The Oneida County Chapter, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), presented service plaques last night to Mrs. Helen Rauber, salary committee chairman, and William Blom of Albany, second from left, its state research director. Others honored by president Roger Solimando, right, and meeting chairman Louis Sunderhaft, left, were Mrs. Edna Fredricks, Louis Wroblewski, Mrs. Marian Dersherl and William Freiberger. The group met in PLAC Hall and heard Irving Flaumenbaum, state membership committee chairman and president of the Nassau County CSEA, describe his chapter's growth to 10,000 members.
Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson shaking hands with Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)attorney Jim Featherstonhaugh at the 1980 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting in Niagara Falls, New York. Behind Anderson is CSEA Executive Vice President Tom McDunnough.
The former Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) headquarters building at 33 Elk Street in Albany, New York. A banner reading "CSEA YOUR VOTE COUNTS CSEA" hangs from the building.
New York Governor Mario Cuomo speaks at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Board of Directors meeting at the Albany Hilton Hotel in 1982. To his right are CSEA President William L. McGowan and Statewide Secretary Irene Carr.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 603 President Shelly Planty hands out information at a CSEA booth at the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club Expo in 1990.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Judiciary Local 335 President Ralph Hesson right, leads a demonstration in Buffalo against Office of Court Administration job cuts in 1991.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members chanting "Main Street, not Wall Street," thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol in Albany, January 7, 2009 to participate in the March for Main Street.
Union members from the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and other labor groups demand fairness at a November 18 rally near the state Capitol in Albany, NY, the same day Governor Paterson called for a special legislative budget session which broke down without any resolution to the state's budget deficit. CSEA's position is that the governor's budget proposals have only been about cutting back essential public services and shifting more burden to working New Yorkers.
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) reminding members to attend the March For Main Street rally at the Capitol in Albany, NY, on January 7, 2009, the date Gov. Paterson gives his State of the State address. The rally is a response by CSEA and other New York state labor unions to the governor's budget which puts jobs and services across the state at serious risk.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Mary Brownell, Brenda Facin and Heidi Holcomb, all of the Greenwich School District Unit, before jumping into a frigid Lake George to help raise money for Special Olympics athletes.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Tammy Sugrue prepares to serve a five-gallon "ice treat," a fish and juice frozen into the shape of a heart, to an elephant. In conjunction with a family Valentine's Day event, animal handlers represented by CSEA held an "enrichment day" at the Buffalo Zoo. The event is one of many ways zoo staff educates visitors about the zoo's inhabitants.
Retiring Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary Barbara Reeves in a familiar role of advising and mentoring a union activist. Reeves diligently worked to codify union documents, constitutions and contracts, where possible, to make them consistent with the union's mission. Reeves has devoted her union career to improving the lives of working people on and off the job. She has served as CSEA statewide secretary since 1994. She leaves a legacy of leadership and dedicated service to the union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Putnam County Local members Mark Semo and Mike O'Connor, joined by CSEA Political Action Coordinator Cody Peluso, react to the icy temperatures of Fishkill Creek during the Special Olympics Polar Plunge. O'Connor took the plunge in an Elmo costume. Across the state, CSEA members have been braving freezing water to take the Polar Plunge, raising money to help send athletes to the New York Special Olympics Summer Games. CSEA members this winter raised more than $10,000 to help support the summer games.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member State Office of General Services electrician Frank Salvagio installs an improved light fixture he designed into a marble wall at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY. Salvagio recently won the state Civil Service Department Merit Award for his suggestion to replace outdated magnetic light ballasts in the plaza's 420 security lights with more efficient electric ones. The new electronic ballasts will last five times longer and use less energy than the magnetic ones.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA members protest an appearance by Governor David Paterson at a Department of Transportation garage in Syracuse.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western New York DDSO Local Secretary Sue Balsano lights a candle in memory of workers who died on the job. Workers Memorial Day is observed on the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (April 28, 1970) and is an international day of mourning for those who die on the job. CSEA also dedicates April 28 to fighting for safe and healthy work sites for all workers.
Keith Shultis, a member of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Mid-Hudson State Employees Local, operates a grooming machine at the Belleayre Mountain ski resort located in Highmount, NY, in Ulster County. CSEA members at Belleayre, Gore Mountain and Whiteface Mountain are all wrapping up a busy ski season that kept them on the slopes through April, as ski areas did much better business this year than last.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, right, welcomes AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker during the Capital District Area Labor Federation's annual meeting in Albany, NY, where Holt Baker delivered the keynote address. CSEA plays an active role in the area labor federation, with Sullivan serving as the federation's executive vice president and Capital Region President Kathy Garrison serving as a vice president. Holt Baker is the first African-American woman elected to one of the federation's highest three offices, and she is the highest ranking African-American woman in the labor movement.