Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, left, and Retiree Division Chair Charles Peritore, right, congratulating Harold Price, center, on winning the Retiree Mission Achievement Award at the 2006 Retirees Delegates Meeting in Syracuse, New York. Price serves as vice president of the New York Metropolitan Retirees Local. He retired in 1985 from 31 years of service at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) retiree member Mary Palmer sitting outside her flood-damaged Sidney, New York home showing one of several rejection letters she's received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, from which she's requested assistance. Palmer's frustrations and losses mirror those of hundreds of CSEA members, family, and friends who were affected by the severe late June flooding across much of the Southern, Capital and Central regions of New York State.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Delaware County, NY heavy equipment operator Terry Constable rebuilding the shoulders of County Route 4 near Tompkins. CSEA members in the Capital, Central, and Southern regions are working hard to help rebuild flood-devastated infrastructure.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members posing. Several weeks after severe flooding affected hundreds of CSEA members across Central New York State's Southern Tier, CSEA Central Region leaders and activists were helping with flood relief efforts. CSEA Madison County White Collar Unit members worked with administrative staff to collect food and school supplies for flood victims. They also raised money by paying to participate in a "jeans day" at work. Pictured standing are: Linda Jackson, confidential secretary to the Commissioner of Social Services, Russell Stewart, CSEA White Collar Unit president, Karen Bright, CSEA member. Kneeling are CSEA members Tiffany Canning and Jonel Stanhope.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Binghamton, NY Area Retirees Local President Olga White as she tells of her losses after Southern Tier flooding. White had no flood insurance and said the FEMA assistance wouldn't cover all her costs, but overall White said the aftermath of the flood left her with a postive outlook. "My priorities have shifted and now I don't pay attention so much to material things. The response I had from people I didn't even know was awesome."
Faces of The Work Force are photos taken by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) staff from around the state showing members at work throughout the year. John Klamm, an Onondaga County Parks Department employee, grooms the baseball diamond at Alliance Bank Stadium in preparation for a Syracuse SkyChiefs game.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Gordon Abbey, a mechanic for the Watkins Glen School District in Schuyler County, NY, maintains one of the district's school buses.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, retirees, and their supporters in the Village of Skaneateles, New York, who lined the street to protest a vote by the Village Board that eliminated health care coverage in retirement for many current and future retirees. The union then packed a village board meeting to condemn the board members for failing to bring the issue to the union prior to their action.
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.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members participating in the "taking action puzzle" workshop led by instructors from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. CSEA activists and Syracuse, New York, City School District workers Laury Willoughby and Debra Martin used what they learned in the union's Labor Education And Development (LEAD) Program to turn a "staff development day" for their co-workers in the school district into an innovative "union development day" to help build union through learning. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.