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Richard Zuckerman, former chair of the NY State Bar Assn. Labor & Employment Law Section, will confer with the Westhampton Library board at a special closed meeting Nov. 16 in advance of the public meeting Nov. 18.
The library is facing three filings with the National Labor Relations Board that charge it with “coercive actions (surveillance, etc.)” and “coercive statements (threats, promises of benefits, etc.”). Other charges are “Discipline” and “Concerted Activities (Retaliation, Discharge, Discipline”).
The filings were made Sept. 20, Oct. 2, and Oct. 21. Alyssa Zuckerman of Lamb & Barnosky, Melville, is listed as the attorney for the library.
Richard Zuckerman will not be present at the Nov. 18 meeting because of other commitments. Whether he will provide advice on the demand by residents for an elected rather than an appointed board, is not known.
Citizens seeking an elected board have been distributing a flyer that urges residents to attend the 7 p.m. Nov. 18 meeting of the board which will be the first time it has ever met in the evening.
Zuckerman a “Best Lawyer in America”
Richard Zuckerman, “repeatedly named as a Best Lawyer in America,” is the “Best Lawyers’ 2014-15 NYC Labor Law-Management ‘Lawyer of the Year.’” He has also been named a “New York Super Lawyer in Labor and Employment Law. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and New York State Courts.
He graduated summa cum laude from State University of New York at Stony Brook where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
SH Press Gets Exclusive on Nov. 16 Meeting
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The Southampton Press reported in its print edition Nov. 12 that “Library Director Danielle Waskiewicz alerted The Press about the [Nov. 16] meeting shortly before 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9. She said the special meeting was scheduled because the library’s attorney, Richard Zuckerman, will not be able to make the board’s next regularly scheduled meeting on Nov. 18. That meeting will go on as scheduled.”
Greg Wehner is the reporter on the WH library and WHB boards for SH Press and its website, 27east.com.
The exclusive on the special Nov. 16 meeting given to the SH Press by Waskiewicz is an ethical violation that compromises not only the library but the SH Press.
An announcement of the meeting should have been sent to the entire affected press including this web, Newsday, news12.com, Dan’s Papers, Patch news service, The Independent and even major media like the New York Times and New York Post.
Basic PR Principles Violated
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Playing favorites with the SH Press further compromises its independence, objectivity and integrity. SH Press editorially favors the proposed eruv in WHB, saying that it is “invisible” and should be of no concern to residents.
It is highly visible on the Hampton Synagogue and Google websites and is a violation of the separation of church and state that is a major tenet of the U.S. Constitution. Violations of the Constitution can never be taken lightly.
Vic Caputo of Supernova Marketing & PR, Baldwin, 51 miles distant from WHB, outside PR counsel to the library, should be handling press relations for the library but we rarely hear from him. Emails to him are regularly ignored.
It’s his job to point out to Waskiewicz and the library board that the Code of Ethics of the PR Society of America says “ethical practice” is the most important obligation of a member and that includes “fair dealing” with the media.
Failure of the library to post the special meeting prominently on its website with an explanation of the reason for it and only giving one news medium details of it are ethical violations.
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