Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, right, confers with CSEA Occupational Safety and Health Activist Paul Blujus at a New York State Department of Labor hearing on a proposed workplace violence prevention rule. The DOL rule, which would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers, builds upon the Worksite Security Act of 2006, which CSEA spearheaded and which provides safer workplaces for New York's public employees.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) State University of New York Stony Brook members Amalia Benavide, Francisca Ortiz and Dora Pelaez. They are enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program and see the ESOL course as an opportunity to expand their horizons and pursue the American dream. The classes are made possible by a New York State & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training grant that shows the best in labor-management collaboration.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Maria Krawesyk, a custodial worker at the State University of New York at Albany, who is enrolled in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program. The classes are made possible by a New York State & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training grant that shows the best in labor-management collaboration.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue urges state labor officials to issue strong workplace violence prevention rules. Donohue spoke at a public hearing on a proposed workplace violence prevention rule. The New York State Department of Labor rule, which would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers, builds upon the Worksite Security Act of 2006, which CSEA spearheaded and which provides safer workplaces for New Yorks public employees.
Ed Burkhart, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member in the Great Meadow Correctional Facility Local, emerging from 46-degree Lake George, NY, water after taking the Polar Plunge to raise money for Special Olympics New York. CSEA, through a supportive relationship with Special Olympics New York and Quality Care New York, affirms its commitment to New York's developmentally disabled individuals, advocating for the highest standard in quality of care. CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the Long Island, NY Region Women's Committee have made the holidays a little brighter for Clara, a young girl at Stony Brook Hospital. Instead of buying gifts for a raffle, they "adopted" a needy child for the holidays. Here they display some of the gifts they are donating.
The Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Long Island, NY Region Veterans Committee was busy spreading lots of holiday cheer to area veterans in December. CSEA members from all over the Long Island Region gave generously and the committee collected many boxes full of toiletries, warm socks, sweats, underwear and other items. Then the committee members made a couple of trips to deliver them in person. Committee members Ed Hussey from Smithtown Library, Pilgrim 2nd Vice President Herman Williams and Chair Maryann Phelps are assisted by Oyster Bay Local Executive Vice President Bobby Rauff.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members from the Glendale Home in Schenectady County take part in an Albany rally in front of the State Capitol to protest recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. CSEA mounted numerous public events and rallies, leaders testified at public hearings in every part of the state and the union also mounted a media campaign to get its message out and get communities involved.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Carlos Speight and several other protestors at a New York State rally. The caption reads: SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight leads a group of union members demonstrating outside Stony Brook University Medical Center. Nearly 250 CSEA members turned out to protest a proposal to privatize the hospital. CSEA members across the state overwhelmingly have responded to recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, and their voices have been heard.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Onondaga County, NY Water Environmental Protection Unit President Bob Reilly demonstrates in support of Van Duyn Nursing Home and SUNY Upstate Medical Center. The Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century's recommendations for Central New York has CSEA and others in the health care community fighting proposals to privatize and merge SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and Onondaga County's Van Duyn Home and Hospital with nearby private hospitals, as well as decreasing beds at Broome County's Willow Point nursing home.