Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Scholarship Committee members meeting to decide the winners of the union's Irving Flaumenbaum, Pearl Carroll and Met Life Scholarship Awards for 2007. From left are Janice Beaulieu, Anita Booker, Maria Navarro, Gary Lanahan, Donna Gavitt, Judy DiPaola and Committee Chair Helen Fischedick. CSEA presents college scholarship awards to children of CSEA members from across the state every year.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Region 6 Women's Conference co-chairs Pam Caron and Judy DiPaola speak at the opening of a Region 6 Women's Conference.
Judiciary Local activist Judy DiPaola, Rochester State Employees President Doris Cota, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Western Region Political Action Coordinator Courtney Brunelle, Western Region President Flo Tripi and Western Region Political Action Committee Chairman Tim Finnigan demonstrate outside Assemblyman Joe Morelle's Irondequoit office. CSEA members also demonstrated at Assemblyman Sam Hoyt's office in Buffalo. CSEA's response has been swift and unrelenting in a drive to expose the dangers of Governor David Paterson's strong-arm threat to lay off 8,700 state employees if CSEA and other unions won't agree to his concession demands.
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.