Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented workers at the Putnam County Department of Health's Certified Home Health Care Agency staff, who have been ranked among the top in the country. The excellent outcomes of care experienced at Putnam County's agency are due not just to the excellent care, but also to workers' dedication to improving their skills. Direct care workers attend monthly training programs.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Deputy Counsel Jerry Lefkowitz, who was nominated by New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer to chair the Public Employee Relations Board. As an attorney in the New York State Labor Department under Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Lefkowitz helped craft the Public Employees Fair Employment Act, also known as the Taylor Law, which was enacted in 1967.After the law's enactment, Lefkowitz served as PERB's executive director for many years before joining CSEA in 1987.
Cheryl M. Perkins, Library Clerk at SUNY Health and Sciences Center in Brooklyn, New York, using the Dewey Decimal System card catalog even though most of the research at the library is now done electronically. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) supports closing the gap in funding for libraries and providing more operating aid directly to libraries so they can have the resources necessary to meet the growing needs of their communities. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Office of Court Administration (OCA) negotiating team. Contract talks with the state are scheduled to begin in late March. The team met in Albany ,NY to pore over the OCA contract and compare files and notes. Sets of proposals have been drafted. The team members are, from left, New York City State Employees Local President Vinnie Martusciello, team chair; Capital Region Judiciary Local and Court of Claims Statewide President Nicole Ventresca-Cohen; Long Island Region Judiciary Local President Kevin Ray; Southern Region Judiciary Local President Bob Lorenc, team vice-chair; and Central Region Judiciary Local Vice President Donald Lynskey. Western Region Judiciary Local President Nancy Hart is in front.
SUNY New Paltz Local Vice Presidents Janice Beaulieu, left, and Mary Griffin taking part in a rally for the right for private food service employees at SUNY New Paltz to unionize. Sodexho-Marriot, an international, multibillion-dollar corporation, took over operations of the campus dining services in 2001. The workers approached the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) for help in forming a union in 2002 after Sodexho managers would subject employees to intimidation, reprimands and humiliation on the job. Nearly 100 workers voted to join CSEA in 2003. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Terri Gilbough of the Finger Lakes DDSO Local and client Richard at a group home in Rochester. CSEA is preparing to introduce state legislation that will help preserve the quality care standards in the public and not-for-profit sectors of the developmental disabilties field, which will help boost the substandard pay and benefits of non-union employees of not-for-profit centers while protecting the hard fought rights and contractual protections of CSEA members.
State lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, Senators Neil Breslin, Nicholas Spano (speaking) and George Maziarz, Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco and Assemblymen Robert Reilly, John McEneny and Roy McDonald turned out in force to support the Civil Service Empployees Association (CSEA)'s Campaign for Quality Care in New York's developmental disabilities system at an Albany news conference. 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.
State Senator Frank Padavan speaks at a Campaign for Quality Care in New York's developmental disabilities system news conference in New York City. Numerous other legislators, city council members and activists also participated. The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s 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) President Danny Donohue joins CSEA Thruway Authority Local President Nick Chiesa and CSEA Labor Relations Specialist Mike Sheldon in signing the local's new contract. Behind Sheldon is thruway Executive Director Mike Fleischer.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan members, from left, Roy Lester, Jacqueline Stanford, Angelina Hodges, Clarissa Mitchell and New York State Insurance Fund Local President Lester Crockett holding an exhibit of illustrious African Americans during a recent program to celebrate African American History Month. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.