QSAC (Quality Services for the Autism Community) workers, Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members and activists from Jobs with Justice holding up letters at a Mets baseball game at Shea Stadium in New York City, that reads "Hey QSAC Union Yes." The workers were trying to organize a union at their workplace after they became fed up with short staffing, high turn over, arbitrary firings and disciplinary actions and problems with food and medical supplies. They formed a committee called QCARE (Quality Care Advocates for the Rights of Employees) which worked with CSEA to stand up and fight for fair representation on the job, and after more than a year-long fight won union representation and became part of CSEA in 2004.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Metropolitan Region President George Boncoraglio, Brooklyn Developmental Center Local President Denise Berkley, New York City Councilman Hiram Monserrate and the QCARE (Quality Care Advoctes for the Rights of Employees) committee rally at a news conference in front of QSAC (Quality Service Autism Community) headquarters in Queens, New York, in support of workers at QSAC who were fed up with short staffing, high turn over, arbitrary firings and disciplinary actions and problems with food and medical supplies. The committee worked with CSEA to stand up and fight for fair representation on the job and after more than a year-long fight won union representation and became part of CSEA in 2004. The CSEA is New York State's largest union.