Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Deputy Counsel Jerry Lefkowitz, who was nominated by New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer to chair the Public Employee Relations Board. As an attorney in the New York State Labor Department under Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Lefkowitz helped craft the Public Employees Fair Employment Act, also known as the Taylor Law, which was enacted in 1967.After the law's enactment, Lefkowitz served as PERB's executive director for many years before joining CSEA in 1987.

Date created

• 2007 February

Type

• Image

Creator

• Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)

Identifier

• nam_apap_015_pm_026307

Subject

• Photographers
• Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
• Work Force (CSEA Monthly Publication)
• Taylor Act, 1967 (N.Y.)
• Labor union members
• Molitor, Ed
• Governors, (N.Y.)
• Labor unions
• New York State Public Employee Relations Board
• Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
• New York State Department of Labor
• Spitzer, Eliot, 1959-
• Lefkowitz, Jerry

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
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ITEM CONTEXT

Collection

Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. (CSEA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1000 Records

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the New York State Modern Political Archive