© 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 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.
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