AFSCME District Council 37 Director Victor Gotbaum with his head at his head while standing at the lecturn at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) event. At right are CSEA President William L. McGowan and Executive Vice President Tom McDonough.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, was part of the union's ongoing efforts to secure pay equity for women. CSEA made great strides on this issue throughout the 1980s.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), right, talks with AFSCME President Jerry Wurf, left, and United States Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in Washington D.C.
William L. McGowan served as the 20th president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) from 1977 until 1988. McGowan is credited with transforming CSEA into one of New York's most powerful labor unions. McGowan spearheaded CSEA's 1978 affiliation with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). His many accomplishments include: passage of the Public Employee Safety and Health Act, creation of the CSEA Employee Benefit Fund, fighting sex-based wage discrimiation, establishing employee assistance and tuition reimbursement programs and promoting workplace day care centers.
Tempers flared when two pickets, served with injunctions, were arrested by City police on orders from State Assistant Attorney General Robert Contiguglia. However, police learned shortly after the arrests the two men were not state employees, but field representatives of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Both were released. City officials said the entire matter was a misunderstanding and that the two had not really been arrested. On hand for the incident were Mayor Paul W. Lattimore and Assistant corporation counsel Thomas Leone. Above, Capt. Joseph Conboy, third from left, has a brief exchange with an on-looker. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Clinton Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members meet to go over details of a proposed contract with the school system. In front are Mrs. Earl Nestved, Mrs. Richard McCabe, Mrs. Robert Palmer and Mrs. Donald Foley and in back CSEA Field Representative Roger Kane, local unit president Ignatius Shepherd, and Unit Representative Loren Youngs. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
An unidentified group of Oneida County, NY Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members protest contract offers during the holidays of 1972. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the department workers are picketing the office each morning before work and during their lunch hour. Ted Modrzejewski, state field representative for the Civil Service Employee Association, has said that the picketing would coninue everday to "make the public aware of what's happening to this office." Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) is interviewed by Capital District news reporters outside the state Capitol.