A news clipping from the Utica, NY Observer-Dispatch, Robert Guild, Cavanaugh Road, Marcy, has been appointed field representative for the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) with jurisdiction over 21 chapters, seven of which are in Oneida County. His appointment was announced by Joseph Feily, president of the Association. A graduate of Holland Patent Central School, Guild attended MVCC and Utica College. He has worked at Marcy State Hospital for 16 years, and has been president of the Marcy State Hospital chapter of CSEA for two years. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter)
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and other union members from around the state who attended the May 3, 2003, Rally for Public Education at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York, which was just one event in which union members were instrumental in the events leading to the state Legislature voting overwhelmingly to override Governor George Pataki's vetoes to restore $1.9 billion that Pataki sought to cut, primarily in education and health care funding. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Clifton Park Unit members helping to restore the historic Grooms Tavern in Clifton Park, New York, which opened in 1826 and housed a tavern and numerous other businesses over the years. It sat vacant since the 1970s. The town acquired the property and planned the restoration. The CSEA members pictured are, from left, Pat Gibbins, Ray Zeller and Dan Clemens standing in front of the Historic Grooms Tavern.
A newsletter clipping from the Utica, NY chapter of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), Irene Carr, president of the Oneonta chapter, Civil Service Employees Association, receives the oath of office from Raymond Castle, first vice-president of the Central Conference, CSEA, while Mrs. Clara Boone, conference president and Dr. Theodore Wenzl, CSEA president look on. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Utica New York Chapter Meeting of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) to discuss a new division of employment (the Youth Opportunity Center) with speaker John J. Mahoney. The meeting also included discussion of the Nominating Committee Report and information on salary negotiations with the New York State Budget Director. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
QSAC (Quality Services for the Autism Community) workers, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and activists from Jobs with Justice holding up letters at a Mets baseball game at Shea Stadium in New York City, that reads "Hey QSAC Union Yes." The workers were trying to organize a union at their workplace after they became fed up with short staffing, high turn over, arbitrary firings and disciplinary actions and problems with food and medical supplies. They formed a committee called QCARE (Quality Care Advocates for the Rights of Employees) which 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.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) leaders and activists joined hundreds of AFSCME brothers and sisters for a Capitol Hill rally against the Bush administrations's ill-conceived scheme to privatize Social Security. The Social Security event was part of a legislative conference presented by CSEA's international union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Yonkers School District Unit 9169 member Lori Riccardi, a teacher aide at Montessori School 31. The photo appeared in the 2007 CSEA calendar.
A ticket from the Oneida County, NY Chapter Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) officers and guests celebrate a "Party Night" at the Vernon Downs Racetrack in June of 1967. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue speaking at a press conference announcing a bill awarding retired public employees in New York State a supplement to their pensions. The union fought long and hard for the bill which was a top legislative priority for years. Looking on are New York Governor George E. Pataki, left, and state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, right.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) delegates attending the 2002 AFSCME Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. CSEA was in the forefront as energy and activism dominated the activities at the 35th International Convention. AFSCME is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees of which CSEA Local 1000 is the international union's largest affiliation. CSEA members have the strength of two unions: the 265,000 membership of CSEA plus the 1.3 million membership of AFSCME.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members worked around the clock at flood relief even when their own work sites, including the State Department of Transportation residency in Fultonville, New York were under water. Floods raged through New York's Central, Capital, and Southern regions on June 28, 2006. CSEA members recorded much of the devastation that the floods brought.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Clinton County, New York Local President Joe Musso, left, congratulating a member of the winning team of the Plattsburgh All-Star Little League Tournament that the local supported July 22-23, 2006. The local also provided souvenir water bottles and baseball caps bearing CSEA's logo for the tournament's 150 players from 20 teams. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Amos Royals, president of the Manhattan State Hospital Chapter of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), at right in first picture, presenting a free toll book to Nora Tracey, head dining room attendant at the hospital, for use on the Triborough Bridge. Employees used the bridge when commuting to work. Looking on is Carl D. Rinker, administrative director at the hospital. The second frame shows the employee using the first ticket for free passage over the bridge. The use of the free toll tickets by State employees on the Island was won by CSEA in negotiations after a long battle.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Delaware County, NY bridge engineer Tom Markus welding the "wing wall" of a County Route 47 culvert in Tompkins. CSEA members in the Capital, Central, and Southern regions are working hard to help rebuild the flood-devastated infrastructure.
United States Senator Hillary Clinton appeared at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s endorsement announcement of her as the 2008 presidential candidate. CSEA President Danny Donohue said she is the right candidate at a moment of great need.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Christopher Kruse works with water meters at his Ossining (New York) village work site. He recently earned statewide honors for saving a woman's life during a house fire.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Webster New York highway department maintenance mechanic Sue Trottier and Foreman Joe Herbst, along with co-workers, have taken Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) training as part of the towns disaster preparedness. CSEA members across the state work every day to make sure our roads are safe, our drinking water is clean and our state and local governments deliver vital services.
Senator Hillary Clinton signs an autograph for a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) supporter at the announcement of CSEA's endorsement of Clinton for president of the United States.
SIGNED UP YET? - That is the question Eileen DeGeorge and other active Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members will be asking the many thousands of eligible non-members during CSEAs eight-week Super Sign-Up period. DeGeorge is shown holding a button toward the photographer. CSEA added 17,500 members during the contest.
Matilda Cuomo holds up a copy of The Daily News with the front page headline: "CUOMO PULLS AN UPSET," after her husband Mario defeated New York City Mayor Ed Koch in the 1982 Democratic Primary for Governor.
Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton, a guest speaker at the 1992 New York State Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Annual Delegates Meeting held in New York City. In this photograph Clinton makes his way through the crowd, shaking hands with delegates.
AFSCME President Gerald McEntee addressing the delegates at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) 1992 New York State Annual Delegates Meeting held in New York City. Seated from left to right are Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton, a guest speaker at the meeting, CSEA President Joseph E. McDermott and CSEA Secretary Irene Carr.
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton speaking with AFSCME President Gerald McEntee while making their way through the crowd at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s 1992 Annual Delegates Meeting where both were guest speakers.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members at the 1992 Annual Delegates Meeting in New York City showing their support for the Clinton-Gore ticket. 1992 Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton was a guest speaker at the event.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue shakes hands with an unidentified PEF member while CSEA member Willie Terry looks on following the Albany Labor Parade in honor of the September 11, 2001 victims of the World Trade Center. The parade took place just weeks following the tragic events.
NY Guard Major Bob Peace, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activist Micki Thoms, NY Guard Capt. Mike Wilson, NY Guard Major Denis Uminski, and Hudson River Psychiatric Center Local President Judy Watts-Devine move relief supplies. Two vacant buildings at the Hudson River Psychiatric Center's Poughkeepsie campus became a staging facility for relief supplies when other facilities in New York City filled quickly following the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and members of the Albany/Capital District Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) march with a banner at the Albany labor Parade in honor of the September 2001 victims of the World Trade Center, just weeks following the tragic events.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue and CSEA Western Region President Flo Tripi, centered behind a Monroe County banner, leading a contingent of CSEA members in the 2001 Rochester Labor Parade in Rochester, New York. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A plaque inscribed with the names of 39 state Department of Taxation and Finance workers who were killed in the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) lost five members who worked in the World Trade Center for the state Department of Taxation and Finance in the attacks.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Treasurer Maureen Malone, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, and CSEA President Danny Donohue hold up a check presented by CSEA to the AFSCME Fallen Heroe Fund. CSEA donated a total of $25,795 to the Fallen Heroes Fund, which aids victims of the 2005 Gulf Coast disasters. The check was presented to AFSCME at CSEA's 95th Annual delegates Meeting.
Just days before the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members who work in Lower Manhattan, New York joined Congressman Jerrold Nadler at Ground Zero as he introduced the September 11 comprehensive Health Benefits Act. From left, CSEA Public Service Commission Local President Renee Jackson, September 11 family representative Sally Regenhard, speaking, and Rep. Nadler discuss the proposed health legislation for people living or working around Ground Zero.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Patrick Hogan has the floor, as Kim Brown looks on during a session on union organizing during the 2006 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting in Manhattan, New York. The two are child care providers from Westchester County and leaders in the VOICE campaign. VOICE, Voice of independent Childcare Educators, is a professional association of more than 700 family child care providers working with CSEA to improve their profession and the quality of care for the children they serve. CSEA's 96th Annual Delegates Meeting in Manhattan drew more than 1,000 delegates to conduct the union's annual business. This year's theme, "Meeting the Challenge," focused on the challenges unions face with a business-friendly National Labor Relations Board and federal efforts to dismantle worker protections and strip union workers of their collective bargaining power.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members marching in the annual New York State Fair Labor Day Parade, which drew dozens of members and their families. CSEA members in all regions took part in Labor Day parades and events across the state. The strong showing of solidarity sends a resounding message that CSEA is is prepared to fight to protect its 96-year labor legacy.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Will Garrett meeting with United States Senator Hillary Clinton. Some of CSEA's endorsed candidates for statewide office made visits to the New York State Fair in Syracuse, where CSEA Weekend coincided with Labor Day and the fair's annual parade. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s statewide officers and former statewide Treasurer Maureen Malone at the 2007 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting held in Lake Placid, NY. Back row, from left, are Central Region President Ginger Sheffey, Long Island Region President Nick LaMorte, Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, Statewide Secretary Barbara Reeves, Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, Malone, Statewide Treasurer Joe McMullen, President Danny Donohue and Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio. Front row, from left, are Western Region President Flo Tripi and Southern Region President Diane Hewitt.
Unidentifed Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Putnam County Unit members demonstrating outside the county's courthouse. More than 100 CSEA members demonstrated outside the county's courthouse before a public budget hearing in an effort to raise public awareness of the vital roles the public work force plays in Putnam County.
A distant photo of the World Trade Center towers burning before collapse on September 11, 2001. The World Trade Center attacks took the live of five Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member from the state Taxation and Finance Department.
Delegates to the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s 2002 Annual Delegates Meeting in New York City hold a candlelight vigil in Central Park to commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Members hold a CSEA bannder. Five CSEA members who worked for the State Taxation and Finance Department in the World Trade Center were killed in the attacks. Identified delegates: fourth from the left is Barbara C. Jones. Jones is employed at the University at Albany in the Facilities Management Department and has served as the Third Vice President and Treasurer of CSEA, Local 691.
The devastation at Ground Zero following the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. In the early days following the attack, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members responded with blood drives and monetary contributions, and many were involved either directly or indirectly in the rescue and recovery efforts.