Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Tracy Fricano Chalmers, regional coordinator for public health emergency preparedness, tests samples for swine flu at the Erie County Health Department. Samples come to the testing center from a 17-county region.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region members joined other AFSCME activists and members of the Coalition of Labor Union Women at the 3rd annual Walk to Beat the Clock in Washington, D.C. The walk helps to raise money and awareness about cervical cancer. It was started by Tamika Felder, an AFSCME member and cervical cancer survivor (holding the CSEA banner on the left) who formed Tamika and Friends, a movement to end cervical cancer.
Farmworkers fight for their rights at a recent rally at the state Capitol. The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) joined the Justice for Farmworkers campaign, taking part in a rally to support farm workers in their fight for the same rights enjoyed on the job by non-agricultural workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) custodians and maintenance workers were critical to helping the Deer Park School District provide a safe environment for teachers and students after threat of the swine flu led to the district closing all six schools. From left, Andrew Vitucci, Joe Abate, John Andria, Larry Tyronolone, Ricky Mongelli, Joe Leon, Dennis Melaniff and Mike Sheehan, Jr. at Robert Frost Middle School. The union members and those at other schools in the Deer Park School District helped get the school ready after it was closed due to swine flu.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Steve Watkins, a lab worker at Wadsworth Lab, Griffin Lab location, works in waste-stream management stocking supplies in the lab and making sure lab materials are decontaminated and sanitized. Photo and quote used in story about state workers involved in the fight against Swine Flu.
Kerry Kennedy, human rights lawyer and activist, and daughter of former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, speaks at the Justice for Farmworkers rally in Albany. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) joined the Justice for Farmworkers campaign taking part in a rally to support farm workers in their fight for the same rights enjoyed on the job by non-agricultural workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Joy Simmerman, here on the job as an administrative aide at SUNY New Paltz, recently graduated from college because of tuition assistance benefits available through the [NYS & CSEA] Partnership for Education and Training, education and training opportunities for NYS CSEA-represented employees and NYS agencies through Labor-Management Cooperation.