Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley recently told state lawmakers the majority of employees who care for people with developmental disabilities have been inaccurately portrayed in a series of New York Times articles alleging systemic abuse in the state developmental disabilities system. Berkley, who has more than 30 years of experience in the state Office for People with Developmental Disabilities system as a direct care worker, said CSEA represents 18,000 workers who care for nearly 40,000 individuals with developmental disabilities. She said only a tiny fraction of those employees have ever been brought up on disciplinary charges of any nature, let alone client abuse.

Date created

• 2011 July 1

Type

• Image

Creator

• Molitor, Ed

Master Format

• TIFF

Identifier

• nam_apap_015_2011_07_0012

Subject

• Work Force, July 2011
• Labor Unions
• Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)

License

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

  
  Contact Us for questions or additional rights.

ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

90e13b5a023aefdb6ab5d1de295703fc

Scope and Contents

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