Word: errico
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Peter d'Errico, president of the faculty union, said yesterday the union has tentatively agreed to bring in a "facilitator" to mediate some issues in the contract talks, although the union has not agreed to formal mediation of the dispute...
...major issues in the talks are salaries and job security. The University has offered a 28-per-cent pay raise, while the union is demanding about "something closer to 30 per cent" over the next three years, d'Errico said. In addition, the union wants faculty members who work less than half-time to be paid for half-time work, he added...
...university is trying to change the "traditional faculty role" as decision-makers by taking away their power in hiring, promoting and tenuring professors, d'Errico said. The stalled contract talks are partially due to "ineptness of the president's office," he added. "The president is trying to make all the decisions himself," d'Errico said...
...Errico's trial is the latest in a series of federal and state prosecutions for race fixing in five states. Twenty-two men have been convicted in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Michigan. But the New York case is by far the most serious, for some of the nation's finest and most famous riders have been named in court testimony. Jockey José Amy, 26 -like Feliciano an admitted fixer who struck a deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying-claimed that eleven jockeys knew of the schemes, including three riders who were in the Preakness last...
Defense attorneys tried to establish that Errico was in Los Angeles during the period when he was supposedly fixing races in New York. But federal officials attempted to prove that a number of bettors were seen meeting with Errico and subsequently cashing huge payoffs (as much as $129,000 by a single bettor) on trifecta wagers. According to Amy, he and the other jockeys were paid up to $7,500 a race by Errico to assure that their horses finished out of the money...