Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary Irene Carr, President Joseph E. McDermott, Executive Vice President Danny Donohue (behind McDermott) and Region VI President Robert Lattimer, lead marchers through downtown Buffalo, New York, to the NYNEX picket lines. Hundreds of CSEA delegates at the 79th Annual Delegates Meeting held in Buffalo participated in a picket and rally to show the union's support for Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) who are fighting for survival with NYNEX. NYNEX Corporation was a telephone company which served five New England states (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) as well as New York. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members parading through the downtown Rochester, New York area during the CSEA 1987 Annual Delegates Meeting, enroute to City Hall where CSEA statewide President William L. McGowan and several other CSEA activists testified before a hearing conducted by the State Senate Standing Committee on Mental Health chaired by New York State Senator Nicholas Spano. They were demanding adequate staffing levels in the states psychiatric facilities and developmental centers. The understaffing issue heated up after Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Clara Taylor was murdered earlier in the year while working alone on a night shift at the Rockland Psychiatric Center. CSEA has raised the issue of understaffing time and time again and has pushed for corrective measures for years.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) East Hampton Unit President J. J. Kremm, left, with Suffolk County Local President Bill Walsh, is leading the Town of East Hampton workers' fight against the town supervisor's proposed changes to their health insurance. It was agreed under the current contract with the town, that runs through 2010, that medical benefits would not be changed in any way until the current contract expires. The town of East Hampton is in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Nassau County Municipal Local President John Shepherd fires up the crowd at a demonstration in Glen Cove, New York, to fight the county's sewer district consolidation plan. CSEA is blasting a secretive City of Glen Cove vote to transfer sewer operations to Nassau County. CSEA represents many full-time employees in the city, some of whom work at the water pollution control facility. These members now face the choice of reassignment to other city jobs, retirement or resignation. CSEA is New York State's largest employee union.
Unidentified Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) East Hampton Unit members demonstrate outside the town hall against the town supervisor's plan to change health benefits. It was agreed under the current contract with the town, that runs through 2010, that medical benefits would not be changed in any way until the current contract expires. The town of East Hampton is in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Rensselaer County, NY 911 dispatchers and their supporters demonstrate for a fair contract outside county offices. Unit members have worked without a contract for more than two years. The dispatchers were joined by community activists and supporters from area labor unions.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members demonstrated outside SUNY Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, New York, to oppose the Berger Commission's proposed cuts, mergers and privatization of public health care facilities. Supporters at the rally included members of the United Auto Workers union. Van Duyn Unit President Barb Taylor is at far left.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Rensselaer County, NY 911 Unit President Todd Smith, far right, and Capital Region 2nd Vice President Mike Gifford, second from right, lead the Rensselaer County 911 Unit's demonstration outside the county's office building to urge county officials to settle a fair, equitable contract. The previous contract expired on Dec. 31, 2003 and negotiations began more than two years ago.
Mattituck-Cutchogue (New York) School District Unit President Sam Strickland leads a demonstration of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members from all over Long Island who turned out to support members in the school district unit fighting for a fair contract.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) SUNY Upstate Medical University workers and Van Duyn workers rallied outside Upstate University Hospital to support protesters walking from Buffalo to Albany, NY, to oppose the cuts and privatization of facilities proposed by the Berger Commission. SUNY Upstate Medical University Local member Doreen Jacobs was one of many who participated in the rally.