Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Donnie Loomis, a maintenance assistant working in the Cape Vincent Correctional Facility's maintenance building, reaches for a wrench while working in the shop.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Veterans Committee Chair Len Beaulieu, left, and Ron Mironchik, both SUNY New Paltz Local members, were part of a group of local veterans who helped get a monument to veterans that has been installed in the new Ulster County Veterans Cemetery.
Unidentifed Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and staff joined correction officers and other union members as well as concerned citizens at a recent rally to save Hudson Correctional Facility from closing. A state plan to close Hudson and three other upstate New York correctional facilities has met with strong opposition from workers, political leaders and community members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region Bathing Beauties gather at the CSEA booth immediately before the plunge at Bar Beach on Hempstead Harbor. Across the state, CSEA members have been braving freezing water to take the Polar Plunge, raising money to help send athletes to the New York Special Olympics Summer Games. CSEA members this winter raised more than $10,000 to help support the summer games.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Police Dispatcher Steve Robinson and other CSEA Batavia Unit members are fighting a plan to consolidate the city's dispatchers with the county. Removing the city's dispatchers would close the police station to the public for 16 hours out of every day. Police officers would also be removed from patrol to handle some of the work currently completed by dispatchers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Grace Perez, left, president of the Central Islip Library Unit and Jackie Scannella are shown in front of a voting machine used by community residents in a recent vote that approved construction and renovation project for the library. Perez and other unit members played a key role in gaining public support for the project that would allow the library workers to provide better services to the community, with the unit sending postcards to registered voters and placing an ad in the local newspaper. The project will include a children's activity center, new computer lab and a quiet study/local history room.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members campaign in downtown Albany for Sen. Hillary Clinton on New York's Super Tuesday. CSEA's efforts helped Clinton carry New York.
The Polar Plunge raises funds that directly benefits Special Olympics athletes and gives access to families that otherwise couldn't afford to send their special needs family members to Special Olympics. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Polar Plungers in Rochester during the 2007-08 season.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in the union's Madison County White Collar Unit are wearing buttons to protest the county's lack of a wage proposal in contract talks.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County Local President Phil Graham, giving Santa a hand with his visiting duties, gets a visit from Kara Rice. Rice is the daughter of Central New York DDSO Local member Rebecca Northrup. Graham was helping Santa during Onondaga County's Lights on the Lake Festival.