Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members including Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, center, demonstrate outside state Senator Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's district office in Queens. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting reinventing Robin Hood (21st Century version) Was Robin Hood really just a thug? Robin Hood (exploitation, unscrupulous employers) using a bow and arrow (wage theft) robs the poor (American workers making minimum wage). Bags of riches include unpaid overtime, job discrimination, wage and hour violations and wage underpayment.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Laverne Scott-Allen, here on the job, helps protect the public. As a claim processor at the New York Sate Liquidation Bureau, Scott-Allen works to protect the interests of the policyholders and creditors of insurance companies that have been declared impaired or insolvent.
Diana Windsor, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Unit member, who volunteers with the annual Variety Kids' Telethon in Buffalo.The event raises money for a local hospital that specializes in caring for children. Windsor has served as secretary to the director of nursing at the 586-bed Erie County Home and Infirmary for about five years. Before that, she worked at the Erie County Medical Center.
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is going green. The agency is implementing a Compressed Pay Period, or CPP, Pilot Program. The new program reflects concern for employees seeking a work/family balance and helps reduce energy use, traffic and air pollution. Eligible employees will be able to decrease the number of their workdays and increase the number of hours worked each day to earn a day off every tenth day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and DEC worker Tom Hobbs, pictured at his downtown Albany office, took advantage of the earlier pilot program.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Donnie Loomis, a maintenance assistant working in the Cape Vincent Correctional Facility's maintenance building, reaches for a wrench while working in the shop.
Charlotte Wallace, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Cortland County Local member, uses the CanRX Alternative Prescription Plan offered by the Strategic Benefit Trust. Negotiating the trust's benefits into a contract can be a more cost-efficient way to provide health benefits for some public employees and could in some cases, be the only way to get benefits to the private sector.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Veterans Committee Chair Len Beaulieu, left, and Ron Mironchik, both SUNY New Paltz Local members, were part of a group of local veterans who helped get a monument to veterans that has been installed in the new Ulster County Veterans Cemetery.
Unidentifed Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and staff joined correction officers and other union members as well as concerned citizens at a recent rally to save Hudson Correctional Facility from closing. A state plan to close Hudson and three other upstate New York correctional facilities has met with strong opposition from workers, political leaders and community members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Viola Rauff with two dogs rescued after a Jericho veterinary technician noticed the same woman repeatedly brought in sick and injured animals over the course of several weeks. The technician alerted authorities and more than 100 animals were removed from the house. Thanks to CSEA members employed at an animal shelter in Oyster Bay, in Long Island, NY, the animals now have a second chance at a healthy, happy life.