This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, highlights the danger of unhealthy repetitive working conditions. After establishing its own Occupational Safety and Health Department, CSEA took on a leadership role fighting for worksite protections, including landmark VDT and ergonomics standards in the 1980s and 90s.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, criticized school districts for contracting out services provided by school employees to private contractors (Circa 1981). The caricature features the familiar and ethically challenged JR Ewing character made famous by actor Larry Hagman on the hit TV series "Dallas."
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, was part of the union's ongoing efforts to secure pay equity for women. CSEA made great strides on this issue throughout the 1980s.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, called attention to the unfairness of occupational safety and health laws, which, prior to 1979 applied only to private sector workers in New York State.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, skewered then Governor Nelson Rockefeller for a parking fee proposal that the union suggested was tantamount to rubbing salt in a wound for state employees.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting a hand (with dollar sign) of "The U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry" using a pestle (soaring drug prices) to crush consumer (Help!) in the mortar (Rx P(Rx)ofits). Prescription and pill bottle for U.S. consumer: Rx Higher Prices, Higher Premiums; Rx 2002 Take as much $$$$$$ as possible. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon shows New York's Public Employees working in hospitals, institutions, nursing homes and schools, depicted as characters from the Wizard of Oz armed with sanitizers, soap and disinfectants confronting the "wicked witch" MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections on a daily basis.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, urging people to get out and vote on November 8, 2005. It sends a message to CSEA members to vote for CSEA-endorsed candidates and to vote yes on Proposition 1.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon that depicts "Dammed if you do . . . " Panicking, sweating "Dutch Boy" (New York's Local Governments) trying to plug the leaks (new mandated programs, increased medicaid costs, Governor George Pataki's tax cuts, revenue short-falls) in the dam (Budget Crises) thats holding back the flooding water (tax hikes, less service, layoffs). Sign taped to the dam: "Less State Aid for Localities." The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A Special Night for A Special Lady. Cover of a program for dinner honoring Irene Carr who retired September 1, 1993 as Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary after helping pioneer many innovative improvements for public employees during a public service career spanning parts of four decades. Illustration depicts Carr as "The Pioneer at work" sifting gold "nuggets of wisdom, family issues, pay equity, child care." Child care and women's issues were two primary concerns at the core of her agenda for years. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.