Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Deleware County Department of Public Works employees Ryan Boice and Jerry Ford work on landscaping around pipes from a newly built co-composting facility. CSEA Delware County Local CSEA members fought for the construction of the co-composting plant to extend the life of the county landfill and save it from privatization.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) retiree and former Western New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office Worker Frank Balsano helps a young boxer improve his skills at a Lackawanna gym. Balsano takes part in a boxing program to keep children out of trouble and off the streets.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Tom Payton, an airport firefighter at Gebreski Air National Guard Base, was called to serve as a radio operator on an HC130 combat search and rescue plane in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, State Emergency Management Office geographic information systems worker Dan O'Brien points to a map focusing on Hurricane Katrina storm surge inundation zones on Long Island. O'Brien was one of several CSEA members working in the State Emergency Management Office to assist Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. This photo appeared in the October 2005 edition of The Work Force.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Cattaraugus County Local President and probation officer, Clara Ramadhan, joined with other CSEA members to close down a probation department building that was located in a refuse transfer station in Salamanca. The office was closed after an inspection confirmed workers concerns that the building was unsafe. In the photograph, Ramadhan stands next to a sign listing the probation department within the refuse transfer station.
Marlene Neal, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and Onondoga County's Van Duyn Home and Hospital worker, signs letters pushing for medicaid funding reform for public nursing homes. The letters, a part of CSEA's campaign to keep the Van Duyn Home and Hospital from being privatized or sold, were sent to local and state officials.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting "Navigating Dangerous Waters." "Public employees" with a first aid kit rowing a boat (Post-9/11 workplace, "same boat") with a life preserver (increased security) while an alligator (threats to workplace safety) swims beneath the boat. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Dorothy Temple, a keyboard specialist for the state Department of Taxation and Finance, was one of five Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members who lost their lives in the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Occupational Safety and Health Committee Chairman Jim McHugh, waving left, at a state worker protest in St. Paul, Minnesota, in support of striking public employees in that state. McHugh attended the protest, fresh off a state transportation emergency stint at Ground Zero in New York City, after Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura called the striking state workers there "unAmerican" in the wake of the World Trade Center attack. McHugh told the cheering crowd of AFSCME brothers and sisters that everyone working at Ground Zero was a union member. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A crowd of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Yonkers School District members hold up signs stating, "Our school, our future, our responsibility" at a Yonkers School District Demonstration in October 2001.