Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s 2008 Statewide Women's Conference Committee poses at the end of the statewide Women's Conference. Standing, from left, are Committee Adviser Sharon Lovelady-Hall; Retiree member Sylvia Thomas; Southern Region member Janice Beaulieu; Capital Region member Kim Wallace; Metropolitan Region member Carlotta Williams; Western Region member Rose Conti; Executive Vice President and committee officer liaison Mary Sullivan; committee Chair Jackie Stanford and Long Island Region member Catherine Custance. Front row, from left, are Central Region member Cathy Barretta and Southern Region member Karen Pecora
AFSCME member Tamika Felder, a cervical cancer survivor who founded "Tamika & Friends" to fight the disease, tells her story at the "Say Something" workshop at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) statewide Women's Committee member Catherine Custance, far left, and Tamika & Friends activists listen.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Orange County Local activists Betty Lou Kranz and Joyce Howard listen at a workshop at the 2008 Statewide Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President and Women's Committee officer liaison Mary Sullivan applauds Lynn Marie Smith's performance at the Statewide Women's Conference.
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicts former Governor Mario Cuomo filling a crack with piles of dirt representing state services. Governor Cuomo proposed massive mid-year budget cuts that included thousands of layoffs, deep cuts in state services and sharp slashes in aid for local governments and school districts. Governor Cuomo also called for mandatory, five-day furloughs in pay for all state employees that would cut workers' salaries by 2 percent.
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).
Dispatchers, from left, Gregory Schmid, David Dalmanieras, Charlotte Martin and Chris Butcher are among the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members at the Orange County E-911 Center fighting for better working conditions.
Pressure from the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) helped kill generous raises for management listed in the proposed 2009 Putnam County budget, but county officials still approved the layoff of two CSEA members employed by the county's highway department. CSEA members, including those shown above, demonstrated against the cuts before a recent public hearing on the budget. The budget also included the elimination of a number of vacant CSEA-represented job titles. The cuts came despite the fact that recent lobbying by CSEA has allowed Putnam County to enjoy a dramatic increase in sales tax revenues, a change that puts the county in a far better financial position than it has seen in recent years.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue is pictured with Emily Armbruster of the American Red Cross at CSEA's recent Annual Delegates Meeting in Washington, D.C. CSEA has made a significant contibutin to the National Disaster Relief Fund in support of all Red Cross chapters in New York state. Armbruster spoke to CSEA delegates about Red Cross hurricane relief efforts.