Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s "The Right Stuff," cartoon depicts the New York State consumer writing a check for "Fair Trade" products near a scale representing a "balanced world" with fair trade purchases. The purchase of such products supports 100% Fair Trade retailers and the Labor-Religion Coaliton Fair Trade Project, helping farmers receive a fair price for their produce and combating child labor, forced labor and slave labor.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting "Navigating Dangerous Waters." "Public employees" with a first aid kit rowing a boat (Post-9/11 workplace, "same boat") with a life preserver (increased security) while an alligator (threats to workplace safety) swims beneath the boat. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio and Congressional Representative Richard Gephardt (D-Missouri). Gephardt was a speaker at the Legislative Breakfast sponsored by CSEA's Women's and Political and Legislative Action committeees during CSEA's 86th Annual Delegates Meeting held in New York City. He is holding a cartoon by CSEA Graphic Artist Ralph Distin which was presented to Gephardt during the breakfast. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon "No business like snow business!" and shows a snowman with a shovel and snowboots (CSEA winter workers) and the many ways CSEA members work through the winter keeping roads and sidewalks plowed, maintaining ice rinks and using winter ski mobiles as emergency vehicles when necessary, driving emergency rescue vehicles and driving school buses. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, left, stands with "Inside Albany" hosts Lise Bang-Jensen and David Hepp after presenting them with cartoons of their show drawn by Work Force illustrator Ralph Distin. The show ended its production in 2006 after 32 years on the air.
Cartoon depicting New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer moving into the Governor's Mansion; "day one" flag flying, suitcases marked "promises and plans" and "hope and possibility." Office of General Services worker with tool box marked with a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) sticker: "working with NY's Governors since 1910."
A New York State Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting "Belt-Tightening Time": Uncle Sam, sweating, holding an "economic crisis" document; Statue of Liberty sweating, holding a "tough times" document; New York State, sweating, "all of us in N.Y.S." with a tight belt aound it. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon "Helping Hand" depicts a hand holding cards representing various ways that CSEA members respond to disasters, not just in New York State but across the United States. Members responded to the need for volunteers during Hurricane Katrina.
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) cartoon illustrating how Wall Street (a beaver) is biting into New York's economy (a tree) while New Yorkers (a sweating bird sitting on a branch) watch savings and investments (leaves shaken from a branch) blow away. A broken branch on the tree shows manufacturing decline. The state motto, "Excelsior" (Ever Upward) is crossed out and replaced with "Caveat Emptor" (Buyer Beware).