictly procedural questions, was authorized by the
SPA Negotiations Coumittee prior to the formal selection of a negotiations team for o@
this year.
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SPA membership figures for the month of November show a total membership of 2,979 -
2,088 academics and 891 NIP's. During the month some 88 new members were recruited, but
66 resignations also occurred for a net gain of 22.
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New two-tone blue display posters have been distributed to Chapter Presidents for
bulietin board use. They are designed to be used for the posting of the weekly FYI.
Your communications program will be considerably strengthened if several copies of FYI
are duplicated for posting in heavily frequented areas around campus.
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The SPA Executive Board has approved the nomination of a reconstituted Article 38
Conmittee. The Comittee includes Dr. Stanley Goldstein (chairman) and Dr. Robert
Bartlett from Downstate; Dr. Robert Dougherty and Dr. Richard Aubry from Upstate;
Dr. Charles Lipani and Dr. Ruth Walsh from Buffalo HSC; and Dr. Campbell Lamont and
John Valter from Stony Brook HSC.
The Article 38 Committee is charged under the contract with the improvement and
implementation of the medical program at the University's health science centers.
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The SPA Negotiations Committee meets December 10-12 in Albany to finalize the
Association's negotiations package and select an "at-the-table” negotiations team.
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Vol. I, No. 12 Nov. 27, 1972
«cil with the recommendation that the document be accepted]
+ _T€ the Rep. Council votes to-submit the package to referendum, SPA membership will decide
whether or not the Rep. Council should be directed to make necessary changes in the current SP
constitution to effect merger and the creation of a "new" organization.
At this time, one necessary ingredient for a total merger package has yet to be developed-
an implementation agreement that will set specific local and state procedures to create one
organization from two on a practical basis. The SPA merger team will return to the table this
month to establish a proposal for such procedures. If completed, these implementation proce-
dures will be submitted to the Executive Board at its December meeting.
Upon completion of the entire package, the proposed constitution and bylaws, implementa-
tion agreement, and merger commentary - both pro and con ~ will be given wide distribution to
eo Council delegates, chapter officers, and all SPA members.
In addition to President Granger, the SPA merger negotiating team included vice president«
Herman Doh and Alan Willsey, es well as Executive Board member Gail Hotelling. Executive
Director Philip Encinio acted as staff consultant. This group unanimously recommended the
merger proposal to the Executive Board for approval.
Voting to transmit the proposed constitution to the Rep. Council with recommendations were
Executive Board members Alan Willsey, Mary Lou Wendel, Gail Hotelling, Fred Miller, Allen Horn,
and Stanley Goldstein. Voting against the action were Robert Fisk, Richard Glasheen, John
Valter, and Joseph Drew. Herman Doh, a member of the SPA team which met with SUFT, strongly
endorsed the merger document but could not be present for the vote, and President Granger,
following established practice, did not vote.
SPA Chapter
Regional meetings resume this week on Tuesday, Novenber 28 as the S.U. Ag. & Tech. Collegs
at Cobleskill SPA Chapter hosts a meeting of Region 1. Luncheon will be served to Regional
Reps. from Noon to 2:30 p.m. in the Prentice Dining Hall. A meeting of chapter officers pre~
e cedes this meeting and a general campus session follows the regional meeting at 3:30 p.m.
Representatives from Albany, Oneonta, New Paltz, Central Office, Delhi, Plattsburgh, and
Enpire State are invited to attend.
SPA-Morrisville reports they have surpassed the 50% mark in membership. Chapter Presiden’
Doris Knudsen and her group have recruited 85 out of a possible 165 staff members for SPA.
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idents have been sent duplicate copies of the SPA Article 19 Salary
Questionnaire for distribution to members who may not have received a copy by mail. The con-
tinuing flux of the membership rolls plus unavoidable problems with mailing machines, the post
office and such, usually mean that some members do not receive the mailing. Please publicize
the availability of extras to your membership, especially new members. Chapter President
should initial any copies that they distribute.
If problems arise, contact Ed Purcell at SPA Central.
EXECUTIVE BOARD RECOMMENDS MERGER PROPOSAL
The Executive Board of the Senate Professional
Association has voted to forward the draft constitution
for a merged organization to the SPA Representative Coun-|
The draft constitution - completed last week - was
the outgrowth of a series of meetings held between SPA
leaders and the State University Federation of Teachers.
Merger talks had been authorized by the SPA Rep. Council
at its October session.
According to SPA President Robert Granger, who led
the SPA team in merger talks, the next step in effecting
the proposed merger will be the presentation of the pro-
posed constitution and bylaws to the Rep. Council for
consideration. That group will be asked to decide if the
documents should be submitted to the SPA membership in
referendum.
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PRESIDENT NIXON and his eco-
nomic brain trusts — known as the
Quadriad and Troika — believe they've
just about cut the rate of inflation,
‘meaning the speed of disappearance of
the vanishing dollar, down to some 3 per
cent annually. The President wants it
gro Lise.
"The gut of this, therefore, is the con-
tinuation of wage’ and price’ controls in
some fashion. This was virtually decid-
ed at an off-the-record brain trust lunch
on Thursday, Oct:"12, in the Executive
Office Building dominated by George
| Shultz, Bon Rumgid and-Herb Stein, *
chairman of the President's Council of
Economic Advisers. The free market
can’t cope with inilation, they concluded
and there apparently was another Nix-
on-Quadraid-Troika decision:
Before the end of the vear the ceilir
uring this past control year the per-
missible annual rate of pay raises really
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Pay Board Chairman George
IH. Boldt labels as “pure spec-
rate of 55 per cea! may bel |ber I
thet the board is “not cur-
Irently considering changing
the standar
“The Pay Board teconsi-
dered the 5.5 per cent wage
|standard in August, felt that
it was on target at that time
and left the standard un-
jchanged.” Boldt said.
“Should the national eco-
nomic goals be changed or |
Ishould economic trends de-|
lvelop which indicate that the
standard was then inappro-
ipriate, naturally the Pay|
tee hes
controls,
law die.
[Boldt said.
jsurances we
‘came all public. If Meany’ watts im... 2.2
Pay Board to Maintain
Present Wage Standards | |
Board would take up the mat-jeontrols now
ter again. But any predictions||the end of any serious pros}
jat this time are pure specula-) pect that stable prices could|
‘ne was selled 10 aS Jess, mo union leader can ig:
isess the future of wage-price;
The law which allows the!
imposition of. controls expires),
nest April 90,
Boldt was asked by one):
Jcommittee mtmber how he,
felt about letting the control)
“T personally favor a mar-|,
‘ket economy and no controls.”
repeal the law I would like as-
into (an inflationary) orbit.” |
New Economic Controls Loom
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vas 6.2 per cent — 5.5 in cash and an-
inns beetemacce eee
caieets eer wicker ee er nh Sheng this down ianly
toa total hike of 5.5 per cent, Perhaps 5
‘Percent m waces and another hala per
comminmgcs
‘Action now is expected by Dec. 1. By
then the Pay Board and Price Commis-
sion may be merged. Actually the real
reason for the creation of two boards
was the need for a tripartite Pay Board
structure, which Meany had demanded.
But then Meany moved out and it be-
again — which is doubtful — the board
will stay as it is. Otherwise the thinking
calls for one board (without disturbing
the Construction Industry Stabilization
Committee which is untouchable).
SUNY Growth Hits Peak,
But Enrollment Rate Down®
‘The enrollment grovith at
thej72 campuses of State Uni-
yersitys of New York has
slowed although enrolimenss
totaling 251,993 made a re-
cord. In a report released
by SUNY’s office of institu:
tional research, full-t
dent numbers increased 23
Robert R. Nathan, an econ,
Jomist, testified that to lift
vould “mean|
lation" reports that the |tion, enjoyed within the fore, Leas Lone
| ‘guidelines ich permit The 55 per cent standard] |secable future.” “He noted ee
frages te grow at on Sarl) spor ies The yar
He nee per cent,
a so ‘acts covering militons of|
leut_down to a 4 per cent’ jday wageprice freeze that] workers will be up for renego- Parttime students ‘now to-
standard. is is ordered into fie Ang tiation in 1973. tal 127501.
Boldt told Congress’ Joint |15, 1971 by President Nixon] | “q'thor “ie against infad Peaiciane
lEconomic Committee Monday |The Joint Economic Commit-||tion,” Nathan said. “Nonethey Te AEP ae
have been consistent. This
year SUNY campuses re-
eived 152,000 applications
for:about 60,030 freshman and
14,009 transier places.
A breakdown of enroll
nore large improvements in|
|: productivity, big increases in
profits and higher costs of
living of his members an
{jstill E> a responsible leader’
Nathan said the 55. per|
ments siiowed university cen-
cent wage standard will university colleges up. spes
meaningless” if| cialized colleges up sli
conditions prevail
and statutory colle;
Pago tutory college:
we could have the woist
strike record in years and the}
whole stabilization _ battle
could lose precious ground in,
1973,” Nathan sai
But before you): ‘
in enrollment was seen at
community colleges
slightly: The greatest 2
which to-
i nts,
7.384; part time studi
taled 84,507.
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Syracuse on November 10 -- has finalized preparations
~to survey SPA membership on bargaining priorities.
The questionnaire asks respondents to weigh 15 items
in terns of priority and to establish an additional
priority ranking among items.
The survey with cover letter was distributed from
SPA Headquarters on Friday, November 17.
In addition to the questionnaire, Negotiations
Committee members have committed themselves to a series
of campus hearings during the coming weeks. Chapter
Presidents have been asked to schedule such meetings
Vol. I, No. 12 Nov. 20, 1972 before December 7. Members are requested to complete
— their questionnaires at or after the open meeting at
their campuses.
In other November 10 business, the Committee voted to request the SPA Executive Board to
make improvement of current sabbatical leave provisions the top legislative priority of the
Association. Improvement of retirement items was listed as the second "top priority."
The Committee also received a report from SPA's Commission on the Status of Women in the
University. (Please see below.)
In a related move ~~ reopened negotiations have been formally requested of the State and
a tentative first session set for November 29.
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Agreement has been reached between representatives of SPA and the State University Federe-
@ tics of Teachers (SUFI) on a proposal for merger between the two groups. A draft constitution
for a new organization was completed in talks held last week.
The document will now be submitted to the various governance levels of both organizations
for approval.
The SPA team -- President Robert Granger, VP-Academic Herman Doh, VP-NIP Alan Willsey,
Executive Board member Gail Hotelling, and Executive Director Philip Encinio -- had been
meeting with SUFT under direction from the SPA Representative Council to "continue and expand”
merger talks. A series of meetings, both formal and informal, had been held over a period of
several months.
If approved by the SPA Executive Board, the documents will likely be submitted to the SPA
membership for consideration in a referendum vote. A special meeting of the SPA Representative
Council will then be called to consider the results of the referendum vote.
Included on the SUFT negotiating team were President Edward Wesnofske, Lawrence DeLucia,
James Gill, Lee Marsh, Dorothy Gutenkauf, Gene Link, and James Creteko.
Additional information will be forwarded next week.
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Are your members experiencing problems with the dental insurance portion of the SPA Con-
tract or do they have questions that are not adequately answered by administration? The CHDI
(Group Health Dental Insurance) Company has four regional offices in the State that are more
than willing to help.
Call or write GHDI offices in New York City, Albany, Syracuse, & Buffalo for assistance.
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Among the more widely-known casualties of the Nov. 7 election was State Assemblyman '
@enacies Jerabek of Long Island. Jerabek had earned a reputation during his term of office 2s _
one of the most anti-education, anti-teacher representatives in the Legislature.
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The Kedar arbitration hearing was held Monday, November 13 in Albany. This case, involving
an academic enployee from Binghamton, was the first arbitration to be handled by SPA under the
SPA-State Agreement.
Arguing the case on behalf of SPA was Albany attorney Richard Symansky. His counterpart
for the State was OER attorney Joel Hodes. Arbiter for the case was Louis Yagoda, a member of
the permanent SPA-State Arbitration Panel, from Cornell.
The Kedar grievance centered on the definition of what constitutes "retrenchment." Keda@
had been non-renewed from his job for financial reasons which SPA argued constitutes retrenchment
and therefore, must follow all requirements of retrenchment.
Appearing as witnesses for SPA were SPA-Binghamton Grievance Chairwoman Rhoda Bernstein,
Acting Chairman of the Geography Department Joe Butler, and the grievant himself, Irvin Kedar.
The State presented only Vice Chancellor Caesar Naples as witness for its case.
It is interesting to note that no management representative from the Binghamton campus was
called to testify, nor were any present for the hearing. In addition, it appears that the
Binghamton administration was not even informed of the hearing. }
The State's case in the arbitration was based on their contention that only agreements or
regulations that have been acted upon by the Chancellor or have the Chancellor's signature have
the force of rule, regulation or law, The State and the University seek to deny the validity
of any local regulations or the authority of any mutually agreed-upon procedures at the local
campus level.
SPA Crievance Coordinator Annalee Ziman assisted in the preparation of the SPA case.
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SPA's Commission on the Status of Women has requested that the SPA Executive Board seek
immediate reopened contract negotiations to rectify illegal provisions of the SPA Contract in
regard to use of sick leave for maternity purposes. If negotiations are refused, the Commission
has advocated that the Board take immediate legal steps against the University and the State.
The demand was a result of the Commission's first meeting held Friday, November 10 in
Syracuse.
Chairwoman Anne Willcox's commission also placed before the SPA Negotiations Committee a
request that any salary negotiations this year be conducted under a strict "equal pay for equ;
cone eaieeye: e
Academic VP Herman Doh served as special representative of President Granger as he attended
the recent Region 2 meeting at Maritime.
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SPA's weekly regional meeting will be canceled this week in honor of the Thanksgiving
holiday.
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Chapter President Dr. Gilbert Ross of Upstate Medical Center was featured in a recent issue
of his campus newspaper for his work wich the elderly. He was recently honored for this work as
anew, 160-unit housing complex for the aged was given the name, "Dr. Gilbert S. Ross Towers."
Gil has served as volunteer chairman of the Syracuse Housing Authority and in numerous
medically-related community groups. He is chairman of the neurology department at Upstate and an
excellent chapter president.
Congratulations, Dr. Ross.
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Penalties assessed against state employees for participating in strikes were held to be
constitutional on November 16 by the Appellate Division in Albany.
The decision, in three separate appeals affecting various categories of state employment,
is construed as putting teeth in the Taylor Law which penalizes striking employees including loss
of pay of two days for each day of strike and, if ordered, loss of tenure for teachers and the
loss of other valuable rights in the various other categories of state employment. e
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VOTE success good
VOTE (Voice of Teachers for Education) has
achieved moderate success in its first full-scale foray
into state politics. As FYI goes to press, preliminary |
results show VOTE-endorsed candidates successful in 28
of 54 races with the outcome of 8 contests still in
doubt.
The total VOTE money contribution to the campaign
For Your 4s reported at over $400,000 all of which was raised
through voluntary contributions.
Conenicens tet In addition to the wins, VOTE's influence was felt
ScaHnGL Ge in other races where "run-away" favorites were held to
Senntt: Professionnel Assocralinn: very close races. VOTE operatives are pleased and
Vol. I, No. 10 November 13, 1972| hopeful for the political muscle demonstrated in
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Bulletin: 11/7/72 Moved by Western Union. “Urgent. SPA informed that initial slotting
into 4 ranks per Article 34 done by Central Administration in bad faith. Legal counsel to
proceed with actions on several fronts -- litigation, improper practice charges, more. Will
advise chapters of their responsibilities as soon as possible. Review appeal procedure."
Signed: Robert B. Granger, president, Senate Professional Association.
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The Internal Revenue Service has reaffirmed that dues or assessments paid by a member
of a lab or organization or business association are deductible when computing taxable
income.
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Representatives of the Senate Professional Association and the State University Federe- j
tion of Teachers met in Albany on November 3 to pursue further the question of merger.
President Edward Wesnofske of SUFT and President Robert Granger of SPA report progress
in their talks, and have scheduled further talks on November 8 in Geneseo and November 12
in Syracuse.
A statement will follow each of these meetings.
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Dr. Elisabeth J, Fox, SPA member at Downstate Medical Center, is featured in a current
edition of Newsweek. Dr. Fox, one of the original SPA members, is an expert in the field
of acupuncture as it relates to anesthesiology.
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NYSTA-UTNY (alias Teachers of New York, New York Congress of Teachers, etc.) has
definitely decided to change its name again.
While the new name is not yet certain, "New York Confederation of Teachers" and "New
York State United Teachers" appear to have the inside track.
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SPA President Robert Granger and Executive Director Philip Encinio joined officers of
the sUC-Geneseo chapter on Wednesday, Nov. 8 for a special consultation session with the
campus president at Geneseo.
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The SPA Executive Board has authorized the hiring of an Assistant Executive Director
and an Administrative Assistant for the Association. Job descriptions are available from
and applications should be returned to Mr. Philip A. Encinio, SPA, 80 Wolf Rd., Albany 12205.
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SPA's Commission on the Status of Women in the University held its first meeting ®
Friday, November 10 in Syracuse. Hpsting the meeting at Upstate Medical Center was Chair-
woman Anne Willcox.
Other members of the Commission include Dr. Doris Knudsen, SPA Chapter President at
Morrisville; Miss Eloise Law, SPA grievance chairwoman at Plattsburgh; Mrs. Judith Russell,
chapter officer at Brockport; Ms. Betty Reisman, Oswego; Ms. Alice Corbin, Albany.
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The United States Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that workers fired solely for
refusing to cross fellow strikers’ picket lines have an absolute right to get their jobs
back. The decision stemmed from Teamster organizing efforts in California.
‘An opinion written by Justice Potter Stewart said: "Unconditional reinstatement of
the discharged employees was proper for the simple reason that they were victims of a plain
unfair labor practice by their employer."
Cautioning against a broad interpretation of the decision, however, Justice Harry
Blackmun said: "The finding of an unfair labor practice here, is not to be read, therefore,
as necessarily precluding an employer from reliance on appropriate justification other than
permanent replacement.”
The SPA regional meeting for this week is slated for Maritime College. The meeting
for Region 2 representatives will be held at 10:00 a.m. in the Science and Engineering
Building, Conference Room M2-5.
‘An open chapter meeting will be held at 12:50 p.m. in Lecture Hall M1-33. Chapter
officers meet at 2:00.
Farmingdale, Downstate, Stony Brook, Old Westbury and Purchase are invited to attend.
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SPA has added another new publication to its rolls. Volume I, Number 1 of Grievance
News was distributed last week. Written by Grievance Coordinator Annalee Ziman, the 4-page
newsletter cites arbitration decisions from across the country as well as cases from within
SUNY. "How to" information is also featured.
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Included with this issue of FYI is a new printing of the NYCT Constitution as well as
a sheet on SPA special benefits that can be reproduced for members and membership promotion.
Please note that the name of your campus can be substituted for SUC-Buffalo to personalize
the piece.
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NYCT Research Specialist Charles Santelli met with the Librarian Negotiations Committee
on November 9 in Rochester to coordinate the gathering of necessary data for the current
talks.
SPA staffer Ed Purcell was also present to meet with members of the State University
Librarians Association (SUNYLA) Representative Council.
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| _SUEFT talks continue
Talks between SPA and the State University
‘Federation of Teachers (SUFT) continued last week
as representatives of both groups met for a work-
ing session in Albany.
Continued contact between the groups was
authorized at SPA's Representative Council meeting
in October.
Representing SPA at the session was SPA
For Your President Robert Granger, Academic VP Herman Doh,
NIP VP Alan Willsey and Executive Board Menber Gail
| Current news for Hotelling.
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the leadership of the ‘The Noverber 3 meeting was the third in the
| Senate Professional Association | Yecent round of talks.
Hounbex In reporting previous merger talks, the name of
| ee © | Dr. Constantine Yeracaris was inadvertently omitted
from the SPA team,
In an amazing show of irresponsible unionism, AAUP chapters in the City University
system have seriously undercut the staff position in current contract talks by siding
with management in that "the Professional Staff Congress's demands would deprive the
faculty of its long-standing authority for academic decision making."
‘The AAUP critique may become a "big gun" for managenent as it attempts not only to
ignore PSC demands, but also roll back current contract benefits.
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Meanwhile in CUNY, PSC's 120-menber Delegate Assenbly has authorized the polling of
@ semersiip cn a "ho contract, no work stand." Picketing continues at the Board of Higher
Education headquarters as a second month of the slow mediation process began.
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SPA-Canton reports that the 50 per cent menbership point has been reached with an
immediate goal Of 60 per cent campus-wide within range.
Chapters should be aware that time for a fall drive is fast disappearing with Thanks-
giving probably the cut-off point. Many campuses have yet to request either material or
staff assistance to aid in a campaign.
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NEA higher education organizing efforts took a sharp blow in the past weeks as
several important electicns were lost. At Michigan State, the "unheard-of" happened as
"no representation” beat all comers. ‘The vote was no rep. - 1213, NEA - 438, and AAUP -
280.
In Hawaii, AAUP headed the vote with 560 followed by AFT - 552, NEA - 460, no rep. -
287, and Government Employees - 96. A run-off of the top tw will be held there.
At Temple, AFT lead the voting with 328 followed by AAUP - 303, NEA - 280, and no
rep. - 183, ‘The top two will face a mun off,
At Ferris St., again, no representation led the balloting with 143, followed by NEA -
137, and AAUP - 133. A xum-off is expected at the school, but at this point it is not
certain which organizations will appear on the run-off ballot.
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The SPA regional meeting will be hosted this week by the SUC-Fredonia chapter on
Thursday, the 9th.
e President Granger will meet chapter officers at 10 a.m. and lunch with the Region 3
representatives at noon in Campus Center room G-138. A general campus meeting will be
held at 3:30 p.m, in Campus Center room G-106.
Extra copies of Unit Update are available from SPA Central. ‘The first issue of this
new newsletter was dixect-mailed to all non-SPA employees in the bargaining unit.
Chapters may wish a sufficient number for distribution to their members.
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‘The SPA Negotiations Comittee has scheduled meetings for Friday, Novenber 10 in
Syracuse and Friday and Saturday, Decenber 1-2 in Albany.
A draft negotiations questionnaire will be reviewed by the Committee at the Novenber
10 session.
The committee has also formally requested negotiations with the State to commence
as soon as possible after Novenber 1, the official date seeking re-openers under Article
19 of the Contract. Initial meetings will deal with questions of procedure until a final
package is drafted by the committee for submission to OER.
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‘The New York Teacher, NYCT newspaper, has responded to the loud cry of SPA menbers
and leadership by increasing its higher education coverage. Conmmications Coordinator
Ea Purcell will provide a steady flow of SPA material for use.
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When reproducing the SPA dues deduction card for local use, be absolutely
ears rigid size requirenents of the Comptroller's office are adhered to.
Maximum size is 7 1/4 inches wide and 3 1/4 deep.
Mass distribution of menbership blanks (such as part of every chapter newsletter pro-
duced) can be an effective recruitment tool, but please be careful of the size.
$UC-Brockport, for instance, is doing quite well in signing up new members through
this method.
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The first SPA arbitration hearing, the case of Loretta Kaye, has been post-poned @
until November 22 due to a schedi ney conflict. The David Kreh grievance on academic
promotion rights for librarians has also been set for arbitration on Decenber 21,
The Rosenbush grievance previously scheduled for arbitration has been withdrawn on
advice from counsel due to the lack of an appropriate remedy.
SPA is happy to welcome a new cartoonist to its publications. He is Rep. Council
Gelegate Will Mott from Maritime, We think you will enjoy his work!
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L UNDERSTAND CER Found SOMEONE WITH A BETTER NTP
SALARY PLAN THAN CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIONS,
‘ Survey results
Results are in on the SPA questionnaire to Health
Science Center academics concerning their opinions on
Article 20 salary negotiation:
Compiled by the NYCT Division of Research, the
large number of returns show overvhelming preference
for establishment of minimum salary by rank and over-
Poey. whelming disagreement with the concept of remitting all.
or Your clinical practice income to the State.
Current news for The range favored for salary by rank includes
the leadership of the $10-25,000 for instructors, $17-35,000 for assistant
Senate Professional Association professors, $19-43,000 for associate professors, and
$23-53,000 for full professors.
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Vol. I, No. 8 October 30, 1972
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Prelude of things to come: The New Jersey Board of Higher Education, at the urging of
its chief executive - Chancellor Ralph A. Dungan, has ordered a freeze in the ratio of faculty
members on tenure at current levels at six state colleges. Citing "inflexibility" for ad-
ministrators, Dungan calls the current 65 percent figure the result of a state law that allows
granting of tenure too easily.
Faculty of the six affected schools, represented by the Association of New Jersey State
College Faculties, have responded with a lawsuit claiming the Board's action as an “end run"
around the state's tenure law.
The colleges involved include Jersey City State, Glassboro State, Newark State, Trenton
State, Montclair State, and William Paterson.
A hearing on the case is expected this week.
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Syndicated columnist Jack Anderson had this to say about NEA's lobbying efforts this
year: "Not only the big corporations were lapel-grabbing. The National Education Associa~
tion, far from its little old kindergarten teacher image, had a busy lobbying team at work
under its energetic president, Catharine Barrett."
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Continuing the series of highly successful regional meetings, SPA President Robert
weanger travels to Canton to meet with region schools and SPA officers and staff at SU Ag.
and Tech. at Canton.
The regular schedule calls for a 10:00 a.m. meeting with the local Executive Board
followed by a noon luncheon for the regional representatives.
Campuses invited to attend include Oswego, Forestry, Upstate Medical, Morrisville,
Cortland, Potsdam, and Binghamton.
Those attending the meeting are urged to contact the SPA office with items for special
discussion on the agenda.
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Wonder what NEA is doing to protect the legal rights of higher education faculty and
staff? Recently-released statistics from NEA's DuShane Fund show a total of 73 higher
education cases processed between June 1969 and June 1972.
While a majority of DuShane cases over the past three years have involved First Amend-
ment issues of academic freedom, association and political activity, and free speech,
Fourteenth Amendment issues involving procedural due process and discrimination are on the
rise. A recent trend is the increase of sex discrimination cases.
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The Joint Executive/Administrative Committee of NYCT voted at its September 26 meeting
that it will be Board policy not to list the names of makers and seconders of motions in
their minutes.
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Response to SPA's first experiment in use of direct mail for membership promotion has
been promising, especially when 20% of potential membership in the geographically diverse
Empire State Chapter has sent in SPA deduction cards. The Chapter now has 30% membership.
SPA's first unit-wide recruitment effort is now in the mails (slow, but inexpensive
third class). With each copy of the news sheet Unit Update is a coded SPA dues deduction
card.
Has your chapter launched a vigorous membership drive this year?
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Several SPA Chapters including those at SUC-Buffalo and SU Ag. & Tech.-Morrisville have
been active in providing University staff with specific information on retirement. Why not
incorporate such a program as part of your membership effort?
Both NYCT and the NYS Teachers Retirement System can provide staff assistance for such
undertakings.
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The SPA Negotiations Committee held its first meeting last Wednesday, October 25.
Plans were discussed for the preparation of a basic annual salary bargaining package and
for initiation of at-the-table negotiations in November.
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Implied but not stated: The recently-released third volume of the Fleischmann Commission
report includes a recommendation that teacher preparation courses be reduced by one-half over
the next decade as a method of dealing with the supposed surplus of teachers, Although not
specifically indicated, it will undoubtedly become the objective of State budget-cutters to
trim School of Education faculty by the same percentage.
The Fleischnann Commission's recommendation cones hard on the heels of similar program-
trimming proposals made by the NYS Board of Regents. While specifically avoiding "scare
tactics," SPA chapters should make every effort to inform both members and potential members
of impending difficulties in the NYS Legislature this year.
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Is your chapter having trouble with new membership cards being returned directly to
SPA Central without being recorded at your campus? The SPA Chapter at SUNY-Buffalo has a
good and simple solution: Staple a small strip of paper to each of your membership cards
requesting that they be returned directly to the Chapter secretary. The Secretary can then
record the memberships and transmit them to SPA Central.
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From the North Country comes word of the election of a new chapter president. He is
Dr. Howard C. Miller, Jr., Professor and Chairman of the English Dept. at SUC-Plattsburgh.
Prof. Miller joins other chapter officers, Dr. Mildred Dominy (VP-Academic) and Robert H.
Kellett, Jr. (VP-NIP), as well as SPA Academic Vice President Herman Doh, on the campus.
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8 rue CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION October 10, 1972
POINT OF VIEW
By PAUL REIAT sod RONALD STUPAK
The Kiss of Death
for Faculty Power
8 “RevoLUTION” on the campus is dead and the
real lovers are the professors. The body count is compichension of univers tite, in that such a provision
surely enormous for these professors Who itt Srovld eu 20 t0 30 hours fom the work week of many
fed with the aspirations ofthe “radical” students faculty members
to" change the erachical zlationships and. edueatonal ‘The hoards of trstes-—tradtionally rubber stamps. at
DYiortes of the American university. the service of faculty snd administrators—eaped t0 the
be eh in muna f fay ue fore to encrcbe thee contittionalrespoasiiies. In unl
ined m oatds- oF TORE oF Tet ‘versity after university they penalved feculy. members by
fies on CaS SEN Ta thea Tihhotding or deferring tenure, promotion, and salary
SST Goons of rece
Sieg be User Ve So oa the most part in tetsiing ther newly acquired “powers”
Sete oT Sa Tem he ao a Political pressure and economic scariy converged fo creale
FRIES OPTS Taersty Conference on many an insittional envionment highly conducive to administra
campuses, including Miami University. tive tinkering—a heaven for the compulsive mangers.
‘The Ninoa Administration has done a masterel job of “rhe alminirators scanned and centralized the entre
transferring the responsivity for the dirypuive dimensions univeriy snicture, They demanded unflinching allegiance
of the stadent movement from the shoulders ofthe ranosent
Youth to the shosiders of the disenchanted, eating, liter {rom divslon deans and devartmentchaitmen, increasingly
seademic, The Administration as eitcize, blamed, bow weatog the ners sac tan fey
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tors. They conveniently forgot, however, tht
‘Adminisieators lose their jobs only for the most coloss
1% EIS OF DEATIC to any semblance at all of
faculty power came from the enviconment of fear
and repression that followed the Kent Siate Jil
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faculty members—and 90 one should underesinate thelr
rumker or ffuence on any campur—blamed their out
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sidered the arropance and inwobonintion of (fo the nent
art) “public servants” Since they were not about to fault
their own children or the social environment forthe dif
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fi to “erpute” ap atisiartion ops hoard of trees for
__petsens spans whom i was (0 be invoked. Infact ut
fas tose a joke cn mow campuses, The yourser aly
BE RSRE REISS penisticts Saokine lounge Wertifed
trth tbe country club atmosphere of the haleycon days of
pre-World War It academia.
nr Tey, is to be done? Where do we—
the faclty—fo from here?
‘While we do not have a sore remedy, we
4 think there aze certain esentil steps fae-
tty members ought to use.
Firs, we need candid recogston that the university
Thence the academic polices of the university (es. cur
Ficus and programs) fe one thing: to seck formal influence
inthe university's non-academic polices (ea, financial in
westments) is something quite diferent. The realization thet
There fea clas of decions over which we ean have Hite
resard is to adopt rpié evleia governing the number and
ne of graduate schools, as Well a5 the standards for ad
SPreniee™ symbols Ces dinner invitations, commitee
chairnanships) promoted by university administrators, We
se ongan on every campus
administrators nave eit
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tiha: Would Ronald Reagan have dared to do to the TesDe>)
ors what he bas done 10 the California educational sy}
tem Ifyou have not followed what Reagan has dove to)
{he Catfenia educational sptem, consider this bt of evid-
the nation— has been hopelessly st back.)
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‘Chinese emphasize, entails both danger and
‘Spportanity, We can either employ the op-
poctniy Yo preva over ihe cscs or ese fet the crisis ran
Brot, threatening a vulaerable profession aboot which
‘Srulnary chisens, Tegslatore, and trustees understand fle
oF nothing.
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The authors are members of the potitieal science faculty
‘et Mian University in Oxford, Ohio.
Officers elected
Prof. Herman Doh (English, SUC-Plattsburgh) has
been voted to fill the vacant slot of Vice President
for Academics on the SPA Executive Board. The special
election was held Saturday, October 14 at the first
1972-73 meeting of the SPA Representative Council.
Also chosen at the special election was Joseph
Drew (Systems Analysis, SUNY-Buffalo) to fill the re-
maining portion of the unexpired term of SPA Treasurer.
With Prof. Doh moving from his Executive Board
Current news for position of representative for four-year schools, a
the leadership of the third vacancy was created on the Board. Dr. Fred
Senate Professional Association Miller (Speech & Theatre, SUC-Oneonta) was elected to
Vol. I, No. 7 October 23, 1972| this post.
Vacancies on the Board were originally created by
the resignations of Academic VP Barbara McCaffery and Treasurer Leonard Snyder. Doh's new
tecu of office will run until the Spring, 1973 meeting of the Representative Council, ae will
the term of Dr. Miller. Treasurer Drew's term will expire at the Spring, 1974 meeting of the
Council.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that AAUP's stepped-up activity in collective
bargaining may jeopardize that group's annual survey of faculty compensation. The Associa~
tion of American Colleges, which in the past has tacitly supported the survey, has told its
members that they could not advise "either to continue or to withhold their cooperation" in
the future. Also advised was "sober judgment."
e@ In other AAUP news, the recently-negotiated contract at Ashland (Ohio) College (repre-
sented by AAUP) calls for faculty to give up all salary increases including increment in
order to save the jobs of several members of the bargaining unit.
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Local chapter dues rebates will be on their way to SPA units this month as the SPA
Executive Board voted specific implementation of the plan. A total of $3 per year will be
rebated for each member, with three separate $1 payments being transmitted during the aca~
demic year. Special project contributions to chapters will continue as needed.
Guidelines on accounting requirements have been sent to Chapter Presidents and Treasurers.
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Among the recolutions passed by the Rep. Council were statements authorizing continued
merger talks with SUFT (with the stipulation that other arrangements also be investigated and
relative costs reported), and stating SPA's opposition to unilateral imposition or change in
campus parking regulations.
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SPA Grievance Coordinator Annalee Ziman was guest lecturer last weekend at a session of
the Higher Education Administrators class at SUNY-Albany. Her presentation centered on
employee evaluation in the University.
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The SPA Chapter at SUC-Buffalo has conducted a survey of campus attitudes on merger and
negotiations among both members and non-members at SUC-Buffelo. Some 248 replies included
213 academics, 35 NIP's, 98 SPA members, 22 SUFT members, and 119 non-members.
Preferences in negotiations included "annual increments plus across-the-board" (1),
“annual increments plus across-the-board plus small fraction of amount for merit" (2).
On the merger question, a 2-1 majority favored such an accommodation.
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Grievance and arbitration processing will be the topic of training for three members
of the SPA Executive Board and two staffers this week. The five -- Herman Doh, Alan Willsey,
Gail Hotelling, Annalee Ziman and Edward Purcell -- will attend a 4-day session at CUNY's
Baruch College.
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SPASO and SPA have reached agreement on the first comprehensive contract for member:
of the Senate Professional Association staff. SPASO (Senate Professional Association Staff
Organization) is recognized as the exclusive bargaining representative.
The pact is of two year's duration with salary reopeners in the second year.
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$UC-Oneonta plays host this week to President Granger's regional meeting. The Region I
group includes Albany, Oneonta, New Paltz, Empire State, Cobleskill, Delhi, Plattsburgh, and
Central Administration.
A morning meeting is scheduled for chapter officers, followed by a luncheon for the
regional group, and an afternoon general campus meeting.
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The SPA Chapter at SUNY-Stony Brook reports the fruits of successful grievance process-
ing. As reported in the last issue of FYI, full-time employment was recently won for 19
library technicians at Stony Brook.
In a show of gratitude and response to SPA's efforts on their behalf, the entire group
of 19 have joined the Association.
Long-awaited NYCT membership cards are now in the mail to each campus.
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Below is Part II of FYI's presentation on major political party platforms on higher o
education. This week: the Democrats.
“We support universal access to opportunities to post-secondary education.
The American educational system has always been an important path toward so-
cial and economic advancement. Federal education policy should ensure that
our colleges and universities continue as an open system. It must also
stimulate the creative development and expansion of higher education to meet
the new social, economic and environmental problems confronting society. To
achieve the goals of equal opportunity in education, to meet the growing
financial crisis in higher education and to stimulate reform of educational
techniques, the next Democratic Administration should:
Support guaranteed access for ali students to ioan funds with long-term
repayment based on future earnings. Not only the poor, but families with
moderate income must be provided relief from the cost of a college and pro~
fessional education;
-Grant supplements and contingent loans to institutions, based on enroll-
ment of federally-aided students; z
=Provide research funds to stimulate a partnership between post-secondary,
secondary and primary education, in an effort to find new patterns for learn-
ing and to provide training and retraining of teachers, especially in urban
areas;
“Develop broad opportunities for lifelong learning including encouragement
for post-secondary education throughout adult years and permit "stopping-off"
during higher education;
-Develop affirmative programs in universities and colleges for recruit
of minorities and women for administrative & teaching positions & as students;
~Create incentives for non-traditional education which recognize the con-
tribution of experience to an individual's educational status."
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years.
For Your Heading the new group is former U.S. Conmis-
Current news for sioner of Education Francis Keppel, who is currently
the leadership of the chairman of the General Learning Corp., a Time Inc.
Senate Professional Association affiliate. Also named are Louis Benezet (president
of SUNY-Albany), Thomas Bartlett (president of Col-
Vol. I, No.6 October 16, 1972 gate University), M. Alan Cartter (former chancellor
of NYU), Porter Chandler (former chairman of the N.Y.C.
Board of Higher Education), John Fischer (president of Columbia Teachers College), Rev.
Laurence McGinley (assistant to the president of St. Peter's College), Mother Eleanor O'Byrne
(former president of Manhattanville College), Gustave Rosenberg (former chairman of the N.Y.C.
Board of Higher Education), as well as several others.
It is interesting to note that the entire commission includes no active teaching faculty
and is heavily weighted with top management.
Among the topics to be investigated by the commission are financing of both public and
private schools; scholarships and student loans; shared facilities by public and private
institutions; and regional arrangements among schools.
Last year's panel headed by State Operations Director T. Norman Hurd was able to agree
only to “not agree." Insiders report that the main problem wes the unwillingness of last
year's group to "rubber stamp" the Governor's desire for new schemes to finance private in-
- stitutions with public money.
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As requested by many SPA Chapters, additional copies of the SPA brochure on implementa~
tion of evaluation and promotion for NIP's have been distributed to Chapter Presidents. Be-
cause of heavy demand, however, quantity ie small.
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The SPA team representing the Association's Executive Board in merger discussions with
the State University Federation of Teachers (SUFT) report little substantive progress at the
meeting held October 4 in Albany. The continued exchange of ideas, however, was judged
fruitful.
Both sides agreed to continue discussions, but no firm date has yet been set for the
next meeting.
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Facts you should know about AAUP: AAUP's annual budget is $1.5-million or about 1% of
NEA's budget. AAUP has budgeted $150,000 for faculty collective bargaining (less then the
cost of one big election), compared with $3-million for such purposes in the NEA budget.
AAUP has allocated $100,000 for legal defense actions; NEA has over $1.2-million in the
Dushane Emergency Fund.
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Grievance Coordinator Annalee Ziman reports a significant grievance settlement at SUNY-
Stony Brook where a SPA grievance won full-time appointments for all library technical
assistants employed by that institution.
SPA has also filed for retroactive fringe benefits such as vacation and retirement for
those employees.
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This week's regional meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, the 17th, for SUC-Geneseo.
The Region 3 session will include the SPA chapters from Fredonia, Buffalo, Brockport, Alfred
and Geneseo.
President Granger's schedule calls for a meeting of chapter officers at 10:00 a.m., the
regional meeting at 2:00 p.m. in the Hunt Room of the College Union, and a general membership
meeting at 4:00 p.m.
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The Geneseo Chapter also has the distinction of boasting SPA's newest set of chapter
officers. The late-September election chose Prof. Edward Janosik (political science) as the
chapter's new president.
Other officers include Dr. Frank Scholfield (VP-Academic), Kathleen Trainor (VP-NIP),
Dr. Jerry Reber (Academic Delegate), and Dolores Donnelly (NIP Delegate).
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Distribution of merit and equity funds continues to be a hot topic as SPA Central polls |
individual chapters as to the success (or lack thereof) of procedures across the University.
Closely tied to this survey is SPA's demand filed with the State's Office of Employee Re~
lations that the University be forced to release specifics of distribution including names
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and amounts.
SUNY's position on this question is consistent with its general refusal to release any
salary information to the bargaining unit. SPA maintains that such information is required
not only to comply with the statutes governing public access to state records, but also as
the only mechanism possible to guarantee (from SPA's viewpoint) that the SPA contract has
been fully implemented,
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“Membership Promotion Materials 1973-74" was the topic of discussion at a special meeting
held Jast week in Baltimore. State membership directors and UniServ staff from NEA's East
Coast and Mid-Atlantic Regions met to evaluate past performance and future needs.
Communications Coordinator Ed Purcell represented SPA at the session and stressed the
continued need for higher education consideration in all activities of the NEA.
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With election day now less than one month away, FYI continues its presentation of
relevant higher education information. Below is the Republican Party's platform statement on
higher education. The Democratic statement will be printed next week.
“We cherish the nation’s universities as centers of learning, as conservers
of our culture, and as analysts of our society and its institutions. We will —
continue to strive to assure their economic well-being. The financial aid we —
have given and will continue to give in the form of funds for scholarships,
research, building programs and new teaching methods must never be used as a
device for imposing political controls on our schools.
We believe that universities should be centers of excellence--that they
should recruit faculty on the basis of ability to teach and admit students on —
the basis of ability to learn. Yet excellence can be too narrowly continued--~ |
abilities overlooked, and social conformity mistaken for educational prepar-~
ation. 4
We pledge continued support of collegiate and university efforts to insure
that no group in our society--racial, economic, sexual or regional--is denied
access to the opportunities of higher educatio
Our efforts to remedy ancient neglect of disadvantaged groups will continue
in universities as well as in society at large, but we distinguish between suc
efforts and quotas. We believe the imposition of arbitrary quotas in the hir-
ing of faculties or the enrollment of students has no place in our universi-
ties; we believe quotas strike at the excellence of the university.”
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Memo to the Campuse:
‘The Camegie Commission on Higher ee fom
not win any popularity contests in academia for urging
the colleges and universities to increase their produ
tivity and trim their budgets. The latest study, “More
Effective Use of Resources: an Imperative for Higher
Education,” estimates that in order to carry out thi
responsibilities at a cost that the country and the con-
sumer can afford, the universities must cut about $10
billion by 1980 from their then projected annual
expenditures.
‘An understandable reflex reaction to such an asse:
ment is to denounce it as a surrender to those an
intellectual forces who have been sniping at efforts to
expand educational opportunities. Such a conclusion
distorts the commission's intention and prospectus. Dr.
Clark Kerr, the commission's chairman, is simply saying
that ten years hence the higher education budget is
threatened by a $26-billion deficit. The commission wants
the gap closed by the addition of $16 billion in “new”
funds, largely from the Federal Government, and the
saving of $10 billion through more efficient operatioas.
How those savings are to be accomplished without
damage to academic quality should be a matter for open-
minded debate. The education of a great many students
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the 1970s recently approved fees.
bby the SUNY board of trus- _—About $14 billion in
tees. planned construction spend-
‘An experimental new cam- ing has been saved by halting
pus in the Utica area in construction of most dormito-
north-central New York, de- ry units, increasing utiliza-
signed for juniors, seniors tion of academic space from
and first-year graduate stu- 100 to 118 per cent and elim
dents, probably will not be nating proposed new build-
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years, barely keep which may save money.
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SUNY officials say. the expected rate of about
15000 per year for the next
FACULTY salary increases. eight years, using our current
_ nave been out back though patterns, all of our programs
SUNY professors. stl are probably would become ane-
among the best paid in He mic,” Dr. Boyer said.
country, especially at the
Camputes sresing graduate MIS STRATEGY ls to cat
saad prodesalonal training struction in order to preserve
“We will have to do more SUNY's high-cost graduate
vith less in the coming dec- and professional programs,
'ade,” said SUNY Chancellor _ On five campuses SUNY is
Enmest L. Boyer, who stepped experimenting with different
into the job two years ago, ways of shortening the to!
just as the flood of dollars time spent in high school and
was subsiding. college from eight to seven
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in thology and au. | THe so eer
in speech, paltoDeT and 20 courging sents fo stop
Southern California and was oUt for a year or two of
fan administrator_at UC at el and is making
Santa Barbara for sevéral @MTangements for able up
faved peravson students unite
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ome, lthfloor office iM ers instead of attending the
downiown albany, the, chat usual classes. and. laborer
tions taken to cope with “qy,
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‘cial condition: sn will offer regular degree pro-
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sete san ites i 2Y not in residence on a campus
wut 70,000, «thou . - This approach obviously
pected total still is a stagger- Aira the ‘eed fae
Ing 416,700. costly academie facilities but
TT 1S EXPECTED. that. itis not yet clear whether in-
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Bete “twoyjear commungy ef than those on residential
colleges, the rest in SUNY's, Campuses. te
graduate and _ professional|
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various kinds
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E Preparations are nearing completion for SPA's
2 second annual Leadership Workshop to be held Oct.
= 13-14 in Albany. The special sessions for chapter
grievance chairmen and membership chairmen will
For Your begin Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Northway
Ganemness tor Inn, The kick-off for the weekend begins at 7:00.
the leadership of the Joining SPA staff on the program will be Mr.
Senate Pratessional Amociation Paul Haubner, specialist in grievance processing
for the staiz union at NEA, and Mr. Kenneth Law,
LWol. I, No. 5 October 9, 1972 director of field services for NYCT and nationally-
known membership promotion expert.
The workshops, which are scheduled in conjunction with SPA's fall Rep. Council meeting
on the 14th will be open to any Council delegates wishing to attend. Special caucus meet-
ings (University Centers, 4-year Colleges, ag. & Techs., Medical-Dental, Specialized
Colleges, etc.) have also been set for Friday evening.
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Quote of the Week: "They're exploiting the market situation. They know when push
comes to shove, the so-called faculty governance is just paper." -- Dr. Israel Kugler,
deputy president of CUNY's Professional Staff Congress, conmenting on current contract talks.
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Other Contracts: AAUP's much-heralded (by themselves) Rutger's contract includes as
the final step of the grievance procedure an appeal to the campus president.
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The 1972-73 printing of the Board of Trustees' Policies is now available and has been
distributed to local campuses. The Policies are available to all at the local personnel
office.
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An examination of record from AFT's national convention held August 21-25 in St. Paul,
Minn., turns up several interesting items in higher education.
New York State's State University Federation of Teachers (SUFT) delegation bloc voted
(19 votes) for the entire Progressive Caucus slate of national officers (21). The Pro-
gressive Caucus ran no bona fide higher education candidates while the defeated United
Action Caucus included four representatives from higher education locals on its slate of
candidates.
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This week's SPA Regional Meeting returns to the downstate area as Downstate Medical
Center hosts the session on Tuesday, October 11.
President Robert Granger will meet with Downstate Chapter officers from 10-11:30 a.m.
in the Anesthesiology Library (Rm. B3-336) and with Region 2 representatives from 12-2:30
in the same room. A general campus meeting will follow at 3:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall 6,
Basic Science Building, 6th Floor.
Officers attending from Farmingdale, Maritime, Purchase, Stony Brook, and Old Westbury
will be provided with special parking permits.
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The biennial salary survey of colleges and universities conducted by NEA shows that the
median salary in 1971-72 was $12,932, a 10.1 percent gain over 1969-70.
The previous two-year increase was 14.8 percent between 1969-70 and 1967-68.
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PERB's hearing determination on a revised list of "management-confidential" titles in
SUNY's Professional Services Bargaining Unit was released last week and is in the hands of
local college presidents.
SPA is currently reviewing the list and preparing challenges to certain titles.
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In case you've missed it: Newspapers across the state are trumpeting the new CSEA con-
tract demands for the coming year. They feature a 10 percent across-the-board pay hike and
a $6,500 minimum salary for state employees.
‘Also included in the demands are 20-year retirement at half-pay, improved death benefits,
and new retirement plan improvements including 10-year vesting for employees whose jobs are
terminated through no fault of their own.
In the background to the demands lies the upcoming representational challenge to CSEA
from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in two of the state's four bargaining
units representing over half of the state's employees. An election is likely in December.
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SUNY librarians, under SPA auspices, remain at the bargaining table on the question of
implementation of academic status for librarians. With weekly meetings now beginning, Anne
Commerton, spokesman for the SPA team, reports agreement in principle on several non-cost—
related items.
The rub
as usual -- appears to be cash.
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The October issue of the SPA SPOKESMAN was mailed to all Association members on Friday,
October 6. Unit Update, a one-page information sheet for all members of the bargaining unit,
will make its debut this week.
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SPA Executive Director Philip Encinio, representing President Granger, appeared before
the NYS Board of Regents on September 29 to register SPA's disapproval of certain sections
of the Regents’ proposed Master Plan for learning beyond high school. Of particular concern,
Encinio says, are sections dealing with increased faculty workload and limits on collective
bargaining in the University.
Interestingly enough, anti-employee sections of the Plan were written by people high up
in the University's Central Administration. SPA has vigorously protested this fact as a
conflict of interest and bad faith in current negotiations.
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One of the pioneers of collective bargaining in the South is now active in SPA's new
chapter at Empire State College. He is Professor Bernard Parker, who organized the AAUP
chapter at the University of Southern Mississippi in the early 1960's.
Prof. Parker is president of the Empire State chapter which has already enlisted a
high percentage of the school's stall, but growing, professional staff.
Other officers of the Empire State chapter include Hal Roeth, VP for NIP's; George
Drury, Academic Delegate; Louise Dolan, NIP Delegate; Allen DeLoach, Grievance Chairman,
and Marilyn Huber, Secretary-Treasurer.
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Voting Records
* As Election Day nears, SPA staff with the help
| of the NYCT legislative experts, have isolated leg-
islative voting records on four of the most crucial
bills to face the Legislature last year from the
point of view of the SUNY Professional Services Bar-
gaining Unit.
- (Please note: to ease a complicated reporting
For Your task, only legislators voting against the SPA posi~
tion have been listed for each bill. If your
legislator does not appear on the lists below, you
may assume that his vote supported the SPA position
or that no vote whatsoever was cast).
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Senate Professional Association
Vol. I No. 4 October 2 | |4f)
rent news for
Assembly 12350 ~ Passed into law. Abolished the U-Grade pay scale system for NTP's
and established the new promotional program under Article 34 of the SPA~State contract.
Listed below are those legislators voting against the SPA position and against passage.
Senate ~~ Griffin. Assembly -- Battista, Beckman, R.A. Brown, Buckley, Burrows,
F.A. Carroll, V.S. Carroll, Crawford, DelliBovi, Flack, Gallagher, Gunning, Haley, Hogan,
Jerabek, Kinsella, Krupsak, Lane, Lill, McFarland, H.M. Miller, Murphy, Russell, Schmidt,
Shoemaker, Steinfeldt, Wemple.
Assembly 12347 - Passed into law. Funded the $6-million SPA pay increase for July
1, 1972 “dune 30, 1973. Listed below ace those legislators voting egainat the SPA position
and against passage.
Senate -- Galiber, Greenberg, Knorr, Lewis, Santucci, Schwartz.
Assembly —- Battista, Brewer, Costigan, DelliBovi, Flack, Gallagher, Gunning, Haley,
Jerabek, Kinsella, Koppell, Leichter, Mason, M.L. McCarthy, Olivieri, H.A. Posner, S. Posner,
Rosenberg, Russell, Schmidt, Shoemaker, Straub, Wenple.
Assembly 9544 - Passed into law. Established traffic regulations for campuses in-
eluding docking of pay for unpaid fines. Listed below are those legislators voting against
the SPA position and for passage. Senate -- (no negative votes cast). Assembly -- (One
vote in favor of the SPA position against passage, Murphy).
Senate 9038 - Passed into law. Funded the original $4,.9-million SPA pay raise re-
troactively from July 1, 1971 - June 30, 1972. Listed below are those legislators voting
against the SPA position and against passage. Senate ~~ Barclay, Bernstein, Donovan,
Ferraro, Gold, Griffin, Hughes, Knorr, LaFalce, Langley, Lombardi, Ohrenstein, Povers,
Schwartz, vonLuther, Zaretzki, Assembly -- Battista, Beatty, Becknan, \Berle, Bersani,
Brewer, R.A. Brown, T.W. Brown, Buckley, Calabretta, F.A. Carroll, Cooperman, DelliBovi,
Broms, Eve, Field, Flack, Fortune, Gallagher, Gottfried, Haley, Hardt, Harwood, Hausbeck,
Hevesi, Hogan, Kinsella, Kremer, Krupsak, Landes, Lill, Lisa, Lopresto, Mason, McInerney,
HJ, Miller, H.M. Miller, Murphy, Olivieri, H.A. Posner, Riford, Schmidt, Sears, Simon,
Stavisky, Taylor, Thorp, Tills, Wager, Walsh, Wemple, Weprin, Williams, Wright.
Please note: This reporting in no way constitutes endorsements or condemnations nor
is it intended to do so. It also should be remembered that with the exception of A-9544,
these measures constituted omnibus bills containing sections other than those of interest to
SPA.
Although originally scheduled to appear in the Spokesman, space and timing problems
will prohibit distribution to all members. Please feel free to put the listings to what-
ever local uses you feel appropriate.
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SPA's first set of arbitration cases have been scheduled for hearing beginning
October 23 when the Rosenbush tenure case from Fredonia will be argued.
This will be followed on October 24 by the Kaye grievance involving proper term
appointment for an NIP, the Kadar retrenchment grievance on November 13, and the Spalt
grievance on December 5.
Lawyers assigned by the New York Congress of Teachers will assist SPA in the presenta
tion of the first two cases.
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A survey of NEA menbers recently released by that organization's Research Division
shows that 2.3 per cent of NEA million-plus membership is employed in higher education,
The figure is up from 1.4 per cent last year.
Other figures show 2.1 per cent of the m
per cent employed in public education.
ership with doctoral degrees, and 97.1
Sex role stereotypes will be explored at an NEA-sponsored conference to be held
November 24-26. The meeting is partially funded by an HEW grant.
Details and registration forms for the conference - ~ to be held at Airlie House
in Warrenton, Virginia -- are available from Shirley McCune, Human Relations Section,
Teacher Rights Division, NEA Center.
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Representatives of SPA, OFR, SUNY, and the Department of Audit and Control met on
September 21 to discuss ways of eliminating continuing problems involving SPA dues deduc-
tion procedures. A number of specific problem areas were identified and tentative solutions
worked out.
‘Among the most significant results of the meeting will be the joint development of
specific dues deduction procedural guidelines for local campus business offices.
If members on your campus continue to have improper amounts deducted from their pay
or other problems concerning dues deductions, please urge patience. We hope to have all
probleme sorted out soon
Representing SPA at the session were Membership Secretary Jane Hrynio and Edward
Purcell.
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SUC-Oswego will host a meeting of Region 4 SPA chapters on Tuesday, October 3.
Representatives from Oswego, Canton, Upstate, Morrisville, Cortland, Potsdam, Binghamton,
and Forestry are invited to attend.
SPA President Robert Granger will meet with Oswego Chapter officers at 10:00 a.m.
and host a regional luncheon at 12:00 noon in Hewitt Union Room 232.
A general campus meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m.
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Current problems facing the professional staff at CUNY in their efforts to negotiate
that institution's second collective bargaining contract are reported in some depth in the
September 25 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The article is worth a glance
if only to see a picture of a rare (but increasingly frequent) sight -- university pro-
fessional staff on a picket line.
Grievance statistics
Interesting figures from SPA's first year of
grievance processing show salary questions as the
most frequently filed grievance complaints (36).
Next in order come the judgment questions of
tenure (33), non-renewal (21), appointment (20),
and promotion (11). Taken together, these issues
represent almost half of the 179 total grievances
officially filed and reported last year.
Current news for Other grievances included dismissal (2),
the leatleship of the discrimination (4), academic freedom (2), by-laws
Senate Professional Association and local procedures (7), reclassification (4),
retrenchment (2), sabbatical (1), class load (1),
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school (1), suspension (1), transfer (1), and
personnel files (1). Eight grievances are also listed as miscellaneous due to confusion
over the real issue involved in the grievance.
Among campuses filing grievances, Albany led with 25, closely followed by 24 at
SUNY-Buffalo. Other campuses reporting grievances include New Paltz (20), Stony Brook
(45), Oneonta (12), Geneseo (11), SUC-Buffalo (11), Fredonia (9), Oswego (8), Platts~
burgh (8), Brockport (5), Buffalo HSC (5), Cortland (4), Downstate (4), Binghamton (3),
Maritime (3), and one each at Alfred and Canton. Other SPA units reported no
grievances filed.
Further figures indicated that SPA carried grievances last year for 32 members and
135 non-menbers. Six class action grievances were filed, and nine cases are now awaiting
arbitration.
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Presidential Candidate George McGovern has failed to receive the endorsement of the
NEA Executive Comittee which reaffirmed a September 11 action of NEA's Political Action
Committee. McGovern, however, did pick up the support of NEA's student arm, the Student
Education Association. :
Two top NEA officers, Past President Don Morrison and Executive Committee member
Ester Wilfong, have joined with AFT to form "Educators for McGovern-Shriver."
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SPA President Robert Granger reports attendance good as he prepares for the third
in his program of regional meetings. This week's meeting for Region 1 (Oneonta, Coble-
skill, New Paltz, Central Administration, Delhi, Plattsburgh, Empire State, and Albany)
is scheduled for Tuesday, September 26, at the Tom Sawyer Motor Inn in Albany.
Regional presidents, vice-presidents, and representative council delegates are
invited to a 12:00 luncheon to be held in the motel's Raft Room. The Tom Sawyer is
located at 1444 Western Ave., near the southern end of the Northway (I-87).
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Dr. Wade Wilson, member of the NEA Executive Board, has been appointed liaison person
between the Board and higher education for the coming year. Wilson is a college president
from Pennsylvania.
SPA's Committee on Academic Status for Librarians returns to the table on Thursday,
September 28.
Pees
SPA Grievance Coordinator Annalee Ziman reports that a standardized grievance reporting
form has been approved for use by the SPA Executive Board. The form, which is expected to
substantially ease the reporting and appeals procedure, will be distributed to local griev-
ance coordinators at SPA's Grievance Workshop to be held in conjunction with the Representa—
tive Council meeting October 13-14.
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Congratulations to the SPA Chapter at Morrisville for the fine local newsletter dis—
tributed regularly on that campus. Also keeping members well-informed is the Central
Administration Chapter which has instituted a new local communications program.
Tf your chapter does not have a local communications program, get one. If it does,
make sure that SPA Central sees copies of your work.
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SPA Vice President for Academics Barbara McCaffery and SPA Treasurer Leonard Snyder
have announced their resignation from office. The announcements were made at the September
16 meeting of the SPA Executive Board.
Mrs. McCaffery's resignation is effective immediately while Snyder's is effective
October 14, Both officers, who will continue SPA menbership, cited personal reasons for
their decisions.
Vacancies in the two positions will be filled by a special election to be held at the
October 14 meeting of the SPA Representative Council.
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Merger discussions between SPA representatives and those of the State University
Federation of Teachers (SUFT) will continue on October 4, Further exploration of the merger
question has been authorized by the SPA Executive Board.
Selected to represent the Board in talks were President Robert Granger, Vice President
Alan Willsey, and Treasurer Leonard Snyder.
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As expected last week, the governing body of ACCF (Associated Community College Facul-
ties) has voted to disaffiliate from NYCT. Individual campus chapters are currently polling
members as to what action should be taken on the local level. This decision is expected on
or’ about September 30 with a large portion of the current 2000-plus members thought to be
favorably inclined toward total disaffiliation.
Meetings between ACCF leadership and SPA have been proposed.
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State political warfare has intensified as Nassau County Republican leader Joseph
Margiotta accused VOTE (the political action arm of NYCT) of attempting to "buy control of
the State Assembly."
Margiotta is concerned over the substantial number of VOTE endorsements (and money)
going to Democratic candidates. VOTE has already contributed over $300,000 to candidates
favorable to the cause of public education.
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We hope you've noticed: SPA has a new graphic image. Of special interest is the new
SPA logo shown below. Approximately one month after SPA "went modern," NEA also decided
‘on such a new look.
Compare NEA's new style (also shown below) and we think you'll see something interesting!
SPA has never been selfish about sharing a good thing... and anyway... it's nice to be first!
Fee Breakthrough
The Buffalo Teachers Federation has negotiated
what appears to be a real breakthrough in the area
of agency shop for public employees.
The provision of the new BIF contract provides
for immediate implementation of agency shop with the
proviso that the Association will save the local Board
harmless in any lawsuits resulting from institution
of the fee.
Canent news for A Buffalo spokesman notes that they intend to go
sderstip of the slowly with implementation to limit the chance of
Aesaciatine immediate confrontation on the issue. The fee will
be pressed, for instance, with new hires, while hard-
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slide through at least temporarily. In any case, BTF
people expect that litigation arising out of the agency fee 1ssue could take years to wind
through various courts. All public employee unions are expected to vigorously assist BIF
and in the meantime the fee will continue to be deducted from all employees.
The full text of the agreement reads as follows:
AGENCY SHOP AND FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
WHEREAS by statute the BIF is recognized as the "exclusive
representative" of all members within the bargaining unit;
there is an accompanying obligation on its part to represent
everyone within its jurisdiction without consideration of
membership affiliation.
FURTHERMORE, the Board and the BIF recognize that the
negotiation and administration of collective bargaining agree-
ments entail expenses which are appropriately shared by all
the teachers who do benefit from such agreements. To this end,
in the event a teacher shall not join the BIF, upon receipt of
a request from the BIF such teacher will as a condition of con-
tinued employment by the Board either execute an authorization
for the deduction of a sum equivalent to the membership dues
and assessments required to be paid by members of the BIF which
sum shall be forwarded to the BIF; or will pay directly to the
BIF the required fee under uniform arrangements as may be
determined by the BIF.
Tn the event iit such authurization ig not signed or such
direct payment is not made within thirty (30) days following
the commencement of employment of the teacher or September 5,
1972, whichever is later, the Board agrees that services of
such teacher will be discontinued as of the end of the then
current school year.
However, the Board shall not be required to discharge any
employee pursuant to this section until a written notice from
the Federation of such employee's non-compliance stating all
pertinent facts showing such non-compliance shall have been
served upon the Board, and a thirty (30) day period from date
of such notice has been allowed for compliance therewith.
Provided however that any employee named by the BIF as being
in non-compliance, prior to dismissal at the end of the school
year, may cure his non-compliance by all appropriate retroactive
Payments.
The BIF agrees to indemnify the Board and to save it harmless
from any and all manner of cost (other than normal costs of
administration), liability or expense (including, without
limitation, fees and disbursements), howsoever arising, which
the Board may incur, or for which it may in any manner become
liable, in connection with or resulting in any way from the
inclusion of the foregoing provisions in this article or from
| its implementation, interpretation or execution.
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SPA President Bob Granger moves on to his second regional meeting this week after an
extremely successful kick-off session last week at SUC-Buffalo.
This week, the setting moves to SU Ag. & Tech. at Farmingdale, where Region 2 SPA
leaders will gather. Included in this session will be leaders from Farmingdale, Downstate,
Maritime, Purchase, Old Westbury, Stony Brook and Stony Brook H.S.C.
The schedule calls for a 10 a.m. meeting of the Farmingdale Executive Board, a 12 noon
luncheon meeting for the regional officers and a 3:30 meeting of the Farmingdale professional
staff.
The regional luncheon meeting will be held in the Board Room of the Admin. Building.
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SPA members going on sabbatical? Encourage these people not to allow their membership
to lapse. In addition to keeping insurance and special benefit privileges, members will
want to keep a voice in negotiations (both preparation and ratification) that will affect
the terms and conditions of their employment when they return.
As a bonus, SPA can offer a $40 dues reduction to staff on sabbatical. To take advantage
of this program, write Ed Purcell at SPA Central. The cash payment of yearly dues should be
included (minus the $40 savings).
Contract talks at. CUNY continue bogged down. The previous contract has expired; school
is back in session; management is pushing large-scale rollbacks. An observer close to the
negotiations table predicts "months and months and months" before an agreement is reached.
New York Teacher, new newspaper of NYCT, carries up-to-date information on developments.
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SPA's Committee on Academic Status for Librarians met with University representatives
last week and report slow progress, due mainly to need to cover old ground with new additions
to the SUNY team. The Committee was assisted by SPA staffer Ed Purcell. Next meeting dates
are set for September 28 and October 2.
SPA has demanded that the University be ready to reply point by point to the librarians’
proposal at that time.
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Questionnaires have begun to flood into SPA Central from academic employees at the
University's four health science centers. The information will be the basis for continued
negotiations under Article 20 of the SPA-State Agreement.
‘At the same time, SPA Counsel is examining a health science center order requiring SUNY
doctors to report in detail all earnings.
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Be on the watch for the possible disaffiliation of ACCF (Associated Community College
Faculties) from the New York Congress of Teachers. The organization's 2,000 members were
polled last week with results expected to be released soon. ,
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SPA cases ready for arbitration reached 9 last week as another important case was added
to the docket. SPA is currently attempting to spur the State's Office of Employee Relations
nto action after they have improperly delayed pending cases for several months.
SPA Grievance Coordinator Annalee Ziman also reports a grievance win amounting to some
$3,000 for an academic at SUC-Cortland.
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Consultation set
SPA officers and staff meet Septenber 14
with Melvin Osterman, director of the State's
Office of Employee Relations.
Purpose of the meeting is to explore
with OER a number of issues which have been
the source of continuing difficulty between
SPA and the State. Included will be the
State's handling of the grievance procedure
and problems caused by multiple State agencies
being involved in the implementation of the
SPA-State Agreement.
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Growth of collective bargaining in higher education continues to create a burgeoning
enploynent market for eiperienced staff. If you are interested, openings now exist in
Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida and New Jersey.
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Upcoming Elections: Ferris State College (Mich.) -- October 19; University of
Hawaii -- mid= or Tate October; Michigan State University -- October 23-24; Pennsylvania
State University (branch campuses) -- late October or early November.
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Current SPA membership lists have been distributed to local chapter presidents and
are available for inspection.
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Gleaned from the AAUP Summer Bulletin: General Secretary Bertram Davis --
"In 1971 (collective bargaining) pre-empted over $200,000 of the Asscciation's budget,
and the allocations for the first four months of 1972 have been well above the 1971
rate... Regretfully, I have to say that the payment of dues by Active members of the
Association is progressing much more slowly in 1972 than in 1971, with result that,
unless there is a quickening of the pace, we can anticipate a net loss of some 6,000
Active members in 1972 and a deficit of some $140,000."
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President Granger holds the first in his series of regional meetings this week on
Tuesday, September 12. Host campus for the meeting is SUC-Buffalo.
The day's schedule calls for a 10:00 a.m. meeting of SUC-Buffalo local chapter
officers, executive board menbers and conmittee chairmen. At 12:00, chapter presidents,
vice presidents and Rep. Council delegates from the Region 3 schools (Buffalo, Geneseo,
Fredonia, Brockport and Alfred) are invited to a meeting on regional concerns.
A general chapter meeting is tentatively set for 3:30 p.m.
Meetings will be held in the Communications Center Conference Room (one floor below
entrance level) :
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A new SPA booklet designed specifically for NTP's is now on the presses. The
booklet, which discusses evaluation and promotion policies newly negotiated by the
Association, will be mailed to each NTP SPA member.
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Another new SPA publication, "Medical and Dental News," made its debut last week.
Distributed to all SPA chapter members in the University's four health science centers,
the two-page newsletter discusses collective bargaining news of particular interest to
health science center professionals.
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An AFSCME (American Federation of State, County.and Municipal Employees) organizer -~
and sometimes mathematician -- calculates that within one hour, 56,700 pickets can march
past any given point.
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Resolution passed at NEA's July national convention: "WHEREAS the organizational
contest for new members 1s in higher education; WHEREAS the membership potential in
higher education is over 900,000; BE IT RESOLVED that organizing in higher education be
made an NEA priority."
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SPA's Committee on Academic Status for Librarians meets in Albany this week,
Tuesday, September 12. Headed by SUNYLA President Anne Commerton of Oswego, the group
will discuss issues of mutual concern with Glynn Evans, new chief of libraries and other
menbers of Central Administration.
Also present in a support role will be SPA staff.
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Bargaining election result: North Adams State College (Mass.) -- won by NEA un-
contested; Holyoke Community College (Mass.) -- no representation 65, NEA 43; Seattle
Community College (Wash.) -- AFT 264, NEA 185; Green River Community College (Wash.) --
AFT 132, NEA 107.
SPA Executive Board meeting this weekend, September 15-16, Sheraton Inn - Airport,
Rochester, 7:00 p.m.
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‘The Buffalo Evening News reported on September 5 that the Buffalo Teachers Federation
has negotiated a closed shop" as part of its new contract with city. More information
on this possible breakthrough will be reported when available.
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Look for the initial four rank slotting of NTP's to be released by Central Administra~
tion to Tocal campuses sometime this week.
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uta system revisited. Despite the recent and continuing political controversy
Ae quota systems, SPA will institute its own such system for membership purposes.
With the Rep. Council-approved budget computed on an average SPA membership for 1972-73
of 3,800 members, it becomes critical that membership gains campus-by-campus, month-by-
month, be regularized. The quota of new members per campus will be based on such factors
as potential and present chapter membership. Successful membership drives and unful-
filled quotas will be given equal publicity.
