Teaching associates in the Niagara Falls School District took to the street to protest job cuts and stalled contract talks with management. At issue is the loss of 33 jobs, as well as health insurance proposals by the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) that would level the playing field and create fair and equitable health insurance costs for unit members. Alida Barreto, a special education associate, leads co-workers during a demonstration against budget cuts.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and other union members take part in a Western New York Area Labor Federation We Are One rally in Buffalo. This was part of a day of action to show support for public employees in Wisconsin and elsewhere across the country on April 4, culminating in hundreds of We Are One rallies, emphasizing workers' rights and the growing gulf between the super rich and everyone else.
Two Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Town of Greece highway workers are credited with saving the life of an elderly man who somehow found himself in the middle of a fenced-in construction site next to the highway department and got stuck up to his armpits in mud and water and clinging to a post. The two workers heard the man's cries for help and stayed with him until emergency responders came and then helped pull the man to safety. Rescuers Dan O'Connell, left, and Ron Bandemer stand near the fence surrounding the construction site where the man became stuck in mud.