Civil Service Leader, 1978 March 3

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Vol. XXXVIII, No. 48

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* — See Page 14

Board
Names
Goals

ALBANY—Goals and com-
mittee participation were ap-
proved by the Civil Service
Employees Association Board
of Directors at its February
meeting for the ad hoc com-
mittees to act on behalf of wo-
men and on behalf of minorities.

The ad hoc committees will
consist of four members from
the Board and one from each of
the six Regions. _

Six committee goals were out-
lined. (Substitute the word “mi-
norities” where “women” appears
below.)

—Safeguard women's rights in
regard to public employment,

—Input into contract nego-
tiations regarding promotional
opportunities to elevate women
from the “clerical ghetto,”

—Help women in employment,
training, counseling and help in
problems of education.

—Examine the possibility of a
questionnaire issued through the
Leader directed toward establish-
ing the desires of women for op-
portunities to be promoted with-
in the civil service system.

—Attend meetings with other
women's labor groups to share
problems, accomplishments, etc.

(Continued on Page 3)

ry increas

nployees represented by CSEA.
will be the third salary in-
‘ease under the present contract
gotiated for the state workers
CSEA, and will raise to 14
reent with a $1,400 minimum
¢ Wage increases gained by the
mployees under the present
reement,
And thousands of those em-
loyees will also share in a whop-
sing additional $17 million ex-
ected to be paid in about a
nonth and resulting from CSEA’s
lass action grievances filed
gainst the state which success-
fully guaranteed full promotional
‘nd incremental increases to
‘hose eligible under the present
contract,
CSEA president William L,
McGowan reported that at the
Present time it is expected that

CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT
Clifton R. Wharton, left, and Civil Service Employees Association
president William L. McGowan met recently, after Dr. Wharton be-
came SUNY Chancellor.

State Says Taylor
Law Unfair; Carey
Reforms Unclear

ALBANY—Despite an admission by his own labor rela-
tions expert that the state’s controversial Taylor Law is
unfairly weighted in favor of management, Gov. Hugh L,
Carey says he has no plans “at the present time” to reform

the law.

The Governor's statement
came on the heels of a bizarre
set of events last week when
Donald Wollett, director of
Carey’s Office of Employee Re-
lations, began circulating legis-
lative proposals to soften the
Taylor Law. In news interviews,
Mr. Wollett publicly admitted

CSEA Cautious, But Hopeful
On Carey's Flextime Option

ALBANY—A Civil Service Employees Association delegation headed by CSEA presi-
dent William McGowan will meet with officials of the state Office of Employee Relations
later this month to discuss flextime, a modern approach to personalizing work hours long
sought by the CSEA and ordered recently for state workers by Gov. Hugh L. Carey.

Flextime is a system that al-
lows employees to alter their
work hours somewhat to better
suit their individual needs, while
increasing productivity and ex-
panding service to the public.

$17 Million From Suit
Plus 5 Percent Raise
Due In Several Weeks

ALBANY—The Civil Service Employees Association re-
sorted last week that a 5 percent with a $500 minimum sal-
@ effective April 1, will be reflected in paychecks
ssued in a little over a month from now for the 145,000 state

the 5 percent or $500 minimum
increase effective April 1 for the
145,000 state workers in the four
big CSEA-represented bargaining
units will be reflected in pay-
checks issued on April 12 for em-
Ployees on the Administrative
payroll and on April 19 for em-
ployees on the state Institutional
payroll, It will be the third sal-
ary increase in a year, adding to
the 5 percent or $500 hike that
was effective April 1, 1977 and
the 4 percent or $400 minimum
paid effective October 1, 1977.
And, Mr, McGowan announced,
it is anticipated that thousands
of state workers promoted on or
after April 1 of last year will
share in about $17 million in ret-
roactive makeup pay that should
(Continued on Page 3)

While it sounds simple enough,
it may not be the utopia that
the news media is cracking it up
to be, according to a CSEA
spokesman

John M. Carey, director of
CSEA's Office of Member Serv-
ices, told the Leader that Flex-
time means many things to many
people and what it actually holds
in store for state workers is far
from certain.

“The first concern that struck
me had to do with the way the
media Handled the release of the
Executive Order," Mr, Carey
said, “particularly in mentioning
‘four-day workweeks’ and ‘days
off in the middle of the week’
which are not mentioned in the
Executive Order at all,

“Flextime is nothing new. It

has been used in certain areas

of private industry in

Don’t Repeat 1

Last Vote Re it
Lift Republics
Fall Expectati

One swallow doesn’t
a spring, and election
in one congressional 4
don't herald a trend,
ever, Republicans are
much of the victory by

(Continued on Page 6)... pitals. Dr.

forms and exists now in the
state's Department of Motor Ve-
hicles. But flextime can mean
different things to different peo-
(Continued on Page 3)

that the law was unfairly advan-
tageous to public employers and
was not the model of fairness
that the state has pretended it
was.

But despite the admission by
the state’s highest labor rela-
tions executive, Carey told news-
men the following day that he
had no plans at the present time
to offer any sweeping reforms
of the law.

In a release from its Albany
office, United Press International
said that Carey hinted that there
might be changes forthcoming in
this legislative session, but until
the contract negotiations in New
York City were cleared up he
had no intention of proposing
changes. UPI said Carey is still
considering a legislative proposal
to greatly reduce the authority
of judges to issue injunctions
against public employee strikes
unless a clear and present danger
to the public from such a strike
is established in advance

(Continued on Page 3)

Prevost Concedes
The Truth Of CSEA
Dumping Message

ALBANY—The second phase of the Civil Service Em-

ployees Association's

ma,

sive media campaign against the

dumping of mental patients by the state has ended amid an

admission from the Acting Commi.

that dumping has, in fact, been
going on for nearly a decade,

bordered

ASSAULTS: SPECIAL REPORT

loner of Mental Hygiene

plans begin to properly adminis-
Friday, March 3, 1978

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— See Page 14

Goals

ALBANY—Goals and com-
mittee participation were ap-
proved by the Civil Service
Employees Association Board

of Directors at its February
meeting for the ad hoc com-
mittees to act on behalf of wo-
men and on behalf of minorities.

The ad hoc committees will
consist of four members ‘from
the Board and one from each of
the six Regions.

Six committee goals were out-
lined, (Substitute the word “mi-
norities” where “women” appears.
below.)

—Safeguard women’s rights in
regard to public employment.

—Input into contract nego-
tlations regarding promotional
opportunities to elevate women
from the “clerical ghetto.”

—Help women in employment,
training, counseling and help in
problems of education,

—Examine the possibility of a
questionnaire issued through the
Leader directéd toward establish-
ing the desires of women for op-
portunities to be promoted with-
in the civil service system.

—Attend meetings with other
women's labor groups to share
»roblems, accomplishments, etc.

(Continued on Page 3)

CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT
Clifton R. Wharton, left, and Civil Service Employees Association
president William L. McGowan met recently, after Dr. Wharton be-
came SUNY Chancellor.

CSEA Cautious, But Hopeful
On Carey's Flextime Option

Flextime is a system that al-
lows employees to alter their
work hours somewhat to better
suit their individual needs, while
increasing productivity and ex-
panding service to the public.

$17 Million From Suit
Plus 5 Percent Raise
Due In Several Weeks

ALBANY—The Civil Service Emplgyees Association re-

vorted 1
ry Ineres
sued
mployees represented by CSEA.

will be the third salary in-
ease under the present contract
wotiated for the state workers

CSEA, and will raise to 14
reent with a $1,400 minimum

Wage increases gained by the
mployees under the present
reement,

And thousands of those em-
loyees will also share in a whop-
ing additional $17 million ex-
ected to be paid in about a
nonth and resulting from CSEA's
lass action grievances filed
sajinst the state which success-
fully guaranteed full promotional
ind Incremental increases to
those eligible under the present
‘ontract,

CSEA president William L,
MeGowan reported that at the
Present time it is expected that

week that a 5 percent with a $500 minimum sal-
e effective April 1, will be reflected in paychecks
little over a month from now for the 145,000 state

the 5 percent or $500 minimum
increase effective April 1 for the
145,000 state workers in the four
big CSEA-represented bargaining
units will be reflected in pay-
checks issued on April 12 for em-
Ployees on the Administrative
Payroll and on April 19 for em-
ployees on the state Institutional
Payroll. It will be the third sal-
ary increase in a year, adding to
the 5 percent or $500 hike that
was effective April 1, 1977 and
the 4 percent or $400 minimum
paid effective October 1, 1977
And, Mr. McGowan announced,
it is anticipated that thousands
of state workers promoted on or
after April 1 of last year will
share in about $17 million in ret-
roactive makeup pay that should
(Continued on Page 3)

ASSAULTS: SPE

While it sounds simple enough,
it may not be the utopia that
the news media is cracking it up
to be, according to a CSEA
spokesman

John M. Carey, director of
CSEA's Office of Member Serv-
ices, told the Leader that Flex-
time means many things to many
people and what it actually holds
in store for state workers 1s far
from certain.

“The first concern that struck
me had to do with the way the
media Handled the release of the
Executive Order,” Mr. Carey
said, “particularly in mentioning
‘four-day workweeks’ and ‘days
off in the middle of the week’
which are not mentioned in the
Executive Order at all,

“Flextime is nothing new. It
has been used in certain areas

of private industry in
y ar ade

Don’t Repeat

Last Vote Res
Lift Republics
Fall Expectati

One swallow doesn’t
a spring, and election
in one congressional 4
don't herald a trend.
ever, Republicans are
much of the victory by

(Continued on Page 6).

CIAL REP ORT

State Says Taylor
Law Unfair; Carey
Reforms Unclear

ALBANY—Despite an admission by his own labor rela-
tions expert that the state’s controversial Taylor Law is
unfairly weighted in favor of management, Gov. Hugh L.
Carey says he has no plans “at the present time” to reform
the law.
that the law was unfairly advan-
tageous to public employers and
was not the model of fairness
that the state has pretended it
was.

(Continued on Page 3)

forms and exists now in the
state's Department of Motor Ve-
hicles, But flextime can mean
different things to different peo-
(Continued on Page 3)

Prevost Concedes
The Truth Of CSEA
Dumping Message

ALBANY—The second phase of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Association's massive media campaign against the
dumping of mental patients by the state has ended amid an
admission from the Acting Commissioner of Mental Hygiene
that dumping has, in fact, been

going on for nearly a decade, plans begin to properly adminis~

larch 3, 1978

R, Friday

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CIVIL S

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Report From The Capitol

The Kyer Wire

By PAUL KYER

Sometimes, it doesn't pay to
have a sense of humor. This can
be an exceptionally dangerous
handicap in politics, as was
shown in the Legislature last
week,

Assemblyman Seymour Posner,
who carries the unofficial desig-
nation of Clown Prince in the
Capitol, has produced gales of
laughter in and out of the halls
of the Legislature with his self-
deprecating sense of humor and
his gift for parody, Not every-
one in the two houses, however,
is appreciative of his comic cap-
ers and the non-laughers almost
did Mr, Posner out of his mem-
bership on the state Workmen's
Compensation Board.

Normally, the Senate gives ap-
proval to such nominations with-
out much ado. But, last week,
some Republican Senators who
have been very nettled by Mr.
Posner's verbal capers decided to
show their displeasure was yery
real and launched a last-minute
drive to deny him the position.
They very nearly succeeded and
Mr. Posner got in by only a one-
vote margin.

‘The normal supposition is that
the new board member will be
chastened and conduct himself in
a much more serious matter in
the future,

Don't bet on it!

Elsewhere, in what might be
called ‘The Case of the Masked
Commissioner,” John Dyson, who

heads the state Commerce De-
partment, got even worse notices
than did Mr. Posner.

State Senator John Marchi,
who heads the Senate Finance
Committee, has been a very sev-
ere critic of an advertising series
put out by Mr. Dyson's depart-
ment. The ads have drawn con-
siderable comment both good
and bad. They seem to have ap-
peared to Mr. Marchi to be a
depiction of Mr. Dyson and his
boss, Governor Carey, as the sole
persons leading the state out of
any number of dilemmas, sort of
like Moses leading everybody out
of bondage from Egypt.

The Senator was not in a very
cordial mood, therefore, when
Mr. Dyson appeared before Mr.
Marchi’s committee for approval
of his appointment as chairman
of the state Urban Development
Corporation wearing a mask
which was said to have been part
of a Lone Ranger outfit (the sig-
nificance of which was never very
clearly explained), The masked
man was received by stone faces
and a quick rejection of his
nomination, Later, the Democrat-
dominated Assembly vetoed any
funds for ads that would carry
Mr, Dyson's picture.

eee

A short time ago we reported
here that an informed source de-
clared Governor Carey would sup-
port some substantive changes
in the harsher aspects of the

Greco, McInerney Named
To Key Assembly Posts

ALBANY—Two key shifts in Assembly committee chair-
manships of concern to public employees were announced
last week by Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut.

Stephen Greco (D-Buffalo) was named to head the

Labor Committee, and Thomas
McInerney (D-Yonkers) was ap-
pointed to succeed him as chair-
man of the Governmental Em-
ployees Committee.

Mr, Greco, first elected to the
Assembly in 1958, has earned the
regard of public employees for
his sponsorship of important la-
bor programs such as the Agency
Shop Bill and legislation increas-
ing the amount retirees may earn.

Mr. McInerney, a former mem-
ber of the Westchester Board of
Supervisors, served in the, As-

sembly from’1906-72 and was:te-
» elected in

‘tter serving the
Years as chairinaty
tal

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to study problems of the deaf.

As Labor Committee chairman,
Mr. Greco succeeds Seymour
Posner, who was confirmed by
the Senate last week as a mem-
ber of the state Workmen's Com-
pensation Board,

Mr, Posner, a Bronx Democrat
who served in the Assembly for
13 years, is also highly regarded
by public employees.

“Mr, Posner has been a good
friend to public employees in
his years in the Assembly, and
while we will miss his presence
“tthe! Legialatare, Jo know "he

=m
to his

a “Lulu,” on-top-of the $22,000
salary all Assemblymen receive.
The other two chairmanships
each carry a $5,000 extra stipend.

“s . Central heat and
ake *, Wall to wall car-

Taylor Law. This seemed to have
been confirmed early last week
when a spokesman from the Gov-
ernor's office announced Mr.
Carey would support such
changes as reduced penalties for
strikes, etc. A short time later,
the Gov, himself, rebutted his
spokesman and said that he was
not committed to any substantive
Taylor Law changes at this point.

Does this mean that there
won't be any? Not necessarily.
You see, we all know that in
politics what you hear isn’t neces-
sarily what you're going to get
because the pols like to know
they are on firm ground when
they make a controversial pro-
posal. So, it’s not unusual for the
first man to send up a balloon,
followed by the next man shoot-
ing it down and then letting
everybody act and react for a bit.
If Mr. Carey finds the proposed
Taylor Law changes don't really
disturb anyone too much then
he can move back to position one
without any harm. If the flack
is too heavy then he stays with
position number two,

So get your pen and paper
out, folks, and let the Governor
know how strongly you want po-
stion number one. It’s needed.

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The Leader apologizes to St. Lawrence County Highway
Superintendent John Cook for statements in last week's
edition, Feb. 24, in this same location.

It has been brought to our attention by Richard Reno,

president of Civil Service Em-
Ployees Association Local 845 in
that county, that our story was
subject to misinterpretation.

“Mr. Cook has been very good
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Reno said, “and we would like
to see an apology made to him.
Our members even circulated a
petition supporting Mr. Cook
during the two years of charges
and countercharges about the
Highway Department here.”

‘The Leader acknowledges that,
through a series of small and un-
related printing errors, a wrong
impression may have been given,

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‘The news story was concerned
with a state appeals court deci.
sion affirming the freedom of
speech of a deputy who had been
dismissed by Mr. Cook. In the
course of the story, it may have
appeared that Mr. Cook himself
had been found guilty of fiscal
misconduct, This is not s0. In
fact, Mr. Cook himself requested
an audit by the state Audit and
Control Department during the
controversy, which had become
the focus of political accusations
in the St, Lawrence area,

‘The deputy superintendent,
Thomas R. Grow, was reinstated
to his job as a result of the court
decision, but resigned the position
soon after,

Since Mr, Grow was awarded
back pay, it.may have appeared
in the Leader story that Mr,
Cook had to reimburse the de-
partment for improper expenses.
This has been denied.

In summation: Mr. Grow's
freedom of speech was protected,
Mr. Cook continues as the High-
way superintendent and the
Leader is sorry for any other
implications that may have been
misconstrued,

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be reflected in paychi issued
March 29 and April § ‘for the
Administrative and ‘Institutional

payroll, respectively. He said it
is expected that the State Legis-
ature will enact legislation to
provide the funds during the
Week of March 6. He cautioned
that passage could be delayed
slightly and that would delay
issuance of the

jordingly, possibly two weeks to
the following pay period,
“These substantial increases in

the effectiveness and expertise of
SEA. The 14 percent or $1,400
minimum inerease gained since
just last April is visible proof of
CSHA's negotiating power, and
the $17 million gained for state
jyorkers under our tremendously
successful class action grievances
jon promotional pay clearly proves
our overall effectiveness in rep-
resenting their best interests to
ine utmost,” Mr, McGowan

Board Meets

(Continued from Page 1) _
—Access to the reports of the

yomen’s interests in employment.
In reporting on this year's
state elections, legislative and po-
itical_ action chairman Martin

suggesting endorsements
\d further suggesting how cam-
ign contributions will be made.
le noted that the union “must
main neutral” in the Governor's
e during the current legisla-
ve session so as not to jeopar-
e the union’s legislative pro-
am,
The Board acted favorably on
motion submitted by budget
chairman Howard
(Albany County) to
rify that: “When any other
mmittee, duly appointed by the
esident of the Association or
¢ Board of Directors of the
sociation, reports the need for
nds to the Board, it is under-
od that the committee mak-
the request shall have done
the necessary investigative
rk, thereby relieving the bud-
t committee of any responsi-
ity other than reporting the
‘ilability of funds requested.”
Legal assistance fees for 14
*s Were approved by the Board,
ting on @ report presented by
nding legal committee chair-
i Joseph Conway,
A new Local charter was ap-
ved for Division of Probation
ployees, formerly affiliated
‘h Capital Region IV's Ex-
tive Local 659,
Constitution and By-Laws re-

i readings will be brought up
‘he April 4-5 Delegates Con-
‘ition in Albany. (These will
Printed by the Leader prior
the convention.)

Patricia Miller (Region IV
ntal Hygiene) and A. Victor
ta (Labor) were elected to fill
‘ncies on the Directors Com-

tee, which is the union's
lest

in place of the full Board.

increase to be effective 1,
the CSEA president re!

that increments for those eligible
will be added to the individual's
salary first and then the 5 per-
cent computed on that larger
total, the same procedure as in
the past.

The increases to be reflected
in paychecks issued next month
total in excess of $100 million
overall, according to Mr. Mc-

Prevost

(Continued from Page 1)
patients from state run facilities
and placing them in community
settings where private agencies,
Operating under lucrative state
contracts, supposedly pick up the
care of the patients. In its me-
dia campaign, CSEA pointed out
dramatically that all too often

that isn’t happening. The union;
emphasized that instead of sup-'

plying adequate services for the

mentally handicapped with their,

tax dollars, taxpayers were being
“ripped off” by private profiteers.

The state does directly run
some community based programs,
that properly and efficiently deal
with the mentally handicapped
and CSEA feels these programs
should serve as a model for the
proper way to handle deinstitu-
tionalization. CSEA urged that
the Governor and Legislature fol-
low. that example and expand
these state-run community based
facilities to provide adequate
aftercare to deinstitutionalized
patients.

The union recognized that de-
institutionalization and the re-
lated practice of “contracting-
out” for services not only jeop-
ardized the care of the patients
and wasted the money of tax-
payers, but also posed a serious
threat to the job security of pres-
ent state employees.

CORRECTION

In the Feb. 17 issue of the
Leader, there was a misprint
in the article, “Tioga CSEA
Local Signs 3-Year Pact.” The
raise for the first year of the
contract is 9.45 percent, not
0.45 percent. The Leader re-
grets the error,

$500 minimum increase to be
effective April 1 is worth more
than $68 million in new money
to state workers, sand that in-
crements payable as of April 1
to those eligible for them will
total about $20 million more.
The $17 million in retroactive
promotion pay pushes the in-
crease in the total state payroll
to well over $100 million.

“We said that when we ham-

mered out the present contract
that the settlement was one of
the outstanding labor negotiation
achievements in the history of
public employee collective bar-
gaining in New York, and the
newest increase in salary under
that contract only serves to em-
phasize that,” Mr. McGowan
stated. “And I'm _ especially
pleased over the successful griev-
ances, won without interference
of third-party interveners, that

Suit Plus 5% Raise Due

guarantees full promotional and
incremental increases to every-
one eligible, just, exactly as CSEA
said was the case all along. It
shows that not only {s CSEA the
most professional and accom-
plished labor union in negotla-
tions matters, but just as impor-
tantly that CSEA has the knowl-
edge, the expertise and the capa-
bilities of defending contract
provisions and protecting em-
ployee rights at all times.”

Concedes Dumping Truth

CSEA endorses the concept of
dejnstitutionalization but insists
that this practice be conducted
in a proper manner, through
state run. programs, to insure
that there is a continuity of ser-
vice provided to the deinstitu-
tlonalized patients and that the
taxpayers’ money is not squan-
dered to line the pockets of
private profiteers.

James Cohen, CSEA’s con-
sultant on Mental Hygiene, has
repeatedly stressed that there is
a clear solution to the deinstitu-
tionalization and dumping prob-

lems. Dr. Cohen, in CSEA’s own
“white paper” on the issue, called
“To Nowhere and Back Again,”
proposed that state-run pro-
grams be used with staffing pro-
vided through retraining of in-
stitutional employees transferred
from present state facilities as
the process progresses.

Dr. Cohen and CSEA were gra-
tified to see that the state has
finally admitted that the prob-
lem exists, and seems to be in-
terested in resolving it.

Phase III of the CSEA media
campaign against dumping and

contracting out, a problem which
extends to practically all state
agencies as well as Mental Hy-
giene, will get under way in mid-
March and run into mid-April.
‘The focus of the campaign will
be an extensive poster “blitz” in
the New York City transit system
and placement of approximately
100 billboards in key locations
throughout the state.

While the union is pleased that
the dumping issue seems to have
been won, the CSEA war on “con-
tracting-out” will undoubtedly
continue.

Hopeful On Flextime Option

(Continued from Page 1)
ple. That's the reason for our
meeting with OER. In every
labor-management. meeting we
have had with the state over
the years, we have strongly urged
flextime as an intelligent way to
improve employee conditions
while increasing productivity and
expanding service to the public.

“By and large, management
has been reluctant to talk about
it, because they're concerned
about controlling it. Now they
have to talk about it and we
want to be sure that when flex-
time starts to be implemented in
the other departments and agen-
cies, it won't be at the expense
of public employees.”

Mr. Carey said that whatever is
done with flextime must con-
form to the specifications exist-
ing in the contract. Provisions
already exist for modification of
the starting and quitting times

Information for the Calendar may be submitted directly to THE LEADER.

It should
The address is: Civil Service
Attn: CSEA Calendar.

address and city for the function.

233 Broadway, New York, N. ¥, 10007.

MARCH
1—New York City Local 010 executive committee special meeting:
5:15 p.m., Francois Restaurant, 110 John St., Manhattan.
1-Orange County Local executive board meeting: 7:30 p.m.,
Local office, 255 Greenwich Avenue, Goshen. +
2—General Services Local 660 executive committee meeting: 5:30
p.m., Horan's Restaurant, 848 Livingston Ave., Albany.

2—Environmental Conservation

Dance."

Local 655 "Fabulous 50's Nite

3—Wilton Developmental Center Local 416 business and social

meeting: 7:30 p.m., Knights

of Columbus, Saratoga Springs.

3-4—Western Region Vi delegates meeting: Charter House, Transit

Rd., Route 78, Williamsville.
_ 3-4—Central Region V delegates meeting: Treadway Inn, Binghamton.
4—Binghamton School unit dinner-dance: 6 p.m.,

St. Mary's Ortho-

dox Church, Baxter St, Binghamton.
6-7—Health Department labor-management meeting (tentative):

Quality Inn, Albany.

8—Statewide State Executive Committee meeting, Statewide Coun-
ty Executive Committee meeting.
9Statewide Board of Directors meeting,

so an employee under flextime
could go to work early and leave
early or go later and leave later.
But the implementation mechan-
isms for the system must be
established.

“In some departments and
agencies, work requirements
might not lend themselves to one
variation of flextime, the four-
day workweek. Under that varia-
tion, the worker extends each
workday so that his weekly hours
are performed in four days
rather than five. Obviously that
can create problems and the em-
ployer isn’t just going to open
it up to everyone. There are a
lot of questions yet to be ans-
wered, and that’s why we set up
the session with the OER,” Mr.
Carey said.

The Executive Order directs

each department and agency to
consult with the OER before
implementing any flextime op-
tions and for the agency, with
OER, to confer with the “duly
designated representatives of the
state employees who will be af-
fected by the work schedule.”
Mr. Carey said the CSEA will in-
sist on being consulted prior to
implementation of flextime by
agencies or departments in its
bargaining units.

“We want to see flextime be-
come a reality,” he said. “That's
why we have been pushing for it
right along. But we must make
sure that it is established in a
fair and proper system that does
not violate any contractual
agreements or in any way en-
danger the employment oppor-
tunities of incumbent employees.”

State: Taylor Law Unfair

(Continued from Page 1)
Mr. Wollett had proposed
sweeping revisions of the Taylor
Law that came close to the re-
forms sought by CSEA’s legisla-
tive and political action pro-
gram.

The proposed reforms would
have eliminated the Taylor Law
provision that automatically
places any public employee in-
volved in a strike on probation-
ary status for one year. Addition-
ally the proposed OER legislation
would have repealed the striking
employee probationary penalty
and the dues check-off penalty
powers of the Public Employ-
ment Relations Board; required a
jury trial before a union or
striker could be convicted of
violating a no-strike injunction,
and limited imposition of no
strike injunctions to situations
where there is a threat of “sub-
stantial and irreparable injury to
public health, safety and wel-
fare.”

Also reportedly being consid-
ered by Mr. Wollett was a waiver
provision of the Taylor Law's
“two-for-one” strike penalty if
the employer had engaged in an

improper practice or had at-
tempted to prolong a strike.

Mr, Wollett, who represents
the state in negotiations with
CSEA on contracts, told UPI that
he personally fayored repeal of
the two-for-one penalty and
would give most public workers
the right to strike.

With the Governor's own labor
relations expert publicly admit-
ting that the Taylor Law needs
reform and given the fact that
this is an election year, it appears
some reform of the controversial
Taylor Law will take place this
year, a CSEA spokesman said,

CSEA 1s spearheading the Pub-
Me Employee Conference, a state-
wide organization composed of
22 public employee unions that
banded together to exert their
collective legislative and political
strength to force reforms of the
Taylor Law.

While the PEC-sponsored
legislation is nearly identical to
that advocated by Mr. Wollett,
it additionally provides for an
improper practice provision for
employers who refuse to extend
the terms of a contract beyond
its expiration in the absence of
@ successor agreement,

—————— sno

AGVAT ADIANAS TAD

S26r ‘e sey ‘epg yy
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, March 3, 1978

HUGH L. CAREY
cutting back

WARD'S ISLAND — Civil
Service Employees Assn. offi-
cials of Local 413 are un-
happy over a move by Manhattan
Psychiatric Center administration
to reassign ward personne] pass
days,

Local president Larry Colson
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“It won't work," Mr. Colson
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workers’ morale, which is already
at the breaking point, The em-
ployees are overworked and tired
due to understaffing, and now
they are being asked to give up
their weekends.”

Approximately 700 workers are
affected, some with 20 to 25 years
of service, Weekend time off is
granted through seniority,

“Why should the workers al-
ways be the fall guys for admin-
istration mismanagement?” Mr.
Colson asked.

Manhattan Psychiatric direc-
tor Gabriel Koz said that the

been transferred back to the
Ward's Island hospital. This led
to inadequate treatment for pa-
tients who must be rehospital-
ized, he said.

Dr. Koz denied that charge,

Assail Psych Center Reassignments

Associate director Preston Grier
said that although the Harlem
out-patient unit was staffed with
@ psychiatric social worker, and
the in-patient unit was not, there

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Misplaced Anger

HATEVER ambitions former New York City Mayor John

Lindsay may have had were buried in the snow of 1969
in Queens, Despite being one of the earliest and most elo-
quent spokesmen on controversial issues that have mostly
been resolved in accord with Mr. Lindsay’s views, his sub-
sequent 1972 presidential bid was frozen by the unforgive-
ness of his own New York City electorate,

Now another siege of winter blizzards has roused the
fury of New Yorkers from the tip of Long Island to the
upstate North Country to the Buffalo-Niagara Frontier.

Letter-writers to this newspaper have expressed their
outrage at the fact that the State, as well as New York City,
has demanded that civil servants charge the time they were
shut out of work during these emergencies against their own
personal leave time—whether it be sick leave, vacation time
or personal days,

In Buffalo last winter, people were even told by that
city's mayor that they would be subject to $50 fines if they
attempted to drive their cars in city streets. It was declared
a national emergency there, at Governor Carey's request.

This winter, with its successive storms, nearly the entire
state has been immobilized at one time or the other.

Imagine the anger of workers who struggled in to work
—knowing that the Governor had vetoed the Legislature’s
snow bill last year—only to be told by their supervisors to
go home anyhow.

Once again, public employees were told to charge the
lost time against their own time.

What concerns us here is that the Civil Service Em-
ployees Association is being challenged for representation
rights for the state’s Professional-Scientific-Technical Bar-
gaining Unit members.

The CSEA has represented these people since separate
bargaining units were formed in 1969, yet the frustration
and anger of public employees is reaching such a fury over
these governmental decisions that we worry that the real
issues may be overlooked by many people who want to strike
out in revenge against the first available object—for mem-
bers of the PST Unit, this could be their union.

Take for example this excerpt of a letter from a Jericho,
L.I., woman: “Through no fault of my own, heeding the ad-
vice of sincere public officials, I have lost hard-earned
vacation time. Offices in my district were closed as tightly
as the roads were impassable—and you let the Governor get
away with it. His acts were unconscionable!”

In her frustration, she asks “How much worse could
another union be?”

Unfortunately, she fails to realize that every other
public-employee union in the state, including the AFL-CIO-
affiliated unions in New York City, are faced with the same
predicament,

The CSEA worked hard last year to get legislation
through the State Senate and the Assembly to reimburse
Buffalo-area public employees for the lost time, but the bill
was vetoed by the Governor.

We would suggest that this woman’s anger and that of
anyone else so angered be directed where it belongs. All it
takes is a postal card to Gov. Hugh L. Carey, The Executive
Chamber, Capitol, Albany, N.Y. 12224.

He faces an election this year, too. (M.O.B.)

“Repeat This!”

(Continued from Page 1)
licans William Green over former
Rep. Bella Abzug in the recent
Manhattan East Side congres-
sional race.

They also find satisfaction in
the victory of former State Sena-
tor Robert Garcia on the Re-
publican and Liberal party lines
in the Bronx. He was elected to
the congressional seat vacated by |
Deputy Mayor Herman Badillo. ~

The search of politicians for
hopeful ‘signs is underscored by
their elation over Garcia, even
though he has announced that
he will serve in the House as a
Democrat. The fact that so many
Democrats in the South Bronx
did not regard it as treason to
pull the Republican lever is con-
sidered by them to be a clear
triumph.

Civil Service
Law & You

By RICHARD GABA

No Surprise

Actually New York's special
election did not produce any
surprising results, except the
Green—Abzug race. The only
change in the State Legislature
make-up occurred in the Assem-
bly, where Republican Audre T.
Cooke captured the seat vacated
by Assemblyman Thomas Frey in
Rochester, However, that came
as no surprise to Democrats.
(Frey had been appointed direc-
tor of operations for Governor
Carey.)

Democrats always regarded
Frey's district’ as marginal and
understood his victories there
were a tribute to his personality
and personal strength among
voters. Democratic Assembly
majority went from 90 to 89,
no real difference in Democratic
control in that chamber.

Republicans, however, see elec-
tion results here as a growing
disenchantment with the Carter
Administration. In special con-
gressional elections held since
Carter became President, Repub-
licans won five out of six spe-
cial elections, including Garcia's.
Two Republican victories are
clearly regarded as significant:
One is the election of Green
and the other, a Republican vic-
tory in a Democratic stronghold
in Louisiana,

Apart from the smattering of
election returns, Republicans find
many reasons for their belief
that the Carter Administration
is not doing well. They point to
the embarrassment over Budget
Director Bert Lance's resignation.
They believe much more will
emerge to discredit Democrats
because of the way David Mar-
sten, U.S. attorney in Philadel-
phia, was fired.

From an economic point of
view, Republicans cite the wors-
ening condition of the stock
market. They believe Carter has
mishandled the coal miners’
strike and feel the public shares
their view. They also point to
farmers' growing dissatisfaction
and militance. They antici-
pate that much more dirt will
fly because of the activities of
Pennsylvania Congressmen Josh-
ua Eilberg and Daniel L. Flood.

Another Watergate

Republicans see another Water-
gate looming on the horizon with
the Democrats as victims this
time.

Many things may happen be-
tween now and November, but
Republicans expect to do very
well in congressional and state
elections this year.

(Sn

Mr. Gaba is a member of the New York Bar and Chairman
of the Nassau County Bar Association Labor Law Committee.

Dismissed. Illegally

The appellant was hired as a provisional Sept. 25, 1972,
as a traffic engineer for the City of Buffalo. He was notified
Sept. 18, 1974, that he had passed a competitive civil service
examination and was first on the list. Therefore, he was
continued in his job as traffic engineer.

In the Spring of 1975, after he passed the examination,
the City attempted to have his position classified as exempt
However, on June 6, 1975, the state Department of Civil Ser-
vice notified the City that it had denied the reclassification
and that the department believed that the appellant had
acquired permanent competitive class status, On July 2, 1975,
the respondent, city Civil Service Commission, stated that
the appellant gained permanent status as of June 21, 1975,
(60 days after the State Commission denied the request to
piace the position in the exempt class) and the City treated
appellant’s statutory three-month probationary period as
beginning on that date.

The City notified the appellant Sept. 5, 1975, that his
probationary period was being extended another three
months, at which time the City terminated his employment.
No charges, hearing or other dismissal procedure was
provided.

Subsequently, the appellant sought review of his dis-
missal by instituting an Article 78 proceeding. The Supreme
Court, Erie County, dismissed the petition, holding that the
dismissal was legal because the appellant was a probationary
employee. The court also held that the statute of limitations
had run out on appellant’s challenge of the determination
of the date on which his probationary status began, and
that the collective bargaining agreement provided the op-
pellant with an administrative remedy that precluded Article
78 relief.

The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, reversed. lt
noted that Section 64(4) of the Civil Service Law provides
that when a provisional employee takes an examination and
becomes eligible for permanent appointment, continuation
of the employee in his position affords him permanent stat-
us. Therefore, since the appellant passed the examination,
he obtained permanent status on Sept. 18, 1974, the day h
was notified that his name was placed on the list, and his
probationary period, required by Section 63 of the Civil Ser-
vice Law, began to run on that date. The minimum proba-
tionary period provided in the City’s Rule 18 is three months,
which expired Dec, 18, 1974. The Appellate Division held
that since the probationary period was not extended before
that date, appellant became permanent on Dec. 18, 1974:
Therefore, he was entitled to the protections afforded under
Section 75 of the Civil Service Law, and he could not b
dismissed without benefit of a hearing based on write”

charges.
e e e

THE COURT found no merit to the City’s contentio”
that the collective bargaining agreement provides a remed
for appellant's grievance and, therefore, appellant may ™'

(Continued on Page 7)
/WHAT’S YOUR OPINION |

By DEBORAH CASSIDY

‘THE PLACE: State Department of Labor, Albany

QUESTION: What effect, if any, have the recent winter storms had
on your travel to and from work?

Joseph Crudo, clerk; “In the last storm I had to
leave my home one hour early
in order to be to work in time.
T had to leave at
be here by 7:30

Victoria Lannert, clerk:

got out on the roads, I found
them to be like an obstacle
course because of stranded and
disabled vehicles. It was also
before the plows had a chance
to get out. Once I got to work
I found that I was one of the
few who made it. I decided that

it was kind of foolish to have gone through all
that, so I told anyone who called to stay home
where it was safe. The State didn’t care about the

John Clark, senior tab operator:

loss, so it wasn’t worth the fight.”

“I made it to
work each time, but my biggest
problem was getting away from
the curb and into tracks made
by other cars, The side roads
weren't plowed very well, so the
hardest part was getting out. I
will say that they did a good
= job on the main roads. Some-
times I didn’t get here on
time, even’ when I left earlier
than usual. One thing I didn’t
like was being told to leave

Theodore Shippey, clerk:

the building early and to charge it to my own
time. I think the State should have just let every-
one go without charging it, or let them stay

the 15 minutes.”

Betty Goodrich, clerk:

“Well, I made it to work

“I made it in some of
the time during the recent
storms, but found it to be slow
and difficult due to snarled
traffic. There were abandoned
cars all over the place, especi-
ally in the last storm. I missed
more time than I do under nor-
mal conditions. When I did
come in I had to leave much
earlier to get here on time. I
didn't: like the idea of being

——' told, by the State, to go home
avy in one of the storms. They made an an-
nouncement that sounded like a warning and
caused a lot of unnecessary panic. They made
it sound worse than it really was.”

“I was able to get to
work each time, but not on
time. Even when I got up and
out early I still had to shovel
and fight traffic to get in. Other
than that nothing unusual hap-
pened. The State ordered us to
go home early one of the times
and to charge it to our time.
I don’t think this is fair. We
only left 15 minutes early and
I don’t think that made much
difference. A lot of people

thought it was much worse out than it really
was, and a lot of them got scared, making the
driving even worse. For me, I guess, it just all

added up to a big nuisance."

Charles Reed, clerk:

in the first two storms, but I
learned my lesson and didn’t try
to make it in the most recent
one. They let us go home early
| in the second storm, so I didn’t
think it was worth it to come
in for the last one, which was
even worse. The radio kept
warning people to stay in be-
cause of the threat of blowing
and drifting snow later in the
day, so that kind of scared me

to come in,”

too, I didn’t feel bad, because the next day I
learned that I was one of several who chose not

“I live 42 miles from work,
so every storm, sometimes even
a minor one, causes a problem
for me. But I think the great-
est inconvenience was caused
by the State's order for every-
one to leave 15 minutes early
during the Jan. 20 storm. Since
it was a State order, the em-
Ployees should not have been
made to charge it to their own
time. Not everyone is scared to
drive in bad weather, so they

should have left it up to the individual to leave or
to stay. I would have preferred to stay.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS

Complaints,

Mike Causey of the Washing-
ton Post surveyed some griev-
ances from civil servants during
1977 and comes up with a sum-
mary that includes a man who
came to work dressed in a skirt,
an employee who shot coyotes
from a government-owned heli-
copter, an IRS worker whose
flower pot carried a sign “Oh
what a beautiful day. Now watch
some bastard louse it up,” (Co-
workers objected to the lan-
guage), and some employees were
permitted to watch Bicentennial
celebrations fom office windows
and park cars in government lots.

eee

Former New York City Police
Commissioner Michael Codd was
denied a disability pension in
New York, but Washington, D.C.,
Police Chief Maurice J. Cullinane
received a $33,250-a-year tax-
free medical disability pension
because of a “life-threatening
circulatory condition.” The 45-
year-old Cullinane, a Washing-
ton police officer for 22 years,
was hit in the knee during an
anti-war demonstration in 1969.

eee

Federal retirees living in Wash-
ington, D.C., will receive a 2
percent cost-of-living raise be-
ginning next April. The average
retiring federal civil service em-
ployee earns $630 a month and
a surviving spouse, $230. The
raise will bring the average up
to about $700 for Washington
retirees. The Washington aver-
age is higher than the national
average because there are more
high-paying jobs in the area.

Automatic increases for retirees

BUY U.S.
BONDS!

Inhuman.

Editor, The Leader:

T have been working for about
six years with mental health
Patients, and I think it is very
inhuman that Governor Carey
dumps these people on the street.
They cannot find any place to
80 to,

The Middletown Psychiatric
Center has about 425 patients in
homes throughout Orange, Sul-
van and Delaware Counties,
When there is a snow storm,
these patients are completely
isolated and they can't make it
to their doctors, Nor can their
doctors reach them. They also
turn up in neighborhoods where
People don't want them.On top
of all this the State charges them
$218.17 per month for rent, but
it takes at least five weeks be-
fore they get a check, How can
the people who board these pa-
tients make any money? And if
these patients were put in a
nursing home, it would cost
$1,000 a month.

I want people to think for s
Moment that they might be some
fay out in the street, isolated
nd on the welfare roll. I also
Suggest that those who board
these outpatients should receive
$400 per | t,

Tam, however, afraid that New
York State Mental Hygiene is
going to charge this expense to
the county that cannot afford it.

JOHN M. VANDUZER
Middletown

Pros And Cons

Editor, The Leader:
A union for all? No!
There is one facet of employee
that CSEA has nothing but con-
tempt for, and the persons hurt
are the workers, I refer to the

LETTERS POLICY

Letters to the Editor should
be less than 200 words. The
Leader reserves the right to
extract or condense pertinent
sections of letters that exceed
the maximum length. Meaning
or intent of a letter is never
changed. Lengthy letters that
cannot be edited to a reason-
able length are not used un-
less their viewpoint is so
unique that, in The Leader's
judgment, an exception should
be made, All letters must be
signed and bear the writer’s
address and telephone num-
ber. Names will be withheld
upon request.

CETA (Comprehensive Educa-
tion Training Act) workers. We
were damned from the start by
CSEA. We had no choice but
to accept jobs with the State,
or any other agency that we were
assigned to. Our program
amounted to legalized slavery. So
when CSEA started negotiations
for raises, what happened? The
probational employees, the tem-
porary employees and the sea-
sonal employees got the raise.
But did the CETA employees,
who bailed out the state when
employees got axed? No! We got
nothing; but when we were as-
signed to permanent jobs,
through excellent performance,
what happened? We are ordered
to pay union dues for a union
that is greatly discriminating in
its dealings. A union should put
aside its pros and cons when
negotiating new contracts and
enjoin all in profits and losses.
STAN 8S. KAFTAN

New Paltz

For Minorities
Editor, The Leade:
Your Feb. 3, 1978, “ADL Assails

US. Job Quota Plan,” is very
clear on where the Leader stands

with respect to the exclusive allo- »

cation of jobs to minorities and

women: shoulder to shoulder with
B'nai B'rith’s Anti-Defamation
League.

I want you to know that I, for
one, approve of and support the
“Sugarman Plan,” and I am not
at all worried about the dangers
to white liberties. What about
the rights of minorities?

Show some consideration for
them, for a change!

CHARLES V. PERIL
Bronxville

Please Tell Us

Editor, The Leader:

I can't understand how Com-
merce Commissioner John Dy-
son can be so general in saying
that the Carey Administration
has “red tape agencies and bur-
eaus” which he intends to cut
into. Why doesn't he tell us
taxpayers, who paid for his $20,-
000 ads in the Wall Street Jour-
nal and New York Times, what
departments he's talking about
and precisely what the red
tape is?

He should tell, too, what is
expected in accomplishment from
the taxpayer-paid quarter page
portraits of himself in those
costly ads.

CARRIE DIAMOND
Mechanicville

Complaints

inside and outside Washington
are based on cost-of-living in-
creases from June through De-
cember 1977. A 4.3 percent in-
crease became effective last
September and was applied to
October checks.

Social security benefits are
.considerably lower but are not
taxable. Civil service pensions are
taxable.

eee

“Hanging In There,” a new
book by Peter Schwed, offers re-
assurance to those about to re-
tire and feel it is the beginning
of the end, It is designed to help
retirees change: attitudes and
overcome despair, and offer in-
spiration and practical advice. It
is full of stories about people who
began again, including one who
enrolled as a college freshman
at age 63.

eee

As social security payroll de-
ductions hit higher brackets, the
insurance companies see it as
a major threat. Every increase
of the wage base on which taxes
are paid means an increase in
future maximum benefits for the
workers. As social security bene-
fits increase, employers and em-
ployees feel less and less pressure
to find protection independently
through savings or insurance.

As savings dry up, a problem
of sources for liquid capital be-
comes apparent. Insurance com-
panies and savings accounts have
financed most of the long-term
expansion in business and hous-
ing.

Private pension plans will also
suffer as social security taxes in-
crease, a recent survey indicates.
Many plans are tied to the So-
cial Security payments with re-
gard to both contributions and
benefits. The more the federal
plan pays retired workers, the
less employers must pay them.
Many plans are designed to sup-
plement social security and cover
the difference between the maxi-
mum taxed payroll and the ac-
tual payroll.

Civil Service
Law & You

(Continued from Page 6)
proceed under Article 78 until
this remedy has been exhausted,
Article XVI, Section 3(f) of the
contract provides; “Any person
believing himself aggrieved by

. dismissal may appeal
from such determination either
by an application to the Buffalo
Municipal Civil Service Commis-
sion or by an application to the
Supreme Court, in accordance
with the provisions of Article 78.”
The court held that this lan-
guage gives the aggrieved party
the choice of method of review
he wishes to pursue, [emphasis
added).

The Court concluded by stat-
ing that the proceeding was
timely. It was instituted within
four months of the appellant be-
ing informed that his probation-
ary period was being extended,
which was in violation of the
law. Smith y, Hoyt, 399 N.Y.S.
2d 818 (4th Dept.)

8261 ‘¢ Yew “epg “YAGVAT AQIAUAS TAD

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, March 3, 1978

Special Report Part”

What = rights
does » worker
have in de-
fending him-
self?

ORKER RIGHTS T
SELF-PROTECTION

By Kenneth Schept

During the early evening, last June 16, Nancy Carr took
several children to an outdoor concert at Willowbrook De-
velopmental Center, where she is a therapy aide.

A resident, in his late twenties, stood cursing, near where
Ms. Carr and the children were sitting.

“The children were running back and forth having a
race, and I was watching and laughing,” Ms. Carr said. “I
think that he thought I was laughing at him.

“He kicked me. I asked him not to kick me anymore.
He told me he was going to rape me; said he wasn't afraid
to die.

“t went with another woman back to the building to
get sweaters for the kids, He followed me. I paid him no
attention and didn’t expect him to do anything.

“He grabbed me as I came down the steps outside; tore
my clothes a little, I was scratched, fell to the ground, An-
other woman tried to pull him off.”

Ms. Carr said that she returned to the show, where she
was responsible for a group of young residents. A supervisor
was not present; consequently, the incident went unreported.
The police arrived, and teeth marks were discovered over
the eye of the resident who had attacked her.

“I was charged with child abuse and failure to report
the incident,” Ms. Carr said. She was suspended from work
for three months.

What rights does a worker have in defending himself?
How far can he go in defending himself from an assaultive
client? Must he worry about saving his job when he is trying
to save his life? m4

The feelings of those workers who have been assaulted
are perhaps best expressed by therapy aide Charmaine Mc-
Nally, who was attacked last March at West Seneca Develop-
mental Center and was out of work for 11 weeks. “We feel
this way to the point of losing our jobs: We're not going
to be hurt like this again!” she said.

William Werner, director of Creedmoor Psychiatric Cen-
ter, said, “We're in a difficult time, when the rights of pa-
tients are being defined, and for good reasons. But on the
other hand, I think the rights of employees have to be de-
fined as well, and that hasn’t happened as much.”

“The right of the employee to protect himself is very
necessary and a little more specificity on how the employee
can and should protect himself is needed,” he said.

Dr. Werner said that he knew of an incident at Creed-
moor where a worker struck back after being kicked in the
groin and was not brought up on charges.

“T didn’t think the employee could have restrained him-
self. It was an instantaneous reaction to a very sudden as-

—————————
“He kicked me. | asked him not to
kick me anymore. He told me he was
going to rape me; said he wasn't
afraid to die.”

sault,” Dr. Werner said. “Consequently we did not bring
charges against the worker.”

According to regulation, a worker must use only the
minimum force necessary to restrain a patient. The prob-
lem that results from such a vague guideline is that workers
see themselves caught in a catch-22 situation: in danger
of losing their jobs if they are excessive in defending them-
selves; in danger of being physically hurt if they act too
moderately.

Instances of employees defending themselves and then
being brought up on charges are not unusual. Eva Coleman,
a therapy aide at Creedmoor, told of a situation, described
in an earlier installment of this series, where a patient
wanted to kiss a worker and threw a chair at her when she
refused him, Ms. Coleman was then attacked by the same

Vagueness of
guidelines has
resulted in in-
Jury to work-
ers,

patient. According to Ms. Coleman, she pushed him away
and was then brought up on charges. Her hearing begins
this week.

There are also cases where workers have been hurt be-
cause of exercising too much self-restraint when confronted
by a violent client.

Dennis Wertman is a young, physically fit therapy aide
at Hutchings Psychiatric Center; he is trained in karate.
Last summer he was injured while attempting to restrain
an assaultive patient.

“If I had been aggressive I could have gotten this guy)
down,” he said.

Instead, Mr. Wertman was knocked to the floor. His
head hit the edge of a table as he fell, and his ear was almost
severed.

He considered himself lucky because doctors were able
fo suture the flapping lobe back to his scalp. But he wonders
if he should have done more to protect himself, or if that
would have meant his job. No one has told him, or any other
state Mental Hygiene worker, exactly what actions are con-
sidered legitimate responses of self-defense, and which are
considered excessive.

The problem is, according to Dr. Werner, that, “If they
say what types of restraining are to be used, it’s very hard
to quantify how much power you can exert behind the re-
straint; if you can put a person in a hammer lock, how much

what one would do on each occasion. I think it’s a judgment.”

In the meantime, regulations being vague, and judgment
being subjected to review and possible charges, what are
workers to do?

Many directors mentioned that a state-sponsored course
called “the gentle art of self-defense” was offered at their
institutions.

The course does not seem adequate. Learning a tech-
nique of self-defense is like acquiring a new reflex. A few
mild sessions do not provide enough exposure for that kind
of learning to happen.

As many workers have said, when confronted by a vio-
lent patient, there is not enough time to say, “Let’s see, I
put my right foot forward, shift my weight to the left side,”
etc. Such fumbling might be O.K. on the dance floor, where
the only consequence of clumsiness would be embarrassment,
not hospitalization.

Most directors said that at one time or another they
too had been attacked. They recommended various tech-
niques for defending oneself without hurting the client.

“If a patient starts swinging an ashtray, for example,
and I’m in the room with him,” Dr. Werner said, “I’m going
to probably get a mattress off the bed, if I can find one, and
approach the patient that way. Try to talk him down. Try
to get employees or patients to help me, and hope that I
have witnesses present as well, so that if I do get accused of
abusing the patient, I'll have witnesses to show that what
I did was completely justified.”

Of course, there are too many “ifs” in Dr. Werner's
description: if there is a mattress; if there are patients or
workers willing to assist; if there are witnesses.

Too many times the situation is more like what hap-
pened to therapy aide Vernell Foxx, last April, at Willow-
brook Developmental Center.

“I was coming out of the shower room when a female
resident slammed me over the head with a chair, when I
wasn’t looking. I was in the hospital for 18 days, and fol-
lowing my release, had several seizures.”

Gabriel Koz, director of Manhattan Psychiatric Center,
said, “The times that I'm hit, I'll step back and see if I’m
going to get attacked more. Now in some instances, if no
more hits are coming, I'll try to sit down, because sitting
down is a very good technique: not for a robber or a thief,
but with patients.”

“If they're standing up glaring angrily, you sit down. It
has a very calming effect. Then they'll come and sit down

can you twist?”

He also recognized that keeping the guidelines vague
puts the employee in the position where he is saying to
himself, “I’m dammed if I do and dammed if I don’t.”

That employee is not going to intervene when two pa-
tients are fighting in a ward. Many workers have admitted
as much. Some have decided that they will only become
involved if a fellow worker is threatened. Others, usually
after having been severely injured, say that even cries of
help from a fellow worker being attacked will not be enough
to deter them from their determination not to be hurt again.

Such an attitude undermines morale and is contrary (
the involvement required for the Mental Hygiene centers
to operate in the best possible therapeutic atmosphere
People who are scared and those who do not care have no
place working in these institutions. Yet the state, by not
being explicit about the rights of workers to protect them-
selves, has forced some employees into these self-protective
attitudes.

Some workers have come to the aid of their fellow em-
ployees. This series began with a description of how Alma
Hayes, a therapy aide at Manhattan Psychiatric, was pum-
meled in the face by a patient wearing a chain of soda call
tabs over his fist:

“{ couldn’t see him. The blood was rushing into ™Y
eyes. I sank down lower and lower into the chair with my
hands up. I thought I was going to die. Mr. Sprague saved
my life.” -

Elliot Sprague said that he heard a sound, “like 3"
animal ready to attack. When I saw what was happening,
her eye was already swollen. I grabbed him off of her.”

Ms. Hayes, who was hurt June 10, is still out of work,
recovering from an eye operation that took place in January
The patient, according to several sources, is now back in
Manhattan Psychiatric. He had apparently been dischars°¢
for a while.

“Quite a bit has been done to tip the scale in favor of
the client’s rights and prerogatives, and conversely I don't
see much that’s been done, in an organized manner,
counterbalance this from the employee's point of view,” said
Roger Heath, acting director of Utica and Marcy Psychiatr

to defend himself more explicit. He said,
assault are so immediate and so different, I think it’s 1m-
possible to write a lexicon of rules and regulations defining

hetured are several of the 15 facili-

This installment marks the end of
the series on assaults against staff in
the Mental Hygiene institutions—but
not the end of the problem, cer-
tainly, or of this paper's concern.
Further incident reports, insights
and comments may be sent to Ken-
neth Schept, Civil Service Leader,
233 Broadway, New York, N.¥. 10007.

——————————————E—
“| couldn't see him. The blood was
rushing into my eyes. | sank lower
and lower into the chair with my
hands up. | thought | was going to
die.”

and it will be a verbal exchange.”

If that does not work, Dr, Koz said, then get help, get
the patient down, use hand restraints and medication, if
necessary.

As with Ms. Foxx, many of the attacks are so sudden,
no defense is really possible.

Margaret Cottone is a registered nurse with 22 years
of state service. The following occurred in February 1977 at
Craig Developmental Center.

“I noticed that a resident, in his early 20’s, was upset
and requested emergency medication, which was denied.

“The resident was becoming a problem, so I asked him
to stay with me and gave him a job, helping me in the dining
room, where I could watch to see that everything was O.K.

“He was three rows of tables away from me, the last I
saw. Then I heard a crunch on the side of my face and
woke up in another building on my back, with what was
diagnosed as a broken nose and a cracked cheek bone.”

X-rays taken by a neurologist later revealed a healed
fracture of the neck. Ms. Cottone returned to work Dec. 15,
10% months after the assault. She attends a compensation
hearing this week to determine if injury is permanent.

The only real protection against these kinds of attacks
can not be provided by self-defense courses. The general
level of violence in the institution might be reduced with
greater staffing, and more realistic policies of medication,
restraint and isolation. Even then, however, there would
still be a residual number of assaults, just because of the
nature of the work.

When it comes to assaults where the worker sees it
coming and may have a chance to defend himself, Dr. Koz’'s
notion of sitting down may be on the right track, although
for most people confronted with the possibility of being
hurt, sitting down is not usually the instinctive reaction.

Dr. Koz is, of course, not suggesting sitting down to
relax. He is talking about outwitting the patient, over-
powering him, not with force, but with cunning.

Brain power and experience seem to be the best de-
fenses against assaultive clients. Most directors agree that
many workers who have been around for a while learn how
to handle themselves on a ward without suffering even a
scratch, and without hurting the clients.

“The subtle art of defusing a situation is what the old
hands tend to have,” Russell Barton, Rochester Psychiatric
Center director, said.

“Then there’s the fact that many mentally ill people
are distractable. There are little tricks you teach staff.”

For example, if engaged in an angry exchange with a
patient who it seems might become physically violent, the
worker might make an irrelevant remark, like, “What did
I do with my keys?”

The patient might be sucked in by such a tactic and
respond, “It's probably your girl friend's key, all you aides
have girl friends.”

The conversation could continue like that, until the
explosiveness had been drained.

“The person who has worked in the hospital as an aide
for more than four or five years gets very street-wise and
learns how to handle patients probably better than most
of the professionals. He knows how to wheel and deal with
them .. . knows how to handle their moments of peculiar
behavior much better than we do,” Dr. Werner said. He gave
the following example of an incident that occurred several
years ago when a doctor was being assaulted.

“There were about four burly male attendants standing
there and this small lady attendant. The men did not know
what to do. So the lady walked over to the patient and
pulled down his pants and he stopped hitting the doctor.

“You really don’t have to be big and strong to handle
an assaultive patient. If you're skilled and shrewd and have
worked here long enough you learn how to handle patient
assaults very well.”

Roger Heath spent many years working on wards before
becoming acting director of Utica and Marcy Psychiatric
Centers. His experience was gained at a time when there
were fewer employees, “when you really couldn't cut it, un-
less you were a pretty well put together person.”

“Your only alternative was to establish relationships
with patients who were leaders within the group on the
ward and they, in fact, assisted you in dealing with the dis-
turbed behavior of a small number of people.

“Sometimes the people who were disturbed changed.
Maybe tonight you could count on John and Bill and Paul.

(Continued on Page 14)

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$14,022, are open with Nassau
County agencies.

Applicants have until March 8
to file applications for the quali-
fying exams for social health in-
vestigator, electroencephalograph
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female. The exams are scheduled
for April 8.

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and have at least a year's public
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and two years’ experience.

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encephalograph equipment op-
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supervisor I, applicants must have
completed a vocational school
training program in automotive
maintenance with five years’
auto mechanic experience, at
least one year of it repairing and
maintaining highway construc-
tion and maintenance equipment;
or at least seven years’ experi-

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AMITYVILLE — “If the
CSEA hadn't got. involved
over a year ago and ‘made an
issue out .of dumping, this

would have’ never! happened,”
Irving Flaimenbaum, sald after
hearing about the’ state’s: plans
to return some former ‘patients

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‘to hospitals from Long Beach.

, Mr." Flaumehbaum, president
‘of Region: I; recalled how the
‘Long Island Region was one of
the first in the state to feel the
effects of the state’s policy to
release large numbers of patients
from Long Island’s mental in-
stitutions to local communities.

“Although we had been fight-
ing the state internally for years
over dumping, it wasn’t until the
public at large-began to feel the
results of the state's self-serving
Policy that we started to organize
public opinion,” the CSEA leader
said.

A Long Island Region Mental
Hygiene Task Force was created
with Danny Donohue, CSEA
Central Islip chief, as its chair-
man, The task force forged alli-
ances with various civic groups
in Long Island communities re-
ceiving an influx of release pa-
tients and started public pro-
tests of the state's actions.

The climax of the campaign
came when Mr. Flaumenbaum
visibly angered Gov. Hugh Carey
at a “community meeting” on
Long Island last December with
pointed questions about mental

patient “dumping.” The next
day, Assembly Minority Leader
Perry Duryea followed the
CSEA's lead and charged the
state with dumping, thus making
it a campaign issue in this year's
gubernatorial race.

“The Long Beach project is a
band-aid and does not represent

fied when the state stops apply-
ing cosmetics and makes a com-
mitment to the care of our men-

tal patients,” Mr. Flaumenbaum
said.

There are an estimated 300 to
700 ex-patients in Long Beach.
Other Long Island communities
with large populations of ex-

a significant attempt to solve the
problem. We will only be satis-

SHORT TAKES

SAY TROOPERS HIRED ILLEGALLY

The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has affirmed a
lower court ruling that state police illegally passed over white males
to recruit females and minorities. However, the ruling came as the
troopers early in the week, acting under a federal court order,
swore in several women, blacks and Hispariics. A sult was initiated
by a number of white males who contended they had been dis-
criminated against.

- patients are Bayshore, Sayville
and Patchogue.

PAY HIKE FOR ALBANY WORKERS

A PERB fact-finder has recommended a 33-cents-an-hour pay
increase for 240 Albany County highway workers represented by the
Civil Service Employees Association. The union had been seeking a
40-cent an hour increase. The county offered only 25 cents.

SHE'S A VICTIM OF .

CONTRACTING OUT.
AND SO ARE YOU!

When the State dumps tens of thousands of
mentally disabled people out of State institutions
into unwary communities, or private agencies, as
it is doing, it's really part of a much bigger prob-
lem — CONTRACTING OUT FOR GOODS AND
SERVICES!

When the State Department of Mental Hygiene
hands out tens of millions of dollars in contracts
to private firms annually, as it does; when the
State Office of General Services awards more
than 90 contracts in excess of $100,000 EACH to
OUT-OF-STATE FIRMS in a six-month period, as
it did this fiscal year; when virtually every major
State department awards MILLIONS OF TAX
DOLLARS annually to private firms, many from
out of state, IT’S ALL PART OF THE SAME, DIS-
GRACEFUL PROBLEM.

VICTIMIZED BY GOVERNMENT
AT EVERY LEVEL
But it isn’t just big, bureaucratic State agencies
that fleece taxpayers through unnecessary award-
ing of multi-million dollar contracts every year.
Taxpayers all over the state are also paying ad-
ditional millions for contracts handed out by

counties, cities, towns, villages, and school
districts.
UNNECESSARY AND COSTLY

Contracts totaling tens of millions of dollars
annually are awarded unnecessarily by state and
local governments. In those cases, completely
competent public employees are already avail-
able to perform the services... and at well below
what it costs governments to contract out. Gov-
ernments contract out for political expediency,
but it only creates a false sense of economy while
actually increasing costs.

SOLVING THE PROBLEM

Eliminating unnecessary governmental con-
tracts will save taxpayers millions of dollars every
year, And it will solve scores of related problems
often disguised as something else. Write Gov.

Thruway Supv.
Test Scheduled

ALBANY—State Thruway Au-
thority senior administrative an-
alysts, internal auditors and per-
sonnel administrators on the job
at least a year are eligible to take
the oral exam for supervisor of
office and building maintenance
services, a $19,868-a-year post.

‘The exam is scheduled for some
time this month. The exact date
has not yet been made public.
Applicants have until March 13
to file

State Civil Service Department
officials also announced that the
filing deadline for motor equip-
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supervisor III have been extend-
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‘The deal was worked out in a
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those days.

The bonus may be taken as
compensatory time within 90
days or added to accumulated
vacation credits. If an employee
requests time within 90 days and
it cannot be granted because of
departmental scheduling require-
ments, the employee has the op-
tion of taking pay or applying
the time to vacation credits.

Mr. Abbatiello was arranging
similar meetings with Joseph
Colby, Oyster Bay supervisor,
and Michael Tully, Jr., the North
Hempstead supervisor. The two
other towns in Nassau had also
refused to pay employees who
were unable to go to work and
proposed to allow snow crews
only straight-time pay.

Nassau County had declared a

York's

FILE STATEWIDE SNOW DAY GRIEVANCE

ALBANY—A OSEA grievance against the State of New
mishandling of the recent snow emergencies in New
York City has been expanded to include any New York State
employees affected by the emergencies.

In the original grievance filed with the state’s Office of
Employee Relations, the union demanded that any employees
locked out of their offices during the snow storms of Jan. 20
and Feb. 7 be given excused absences without charge to leave
credits. It further demanded that employees who did report to
work on those dates be granted compensatory time or be re-
imbursed on an overtime basis,

In expanding this grievance to include all employees of the
state regardless of their work site, CSEA demanded an end

to any further “lock-outs” by the state.

State Opens

The State Civil Service Depart-
ment will accept applications
March 3 to April 17 for chief
housekeeper, senior store clerk
(New York City only), senior
clerk (transportation mainten-
ance) and senior planner, The
job exams are to be held May
20, More new exams are expected
to be announced by next week.

Senior store clerk pays $8,251
and requires three years’ experi-
ence in a storeroom or ware-
house.

Chief housekeeper, which pays
$10,914 at level I and $12,183 at
level II, requires four years’ ex-
perience in a housekeeping de-
partment, including two years in
an administrative or supervisor
capacity over a work force of 50
or more, Also qualifying is two
years’ experience, including one
in administration, plus an execu-
tive housekeeping certificate. |

Senior clerk (tra tation’
maintenance) pays $7}204 and’
requires one year's office experi-
ence or high school plus business
school training.

Senior planner pays $13,404

5 0.C. Jobs

and requires a bachelor’s de-
gree plus two years’ planning
experience. It is open only in Al-
bany.

For further information, con-
tact the state Civil Service De-
partment at 55th floor, Two
World Trade Center in Manhat-
tan.

For additional listings, follow
the Leader.

Steno Positions
With State Units
Open In Albany

ALBANY—The state Civil Ser-
vice Department is looking for
stenographers for state agencies
in the Albany area. Starting sal-
ary is $124 a week.

Applicants should be able to
take shorthand at 80 words a
minute.

Stenographer examinations are
being conducted frequently. Any-
one wishing to qualify should
phone (518) 457-2992.

MAIL BALLOTS OUT FOR BANKING
DEPARTMENT BOARD REPRESENTATIVE

ALBANY—Ballots are to be mailed Monday, March 6, to
members of the Civil Service Employees Association employed
in the state Banking Department, for the election of a Bank-
ing Department representative to the CSEA State Executive
Committee and the union's statewide Board of Directors.

This special election is being conducted because of a va-
cancy caused by the promotion of the incumbent Banking
representative, Victor Pesci, to a management/confidential posi-
tion in the department.

Candidates seeking election to the post of Banking De-
partment representative are William R. Montero and Peter J.
Galante, both bank examiners working at the World Trade
Center in New York City.

Deadline for return of completed ballots will be 6 p.m.,
Monday, March 27. Votes will be counted at CSEA headquarters
at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 28, by the CSEA statewide special
election procedure committee, chaired by Bernard Schmahl.

Eligible members who do not receive a ballot by March 13,
should contact Kathy Barnes at CSEA Headquarters, 33 Elk
Bt., Albany, N.Y. 12224, (518) 434-0191, ext, 503, for a re-
placement ballot. %

snow day and paid the premium
to those who worked, unlike the
state’s practice of denying pay
or premiums.

“Those who worked went above
and beyond the call of duty,” said
Mr. Abbatiello, “and Mr. D’Am-
ato recognized this. His response

is @ great contribution to em-
ployee morale, and, it must be
said, a good example for Gov-
ernor Carey to follow.”

The Federal Employee

By PETER ALISON

Whatever changes President
Carter expects to make in Civil
Service, it will come gradually
for the 750,000 federal clerical,
technical, and administrative
workers.

White House directives outlin-
ing the Civil Service reform
Package were sent to federal
agency chiefs for comment.

President Carter has made
Civil Service reform one of the
key elements of this program.
A bill should be ready for Con-
gress by early in March. Until
the bill is actually proposed,
changes will undoubtedly be
made.

‘The bill would change the way
civil service employees are hired,
promoted, disciplined, and fired.
Reform, in this context, means
taking away some of the secur-
ity offered by civil service and
a dilution of veterans’ prefer-
ence benefits.

One change will establish a
senior executive service for man-
agement personnel. This service
will provide quick advancement,
bonuses, mobility—and less ten-
ure security. Another proposal not
already given widespread circu-
lation, calls for probationary pro-
motions to supervisory jobs.

eee

Civil service continues under
attack on several fronts as inef-
fective in selecting federal per-
sonnel.

Latest is a statement by Alan
K. Campbell, chairman of the
Civil Service Commission, in an
address before the American So-
ciety for, Public Administration.
He claims the present system sat~
isfies neither management nor
employee or public interests. He
has been making recommenda-
tions for change since June.

Apparently the President has
given him a go-ahead to develop
specific legislative and reorgani-

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Preventing A Coronary

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Completely lacking in physical and
Mental alertness and without drive,
Ambition or competitive spirit who
Has never attempted to meet a
Deadline of any kind.
A man with poor appetite, subsisting
On fruit and vegetables laced with
Corn and whale oils,
Detesting tobacco;
Spurning ownership of radio, TV, or
Motor car;
With full head of hair and
Scrawny and unathletic appearance,
Yet constantly straining his puny
Muscles by exercise;
Low in income, BP, blood sugar,
Uric acid and cholesterol,
Who has been taking nicotinic acid,
Pyridoxine, and long-term anti-coagulant
Therapy—
Ever since his prophylactic castration.
Author unknown

LL. Health, Auto Jobs Set

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44. They must also pass a phy-
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Job applications and job de-
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offices, 140 County Rd., Mineola
11501.

Female correction officers must
be high school graduates, at least
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CSEA RETIREE NEWS PAGE

Hold Retiree Party
For DOT Local 505

UTICA—A retirement party was held recently by Civil
Service Employees Association Department of Transporta-
tion Local 505, at Harts Hill Inn.

Local president Nicholas Cimino presented wallets to

the following retirees whose
years of service tota] 508: Char-
les Alexander, Horace Beers, Fer-
ris Betrus, Harold Biederman,
Robert Chapman, George Coul-
ombe, Arthur Davies, Charles
Demma, Albert DeVito, Theodore
Frank, Barney Glod, Steve Gor-
czynski, Clarence Kibler, Evelyn
Lembke, Jack Lewis, Mary Rose
Lyons, Joseph Mazur, Tom Orig-
lio, Anthony Sciortino, James
Steere, Milton Thayer, Rozell W.
Whitney and Thaddeus Zawada.

Twenty-five year pins were
presented by Richard Simberg,
regional DOT director, to the
following workers; John J, Casa-
mento, Robert C. Eichstadt, Stan-
ley A. Furmanski, Carson R, Hor-
ner, James McDonald, Howard
M. McKeraghan, Robert A, Nes-

sel, Nicholas M. Papagno, Henry
J. Paul, Marco Piccolino, John J.
Pinto, John B. Potter, Vincent
Spada, Jack J. Tinelli, Joseph

Upright, James Ward and Char-
les Whitney,

Honored guests included CSEA
executive vice-president Thomas
McDonough, statewide treasurer
Jack Gallagher, Central Region
V president James Moore, Region
V supervisor Frank Martello and
DOT regional director Richard
Simberg.

Michael Betrus was banquet
chairman of a committee that
included Lauren Scholl, Bea
Spears, Barbara Bougourd, Do-
lores Dabrowski and Trudy Me-
Sally.

Newburgh Schools

Honor 13

Retirees

NEWBURGH—Thirteen retiring members were recently
honored at the Newburgh City School District Civil Service
Employees Association unit at its annual dinner-dance, held

Jan. 21 at Belle’s Restaurant.

More than 160 members and
administrators were present to
show their appreciation and pay
tribute to the new retirees, each
of whom was presented with gifts

Assaults: Worker Rights

(Continued from Page 9)

The next night Paul Js way out in left field, so you've got
to get Joe to take Paul's place because Paul's one of the
people who needs looking after instead of one of the helpers,”

The adage that there is no substitute for experience has
unfortunate applicability here, because in the absence of
such experience people are being hurt. Can such experience
be taught?

Maybe. Intensive training in stressful situations, under
close supervision, should be mandatory. Guidelines estab-
lishing what a worker may do to protect himself should be
made more explicit. Increased staffing is necessary.

When these conditions are filled, along with needed
clinical changes in the use of medication, restraint and se-
clusion, incidents like those described throughout this series
might not occur, at least not as frequently,

Dr. Werner said that it is a minority of patients who
are assaultive and hurtful to employees or anyone else.

Certainly workers and clients in the Mental Hygiene
centers are more allies than foes. Most people do not want
to hear about what goes on in the institutions. To most
people they are staffed and populated by those who could
not do any better for themselves; and the less said about
them, the better,

It has taken seven weeks of long, detailed articles to say
what has not been said before: that the workers, as well as
the patients in the state’s psychiatric and developmental
centers, have been victims,

In the past, workers have been portrayed as the abusers,
with clients as their targets. The point of this series has
not been to suggest that the opposite is true, but to demon-
strate that it is not simply the good guys against the bad
guys in the state Mental Hygiene institutions,

In New York City, particularly, drab wards are filled
with acute patients who resent being there, and are staffed
by low-paid, poorly educated people who hear little encour-
agement and see small hope of redemption.

This series has detailed changes that could be made
in the New York civil service system so that there would be
more staff, a greater number of males on the wards, fewer
incompetent workers and opportunities for those who excel
to move ahead to greater responsibility and income.

Clinical methods for isolating, restraining, medicating
and rehabilitating assaultive clients have been explained,
evaluated, compared in their execution from one institution
to another, and commented on by directors and adminis-
trators throughout the state.

The series has attempted to demonstrate possible solu-
tions to the problem, and to say to the workers that if their
union and the management will agree to confront this issue,
there is reason for hope. Change will benefit client as well
as worker. :

One last word to the people who staff the mstitutions—
to those who have been hurt, to those who daily enter the
wards in fear and dread, frustrated, but dedicated: Both
the state and the union now know, if they did not before,
that the problem of assaults against staff exists; the re-
sponsibility and the power is yours, to see that it is no longer
ignored,

and certificates of merit.

Harold R. McGuigan, president
of the Newburgh unit, made the
presentations, wishing each per-
son good health and a happy re-
tirement.

Among the guests attending
the dinner-dance was the super-
intendent of the Newburgh
schools, Charles Disare. He
praised the retirees for their
loyalty and fine performance of
their jobs while working for the
Newburgh School System. He
said they will be greatly missed.

Other members of the New-
burgh administration who at-
tended the dinner-dance were
Charles Frier, superintendent of
instructional services; Anthony J.
Knipp, personnel officer, and
Everett Gordon, superintendent
of buildings and grounds.

The retiring members were
Fayola Wack, Mabel Quicksell,
Ruth Gutcheum, Rose Parant,
Edith Middleton, Florence Chu-
mas, Margaret Spino, Mary Do-
derer, John Titanic, Howard
Pedrick, ‘Thomas Sayles, Robert
Hunter and Anthony Pavlik.

Albany Retirees
Meet March 13

ALBANY—The Capital District
Retirees Local of the Civil Serv-
ice Employees Association will
hold a general meeting at 1 p.m.,
March 13, in meeting room 1,
South Mall, Albany.

Senator John E, Flynn, Repub-
lican of Yonkers, will speak on
the 1978 legislative program for
retirees.

Metropolitan Retirees
Plan March 21 Meeting

MANHATTAN—The New York
Metropolitan Retirees Local of
the Civil Setvice Employees As-
sociation will hold a meeting at
1 p.m. March 21, at 2 World
Trade Center, room 5890, Man-
hattan,

Pass your copy of
The Leader
on to a non-member,

Catskill Retiree Local

MIDDLETOWN—Beginning on March 8, the Orange,
Ulster, and Sullivan Counties Civil Service Employees Asso-
ciation retirees will hold their meetings at the Town Hall,
Town of Wallkill, on Route 211, 14 miles from Middletown,

close to the Route 17 Quickway,
Those retirees coming from Sul-
livan County can take the Quick-
way to the Route 211 exit.

rm s < . rl : . ; :
Retiree Grapevine

This month’s Grapevine is addressed to our CSEA mem-
bers who are not yet retired. Let’s fantasize for a few mo-
ments, You are in your fifties or sixties, have put in quite
a few years of service, and as a practical man or woman,
occasionally picture yourself as a retired public employee.
How will it be, you wonder. Or don’t you ever give it a
thought? You should. The decision to retire ranks with other
major decisions in life, such as choosing a career or a mate.

You will be eligible to retire when you reach your 55th
birthday, with as little service credit as only five years. Of
course, you can work until your 70th birthday, at which
time retirement is mandatory. No matter when you make
the move to retire, do not do so with rose-colored glasses,
especially when viewing the financial aspects of your retire-
ment.

Back to your fantasy. You are 65 years old and have
15 years credited to your service, Put 15 over 60; this gives
you 14. Multiply your final average salary (the average of
your three highest consecutive years), which we shall say
is $12,000, by 14, which will give you a $3,000 yearly retire-
ment allowatice, maximum.

If you have 20 or more years of service credit, let’s say
25 years, put that over 50, which is 25/50 or ¥%2. One half
your final average salary—let’s say that it is $12,000—will
give you an annual retirement allowance of $6,000,
maximum,

These rules of thumb give you only:an approximation.
What you will actually receive depends on which of the five
options of payment you select and whether or not you have
built up an annuity portion of your retirement allowance
by your own voluntary contributions, no longer required.

When you entered retirement age, you should request
the Retirement System to give you an estimate of how much
you would receive under each of the five options. You will
need this information in making your decision.

The Retirement System will also give you, on request,
some reading material to explain the advantages and dis-
advantages of each option. But, when you indicate your
choice, that is final and you must live with that decision
for the rest of your life.

You will have what is popularly known as a “fixed in-
come,” which eventually becomes a problem with inflation
expected to rise about 6 percent for each year ahead of you
in retirement. Ten years from now your $6,000, used here
as an example, will have its purchasing power reduced to
about $2,400. Scarey, isn’t it?

Your “pension” can be increased to offset inflation only
by the passing of legislation to supplement your fixed allow-
ance, which is very difficult because you no longer have the
CSEA to negotiate raises for you. The Taylor Law prohibits
negotiating for retirees. It does not prohibit the union from
introducing and lobbying for legislation to provide a cost-
of-living increase for retired public employees. At that point,
the best thing you can do is join the CSHA’s retiree organiza~
tion. This continues your membership in the CSEA at only
10 percent of the regular dues, The OSHA's retiree branch
is an integral part of the Association and wages a vigorous
campaign every year to get legislation passed to provide
an increase for the retirees.

In 1977 the increase CSEA won ranged from 14 percent
to 25 percent for those who retired before April 1, 1969, and
had been born before June 1, 1910, It was a tremendous vic-
tory, but unfortunately those who retired since then still
have not received a penny of increase. We at CSEA are work-
ing on it, but we need your support now. Ask your delegates
who will attend the April convention to support CSEA's
retiree members, all the way.

We are back from your fantasy and still a part of the
workaday world, with years to go before you actually retire,
That is good. However much you may hate your boss, find
your work boring, or daydream about beautiful Hawali—
before you eventually retire, be sure you are ready for it.
It is a big decision.

from Ulster County can come by
way of Interstate Route 84 to
the first Middletown exit to the
Route 17 Quickway. Take the
first exit off the Quickway onto
Route 211 and continue to the
Town Hall.

Meeting at this more central
location should enable more re~
tirees to attend. The meetings
are open and anyone interested
in Senior Citizens will be heard.

‘The Town Hall is situated on
the right side of 211 about %
mile toward Montgomery, Those

DA Aides To Stay In Gil Service

“arbitrary” and “unreasonable”
can a court interfere with a civil
service commission determina-
tion, the chief judge explained.
In the Nassau case, the “abso-
Jutist position” that all criminal

(Continued from Page 5)
merit selection. “Classifications
made by a civil service commis-
sion are subject only to limited
judicial remedy,” he wrote,

Only if the classifications are

investigators must be exempt is
“unpersuasive,” he said, particu-
larly since three of the positions
—chief investigator and two de-
puty chief investigators—already
are classified as non-competitive.

STORM RESULTS

Peter Levante, foreground, is one of many highway department

Reassignments Assailed

(Continued from Page 4)
was no plan for the social work-
er to be reassigned, for example.

Mr. Colson said only two phar-
macists now dispense medicine
to over 5,000 out-patients,

Mr, Grier responded, saying,
there have always been three
pharmacists. He said four phar-

_ macists were to be hired for in-

patient work last week, and they
may absorb some of the out-
patient load.

Union officials say recent re-
ports of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
and of the Joint Committee on
Hospital Accreditation are cri-
tical of staff shortages at the

facility.

The Local's grievance commit-
tee chairman, Clarence Fitchett,
said the shortage even extends
to doctors and nurses. He said
many times there are no doctors
on duty in the emergency room
—a situation possibly making the

hospital criminally

responsible

for an employee's death Jan. 18.
Mr. Fitchett said a custodial
employee, Fred Weber, passed out
in the Dunlap lobby that day.
No doctor was on hand in the

emergency room, he

said. Mr.

‘Weber died before medical as-
sistance came, said Mr. Fitchett.

SAVE A WATT

Open Continuous
State Job Calendar

‘The court refused to accept the
Nassau DA’s argument that be-
cause in some counties all in-
vestigators are outside civil ser-
vice and exempt, the same classi-
fication should prevail in his of-
fice. The court ruled that each
county civil service commission
must have “flexibility” and take
into account a “likely variation
in local circumstances.” It would
be inappropriate to have a blan-
ket policy statewide to make all
investigator positions either ex-
empt or subject to competitive
examination, said the judges.

Sidenmmenbmetas
WHERE TO APPLY
_FOR PUBLIC JOBS

NEW YORK CITY — Persons
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should file at the Department of
Personnel, 49 Thomas St., New
York 10013, open weekdays be-
tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Special
hours for Thursdays are 8:30
am. to 4 p.m.

Those requesting applications
by mail must include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope, to be

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, March 3, 1978

Research Miracles At Downstate Medical

By RON KARTEN

Nearly 4,000 researchers have projects working at
Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Basic research
involving the use of test tubes, chemicals and all the
paraphernalia associated with the laboratory is con-
ducted, as well as clinical research which deals with
human beings.

Downstate is a very, very large medical center,” said
Barrie Jacobs, director of public affairs for the
hospital. “Our College of Medicine is the largest in
the state. It's the seventh largest of 116 medical schools
in the country. And that’s only one of four colleges and
the State University Hospital here.”

RNs Laurie Chapa, left,
and Lorraine Choty-
niecki.

+. + @ heart probe in
the cardiac-catheriza-
tion lab

—

The entire institution, one of four such units in the
State University system, employs 3,500 staff members,
mostly rep: nted by the Civil Service Employees Asso-
ciation Downstate Local 646. There are also some 1,500
voluntary faculty members.

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, VIRUSES

Alfred Stracher, chairman of the Department of
Biochemistry, heads a team of three researchers who
are secking a way to’ stop the degeneration of dystrophic
muscle cells, Dr. Stracher’s team was the first to show
that the progressive degeneration of muscle that is
characteristic of the group diseases called muscular
dystrophy, can be slowed by the use of an outside agent.

‘The team grew the cells of the embryos of dystro-
phic chickens in cultures to test three of these slowing
agents. (The agents were obtained from Japanese
researchers who were using them to combat ulcers!)

Questions still face the Stracher team. How long
will the inhibitors keep tissue cultures normal before
degeneration sets in? Can the inhibitors reverse the
degeneration? (This is an important question because
the muscular dystrophies are generally not discovered
until degeneration begins.)

If the inhibitors lead to effective treatment in hu-
mans, they would play a role similar to that of insulin
in the treatment of diabetes, The cure for these tragic
diseases is not yet in sight,

“If you don’t measure up
competitively at the annual
meetings that assess your
work, then you feel inner

despair.”

re
jonny

Pamela Craig photo

cribani, a junior scientist and treas-
urer of CSEA’s Downstate Local, is working on a virus
project under Rostom Bablanian. He said, “We're
analyzing proteins that are made in cells to see what
effect different compounds have on the cell itself. We
Want to find out why cells react with viruses the way
Why some cells get sick and die and others
This is a never-ending project because it’s very
Very hard,” he emphasized,
ARTIFICIAL HEART

Philip N, Sawyer, professor of surgery at Down-
tate Medical Center, has worked on creating an arti-
heart. The process he used began by obtaining
rom people who had died of causes unrelated

disease, A rubber-like casting material was
interior of the hearts to produce
lds which were then used to make electroplated metal
lastic replicas were made from these castings.

Artificial muscles, to keep the heart pumping, were
made out of an unusual alloy called nitinol, which
contains nickel and tanium and has a property which
can absorb a lot of stress.

rhe nitinol caused clotting, however, and so was
coated with polymer. Contraction of the nitinol strips
was produced by an electric current. :

Th addition to the major problem with the model,
which is blood clotting, the nitinol strips were only
able to contract 15 or 20 times a minute, where normal
heart muscles contract an average of 70 times a minute.

Dr. Sawyer has also developed a new process for
modifying calf tissues for use in human patients. The
calf tissues have, in fact, been grafted into patients
whose own veins had closed up endangering the survival
of a limb or a vital organ. In the 16-month period fol-
lowing the first grafts, 70 percent were successful.

they do.

hard,

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jected into the

CANCER DETECTION

Raymond Damadian, associate professor in the
College of Medicine, has been working since 1971 on
a cancer detector. His project, nuclear magnetic
resonance, works by sending radio signals into the
atoms of tissues, both normal and cancerous. The signal
deflects differently from the cancerous tissue.

The radio signals are hooked up to a television

“screen in such a way that a picture of the cancerous
tumor can be projected from the signal deflection.

So far, cancerous tumors have only been studied
with this method in test tubes, A picture of normal
tissue in humans has been recorded, and “very soon,”
Dr. Damadian said, “we'll have a picture of cancerous
tissues in humans.

“T’ve had monstrous difficulties," Dr. Damadian added,
“They're too painful to recall." The high point of his
career, he said, was getting that first picture of a
cancerous tumor.

Dr. Stanley Goldstein, associate professor in pedia-
trics, has written grant proposals to study arterial
sclerotic heart disease using Dr. Damadian's nuclear
magnetic resonance technique.

KIDNEY DISEASE

“My principal responsibility,” said Eli Friedman,
head of the renal (kidney) program at Downstate and
one of the top 20 renal specialists in the world, “is to
see that patient care in kidney disease and that training
of medical students and research fellows in kidney
disease goes on at an acceptable level. In addition, I
am involved in personal research in two lines.

“The first is concerned with developing a compact
portable artificial kidney which patients can take with
them and use in hotel rooms, on ships, and in air-
Planes so that they are not dependent on institutions.”

In fact, Dr. Friedman has designed such a device
which, he said, “works and is now in use all over the
world. It's a Halburton attache case.

“The standard kidney machine can be conceptually
visualized easily,” he noted. “If you had a Nathan's
hot dog casing, and that was the first material used,
and if you put blood in the casing, and then you put
the blood in the casing in a beaker of salt water, the
high waste level concentration in the blood, like urea
which contains nitrogen, would come out through mi-
croscopic holes in the membrane into the salt solution
and they would be diolized out.

“The wastes would get out but bacteria wouldn't get
in the blood because the holes are too small, and red
blood cells and important protein molecules wouldn't
get out of the blood for the same reason.

“The second is to try to find a simplified remedy
for one of the complications of kidney failure which
is high blood fats. As a consequence of the high blood
fats" (which the doctor noted was not necessarily
found in fat people), “patients die of heart attacks,
coronary artery disease, and strokes,”

Stressing that he was oversimplifying the problem,
Dr. Friedman said that high blood fats were the re-
sult of an enzyme deficiency in the patient. Enzymes
take the fat out of the blood.

“We found, as an oddball observation, that if you

eat charcoal in very small amounts, the fats fall.
“(Eating charcoal) is super-successful in rats, it's
highly successful in experimental patients and we're
working with a large food processor to make the char-
1 palatable and we're making ‘charcoalate’ chip cook-
and we're making ‘blackies’ instead of brownies.”
Downstate was the first chronic artificial kidney
center in the northeastern United States,” Dr. Fried-
man said. “It has one of the most innovative programs
in kidney disease. We do 110 transplants a year.
“If you talk of our transplant success rate in terms
of two years after the operation, if the kidney comes

Sonny Seribani .. .
Pamela Craig photo

never-ending project

from a perfectly matched brother or sister, 96 percent
of the kidneys are functioning, 100 percent of the
patients are alive.

“If you're talking about a medium match, then 78
percent of the kidneys are functioning and about 90
percent of the patients are alive. If you go to a
cadaveric grant—from a dead person—then 44 percent
of the kidneys are functioning and only 65 percent
of the patients are alive,

“The life of the researcher is great,” Dr. Friedman
said. “It's one of the very few places I know where
you get paid to do what you like to do. I can make
my own hours, (I probably work much harder and
longer than other people, but I have to.)

~—<esat____

Jim Parisi

++. good maintenance
keeps things cool

‘Pamela Craig photo

“The bad points are the constant race to produce.
If you don’t measure up competitively at the annual
meetings that assess your work, then you feel inner
despair that you haven't done what you're supposed to
do. It’s one of the few professions that I know of, like
being a pilot, where you constantly have to measure up.

“I don't know if there's any single biggest despair.
It comes up repeatedly when the brilliant ideas I get
in the morning shaving fail three months later in the
laboratory.

“My greatest success was participating in the Harvard
team that did the first kidney transplant between other
than identical twins and watching the patient through
hours of high fever, through the multiple infections,
through the time when we didn’t know whether the
kidney would work, Being in that team was exhilarating
and still stays with me when things are going bad.”

Registered Nurses Laurie Chapa and Lorraine Choty-
niecki work in the pediatric cardiac-catherization lab.

“It's one of the few places
| know where you get paid
to do what you like to do.”

“We get babies who are in 4 critical status when they
come down ‘here,” said Ms. Chapa. “It's pretty much
touch and go sometimes, The doctor may tap a catheter
into the heart and from the catheter we can inject
dye and take »lood samples."

“We also measure the different pressures in the dif-
ferent chambers of the heart,” added Ms. Chotynieck!,
“Cardiac arrests down here are very, very common.”

Diversity and yet interdependence among all the
parts and people in this institution mark its greatness.

The 230,530 volume library is the seventh largest med-
ical library in the country. Kenneth E. Moody, director
of libraries, said, “We are not part of patient care,
that's the hospital, but we are very much part of, in
fact, the heart and the center of medical education.”

The maintenance facilities at the center, among the
most complex in the state, also play a vital role, “One
of the main problems,” said Robert Renck, assistant
vice-president for Facilities and Planning, “is that we're
on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. ,

“During the electrical outage in July of 1977, we lost
a great deal of valuable research efforts that had taken
place over the past twenty-some-odd years in the Basic
Sciences Building's continuing research programs.”

“I work for five doctors,” said Linda Barra, member
of the Downstate Local’s executive committee and senior
stenographer at the institution, “I perform adminis-
trative duties. I type pediatric cardiac-catherization re-
ports, schedule appointments. I supervise technicians.
I schedule catherizations.

“The problem with doctors is they all think they're
the most impertant. Each one is an individual but they
don’t realize they only have one secretary.

“The-secretary is the backbone of the boss and when
they start to realize they have to depend on you, your
life gets a little easier.”

Said Dr. Goldstein, who is one of Ms. Barra’s bosses,
“She's terrific, She keeps the whole place running.

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