Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region Director and Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) Long Island, New York, Chapter Trustee Alan Jennings, CBTU Long Island Chapter President Rudy Bruce, CSEA Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, Hempstead Council member Dorothy Goosby and CEO of the Economic Opportunity Commission of Nassau County John Kearse. Boncoraglio was given CBTU Long Island's Leadership Award for his tireless pursuit of equality and diversity for all working people. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter was the guest of the Foundation of Advocacy for Mental Health at an Albany Reception April 24, 2006. The event helped focus attention on the importance of overcoming stigma and addressing mental health needs. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue is on the Board of Directors of the Foundation of Advocacy for Mental Health. From left to right are: Senate Majority Leader Joeseph Bruno, Albany Mayor Gerald Jennings, Carter and former First Lady of New York Matilda Cuomo.
Faces of The Work Force are photos taken by Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) staff from around the state showing members at work throughout the year. Curtis Melville, a hospital attendant at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, looks over recently cleaned medical coats in the hospital's uniform room.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, Rochester, New York, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) Chapter President and CSEA staff person Debbie Lee and Rochester City Councilman Wade Norwood. The Rochester Chapter of CBTU honored Donohue, an AFSCME International Vice President, for his long-time union leadership, advocacy for workers' rights, and a host of accomplishments and achievements for working people at its annual convention in Rochester in 2004. The CBTU consists of members from 50 international and national unions with 55 chapters across the country. The basic objectives of the CBTU include: putting forth greater and more creative efforts to improve the image of labor throughout the community; and working within the framework of the trade union movement to provide a voice and vehicle for greater black and minority participation. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
More than 500 workers at the Quality Services for the Autism Community, a not-for profit service provider that helps autistic and developmentally challenged individuals in Queens, gained the advantage of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) membership last year. About 16,000 CSEA members provide life skills, medical services and healthy community connections for nearly 10,000 group home residents of all ages and ability levels around the clock. CSEA OMRDD staff deliver care at about 1,200 homes statewide.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) cartoon depicting the "Right Guard": Knight holding shield (whistle-blower protection bill) on horse (health care workers) slays dragon (health care employers) with a thrashing tail (employer retaliation) to save the maiden (improper quality patient care). The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up signs at a Brooklyn Developmental Center Demonstration over staff assaults in April 2001.
NYC Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio join a group of CSEA members at a Brooklyn Developmental Center Demonstration over staff assaults in April 2001.
A group of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members hold up signs at a Brooklyn Developmental Center Demonstration over staff assaults in April 2001.
A group of unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members march with signs at a Brooklyn Developmental Center Demonstration over staff assaults in April 2001.