Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Member Benefits Specialist Bonnie Loyche speaking with CSEA members about the benefits and services they get through their union membership. CSEA activists and Syracuse, New York, City School District workers Laury Willoughby and Debra Martin used what they learned in the union's Labor Education And Development (LEAD) Program to turn a "staff development day" for their co-workers in the school district into an innovative "union development day" to help build union through learning. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Jim Peterniti, left, a maintenance assistant, and General Mechanic Rod Mitchell, who work to maintain the Great Valley Residential Center in western New York, despite understaffing at the youth facility. Many CSEA members who work for the New York State Office of Children and Family Services say the agency has become a rudderless ship. CSEA, New York State's largest union, has reached out to the Office of Children and Family Services to discuss concerns union members have with communication, policy, staffing and regulations.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Terry R. Brassfield and Steven L. James display the Mini-Belts they invented. After years of helplessly watching their patients at South Beach Psychiatric Center use whatever means at their disposal to hold their pants up, often unsuccessfully, they put their minds together with a nurse at the center and devised a kinder, safer way for patients to keep their pants and dignity in place. They recently obtained a Patent Pending trademark and related business certificates for the Mini-Belts and Tenoren Technologies L.L.C. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Robert Rauff, Equipment Operator 3 and Oyster Bay Local executive vice president, with United States Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand at the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Federal Political Action Program training. Gillibrand, who represents New York State's 20th Congressional District that includes a large area of the Capital Region, Hudson Valley and Champlain Valley spoke to CSEA's Federal Political Action Liaisons (PALs) recently, discussing congressional priorities and issues that relate to CSEA members. The weekend Federal PALS training session included a workshop on using the CSEA website to lobby congressional leaders and discussions about universal health care. CSEA's Federal PALS lobby federal lawmakers on issues that affect CSEA members. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Montgomery County Local President Ed Russo surveying the flood damage caused by devastating rains that hit many areas of central and southern New York and the Capital Region in June 2006. Russo and other CSEA members of the Montgomery County Departement of Public Works were among those being honored as Hometown Heroes by the Red Cross for their efforts following the devastating floods. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Daycare provider Sally Heater, from East Syracuse, New York, holding cards to be distributed to other providers to authorize forming a union with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Membership of independent contractors would be a first for the union. Heater is working hard to help give daycare providers the loud and clear voice of advocacy that comes with belonging to a union. She was a CSEA member for 30 years before becoming an independent daycare provider. The VOICE (Voice of Organized Independent Childcare Educators) campaign began in 2002 when CSEA was contacted by a group of family daycare providers in Schenectady, New York, looking for assistance with an unclear county payment system and the threat of proposed cuts in the childcare subsidy funding. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
New York State Assemblyman Paul Tonko, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Capital Region President Kathy Garrison, Montgomery County (New York) employee Mark Hoffman, Montgomery County Local President Ed Russo, Montgomery County employee Terry Bieniek and CSEA President Danny Donohue at the American Red Cross of Northeastern New York's annual Salute to Hometown Heroes breakfast. The CSEA members of the Montgomery County Department of Public Works were among those being honored as Hometown Heroes by the Red Cross for their efforts following devastating floods in June 2006. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member logging in to CSEA's new online E-Learning Center. The online learning center was developed to allow CSEA members to get training via any computer connected to the Internet. This advanced way of learning will enable CSEA members to remain the best and most knowledgeable employees in public sector employment. CSEA's Work Institute administers the programs. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Regional President Jim Moore firing up a crowd at a demonstration in support of an organizing drive in Syracuse, New York, in June 2003. Moore retired March 28, 2007, after serving an unprecedented 30 years in that office. When Moore began his career, New York State employees didn't have the legal right to collectively bargain. His 40-year union career has outlasted the terms of eight United States presidents, six New York State Governors and four CSEA statewide presidents. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Gloria Patmore, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and cook at the Great Valley Residential Center in western New York. When the kitchen is short on staff, youth development aides are brought in to help, leaving other services understaffed. As a result, CSEA has reached out to the New York State Office of Children and Family Services to discuss concerns union members have with communication, policy, staffing and regulations. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.