Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Mike Guynup, left, poses with Capital Region Membership Committee Chair Patty Kaufman after being announced the winner of the "Biggest Loser" competition.
Michael Flaherty of the Western Region Buffalo-Niagara Frontier Retirees Local is the PEOPLE Retiree Recruiter of the Year. He recruited 66 new PEOPLE members. From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) PEOPLE Coordinator Cheryl Palmer, Executive Vice President Mary E. Sullivan, Michael Flaherty and CSEA PEOPLE Committee Chair Rutha Bush.
Gloria Smith of the Central Region SUNY Syracuse Local is the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Year. She recruited 101 new PEOPLE members at the MVP level. From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary E. Sullivan, Gloria Smith, Central Region President Colleen Wheaton and CSEA President Danny Donohue.
Western Region delegate Bob Pyjas speaks out on the convention floor during the Civil Service Employees Association's (CSEA) 102nd Annual Delegates Meeting.
From left, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn Local (Downstate Medical Center) delegates President Althea Green, Mary Harmon, Maurie Dunaway and Juanita Nottingham listen to a workshop presentation during the Civil Service Employees Association's (CSEA) 102nd Annual Delegates Meeting.
Bronx Psychiatric Center Local President Abraham Benjamin and Port Washington School District Custodial, Transportation and Maintenance Unit President Richard Acevedo speak out at a workshop during the Civil Service Employees Association's (CSEA) 102nd Annual Delegates Meeting geared towards helping CSEA workers develop skills to fight on-going attacks on the middle class.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) officers pose with National Labor Relations Board Chairman Mark G. Pearce. Back row, from left, Statewide Treasurer Joe McMullien, Central Region President Colleen Wheaton, Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley, Long Island Region President Nick LaMorte, Metropolitan Region President Lester Crockett, Pearce and Executive Vice President Mary E. Sullivan. In front row is Western Region President Flo Tripi.
AFSCME International President Lee Saunders, left, and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue show union solidarity at CSEA's 102nd Annual Delegates Meeting.
The Civil Service Employees Association's (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary E. Sullivan addresses delegates at CSEA's 102nd Annual Delegates Meeting concerning workers rights and on-going attacks against the middle class.
Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley addresses delegates at the Civil Service Employees Association's (CSEA) 102nd Annual Delegates Meeting urging CSEA members to "stand up for your rights" and fight back against the on-going attacks on the middle class.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue addresses delegates at CSEA's 102nd Annual Delegates Meeting urging CSEA members to "stand up for your rights" to curb attacks against the middle class.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members take part in a Nursing Home Summit. The summits are intended to coordinate the union's strategies in the fight to save public nursing homes across the state.
Activists from the SUNY at Binghamton traveled to Manhattan's Bryant Park to deliver donated blankets and coats to members of the SUNY Stony Brook and Nassau County locals who were affected by Sandy. From left, SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight, SUNY at Binghamton Local Vice President Barbara Knighton, SUNY Stony Brook Local Treasurer Louise Melious, SUNY at Binghamton Local President David Lee, SUNY Stony Brook Local Vice President Marty Honeychuck, and Nassau County Local Activist Kelvin Lewis.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central Region activists Joe Palmisano, left, and David Lee staff a phone bank for New York State Assembly candidate Al Stirpe, who won his election.
From left, Maryann Arroyo of Malverne, Long Island child care providers Lisa Price of Hempstead and Sandra Smith,and Getty Njoku of Uniondale hand-delivered more than 1,300 letters to the Nassau County Department of Social Services commissioner to protest budget proposals that would diminish access to child care subsidies for many families in Nassau County.
State Education Department Local member and political action volunteer Pat Whalen, "We need candidates like Bill Owens, who looks out for working people and is going to make sure [working families] can put food on the table, make a decent living, send their kids to college. Nationally, if we fail to re-elect President Barack Obama and we elect Mitt Romney, I don't know what kind of a future is going to be possible for working people to have."