Philip G. Rosa served as the 3rd president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) from 1921 until 1922. Rosa fought for a strong merit system, proper salaries, and an improved retirement plan for CSEA members.
Wellington Ives served as the 2nd president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) from 1920-1921. During Ives' presidency, the New York State Retirement System open to CSEA members went into effect on January 1, 1921.
A news clipping from the Utica, NY Observer-Dispatch, about 80 local members of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) left the Utica Bus Terminal this morning for Albany where they will join delegations from Long Island, New York City, and Albany in a protest demonstration. Target of the demonstration is J. Earl Kelly, state CSEA Director of Classification and Compensation, who this week rejected a CSEA proposal for salary upgrading of state office and clerical employees. Similar demonstrations were planned today in all large cities throughout the state. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
The Oneida County chapter of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) hosted a number of state union and local political figures at its annual holidays party in the Trinkaus Manor in Oriskany. Shown in the top photo are, from left, Utica Mayor Michael Caruso, chapter vice-president Henry Haas, Rome Mayor William Valentine, chapter delegate and party chairman Louis Eddy, statewide CSEA president Theodore C. Wenzl, and assistant Oneida County executive Jay McLinden. In the lower photo are, from left, chapter president Louis Sunderhaft, statewide CSEA treasurer Jack Gallagher, statewide CSEA secretary Dorothy MacTavish, chapter representative and immediate past CSEA County Division chairman S. Samuel Borelly, CSEA field representative Roger Kane and statewide CSEA third vice-president Richard Tarmey. CSEA Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
The Oneida, NY Chapter of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) celebrate the holidays at their 22nd annual Christmas party Dec. 1, 1972, at Trinkaus Manor. Special guests included Louis Sunderhaft, Oneida County Chapter president; Dr. Theodore Wenzl, New York State CSEA president; Joseph Dolan and Joseph Lazarony, of the organization's state County Division; John Scholl, Oneida County CSEA attorney; Mayor Michael Caruso of Utica; Mayor William Valentine of Rome; Jay McLinden, Assistant County Executive; and William R. Williams, board chairman of the Oneida County Legislature. Ray Castle, former president of the Central Conference of CSEA, served as master of ceremonies, and Lewis Eddy and Henry Haas served as co-chairmen of the dinner. Other committee members include: chairman Bea DeSantis, Jack Banek, Loren Youngs, Edward Sezman, chairman Teddie Kowalczyk, Helen Rauber, Mary Smolinsky, chairman Gerald Boehlert, Mary Leonard, Jean Coluzzi, and Felix Palczynski, and chairman Roger Solimando. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Enkelejd Hoxha, a custodial worker at the State University of New York at Albany, who is enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program. Hoxha is learning more English because he eventually wants to go to college. The classes are made possible by a New York State & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training grant that shows the best in labor-management collaboration.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Elsbieta Kramicki, a custodial worker at the State University of New York at Albany, who came to the United States from Poland and is enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program. The classes are made possible by a New York State & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training grant that shows the best in labor-management collaboration.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Delaware County, NY, Department of Public Works employees at work to rebuild County Road No. 7 after it was destroyed by flooding in June, 2007. All road crews from the DPW were involved in the road's rebuilding, often putting in 12-hour days to get the roadway repaired.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, right, confers with CSEA Occupational Safety and Health Activist Paul Blujus at a New York State Department of Labor hearing on a proposed workplace violence prevention rule. The DOL rule, which would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers, builds upon the Worksite Security Act of 2006, which CSEA spearheaded and which provides safer workplaces for New York's public employees.