Former Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activist Greg Szurnicki who died recently at age 83. Szurnicki began his public career as an attendant at the now defunct Kings Park Psychiatric Center in New York City. He went on to become president of the CSEA local there and the union became his passion. He is particularly remembered for the many years he served as chairman of the Statewide Election Committee.
Salamanca, New York, Police officers Chris Hutchison and Jeffrey DaHill and Chief Troy Westfall are members of a police department that makes twice as many arrests as departments in bigger cities and towns, but with half as many officers. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in the department were part of an investigation that led to a major drug bust in predominantly rural Cattaraugus County in Western New York, taking a large amount of crack cocaine off the streets and serving 21 federal arrest warrants.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Pathological Lab Worker and Licensed Mortician Clayburn J. Powell cleans and adjusts equipment in the autopsy room in the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office. He and his co-workers played a role in the response when Continental Flight 3407 crashed into a home in the close-knit community of Clarence Center, killing 49 people. CSEA members from Clarence, the Erie County Unit and other nearby towns responded.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and Manlius Highway Department Heavy Equipment Operator Dave Hale shows a student how to operate his snowplow during a visit to the Enders Road Elementary School. Hale visits local schools every year to talk about snowplow safety and show the kids whats involved in keeping town roads clear and safe. The town of Manlius is in Onondaga County, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) slams Governor Paterson's budget. Services, jobs and communities will all be hard hit and middle income New Yorkers will bear the brunt of the cost under Governor Paterson's proposed 2009-10 state budget.
Jerry Knapp of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Cortland County Local agrees with his local's decision to bargain for the Strategic Benefit Trust's prescription drug buying program. Negotiating the trust's benefits into a contract can be a more cost-efficient way to provide health benefits for some public employees and could in some cases, be the only way to get benefits to the private sector.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members demonstrating at the Peru School District because the district refused to pay retiree health benefits to Ken LaMoy, a former co-worker who is battling cancer. Nearly 100 North Country members turned out for the demonstration, held before a board of education meeting at which the grievance was heard.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member proudly displays a whistle bearing the CSEA and AFSCME logos during a rally preceding the March for Main Street on January 7, 2009, at the Times Union Center in Albany. The whistle, one of several giveaways marchers received upon arriving in Albany, was just one of the many ways union activists made themselves heard to challenge Governor David Paterson's state budget proposal.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members chanting "Main Street, not Wall Street," thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol in Albany, January 7, 2009 to participate in the March for Main Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region State Employees Local member Will James keeps the crowd fired up at the Times Union Center. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s cartoon depicting Flotsam and Jetsam: New York taxpayers drowning in a flood, waving a flag for help, while Governor Paterson offers to cut more services and programs and add more fees and taxes. CSEA (lifeboat) offers to throw a life preserver (Revenue-raising ideas).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members get fired up at the pre-march rally at the Times Union Center. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue leads the march for Main Street. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) advertisement "Working New Yorkers Deserve Better!" CSEA members speak out about Governor Paterson's proposed state budget.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are fired up in cold, icy weather during the rally. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Schaunderlon White, right, serves Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance clients with the same dedication as she serves her union. The agency provides services for individuals who have been injured, have a disability or are unable to work and provide for themselves or their families for other reasons.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Hudson Valley DDSO Local President Nancy Hueben is fired up at the March for Main Street. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
In 2004, New York's farmworkers stopped to rally at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) headquarters on their way to the Capitol, winding up a 10-day, 200-mile walk for equal rights. CSEA members and staff joined them and showed support, handing out water to the thirsty and tired workers. CSEA is a longtime supporter of the Justice for Farmworkers campaign, led by the Rural and Migrant Ministry, committed to overcoming prejudices and poverty. CSEA urged members to join a May 12, 2009, rally in Albany to show state lawmakers that farmworkers cannot be forgotten for another 70 years.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue is pictured with Emily Armbruster of the American Red Cross at CSEA's recent Annual Delegates Meeting in Washington, D.C. CSEA has made a significant contibutin to the National Disaster Relief Fund in support of all Red Cross chapters in New York state. Armbruster spoke to CSEA delegates about Red Cross hurricane relief efforts.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon illustrating how Wall Street (a beaver) is biting into New York's economy (a tree) while New Yorkers (a sweating bird sitting on a branch) watch savings and investments (leaves shaken from a branch) blow away. A broken branch on the tree shows manufacturing decline. The state motto, "Excelsior" (Ever Upward) is crossed out and replaced with "Caveat Emptor" (Buyer Beware).
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicts former Governor Mario Cuomo filling a crack with piles of dirt representing state services. Governor Cuomo proposed massive mid-year budget cuts that included thousands of layoffs, deep cuts in state services and sharp slashes in aid for local governments and school districts. Governor Cuomo also called for mandatory, five-day furloughs in pay for all state employees that would cut workers' salaries by 2 percent.
Members of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Capital Region's newly formed library work group take a break from their first meeting to pose for a photo. The group is comprised of CSEA members employed at six area libraries. It will meet regularly to discuss issues of relevance to library workers. Discussion at the November meeting included topics such as negotiations, political action, workplace safety and proposed continuing education requirements. Joining the work group members are Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, back row, far left, and Capital Region Director Kate Luscombe, back row, far right.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Chemung County Unit 4th Vice President Joe Coletta and his Department of Social Services co-workers have been spearheading a collection of used cellular phones to be donated to the Salvation Army Safehouse Program, a domestic violence shelter program for Chemung and Schuyler counties. The program has already collected more than 100 phones that have been given to victims of domestic violence so they can always call 911 in an emergency.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Joe Kevlin, center, of the state Education Department Local, his son Patrick Kevlin, a College of St. Rose student, and Jim Dunden, also of the state Education Department Local, work to get out the vote on Election Day in the Capital Region.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities aide John Normile stands with a framed New York Times sports section front page. He took the photo of Drew Bledsoe getting sacked.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. CSEA President Danny Donohue addresses the attendees of the weekend program.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. Shannon Wade, right, from Guild for Exceptional Children, with Scott Gould from Health Research Inc. Local in Buffalo.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. Guadalupe Johnson, Nassau County Local Administrative Assistant, enjoys a light moment with other members at the weekend workshop.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. The weekend program began with labor history and transitioned to a series of collaborative, free-flowing brainstorming sessions where the young activists could focus on issues, specifically targeting younger CSEA members.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. Michael Nelson, right, executive secretary, Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local with Kevin Norwood from Suffolk County Municipal Local during one of the weekend workshops.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activists from eastern Long Island spoke out against Town Supervisor Phil Cardinale's posposed 2009 budget, particularly his plan to eliminate funding for public safety dispatchers in the town's Police Department. Riverhead Public Safety Dispatcher Melissa Breitenback, with her daughter, addresses the town board in opposition to the supervisor's plan to eliminate her position.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, officers and staff hit the streets to protest proposed layoffs in Lewis County. At the head of the line is Lewis County Local President Cal Farney, followed by CSEA Central Region President Colleen Wheaton.
Across New York, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are reaching out to their communities to help make the holidays brighter for New Yorkers who are facing tough times. CSEA members in the CSEA Oyster Bay Local recently made the holiday season happier for disadvantaged children in their communities. Chris Baranski, left, and Joe Damico work on a bike. At right, Chris Dane, Tim Brown and Jim Ort donated their time to the cause, along with several other local members.
Across New York, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are reaching out to their communities to help make the holidays brighter for New Yorkers who are facing tough times. Town of Patterson mechanical equipment operators, from left, Joe Tresca, Russell Goff and Jason Kinash work inside a Santa's Workshop float the Highway Department entered in the Putnam Lake Fire Department's annual holiday parade.
Across New York, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are reaching out to their communities to help make the holidays brighter for New Yorkers who are facing tough times. CSEA members in the CSEA Oyster Bay Local recently made the holiday season happier for disadvantaged children in their communities. Chris Dane, Tim Brown and Jim Ort donated their time to the cause, along with several other local members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Basil Townsend of the Hudson Valley DDSO (Developmental Disabilities Services Office) Local is PEOPLE (Public Employees Organized to Promote Legislative Equality) Recruiter for the month of November. He recruited 38 new PEOPLE members at the MVP level. CSEA's PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and in your community.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County Local President Phil Graham, giving Santa a hand with his visiting duties, gets a visit from Kara Rice. Rice is the daughter of Central New York DDSO Local member Rebecca Northrup. Graham was helping Santa during Onondaga County's Lights on the Lake Festival.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in the union's Madison County White Collar Unit are wearing buttons to protest the county's lack of a wage proposal in contract talks.
The Polar Plunge raises funds that directly benefits Special Olympics athletes and gives access to families that otherwise couldn't afford to send their special needs family members to Special Olympics. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Polar Plungers in Rochester during the 2007-08 season.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members campaign in downtown Albany for Sen. Hillary Clinton on New York's Super Tuesday. CSEA's efforts helped Clinton carry New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Grace Perez, left, president of the Central Islip Library Unit and Jackie Scannella are shown in front of a voting machine used by community residents in a recent vote that approved construction and renovation project for the library. Perez and other unit members played a key role in gaining public support for the project that would allow the library workers to provide better services to the community, with the unit sending postcards to registered voters and placing an ad in the local newspaper. The project will include a children's activity center, new computer lab and a quiet study/local history room.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Police Dispatcher Steve Robinson and other CSEA Batavia Unit members are fighting a plan to consolidate the city's dispatchers with the county. Removing the city's dispatchers would close the police station to the public for 16 hours out of every day. Police officers would also be removed from patrol to handle some of the work currently completed by dispatchers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Dean Seyler fields a call at the Erie County Command Center following the crash of Flight 3407. Seyler is a senior medical emergency radio systems coordinator for Erie County. During the emergency response he served as assistant emergency operations center manager after Continental Flight 3407 crashed into a home in the close-knit community, killing 49 people. CSEA members from Clarence, the Erie County Unit and other nearby towns responded.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Medical Examiner Carraugh Reilly Nowak, left, and Administrative Coordinator Karen Biel Costantino review emergency plans in the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office. Workers from the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office and Health Department set out to bring families back together after Continental Flight 3407 crashed into a home in the close-knit community of Clarence Center, killing 49 people. CSEA members from Clarence, the Erie County Unit and other nearby towns responded.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region Bathing Beauties gather at the CSEA booth immediately before the plunge at Bar Beach on Hempstead Harbor. Across the state, CSEA members have been braving freezing water to take the Polar Plunge, raising money to help send athletes to the New York Special Olympics Summer Games. CSEA members this winter raised more than $10,000 to help support the summer games.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Viola Rauff with two dogs rescued after a Jericho veterinary technician noticed the same woman repeatedly brought in sick and injured animals over the course of several weeks. The technician alerted authorities and more than 100 animals were removed from the house. Thanks to CSEA members employed at an animal shelter in Oyster Bay, in Long Island, NY, the animals now have a second chance at a healthy, happy life.
Unidentifed Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and staff joined correction officers and other union members as well as concerned citizens at a recent rally to save Hudson Correctional Facility from closing. A state plan to close Hudson and three other upstate New York correctional facilities has met with strong opposition from workers, political leaders and community members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Veterans Committee Chair Len Beaulieu, left, and Ron Mironchik, both SUNY New Paltz Local members, were part of a group of local veterans who helped get a monument to veterans that has been installed in the new Ulster County Veterans Cemetery.
Charlotte Wallace, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Cortland County Local member, uses the CanRX Alternative Prescription Plan offered by the Strategic Benefit Trust. Negotiating the trust's benefits into a contract can be a more cost-efficient way to provide health benefits for some public employees and could in some cases, be the only way to get benefits to the private sector.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Donnie Loomis, a maintenance assistant working in the Cape Vincent Correctional Facility's maintenance building, reaches for a wrench while working in the shop.
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is going green. The agency is implementing a Compressed Pay Period, or CPP, Pilot Program. The new program reflects concern for employees seeking a work/family balance and helps reduce energy use, traffic and air pollution. Eligible employees will be able to decrease the number of their workdays and increase the number of hours worked each day to earn a day off every tenth day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and DEC worker Tom Hobbs, pictured at his downtown Albany office, took advantage of the earlier pilot program.
Diana Windsor, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Unit member, who volunteers with the annual Variety Kids' Telethon in Buffalo.The event raises money for a local hospital that specializes in caring for children. Windsor has served as secretary to the director of nursing at the 586-bed Erie County Home and Infirmary for about five years. Before that, she worked at the Erie County Medical Center.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Laverne Scott-Allen, here on the job, helps protect the public. As a claim processor at the New York Sate Liquidation Bureau, Scott-Allen works to protect the interests of the policyholders and creditors of insurance companies that have been declared impaired or insolvent.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting reinventing Robin Hood (21st Century version) Was Robin Hood really just a thug? Robin Hood (exploitation, unscrupulous employers) using a bow and arrow (wage theft) robs the poor (American workers making minimum wage). Bags of riches include unpaid overtime, job discrimination, wage and hour violations and wage underpayment.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members including Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, center, demonstrate outside state Senator Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's district office in Queens. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Somewhat reluctant, but being a good sport, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York City State Employees Local 2nd Vice President Donald Bryant has makeup applied before taking part in a Workplace Violence Prevention DVD CSEA is producing to help CSEA leaders and activists reduce the risk of violence at their work sites. Bryant told interviewers about an individual who brutally attacked three Department of Motor Vehicle workers because he was angry over having failed his road test.
New York State Governor David Paterson, plugging his ears, is still not listening. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) continues it's message that Paterson's politics put people at risk. The illustration of Governor Paterson with his fingers in his ears has become familiar across the state in advertisements and billboards. It was developed by Mario Bruni, a graphic artist at the Public Employees Federation.
New York State Governor David Paterson, left, is confronted in Saratoga Springs by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, who is flanked by Public Employees Federation Secretary-Treasurer Arlea Igoe and CSEA Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Judiciary Local activist Judy DiPaola, Rochester State Employees President Doris Cota, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region Political Action Coordinator Courtney Brunelle, Western Region President Flo Tripi and Western Region Political Action Committee Chairman Tim Finnigan demonstrate outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office. CSEA members also demonstrated at Assemblyman Sam Hoyt's office in Buffalo. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Thurlus Cordon, left, and Mack Roberts III work as mental health therapy aides at Rockland Psychiatric Center. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide George Reinhard writes patient notes on a chart on Unit 2E at the Greater Binghamton Health Center. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Capital Region Women's and Community Outreach Committee members pose with items collected for Military Mom in Action, which collects supplies and letters for U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. After reading a newspaper article about the group, committee member Bonnie Roy suggested the committee get involved in collecting donations, an idea committee members enthusiastically embraced. Committee members coordinated donation boxes at state agency buildings and other area work sites in March, and recently helped Military Mom in Action representatives pick up and deliver the donations. Seated, front row, from left, are Gail Connell, Chair, Marie DeShaw and Liz Habiniak. Back row, from left, are Nicole Bishop, Bonnie Roy, Tom McKenna, Suzanne Williams, Lisa Tricozzi and Kim Wallace, Capital Region secretary and committee officer liaison.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Suffolk Municipal Local activist Mike Morris is the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month for March. He recruited 40 new PEOPLE (Public Employees Organized to Promote Legislative Equality) members at the MVP level. CSEA's PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and in your community.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight fires up the crowd at a rally at the New York State Office Building in Hauppauge. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
From left, demolition crew members Dave Bouchard, Bob Crews (in excavator cab), Dick Kane and Foreman Shawn Cotton. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Montgomery County Department of Public Works employees are saving the county money through their efforts with a new demolition program. The workers are trained to knock down condemned, vacant and unsafe structures, saving the county from hiring private contractors to do the work.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Rockland County Local President Fritz Ernest, seen here in the street sweeper he drives for the Village of Spring Valley Department of Public Works, says he has been targeted by village officials for his union activity. A pattern of anti-nion behavior from Village of Spring Valley officials has CSEA firing back against the village.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Rachel Chudoba is a single mom who juggles three jobs to make ends meet. She worries about losing health insurance for herself and her son if she is laid off from her job with the New York State Police. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Southern Region President Billy Riccaldo, left, and Orange County Local 1st Vice President Charlie Romer check out the new sign the Orange County Local provided in Wallkill. The sign, emblazoned with the blue and red CSEA logo, is the design of Orange County Local 1st Vice President Charlie Romer, who works for the town's Highway Department. The local purchased the sign after town officials opted to tear down the existing welcome sign, which was in bad condition due to age.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members speak out about New York State Governor David Paterson's plan to move forward with 8,700 state employee lay offs, which is reckless and irresponsible on the governor's part. CSEA members deliver essential services every day that are now at serious risk.
Steven Myers, vice president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Department of Transportation Region 4 Local, offers opening remarks during a Workers Memorial ceremony April 28 at the Pittsford shop. Behind him is a poster created in memory of Kevin Forsyth, 46, a DOT worker from Niagara County who died last year after being struck by a vehicle in a work zone.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Southern Region President Billy Riccaldo joins state Department of Transportation Regional Director Joan Dupont in a memorial garden outside the DOT Region 8 headquarters in Poughkeepsie. DOT workers maintain the garden, which is dedicated to co-workers who died on the job. CSEA members across the state marked Workers Memorial Day, April 28, with ceremonies and other observances to honor workers who have died or been severely injured on the job.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Reggie Hillriegel, a driver at the Sullivan Correctional Facility's dairy farm in Fallsburg, NY, poses with a tool of the trade. The farm is operated by the New York state Department of Correctional Services, charged with providing dairy for inmates at state correctional facilities nearby.
Fighting swine flu on all fronts: Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members protecting the public. Across the state, CSEA members have been responding to the swine flu outbreak in various ways. Cover photo, a worker at the Erie County Health Department testing flu samples, is courtesy of Erie County Medical Center.
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) 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.
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.)
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) 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.
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.
Saratoga County Public Health Nurse and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Lorie Urquhart cares for infants and families in her work with the Maternal Child Health Program. The program helps families with all aspects of infant care from pre-natal to post-partum, with an emphasis on early detection of developmental issues.
Harry Albright discusses his experiences withthe Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)during a 2005 interview for the CSEA 100 History project. Albright, who served as counsel to CSEA from the mid-1950s until the mid-1960s, passed away in October, 2008. As counsel, he was deeply involved in advancing the association's agenda and representing members' interests through the legislative and legal systems.
Outside the Ann Hutchinson School in the Eastchester School District are Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented custodians, from left, Kevin Moynihan, Unit President, Robert Grassi, Chris Sassone and Carmine Giannelli. CSEA members were unknowingly exposed to asbestos while working on the school.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Andrea Adrian, a family child care provider in Schenectady County and member of VOICE/CSEA, teaches the children in her care during their morning art program. In April 2009 the CSEA Board of Directors adopted the Early Learning and Care program's plan to integrate CSEA's nearly 25,000 newly organized family child care providers into the union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region President Nick LaMorte was interviewed for the Leading Edge Meet your leaders series. The photo of LaMorte was taken as he spoke during the 2008 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting held in Washington, D.C.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Refrigeration Plant Supervisor Tom Borden as he retraces the path of the Olympic speed skaters walking through a tunnel on route to the skating oval where Eric Heiden skated to victory with five gold medals in all five distances, a highlight of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games held in Lake Placid, New York. CSEA members operate and maintain the venues that are still in use for national and international competitions that take place in Lake Placid. Photos, story appeared in the February 2005 Work Force.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) labor supervisor Charles Terry pointing to the snow guns in operation on the highest trails of Whiteface Mountain. During the 1980 Winter Olympic Games held in Lake Placid, New York, Terry helped groom and create trails before the downhill skiing events on the mountain. CSEA members operate and maintain the venues that are still in use for national and international competitions in Lake Placid.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members who worked at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games posing in front of the net used to score the winning goal in the famous "miracle on ice" hockey game victory against the Soviet team. Left to right are David Wilcox, Tom Borden, Ron Rosio and Charles Terry. CSEA members operate and maintain the venues that are still in use for national and international competitions in Lake Placid, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, left, stands with "Inside Albany" hosts Lise Bang-Jensen and David Hepp after presenting them with cartoons of their show drawn by Work Force illustrator Ralph Distin. The show ended its production in 2006 after 32 years on the air.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Shirley Avdenko, at work as a law library assistant, 7th Judicial District in Rochester, New York. CSEA members across New York state play a key role in the state's Unified Court System. They perform many tasks and have many responsibilities. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) VOICE Local leaders and negotiating team members Beth White, a child care provider from Ulster County (foreground left) and Patrick Hogan, a child care provider from Westchester County (foreground right) meeting with United States Senator Hillary Clinton and other AFSCME child care providers to discuss home-based childcare industry issues. Clinton announced that day the Quality Childcare for America Act. The act would increase funding for worker development programs and block grant funding by $200 million. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, right, speaks with Cornell University President David Skorton and School of Industrial and Labor Relations Dean Harry Katz at a celebration of the schools 60th anniversary. CSEA helped sponsor the event. Also pictured is CSEA General Counsel Nancy Hoffman, an ILR alumna who served on the events planning committee. Cornell ILR is the leading school of its kind and has long maintained a close working relationship with organized labor. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) East Hampton Unit members demonstrate outside the town hall against the town supervisor's plan to change health benefits. It was agreed under the current contract with the town, that runs through 2010, that medical benefits would not be changed in any way until the current contract expires. The town of East Hampton is in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Nassau County Municipal Local President John Shepherd fires up the crowd at a demonstration in Glen Cove, New York, to fight the county's sewer district consolidation plan. CSEA is blasting a secretive City of Glen Cove vote to transfer sewer operations to Nassau County. CSEA represents many full-time employees in the city, some of whom work at the water pollution control facility. These members now face the choice of reassignment to other city jobs, retirement or resignation. CSEA is New York State's largest employee union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) SUNY Purchase Local Executive Vice President Miguel Cuyatti, shown with his SUNY Purchase presidential honor award, has helped numerous CSEA members at SUNY Purchase translate between Spanish and English. His involvement with CSEA began when he realized some of his co-workers were not getting a fair shake on the job due to a limited understanding of English. His willingness to help earned Cuyatti one of the school's presidential awards, an honor given each year to several public workers at each SUNY school. Purchase is a hamlet in the town of Harrison, in Westchester County. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Norman Ebanks outside the Supreme Court Appellate Division 1st Department building in Manhattan, New York, where he serves as a court officer. Ebanks worked his way up through several courts during his 25 years within the Unified Court System, including the Civil, Supreme Civil, and the Supreme Criminal Court. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York State Unified Court System members from the Supreme Court of Nassau County, part of the court system's 10th Judicial District. Elizabeth Kane, 6th from left, is a principal court analyst and was interviewed for the feature with other members from across New York State.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Barbara "Bobbie" Griffin helping a group of children safely cross the street. Griffin, a school crossing guard in Auburn, NY, has stood at the same intersection for more than 40 years. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon "No business like snow business!" and shows a snowman with a shovel and snowboots (CSEA winter workers) and the many ways CSEA members work through the winter keeping roads and sidewalks plowed, maintaining ice rinks and using winter ski mobiles as emergency vehicles when necessary, driving emergency rescue vehicles and driving school buses. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Kelly Tornstrom, a 15-year bus driver in the Victor School District, taught her primary-age students the names of the United States presidents in chronological order. The district and her co-workers recognized her with an 'Unsung Hero' award for her efforts. Victor is in Ontario County, New York.