Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Occupational Safety and Health Committee Chairman Jim McHugh, waving left, at a state worker protest in St. Paul, Minnesota, in support of striking public employees in that state. McHugh attended the protest, fresh off a state transportation emergency stint at Ground Zero in New York City, after Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura called the striking state workers there "unAmerican" in the wake of the World Trade Center attack. McHugh told the cheering crowd of AFSCME brothers and sisters that everyone working at Ground Zero was a union member. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A crowd of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Yonkers School District members hold up signs stating, "Our school, our future, our responsibility" at a Yonkers School District Demonstration in October 2001.
A large group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Yonkers School District Unit members hold up signs at a Yonkers School District Demonstration in October 2001.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up anti-privatization signs at the October 1997 CSEA Cohoes Privatization Rally.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members sit to listen to a speaker at the October 1997 CSEA Cohoes Privatization Rally.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Capital Region President Carmen Bagnoli joins with members during an October 1997 demonstration in Cohoes challenging a plan to contract out some of the city's public services.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association(CSEA) members march with signs at the October 1997 CSEA Cohoes Privatization Rally. One CSEA member holds a sign on his back stating, "How sweet it is, Bob's blue plate."
A group of more than 75 unidentified Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members who were the target of an October 1991 layoff rally together to remind Governor Cuomo that his cuts are hurting real people. The group holds a banner stating, "Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center layoff class of 1991."
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members gather with signs at SUNY Binghamton in a demonstration against an appearance by New York State Office of Mental Health Commissioner Richard Surles in October 1990. CSEA actively opposed New York State's mental health policy of closing down psychiatric centers without adequately developing alternative plans for delivering services to individuals with mental illness.
The New York State Police cordoned off the State Capitol during Governor George E. Pataki's State of the State speech as 20,000 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and PEF members protested stalled contract talks at the Empire State Plaza.