Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Sidney Hospital Unit President Karen Eggleston marches with Unit Secretary Linda Shelton at a Sidney Hospital contract demonstration in Delaware County.
In one of the largest demonstrations ever held in a city famous for massive protests, 20,000 public employees rallied and marched on the New York State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Albany. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members came by the busload for the "Hot Day in February" rally to protest Governor Mario Cuomo's proposed state budget that called for massive cuts in jobs, aid, and services. CSEA members joined members of other public employee unions including PEF, UUP, and AFSCME Council 82. This photo was taken from the roof of CSEA headquarters at 143 Washington Avenue. The protestors are marching down Washington Avnue towards the Capitol from the Washington Avenue Armory at the corner of Lark Street where the event began with a rally inside the armory.
SUNY New Paltz Local Vice Presidents Janice Beaulieu, left, and Mary Griffin taking part in a rally for the right for private food service employees at SUNY New Paltz to unionize. Sodexho-Marriot, an international, multibillion-dollar corporation, took over operations of the campus dining services in 2001. The workers approached the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) for help in forming a union in 2002 after Sodexho managers would subject employees to intimidation, reprimands and humiliation on the job. Nearly 100 workers voted to join CSEA in 2003. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in Onondaga County demonstrate in support of their contract fight and to urge the county legislature to preserve funding for the Van Duyn Nursing Home.
A Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member holds two sticks with the heads of Susan Molinari and Newt Gingrich on them as CSEA demonstrators await the arrival of Newt Gingrich to a Staten Island homeless shelter.
The Reverend Al Sharpton speaks into a bullhorn with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) logo on the side. Protestors are wearing CSEA stickers and carrying signs the most prominent of which reads "Remember Kendra Webddle(sic) we do." The Kendra referred to is most likely Kendra Webdale for whom the New York State involuntary outpatient commitment law known as "Kendra's Law" was named.
New York State Governor George E. Pataki as he is distracted by a group of Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members protesting their state contract stalemate during a speech at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.