Erie County, NY Medical Center Section third Vice President Bella Mendola joins Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in demonstrating outside the Erie County Medical Center against a merger proposal. CSEA Western Region members joined together to fight the final report of the commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. The commission has recommended Buffalo's Erie County Medical Center be merged with a private sector hospital and become an entirely new entity.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members from the Glendale Home in Schenectady County take part in an Albany rally in front of the State Capitol to protest recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. CSEA mounted numerous public events and rallies, leaders testified at public hearings in every part of the state and the union also mounted a media campaign to get its message out and get communities involved.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Carlos Speight and several other protestors at a New York State rally. The caption reads: SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight leads a group of union members demonstrating outside Stony Brook University Medical Center. Nearly 250 CSEA members turned out to protest a proposal to privatize the hospital. CSEA members across the state overwhelmingly have responded to recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, and their voices have been heard.
A news clipping from the Utica, NY Daily Press, unidentified members of the Civil Service Employee Association (CSEA) boarded a bus in Utica yesterday (top photo) to take part in protest demonstrations in Syracuse. Similar protests were held in Albany (right) in Buffalo, Rochester, New York City, and Suffolk. There were none in Utica. CSEA officials said they were picketing because the State has not recognized the group as the executive bargaining agent for State employees. Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
A news clipping from the Utica, NY Observer-Dispatch, unidentified members of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) from Utica area chapters displayed their signs and intentions this morning before boarding two buses for Syracuse. Their intention: to participate in a massive demonstration at the state office building in protest against what they charged was delay of the Rockefellar administration in recognizing CSEA as the bargaining agent for some 133,000 state workers under terms of the recently-enacted Taylor Act. The Association demands sole bargaining rights over a counter claim by the AFL-CIO Council 50, State County and Civil Employees Courtesy of CSEA Utica State Employees Local (formerly Oneida County Chapter).
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Wayne County, workers demonstrate outside the county offices. CSEA members were objecting to a move by the Wayne County Board of Supervisors to hire an outside negotiator, which union officials said was a waste of taxpayer money.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members of the Town of Newburgh, NY Unit in Orange County, joined by members of the nearby New Windsor Unit, demonstrate October 21 outside the grand reopening of the town's Chadwick Lake Park, where Newburgh Unit members completed many improvements. Unit members have worked three years without a contract and negotiations are in the fact-finding stage. Sticking points include wages, health insurance, and a town proposal to make staffing cuts to sanding trucks during snowstorms, a move CSEA members have protested for safety concerns. CSEA members also demonstrated against Town Board members voting themselves raises throughout the three years the CSEA agreement has been expired while the union members have had no resolution.
Delegates to Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s 91st Annual Delegates Meeting in Buffalo, New York, demonstrating at a unity rally in front of the Erie County Office Building. In a show of labor solidarity in an atmosphere of tough economic conditions, CSEA activists were fired up about their union, fired up about democracy, and fired up for the challenges that lie ahead. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, ORDA worker Kelly Miner lets her view be known. CSEA delegates at the 2007 Annual Delegates Meeting held in Lake Placid, New York, took to the streets to demand a fair contract for Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) workers, who are at impasse in contract talks.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Charlotte Kenny, left, and Georgianna Natale with actor Richard Dreyfuss. About 200 CSEA members and activists joined the Screen Actors' Guild picket line in a show of solidarity for that union's fight for a fair contract while attending the 90th Annual Delegates Meeting in New York City. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.