Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 6

1st Pink Slips Handed Out At Kollsman By Dennis Weintraub Syosset got it too Oh my God" said Charles Friedrich to Ben Brown Both had been laid off yesterday afternoon after nine years with Kollsman Instrument Co of SyosseL The company announced almost a year ago that it was moving Its entire operation to Merrimack NH in' 1975 It started phasing out its work force yesterday by laying off about 200 employes realized it was just a question of time" said Jack Cur-rin a contract officer for Local 153 of the Office and Professional Employes International Union which represents many of office workers But when the ax started to fall yesterday many of the workers still seem shocked as they prepared to drive out of the Kollsman parking lot for the last time Friedrich an electrician from Elmhurst Queens and Brown a 56-year-old technician from Brooklyn were among die first employes to be terminated went around looking for some jobs but I can't make the money I was making here" said Brown "The best I was offered was $130 and making $220 take a $100-a-week vacation for a year instead of working for $130" Brown said that he will collect the $95 a week tax-free unemployment insurance benefits he is now eligible to receive for 52 weeks rather than work since the best salary he has been of- feted is much lower than what he has been making and he still would have to pay taxes and transportation expenses Anthony Kelly an electrician from Maspeth Queens came through the gate for the last time Asked how he felt Kelty replied "After 23 yean here just great! go on unemployment" Kelty said he eventually would look for a job Friedrich said "I think retire about that age" But he said he had last a pension by three weeks layoffs included 175 members of Local 797 of the International Association of Machinists 12 members of the office union and 10 to 20 other nonunion employes Layoffs are on a seniority basis in each department and all employes are given at least three notice of termination Severance pay for mast is based on a years-of-experienoe formula An employe with 10 years of service would' get $1000 A 25-year worker would receive $2000 Frank Hagerty vice president at industrial relations at Kollsman said that the company which is a subsidiary of Sun Chemical Corp in New York has "a couple of hundred" people working at its new facility in New Hampshire and that "upwards of 100" management employes would be making the move Both the unions and company are trying to help find jobs for the 1000 to 1200 remaining employes in SyosseL Officials of Kollsman which makes instruments for military aircraft have not said when the move to New Hampshire will be completed Hof fa Quits Teamster Post Race Combined News Services Detroit Former Teamsters Union president James Hoffa yesterday dropped out of the race for the presidency of his old Detroit local which he hoped to use as a springboard to regain national power Hoffa said his attorneys advised him to do so because if he even accepted the nomination for the presidency of Local 299 he would be violating the terms of his pardon by Richard Nixon Hoffa said that he hoped to be a candidate for union office in 1976 if his legal status is clarified by that time: "I can fight better out than I can fight in" Hoffa told a news conference He accused the current international president Frank mans of attempting to hamper his efforts to--' return to the union But he said "Fll be bade -some way somehow" Whai Nixon pardoned Hoffa in 1971 it was-- on the condition that Hoffa could not take part in union activities until 1980 the year his sentence was to expire Hoffa fought the con- dition in the courts but die Supreme Court ruled in a similar case that the President had the authority to set conditions of pardon' Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering and mail fraud in 1967 -1 Channel 67 Laying Off 20 of Staff fp- NEWSDAY SATURDAY JANUARY II l7l By Barbara Murray Central blip One-fifth of Channel 67s staff will be laid off indefinitely Jan 26 and local news coverage will he reduced the 14-month-old station announced yesterday Station president David Polinger said there would be a different news and weather format after the layoff date "It will include some local news Steward for the reporters said those laid off include six reporters two directors seven to ten engineers three members of the advertising and promotions department and two salesmen News director Gordon Baker and three reporters would remain he said Polinger refused to confirm or deny this breakdown Seideman said the union representing the nine news writers Local 11 of the National Association at information some of it staff-produced" he said He refused to elaborate saying the format would be announced in two weeks Polinger blaming the recession said at least 20 of the 100 staff members would be laid off but he said they might be rehired if conditions improved He said the layoffs affect all departments Jeff Seideman shop Broadcast Employes and Technicians would fight the layoffs Though the layoffs take effect -Jan 26 Seideman said his dismissal is im-mediate He charged that this resulted because he had been overheard yester- day afternoon giving information to a Newsday reporter Polinger said Seide- man a 26-year-old former assignment editor at the station was told to leave immediately because "he reacted to his' severance in such an aggressive man- -ir i fr? 3 Union: Fairchild Jobs for Md that we felt both the company and he- would be more comfortable apart from one another sooner" The UHF station which Polinger aches about 300000 viewers a recently announced a stock transfer to obtain additional insuring Seideman said that under the new format news coverage would consist 1 merely of one person reading wire sen- vice copy as slides were shown on the 'screen "The news is bring cut and they know it" he said a slap in I the face to Long Island The station is no longer serving the Polinger said the changes have a disastrous on news cov- ersge doubt make any prove that affect the prunin' "ence in the community" t-s- 3 --fjn prueW Continued from Page 5 for Feb 15 at Edwards Air Force Base Calif Kennedy said the jobs involved would be high-paying ones with hourly rates from $609 to $664 The Hagerstown facility is represented by a United Auto Workers local but the rates here are little better" nedy said He estimated that the average hourly rate is $575 in East Farmingdale Kennedy said he feels cheated out of jobs that Long Island labor mid public officials worked for and which Jack said would rise to 4000 in 1976: 5600 in 1977 and6000 in 1978 Told the company was sticking by its original forecast Kennedy said: "I believe it at Uhl a co-inventor of the World War II bazooka is regarded aa the driving force in Fairchild's long and hard effort to get the A-10 contract He has the reputation for running a fight chip and when he satisfied with the lobbying effort for the A-10 last year he personally took over as Capitol Hillfobbyist congressional sources' sifid promised and that he would take it up with County Executives Caso and Klein and other elected officials Despite checking several times with other company officials Jack did not go beyond remarks in his answers to a questions Asked if 1000 jobs would be shifted Jack replied: "Just between you and me I think anybody in the world can answer that question We fin-' ished planning" for the production run of 733 aircraft Fairchild Republic now baa a work force -of 3600 in East Farmingdale 0.