New York Governor Mario Cuomo meets with Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) officers shortly after taking office. From left are: Cuomo, CSEA Executive Vice President Danny Donohue, CSEA Western Region President Bob Lattimer, CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene Carr and CSEA President Joseph McDermott.
New York Governor Mario Cuomo speaks at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Board of Directors meeting at the Albany Hilton hotel in 1982. To his right are CSEA President William L. McGowan and Statewide Secretary Irene Carr. To his left are CSEA Treasurer Barbara Fauser, CSEA Federal Issues Coordinator Joe Conway and CSEA Executive Vice President Joseph McDermott.
Gubernatorial candidate Mario Cuomo, front, second from right, campaigns for votes on Long Island with then Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region President Danny Donohue, front, second from left.
New York Governor Mario Cuomo speaks at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Board of Directors meeting at the Albany Hilton Hotel in 1982. To his right are CSEA President William L. McGowan and Statewide Secretary Irene Carr.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), right, welcomes New York Governor Hugh Carey to CSEA's 1982 Annual Delegates Meeting in Buffalo.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), left, speaks with New York Governor Hugh Carey at CSEA's 1982 Annual Delegates Meeting in Buffalo. At right is Governor's Office of Employee Relations Director Sandy Fucher.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) New York City State Employees Local President George Calomeno and other New York City members in the Labor Day parade carrying signs supporting Mario Cuomo during his campaign for governor of New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), left, with New York Governor Hugh Carey at CSEA's 1982 Annual Delegates Meeting in Buffalo.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, lampooned Governor Hugh Carey's infamous 1982 comments about "drinking a glass of PCBs" following the contamination of the Binghamton State Office Building following a transformer fire.
The former Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) headquarters building at 33 Elk Street in Albany, New York. A banner reading "CSEA YOUR VOTE COUNTS CSEA" hangs from the building.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region President Irving Flaumenbaum addressing the crowd at an occupational safety and health rally at the State Capitol.
Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson shaking hands with Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)attorney Jim Featherstonhaugh at the 1980 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting in Niagara Falls, New York. Behind Anderson is CSEA Executive Vice President Tom McDunnough.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan, third from left, looks on as Governor Hugh Carey signs the Public Employee Safety and Health Act. The union played a major role in passage of the law which made safe workplaces a right instead of a priviledge for thousands of public employees in New York State.
President Jimmy Carter waving to delegates from the stage at the 1980 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Annual Delegates Meeting in Niagara Falls, New York. Carter was campaigning for his second term in office. At right is U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, was drawn prior to the union's 70th Annual Delegates Meeting in 1980 but was never published in the CSEA newspaper. CSEA delegates decided to support Carter's presidential bid and invited Carter to speak at their convention.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan shaking hands with Governor Hugh Carey at the 1979 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan and AFSCME President Jerry Wurf shake hands over the agreement for CSEA affiliation with AFSCME in 1978.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented New York State workers hold a contract demonstration at the State Capitol in 1975. The crowd of union members are holding their signs upward toward the photographer.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) addresses thousands of CSEA members at an April 1975 rally at the state Capitol over state cutbacks.
Civil Sercive Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) addresses thousands of CSEA members at an April 1975 rally at the state Capitol over state cutbacks.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) waves to thousands of CSEA members at an April 1975 rally at the state Capitol over state cutbacks.
Contract negotiations between Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and New York State negotiators in 1973. CSEA President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) sits at right head of table with back to camera.
Former Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Director Joseph Dolan, left, shown with former Governor Hugh Carey. Dolan died May 7 at age 73. He began his career at CSEA in 1965 as an Albany, NY, field representative, working his way up to executive director, a job he left in 1982.
Institution teachers stage a demonstration on the steps of the State Capitol to emphasize their determination to get a new career ladder plan. The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) won an improved career ladder for New York's 2,400 teachers at state institutions, which provided more room for promotion and better compensation for education and experience than existed under the previous system.
U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan speaking to Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members at an unidentified meeting. Moynihan is wearing a baseball cap and holding a plaque. Behind Moynihan is CSEA President William McGowan and other unidentified CSEA members.
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.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Headquarters staff posing for a photo after being interviewed by a reporter from WNYT-Channnel 13 of Albany, NY during a fund-raiser for tsunami victim relief efforts. The mini-telethon held at CSEA Headquarters raised more than $100,000 that day, with CSEA activists and staff taking pledges. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, from left, Saratoga Springs, New York, City Hall Unit President Kathy Moran, Olivia Dean, Lynn Browne, Doris Dyer, Michael Peters, Karen Whipple and Tony Izzo show off their Halloween costumes. Unit members dressed up in costumes and attended a lunch party, where they raised more than $500 to help buy holiday gifts for residents at Maplewood Manor, the county's nursing home.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka fires up the crowd at the 2009 AFSCME Lobby Day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and AFSCME members from across the state came by the busload for AFSCME Lobby Day on March 31, meeting with lawmakers and lobbying them to oppose Governor David Paterson's proposed layoffs of 8,700 state workers.
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.
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.
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) Research Department staff, from left, Assistant Director of Research Tom Coyle, Research Analyst Cindy Chovanec, Director of Research Bill Blom and consultant Joe Watkins. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue being congratulated by Special Olympics New York President Neal J. Johnson. Donohue was honored by Special Olymbics New York at its Salute to Labor for his continued efforts in the fight for fairness and respect of all individuals, including those with intellectual disabilities.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan (1977-88), with trademark cigar, pins 30-year Barge Canal veteran Henry Paul of CSEA Local 502 as Local President Frank Zammiello looks on.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) East Greenbush School District members fill a truck with donated supplies. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members across New York gave blood, helped raise relief money and moved donated goods to aid stricken families and relief workers in the World Trade Center attacks.
New York State Governor George E. Pataki signing legislation awarding retired public employees in New York a supplement to their pensions. Among the dignitaries looking on are New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, Office of Management Confidential Employees President Barbara Zaron, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, New York AFL-CIO President Ed Cleary and New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall. CSEA, New York State's largest union, fought long and hard for the bill which was a top legislative priority for years.
The Oneida County Chapter, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), presented service plaques last night to Mrs. Helen Rauber, salary committee chairman, and William Blom of Albany, second from left, its state research director. Others honored by president Roger Solimando, right, and meeting chairman Louis Sunderhaft, left, were Mrs. Edna Fredricks, Louis Wroblewski, Mrs. Marian Dersherl and William Freiberger. The group met in PLAC Hall and heard Irving Flaumenbaum, state membership committee chairman and president of the Nassau County CSEA, describe his chapter's growth to 10,000 members.
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) Research Department staff at work. From head of table to right: Research Analyst Cindy Chovanec, Assistant Director of Research Tom Coyle, Director of Research Bill Blom and consultant Joe Watkins. (People on left side of table are unidentified.)
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.
An invitation to all stockholders of the Utica (New York) Chapter to attend their chapter meeting in order to discuss an upcoming legislative session in Albany that would determine "how our 'New York State Corportation' will run." Issues discussed included lump sum payment for accumulated unused sick leave upon retirement, separation from service, and vested rights. Courtesy of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
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.