An unidentified group of Oneida County, NY Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members protest contract offers during the holidays of 1972. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the department workers are picketing the office each morning before work and during their lunch hour. Ted Modrzejewski, state field representative for the Civil Service Employee Association, has said that the picketing would coninue everday to "make the public aware of what's happening to this office." Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) is interviewed by Capital District news reporters outside the state Capitol.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77), right, with former Nassau Educational Chapter Presidents Frank Fasano, left, and Ed Perrott, center. Wenzl was instrumental in helping Fasano and Perrott form the Chapter.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77), right, speaks with Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson, center, and an unknown person.
A postcard featuring a color drawing issued by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) to introduce the opening of the new CSEA Headquarters building at 33 Elk Street, Utica, New York in 1967. The opening coincided with the enactment of the Taylor Law and represented a new age for CSEA. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Dr. Theodore. C. Wenzl served as the 19th president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) from 1967 until 1977. Wenzl navigated the uion through a period of change following passage of the Taylor Law. During Wenzl's tenure CSEA negotiated its first state contract and undertook the complex task of signing up thousands of state and local government workers who for the first time had collective bargaining rights under the Taylor Law.