Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Deputy Counsel Jerry Lefkowitz, who was nominated by New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer to chair the Public Employee Relations Board. As an attorney in the New York State Labor Department under Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Lefkowitz helped craft the Public Employees Fair Employment Act, also known as the Taylor Law, which was enacted in 1967.After the law's enactment, Lefkowitz served as PERB's executive director for many years before joining CSEA in 1987.
Cheryl M. Perkins, Library Clerk at SUNY Health and Sciences Center in Brooklyn, New York, using the Dewey Decimal System card catalog even though most of the research at the library is now done electronically. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) supports closing the gap in funding for libraries and providing more operating aid directly to libraries so they can have the resources necessary to meet the growing needs of their communities. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
SUNY New Paltz Local Vice Presidents Janice Beaulieu, left, and Mary Griffin taking part in a rally for the right for private food service employees at SUNY New Paltz to unionize. Sodexho-Marriot, an international, multibillion-dollar corporation, took over operations of the campus dining services in 2001. The workers approached the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) for help in forming a union in 2002 after Sodexho managers would subject employees to intimidation, reprimands and humiliation on the job. Nearly 100 workers voted to join CSEA in 2003. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Terri Gilbough of the Finger Lakes DDSO Local and client Richard at a group home in Rochester. CSEA is preparing to introduce state legislation that will help preserve the quality care standards in the public and not-for-profit sectors of the developmental disabilties field, which will help boost the substandard pay and benefits of non-union employees of not-for-profit centers while protecting the hard fought rights and contractual protections of CSEA members.
State Senator Frank Padavan speaks at a Campaign for Quality Care in New York's developmental disabilities system news conference in New York City. Numerous other legislators, city council members and activists also participated. The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Quality Care campaign is necessary because of an epidemic in turnover rates ? up to 40 percent annually among front line employees of many not-for-profit agencies that threaten the long-term quality standards of services and care.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan members, from left, Roy Lester, Jacqueline Stanford, Angelina Hodges, Clarissa Mitchell and New York State Insurance Fund Local President Lester Crockett holding an exhibit of illustrious African Americans during a recent program to celebrate African American History Month. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Local, Lottery Marketing Representative Sarah Ying, left, visits with Lottery agents in Brooklyn as part of her busy rounds checking Lottery outlets.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in Onondaga County demonstrate in support of their contract fight and to urge the county legislature to preserve funding for the Van Duyn Nursing Home.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Nassau County Local member A. Douglas Thomas stands outside the Nassau County Juvenile Detention Center, where he works as a youth group worker aide. Thomas has been an advocate for better working conditions for CSEA members and better living conditions for youths at the center.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Arnold Villeneuve, a construction equipment operator at the state Office of General Services, resurfaces ice on the Empire Plaza rink across from the State Capitol in Albany.