From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Kathy MacKay, Sandy Lyons, Candie Lucyzyn and Rose Teachman load clothing donations onto a truck at a Cattaraugus County work site. CSEA members conducted a clothing drive to benefit Allegany Region Missions, which provides clothing to those in need in the communiy, throughout the United States and abroad.
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, Buffalo Zoo Local President Kelly Amrhein prepares to feed a sea lion at the zoo. Along with her co-workers, Amrhein is playing a role in the modernization of the 130-year-old zoo through the facility's capital campaign.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Buffalo Zoo Local President Kelly Amrhein shares a tender moment with one of the three elephants she cares for at the zoo. Along with her co-workers, Amrhein is playing a role in the modernization of the 130-year-old zoo through the facility's capital campaign.
Joan Phelps, school nurse and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Oakfield-Alabama School District Unit president, uses one of the newly installed hand sanitizer dispensers in Oakfield-Alabama Middle and High School in Genesee County, New York. The sanitizers were installed after an outbreak of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) was reported in the school district. CSEA members working in schools and health care facilities across New York state are challenged to protect the public from the dangerous MRSA infections on a daily basis.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Wayne County, workers demonstrate outside the county offices. CSEA members were objecting to a move by the Wayne County Board of Supervisors to hire an outside negotiator, which union officials said was a waste of taxpayer money.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members answered the call in four Western New York State counties when a freak October storm ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households. Clarence Highway Department Heavy Equipment Operator Jamie Dussing clears broken tree limbs following an early lake effect snowstorm that socked the Buffalo area.
Highway Maintenance Supervisor Jerry Bartel, left, and Highway Maintenance Worker and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Department of Transportation Local President Mike Kam, looking over assignments for the day. Hundreds of highway and transportation workers from across the state conveged on Erie, Niagara, Orleans and Genesee counties following an October storm that brought down trees and power lines.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Jason Dickerson, a tree pruning supervisor from Saratoga Springs, uses a log-loader truck to clear storm debris from a street in the Village of Williamsville, one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. CSEA members answered the call in four Western New York counties when a freak October storm that dumped nearly two feet of snow on the area ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Kevin Clark, left, John Ribble, Mike Tomassi, John J. Mase and Michael Dowd of Hornell State Employees Local pose for a photo as the sun rises in the background. The crew, like many other from across the state, spent several days in the Buffalo area helping with clean-up from the October storm that dumped nearly two feet of snow. CSEA members answered the call in four Western New York counties when the freak October storm ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households.