Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Administrative Services Unit negotiating team member from the Western Region Sara Sievert and Operational Services Unit member from the Central Region listening and taking notes during contract negotiations with New York State. The negotiating team and the collective bargaining specialists assigned to each of the three bargaining units, Administrative Services Unit, Operational Service Unit and Institutional Services Unit, prepare demands to improve the contract language in each unit. CSEA staff and the negotiating teams use contract demand sheets sent in by thousands of members as a basis for formulating the union's demands. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A newspaper clipping from the Utica, NY Observer-Dispatch, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Miss Rita Castellano checks poster and Phillip Beno takes inventory of sales at State Tax Office in Utica where the push goes on for the state lottery. In the Utica area and throughout the state, sales of lottery tickets are not very high. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s "Peanut Man" also known as Ken Koopman, was one of more than 20,000 union members attending a January 5 rally over stalled contract talks. CSEA used peanuts as a reference to Gov. George Pataki's wage offer of zero percent per year over a four-year contract.
Governor David Paterson's announcement of Represntative Kirsten Gillibrand as Junior Senator of New York to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan is seen on-stage, top row and fourth from left, among other prominent Albany dignitaries showing support for Governor Paterson's announcement.
Governor David Paterson's announcement of Representative Kirsten Gillibrand as Junior Senator of New York to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. From left are State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senator Chuck Schumer (at podium acknowledging a member of the audience),Kristen Gillibrand and Representative Nita Lowey.
Governor David Paterson announcing Representative Kirsten Gillibrand as Junior Senator of New York to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as Speaker Sheldon Silver, left, and Senator Chuck Schumer, right, look on.
Governor David Paterson's announcement of Representative Kirsten Gillibrand as Junior Senator of New York to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. From left are State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Speaker Sheldon Silver, Gillibrand (at podium), Governor Paterson, Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nita Lowey.
Governor David Paterson announces Representative Kirsten Gillibrand as Junior Senator of New York to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Senator Chuck Schumer, Representative Nita Lowey and NYSUT President Dick Ianuzzi (behind) look on.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan speaks with Assemblymember Ron Canistrari at Governor David Paterson's announcement of Representative Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as Junior Senator of New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Irene Tossone with Norman Ebanks inside the Supreme Court Appellate Division 1st Department building in Manhattan, New York, where they work. Tossone is a secretary to a judge; Ebanks serves as a court officer. CSEA is New York State's largest union.