Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) participated in memorial events in New York City and Albany on March 25 to mark the centennial of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York's Greenwich Village that claimed the lives of 146 people, mostly young, immigrant women. In this photo Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio places a flower outside the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building in Manhattan.
The cover of the May 2011 Work Force: We Are One! Unions fight back against attacks on rights, public sector services. A day of action was held across the country on April 4, culminating in hundreds of We Are One rallies, emphasizing workers' rights and the growing gulf between the super rich and everyone else. Pictured here is a group of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activists crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region activists Delphine Moultrie, far left, and Joe Aravena, chair of the region's Education Committee, far right, helped U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Region Director Dr. Jaime Torres coordinate a local launch for First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative, which is aimed at solving childhood obesity within a generation.
The Photo of the Month in the April 2011 Work Force. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley joins other activists in delivering a letter from workers to Assemblyman Peter Rivera, during the Annual Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Conference in Albany. The letter, which was distributed to attendees through the conference, illustrated the devastating impact Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget will have on communities and encourages Assembly members to fight for a better New York for all. The annual conference draws hundreds of legislators, community leaders, groups and organizations from across the state.
A photo of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Herman Williams, a Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, appeared with a quote about cuts to the proposed state budget.
After assisting numerous crime victims for the last eight years, no such help net existed for Fabian Feliciano who was among nearly 900 workers laid off at the end of 2010 when the Crime Victims Board was abolished.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Bronx Psychiatric Center Local President Abraham Benjamin speaks with a television station reporter while CSEA members demonstrate outside the center. The workers demonstrated over a lack of workplace violence law enforcement and layoffs.
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) volunteer member organizers from the Metropolitan Region were honored with the Nadra Floyd Award at CSEA's 100th Annual Delegates Meeting. The award recognizes members who have made an extraordinary contribution to the growth of CSEA's membership. In the picture, Metropolitan Region Organizing/Membership Committee Chair Ramon Lucas accepts the award from CSEA President Danny Donohue, left, and is joined by Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, second from right, and Statewide Treasurer Joe McMullen, right.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) memberr Anabel Rosa, a worker at the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped and the only Spanish-speaking keyboard specialist in the state, is one of hundreds of state workers facing the loss of their jobs. She was one of hundreds of state workers targeted for layoffs by New York Governor David Paterson.