The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island, NY Region Veterans Committee was busy spreading lots of holiday cheer to area veterans in December. CSEA members from all over the Long Island Region gave generously and the committee collected many boxes full of toiletries, warm socks, sweats, underwear and other items. Then the committee members made a couple of trips to deliver them in person. Committee members Ed Hussey from Smithtown Library, Pilgrim 2nd Vice President Herman Williams and Chair Maryann Phelps are assisted by Oyster Bay Local Executive Vice President Bobby Rauff.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members from the Glendale Home in Schenectady County take part in an Albany rally in front of the State Capitol to protest recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. CSEA mounted numerous public events and rallies, leaders testified at public hearings in every part of the state and the union also mounted a media campaign to get its message out and get communities involved.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Carlos Speight and several other protestors at a New York State rally. The caption reads: SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight leads a group of union members demonstrating outside Stony Brook University Medical Center. Nearly 250 CSEA members turned out to protest a proposal to privatize the hospital. CSEA members across the state overwhelmingly have responded to recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, and their voices have been heard.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County, NY Water Environmental Protection Unit President Bob Reilly demonstrates in support of Van Duyn Nursing Home and SUNY Upstate Medical Center. The Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century's recommendations for Central New York has CSEA and others in the health care community fighting proposals to privatize and merge SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and Onondaga County's Van Duyn Home and Hospital with nearby private hospitals, as well as decreasing beds at Broome County's Willow Point nursing home.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member David Weaver hanging a stocking. The caption reads: David Weaver, a laborer and member of the Hudson, NY City Unit, hangs a stocking in one of the miniature houses that are part of the "Santa's Village" display in the city's Seventh Avenue Park. CSEA members employed by the city decorate Hudson's downtown every year in preparation for the city's Winter Walk.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Sean Davis, a cook at Van Duyn Home and Hospital in Syracuse, NY, calls his area state lawmakers to urge them to vote against the Berger Commission report. Lawmakers have been deluged with thousands of faxes, telephone calls and testimony and it's become clear few of the commission's recommendations for hospital closings and consolidations, which could have heinous outcomes, will come about without more scrutiny and legislative wrangling.
Connetquot school bus driver Barbara Sakaris waits to pick up some students. Across the state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members on and off the job help to support high school athletes in many ways.
An unidentified Civil Service Emplpoyees Association (CSEA) member and state DOT worker from Utica helps repair traffic signals in Broward County, Florida. Workers were called in to help in the wake of Hurricane Wilma.
Developmental Aide Tawanna Wright, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central New York DDSO Local member, gets a hug from Snow Hill Individualized Residential Alternative resident Gerry Sobles. About 16,000 CSEA members provide life skills, medical services and healthy community connections for nearly 10,000 group home residents of all ages and ability levels around the clock. CSEA OMRDD staff deliver care at about 1,200 homes statewide.
Across the state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members on and off the job help to support high school athletes in many ways. Levittown School District member Scott Torrance fixes the padding in the gym.