A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) photo montage depicting the labor movement through the years and CSEA members on the job. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) State University of New York Stony Brook members Amalia Benavide, Francisca Ortiz and Dora Pelaez. They are enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program and see the ESOL course as an opportunity to expand their horizons and pursue the American dream. The classes are made possible by a New York State & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training grant that shows the best in labor-management collaboration.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Maria Krawesyk, a custodial worker at the State University of New York at Albany, who is enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program. The classes are made possible by a New York State & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training grant that shows the best in labor-management collaboration.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Fort Ann School District workers demonstrated outside Fort Ann High School for settlement of a fair contract before the districts Board of Education meeting. District workers, without a contract since June 2006, were featured on a CSEA-created billboard which was used to raise public awareness in their community of the protracted contract fight. Fort Ann is in Washington County, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue urges state labor officials to issue strong workplace violence prevention rules. Donohue spoke at a public hearing on a proposed workplace violence prevention rule. The New York State Department of Labor rule, which would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers, builds upon the Worksite Security Act of 2006, which CSEA spearheaded and which provides safer workplaces for New Yorks public employees.
Ed Burkhart, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member in the Great Meadow Correctional Facility Local, emerging from 46-degree Lake George, NY, water after taking the Polar Plunge to raise money for Special Olympics New York. CSEA, through a supportive relationship with Special Olympics New York and Quality Care New York, affirms its commitment to New York's developmentally disabled individuals, advocating for the highest standard in quality of care. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the Long Island, NY Region Women's Committee have made the holidays a little brighter for Clara, a young girl at Stony Brook Hospital. Instead of buying gifts for a raffle, they "adopted" a needy child for the holidays. Here they display some of the gifts they are donating.
Erie County, NY Medical Center Section third Vice President Bella Mendola joins Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in demonstrating outside the Erie County Medical Center against a merger proposal. CSEA Western Region members joined together to fight the final report of the commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. The commission has recommended Buffalo's Erie County Medical Center be merged with a private sector hospital and become an entirely new entity.
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.