Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members Jenette Engel of Oswego County and Colleen Wheaton of SUNY Potsdam participating with hundreds of their fellow AFSCME members in 108 degree heat in an informational picket on behalf of hotel and culinary workers in downtown Las Vegas during the AFSCME convention. Contracts were settled within days of the AFSCME agitation.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members across the state marched in several 2008 Labor Day-related events. Union members and their families and friends marched for change this year, getting out the word to support Senator Barack Obama for president. Union activists fired up and proud to be CSEA members during the parade in Syracuse, NY. Central Region President Colleen Wheaton is in front row on the left.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Central Region President Colleen Wheaton addresses the Onondaga County Legislature at a public hearing. CSEA activists beat back a proposal to contract out the Onondaga County Mental Health Department's School Based Support Program, which places counselors into area school districts to provide full-time mental health clinical services throughout the school year.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Central Region President Colleen Wheaton offers support to Groton, NY, Schools Unit President Sheldon Clark over his recent firing. Clark, an 18-year bus driver with a safe driving record, was unjustly fired by the board in January following a December, 2007, incident in which the bus received minor scratch damage to its cargo door. No one was injured and the students on the bus were unaware of the incident.
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)'s Central Region President Colleen Wheaton writes down members' input about what makes a good public speaker at the 2008 Statewide Women's Conference.