An unidentified Civil Service Emplpoyees Association (CSEA) member and state DOT worker from Utica helps repair traffic signals in Broward County, Florida. Workers were called in to help in the wake of Hurricane Wilma.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Carlos Speight and several other protestors at a New York State rally. The caption reads: SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight leads a group of union members demonstrating outside Stony Brook University Medical Center. Nearly 250 CSEA members turned out to protest a proposal to privatize the hospital. CSEA members across the state overwhelmingly have responded to recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, and their voices have been heard.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the Long Island, NY Region Women's Committee have made the holidays a little brighter for Clara, a young girl at Stony Brook Hospital. Instead of buying gifts for a raffle, they "adopted" a needy child for the holidays. Here they display some of the gifts they are donating.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Fort Ann School District workers demonstrated outside Fort Ann High School for settlement of a fair contract before the districts Board of Education meeting. District workers, without a contract since June 2006, were featured on a CSEA-created billboard which was used to raise public awareness in their community of the protracted contract fight. Fort Ann is in Washington County, New York.
Wellington Ives served as the 2nd president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) from 1920-1921. During Ives' presidency, the New York State Retirement System open to CSEA members went into effect on January 1, 1921.
Part of the installation for machine tabulation in the Albany office of the Department of Mental Hygiene. New York State Office of Mental Hygiene Annual Report 1947. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Paul Castellani.
Pre-clinical students watch a demonstration in the Nursing Arts Laboratory of the St. Lawrence (New York) State Hospital School of Nursing. New York State Office of Mental Hygiene Annual Report 1949. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Paul Castellani.
Diorama exhibits shown at state and county fairs urged support of the bond issue for new hospital facilities. The bond issue that was approved provided $350 million worth of bonds for mental hospital construction. New York State Office of Mental Hygiene Annual Report 1955. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Paul Castellani.
Adult education for the mildly retarded at Wassaic (New York) State School stresses occupational and social skills. Training such as these girls are receiving gives the young adult a better chance of meeting the social and economic demands of the outside world upon their return to the community. New York State Office of Mental Hygiene Annual Report 1958. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Paul Castellani.
In 1961, New York State was divided into ten mental health regions to achieve better integration of mental health services: Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton, Syracuse, St. Lawrence, Albany, Hudson River, Catskill, New York City, and Long Island. New York State Office of Mental Hygiene Annual Report 1961. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Paul Castellani.
A "therapeutic community" meeting at the Brooklyn (New York) Day Hospital encouraged unrestricted communication between patient and staff as well as between patient and patient. The daily meetings were part of the hospital's aftercare program. New York State Office of Mental Hygiene Annual Report 1962. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Paul Castellani.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77), right, with former Nassau Educational Chapter Presidents Frank Fasano, left, and Ed Perrott, center. Wenzl was instrumental in helping Fasano and Perrott form the Chapter.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), left, and CSEA attorney Jim Featherstonhaugh, center, chat with Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson, right.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), left, at a meeting in Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's office. Fink is on the phone.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County Local 834 members march at a nighttime rally outside a set of meetings of the County legislature to protest stalled contract talks.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Region 6 Women's Conference co-chairs Pam Caron and Judy DiPaola speak at the opening of a Region 6 Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Region 5 Occupational Safety and Health Specialist ED King speaks with Safety and Health Committee Chair Rick Britton.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s members, Tony Brown, Sonya Melvin, Terry Melvin, Robert Bradshaw, and Robert Mootry seated at a table at the Coaltion of Black Trade Unionists National Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Kimberly Green and Dolores Green seated at the head table of an unidentified CSEA Women's Conference.
Binghamton Psychiatric Center Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) local 441 Vice President Mark Mandyck leads a chant in a rally to commemorate Worker Memorial Day and demonstrate against the state budget.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Organizer Art Fleischner, CSEA Mount Vernon Public Library Unit President Gary Newman, Moderator Richard Naylor, Director of Scarsdale Public Library Stephanie Sarnoff, and Director of Albany Public Libraries William O'Connor attending the NYLA Conference.
Senior Field Representative for Occupational Safety and Health for the Service Employees International Union, Susan McQuade, makes a presentation on violence in the workplace at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) educational workshop held at the Hotel Syracuse.
Town of Orangetown, Rockland County, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 844 Unit President Mike Mengaux, Vice President Bert Vonwurmb, LRS Annete Raetz, Treasurer Ronnie Hickey, and Secretary Paul White sign a grievance.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), left, and GOER Director Sandy Frucher at a press conference announcing a contract settlement for CSEA's state worker membership.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and other state public employee union members march along Albany's Washington Avenue in front of CSEA headquarters during the "Hot Day In February" rally in February 1991. The workers were expressing dissatisfaction with stalled contract negotiations and other conflicts with the administration of Governor Mario Cuomo. About 20,000 union members participated. The photo was taken from the roof of CSEA Headquarters at 143 Washington Avenue following a rally in the Washington Avenue Armory.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, left, consulting with state negotiating team member Bob Timpano, of the union's Utica, New York Department of Transportation local prior to the start of state contract negotiations for the union's 77,000 state employee members.
From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Kathy MacKay, Sandy Lyons, Candie Lucyzyn and Rose Teachman load clothing donations onto a truck at a Cattaraugus County work site. CSEA members conducted a clothing drive to benefit Allegany Region Missions, which provides clothing to those in need in the communiy, throughout the United States and abroad.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Local, Lottery Marketing Representative Sarah Ying, left, visits with Lottery agents in Brooklyn as part of her busy rounds checking Lottery outlets.
Librarian Maria Buhl, a Guilderland, NY Public Library employee who was named one of the top 25 librarians in the nation. The award, given annually by The New York Times, honors working librarians for their public service and positive impact on the community. Buhl's efforts with the library's English as a second language (ESL) program and her work as a health services librarian won her recognition. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) supports closing the gap in funding for libraries and providing more operating aid directly to libraries so they can have the resources necessary to meet the growing needs of their communities. This photo and others appeared as a feature in The Work Force, CSEA's monthly publication for union members, along with quotes from members sharing their experiences and speaking of the funding need and encouraging members statewide to take part in the New York Library Association Library Lobby Day on March 13.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, Treasurer Joe McMullen, and Secretary-elect Denise Berkley. The four statewide officers will take the oath of office for a four-year term beginning March 1, 2008. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association(CSEA) unit President of the A. Holly Patterson Geriatric Center Les Eason with CSEA Political Action Coordinator Gretchen Penn and an unidentified man in front of the A. Holly Patterson Geriatric Center in Uniondale, NY.
Tim Jaccard speaks at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) event. Jaccard is part of the Nassau County AMT unit of CSEA where he organized the Children of Hope Foundation that contributed to the campaign by CSEA to enact the Baby Safe Haven law in New York in 2000. CSEA President Danny Donohue is seated at right.
Roger Sherrie of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Political Action Committee shakes hands with Pat Rowe of CSEA Local 403 following a wheelchair football game between CSEA members/staff and Rowe's silver wheel team composed of wheelchair bound athletes. The silver wheels won 55-14.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Tioga County Local 854 President Kathleen Cardone leads about 75 CSEA marchers in an informational workers demonstration over stalled contract talks.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, was part of a priority campaign by the union to win a permanent cost of living allowance for New York's public employee retirees. The COLA and other pension improvements became a reality in 2000 because of the union's persistence.
New York State Senator Chuck Schumer speaks at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region Women's Conference. CSEA Western Region President Robert Lattimer and Region Executive Vice President Flo Tripi are also pictured.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) state transportation department members repairing a stretch of Interstate 87 near Albany, New York. The workers often find themselves inches from speeding traffic. This photo was used in the January, 2002, Work Force to illustrate the dangers DOT workers encounter daily. New York State Governor George Pataki had vetoed legislation for the second time that would have paid a hazardous duty differential to state Department of Transportation workers who work in or near traffic. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Hundreds of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and AFSCME members from across the state pack the Empire State Convention Center for AFSCME Lobby Day. After the rally, members met with elected officials from their districts, urging them to vote against Gov. George Pataki's wrong budget choices to protect working families.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Deborah Johnson, standing at right, joined fellow Wayne County Nursing Home employees in Albany for Nursing Home Lobby Day. The group met with State Senator Michael F. Nozzolio, R-Seneca Falls, outside Senate Chambers. Clockwise, from left, Dawn Wuilliez, Suzanne Wild, Debra Welt, Nozzolio, Johnson, Brenda Brown and John Allen. Dozens of activists met with their elected officials on March 14, nursing home lobby day, to urge state Senate and Assembly members to make the right choices in funding public health care, and in particular nursing homes.
Pataki's recklessness could cost you! Gov. George Pataki's state budget proposal blows up a balloon rife with future deficits that could force massive service cuts, and leave New Yorkers to pick up the pieces after the governor is out of office.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Kevin McDonough holding an 11-foot Burmese python the city shelter received after the snake outgrew its owner. CSEA members across New York State are often called upon to come to the rescue of abused or neglected animals, while at the same time keeping the public safe from wild and feral creatures that pose a threat. As Troy's only Animal Control Officer, McDonough is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week doing investigative work, including finding owners, issuing tickets and tracking the outcome of the cases in which he is involved. He is part of a county-wide (Renssealer County) task force that is forming to prevent animal abuse.
A news clipping from the Utica, NY Daily Press, Mrs. Clara Boone, right, president of the Utica Chapter, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), and third vice president of the Central Conference, addressed members of the Oneida County Chapter last night at a dinner in the PLAV Hall. From left: Roger Solimando, county president; Mrs. Helen S. Rauber, county secretary. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, Rochester, New York, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) Chapter President and CSEA staff person Debbie Lee and Rochester City Councilman Wade Norwood. The Rochester Chapter of CBTU honored Donohue, an AFSCME International Vice President, for his long-time union leadership, advocacy for workers' rights, and a host of accomplishments and achievements for working people at its annual convention in Rochester in 2004. The CBTU consists of members from 50 international and national unions with 55 chapters across the country. The basic objectives of the CBTU include: putting forth greater and more creative efforts to improve the image of labor throughout the community; and working within the framework of the trade union movement to provide a voice and vehicle for greater black and minority participation. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members from left, Barbara Simpson, Brooklyn Developmental Disabilities Services Office Local President Denise Berkley and Maureen Richardson. Simpson and Richardson were attacked by a consumer at the DDSO. Richardson and Simpson praised CSEA and the Brooklyn DDSO Local for coming to their defense and for demanding improved workplace safety improvements throughout the facility.
Robert Rauff, Equipment Operator 3 and Oyster Bay Local executive vice president, with United States Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand 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.
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
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.