Tioga County Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services Caseworker and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Dan Young, dressed as McGruff the Crime Dog, greeting a young attendee at the Tioga County, New York, Safety Fair sponsored by CSEA. The event focused on safety education and accident prevention. Event organizer Joan Kellogg, a principal account clerk in the Health Department, developed the project through her participation in the CSEA LEAD (Leadership Education and Development) program. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in Onondaga County demonstrate in support of their contract fight and to urge the county legislature to preserve funding for the Van Duyn Nursing Home.
Michelle Lang, left, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member in the Finger Lakes DDSO Local, and client Marie at a group home in Mt. Morris. CSEA is preparing to introduce state legislation that will help preserve the quality care standards in the public and not-for-profit sectors of the developmental disabilties field, which will help boost the substandard pay and benefits of non-union employees of not-for-profit centers while protecting the hard fought rights and contractual protections of CSEA members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue talks about the union's Campaign for Quality Care in New York's developmental disabilities system at a news conference in Syracuse with Assemblywoman Joan Christensen and Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli. The Quality Care campaign is necessary because of an epidemic in turnover rates ? up to 40 percent annually among front line employees of many not-for-profit agencies that threaten the long-term quality standards of services and care.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Dashamali Jennings, a developmental aide with the Central New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office works with a client. CSEA is preparing to introduce state legislation that will help preserve the quality care standards in the public and not-for-profit sectors of the developmental disabilties field, which will help boost the substandard pay and benefits of non-union employees of not-for-profit centers while protecting the hard fought rights and contractual protections of CSEA members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 883 Jeanette Engle, Local 015 Fred Gerloff, and Local 611 Casey Walpole register people to vote at a CSEA booth at the New York State Fair.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Delaware County, NY, Department of Public Works employees at work to rebuild County Road No. 7 after it was destroyed by flooding in June, 2007. All road crews from the DPW were involved in the road's rebuilding, often putting in 12-hour days to get the roadway repaired.
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 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.