Minutes of negotiation meetings; negotiations bulletins; contract proposals; and correspondence, including requests to New York State for salary data. Salary was the primary issue in the 1974-1976 contract negotiations. A folder of "Collected Materials" for the first half of 1973 included in the previous subseries relates to the 1974-1976 contract as well.
Typed transcripts of negotiations sessions as well as handwritten notes taken at the negotiations table, correspondence, numerous annotated drafts of contract language, and contract proposals. The negotiations of the 1977-1979 contract are some of the most heavily documented in this Subgroup. See Series 3 of Subgroup IVA, Special Projects, for additional copies of proposals and handwritten notes related to this contract.
Proposals, correspondence, petitions from members regarding concerns over no single salary schedule in proposed contract, handwritten notes taken at negotiations table, transcripts of negotiations sessions, and information on agreement sent to members. Items of particular concern included part-time staff, medical practice plans, and health care. Retirement benefits and deferred compensation were also issues.
Several drafts of both contract demands and final agreement; informal typed notes on negotiating sessions and negotiating team meetings; handwritten table-taken notes from negotiation sessions; negotiation surveys; correspondence on various topics including concerns for negotiations, and preparatory work to get ready for negotiations and to get understanding of members concerns; and negotiations committee correspondence, notes, and miscellaneous reports on topics of concern. Quality of life issues such as health benefits, workloads, grievances, and compensation levels were of particular concern.
One of the most heavily documented negotiations processes in this subgroup. Multiple drafts and annotated copies of contract demands and language of final contract; transcripts and minutes of negotiation sessions and of UUP negotiations team; notes and correspondence of Tim Reilly, UUP's chief negotiator; correspondence; reports; news articles, petitions, and correspondence regarding UUP actions to protest impasse in contract negotiations; and reports and exhibits prepared for hearing to settle contract impasse. Most of the "Collected Materials" are arranged topically. Salaries, promotion, and health coverage were some of the main issues of concern.
Contracts, correspondence, shorthand notes and typed transcripts of negotiations sessions and negotiations committee meetings. Transcripts sometimes include attachments such as additional proposals exchanged between State and UUP or other materials distributed at the negotiations sessions. The final transcript available for this contract covers a "debriefing" meeting held between UUP's negotiations team and negotiations committee the day after UUP signed the memorandum of understanding with the State.
UUP and State contract proposals; correspondence among negotiations team and with State; transcripts of negotiations sessions; contract text and text provided to membership for consideration. This subseries is supplemented by the records of Thomas Corigliano, Chief Negotiator, included in Series 4 in this Subgroup.
Final contract text; contract proposals of State and UUP; negotiation team and negotiations sessions transcripts; handouts and other materials from meetings of UUP negotiations team; correspondence to negotiating team and to State; compiled results of survey sent to members regarding issues for negotiations; notes on visits to chapters regarding member concerns; and negotiations bulletins. This subseries is supplemented by the records of Thomas Matthews, Chief Negotiator, included in Series 4 in this Subgroup, which include materials on specific issues of concern as well as materials regarding the delays experienced in obtaining a contract.
Text of final contract and addendum to contract; negotiations bulletin sent to members with text of, and commentary on, contract; tabulated results of survey of members used in preparation for negotiations.
Correspondence between UUP and the Governor's Office of Employee Relations, reports on collective bargaining in higher education, memoranda of understanding between UUP and the State on evaluation and promotion of professionals, negotiation surveys and other correspondence and materials not obviously related to a specific contract or that overlap contract years.