Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Blanca Maldonado looks through a photo album, one of the few of her possessions to survive Hurricane Sandy's wrath.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Blanca Maldonado enters the kitchen of her Staten Island home that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Desiree Stewart, a plebotomist at Westchester Medical Center, tells Westchester County legislators about working conditions at the hospital during a legislative hearing in Greenburgh, NY.
Southern Region President Billy Riccaldo, second from left, Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley and Westchester Medical Center Unit President Peter Piazza speak with Westchester County Legislature Chairman Kenneth W. Jenkins, far left, following a legislative hearing in Greenburgh, NY about the harmful nature of cuts on the Weschester Medical Center.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Westchester County Local President John Staino, a Westchester Medical Center employee, testifies about working conditions at the hospital to county legislators at a legislative hearing in Greenburgh, NY.
A. J. Smith of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Town of Hempstead Local in the Long Island Region is the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month for February 2012.
The Civil Service Employees Association's (CSEA) Bronx Psychiatric Center Local President Abraham Benjamin, right, holding bullhorn, fires up CSEA members and other workers at a rally blasting New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to lay off workers and cut the number of beds at Bronx Psychiatric Center.
Taxation and Finance Local President Patricia Metzger, left, and Lottery Division activist John O'Brien, center, meet with State Senator Eric Adams to discuss outsourcing of Lottery jobs.
Workers at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center held a lively lunchtime demonstration in front of the offices of Stephen Berger's investment firm, Odyssey Investment Partners. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local President Fitzroy Wilson, right, demonstrates to save his facility and SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Workers at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center held a lively lunchtime demonstration in front of the offices of Stephen Berger's investment firm, Odyssey Investment Partners. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region President Lester Crockett leads workers in a demonstration in front of Berger's Manhattan investment firm.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Westchester County Local President John Staino, second from right, meets with Westchester County Legislators Catherine Borgia, far left, and Virginia Perez. (Person on far right is unidentified.)
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members employed by Westchester Medical Center recently attended a press conference to blast hospital management for outsourcing jobs with a company with a record of failure.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), Westchester Local 2nd Vice President Junio Ismael Alvarado, center, dressed as King Melchor, joins retired CSEA member Donald Michael Friedman, right, as King Gaspar and SEIU Local 32BJ member Marcus Luna as King Baltasar in the annual Puerto Rican and Latino holiday tradition of celebrating Three Kings Day. On January 6 of every year since he was 7, Alvarado has worn an intricate, homemade costume, which usually takes him about a month to make, and participates in celebrations and parades.
Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local Vice President Crispin Booker, left, and Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local President Fitzroy Wilson discuss the recent report calling for the closure of inpatient services.
Lelia Hoskins, with State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, from the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center Local in the Metropolitan Region was the October 2010 PEOPLE recruiter of the month.
Crispin Booker, Vice President at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, hands out campaign literature to subway commuters in Brooklyn's busy Atlantic Terminal on Election Day.