Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in the town of Hempstead, New York, being trained in safely handling hazardous material spills. CSEA has secured a State Department of Labor Hazard Abatement Board training grant that provides all CSEA-represented work sites with the opportunity to take advantage of free training programs, aimed at increasing members' knowledge and understanding of potential safety and health hazards to help reduce or eliminate workplace injuries or illnesses.
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. Omayra Camacho helps protect the public as a crime victims specialist for the New York State Crime Victims Board in New York City.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) delegates at AFSCME's 36th International Convention. Delegates heard from numerous guest speakers, including presidential candidate John Kerry and former President Bill Clinton, urging members to fight to take back America by building union membership and political power in order to better wages, benefits and working conditions. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, was one of many for which Distin received an award from the International Labor Communications Association. Titled, "Critical Condition" the cartoon criticized state health care funding policy and was part of the union's campaign to reform health care in New York state.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Jenette Engel of Oswego County and Colleen Wheaton of SUNY Potsdam participating with hundreds of their fellow AFSCME members in 108 degree heat in an informational picket on behalf of hotel and culinary workers in downtown Las Vegas during the AFSCME convention. Contracts were settled within days of the AFSCME agitation.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) delegates attending the 2002 AFSCME Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. CSEA was in the forefront as energy and activism dominated the activities at the 35th International Convention. AFSCME is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees of which CSEA Local 1000 is the international union's largest affiliation. CSEA members have the strength of two unions: the 265,000 membership of CSEA plus the 1.3 million membership of AFSCME.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting "That's the point . . . It works, because they work." School kids, teachers, school nurse, and others turning the handle of a pencil sharpener (School support staff) that sharpens the pencil (education). Paper says "On the job all year round!" The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members standing in solidarity with striking union workers picketing the Finch Pruyn paper mill in Glens Falls, New York. Union activists collected school supplies for children of the strikers and more than $500 was collected from union employees and donated to the strike fund.
An unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) retiree member participating in a COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) rally in Albany, New York. The retirees brought their message, part of the CSEA battle for annual cost-of-living increases for public employee retirees, to the Capitol and the Legislative Office building: "It's our turn . . . COLA now." The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
New York State lawmakers and labor leaders looking on as Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue shakes hands with Governor George E. Pataki after Pataki signed legislation calling for a permanent cost of living allowance (COLA) for the state's public employee retirees. The much needed pension boost had been a chief legislative goal of the CSEA's for years.