Cheryl M. Perkins, Library Clerk at SUNY Health and Sciences Center in Brooklyn, New York, using the Dewey Decimal System card catalog even though most of the research at the library is now done electronically. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) supports closing the gap in funding for libraries and providing more operating aid directly to libraries so they can have the resources necessary to meet the growing needs of their communities. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
A "therapeutic community" meeting at the Brooklyn (New York) Day Hospital encouraged unrestricted communication between patient and staff as well as between patient and patient. The daily meetings were part of the hospital's aftercare program. New York State Office of Mental Hygiene Annual Report 1962. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Paul Castellani.
Volunteer programs bring the community to the hospital and sometimes vice versa. Here, the Mental Hospital Guild in Brooklyn, New York takes 350 patients out for a picnic in a city park. New York State Office of Mental Hygiene Annual Report 1958. Courtesy of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Paul Castellani.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Douglas Hayes, a Youth Developmental Aide 3 at the Office of Children and Family Services' Ella McQueen Residential Center in Brooklyn, NY. Hayes blames short staffing at the facility for the injuries he's received on the job. In response to growing concerns about the safety of youth development aides at state Office of Children and Family Services facilities statewide, CSEA has stepped up efforts to ensure that workers voices are being heard loud and clear by OCFS officials.
Workers at the Guild for Exceptional Children in Brooklyn, NY, celebrate their organizing win with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Workers demonstrated their overwhelming desire to form a union at their workplace not just once, but twice after a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule forced them into an election to defend an already successful card check campaign.
Guild for Exceptional Children workers stand strong in joining the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Workers demonstrated their overwhelming desire to form a union at their workplace in Brooklyn, NY, not just once, but twice after a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule forced them into an election to defend an already successful card check campaign.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Mental Health Therapy Aide Kenneth Ricketts disarmed a gun-toting consumer at a Kingsboro Psychiatric Center residential home in Brooklyn, NY, an incident that has CSEA calling for more security.