The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Strategic Benefit Trust inaugural meeting. Pictured, from left, are Lifespire President and CEO Mark VanVoorst, secretary; Bernard King of Blitman and King Associates, counsel; CSEA Executive Vice President Mary E. Sullivan, trustee; CSEA President Danny Donohue, chairman; CSEA St. Lawrence University Local President Richard Sprague, trustee, and CSEA Health Benefits Department Deputy Director Laura Balogh. CSEA established the labor-management fund, which will be an important optin for providing health care and other benefits to the union's private sector members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s "The Right Stuff," cartoon depicts the New York State consumer writing a check for "Fair Trade" products near a scale representing a "balanced world" with fair trade purchases. The purchase of such products supports 100% Fair Trade retailers and the Labor-Religion Coaliton Fair Trade Project, helping farmers receive a fair price for their produce and combating child labor, forced labor and slave labor.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Albany Airport Training and Safety Officer, Bobby Allen at the airfield maintenance division. Albany International Airport workers were negotiating their first contract since they became part of CSEA after 13 months of fighting for the right to join a union.
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.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members across New York State who play a key role in the state's Unified Court System. Kevin Macdonald is one of two principal court attorneys statewide, spending much of his time advising attorneys and pro se litigants (individuals representing themselves) about court jurisdiction, practice and procedures. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region President Flo Tripi, center, discussing efforts to launch the League of Women Voters of New York States LeaderSpark program in the Buffalo, NY, area with program coordinators Nuala Dreschler, left, and JoAnn Ross. CSEA's support of LeaderSpark, designed to inform and involve young people in their governmental activities, is an outgrowth of the union's involvement with the League's "Students Inside Albany" program which for many years brought high school students to the state Capitol to learn about the workings of state government. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Jason Cox at work as a New York State Court Officer. Cox works in the 5th Judicial District in the Onondaga County Courthouse in Syracuse, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Law Library Assistant William Sommer. Sommer works in the 5th Judicial District Supreme Court Law Library in Syracuse, NY where he and his co-workers maintain the law library for four different courts and the chamber collections for eight judges. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Kelly Tornstrom, a 15-year bus driver in the Victor School District, taught her primary-age students the names of the United States presidents in chronological order. The district and her co-workers recognized her with an 'Unsung Hero' award for her efforts. Victor is in Ontario County, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon "No business like snow business!" and shows a snowman with a shovel and snowboots (CSEA winter workers) and the many ways CSEA members work through the winter keeping roads and sidewalks plowed, maintaining ice rinks and using winter ski mobiles as emergency vehicles when necessary, driving emergency rescue vehicles and driving school buses. CSEA is New York State's largest union.