Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William McGowan with then CSEA Treasurer (now Executive Vice President) Mary Sullivan and then CSEA Secretary Irene Carr in front of the State Capitol in Albany, New York, preparing to cut a 24-foot, 450-pound birthday cake to be served to thousands of workers. May is Public Employee Recognition Month in New York State and CSEA was celebrating the anniversary of the signing of the nation's first civil service law by Governor Grover Cleveland in May, 1883.
Seated at a table during a press conference are AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy, AFSCME President Jerry Wurf, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan, and CSEA Executive Vice-President Tom McDunnough announcing CSEA's affiiation with AFSCME in Albany, New York.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Theodore C. Wenzl hold the bill the Governor signed into law covering pay raises and other benefits for State employees as members of the Civil Service Employees Association Institutional Service Unit bargaining team look on. From left are team chairman Felice Amodio, Clarence Laufer, Wenzl, Zelda Kessler, Juanita Morris, Eva Nelson, CSEA research assistant Cynthia Walker, CSEA collective bargaining specialist Robert Guild, Connie Hatcher, Rockefeller, team secretary Amos Royals, Robert Redifore, and CSEA attorney James D. Featherstonhaugh. Missing are team vice-chairman Donald Brouse and Marie Donaldson.
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) bargaining team which negotiated benefits for employees in the Administrative Services Unit poses with Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller after signing bills implementing the recently negotiated contract into law. From left are CSEA attorney James Roemer, team vice-chairman John Wolfe, team secretary Ann Chandler, CSEA collective bargaining specialist John A. Conoby, Libby Lorio, Irving Fisher, Rockefeller, team chairman Thomas McDonough, Gerald Toomey, Grace Fitzmaurice, Martha Owens, and CSEA President Theodore C. Wenzl. Missing are team members Shirley Lighthall and Nancy Avery.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller signing into law bills implementing salaries and other benefits negotiated by the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) for 133,000 state employees. Viewing the occasion from left are State Senators Walter B. Langley and John E. Flynn; Abe Lavine, director of the Office of Employee Relations and chief negotiator for New York; CSEA President Theodore C. Wenzl; and CSEA Executive Director Joseph D. Lochner.
A news clipping from the Civil Service Leader that includes an image of Theodore C. Wenzl, right, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, and Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller as the Governor prepares to sign a bill covering pay raises for 133,000 state employees. The previous week the governor also signed bills covering retirement improvements and other benefits negotiated by CSEA for state employees at ceremonies in the Red Room of the State Capitol.
A news clipping from the Utica, NY Observer-Dispatch, Robert Guild, Cavanaugh Road, Marcy, has been appointed field representative for the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) with jurisdiction over 21 chapters, seven of which are in Oneida County. His appointment was announced by Joseph Feily, president of the Association. A graduate of Holland Patent Central School, Guild attended MVCC and Utica College. He has worked at Marcy State Hospital for 16 years, and has been president of the Marcy State Hospital chapter of CSEA for two years. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter)
A news clipping from the Utica, NY Observer-Dispatch, Telephones shrilled constantly, and mountains of mail piled up in State and Federal tax offices as the deadline for the filing 1966 returns approached today. Staff members at the State Tax Office opened mail this morning before the onslaught of phone calls began. Because all returns must be postmarked before midnight tonight, those who haven't completed their returns yet are hastily doing so. John R. Smallwood at the Federal office said that his office was "flooded with calls," and the switchboard was "lit up like a Christmas tree." Edwin T. Smith at the State Tax Office described activity as "pretty good for a last day," compared with other years. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central Region President Ginger Sheffey, left, laying a wreath along with USW Local 1000 Financal Secretary Becky Coumbe, center, and Steuben County Local Secretary Sue Brace, right, at the regions 2007 Worker's Memorial Day ceremony. CSEA members across the state joined other AFL-CIO labor unions in remembering workers who were killed or injured on the job during the past year.