Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson shaking hands with Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)attorney Jim Featherstonhaugh at the 1980 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting in Niagara Falls, New York. Behind Anderson is CSEA Executive Vice President Tom McDunnough.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan, third from left, looks on as Governor Hugh Carey signs the Public Employee Safety and Health Act. The union played a major role in passage of the law which made safe workplaces a right instead of a priviledge for thousands of public employees in New York State.
President Jimmy Carter waving to delegates from the stage at the 1980 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Annual Delegates Meeting in Niagara Falls, New York. Carter was campaigning for his second term in office. At right is U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
This Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon, by CSEA graphic artist Ralph Distin, was drawn prior to the union's 70th Annual Delegates Meeting in 1980 but was never published in the CSEA newspaper. CSEA delegates decided to support Carter's presidential bid and invited Carter to speak at their convention.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William L. McGowan shaking hands with Governor Hugh Carey at the 1979 CSEA Annual Delegates Meeting.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)-represented New York State workers hold a contract demonstration at the State Capitol in 1975. The crowd of union members are holding their signs upward toward the photographer.
Civil Sercive Employees Association (CSEA) President Dr. Theodore C. Wenzl (1967-77) addresses thousands of CSEA members at an April 1975 rally at the state Capitol over state cutbacks.
Former Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Director Joseph Dolan, left, shown with former Governor Hugh Carey. Dolan died May 7 at age 73. He began his career at CSEA in 1965 as an Albany, NY, field representative, working his way up to executive director, a job he left in 1982.