Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Research Department staff, from left, Assistant Director of Research Tom Coyle, Research Analyst Cindy Chovanec, Director of Research Bill Blom and consultant Joe Watkins. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member and Manlius Highway Department Heavy Equipment Operator Dave Hale shows a student how to operate his snowplow during a visit to the Enders Road Elementary School. Hale visits local schools every year to talk about snowplow safety and show the kids whats involved in keeping town roads clear and safe. The town of Manlius is in Onondaga County, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) slams Governor Paterson's budget. Services, jobs and communities will all be hard hit and middle income New Yorkers will bear the brunt of the cost under Governor Paterson's proposed 2009-10 state budget.
Jerry Knapp of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Cortland County Local agrees with his local's decision to bargain for the Strategic Benefit Trust's prescription drug buying program. Negotiating the trust's benefits into a contract can be a more cost-efficient way to provide health benefits for some public employees and could in some cases, be the only way to get benefits to the private sector.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka fires up the crowd at the 2009 AFSCME Lobby Day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and AFSCME members from across the state came by the busload for AFSCME Lobby Day on March 31, meeting with lawmakers and lobbying them to oppose Governor David Paterson's proposed layoffs of 8,700 state workers.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members, from left, Saratoga Springs, New York, City Hall Unit President Kathy Moran, Olivia Dean, Lynn Browne, Doris Dyer, Michael Peters, Karen Whipple and Tony Izzo show off their Halloween costumes. Unit members dressed up in costumes and attended a lunch party, where they raised more than $500 to help buy holiday gifts for residents at Maplewood Manor, the county's nursing home.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Headquarters staff posing for a photo after being interviewed by a reporter from WNYT-Channnel 13 of Albany, NY during a fund-raiser for tsunami victim relief efforts. The mini-telethon held at CSEA Headquarters raised more than $100,000 that day, with CSEA activists and staff taking pledges. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members demonstrating at the Peru School District because the district refused to pay retiree health benefits to Ken LaMoy, a former co-worker who is battling cancer. Nearly 100 North Country members turned out for the demonstration, held before a board of education meeting at which the grievance was heard.
U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan speaking to Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members at an unidentified meeting. Moynihan is wearing a baseball cap and holding a plaque. Behind Moynihan is CSEA President William McGowan and other unidentified CSEA members.