Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Orange County Unit President Ron Greene is interviewed by a television news station during a demonstration for a fair contract outside the county's government center in Goshen, NY. The ever-increasing cost of living in Orange County, with home prices remaining high in response to New York City commuter demand, motivates CSEA members to continue to fight for a fair contract.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Orange County Unit activist Mary Collins and unit Secretary Rosemary Kukys fight for a contract outside the county's government center in Goshen, NY. The ever-increasing cost of living in Orange County, with home prices remaining high in response to New York City commuter demand, motivates CSEA members to continue to fight for a fair contract.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Orange County Unit members and supporters demonstrate for a fair contract outside the county's government center in Goshen, NY. The ever-increasing cost of living in Orange County, with home prices remaining high in response to New York City commuter demand, motivates CSEA members to continue to fight for a fair contract.
Rodrigo Mujica, an activist and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member of the Oyster Bay Local in the Long Island Region, was named the February PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month. Mujica is shown here on the job as an Oyster Bay sanitation worker. CSEA's PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and in your community. Your support and participation in PEOPLE strengthens CSEA's clout in the workplace, in the legislature, in your community and in the labor movement.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)/Child Care Providers Together-NY, a new CSEA child care union (CSEA Local 100B), won with 96 percent voting in favor of a union. Representatives from Local 100B will now join CSEA/VOICE Local 100A at the table for negotiations with the Office of Children and Family Services. One contract will cover both child care locals, a similar structure that CSEA uses for state contracts.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Viola Rauff with two dogs rescued after a Jericho veterinary technician noticed the same woman repeatedly brought in sick and injured animals over the course of several weeks. The technician alerted authorities and more than 100 animals were removed from the house. Thanks to CSEA members employed at an animal shelter in Oyster Bay, in Long Island, NY, the animals now have a second chance at a healthy, happy life.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Sheila Smiley of Syracuse, NY, applies first aid cream to a child's arm at her child care. Smiley was part of the overwhelming majority of Child Care Providers Together-NY who voted yes to be part of CSEA. CSEA/Child Care Providers Together-NY, a new CSEA child care union (CSEA Local 100B), won with 96 percent voting in favor of a union. Representatives from Local 100B will now join CSEA/VOICE Local 100A at the table for negotiations with the Office of Children and Family Services. One contract will cover both child care locals, a similar structure that CSEA uses for state contracts.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Rita Crawford, shown at her day care, was part of an overwhelming majority of Child Care Providers Together-NY who voted yes to be part of CSEA. CSEA/Child Care Providers Together-NY, a new CSEA child care union (CSEA Local 100B), won with 96 percent voting in favor of a union. Representatives from Local 100B will now join CSEA/VOICE Local 100A at the table for negotiations with the Office of Children and Family Services. One contract will cover both child care locals, a similar structure that CSEA uses for state contracts.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Jennifer Causer, of Addison, NY, was part of the overwhelming majority of CCPT-NY who voted yes to be part of CSEA. CSEA/Child Care Providers Together-NY, a new CSEA child care union (CSEA Local 100B), won with 96 percent voting in favor of a union. Representatives from Local 100B will now join CSEA/VOICE Local 100A at the table for negotiations with the Office of Children and Family Services. One contract will cover both child care locals, a similar structure that CSEA uses for state contracts.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)/Child Care Providers Together-NY, a new CSEA child care union (CSEA Local 100B), won with 96 percent voting in favor of a union. Representatives from Local 100B will now join CSEA/VOICE Local 100A at the table for negotiations with the Office of Children and Family Services. One contract will cover both child care locals, a similar structure that CSEA uses for state contracts.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Buffalo Psychiatric Center Local President Tony Brown discusses workplace violence during a workshop held in Corning, NY, for CSEA members from across the Western Region. More than a year after the Worksite Security Act went into effect, CSEA members are still waiting for the state to complete a workplace violence prevention rule, which seeks to add clarity and direction to the law so that public employers can comply with the requirements.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Robert Knight, a Rockland County employee and vice president of the Board of Trustees for the Ramapo-Catskill Library System; Jo Ann Reuben, an Ulster County Clerk's Office worker and an officer of Friends of the Rosendale Library; and Jennifer Ogrodowski, a department head and librarian at the Guilderland Public Library, at Library Lobby Day. CSEA members employed at libraries across the state came to the state Capitol in Albany, NY, for the New York Library Association's (NYLA) Library Lobby Day. Library workers urged state officials to increase state aid and close the gap in funding for libraries so they can better provide library resources to their communities.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member State Office of General Services electrician Frank Salvagio installs an improved light fixture he designed into a marble wall at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY. Salvagio recently won the state Civil Service Department Merit Award for his suggestion to replace outdated magnetic light ballasts in the plaza's 420 security lights with more efficient electric ones. The new electronic ballasts will last five times longer and use less energy than the magnetic ones.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Mental Health Therapy Aide Kenneth Ricketts disarmed a gun-toting consumer at a Kingsboro Psychiatric Center residential home in Brooklyn, NY, an incident that has CSEA calling for more security.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) New York City Local President Vincent Martusciello leads union members in a protest against closing the Pyramid Reception Center in the South Bronx, NY. The juvenile facility was spared, as were other such facilities, but the 2008 state budget's plan for other facilities, especially in central New York, will affect some union members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Rockland County Local Women's Committee members and Rockland County Local President Fritz Ernest at Helen Hayes Hospital in Haverstraw with one of the three portable DVD players they donated to the spinal cord injury unit at the hospital in Haverstraw, NY. Patients from throughout the Northeast who have spinal cord injuries get quality care at Helen Hayes, a state run hospital that employs hundreds of CSEA members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Treasurer Joe McMullen speaks out for affordable prescription drugs and taxpayer savings as part of a news conference in Albany, NY. The event brought together an unprecedented alliance that includes the American Association of Retired People (AARP), New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the Business and Labor Coalition of New York (BALCONY), the Public Employees Federation (PEF), Consumers Union, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and the Center for Medical Consumers. The alliance is calling on state officials to make prescription drugs more affordable and accessible to New Yorkers through marketing and purchasing reform. CSEA has long supported the idea of using the state's buying power to negotiate the best possible prices for prescription drugs.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activist Steve Abramson, left, joins Town of Oyster Bay Local President Bob Rauff in 'Freezin' for a Reason' in the Long Island Region Polar Plunge. CSEA members from the Long Island Region raised more than $5,000 for Special Olympics New York, the most money CSEA has raised at a Polar Plunge during the winter 2007-2008 season. CSEA members across the state raised a total of $9,300 in three Polar Plunges.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Central Region President Colleen Wheaton offers support to Groton, NY, Schools Unit President Sheldon Clark over his recent firing. Clark, an 18-year bus driver with a safe driving record, was unjustly fired by the board in January following a December, 2007, incident in which the bus received minor scratch damage to its cargo door. No one was injured and the students on the bus were unaware of the incident.
Unidentifed Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and staff joined correction officers and other union members as well as concerned citizens at a recent rally to save Hudson Correctional Facility from closing. A state plan to close Hudson and three other upstate New York correctional facilities has met with strong opposition from workers, political leaders and community members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Veterans Committee Chair Len Beaulieu, left, and Ron Mironchik, both SUNY New Paltz Local members, were part of a group of local veterans who helped get a monument to veterans that has been installed in the new Ulster County Veterans Cemetery.
How employers are stealing from workers, and how we can help stop it. Author and community organizer Kim Bobo brought her message to Albany to help the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York State Labor Religion Coalition begin its annual 40-hour fast for social justice. Bobo, founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Worker Justice, has published a book, Wage Theft in America: Why millions of working Americans are not getting paid and what we can do about it.
From left, New York Labor-Religion Coalition Director Brian O'Shaughnessy, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, Albany Catholic Diocese Bishop Howard Hubbard, author Kim Bobo, and NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi attend a ceremony opening the 40-Hour FAST for Social Justice. This year's FAST focused attention on wage theft. Hubbard and Iannuzzi co-chair the Labor-Religion Coalition.
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is going green. The agency is implementing a Compressed Pay Period, or CPP, Pilot Program. The new program reflects concern for employees seeking a work/family balance and helps reduce energy use, traffic and air pollution. Eligible employees will be able to decrease the number of their workdays and increase the number of hours worked each day to earn a day off every tenth day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Kathy Follet, along with a committee, helped the compressed pay period program expand at her agency.
Lisa Bohannon, at work in the Unified Court System law library, is a participant in a long-term cancer prevention study. Bohannon, a principal court analyst and a 14-year CSEA member, has been a longtime supporter of the American Cancer Society through its annual Relay For Life event and is motivated by a need to contribute to research in the hope that more can be learned about cancer. She, like many, has lost family members to cancer.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley was recently presented with the prestigious Bertram Harris Civil Service Award during the 56th Annual Brotherhood Observance and Awards Luncheon in New York City. Berkley, center, poses with Metropolitan Region 1st Vice President and Brotherhood Co-Chair Linda R. Williams, left, and Brotherhood Chairman Randy Johnson, right.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Rochester State Employees President Doris Cota, Western Region Political Action Committee Chairman Tim Finnigan and Western Region President Flo Tripi take part in a picket outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office Wednesday morning. CSEA delivered a message that mass state layoffs will put lives at risk and jeopardize services in the state. The union has provided lawmakers with several others proposals that would close the budget gap.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Television reporters interview Buffalo State College Local Vice President Jerry Richmond during a demonstration at Assemblyman Sam Hoyt's office in Buffalo. CSEA demonstrated against state layoffs that will destroy essential services and put lives at risk.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA members protest an appearance by Governor David Paterson at a Department of Transportation garage in Syracuse.
Charlotte Wallace, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Cortland County Local member, uses the CanRX Alternative Prescription Plan offered by the Strategic Benefit Trust. Negotiating the trust's benefits into a contract can be a more cost-efficient way to provide health benefits for some public employees and could in some cases, be the only way to get benefits to the private sector.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Tim Finnigan from SUNY Geneseo, left, Rochester State Employees Local President Doris Cota, Western Region Political Action Coordinator Courtney Brunelle and Judy DiPaola from the Judiciary Local picket April 8 outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office. CSEA told the assemblyman that there is a better way to balance the state budget; mass layoffs are not the answer.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Television reporters interview Buffalo State Employees Local Vice President Paul Blujas during a picket at Assemblyman Sam Hoyt's office in Buffalo. CSEA demonstrated against state layoffs that will destroy essential services and put lives at risk.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA members protesting State Sen. David Valesky's support of the state budget and 8,700 layoffs. The union's message was also delivered loud and clear in front of the district offices of Rochester Assemblyman Joe Morelle and Utiica Assemblywoman RoAnne Destito.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Donnie Loomis, a maintenance assistant working in the Cape Vincent Correctional Facility's maintenance building, reaches for a wrench while working in the shop.
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is going green. The agency is implementing a Compressed Pay Period, or CPP, Pilot Program. The new program reflects concern for employees seeking a work/family balance and helps reduce energy use, traffic and air pollution. Eligible employees will be able to decrease the number of their workdays and increase the number of hours worked each day to earn a day off every tenth day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and DEC worker Tom Hobbs, pictured at his downtown Albany office, took advantage of the earlier pilot program.
Diana Windsor, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Unit member, who volunteers with the annual Variety Kids' Telethon in Buffalo.The event raises money for a local hospital that specializes in caring for children. Windsor has served as secretary to the director of nursing at the 586-bed Erie County Home and Infirmary for about five years. Before that, she worked at the Erie County Medical Center.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Laverne Scott-Allen, here on the job, helps protect the public. As a claim processor at the New York Sate Liquidation Bureau, Scott-Allen works to protect the interests of the policyholders and creditors of insurance companies that have been declared impaired or insolvent.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting reinventing Robin Hood (21st Century version) Was Robin Hood really just a thug? Robin Hood (exploitation, unscrupulous employers) using a bow and arrow (wage theft) robs the poor (American workers making minimum wage). Bags of riches include unpaid overtime, job discrimination, wage and hour violations and wage underpayment.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region President Flo Tripi speaks at a state Department of Transportation Local Workers Memorial Day ceremony in Rochester. Workers Memorial Day is observed on the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (April 28, 1970) and is an international day of mourning for those who die on the job. CSEA also dedicates April 28 to fighting for safe and healthy work sites for all workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western New York DDSO Local Secretary Sue Balsano lights a candle in memory of workers who died on the job. Workers Memorial Day is observed on the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (April 28, 1970) and is an international day of mourning for those who die on the job. CSEA also dedicates April 28 to fighting for safe and healthy work sites for all workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Standing Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Chair Jim McHugh lights a torch to honor CSEA members who have died on the job in the past two years. Workers Memorial Day is observed on the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (April 28, 1970) and is an international day of mourning for those who die on the job. CSEA also dedicates April 28 to fighting for safe and healthy work sites for all workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, New York State Court Officers Gregory Hartman, left, and John Pezzino used an automatic external defibrillator to revive an unresponsive woman who had collapsed in the middle of the street in front of Buffalo City Court. The New York State Court officers in CSEA Region 6 Judiciary Local were honored with awards from the Erie County Deputy Sheriff's Badge & Shield Club, an organization encompassing several area law enforcement organizations, for saving the woman's life.
Keith Shultis, a member of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Mid-Hudson State Employees Local, operates a grooming machine at the Belleayre Mountain ski resort located in Highmount, NY, in Ulster County. CSEA members at Belleayre, Gore Mountain and Whiteface Mountain are all wrapping up a busy ski season that kept them on the slopes through April, as ski areas did much better business this year than last.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Radiologic Technician Bob Foley positions a patient's leg before taking an X-ray at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, NY. CSEA's Erie County Local is leading mobilization efforts to keep Buffalo's Erie County Medical Center public. Members of CSEA and two other unions at the hospital collected more than 2,000 postcards to be mailed to Western New York state legislators. The postcards call on state lawmakers to protect the public hospital, which the Erie County Executive wants privatized.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Licensed Practical Nurse Vannessa Hill reviews medication records in the skilled nursing facility within Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, NY. CSEA's Erie County Local is leading mobilization efforts to keep Buffalo's Erie County Medical Center public. Members of CSEA and two other unions at the hospital collected more than 2,000 postcards to be mailed to Western New York state legislators. The postcards call on state lawmakers to protect the public hospital, which the Erie County Executive wants privatized.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, James Cardinale acted on instinct when he chased after an escapee he saw fleeing the Family Court Building. The New York State Court officer in CSEA Region 6 Judiciary Local was honored with awards from the Erie County Deputy Sheriff's Badge & Shield Club, an organization encompassing several area law enforcement organizations, for capturing the escapee.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Long Island State Parks and Recreation Local member Betty Hirt prefers working outdoors at Connetquot River State Park Perserve in Suffolk County, NY. CSEA members have long played a key role in preserving the high quality of life many Long Island residents make a priority, striving to maintain and enhance attractions such as a gristmill, nature trails, horseback riding paths, bird watching venues and the main house, which is more than 100 years old and features an antique kitchen and dining room complete with paraphernalia from that period.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s St. Mary's School for the Deaf Local members Edmond Boctor, left, and Karen Gambino joined with students, teachers, parents and alumni in a demonstration outside St. Mary's School for the Deaf in Buffalo, NY, for greater access to the school board and input into its decisions and policies.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Town of Colonie Recreation Maintenance Worker Len St. Gelais performs routine maintenance on a town bicycle path that runs along a six-mile section of the Erie Canal in New York State. CSEA members across the state maintain the canal and 400 miles of bike paths that run along the canal.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, right, welcomes AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker during the Capital District Area Labor Federation's annual meeting in Albany, NY, where Holt Baker delivered the keynote address. CSEA plays an active role in the area labor federation, with Sullivan serving as the federation's executive vice president and Capital Region President Kathy Garrison serving as a vice president. Holt Baker is the first African-American woman elected to one of the federation's highest three offices, and she is the highest ranking African-American woman in the labor movement.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) occupational safety and health activist Donald Mulder Jr. of Brooklyn DDSO makes a point during a conference workshop on union strategies to address workplace violence. At right is workshop presenter Jonathon Rosen. More than 800 CSEA members attended CSEA's 2008 Statewide Conference on Occupational Safety and Health.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s OSH mascot, the Canary, flies in to save the day in a skit portraying a collective bargaining session during a conference workshop. OSH activists to the right portray injured workers. More than 800 CSEA members attended CSEA's 2008 Statewide Conference on Occupational Safety and Health.
Family members of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members who died on the job take part in a Workers Memorial Day ceremony at CSEA's 2008 Statewide Conference on Occupational Safety and Health.
Barbara Rustin, president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region Retirees Local, is the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month. She recruited 34 members at the MVP level. Rustin is dedicated to fighting for working families. In the photo, Rustin, far right, campaigns for Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential race in Philadelphia shortly before the Pennsylvania presidential primary. CSEA's PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and in your community. Your support and participation in PEOPLE strengthens CSEA's clout in the workplace, in the legislature, in your community and in the labor movement.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region President Flo Tripi and Western New York DDSO Local President Dawn Smith take a moment near candles lit in memory of CSEA members at a ceremony at the facility. Workers Memorial Day is observed on the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (April 28, 1970) and is an international day of mourning for those who die on the job. CSEA also dedicates April 28 to fighting for safe and healthy work sites for all workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Don Williams and Hank Hoisington memorialize fallen workers. Workers Memorial Day is observed on the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (April 28, 1970) and is an international day of mourning for those who die on the job. CSEA also dedicates April 28 to fighting for safe and healthy work sites for all workers.
Guild for Exceptional Children workers stand strong in joining the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Workers demonstrated their overwhelming desire to form a union at their workplace in Brooklyn, NY, not just once, but twice after a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule forced them into an election to defend an already successful card check campaign.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Stephanie Y. Green and LaDonna Swain prepare lunch in the Erie County Medical Center cafeteria. The two are members of the Morrison private sector food service local at the hospital in Buffalo, NY. CSEA's Erie County Local is leading mobilization efforts to keep Buffalo's Erie County Medical Center public. Members of CSEA and two other unions at the hospital collected more than 2,000 postcards to be mailed to Western New York state legislators. The postcards call on state lawmakers to protect the public hospital, which the Erie County Executive wants privatized.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Otsego County member Tony Effner proudly displays his handmade protest sign that sits on the back of his truck, highlighting the union's contract struggle. The union stepped up visibility as part of a strategic campaign to let the public know the value of their county work force and the services they provide.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island State Parks and Recreation Local member Linda Kasten leads guided tours through the Connetquot River State Park Preserve's main house, which once hosted famous guests. CSEA members of the local who work at the preserve, located in Suffolk County, NY, have long played a key role in preserving the high quality of life many Long Island residents make a priority, striving to maintain and enhance attractions such as a gristmill, nature trails, horseback riding paths, bird watching venues and the main house, which is more than 100 years old and features an antique kitchen and dining room complete with paraphernalia from that period.
Workers at the Guild for Exceptional Children in Brooklyn, NY, celebrate their organizing win with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Workers demonstrated their overwhelming desire to form a union at their workplace not just once, but twice after a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule forced them into an election to defend an already successful card check campaign.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Candace Swart, behind the wheel of a school bus she drives for the Webutuck School District in eastern Dutchess County, NY, was honored for her dedication to the job when the Dutchess County Traffic Safety Board named her the Dutchess County School Bus Driver of the Year. As a school bus driver for the district for nearly 31 years, Swart has a proven record of safety on the job, having clocked over 900,000 miles behind the wheel of a Webutuck school bus without an accident.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Treasurer Joe McMullen performing at a union event. In April 2007, McMullen was elected by the CSEA Board of Directors to fill a vacancy in the statewide treasurer position. He has since qualified for a full term in the union's recent statewide election. A 30-year activist, McMullen has worked as an electrician at the State University of New York College at Oneonta where he was local president. He has always brought a rank and file perspective to his union roles.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, left, presents that William L. McGowan Occupational Safety and Health Award to CSEA Standing Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Chair Jim McHugh. McHugh is a former vice president of the CSEA Black River State Employees Local in the Central Region, and a longtime CSEA occupational safety and health activist. More than 800 CSEA members attended CSEA's 2008 Statewide Conference on Occupational Safety and Health.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Occupational safety and health activists Scott Brown, Susan Thew and Abraham Benjamin represent the union team in a skit's bargaining session during a conference workshop. More than 800 CSEA members attended CSEA's 2008 Statewide Conference on Occupational Safety and Health.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) occupational safety and health activists Anthony Brown and Stacey Pettigrew take part in a collage workshop, gving union members skills to create safety and health posters for their workplaces. More than 150 union members attended the workshop. More than 800 CSEA members attended CSEA's 2008 Statewide Conference on Occupational Safety and Health.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region President Flo Tripi and DOT Region 4 (Rochester) President Chuck Parsons admire the spring flowers around the DOT memorial. Workers Memorial Day is observed on the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (April 28, 1970) and is an international day of mourning for those who die on the job. CSEA also dedicates April 28 to fighting for safe and healthy work sites for all workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members including Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, center, demonstrate outside state Senator Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's district office in Queens. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Somewhat reluctant, but being a good sport, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York City State Employees Local 2nd Vice President Donald Bryant has makeup applied before taking part in a Workplace Violence Prevention DVD CSEA is producing to help CSEA leaders and activists reduce the risk of violence at their work sites. Bryant told interviewers about an individual who brutally attacked three Department of Motor Vehicle workers because he was angry over having failed his road test.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Westchester Medical Center's Taylor Care Center, the hospital's public nursing home, was a casualty of the first round of layoffs to hit the Medical Center in January 2009 when it was estimated the hospital would lay off 400 workers, with 190 immediate cuts coming through the closure of the Taylor Center. A second wave of layoffs hit WMC recently, putting more than 100 additional hospital workers out of a job and stretching an already leann work force.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, CSEA Treasurer Joe McMullen, Nassau County Educational Local President Monica Berkowitz, Suffolk County Educational Local President Harry Ader and CSEA Secretary Denise Berkley take a break during the recent Long Island School District Support Staff Career Development Conference, which was jointly sponsored by the Nassau and Suffolk Educational locals. The popular, one-day conference, which drew more than 1,000 CSEA members employed at schools across Long Island, featured programs relevant to school workers.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. More than 200 Union members rally outside the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs while Governor Paterson attended a political conference. Members delivered the Governor a message via signs and chants, "No layoffs, can you hear us now."
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, CSEA Capital Region President Kathy Garrison and PEF Secretary Treasurer Arlea Igoe address Governor Paterson directly during the recent rally in Saratoga Springs.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA retiree members Sue Krongold, left, and Natalie Arone participate in a picket of Assemblyman George Latimer's district office in Mamaroneck, Westchester County. Attendees at the picket protested Latimer's failure to take a stand against the cuts in the state budget. The picket drew local television news coverage.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA members from Western Region gathered outside Assemblywoman Francine DelMonte's Niagara Falls office today to rally against layoffs and to ask the assemblywoman why she will not support state workers. The demonstration received significant support from passersby on the busy downtown street, as well as television and daily newspaper coverage.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. SUNY Stony Brook Local 614 President Carlos Speight addresses members at the Long Island rally. Behind Speight is Long Island Region President Nick LaMorte.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. An aerial view of CSEA members demonstrating in front of the governor's Manhattan office April 29.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA members demonstrate in front of the governor's midtown Manhattan office.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Leonard Cheff of the Niagara state Department of Transportation Local leads the way for demonstrators April 29 in Buffalo while Governor David Paterson was hosting international visitors for dinner in the city. CSEA and PEF delivered the message to rush hour traffic that the governor's state layoffs are not the answer.
New York State Governor David Paterson, plugging his ears, is still not listening. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) continues it's message that Paterson's politics put people at risk. The illustration of Governor Paterson with his fingers in his ears has become familiar across the state in advertisements and billboards. It was developed by Mario Bruni, a graphic artist at the Public Employees Federation.
New York State Governor David Paterson, left, is confronted in Saratoga Springs by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, who is flanked by Public Employees Federation Secretary-Treasurer Arlea Igoe and CSEA Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
Judiciary Local activist Judy DiPaola, Rochester State Employees President Doris Cota, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region Political Action Coordinator Courtney Brunelle, Western Region President Flo Tripi and Western Region Political Action Committee Chairman Tim Finnigan demonstrate outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office. CSEA members also demonstrated at Assemblyman Sam Hoyt's office in Buffalo. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Sullivan County Jail Unit President Robert Brewster, Corrections Officer Jonathan Kurtz, and Col. Hal Smith, jail administrator. Kurtz was presented a plaque honoring him as the unit's second annual Officer of the Year. Brewster said Kurtz, a 17-year corrections officer at the county jail, is a role model for other corrections officers and is known for his professionalism on the job. From left, Sullivan County Jail Unit President Robert Brewster, Corrections Officer Jonathan Kurtz, and Col. Hal Smith, jail administrator. Kurtz was presented a plaque honoring him as the unit's second annual Officer of the Year. Brewster said Kurtz, a 17-year corrections officer at the county jail, is a role model for other corrections officers and is known for his professionalism on the job.
From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York State Thruway Authority Local President Nick Chiesa, Thruway Authority Executive Director Michael Fleischer and CSEA President Danny Donohue sign copies of the new agreement, as CSEA Labor Relations Specialist Mike Sheldon, seated, far right, and members of CSEA's negotiating team, back row, look on.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Bob Dunlap. John Mase, Mark Weaver and Ted Condie of the Hornell State Employees Local recently saved the life of a fisherman who had fallen through the ice in Horseheads, NY.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Thurlus Cordon, left, and Mack Roberts III work as mental health therapy aides at Rockland Psychiatric Center. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide George Reinhard writes patient notes on a chart on Unit 2E at the Greater Binghamton Health Center. CSEA members working in the state's executive branch agencies aren't convinced that Governor David Paterson's proposal to lay off 8,700 workers is going to bring any savings to the state. In fact, it will likely cost the state more with lost productivity, overtime, unemployment benefits and the loss of morale the layoffs could bring to a work force that's already stretched thin.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Capital Region Women's and Community Outreach Committee members pose with items collected for Military Mom in Action, which collects supplies and letters for U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. After reading a newspaper article about the group, committee member Bonnie Roy suggested the committee get involved in collecting donations, an idea committee members enthusiastically embraced. Committee members coordinated donation boxes at state agency buildings and other area work sites in March, and recently helped Military Mom in Action representatives pick up and deliver the donations. Seated, front row, from left, are Gail Connell, Chair, Marie DeShaw and Liz Habiniak. Back row, from left, are Nicole Bishop, Bonnie Roy, Tom McKenna, Suzanne Williams, Lisa Tricozzi and Kim Wallace, Capital Region secretary and committee officer liaison.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Suffolk Municipal Local activist Mike Morris is the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month for March. He recruited 40 new PEOPLE (Public Employees Organized to Promote Legislative Equality) members at the MVP level. CSEA's PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and in your community.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Department of Transportation workers gather for a Workers Memorial Day ceremony at the Pittsford shop near Rochester. CSEA members across the state marked Workers Memorial Day, April 28, with ceremonies and other observances to honor workers who have died or been severely injured on the job.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region President Flo Tripi and Western New York DDSO Local President Dawn Smith reflect at a memorial monument for deceased member Steven Guzzo near the local office during the local's Workers Memorial Day ceremony. CSEA members across the state marked Workers Memorial Day, April 28, with ceremonies and other observances to honor workers who have died or been severely injured on the job.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Union members boo the Governor loudly as he appeared at the recent rally in Saratoga Springs. It had such an impact that local press reported the response.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA Metropolitan Region members, including Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, front in dark jacket, demonstrate outside Senator Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's district office. CSEA demonstrated against state layoffs that will destroy essential services and put lives at risk.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Jorge Padilla, a general mechanic at Helen Hayes Hospital, was one of a number of CSEA members who demonstrated against the impact of the state budget outside the office of Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski. Workers from the state hospital said the already lean work force there will be hurt by layoffs.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA members gather at the NY State Office Building in Hauppauge prior to the Long Island rally.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Helen Hayes Hospital Local President Bill Curtin, left, and Southern Region President Billy Riccaldo were among a group of CSEA members who demonstrated against the cuts in the state budget outside the New City district office of Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Metropolitan Region Secretary Anita Booker, Bronx Psychiatric Center President Abraham Benjamin, Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley, and Brooklyn DDSO Local President Adriane Hudson, address the demonstration.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local Vice President Crispin Booker, Division of Housing Local President Janet Ventrano-Torres and other CSEA members demonstrate in front of the governor's midtown Manhattan office.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA members in the Metropolitan Region demonstrate outside Governor David Paterson's Manhattan office April 30. They were joined by CSEA Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley and PEF members.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight fires up the crowd at a rally at the New York State Office Building in Hauppauge. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.