Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member, Nick Fusco, a custodian in the East Williston school district, and Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel. CSEA members from across Long Island demonstrated in front of the East Williston School District's Wheatley School before the districts Board of Education meeting in support of reaching a fair contract with the district.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Steve Mikle, supervisor of the four-member maintenance crew assigned to the gristmill renovation project at Connetquot River State Park Preserve in Long Island, NY, pumps out water in a marshy area near the gristmill. The project has raised safety and health concerns.
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center workers demonstrate outside the facility with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) rat in the background. The CSEA members are fighting on-the-job violence, overtime issues and short staffing.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member John Giffone, chief custodian at Deer Park High School in Long Island, NY, one of many CSEA members across the state who have been working to prevent outbreaks of a potentially deadly form of bacteria. CSEA members working in schools and health care facilities across New York state are challenged to protect the public from the dangerous MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections on a daily basis.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s New York State Unified Court System members from the Supreme Court of Nassau County, part of the court system's 10th Judicial District. Elizabeth Kane, 6th from left, is a principal court analyst and was interviewed for the feature with other members from across New York State.
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.