Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s first graduating LEAD class. LEAD is CSEA's Leadership Education and Development Program. Thirty-two CSEA activists from across the state completed the first-ever CSEA LEAD program, an intensive, 18-month program to help emerging union activists gain the skills and knowledge necessary to better address the challenges facing the union at every level.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Village of Suffern employee Scott Brown hands a flier to a Suffern Day attendee. CSEA members and village workers attended the second annual Suffern Day festival this fall, armed with fliers informing the public about the Village of Suffern mayor's anti-union efforts. The mayor lost in the 2005 elections. Village workers looking to organize under CSEA worked to oust Mayor James Giannettino from office after the mayor repeatedly rebuffed their union-forming efforts.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, urging people to get out and vote on November 8, 2005. It sends a message to CSEA members to vote for CSEA-endorsed candidates and to vote yes on Proposition 1.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Stockbridge Valley School District Bus Driver Fred Marshall reflects on the incident that killed one of his riders. Marshall was involved in an incident in May 2004 where an 8 year old child was killed stepping off of a bus that he was driving. After the incident, Marshall became an advocate for school bus safety.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and employees of Greene County's Child Support Enforcement Unit are awarded with a certificate of recognition by the New York State Office of Temporary Disability Assistance for thier increased efforts in collecting overdue child support. Standing in the back row (left to right) are Senior Support Investigator Linda Nacey, Support Investigator Darlene Tompkins, Support Investigator Linda Thompson, and examiner Jean Thomas-Welch. Standing in the front (left to right) are Clerk Karen Schmatz, Community Service Worker Kelly Vosburgh, and Support Collector Stephanie Ingalls.
Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Commissioner Thomas Maul answers questions put forward by unidentified Civil Services Employees Association (CSEA) members at a OMRDD Labor-Management Summit. Maul also discussed the current state of OMRDD's functions during the meeting.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in the Capital Region, including Region President Kathy Garrison, joined other volunteers two days before Thanksgiving to assist Equinox with its annual Thanksgiving meal for Albany-area people in need. Volunteers helped with tasks that included cleaning, peeling potatoes and prepping turkeys. From left are Kim Wallace, Lori Jubic, Garrison, Jay Ingoldsby and his daughter Lauren.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Dave Perry, a heavy equipment operator for the City of Fulton, shows 9-year-old Logan Aubeuf how to operate a snow plow. Perry was participating in the city's second annual CSEA Employee Recognition Day, a public event honoring CSEA city workers for their service.
Schenectady Family Health Services Dental Hygienist and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Karen DeThorne, works on a patient's teeth. Schenectady Family Health Services continues to help lower income residents obtain access to dental care.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Tim Haire, a DOT sign crew worker, and DOT Sign Crew Supervisor Lois Marshall looking down from above into the culvert where they found Glen Smith, an injured driver whose truck went into the culvert along Route 89 in Ithaca, New York. The two Ithaca state Department of Transportation workers are credited with saving the life of Smith. They were repairing a road sign that had been knocked down when they noticed tire tracks ending abruptly on the side of a small hill by a deep culvert and decided to investigate. Smith was suffering from exposure. Because the site was not easy to find, the only way someone would have seen Smith was if they were walking and looking for him.