New York State Joint Legislature Committee on the Taylor Law Records, 1971
Collection Number: 5209
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York State Joint Legislature Committee on the Taylor Law Records, 1971
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5209
Abstract:
Include selected testimony, minutes of executive sessions, correspondence and the
Committee's final report.
Creator:
New York State Joint Legislature Committee on the Taylor Law
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
Includes 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.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
New York State Joint Legislature Committee on the Taylor Law Records #5209. Kheel
Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Catherwood, Martin P. (Martin Paul), 1904-1978.
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.
Segal, Martin E.
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). Public Employees' Fair Employment Law
United Federation of Teachers
United States. Wage Stabilization Board.
Subjects:
Civil service--New York (State)
Employee-management relations in government--New York (State)
State government employees--New York (State)
Collective bargaining. Civil service. New York (State).
Strikes and lockouts. Civil service. New York (State).
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
A General Information
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
B The Size of the Negotiating Unit
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
D The Exclusion Managerial + Confidential Employees
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
E The Agency Shop
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
F Improved Impasse Procedures
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
F Basic Issues Under the Taylor Law
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
H The Taylor Law in Relation to New York City
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
G Penalties for Striking Employees and Unions
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
C The Scope of Negotiations
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Committee Correspondence General
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Alphabetical Files
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
White
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Insurance
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Alphabetical Listing
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Vouchers Postage
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Executive Session, Joint Legislature
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Alphabetical files
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Summary General correspondence
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
JLC Summaries - Exec. Sessions
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
JLC Meeting Sept 15-16
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
JLC Meeting Sept 15-16
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