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.
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.
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.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) East Greenbush School District members fill a truck with donated supplies. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members across New York gave blood, helped raise relief money and moved donated goods to aid stricken families and relief workers in the World Trade Center attacks.
New York State Governor George E. Pataki signing legislation awarding retired public employees in New York a supplement to their pensions. Among the dignitaries looking on are New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, Office of Management Confidential Employees President Barbara Zaron, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue, New York AFL-CIO President Ed Cleary and New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall. CSEA, New York State's largest union, fought long and hard for the bill which was a top legislative priority for years.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Research Department staff at work. From head of table to right: Research Analyst Cindy Chovanec, Assistant Director of Research Tom Coyle, Director of Research Bill Blom and consultant Joe Watkins. (People on left side of table are unidentified.)
Salamanca, New York, Police officers Chris Hutchison and Jeffrey DaHill and Chief Troy Westfall are members of a police department that makes twice as many arrests as departments in bigger cities and towns, but with half as many officers. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in the department were part of an investigation that led to a major drug bust in predominantly rural Cattaraugus County in Western New York, taking a large amount of crack cocaine off the streets and serving 21 federal arrest warrants.