Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activists from the Metropolitan and Long Island regions attending the 2005 Political Action Liaison (PAL) training held in Port Jefferson, New York. Willie Gwynn (in foreground), 2nd vice president of the Long Island Developmental Center Local, studies the issues critical to CSEA members. Next to him are a liaison from the Metropolitan Region and Long Island Region President Nick LaMorte, third from right. Federal PALs are activist members of CSEA who have undertaken a critical mission: To carefully track the political and voting activity of their congressional representatives and senators; to communicate and lobby on behalf of union members to federal lawmakers; and to hold the lawmakers' feet to the fire when they are faced with votes of particular interest to CSEA members. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and activists from the Metropolitan and Long Island regions attending the 2005 Political Action Liaison (PAL) training. The workshop, led by CSEA Director of Political Operations Adam Acquario, was part of an intensive two-day training session in Port Jefferson, New York. During training, CSEA's PALs arm themselves with the facts they will need to lobby lawmakers most effectively regarding where they stand on the issues of members' jobs, contracts, benefits, pay and quality of life.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, Brooklyn Developmental Center Local President Denise Berkley, New York City Councilman Hiram Monserrate and the QCARE (Quality Care Advoctes for the Rights of Employees) committee rally at a news conference in front of QSAC (Quality Service Autism Community) headquarters in Queens, New York, in support of workers at QSAC who were fed up with short staffing, high turn over, arbitrary firings and disciplinary actions and problems with food and medical supplies. The committee worked with CSEA to stand up and fight for fair representation on the job and after more than a year-long fight won union representation and became part of CSEA in 2004. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) staff, members of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) and members of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) at the New York State Puerto Rican Legislative Conference held in Albany. Information about these organizations was available to participants at the conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members from the New York State Teacher's Retirement System in Albany, check the expiration dates on packages of frozen meat at the Regional Food Bank. From left: Randy Goldberg, Michael D'Alessandro and Debora Matthews. Across New York State CSEA members are caring community members, donating time and raising money for local charities and community projects all year long. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
New York State Governor George E. Pataki as he is distracted by a group of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members protesting their state contract stalemate during a speech at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue speaking at a New York City rally against layoffs at Harlem Hospital. Workers there are members of AFSCME District Council 37 and showing their support were Donohue, who is an AFSCME International Vice President and AFSCME International President Gerald McEntee, left.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, targeted public schools whose official school clothing and uniforms were produced by sweatshop labor. Along with its international union AFSCME and the AFL-CIO, CSEA is a staunch advocate for buying union-made products, produced in the USA.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, from the early 1990s was one of the union's many efforts to educate public officials about the dangers of contracting out public services.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 883 Jeanette Engle, Local 015 Fred Gerloff, and Local 611 Casey Walpole register people to vote at a CSEA booth at the New York State Fair.