Certified Nurse Aides Carina Shultis, left, and Jeanette Utter help lift a resident into his bed at the New York State Veterans Home at Oxford using a portable lift. The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) strongly advocated the new safe patient handling lifts be installed in the new building at the home.
Illustration by graphic artist Ralph Distin depicts the beginning a year-long celebration of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) centennial.
Photo of the Month, February, 2010. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Town of Manlius Highway Unit activist David Hale shows off a town snowplow to the Lion and Bear Dens of Cub Scout Pack 369 in Fayetteville/Manlius. Hale regularly makes presentations to elementary school children and community groups like the Cub Scouts.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activist Sheri Ambuski is part of CSEA's Next Wave initiative, or "Under 35 initiative," which is designed to extend a hand to younger CSEA members and develop the union's future.
The Albany Public Library recently celebrated its newest branch in the city's Pine Hills neighborhood. The grand opening on Dec. 5, 2009, drew hundreds of patrons and families. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members staff the library. Collection Management Librarian Diedre Lisio shows off the large collection of Japanese Manga, or Anime.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Oswego County Local President Ken Greenleaf and Central Region Executive Vice President and St. Lawrence County Local President Betty Thomas react to the 44-degree water of Oneida Lake as they take the plunge at the Polar Plunge at Oneida Shores. The event benefited the Special Olympics.
More than 45 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central Region "Polar Peeps" team members were among the first "plungers" to enter Oneida Lake at the Polar Plunge at Oneida Shores to benefit the Special Olympics. The team was the largest team and largest fund-raiser at the event, bringing in more than $17,500.
Wendy Nashid-Jackson, a licensed family child care provider and VOICE member from Mount Vernon in Westchester County, cares for two young children in this 2009 file photo. During the past year, more than 1,000 public employees formed a union with Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). This is in addition to the 7,500 licensed family child care providers (VOICE) and the 17,000 license exempt child care providers who now have a first contract with the state Office of Children and Family Services.
Town of Southampton Unit members Philip Milo, Marie Deuel and Tom Cartino fight for respect for Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented individuals during a demonstration to speak out against Supervisor Linda Kabot's budget proposal that would lay off 49 town workers, close the town animal shelter and contract out two of the four town waste transfer stations.