From left, demolition crew members Dave Bouchard, Bob Crews (in excavator cab), Dick Kane and Foreman Shawn Cotton. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Montgomery County Department of Public Works employees are saving the county money through their efforts with a new demolition program. The workers are trained to knock down condemned, vacant and unsafe structures, saving the county from hiring private contractors to do the work.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight fires up the crowd at a rally at the New York State Office Building in Hauppauge. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Suffolk Municipal Local activist Mike Morris is the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month for March. He recruited 40 new PEOPLE (Public Employees Organized to Promote Legislative Equality) members at the MVP level. CSEA's PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and in your community.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Capital Region Women's and Community Outreach Committee members pose with items collected for Military Mom in Action, which collects supplies and letters for U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. After reading a newspaper article about the group, committee member Bonnie Roy suggested the committee get involved in collecting donations, an idea committee members enthusiastically embraced. Committee members coordinated donation boxes at state agency buildings and other area work sites in March, and recently helped Military Mom in Action representatives pick up and deliver the donations. Seated, front row, from left, are Gail Connell, Chair, Marie DeShaw and Liz Habiniak. Back row, from left, are Nicole Bishop, Bonnie Roy, Tom McKenna, Suzanne Williams, Lisa Tricozzi and Kim Wallace, Capital Region secretary and committee officer liaison.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide George Reinhard writes patient notes on a chart on Unit 2E at the Greater Binghamton Health Center. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Thurlus Cordon, left, and Mack Roberts III work as mental health therapy aides at Rockland Psychiatric Center. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Judiciary Local activist Judy DiPaola, Rochester State Employees President Doris Cota, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region Political Action Coordinator Courtney Brunelle, Western Region President Flo Tripi and Western Region Political Action Committee Chairman Tim Finnigan demonstrate outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office. CSEA members also demonstrated at Assemblyman Sam Hoyt's office in Buffalo. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
New York State Governor David Paterson, left, is confronted in Saratoga Springs by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, who is flanked by Public Employees Federation Secretary-Treasurer Arlea Igoe and CSEA Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
New York State Governor David Paterson, plugging his ears, is still not listening. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) continues it's message that Paterson's politics put people at risk. The illustration of Governor Paterson with his fingers in his ears has become familiar across the state in advertisements and billboards. It was developed by Mario Bruni, a graphic artist at the Public Employees Federation.
Somewhat reluctant, but being a good sport, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York City State Employees Local 2nd Vice President Donald Bryant has makeup applied before taking part in a Workplace Violence Prevention DVD CSEA is producing to help CSEA leaders and activists reduce the risk of violence at their work sites. Bryant told interviewers about an individual who brutally attacked three Department of Motor Vehicle workers because he was angry over having failed his road test.