Collections : [New York State Modern Political Archive]

This subgroup includes only the records of substantive projects that affected members of the UUP bargaining unit as a whole and for which the Vice President for Professionals was primarily responsible rather than the individual working files of each Vice President for Professionals. Other documentation of the work of the Vice President for Professionals is included in the officers reports distributed at Delegate Assemblies and made part of the Delegate Assembly records included in Subgroup IV, Office of the Secretary, Series 2, and in the various subject and project files maintained by both the President and the Secretary.

The two series in this subgroup are artificial gatherings created during processing, made up of correspondence files maintained by both UUP's Executive Director/Director of Staff and the President and/or Secretary. They have been weeded of correspondence dealing with specific grievances (which primarily dealt with administrative matters such as notification of the decision by UUP to appeal grievances and setting up hearing dates) and correspondence between UUP and GOER and between GOER and SUNY authorizing the use of employee organizational leave time by delegates, and members of UUP's Executive Board and committees to attend their respective meetings. (Many of the organizational leave correspondence can be found in the individual committee, Delegate Assembly, and Executive Board meeting files included in Subgroup IV, Office of the Secretary.) The records in this series have been supplemented by additional correspondence found in the working files of the Executive Director and Director of Staff that were not made part of this collection.

Only the records of UUP's first Treasurer, Joseph Drew, have been maintained as a unit. For the most part, the work of later treasurers is recorded in the treasurer's reports and UUP annual budgets distributed at Delegate Assemblies and made part of the Delegate Assembly packets included in Series 2 of Subgroup IV, Office of the Secretary.

Additional materials regarding negotiations are located in Subgroup II, UUP Predecessors and Early UUP Years; the files of Presidents Wakshull and Reilly in Subgroup III; and the files of Joseph Drew including in Subgroup V, Office of the Treasurer. The records of UUP's Negotiations Committee are included in Series 4 of Subgroup IV, Office of the Secretary. Many of these records, however, deal more with the mechanics of negotiations and the operation of the Negotiations Committee, than the details of negotiations themselves. The materials in this Subgroup best document the overall negotiations process and the specific issues under discussion for any given contract.

This subgroup was created for records relating to specific projects that UUP was involved in but for which the specific office of origin was unknown or unclear because two or more departments were involved in it. This subgroup also contains records of one-time projects of UUP's Research Department that dealt with UUP as a whole. Related materials for these specific projects can be found elsewhere in the collection, as noted in the individual series descriptions.

There are currently no records in this subgroup.