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Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records✖[remove]5,100
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani welcoming Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) delegates to New York City at the union's 86th Annual Delegates Meeting. Mayor Giuliani stressed the importance of the public employee work force being stable and secure and said that despite some disagreements, elected officials and unions do agree about the need for jobs and opportunity. Nearly 1,500 delegates participated in the meeting. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A group of more than 75 unidentified Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members who were the target of an October 1991 layoff rally together to remind Governor Cuomo that his cuts are hurting real people. The group holds a banner stating, "Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center layoff class of 1991."
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members gather with signs at SUNY Binghamton in a demonstration against an appearance by New York State Office of Mental Health Commissioner Richard Surles in October 1990. CSEA actively opposed New York State's mental health policy of closing down psychiatric centers without adequately developing alternative plans for delivering services to individuals with mental illness.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary Irene Carr, President Joseph E. McDermott, Executive Vice President Danny Donohue (behind McDermott) and Region VI President Robert Lattimer, lead marchers through downtown Buffalo, New York, to the NYNEX picket lines. Hundreds of CSEA delegates at the 79th Annual Delegates Meeting held in Buffalo participated in a picket and rally to show the union's support for Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) who are fighting for survival with NYNEX. NYNEX Corporation was a telephone company which served five New England states (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) as well as New York. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members parading through the downtown Rochester, New York area during the CSEA 1987 Annual Delegates Meeting, enroute to City Hall where CSEA statewide President William L. McGowan and several other CSEA activists testified before a hearing conducted by the State Senate Standing Committee on Mental Health chaired by New York State Senator Nicholas Spano. They were demanding adequate staffing levels in the states psychiatric facilities and developmental centers. The understaffing issue heated up after Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Clara Taylor was murdered earlier in the year while working alone on a night shift at the Rockland Psychiatric Center. CSEA has raised the issue of understaffing time and time again and has pushed for corrective measures for years.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan speaking with United States Representative Louise M. Slaughter during the CSEA 1987 Annual Delegates Meeting in Rochester, New York. For the 77th consecutive year delegates elected by the membership to help determine the present and future course of their union participated in the democratic process known as the CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting. More than 1,200 delegates attended. Delegates rejected a proposed dues increase; approved several changes in the unions constitution and by-laws; approved the affiliation of CSEA's Retirees Division with AFSCME and reaffirmed overall union policy. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
An unidentified Civil Sevice Employees Association (CSEA) delegate reading over material presented at the CSEA 1987 Annual Delegates Meeting in Rochester, New York. For the 77th consecutive year delegates elected by the membership to help determine the present and future course of their union participated in the democratic process known as the CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting. More than 1,200 delegates attended. Delegates rejected a proposed dues increase; approved several changes in the union's constitution and by-laws; approved the affiliation of CSEA's Retirees Division with AFSCME and reaffirmed overall union policy. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Long Island Region President Danny Donohue addressing the panel during a discussion at CSEA's 1987 Annual Delegates Meeting held in Rochester. For the 77th consecutive year delegates elected by the membership to help determine the present and future course of their union participated in the democratic process known as the CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting. More than 1,200 delegates attended. Delegates rejected a proposed dues increase; approved several changes in the union's constitution and by-laws; approved the affiliation of CSEA's Retirees Division with AFSCME and reaffirmed overall union policy. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Unidentified delegates discussing an issue during the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s 1987 Annual Delegates Meeting held in Rochester, New York. For the 77th consecutive year delegates elected by the membership to help determine the present and future course of their union participated in the democratic process known as the CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting. More than 1,200 delegates attended. Delegates rejected a proposed dues increase; approved several changes in the union's constitution and by-laws; approved the affiliation of CSEA's Retirees Division with AFSCME and reaffirmed overall union policy. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.