© 2002 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Martin P. Catherwood. New York State Joint Legislative Committee on the Taylor Law, staff member's files, 1971-1972.
Collection Number:
5209
Creator:
Catherwood, Martin P. (Martin Paul), 1904-1978.
Quantity:
1.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Testimony, minutes, correspondence, reports.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Include selected testimony, minutes of executive sessions, correspondence and the Committee's final report.
Language:
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The New York State Joint Legislative Committee on the Taylor Law was appointed (1971) to study labor disputes involving public
employees and, specifically, their right to strike.
In the fall of 1971, two years after a major New York teachers' strike, the New York legislature appointed a joint legislative
committee to study proposed revisions of the Taylor Law which prohibited strikes by public employees.
The Committee consisted of Robert Helsby, Public Employment Relations Board; State Senators Theodore Day (chairman), Edward
Lentol, John Flynn, Leon Giuffreda, Thomas Laverne, and Waldaba Stewart; and Assemblymen Stanley Herbst, Charles Jerabek,
Chester Straub, and Clark C. Wemple. The Committee's staff was headed by Martin P. Catherwood.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Include selected testimony, minutes of executive sessions, correspondence and the Committee's final report.
Testimony includes that of Victor Gotbaum, executive-director, District Council 37, American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees; Albert Shanker, president, United Federation of Teachers; Herbert Haber, director, New York City Office
of Collective Bargaining; Ida Klaus, executive-director of staff relations for the New York City Board of Education; and Herbert
H. Smith, executive-director, County Officers' Association. Also included are minutes of some of the Committee's executive
sessions, its final report, and a fragment of routine correspondence.
The major question before the Committee was whether public employees have the right to strike and, if not, should they be
forced to submit to compulsory arbitration. Other issues included the agency shop, impasse procedures and proposed penalties
for strikers and their unions.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Catherwood, Martin P.
Day, Theodore D.
Fink, Stanley, 1936-
Flynn, John E.
Gallagher, John T.
Gilman, Benjamin A.
Giuffreda, Leon E.
Gotbaum, Victor.
Haber, Herbert.
Helsby, Robert.
Herbst, Lawrence.
Jerabek, Charles A.
Klaus, Ida.
Laverne, Thomas.
Lentol, Edward S.
Shanker, Albert.
Smith, Herbert H.
Stewart, Waldaba.
Straub, Chester J.
Wemple, Clark C.
AFSCME.
New York (N.Y.). Board of Education.
New York (N.Y.). Office of Collective Bargaining.
New York (State).
United Federation of Teachers.
Subjects:
Civil service--New York (State)
Employee-management relations in government--New York (State)
State government employees--New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Testimony