Civil Service Employees Ass'n, Local 1000 v. New York State Public Employment Relations Board

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent Public Employment Relations Board which found that the State University of New York at Oswego had not committed an improper employer practice.

Richard Dowd was terminated from his position as janitor at the State University of New York at Oswego (hereinafter SUNY) for engaging in a course of harassing and demeaning conduct toward Rebecca Hotaling, the director of the Onondaga *947residence hall, which Dowd was responsible for cleaning…