A graphic illustration by Graphic Artist Ralph Distin, titled "Quality Family Daycare: not all fun and games," depicting an independent family daycare provider with lack of protections and benefits, and confusing regulations. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and VOICE (Voice of Organized Independent Childcare Educators) are working with providers to encourage them to officially recognize VOICE as an advocate on their behalf on numerous issues they face, including dealing with agencies such as the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members holding picket signs. Close to 100 members of the Westchester County (New York) Unit rallied outside a birthday fundraiser for Westchester County Executive Andy Spano at the Rye Town Hilton. Unit members have been working without a contract since December 31, 2005 and are at impasse. Sticking points are health insurance and wages. It is the third successful picket in a month for unit members. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, left, and Director of Legislative and Political Action Fran Turner, right, meeting with New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Executive Director to the Comptroller Diane Lombardi. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, flanked by members of CSEA's State Contract Negotiating Team, at the start of negotiations with the state April 17, 2007, in Troy, New York
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) leaders and activists across the Central Region taking time out from the Region Spring Conference in Corning to honor those who lost their lives in workplace fatalities over the years. CSEA conference attendees participated in a moving ceremony, put together by the Region Safety and Health Committee, where a plaque was presented and candles were lit in the memory of more than 40 members from our Region who have been lost in the last two dozen years.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) State Negotiating Team members planting a tree in front of the Troy Hotel where contract negotiations are taking place as part of a Workers Memorial Day ceremony. CSEA members across the state joined other AFL-CIO labor unions in remembering workers who were killed or injured on the job during the past year. This photograph appeared in the June, 2007 issue of the CSEA monthly newspaper The Work Force.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Westchester County Unit President Jack McPhillips addressing several hundred members of Westchester County Unit 9200 who picketed outside the Westchester County Office Building in White Plains, along with CSEA's 15-foot inflatable rat, to protest the lack of progress in their contract negotiations. The rally was timed to coincide with County Executive Andy Spano's State of the County address. Westchester County Unit members have been working without a contract since Dec. 31, 2005. Sticking points in negotiations include wages and health insurance. Members sent a strong message to County Executive Spano, Deputy County Executive Larry Schwartz and members of the county Board of Legislators -- that they will not sit back and be silent while legislators are entertaining huge raises for county political appointees. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
United States Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand speaking at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Federal Political Action Program training. Gillibrand, who represents New York State's 20th Congressional District that includes a large area of the Capital Region, Hudson Valley and Champlain Valley spoke to CSEA's Federal Political Action Liaisons (PALs) recently, discussing congressional priorities and issues that relate to CSEA members. The weekend Federal PALS training session included a workshop on using the CSEA website to lobby congressional leaders and discussions about universal health care. CSEA's Federal PALS lobby federal lawmakers on issues that affect CSEA members. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Jim Moore, right, on his first day in office as Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central Region president in 1977, meeting with then Region Director Frank Martello. Moore retired March 28, 2007, after serving an unprecedented 30 years in that office. When Moore began his career, state employees didn't have the legal right to collectively bargain. His 40-year union career has outlasted the terms of eight United States Presidents, six New York State Governors and four CSEA statewide presidents. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Daycare provider Sally Heater, from East Syracuse, New York, with the children for whom she cares. Heater is working hard to help give daycare providers the loud and clear voice of advocacy that comes with belonging to a union. She was a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)member for 30 years before becoming an independent daycare provider. The VOICE (Voice of Organized Independent Childcare Educators) campaign began in 2002 when CSEA was contacted by a group of family daycare providers in Schenectady looking for assistance with an unclear county payment system and the threat of proposed cuts in the childcare subsidy funding. CSEA is New York State's largest union.