Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Karen Chase-Corcoran speaking to a reporter at a rally at Government Plaza in Binghamton, NY against Governor George Pataki's proposed budget. In the background is a pink piggy bank in the back of a pick-up truck with the slogan "KEEP YOUR CHANGE! STOP THE BUDGET CUTS!" on its side.
Members of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Rockland Psychiatric Center Local 421, Michael Hogg, Nancy Conviser, Addie Cerfola, Ron Mortenson, Bruce Carpenter, Pam Alexander, and Brenda Gamble protest the closing of Blaisdale Alcohol Treatment Center.
Tempers flared when two pickets, served with injunctions, were arrested by City police on orders from State Assistant Attorney General Robert Contiguglia. However, police learned shortly after the arrests the two men were not state employees, but field representatives of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Both were released. City officials said the entire matter was a misunderstanding and that the two had not really been arrested. On hand for the incident were Mayor Paul W. Lattimore and Assistant corporation counsel Thomas Leone. Above, Capt. Joseph Conboy, third from left, has a brief exchange with an on-looker. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
An unidentified group of Oneida County, NY Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members protest contract offers during the holidays of 1972. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the department workers are picketing the office each morning before work and during their lunch hour. Ted Modrzejewski, state field representative for the Civil Service Employee Association, has said that the picketing would coninue everday to "make the public aware of what's happening to this office." Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
New York State Assemblyman Jack McEneny speaking at a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) press conference on the steps of the State Capitol. CSEA members, Senator Paul Tonko, Senator Neil Breslin, and Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari stand behind John McEneny. A stuffed turkey is featured in the forefront of the photo to symbolize Governor George Pataki's budget. The legislators were calling for a "slice" of the turkey for public employees, but the governor did not leave a piece for them. The turkey was carved at the end of the press conference. A sign in front of McEneny reads "Show Some Respect!"
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members employed by the Yonkers Public Schools demonstrated before a school board of Trustees meeting. More than 700 members of the CSEA Yonkers Public Schools Non-Teaching Unit demonstrated outside of Saunders Technical and Trades High School before the meeting then filed into the auditorium where Unit President Bobbie DiBattista addressed the board members.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island Region members picket near the Copiague School District for a fair contract for school custodians, groundskeepers, and maintenance workers. A visit by New York State Education Commissioner Richard Mills to the Copiague School District coincided with the picket.
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.