Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Schaunderlon White, right, serves Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance clients with the same dedication as she serves her union. The agency provides services for individuals who have been injured, have a disability or are unable to work and provide for themselves or their families for other reasons.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Hudson Valley DDSO Local President Nancy Hueben is fired up at the March for Main Street. Thousands of working New Yorkers converged on the state Capitol to March for Main Street to tell Governor David Paterson that his budget priorities should lie with Main Street, not Wall Street.
In 2004, New York's farmworkers stopped to rally at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) headquarters on their way to the Capitol, winding up a 10-day, 200-mile walk for equal rights. CSEA members and staff joined them and showed support, handing out water to the thirsty and tired workers. CSEA is a longtime supporter of the Justice for Farmworkers campaign, led by the Rural and Migrant Ministry, committed to overcoming prejudices and poverty. CSEA urged members to join a May 12, 2009, rally in Albany to show state lawmakers that farmworkers cannot be forgotten for another 70 years.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Yan Kushelman, a surgical techologist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, assists doctors during a surgical procedure. CSEA represents nearly 500 workers at the medical center.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Rebecca McGrath, an addictions counselor at Hope House in Albany, NY, helps people with addictions get their lives back on track. CSEA is actively involved in organizing workers from facilities such as Hope House, whether they be addiction services, care for autistic adults and children, or private sector developmental disability service agencies.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue is pictured with Emily Armbruster of the American Red Cross at CSEA's recent Annual Delegates Meeting in Washington, D.C. CSEA has made a significant contibutin to the National Disaster Relief Fund in support of all Red Cross chapters in New York state. Armbruster spoke to CSEA delegates about Red Cross hurricane relief efforts.
Pressure from the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) helped kill generous raises for management listed in the proposed 2009 Putnam County budget, but county officials still approved the layoff of two CSEA members employed by the county's highway department. CSEA members, including those shown above, demonstrated against the cuts before a recent public hearing on the budget. The budget also included the elimination of a number of vacant CSEA-represented job titles. The cuts came despite the fact that recent lobbying by CSEA has allowed Putnam County to enjoy a dramatic increase in sales tax revenues, a change that puts the county in a far better financial position than it has seen in recent years.
Dispatchers, from left, Gregory Schmid, David Dalmanieras, Charlotte Martin and Chris Butcher are among the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members at the Orange County E-911 Center fighting for better working conditions.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon illustrating how Wall Street (a beaver) is biting into New York's economy (a tree) while New Yorkers (a sweating bird sitting on a branch) watch savings and investments (leaves shaken from a branch) blow away. A broken branch on the tree shows manufacturing decline. The state motto, "Excelsior" (Ever Upward) is crossed out and replaced with "Caveat Emptor" (Buyer Beware).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Head Start employees across the Capital Region in New York State recently met for a one-day conference to discuss issues affecting the program. Cecilia Perry from AFSCME's Department of Research and Collective Bargaining Services led the discussion that included new regulations, statutes, funding and reporting requirements. Capital Region President Kathy Garrison is fourth from left in the back row.
Nick Paolini, president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Amherst Unit, affixes address labels on postcards supporting Barack Obama for president. Members of the Western Region conducted the postcard campaign during the annual autumn region meeting. The cards were sent to union members in swing states.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Amy E. LaForte, a financial case manager at Hope House in Albany, NY, helps keep the center's records on track. CSEA is actively involved in organizing workers from facilities such as Hope House, whether they be addiction services, care for autistic adults and children, or private sector developmental disability service agencies.
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicts former Governor Mario Cuomo filling a crack with piles of dirt representing state services. Governor Cuomo proposed massive mid-year budget cuts that included thousands of layoffs, deep cuts in state services and sharp slashes in aid for local governments and school districts. Governor Cuomo also called for mandatory, five-day furloughs in pay for all state employees that would cut workers' salaries by 2 percent.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s 2008 Statewide Women's Conference attendees do the conga to Lynn Marie Smith's labor version of the hit song "YMCA".
Goshen Secure Center Local Secretary Amber Bradshaw and Goshen Secure Local member Karen Wright at the Civil Service Employee Association (CSEA)'s 2008 Statewide Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activists Guadalupe Johnson and Terry Lester march to Lynn Marie Smith's labor version of the hit song "YMCA" at the Statewide Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President and Women's Committee officer liaison Mary Sullivan applauds Lynn Marie Smith's performance at the Statewide Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Orange County Local activists Betty Lou Kranz and Joyce Howard listen at a workshop at the 2008 Statewide Women's Conference.
AFSCME member Tamika Felder, a cervical cancer survivor who founded "Tamika & Friends" to fight the disease, tells her story at the "Say Something" workshop at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) statewide Women's Committee member Catherine Custance, far left, and Tamika & Friends activists listen.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s 2008 Statewide Women's Conference Committee poses at the end of the statewide Women's Conference. Standing, from left, are Committee Adviser Sharon Lovelady-Hall; Retiree member Sylvia Thomas; Southern Region member Janice Beaulieu; Capital Region member Kim Wallace; Metropolitan Region member Carlotta Williams; Western Region member Rose Conti; Executive Vice President and committee officer liaison Mary Sullivan; committee Chair Jackie Stanford and Long Island Region member Catherine Custance. Front row, from left, are Central Region member Cathy Barretta and Southern Region member Karen Pecora
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Central Region President Colleen Wheaton writes down members' input about what makes a good public speaker at the 2008 Statewide Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley applauds Lynn Marie Smith's performance of union songs at the 2008 Statewide Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Women's Committee Chair Jackie Stanford enjoys AFT organizer Lynn Marie Smith's performance of labor songs at the Statewide Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Women's Committee member Kim Wallace, Karen Pecora, Carlotta Williams, Rose Conti and Sylvia Thomas applaud Shirley Singletary as she discusses Girls, Inc.
Shirley Singletary, board vice president for the Long Island chapter of Girls Inc., urges Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members to get involved in the organization as volunteers and mentors at the 2008 Statewide Women's Conference.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Oyster Bay Local 881 President Bob Rauff (center) plays Employee Benefit Squares during the "Do You Ask the Right Questions About Your Benefits?" workshop.
Master of Ceremonies Nick Paolini, president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Amherst Unit, and Western Region Veterans Committee Chairman Bob Pyjas of the Erie County Unit place a wreath on the dock near the USS Little Rock at Naval and Military Park in Buffalo, NY, during the region's annual Veterans Day ceremony.
Members of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Capital Region's newly formed library work group take a break from their first meeting to pose for a photo. The group is comprised of CSEA members employed at six area libraries. It will meet regularly to discuss issues of relevance to library workers. Discussion at the November meeting included topics such as negotiations, political action, workplace safety and proposed continuing education requirements. Joining the work group members are Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, back row, far left, and Capital Region Director Kate Luscombe, back row, far right.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Chemung County Unit 4th Vice President Joe Coletta and his Department of Social Services co-workers have been spearheading a collection of used cellular phones to be donated to the Salvation Army Safehouse Program, a domestic violence shelter program for Chemung and Schuyler counties. The program has already collected more than 100 phones that have been given to victims of domestic violence so they can always call 911 in an emergency.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region President Nick LaMorte and region Women's Committee members and activists recruited nearly 400 walkers for the recent Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at Jones Beach. The region again served as a flagship sponsor for the walk, and union members raised nearly $10,000 to fight breast cancer, including research, education and patient care.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, Joe Kevlin, center, of the state Education Department Local, his son Patrick Kevlin, a College of St. Rose student, and Jim Dunden, also of the state Education Department Local, work to get out the vote on Election Day in the Capital Region.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities aide John Normile stands with a framed New York Times sports section front page. He took the photo of Drew Bledsoe getting sacked.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. CSEA President Danny Donohue addresses the attendees of the weekend program.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. Shannon Wade, right, from Guild for Exceptional Children, with Scott Gould from Health Research Inc. Local in Buffalo.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. Guadalupe Johnson, Nassau County Local Administrative Assistant, enjoys a light moment with other members at the weekend workshop.
Union members from the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and other labor groups demand fairness at a November 18 rally near the state Capitol in Albany, NY, the same day Governor Paterson called for a special legislative budget session which broke down without any resolution to the state's budget deficit. CSEA's position is that the governor's budget proposals have only been about cutting back essential public services and shifting more burden to working New Yorkers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activists from eastern Long Island spoke out against Town Supervisor Phil Cardinale's posposed 2009 budget, particularly his plan to eliminate funding for public safety dispatchers in the town's Police Department.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central Region activists raised more than $3,300 for the Special Olympics to sponsor the region's team for the state's first "Polar Plunge" of the 2008-09 season. Funding raised directly benefits Special Olympics athletes and gives access to families that otherwise couldn't afford to send their special needs family members to Special Olympics. The "Central Region Polar Peeps" Team, from left to right: Barb Carnrike, Karen Bright, Betty Jo Johnson, Jeffrey Colburn, Sarah Gilkinson, Tammy Witteman, Ellen Englert, Casey Walpole, Janice Danaher, Nick Kadick and Jeannette Engle.
A plan to contract out part of the busing operation in the Warwick Valley Central School District and consolidate bus runs is facing fierce opposition from members of the district's Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) unit. CSEA activists, from left, Martha Langlitz, Wendy Vandercliff and Barbara Watch say proposed cuts to the Warwick Valley Central School District's transportation department must be stopped.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central Region President Colleen Wheaton, right, presents a check for $1,757 to Jolie Bonaparte from the American Cancer Society for its "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" fund-raiser. The region raised the money at its fall conference by raffling gift baskets. The donations will be used toward fighting breast cancer, including research, education and patient care programs.
Pat Whalen, secretary of the state Education Department Local and a 23-year Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, was recently honored by the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council with its 'Straight But Not Narrow' award. Whalen, a visitor assistant at the New York State Museum in Albany, works closely with the council on projects year round and recently coordinated events at the state museum for Gay Pride Month. The council honored him for his commitment to the labor and LGBT communities, calling it "solidarity."
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicts Governor David Paterson as a fire chief putting out smoldering wildfires (public services and quality of life in NYS) with fire extinguisher (budget proposals) and an axe (service cuts).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Rick Schenosky, an Onondaga County probation officer who was honored as statewide Adult Probation Officer of the Year earlier this year, was recognized by CSEA Treasurer Joe McMullen and Syracuse University officials for his achievements at a Syracuse football game, which was also CSEA Game Day at the campus' Carrier Dome. From left, are Syracuse University Athletic Director Director Darryl Gross, Schenosky, McMullen and Joe Baldini, vice president and general manager, Syracuse ISP Sports Network.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. Brook Lancaster from Local 559 Office of Children and Family Services, right, with Karyne Tinord from Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. The weekend program began with labor history and transitioned to a series of collaborative, free-flowing brainstorming sessions where the young activists could focus on issues, specifically targeting younger CSEA members.
Nearly 40 Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members under the age of 35 from around the state attended a workshop in Rennsselaerville to be a part of Next Wave; a new program designed to encourage younger activists to take an active role in building and maintaining the strength of CSEA by passing along the torch of activism to the next generation. Michael Nelson, right, executive secretary, Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local with Kevin Norwood from Suffolk County Municipal Local during one of the weekend workshops.