A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting "Your State Taxes at Work": A driver (management), stopped at a stop sign and pouring gas (tax dollars) in the tank of a "state-funded paver" (non-profits Union-Busting Campaigns) that's sitting on a flattened worker (worker rights). The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up signs at a demonstration in Rochester in May 1995 challenging Governor George Pataki's budget priorities.
A large crowd of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members march with signs and banners at a New York City State Budget Rally in May 1991.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William McGowan with then CSEA Treasurer (now Executive Vice President) Mary Sullivan and then CSEA Secretary Irene Carr in front of the State Capitol in Albany, New York, preparing to cut a 24-foot, 450-pound birthday cake to be served to thousands of workers. May is Public Employee Recognition Month in New York State and CSEA was celebrating the anniversary of the signing of the nation's first civil service law by Governor Grover Cleveland in May, 1883.
Seated at a table during a press conference are AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy, AFSCME President Jerry Wurf, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan, and CSEA Executive Vice-President Tom McDunnough announcing CSEA's affiiation with AFSCME in Albany, New York.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Theodore C. Wenzl hold the bill the Governor signed into law covering pay raises and other benefits for State employees as members of the Civil Service Employees Association Institutional Service Unit bargaining team look on. From left are team chairman Felice Amodio, Clarence Laufer, Wenzl, Zelda Kessler, Juanita Morris, Eva Nelson, CSEA research assistant Cynthia Walker, CSEA collective bargaining specialist Robert Guild, Connie Hatcher, Rockefeller, team secretary Amos Royals, Robert Redifore, and CSEA attorney James D. Featherstonhaugh. Missing are team vice-chairman Donald Brouse and Marie Donaldson.
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) bargaining team which negotiated benefits for employees in the Administrative Services Unit poses with Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller after signing bills implementing the recently negotiated contract into law. From left are CSEA attorney James Roemer, team vice-chairman John Wolfe, team secretary Ann Chandler, CSEA collective bargaining specialist John A. Conoby, Libby Lorio, Irving Fisher, Rockefeller, team chairman Thomas McDonough, Gerald Toomey, Grace Fitzmaurice, Martha Owens, and CSEA President Theodore C. Wenzl. Missing are team members Shirley Lighthall and Nancy Avery.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller signing into law bills implementing salaries and other benefits negotiated by the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) for 133,000 state employees. Viewing the occasion from left are State Senators Walter B. Langley and John E. Flynn; Abe Lavine, director of the Office of Employee Relations and chief negotiator for New York; CSEA President Theodore C. Wenzl; and CSEA Executive Director Joseph D. Lochner.