Heavy equipment that the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Oswego County highway crew uses to cut back snow banks recently in the village of Parish, NY. Parts of the county have been hit with more than 10 feet of snow, keeping highway workers and other state and municipal workers busy. The CSEA is New York's largest union.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members answered the call in four Western New York State counties when a freak October storm ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households. Clarence Highway Department Heavy Equipment Operator Jamie Dussing clears broken tree limbs following an early lake effect snowstorm that socked the Buffalo area.
Highway Maintenance Supervisor Jerry Bartel, left, and Highway Maintenance Worker and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Erie County Department of Transportation Local President Mike Kam, looking over assignments for the day. Hundreds of highway and transportation workers from across the state conveged on Erie, Niagara, Orleans and Genesee counties following an October storm that brought down trees and power lines.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Jason Dickerson, a tree pruning supervisor from Saratoga Springs, uses a log-loader truck to clear storm debris from a street in the Village of Williamsville, one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. CSEA members answered the call in four Western New York counties when a freak October storm that dumped nearly two feet of snow on the area ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Kevin Clark, left, John Ribble, Mike Tomassi, John J. Mase and Michael Dowd of Hornell State Employees Local pose for a photo as the sun rises in the background. The crew, like many other from across the state, spent several days in the Buffalo area helping with clean-up from the October storm that dumped nearly two feet of snow. CSEA members answered the call in four Western New York counties when the freak October storm ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Ed Dry of Cattaraugus County, New York one of many Department of Transportation workers who helped clear streets following an October storm. Officials have said the wood chips from the storm would cover 25 acres and the tree limbs picked up and hauled away would fll a professional football statium. CSEA members answered the call in four Western New York counties when a freak October storm that dumped nearly two feet of snow on the area ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Tim Sabo, a mechanical equipment operator and truck driver for the Wallkill Highway Department in Orange County, NY, cleans out a sander following a snowstorm.