Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Gayle Zimmerman, registered nurse and communicable disease coordinator at the Saratoga County Public Health Department, answered calls from anxious residents, doctors' offices, school personnel, business owners and the media when news of the swine flu outbreak hit.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Tracy Fricano Chalmers, regional coordinator for public health emergency preparedness, tests samples for swine flu at the Erie County Health Department. Samples come to the testing center from a 17-county region.
Port Jervis School District's Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members rally against a contracting out proposal for the district's transportation services. Despite a valiant fight by members, district residents voted to approve a 2009-10 school budget that includes contracting out district transportation. The move will affect about 100 CSEA members working as bus drivers, monitors and mechanics.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting swine flu (represented by pig) being attacked by knight in armor (public workers who provide testing, cleaning, education, etc. to keep NYS public safe and healthy.)
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region members joined other AFSCME activists and members of the Coalition of Labor Union Women at the 3rd annual Walk to Beat the Clock in Washington, D.C. The walk helps to raise money and awareness about cervical cancer. It was started by Tamika Felder, an AFSCME member and cervical cancer survivor (holding the CSEA banner on the left) who formed Tamika and Friends, a movement to end cervical cancer.
Farmworkers fight for their rights at a recent rally at the state Capitol. The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) joined the Justice for Farmworkers campaign, taking part in a rally to support farm workers in their fight for the same rights enjoyed on the job by non-agricultural workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) custodians and maintenance workers were critical to helping the Deer Park School District provide a safe environment for teachers and students after threat of the swine flu led to the district closing all six schools. From left, Andrew Vitucci, Joe Abate, John Andria, Larry Tyronolone, Ricky Mongelli, Joe Leon, Dennis Melaniff and Mike Sheehan, Jr. at Robert Frost Middle School. The union members and those at other schools in the Deer Park School District helped get the school ready after it was closed due to swine flu.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Steve Watkins, a lab worker at Wadsworth Lab, Griffin Lab location, works in waste-stream management stocking supplies in the lab and making sure lab materials are decontaminated and sanitized. Photo and quote used in story about state workers involved in the fight against Swine Flu.
Kerry Kennedy, human rights lawyer and activist, and daughter of former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, speaks at the Justice for Farmworkers rally in Albany. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) joined the Justice for Farmworkers campaign taking part in a rally to support farm workers in their fight for the same rights enjoyed on the job by non-agricultural workers.