Claudia Ruiz and her assistant Jennifer Rios with the children in their care. Independent childcare providers across New York State came one step closer to having a union voice after Governor Eliot Spitzer signed an executive order on May 8, 2007, allowing them union representation.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Pat Gibbins showing some of his handiwork at the newly restored historic Grooms Tavern in Clifton Park, NY. CSEA Clifton Park Unit members helped restore the tavern, which opened in 1826 and housed numerous other businesses over the years. It sat vacant since the 1970s and the town acquired the property and planned the restoration.
Department of Health Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)representative Marie Rogers and CSEA Health Research Inc. Local President Deb Hanna discussing safety concerns at 90 Church St. in New York City with United States Representative Jerrold Nadler. Double windows were installed at the building after a long fight by CSEA activists to improve the health and safety of workers who were moved to the building which was contaminated during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Faces of The Work Force are photos taken by Civil Services Employees Association (CSEA) staff from around the state showing members at work throughout the year. Jason Muglio, a respiratory therapist at Westchester Medical Center, helps save babies' lives in the hospital's prestigious neonatal Unit.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Treasurer Maureen Malone greeting more than 50 representatives and supporters of the United Farmworkers as they marched past union headquarters in Albany, NY, en route to the State Capitol. The farmworkers were fighting for the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act. CSEA strongly supports their fight for fairness and respect. The proposed act would give farmworkers in New York the same on-the-job rights and protections other workers receive.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, right, meets with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver during Lobby Day 2005. Hundreds of CSEA members traveled to Albany to meet with state lawmakers on health care and other issues during the annual CSEA/AFSCME Lobby Day.
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.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting "Your State Taxes at Work": A driver (management), stopped at a stop sign and pouring gas (tax dollars) in the tank of a "state-funded paver" (non-profits Union-Busting Campaigns) that's sitting on a flattened worker (worker rights). The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William McGowan with then CSEA Treasurer (now Executive Vice President) Mary Sullivan and then CSEA Secretary Irene Carr in front of the State Capitol in Albany, New York, preparing to cut a 24-foot, 450-pound birthday cake to be served to thousands of workers. May is Public Employee Recognition Month in New York State and CSEA was celebrating the anniversary of the signing of the nation's first civil service law by Governor Grover Cleveland in May, 1883.
Seated at a table during a press conference are AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy, AFSCME President Jerry Wurf, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan, and CSEA Executive Vice-President Tom McDunnough announcing CSEA's affiiation with AFSCME in Albany, New York.