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- Date Created:
- 2009 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Morelle, Joseph D., Labor union members, Labor unions, Tripi, Flo, and Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2009 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Labor union members, Labor unions, and Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2009 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Work Force (CSEA Monthly Publication), Labor union members, CSEA SUNY New Paltz Local (N.Y.), and CSEA Capital Region Veterans Committee (N.Y.)
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2008 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Protests, Labor union members, Labor unions, Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.), and Work Force (CSEA Monthly Publication)
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2008 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Protests, Labor union members, CSEA Central Region (N.Y.), Labor unions, Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.), and Wheaton, Colleen
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2008 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Prescription Drug Costs, Protests, Labor union members, Public Employees Federation, Labor unions, Albany (N.Y.), New York State United Teachers, McMullen, Joseph, and Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2008 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Labor union members, Labor unions, and Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2008 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Labor union members, CSEA New York City State Employees Local 10 (N.Y.), Labor unions, and Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2008 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Brooklyn (N.Y.), Protests, Labor union members, Labor unions, and Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 2008 March
- Collection:
- Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap015
- Description:
- 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.
- Subject:
- Protests, Empire State Plaza, Albany (N.Y.), Labor union members, Labor unions, New York State Office of General Services, and Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)