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OFFICERS

Irwin H. Polishook
President

Claude Campbet!
First Vice President

Geraldine Chapey
Secretary

Howard Jones
Treasurer

Norman Bindler
David Burks

Gerald Grayson
Sharad Karkhanis
Bolle Zeller
University-wide Officers

Irwin Yettowitz
Vict President
Senior Colleges

Alvin Bachman
Phyllis Gold Gluck
Martin Kaplan
Senior College Officers

Pearl Gasarch
Vice President
Community Colleges

Donald Davidson
Chartotte Phoenix
Katherine Stabile
Community College Officers

Harold Wilson
Vice President
Cross Campus Units

Peter Hoberman
Peter Jonas
Cross Campus Officers

Susan B. Prager
Vice President
Part Time Personnel

Belle Zeller
President Emeritus

Marion Starling
Treasurer Emeritus

STAFF

Arncid Cantor
Executive Director

Aaron Alexander
Associate Executive Director

Chris Kahan
Staft Coordinator

Danie! Kaminker
Director, Contract
Administration & University-
wide Grievance Counselor

Mary Pearce
Coordinator, Membership
Department

D. Nicholas Russo
Director, Legal Affairs

Carol Sims
Associate Director,
Communications

Sery! Weinberg
Director, Staff Relations

Clarissa Gilbert Welss
Coordinator of Research
& Special Projects

June 17, 1983

Os All Adjunct Members
of the Professional Staff Congress

Susan B. Prager, ‘{f
Vice President for Part-Time Personnel

FROM:

RE: Unemployment Compensation

A proposed consent award to New York State United Teachers
by the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board may have impli-
cations for all adjuncts at The City University.

The award, which has not yet become final, deals with :
the denial of unemployment compensation eligibility. It
provides that all individuals who lost their appeals for
such eligibility at the Administrative Law Judge level
since 1978 are entitled to have their cases reopened.

The reopening is based on procedural rather than substantive
violations. Under the proposed agreement the employer will
have the burden of proving that the employee has "reasonable
assurance" of continued employment as the basis for denying

a claim for unemployment compensation, and the employee will
have the right to rebut any evidence presented by the employ-
er. The reopening does not mean that you will automatically
receive compensation; it does mean that you will receive

a fairer hearing.

Because of the proposed consent award, I urge you to do
two things:

idee Return your claimant address, verification form
when you receive it. Lf you faal, to do so, your claim
will be dropped.

Ox If you believe that you did not receive
"reasonable assurance" of a position next fall, you may
apply for unemployment compensation this summer. Please
understand that what constitutes "reasoriable assurance"
under the applicable statute continues to be difficult to
define, and, undoubtedly; it will be a subject for further
interpretation.

Finally, please keep me apprised of the progress of your
prior and current claims for unemployment compensation.
Coordination of our individual efforts will make it poss-
ible for the union to advance as much as possible the
interests of CUNY adjuncts in this matter.

American Association of University Professors
American Federation of Teachers Local 2334 * New York State AFL-CIO

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