Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue urges state labor officials to issue strong workplace violence prevention rules. Donohue spoke at a public hearing on a proposed workplace violence prevention rule. The New York State Department of Labor rule, which would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers, builds upon the Worksite Security Act of 2006, which CSEA spearheaded and which provides safer workplaces for New Yorks public employees.
Ed Burkhart, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member in the Great Meadow Correctional Facility Local, emerging from 46-degree Lake George, NY, water after taking the Polar Plunge to raise money for Special Olympics New York. CSEA, through a supportive relationship with Special Olympics New York and Quality Care New York, affirms its commitment to New York's developmentally disabled individuals, advocating for the highest standard in quality of care. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County, NY, Local member Brian Nemier adjusting a lighting display for the county's 2007 "Lights on the Lake" holiday display.
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) member John Giffone, chief custodian at Deer Park High School in Long Island, NY, one of many CSEA members across the state who have been working to prevent outbreaks of a potentially deadly form of bacteria. CSEA members working in schools and health care facilities across New York state are challenged to protect the public from the dangerous MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections on a daily basis.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Ann Spaeth, a school nurse at Dover Elementary School in Dutchess County, NY, educating a student on hand washing techniques with simple soap and water. CSEA members working in schools and health care facilities across New York state are challenged to protect the public from the dangerous MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections on a daily basis.
Ed Collins, president of the Clarkson University Local, who received the 2007 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Mission Achievement Award for the private sector division. He was honored with the prestigious award for his leadership of his co-workers during the union's organizing and subsequent contract campaign at Clarkson. In 2006, Collins led CSEA-represented facilities and services workers at Clarkson through a public contract campaign after university administrators offered the employees a wage increase that would not allow them to keep up with rising costs of living. He is credited as a key force in holding the members together in solidarity throughout the campaign.
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.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Lois Marshall, Department Of Transportation (DOT) Sign Crew Supervisor, left, and Tim Haire standing outside their DOT truck. The two Ithaca state DOT sign crew workers are credited with saving the life of Glen Smith, a driver whose truck went into a culvert along Route 89 in Ithaca, New York. 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 and because the site was not easy to find, the only way someone would have seen him was if they were walking and looking for him.
Vehicle Maintenance Team Leader Brian Ridner, left, and Vehicle Maintenance Operator Wayne Shultes, who contacted the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) last year to form a union, work on one of the airport's "clean air" vehicles. Albany International Airport workers were negotiating their first contract since they became part of CSEA after 13 months of fighting for the right to join a union.