State Office of Children and Family Services Local President Richard Chaffin discusses national health care reform with local member Kerry Simonds during the local's 5th annual "I Scream" event in Rensselaer, which raises awareness each year about a hot political issue, informs the membership and "spurs debate."
Judy Richards, Pat Gooden and Lee Pound, shown at the 25th annual Retiree Delegates Meeting in 2009, were chosen to lead the union's Statewide Retiree Committee.
Stephen Delair, Sunmount Developmental Center Local, was a first time attendee at the 99th Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Annual Delegates Meeting.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) activists Shekema Brown, left, and Kathy Hartwig get to know each other during a break in the town hall meeting held during the 99th Annual Delegates Meeting.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan and statewide Secretary Denise Berkley join with members of the CSEA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Caucus held during the 99th Annual Delegates Meeting.
Kim Kopp, Sunmount Development Center Local, was a first-time attendee to the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) 99th Annual Delegates Meeting.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) State Department of Transportation Erie Residency Local member Joe Pericozzi attended the 99th Annual Delegates Meeting.
Leslie Walls, James E. Christian Memorial Health Department in Albany, attended the 99th Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Annual Delegates Meeting.
From left, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Silver Creek Unit member Brianna Griewisch, unit President Joe Reed, and unit members Gary Grover, Jeff Griewisch and Bill Quinn continue to work out of a parking lot following a flood that destroyed the village's public works building.
A powerful flood knocked a hole in a brick wall in a Silver Creek Department of Public Works building. The department lost all its buildings and almost all its equipment in the flooding.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members gut a Gowanda resident's house following the flooding as part of the cleanup effort, with the volunteers removing everything right down to the studs.