Former Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activist Greg Szurnicki who died recently at age 83. Szurnicki began his public career as an attendant at the now defunct Kings Park Psychiatric Center in New York City. He went on to become president of the CSEA local there and the union became his passion. He is particularly remembered for the many years he served as chairman of the Statewide Election Committee.
An invitation to all stockholders of the Utica (New York) Chapter to attend their chapter meeting in order to discuss an upcoming legislative session in Albany that would determine "how our 'New York State Corportation' will run." Issues discussed included lump sum payment for accumulated unused sick leave upon retirement, separation from service, and vested rights. Courtesy of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Salamanca, New York, Police officers Chris Hutchison and Jeffrey DaHill and Chief Troy Westfall are members of a police department that makes twice as many arrests as departments in bigger cities and towns, but with half as many officers. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in the department were part of an investigation that led to a major drug bust in predominantly rural Cattaraugus County in Western New York, taking a large amount of crack cocaine off the streets and serving 21 federal arrest warrants.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Research Department staff at work. From head of table to right: Research Analyst Cindy Chovanec, Assistant Director of Research Tom Coyle, Director of Research Bill Blom and consultant Joe Watkins. (People on left side of table are unidentified.)
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Pathological Lab Worker and Licensed Mortician Clayburn J. Powell cleans and adjusts equipment in the autopsy room in the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office. He and his co-workers played a role in the response when Continental Flight 3407 crashed into a home in the close-knit community of Clarence Center, killing 49 people. CSEA members from Clarence, the Erie County Unit and other nearby towns responded.
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.
New York State Governor George E. Pataki signing legislation awarding retired public employees in New York a supplement to their pensions. Among the dignitaries looking on are New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, Office of Management Confidential Employees President Barbara Zaron, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, New York AFL-CIO President Ed Cleary and New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall. CSEA, New York State's largest union, fought long and hard for the bill which was a top legislative priority for years.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) East Greenbush School District members fill a truck with donated supplies. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members across New York gave blood, helped raise relief money and moved donated goods to aid stricken families and relief workers in the World Trade Center attacks.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), with trademark cigar, pins 30-year Barge Canal veteran Henry Paul of CSEA Local 502 as Local President Frank Zammiello looks on.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue being congratulated by Special Olympics New York President Neal J. Johnson. Donohue was honored by Special Olymbics New York at its Salute to Labor for his continued efforts in the fight for fairness and respect of all individuals, including those with intellectual disabilities.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Research Department staff, from left, Assistant Director of Research Tom Coyle, Research Analyst Cindy Chovanec, Director of Research Bill Blom and consultant Joe Watkins. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and Manlius Highway Department Heavy Equipment Operator Dave Hale shows a student how to operate his snowplow during a visit to the Enders Road Elementary School. Hale visits local schools every year to talk about snowplow safety and show the kids whats involved in keeping town roads clear and safe. The town of Manlius is in Onondaga County, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) slams Governor Paterson's budget. Services, jobs and communities will all be hard hit and middle income New Yorkers will bear the brunt of the cost under Governor Paterson's proposed 2009-10 state budget.
Jerry Knapp of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Cortland County Local agrees with his local's decision to bargain for the Strategic Benefit Trust's prescription drug buying program. Negotiating the trust's benefits into a contract can be a more cost-efficient way to provide health benefits for some public employees and could in some cases, be the only way to get benefits to the private sector.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka fires up the crowd at the 2009 AFSCME Lobby Day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and AFSCME members from across the state came by the busload for AFSCME Lobby Day on March 31, meeting with lawmakers and lobbying them to oppose Governor David Paterson's proposed layoffs of 8,700 state workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, from left, Saratoga Springs, New York, City Hall Unit President Kathy Moran, Olivia Dean, Lynn Browne, Doris Dyer, Michael Peters, Karen Whipple and Tony Izzo show off their Halloween costumes. Unit members dressed up in costumes and attended a lunch party, where they raised more than $500 to help buy holiday gifts for residents at Maplewood Manor, the county's nursing home.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Headquarters staff posing for a photo after being interviewed by a reporter from WNYT-Channnel 13 of Albany, NY during a fund-raiser for tsunami victim relief efforts. The mini-telethon held at CSEA Headquarters raised more than $100,000 that day, with CSEA activists and staff taking pledges. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members demonstrating at the Peru School District because the district refused to pay retiree health benefits to Ken LaMoy, a former co-worker who is battling cancer. Nearly 100 North Country members turned out for the demonstration, held before a board of education meeting at which the grievance was heard.
U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan speaking to Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members at an unidentified meeting. Moynihan is wearing a baseball cap and holding a plaque. Behind Moynihan is CSEA President William McGowan and other unidentified CSEA members.
Institution teachers stage a demonstration on the steps of the State Capitol to emphasize their determination to get a new career ladder plan. The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) won an improved career ladder for New York's 2,400 teachers at state institutions, which provided more room for promotion and better compensation for education and experience than existed under the previous system.
Former Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Director Joseph Dolan, left, shown with former Governor Hugh Carey. Dolan died May 7 at age 73. He began his career at CSEA in 1965 as an Albany, NY, field representative, working his way up to executive director, a job he left in 1982.
Contract negotiations between Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and New York State negotiators in 1973. CSEA President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) sits at right head of table with back to camera.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) waves to thousands of CSEA members at an April 1975 rally at the state Capitol over state cutbacks.
Civil Sercive Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) addresses thousands of CSEA members at an April 1975 rally at the state Capitol over state cutbacks.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) addresses thousands of CSEA members at an April 1975 rally at the state Capitol over state cutbacks.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented New York State workers hold a contract demonstration at the State Capitol in 1975. The crowd of union members are holding their signs upward toward the photographer.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan and AFSCME President Jerry Wurf shake hands over the agreement for CSEA affiliation with AFSCME in 1978.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan shaking hands with Governor Hugh Carey at the 1979 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, was drawn prior to the union's 70th Annual Delegates Meeting in 1980 but was never published in the CSEA newspaper. CSEA delegates decided to support Carter's presidential bid and invited Carter to speak at their convention.
President Jimmy Carter waving to delegates from the stage at the 1980 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Annual Delegates Meeting in Niagara Falls, New York. Carter was campaigning for his second term in office. At right is U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan, third from left, looks on as Governor Hugh Carey signs the Public Employee Safety and Health Act. The union played a major role in passage of the law which made safe workplaces a right instead of a priviledge for thousands of public employees in New York State.
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.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region President Irving Flaumenbaum addressing the crowd at an occupational safety and health rally at the State Capitol.
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.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, lampooned Governor Hugh Carey's infamous 1982 comments about "drinking a glass of PCBs" following the contamination of the Binghamton State Office Building following a transformer fire.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), left, with New York Governor Hugh Carey at CSEA's 1982 Annual Delegates Meeting in Buffalo.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) New York City State Employees Local President George Calomeno and other New York City members in the Labor Day parade carrying signs supporting Mario Cuomo during his campaign for governor of New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), left, speaks with New York Governor Hugh Carey at CSEA's 1982 Annual Delegates Meeting in Buffalo. At right is Governor's Office of Employee Relations Director Sandy Fucher.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), right, welcomes New York Governor Hugh Carey to CSEA's 1982 Annual Delegates Meeting in Buffalo.
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.
Gubernatorial candidate Mario Cuomo, front, second from right, campaigns for votes on Long Island with then Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region President Danny Donohue, front, second from left.
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. To his left are CSEA Treasurer Barbara Fauser, CSEA Federal Issues Coordinator Joe Conway and CSEA Executive Vice President Joseph McDermott.
New York Governor Mario Cuomo meets with Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) officers shortly after taking office. From left are: Cuomo, CSEA Executive Vice President Danny Donohue, CSEA Western Region President Bob Lattimer, CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene Carr and CSEA President Joseph McDermott.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region President Frances Dubose Baptiste, U.S. Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale, CSEA President William L. McGowan, and Statewide Secretary Irene Carr attending the 1984 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting.
New York Governor Mario Cuomo is applauded at a New York State Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) /AFL-CIO meeting. AFL-CIO President Ed Cleary is at Cuomo's right.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), left, shows his support for Senator Alfonse D'Amato, as the union endorses him for re-election in 1986.
Governor Mario Cuomo accepting the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s endorsement for reelection. From left to right are CSEA Federal Issues Coordinator Joe Conway, CSEA President William L. McGowan, Cuomo, and Executive Vice President Joseph E. McDermott.
Civil Service Employees Association(CSEA) members demonstrate for safer working conditions at state psychiatric centers following the murder of New York State Department of Mental Hygiene therapy aide Clara Taylor by a patient at Rockland Psychiatric Center in 1987. Some of the demonostrators' signs include a photograph of Taylor.
U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, left, reads a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) petition delivered to Washington DC by CSEA President William L. McGowan, right. The petition called for helping to halt an IRS plan to tax unused sick leave.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, depicts the union's successful efforts to stop an ill-conceived Internal Revenue Service attempt in 1988 to tax unused public employee sick leave and vacation time.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members march to City Hall in Manhattan as part of a parade welcoming Nelson & Winnie Mandela to New York City. Members carry a banner that reads, "CSEA Welcomes Nelson and Winnie Mandela." CSEA Anti-Apartheid Committee Chair Willie Terry is at left of banner.
David Dinkins speaking at the announcement of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s endorsement of Dinkins for New York City Mayor. Pictured, from left, are CSEA Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, Dinkins, and CSEA President Joseph E. McDermott. Dinkins was New York City's first African American mayor (1990-1993).
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) Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center Local President Bud Mulchy, right, hands NY Governor Mario Cuomo a copy of a CSEA whitepaper report "No Compassion, No Care: Abandoning the Mentally Ill" at a demonstration at the SUNY Institute of Technology in Marcy, NY.
New York Mayor David Dinkins speaking at the 1992 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Annual Delegates Meeting in New York City. Dinkins was New York City's first African American mayor (1990-1993).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue with Karen Burstein at a press conference announcing the union's endorsement of Burstein for New York Attorney General.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, depicted the horrific violence of the 1995 bombing attack on innocent public employees working at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The union had long made efforts to secure worksites in New York State.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, warns of the devastating impact the 1995 congressional budget would have on New York state jobs and services, including health care and education.
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaking to the press at the 1996 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Annual Delegates Meeting. Giuliani was mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Political Action Coodinator member Gerry Fidler, Central Region Political Action Committee Chair Betty Thomas, statewide Secretary Barbara Reeves, Treasurer Maureen Malone, and Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan at a 5 for the Future program in Syracuse. Five for the future was an internal union organizing initiative encouraging members to get involved in the union by volunteering 5 hours a month to CSEA activities.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Board of Directors representative Carol Thornton holding a portion of a sculpture she created in tribute to four CSEA social service workers murdered while on the job in Schuyler County in 1992.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Helen Hayes Hospital Local 302 President Bill Curtin accepts the 1998 CSEA Mission Achievement Award. CSEA President Danny Donohue is at left.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, at podium, announcing the union's endorsement of H. Carl McCall for New York State Comptroller on the steps of the State Capitol. Joining Donohue are, from left, CSEA Audit and Control Local President Georgianna Natale, CSEA Executive Vice President Mary E. Sullivan, Donohue, Statewide Secretary Barbara Reeves, McCall, CSEA Capital Region President Carmen Bagnoli, and CSEA Treasurer Maureen Malone.
Members of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), including President Danny Donohue (left), attending the New York State Association of Black and Puerto-Rican Legislators Annual Conference in 1998.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, depicts Governor George E. Pataki as oblivious to the needs of state workers in their fight for a fair contract as well as their efforts to obtain one, which culminated in a 20,000 member-strong rally at the state Capitol. A contract agreement was reached a short time later in early Jan. 2000.
An unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member shakes hands with New York Governor George Pataki at the 1999 CSEA SUNY Cortland Demonstration.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue and the 2000 CSEA State Contract Negotiating Team cheering. All are wearing CSEA logo t-shirts.
Civil Service Employeess Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, right, shakes hands with State Comptroller H. Carl McCall as he announces CSEA's endorsement of McCall for New York State Governor at the Desmond Americana Hotel in Albany. McCall lost the 2002 election to incumbent Governor George E. Pataki.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Mark Hoffman, while on the back of a Department of Public Works truck passing through more than 3 feet of flood water, speaks about flood damage done to the Montgomery County Annex building, shown behind him. Floods raged through New York's Central, Capital, and Southern regions on June 28, 2006. CSEA members recorded much of the devastation the floods brought.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Dave Sniatecki, left, and Tim Ryan point out a security camera in the aisle of one of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's Metro buses. The camera system, originally installed to fight fraud, has also helped discourage rowdy behavior and solve criminal cases. Sniatecki and Ryan are members of CSEA's Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Supervisory Unit.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Treasurer Joe McMullen leads a chant on the steps of the state Capitol as PEF Secretary-Treasurer Arlea Igo, PEF Statewide Vice President Pat Baker and CSEA Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley keep the crowd fired up at the March for Main Street rally in Albany on January 7, 2009.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member proudly displays a whistle bearing the CSEA and AFSCME logos during a rally preceding the March for Main Street on January 7, 2009, at the Times Union Center in Albany. The whistle, one of several giveaways marchers received upon arriving in Albany, was just one of the many ways union activists made themselves heard to challenge Governor David Paterson's state budget proposal.
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.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue fires up marchers. 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.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region activists Barbara Shoates, a Department of Motor Vehicles' traffic violation division worker in Manhattan, and Johnnie Dinkins, a keyboard specialist at VESID in Brooklyn, rally before the March for Main Street. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and other labor organizations stand together on and off the Capitol steps in their fight for middle-class New Yorkers. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region State Employees Local member Will James keeps the crowd fired up at the Times Union Center. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the Sullivan County Local make it an annual tradition to play Santa Claus to young students at Sullivan County Head Start in Woodbourne, purchasing holiday gifts for the children. Santa, as portrayed by Fallsburg School District Unit member Angelo Pacheco, visits with a student.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s cartoon depicting Flotsam and Jetsam: New York taxpayers drowning in a flood, waving a flag for help, while Governor Paterson offers to cut more services and programs and add more fees and taxes. CSEA (lifeboat) offers to throw a life preserver (Revenue-raising ideas).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members get fired up at the pre-march rally at the Times Union Center. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue leads the march for Main Street. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) advertisement "Working New Yorkers Deserve Better!" CSEA members speak out about Governor Paterson's proposed state budget.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are fired up in cold, icy weather during the rally. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.