Daycare provider Sally Heater, from East Syracuse, New York, holding cards to be distributed to other providers to authorize forming a union with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA). Membership of independent contractors would be a first for the union. Heater is working hard to help give daycare providers the loud and clear voice of advocacy that comes with belonging to a union. She was a CSEA member for 30 years before becoming an independent daycare provider. The VOICE (Voice of Organized Independent Childcare Educators) campaign began in 2002 when CSEA was contacted by a group of family daycare providers in Schenectady, New York, looking for assistance with an unclear county payment system and the threat of proposed cuts in the childcare subsidy funding. CSEA is New York State's largest union.

Date created

• 2007 April

Type

• Image

Creator

• Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)

Identifier

• nam_apap_015_pm_026392

Subject

• Photographers
• Voice of Independent Childcare Educators (N.Y.)
• Labor union members
• East Syracuse (N.Y.)
• Labor unions
• Kotzin, Mark M.
• Civil Service Employees Association (N.Y.)
• Schenectady (N.Y.)
• Heater, Sally

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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