he New Hork Cimes

“NEW / YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 8,1972

Faculty Members at t City University Pick Single Bargaining Agent

By LEONARD BUDER

The State Public Employment!
Relations Board announced yes-
terday that faculty members
of the City University had
chosen the Professional Staff
Congress as their collective bar-
gaining agent.

‘The congress was formed Ap-
ril 14 through merger of United
Federation of College Teachers
and the Legislative Conference.

The state board said that al
tally of mail ballots showed
that the instructional staff had|
voted 8,258 to 942 in favor of
a single bargaining unit for all
16,000 members of the city
University’s professional f
and, by 8,759 to 538, had chos-
en the Professional Staff Con-
gress to be the bargaining
agent.

Officials o* the congress said
in a statement that the vote
jwas “a stuns
City University Chancellor, Dr.
Robert J. E:bbee. The state-
ment declares: .

“Voting ior one unit, the
faculty abclished the prevail-
ing two-wa: division between
full-time nert-time staff
which was favored by Kibbee,

tion of nonciassruom personnel
which was proposed by ‘Kib-
bee.”

An aide to Dr. Kibee, asked
if the Chancellor had any com-
ment on the results of the elec-
tion, said: “Dr. Kibbee offers
his congratulations to leaders
of the Professional Staff Con-
gress.”

The congress, after its formal

ing plow” to thejrefused to recognize the con-

iid, rejected a new, segrega: jbetween the ‘wo groups, the

establishment in April, had}
charged that the university,

gress, to accent a single bar-
gaining unit or to negotiate),
@ new contract.

Pact Signed in 1969

Before the merger, which
ended nine jcars of rivalzy

Legislative Conference was the!
recognized bargaining agent
for the City University’s full-
time instructional staff and
“support” employes, with the
exception of lecturers. The
“support” staff includes li-
brarians, counselors, registrars,
laboratory assistants and

others.
The federation was the

re bargaining agent
for the part-time instructional
staff and support employes, as
well as:lecttrers.

The current contracts nego-
tiated in 1965 by the Legisla-

jtive Conference and the federa-

tion are scheduled to expire
Aug. 31.

Dr. Betie Zel'er, tte presi-
dent of tue co.gress, aud Dr.
Israei Kugler, the depucy presi-

jdent, yesterdty hailed the out-)*

‘come of the election as “a vic-!
tory for our--students and a
victory for the staff.” They
said that the results “augur a
tough negotiating stance by the
union.”

The election conducted by
the state board presented the
question whether there should
be a single bargaining unit to
the three categories of profes-

sional employes: the full-time
teaching staff, the part-time

by overwhelming margins for
the single unit.

itself as the largest university
union in the country, is affili-
ated with the National Educa-
tion Association and the Amer-
lican Federation of Teachers,

also be affiliated with the New
York Congress of Teachers, a
union being set up by a merger
of the United Teachers of New
York and the State Teachers
Association.

teaching staff, and the support)
staff. All three groups voted!

The congress, which describes}

|which are rival groups. It will!