Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Carlos Speight and several other protestors at a New York State rally. The caption reads: SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight leads a group of union members demonstrating outside Stony Brook University Medical Center. Nearly 250 CSEA members turned out to protest a proposal to privatize the hospital. CSEA members across the state overwhelmingly have responded to recommendations recently made by the Governor's Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, and their voices have been heard.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) SUNY Stony Brook Local President Carlos Speight fires up the crowd at a rally at the New York State Office Building in Hauppauge. 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.