Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide George Reinhard writes patient notes on a chart on Unit 2E at the Greater Binghamton Health Center. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Thurlus Cordon, left, and Mack Roberts III work as mental health therapy aides at Rockland Psychiatric Center. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Judiciary Local activist Judy DiPaola, Rochester State Employees President Doris Cota, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region Political Action Coordinator Courtney Brunelle, Western Region President Flo Tripi and Western Region Political Action Committee Chairman Tim Finnigan demonstrate outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office. CSEA members also demonstrated at Assemblyman Sam Hoyt's office in Buffalo. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
New York State Governor David Paterson, left, is confronted in Saratoga Springs by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, who is flanked by Public Employees Federation Secretary-Treasurer Arlea Igoe and CSEA Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Somewhat reluctant, but being a good sport, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York City State Employees Local 2nd Vice President Donald Bryant has makeup applied before taking part in a Workplace Violence Prevention DVD CSEA is producing to help CSEA leaders and activists reduce the risk of violence at their work sites. Bryant told interviewers about an individual who brutally attacked three Department of Motor Vehicle workers because he was angry over having failed his road test.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members including Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, center, demonstrate outside state Senator Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's district office in Queens. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting reinventing Robin Hood (21st Century version) Was Robin Hood really just a thug? Robin Hood (exploitation, unscrupulous employers) using a bow and arrow (wage theft) robs the poor (American workers making minimum wage). Bags of riches include unpaid overtime, job discrimination, wage and hour violations and wage underpayment.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Laverne Scott-Allen, here on the job, helps protect the public. As a claim processor at the New York Sate Liquidation Bureau, Scott-Allen works to protect the interests of the policyholders and creditors of insurance companies that have been declared impaired or insolvent.
Diana Windsor, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Unit member, who volunteers with the annual Variety Kids' Telethon in Buffalo.The event raises money for a local hospital that specializes in caring for children. Windsor has served as secretary to the director of nursing at the 586-bed Erie County Home and Infirmary for about five years. Before that, she worked at the Erie County Medical Center.
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is going green. The agency is implementing a Compressed Pay Period, or CPP, Pilot Program. The new program reflects concern for employees seeking a work/family balance and helps reduce energy use, traffic and air pollution. Eligible employees will be able to decrease the number of their workdays and increase the number of hours worked each day to earn a day off every tenth day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and DEC worker Tom Hobbs, pictured at his downtown Albany office, took advantage of the earlier pilot program.