Former Wal-Mart executive-turned union organizer Gretchen Adams holding up a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) tee-shirt from the CSEA Women's Committee at the 2002 CSEA Women's Conference held in Rye Brook, Westchester County, New York. The tee-shirt shows Rosie the Riveter flexing her muscle with the motto: "A woman's place . . . Is in her Union." More than 500 women and men participated in many energy-packed programs and workshops that empowered members personally and professionally and laid the foundation to build an even more powerful union. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Susan Clauson, a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member from the New York State Bridge Authority, cutting up her Wal-Mart credit card with the help of former Wal-Mart executive, now union organizer, Gretchen Adams, after hearing Adams' account of Wal-Mart's war on its own workers. Adams was a guest speaker at the 2002 CSEA's Womens Conference held in Rye Brook, Westchester County, New York. More than 500 women and men participated in many energy-packed programs and workshops that empowered members personally and professionally and laid the foundation to build an even more powerful union. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.