Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Buffalo Zoo Local President Kelly Amrhein shares a tender moment with one of the three elephants she cares for at the zoo. Along with her co-workers, Amrhein is playing a role in the modernization of the 130-year-old zoo through the facility's capital campaign.
Gowanda Psychiatric Center employees celebrating T-shirt Tuesday, when employees wear special bright blue T-shirts to work that day each week, part of a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) campaign to keep New York State from closing the facility. In the front of this group is CSEA Local 408 President Wayne Jones. The T-shirt has a picture of a foot (Office of Mental Health) stomping on "Gowanda." The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County, NY, Local member Brian Nemier adjusting a lighting display for the county's 2007 "Lights on the Lake" holiday display.
Joan Phelps, school nurse and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Oakfield-Alabama School District Unit president, uses one of the newly installed hand sanitizer dispensers in Oakfield-Alabama Middle and High School in Genesee County, New York. The sanitizers were installed after an outbreak of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) was reported in the school district. CSEA members working in schools and health care facilities across New York state are challenged to protect the public from the dangerous MRSA infections on a daily basis.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member John Giffone, chief custodian at Deer Park High School in Long Island, NY, one of many CSEA members across the state who have been working to prevent outbreaks of a potentially deadly form of bacteria. CSEA members working in schools and health care facilities across New York state are challenged to protect the public from the dangerous MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections on a daily basis.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Ann Spaeth, a school nurse at Dover Elementary School in Dutchess County, NY, educating a student on hand washing techniques with simple soap and water. CSEA members working in schools and health care facilities across New York state are challenged to protect the public from the dangerous MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections on a daily basis.
Ed Collins, president of the Clarkson University Local, who received the 2007 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Mission Achievement Award for the private sector division. He was honored with the prestigious award for his leadership of his co-workers during the union's organizing and subsequent contract campaign at Clarkson. In 2006, Collins led CSEA-represented facilities and services workers at Clarkson through a public contract campaign after university administrators offered the employees a wage increase that would not allow them to keep up with rising costs of living. He is credited as a key force in holding the members together in solidarity throughout the campaign.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Wayne County, workers demonstrate outside the county offices. CSEA members were objecting to a move by the Wayne County Board of Supervisors to hire an outside negotiator, which union officials said was a waste of taxpayer money.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members answered the call in four Western New York State counties when a freak October storm ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households. Clarence Highway Department Heavy Equipment Operator Jamie Dussing clears broken tree limbs following an early lake effect snowstorm that socked the Buffalo area.
Highway Maintenance Supervisor Jerry Bartel, left, and Highway Maintenance Worker and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Department of Transportation Local President Mike Kam, looking over assignments for the day. Hundreds of highway and transportation workers from across the state conveged on Erie, Niagara, Orleans and Genesee counties following an October storm that brought down trees and power lines.