William L. McGowan served as the 20th president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) from 1977 until 1988. McGowan is credited with transforming CSEA into one of New York's most powerful labor unions. McGowan spearheaded CSEA's 1978 affiliation with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). His many accomplishments include: passage of the Public Employee Safety and Health Act, creation of the CSEA Employee Benefit Fund, fighting sex-based wage discrimiation, establishing employee assistance and tuition reimbursement programs and promoting workplace day care centers.

Date created

• 1977-1988

Type

• Image

Creator

• Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)

Identifier

• nam_apap_015_pm_024084

Subject

• Labor union members
• Labor unions
• McGowan, William L.
• Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)

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