Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero, left, contratulates Sgt. Kevin Owens on his honor of being named New York State Deputy Sheriff of the Year. A Civil Service Emplpoyees Association (CSEA) member of the Ontario County Sheriff's Department, Sgt. Owens was shot in April 2005 while responding to a bank robbery.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Deborah Johnson, standing at right, joined fellow Wayne County Nursing Home employees in Albany for Nursing Home Lobby Day. The group met with State Senator Michael F. Nozzolio, R-Seneca Falls, outside Senate Chambers. Clockwise, from left, Dawn Wuilliez, Suzanne Wild, Debra Welt, Nozzolio, Johnson, Brenda Brown and John Allen. Dozens of activists met with their elected officials on March 14, nursing home lobby day, to urge state Senate and Assembly members to make the right choices in funding public health care, and in particular nursing homes.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region President Flo Tripi speaks in Rochester on CSEA's Campaign for Quality Care in New York's developmental disabilities system. Rochester supporters included Assemblyman Joseph D. Morelle and State Senator Michael F. Nozzolio. The Quality Care campaign is necessary because of an epidemic in turnover rates ? up to 40 percent annually among front line employees of many not-for-profit agencies that threaten the long-term quality standards of services and care.
From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Kathy MacKay, Sandy Lyons, Candie Lucyzyn and Rose Teachman load clothing donations onto a truck at a Cattaraugus County work site. CSEA members conducted a clothing drive to benefit Allegany Region Missions, which provides clothing to those in need in the communiy, throughout the United States and abroad.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members from the Glendale Home in Schenectady County take part in an Albany rally in front of the State Capitol to protest recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. CSEA mounted numerous public events and rallies, leaders testified at public hearings in every part of the state and the union also mounted a media campaign to get its message out and get communities involved.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Buffalo Zoo Local President Kelly Amrhein prepares to feed a sea lion 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.
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.
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)'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.