Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Tim Finnigan from SUNY Geneseo, left, Rochester State Employees Local President Doris Cota, Western Region Political Action Coordinator Courtney Brunelle and Judy DiPaola from the Judiciary Local picket April 8 outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office. CSEA told the assemblyman that there is a better way to balance the state budget; mass layoffs are not the answer.
Charlotte Wallace, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Cortland County Local member, uses the CanRX Alternative Prescription Plan offered by the Strategic Benefit Trust. 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.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. CSEA members protest an appearance by Governor David Paterson at a Department of Transportation garage in Syracuse.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Television reporters interview Buffalo State College Local Vice President Jerry Richmond during a demonstration at Assemblyman Sam Hoyt's office in Buffalo. CSEA demonstrated against state layoffs that will destroy essential services and put lives at risk.
Across New York state, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members are showing up wherever the Governor appears to protest and confront him about his threat to lay off 8,700 state employees. Union members are also holding rallies and demonstrations in front of the offices of legislative leaders who are backing the governor's plan. Rochester State Employees President Doris Cota, Western Region Political Action Committee Chairman Tim Finnigan and Western Region President Flo Tripi take part in a picket outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office Wednesday morning. CSEA delivered a message that mass state layoffs will put lives at risk and jeopardize services in the state. The union has provided lawmakers with several others proposals that would close the budget gap.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley was recently presented with the prestigious Bertram Harris Civil Service Award during the 56th Annual Brotherhood Observance and Awards Luncheon in New York City. Berkley, center, poses with Metropolitan Region 1st Vice President and Brotherhood Co-Chair Linda R. Williams, left, and Brotherhood Chairman Randy Johnson, right.
Lisa Bohannon, at work in the Unified Court System law library, is a participant in a long-term cancer prevention study. Bohannon, a principal court analyst and a 14-year CSEA member, has been a longtime supporter of the American Cancer Society through its annual Relay For Life event and is motivated by a need to contribute to research in the hope that more can be learned about cancer. She, like many, has lost family members to cancer.
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is going green. The agency is implementing a Compressed Pay Period, or CPP, Pilot Program. The new program reflects concern for employees seeking a work/family balance and helps reduce energy use, traffic and air pollution. Eligible employees will be able to decrease the number of their workdays and increase the number of hours worked each day to earn a day off every tenth day. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Kathy Follet, along with a committee, helped the compressed pay period program expand at her agency.
From left, New York Labor-Religion Coalition Director Brian O'Shaughnessy, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan, Albany Catholic Diocese Bishop Howard Hubbard, author Kim Bobo, and NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi attend a ceremony opening the 40-Hour FAST for Social Justice. This year's FAST focused attention on wage theft. Hubbard and Iannuzzi co-chair the Labor-Religion Coalition.
How employers are stealing from workers, and how we can help stop it. Author and community organizer Kim Bobo brought her message to Albany to help the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York State Labor Religion Coalition begin its annual 40-hour fast for social justice. Bobo, founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Worker Justice, has published a book, Wage Theft in America: Why millions of working Americans are not getting paid and what we can do about it.