Wayne County overestimated spending and underestimated revenue during the years 2007-2011 resulting in $59.1 million in surplus funding while claiming the county was in the hole. Wayne County Local President Paul Peters, at podium, and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President Danny Donohue.
Maria Johnson of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center Local in the Western Region is the PEOPLE Recruiter for the month of March, 2013. The Civil Service Employees Association's (CSEA) PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and in your community.
Erie County Local Executive Vice President Denise Szymura looks at a serving line in the new Terrace View public nursing home. The new home that replaces the 87-year-old Erie County Home and Infirmary, adjacent to the Erie County Medical Center, will save about $1 million annually in patient costs and is expected to reduce operating losses by about 60 percent.
Kevin Kumor of the Erie County Local in the Western Region was the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month for December 2012. CSEA's PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and in your community.
Polla Milligan of the Food Bank of Western New York, left, receives a check for $3,700 from Denise Szymura, Erie County Local Women's Committee chair. The committee raised the money through an auction basket benefitting the food bank. Local members are urged to make food or monetary donations to the food bank. Since 2004, the local and its Women's Committee have donated a total of $28,215 and 4,161 pounds of food to the food bank.
Lancaster Blue Collar Unit President Mike Rath, left, Depew Boys & Girls Club Director Jeff Kupka, Depew Blue Collar Unit President Lew Heltman, Depew White Collar Unit President Sharon Quinn, Boys & Girls Club Executive Director Dave Hoch and Depew Blue Collar Unit member Robert Miechowicz discuss the damaged game room at the Depew Boys & Girls Club. The building, which was built in the 1920s and occupied by the Boys & Girls Club since 1936, suffered significant fire damage early in January.
Paul Hybicki, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Maryvale Schools Unit president, found an affordable replacement to dimmable light ballasts that burned out quickly by using ballasts with a five-year guarantee and a distributor who accepted burned-out ballasts for new ones. They were installed by CSEA members and all this came at no cost to the district.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Chrs Chimera stands in support of libraries and county services during a "We Are Erie County" rally in downtown Buffalo earlier this year.
Voters elect Mark Poloncarz as the new county executive in Erie County. The victory marks the end of the reign of Chris Collins, an out-of-touch politician who became known as "King Collins" for his my-way-or-the-highway style.
From Long Island to Buffalo, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members helped storm ravaged areas. Once workers took care of their own duties in Long Island, they headed north to help in the Catskills, while workers from Steuben County traveled to Greene County to assist with clean up efforts there. Karen Hurtgam from the Niagara state Department of Transportation Local was among the first group of Western Region members to travel to the storm damaged area of Greene County.