Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and maintenance mechanic Ed Melin builds and repairs the gates, grates and any other metal security fixtures used at the Nassau County jail.
From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Kathy MacKay, Sandy Lyons, Candie Lucyzyn and Rose Teachman load clothing donations onto a truck at a Cattaraugus County work site. CSEA members conducted a clothing drive to benefit Allegany Region Missions, which provides clothing to those in need in the communiy, throughout the United States and abroad.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue talks about the union's Campaign for Quality Care in New York's developmental disabilities system at a news conference in Syracuse with Assemblywoman Joan Christensen and Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli. The Quality Care campaign is necessary because of an epidemic in turnover rates ? up to 40 percent annually among front line employees of many not-for-profit agencies that threaten the long-term quality standards of services and care.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Dashamali Jennings, a developmental aide with the Central New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office works with a client. CSEA is preparing to introduce state legislation that will help preserve the quality care standards in the public and not-for-profit sectors of the developmental disabilties field, which will help boost the substandard pay and benefits of non-union employees of not-for-profit centers while protecting the hard fought rights and contractual protections of CSEA members.
Faces of The Work Force are photos taken by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) staff from around the state showing members at work throughout the year. Horticultural worker Rosa Goncalves shows off some plants she helped nurture in Brookhaven's town greenhouse.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Town of Greenport Unit standing in front of the garage they built for the town of Greenport, New York. From left are Mark Gaylord, Roger Rote, Chip Roberts, Dan Kenneally and Unit President Pat Nolan. Other CSEA members who helped build the garage but were not available for the photo are Fred Fuchs, Anthony Porreca and Bob Poulter. The members gave up part of their weekends for nearly a year to give back to their community by building a double-bay garage, as a gift to their town.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Gerard Zlotkowski, a Smithtown Fire District Firehouse Attendant, at work taking a call for help. Zlotkowski was honored by the town of Smithtown, New York, for his quick action that a saved a woman's life. CSEA members in the Smithtown Fire District are skilled, compassionate caregivers who are often unsung heroes. The district, which serves Smithtown and four other municipalities, serves more than 100,000 residents.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activists from the Metropolitan and Long Island regions attending the 2005 Political Action Liaison (PAL) training held in Port Jefferson, New York. Willie Gwynn (in foreground), 2nd vice president of the Long Island Developmental Center Local, studies the issues critical to CSEA members. Next to him are a liaison from the Metropolitan Region and Long Island Region President Nick LaMorte, third from right. Federal PALs are activist members of CSEA who have undertaken a critical mission: To carefully track the political and voting activity of their congressional representatives and senators; to communicate and lobby on behalf of union members to federal lawmakers; and to hold the lawmakers' feet to the fire when they are faced with votes of particular interest to CSEA members. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and activists from the Metropolitan and Long Island regions attending the 2005 Political Action Liaison (PAL) training. The workshop, led by CSEA Director of Political Operations Adam Acquario, was part of an intensive two-day training session in Port Jefferson, New York. During training, CSEA's PALs arm themselves with the facts they will need to lobby lawmakers most effectively regarding where they stand on the issues of members' jobs, contracts, benefits, pay and quality of life.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, Brooklyn Developmental Center Local President Denise Berkley, New York City Councilman Hiram Monserrate and the QCARE (Quality Care Advoctes for the Rights of Employees) committee rally at a news conference in front of QSAC (Quality Service Autism Community) headquarters in Queens, New York, in support of workers at QSAC who were fed up with short staffing, high turn over, arbitrary firings and disciplinary actions and problems with food and medical supplies. The committee worked with CSEA to stand up and fight for fair representation on the job and after more than a year-long fight won union representation and became part of CSEA in 2004. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.