Joseph E. McDermott served as the 21st president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) from 1988 until 1994. McDermott steered the union through extremely tough economic times for the state. He successfully staved off attempts by lawmakers to raid public employee pension funds for other state spending purposes. McDermott helped professionalize CSEA departments and staff and his work force planning initiatives enabled CSEA to work with employers to find better ways of doing business in a changing economy.

Date created

• 1988-1994

Type

• Image

Creator

• Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)

Identifier

• nam_apap_015_pm_024085

Subject

• Labor union members
• Labor unions
• Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
• McDermott, Joseph E.

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