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Vol. XXXVI, No. 41

Friday, January 14, 1977

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trouble In Ulster

— See Page 8

TV Station Honors Two
Oswego County Deputies
Who Risked Their Lives

ited with saving the life of

were met at the door by a man
(Continued on Page 3)

CSEA Plans Probe
Of Merit System

ALBANY—The Civil Service Employees Assn. plans to hire a consultant to conduct
a probe into the state’s civil service Merit System. This action is intended to counteract
possible changes recommended by a state team hired by New York with federal funds.

“On the surface, the hiring of a team of outside consultants by the state, to study

the civil service Merit System
and come up with recommenda-
tions for changes in that system,
is not much different from
earlier efforts by the state to
weaken the all-important merit
und fitness system and return to
some form of spoils system
whereby politicians control huge
blocks of appointments,” said
CSEA’s executive director Joseph
D. Lochner.

“CSEA's top-level staff mem-
bers have reviewed the possible
implications of such a study, and
have determined that a highly
knowledgeable, highly qualified
outside consultant of our own
choosing would, in all probability,
provide CSEA with the type of
data und information necessary
to react successfully to state ef-
forts to implement harmful
changes their team of consul-
tants might recommend,” Mr.
Lochner said.

CSEA will select its consultant
from a group of “several emin-
ently qualified former high-level
management people who worked
their way to the top through the
merit and fitness system and
know its value to the employee,
and who know the civil service
system inside-out,” he continued.

Langer Hails The Proposed
Public Employee Legislation

(Special to The Leader)

ALBANY—The 1977 meeting of the State Legislature, which began Jan. 5, will be
one of the most important sessions ever, not only for the 230,000 members of the Civil
Service Employees Assn., but also for all Public employees throughout the state, according
to Marty Langer, chairman of CSEA’s statewide legislative and political action committee.

“In the past few years, public
employees have been both the

Governor's Message
Steals Page From
Republican Book

OVERNOR Carey's State

of the State Message
sounded the death knell of
New Deal liberalism, which

(Continued on, Page 6)

vietims and the scapegoats,” Mr.
Langer said. “It’s time to turn
this trend around.”

CSEA, New York State's larg-
est public employee union, hopes
to start getting public employees
on the right track with a series
of proposed legislative amend-
ments and bills developed by Mr.
Langer's committee, input from
CSEA's regional political action
committees und the expertise of
the union's lobbyists in Albany.
The committee will meet Jan.
M4 at 5 p.m. at the Quality Inn,
Albany, to review the proposed
legislation.

Some of the highest-priority
proposals follow

* An amendment is being of-
fered to the Last-Offer-Binding-
Arbitration ("LOBA") bill, to al-
low an arbitrator three choices,

and only three, in cases where
the state—or @ county or other
municipality—reach deadlock in
negotiations. The three choices
would be: the union's last offer;

(Continued on Page 9)

‘The New York State Civil Ger-
vice Commission recently an-
nounced the hiring of five con-
sultants for what the state
termed an in-depth study of the
state's civil service Merit System.

Vietor S. Bahou, president of
the State Civil Service Commis-
sion, said, “we are confident
that their findings and recom-

mendations will be of great value
in our continuing efforts to mod-
ernize und improve the civil ser-
vice system in New York State."

Mr. Lochner warns that the
state has been thinking seriously
of trying to resurrect a man-
agement career service concept
that, if allowed to become re-

(Continued on Page 14)

‘Can't Keep Me Down,’
Says CSEA Secretary

ONEONTA—Irene Carr, statewide secretary of the Civil
Service Employees Assn., is now on the mend at home.

She returned to her home at 92 Center St. here following
hospitalization in Binghamton for a broken hip.

Ms. Carr says she still can’t bear much weight on the
broken side, but anticipates an early return to her duties,
noting that: “Can’t keep me down.”

CSEA Surveys
Plaza Stores

ALBANY — Ten thousand
questionnaires concerning
the type of retail outlets
which could be opened on
the Concourse level of the Em-
pire State Plaza have been dis-
tributed to state employees at
the Mall by the Capital Region
of the Civil Service Employees
Assn.

Regional] president Joseph Mc-
Dermott commented on the sur-
vey: “When the Office of Gen-
eral Service approached CSEA
with questions on what type of
retail outlets should be sought
for the Concourse level of the
Plaza, I suggested that a direct
membership survey be done. OGS
agreed to the concept and Mi-
ehae) Croll, the regiona] re-
search analyst, quickly developed
a small but effective question-
naire that will provide the ans-

JOSEPH McDERMOTT

Seeks Opi

ions

wers to all the questions OGS
and the commercial business
concerns may develop,”

CSEA Nominating Committee
Named Statewide By Regions

ALBANY—Members of the statewide nominating committee of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn., who will select the candidates seeking election to statewide CSEA posts,
have been announced by CSEA executive director Joseph D. Lochner. The election will be

held in early summer.

As mandated in the union's
constitution, the committee is
made up of three members from
each of CSBA's six regions, Of
the three selected two must be

from the State Division, and one
from the County Division, Be-
cause there are no County Divi-
sion chapters in Metropolitan
Region HU, all three committee

members are from the State Di-
vision.
Two candidates for the offices
of president, executive vice-pres-
(Continued on Page 8)
RVICE LEADER, Friday, January 14, 197

SIVIL SE

Yonkers School Guards

Win One Court Decision

YONKERS—Yonkers school crossing guards represented by the Civil Service Em-
Ployees Assn., threatened with layoffs due to the precarious financial plight of the West-
chester County city, won a court victory recently in their nine-month fight to stay on

the job.

Supreme Court Justice Harold
L. Wood has ruled that the union
has the right to take the matter
of the proposed layoffs to arbit-
ration,

However, another motion, in-
stituted by Westchester County
CSEA local president Raymond
Cassidy, to bar all layoffs of the
guards while the matter is being
heard by the arbitrator, was de-
nied by the Westchester County
Supreme Court justice.

The Yonkers Fiscal Control
Board directed the discharge of
the 112 school crossing guards as
one means to get the city back
on firm fiscal grounds. The order
was to have taken effect Dec.
31, 1975, eight months short of
the termination date of the CSEA
unit's contract.

Earlier, Mr. Cassidy and unit
president Dolores Nyahay ap-
pealed to the Appellate Division
in an attempt to uphold the job
security clause in the guards’
contract. This states, in part.

present members may be
removed for cause but will not
be removed as @ result of post
elimination,” That court ruled
that job security clauses are in-
valid and that there is nothing
contained in the collective bar-
gaining agreement barring dis-
missal of any employee as the
result of economic necessity.

Attorneys in this latest action
were CSEA Southern Region II
lawyers Arthur Grae and James

Rose. The decision, reversing the
Appellate Court ruling, held that
in fact job security contract
clauses are indeed legally en-
forceable. However, the Supreme
Court could not determine {f the
crossing guard clause was, in
fact, meant to be a job security
clause, and therefore did not
issue the injunctive relief sought
by Mr. Cassidy and Ms. Nyahay
to prevent layoffs while the issue
wus in arbitration.

“The union will stand firm on
the fact that the clause offered
by the City of Yonkers is a job
security clause and was accepted
@s such in good faith by the
school crossing guards when they
signed the contract,” Mr. Cassidy
declared. “The problem we face
today is that the court consid-

were not challenged. He also ac-
knowledged that a grievance
does, in fact, exist, due to the
dispute arising out of interpreta-
tion and application of the terms
of the contract.

He concluded that it should be
left to the arbitrator, whether or
not the questioned clause is a
Job security clause

Commenting on the lengthy
court fight, Ms. Nyahay said:
“No one could have received bet-
ter support than we did, and on
behalf of all of us I want to
express the deepest gratitude and
appreciation.”

Accountants.

MH Aides,

Nurses Sought By State °

ALBANY—The state Civil Service Commission is con-
tinuously recruiting college graduates with at least 24 ac-
counting credits for assistant state accounts auditor and
examiner of municipal affairs positions.

Perience in some of these posi-
tions is sufficient to qualify for
certified public accountant exam.

Por accountant jobs, candi-
dates must have a bachelor’s
degree with at least undergrad-
uate or graduate accounting
credits, College seniors may ap-
ply nine months prior to grad-

Call Mental Patient Plan
Blueprint For Disaster

NEW YORK—Betty Duffy, president of the Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center local of

the
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payers.”
the Long Island Weekly Section.

According to Ms. Duffy, “the
plan has the potential for un-
necessary human suffering be-
cause it amounts to little more
than dumping large numbers of

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patients from psychiatric facil-
ities into society without regard
for their welfare after release.”

Ms. Duffy argues that pres-
ently planned deinstitutionaliza-
tion will create an “enormous
pork barrel for local politicians”
who will have carte blanche to
fill jobs in community centers
and half-way houses with “the
party faithful.” Moreover, Ms.
Duffy claims, the conditions that
permitted the nursing-home
scandal will flourish.

“For the taxpayer the burden
will eventually surpass welfare.
‘The community mental-health
program is a Trojan horse for
county taxpayers,” Ms. Duffy
said.

Welfare rolls will swell because
present plans call for dismissing
mental health employees who
have put years on the job, to
make way for the local political
backs as a sweetener for local
politicians, Ms, Duffy claimed.

Citing the disastrous experi-
ence with the deinstitutionaliza-

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, labeled the New York State deinstitutionalization plan
‘a blueprint for disaster for patients, employees, communities and tax-
Her comments appeared in the New York Times, Jan. 2, on the Opinion Page of

tion program in California, Ms.
Dufty argues that only the com-
munities without the political
clout will receive mental pa-
tients; the very communities, she
says, that are least equipped to
provide care for the mentally iil.

“Por years, the Civil Service
Employees Assn. has been call-
ing for reforming conditions in
our psychiatric centers. We have
been ignored along with the pa-
tients. It is not the doctor or
psychiatrist, but the $7,000-a-
year employee who lives with
and cares for the patients,” Ms.
Duffy said

“While we support the overall
goals and aspirations of the
Concerned Parents and other pa-
tlent-advocacy groups, we do not
support the whole-sale dumping
of large amounts of patients into
communities without proper con-
trols for follow-up care and
where they will be helpless prey
of the business sharpies that
created the nursing-home scan-
dal,” she said.

“If New York State can de-
velop a community Mental Hy-
giene program that really works,
we will support it. Until then we
will remain opposed to any pub-
licity-slick but practically un-
workable program that will re-
sult in the loss of very real hu-
man lives,” she concluded.

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didate's qualifications. New York
City area appointees in the tong
third of their college graduating
class or who have master’s de-
grees will be paid $12,264.

For further information con-
tact the commission at County
Office Building, Wampsville,
N.Y. 13168.

Other New York City area
appointees will earn $11,364. Up-
state appointees with the special
academic status get $11,164. Oth-
er upstate appointees get $10,714. @
In Monroe County, $200 addi-
tional is paid.

Mental hygiene therapy aide
trainees (Exam 20-394) start at
$7,204 and $8,051 after the one-
year training period. There are
jobs in many hospitals, schools
and other institutions of the
Mental Hygiene Department
throughout the state.

Applications for the trainee po-
sitions should be submitted to @
the individual facilities. List of
facilities are available from the
State Civil Service Department

Nurse I candidate needs a
New York State nursing license
for the $10,118 a-year-job. Sal-
aries vary throughout the state.
It is $11,324 in New York City.

Nurse I requirements are a
registered nurse license and one
year's experience. Nurse II psy-
chiatric or rehabilitation candi- @
dates need specialized experience.

Nurse IT receive $11,337 a year
in most locations but receive
$12,456 in New York City. There
are also higher salaries for work-
ing certain hours and in certain
specialities.

Filing Opens
On Trade Jobs «

MANHATTAN—The New York
City Area Office of the US.
Civil Service Commission has
opened filing until further no-
tice for several trade jobs under
the General Notice NY-6-06-A.

Applications are being accept-
ed for chief engineer (ferry)
boat), at $8.86 per hour, elec-

erator at GS-4,
mechanic at WG-10, laundry and
dry cleaning equipment mechan-
ic at WG-10, sewing machine
repairer at WG-9 and food ser-
vice foreman at WS-8.

Applications are no longer be-
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(Editor's Note: Jack Galla-
wher, treasurer of the Civil
Service Employees Assn., this
week begins a series of articles
touching on financial mat-
ters and aspects of the union's
model local constitution.)

I receive many questions
from members concering fi-
nancial matters as they per-
tain to local chapters. In re-
sponse, I will be writing a
weekly series on the CSEA's
model chapter constitution,
featuring those sections of the
model constitution that gov-
ern how financial matters are
to be managed by elected
chapter officials. Any member
with information concerning
the operation of a chapter that
is not following the constitu-
tional format is urged to con-
tact me

ARTICLE V

DUTIES OF OFFICERS

Section 4, The treasurer
shall be the custodian of all
funds of the chapter. He shall
keep @ true and accurate re-
cord of all receipts and dis-
bursements and shall file an
itemized report annually with
the Chapter as prescribed in
the By-Laws, His accounts
shall be open at all times to
the inspection of the Presi-
dent and the Chapter Execu-

Fiscal Affairs

JACK GALLAGHER

Treasurer Explains

tive Committee. Pursuant to
the request of the Chapter Ex-
ecutive Committee, he shall
inform the membership as to
how the chapter's funds are
invested, used or encumbered.
The treasurer shall file with
the CSEA Treasurer before
January 1 of each year, an
annual report for the preced-
ing fiscal year, which shall
state income, expenditures,
investments and funds avail-
able to the chapter.

Honor Two Oswego Deputies

(Continued from Page 1)
bearing a shotgun.

Deputy Warchol managed to
wrestle the shotgun from the
man’s grasp, but in the struggle,
which carried the two men off
the porch of the house and into
@ rock garden, the man dislodged
and grasped the officers’ service
revolver and pointed it at the
deputy's head with a threat to
shoot.

Acting quickly, with disregard
for his own safety, Deputy Wise
grabbed the revolver in such a
way as to prevent its cylinder

from turning and was able to
take the gun away from the
man.

Following a special commen-
dation meeting in his office,
Sheriff Chesbro commented:
“The Oswego Sheriff's Depart-
ment {is extremely proud of De-
puties Warchol and Wise.

“Their quick action and bravy-
ery is not only a credit to the
department, but to all law en-
forcement officers who are con-
fronted with dangerous emerg-
encies in the course of datly
duties.”

Information for the Calendar may be submitted directly
to THE LEADER, It should include the date, time, place,
address and city for the function. The address is: Civil
Service Leader, 11 Warren St., New York, N. ¥. 10007.

Attn.: CSEA Calendar,

JANUARY

13—Westchester shop stewards seminar, final session: 7:30 p.m
basement conference room, 85 Court St.. White Plains.

14—Brooklyn Developmental Center local 447 disco party and Fash
ion show: 9 p.m.-3 a.m., St. Laurence Parish Hall, Flatlands
and Van Sicklen Avenues, Brooklyn

17—Albany Region iV meeting: 5:30 p.m., Mario's Restaurant, Troy

18—New York Metropolitan Retirees chapter 910; | p.m, Two
World Trade Center, room 5890, New York City

19—Orange County al 836 general membership meeting: 7:30
p.m., Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, Route 211, Middletown.

19—Nassau County local 830 board of directors meeting: 5:30
p.m., Salisbury Club, Eisenhower Park East Meadow.

19—Buffalo local dinner meeting: 5:30 p.m., Statler Hilton Hotel,

Buffalo.

20—New York City chapter executive board meeting: 5:15 p.m.

Francois Restaurant, 110 John

20—New York District Off
mett; 12:30 p.m

St., Manhattan

testimonial luncheon for Samuel Em.
Feathers Restaurant, 24 Fifth Ave., Manhattan,

24—Binghamton Area Retirees chapter 902 meeting: 2 p.m., Garden

Village West, 50 Front St

Binghamton.
27—Long Island Region | executive council meeting

7:30 p.m

Region headquasters, 740 Broadway, Amityville,
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Defeat Republican Legislators,
Monroe Chapter Head Urges

(From Leader Correspondent)

ROCHESTER—Members of the Monroe County chapter of the Civil Service Employees
Assn. were urged by the chapter president to campaign against Republican county legisla-

tors in the 1977 election.

“They voted against you,” Martin R. Koenig told about 1,000 chapter members at

a meeting Dec, 28 in Monroe
Community Hospital.

“But we've got 4.200 members
and that’s a lot of voting power,”
he said. “Use it.”

The chapter is protesting pay
cuts, job eliminations and other
measures voted by the legisia-
ture’s Republican majority when
it approved the 1977 county
budget in a marathon session the
night of Dee. 7-8.

By a party-line vote, with 15
Republicans approving and 14
Democrats disapproving, the leg-
islature chopped $37 million from
County Manager Lucien Morin's
proposed $339 million budget for
1977. The action cut the pay of
county employees receiving $12,-
000 or more a year by 10 percent
and the pay of other workers
by 5 percent. It also wiped out
365 fulltime county jobs and
merit increases for 1977

The Monroe County chapter
filed a lawsuit against the legis-
ature and Morin on Dee. 29,
charging that the pay cuts and
freeze on merit raises are illegal.

The suit, filed in State Su-
preme Court here, charges that
the legislature interfered illegal-
ly in negotiations between the
county administration and the
local CSEA chapter.

“The legislature passed resolu-
tions on issues that belong on
the negotiating table, Mr. Koenig
said, “We cannot continue to
negotiate in good faith when we
don't know whom we are nego-
Hating with, the administration
or the legislature."

The chapter's contract with
the county expired at midnight
Dec. 31, On Dec. 22 the chapter
declared an impasse in the ne-
gotiations, blaming it on inter-
ference by the legislature,

Mr. Koenig said he told chap-
ter members at the hospital
meeting that if the county re-
moves any worker benefits after
the contract expires the chapter
would take “immediate legal ac-
tion to fight such removal." He
said the CSEA would fight a
proposed county withdrawal from
the Social Security system.

He urged members to lobby
for reform of the state's Taylor
Law, which forbids strikes by
public employees. Interference by
the County Legislature in the
bargaining process and the im-
passe in the CSEA negotiations
demonstrate the “ridiculousness”
of the Taylor Law, he said.

If Public Relations Board me-
diators and fact-finders cannot
break the impasse, Mr. Koenig
said, the county legislature will
impose a contract on the county
workers.

That is the same body that
took wway pay increases, incre-
ments and jobs, and whose inter-
ference caused the impasse in
the first place,” he said.

According to Mr, Koenig, the
chapter is asking for a 7 per-
cent pay increase in addition to
&@ general $800 raise for employees
in the new contract, Also sought
is an additional two paid holi-
days each year, the right to ac-
cumulate 60 days of vacation
inatead of the 30 allowed under
the present contract and expand-

crease in mileage expenses, from
15 cents to 19 cents a mile.
The county has proposed a
wage freeze on all employees,
and wants to keep paid holidays,
vacations and mileage the same
as in the present contract. Koe-
nig said the county has also
proposed that employees pay for
any increase in medical insur-®
ance costs, while keeping the
insurance benefits the same. At
present the county pays all but
$25 per year of employees Blue
Cross and Blue Shield premiums.
A “management rights" clause
has also been requested by the
county. It would increase county

power over the hiring, firing
and working hours of employees,
Mr. Koenig said, The chapter
has opposed the clause.

‘The chapter seeks a 35-hour
week for all employees in the
proposed three-year contract.
About 70 percent of the county
workers have a 35-hour work
week now, but the rest work 40
hours.

The chapter also opposes pro-~
posed changes in the procedure
for holiday pay, requiring em-
ployees to work both the day
before and the day after a holi-
day before they could claim any
pay for the holiday.

Koenig Angry: Rejects
Disciplinary Charges

ROCHESTER—The president of one of the largest chap-
ters of the Civil Service Employees Assn. in upstate New
York says he’s being brought up on disciplinary charges be-
cause the Monroe County administration “doesn’t like my

success as a union president.”

Bernard Winterman, county
labor relations manager, confirm-
ed Dec, 30 that Martin B. Koenig,
president of the 4,200-member
chapter, is being charged with
failing to show up on his county
job for the past two years.

Mr. Koenig, a senior probation
officer who earns $17,342 a year,
said the county “tried this once
before” and failed to make the
charge stick.

“I save the county countless
numbers of dollars by being avail-
able to meet with Winterman
over personnel problems,” he sald.

MARTIN KOENIG
Defends Union Time

A Tri-County
Retiree Meet

MIDDLETOWN—The Orange,
Ulster and Sullivan Counties Re-
tiree chapter, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn,, will hold a meet-
ing Wednesday, Jan. 12, accord-
ing to chapter president John
Van Duzer,

Mr. Van Duser said the meet-
ing will be held in Room 210,
Kiner Building, Middletown Psy-
chiatric Center, Middletown, and
urged retirees and prospective
retirees from the tri-county area
to attend.

“It more than pays my salary
back. The job warrants as much
release time as necessary to rep-
resent the workers adequately.”

Mr. Winterman said a hearing
for Mr, Koenig will be held early
in the new year. The county is
not asking for any particular
discipline from the hearing of-
ficer, he said. The officer, who'll
be selected by Mr. Koenig's de-
partment head, will make that
decision. The department head
then can either accept, reject or
modify the decision, Mr. Winter-
man said.

“This illustrates how ridiculous
the Taylor Law. is,” Mr, Koenig
said. “The department head ts
the very person who brought
the charges against me, but he's
allowed to pick the hearing of-
ficer. How objective will the
hearing officer's decision be?”

Mr. Koenig said the hearing
officer should be appointed by an
independent mediation associa-
tion. "He should be someone with
nothing in the game to win or
lose,” he said.

‘The chapter president said he'll
be represented by an attorney
at the hearing and will attempt
to show that the differences are
over the interpretation of con-
tract language

“I'l probably lose the first
stage (the hearing) but I'll win
in court,” he said

Mr, Winterman confirmed the
charges a day after Mr, Koenig
said the chapter filed suit in
State Supreme Court here charg-
ing the county legislature with
interfering illegally in negotia-
tions between the county admin-
istration and the chapter.

Tn its 1977 budget, the legis-
Jature cut by 10 percent the pay
of county workers receiving
$12,000 or more a year and by
5 percent the pay of other work~
ers. It also wiped out 365 full-
me county jobs and merit in-
creases for 1917

‘The chapter's contract with the
county expired at midnight Dee.
31; on Dec. 22, the chapter de-
clared an impasse in the me-
wotlations,

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, January 14, 1977

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What's Your Opinion

QUESTION
Your job in the Navy Resale Systems office in Brooklyn was recently
saved when the Department of Defense approved the Navy's request
not to relocate to Great Lakes, Ill. What was your reaction to the pos
sible move?

THE PLACE

Navy Resale Office, Brooklyn
OPINIONS

Blenaor Guerrieri, general clerk: “I was very dis-

appointed, For the last 9%
years I have worked here. I en-
Joy my job and I find my work
interesting. My life is In Brook-
lyn and I could not have re-
located to Great Lakes. I felt
the move was unfair, because
Erooklyn needs industry so de-
sperately. I did participate in
writing letters to our congress-
men and our spirits were lifted
when they replied acknowledg-

ing that they were fighting with us, If the decision
were to relocate, I would have been forced to

find another job.”

Gilbert Miller, procurement specialist: “My initial

to relocate.”

reaction was to find out what
justification was used in order
to move this facility there, con-
sidering the economic strife this
section of the country is going
through, mostly when we're
trying to keep business here.
I participated in the employee
action committee to fight the
move, while proving that stay-
ing would be of the best inter-
est to the government, the

community and the agency. Over nine months,

we provided information to congressional repre-
sentatives supporting our action. We are deeply

Claire Messing, ladies sportswear buyer

gratified that we are staying.”

“It's dif-
ficult for me to imagine that
we would actually move since
the center of the fashion indus-
try is in New York. It would
also have been a difficult de-
cision to leave, yet it would
have been impossible for me
to have moved with the office,’
because of my personal life. I
live out on the Island and I
enjoy living near the city. I
would probably have had to

Agnes Lacava, buyer

look for employment with s commercial opera-

tion or a department store.”

Brooklyn.”

Gary Cumbrbateh, merchandising clerk: “I would

have been out of a job because
it would have been financially
impossible for me to move to
Great Lakes. A lot of people
in managerial positions would
have more of an advantage
than those in clerical posi-
tions. Living in that area of
the country is more expensive
than living here. I would also
be forced to purchase a car.
I don’t take the subway sys-

tem for granted anymore. It would not have
been worth the investment, on my present salary,

hate to begin all over again at $125 a week.”

“I was quite disappointed
when I contemplated relocat-
ing. C'm a Brooklynite; I have
a family and grandchildren
here in Brooklyn. I'm very
happy with my job and it would
be quite difficult for me to
relocate. My husband would
have to consider relocating and
that would be less than desir-
able for us. I did consider the
thought, but it was depressing.
I can't tell you how happy I

was to hear that we were not going to leave

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |

Check Cashing ‘No’

Editor, The Leader:

In response to the article,
“State Court Says ‘No’ in Cheek
Cashing Case," in the Dee. 24
issue, I wholeheartedly disagree
with the judge's decision, All em-
ployees, whether they are civil
service workers or not, should be
able to have their payroll checks
cashed at any branch of the
commercial bank whose name
appears on the check, and not be
given any hassle about it.

Why should an employee walk
into a branch of a particular
bank, present his/her check and
proper identification to a teller,
only to be asked, “Do you have
an account here?” There's got
to be a change—and fast!

(Mrs.) Veronica BR, Madere
New York City

Dismay Reading
Editor, The Leader:

Section 7.19 of the Mental
Hygiene Law imposes very seri-
ous obligations and responsibil-

ities on me, as a member of the
Board of Visitors at Pilgrim Psy-
chiatric Center. I must inspect
the facility without prior notice,

the patient's rights by the State,
was based on over two years
of walking the wards, seeing con-
ditions and patients, talking to

peanegnngat
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bees teels

fully, safely and humanely ad-
ministered with full respect for
their dignity and personal in-
tegrity.

I believe the State for many

Other facilities in failing to pro-
vide proper career ladders and
promotion opportunities; failing
to provide decent salaries; failing
to provide decent living and
working conditions, and the list
uves on and on,

RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS

Your Social Security check
should be about 5 percent more

sumer price index. The increase
is based on the consumer price
index for the first quarter of
1977, the same index which is
used to compute increases for
retired civil service employees and
military personnel.

New legislation provides that

changes in the CPI for the pre-

first increase, March 1, 1977, will

formation can be garnered. It also
raises the question “Why do you
want to move, and what kind
of home is most suitable?”

see

Pederal employees will receive

Although set back by the loss
of the one percent kicker and
the elimination of the $5,200
exclusion for most disability,
legislative representatives are
pushing for increases in the gov-
ernment’s contribution towards
health benefit premiums and a
$5,000 tax ememption on pen-

sions in the next Congress. There
ts also pressure to eliminate the
age factor as a criterion for re-
tiring.
see

Pressure to make pension plan
documents understandable to the
ordinary worker is being push-
ed by a new pension rights cen-
ter in Washington. Part of
funding comes from Ralph Nad-
er, the consumer advocate.

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As @ public service, The Leader
continues to publish the names
of individuals who are benefici-
aries of unclaimed checks from
the New York State Employees’
Retirement System and the State
Policemen's and Piremen’s Pund.
The Leader or the New York
State Employees’ Retirement Sys-
tem in Albany may be contacted
for information as to how to
obtain the funds.

Following is # listing of those individ.

oals whose Mp terminated pur.
suant to the ‘of section 40,
paragraph 1 of the Retirement and So-
cial Security Law on of before August
31, 1974,
Joho J Sweeney J Masic
Edward J Tatro. ven tOF
Howard M Rochemer
Jack W ‘New York
Richard P Tiexzi “New York
Michael Ulin
Henry J Veix New Paltx
Lee B Venable Freeport
Louis B Verhayden No. Merrick
Mary A Walters eg
jovemary M Wanosky jew
Lorraine Washington Uniondale
Harold R Waterman Kingsow
William H Wass Bethpage
Louis A Welch New York
Dolores H_ Wex North Babyloa
Edgar N_ Wheeler Bayshore
Pauline G Wheeler Rochester
Hazel Williams Sacco Island
Ruby Williams Brooklyn
Levittown
New York
Buffalo
Mary J Weight Port Washington
Frederick H Wyker Liverpool
John W Young Se. Albans
Joneph A Zaso Jr Rochester

The World Trade Center's out-
door observation platform in
New York City is the highest in
the world.

withheld upon request.

, 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.
Extensive letters that cannot be edited to a reasonable
length are not used unless 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 number, Names will be

comply with all legal standards;
that they establish a planning
committee, Including Civil Ser-
vice representatives to plan for
the future of Pilgrim.

I believe that the CSEA should
be insisting on playing an im~-
portant role at the state and

organizing existing and future
staff members in the community
agencies and facilities that have
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, January 14, 1977

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1977

Fight For Rights

UNION, as any other vital organization, needs a constant

infusion of new blood in order to keep it strong in its
always on-going battle with management.

In the American system of free enterprise, it is only
proper that both the employees and the management take
the strongest possible stands in their fights to protect and
to preserve what they believe to be necessary for the health
of their common source of livelihood—whether it be a com-
pany in the private sector or a government of which both
the employees and the management personne! are alike
public servants.

The Civil Service Employees Assn., largest public em-
ployee union in New York State and third largest indepen-
dent union in the nation, is currently involved in a toe-to-
toe battle with the state administration on a salary re-opener
for the 140,000 state employees that it represents.

This is a matter of prime concern to the state employees,
obviously, since they have been without an effective wage
increase for nearly three years. Needless to say, considering
the upward ascent of the cost of living, a wage increase
is overdue.

The CSEA members accepted their current contract with
the definite understanding that the State would show some
willingness on its part to redress the wrongs suffered by its
employees during these admittedly difficult fiscal times.
For all the employees’ good faith, the state has responded
with an early balk in what are now stalemated negotiations.

To add insult to injury, the state offers, so far, have
ranged widely in the amounts being offered to employees
in each of the four CSEA-represented bargaining , units.
While there is an inequality in the four offers, let it be
here said that all four offers are sadly deficient as an honest
effort to meet the needs of the employees.

We can understand the state's eagerness to protect the
taxpayers’ money, but whoever decreed that the civil ser-

vants had to be kept at wages below that of other taxpaying
citizens?

8 we said in the first paragraph, a union needs to main-

tain its strength in order to lead the good fight for its
members.

In order to maintain its strength, badly sapped by attri-
tion and elimination of job titles as state services have been
eut back, the Civil Service Employees Assn. has been con-
ducting an ongoing membership drive to bolster its ranks.

At a recent workshop of the union’s Capital Region Iv,
delegates participated in various seminar programs, one of
which dealt with ways of encouraging non-members to take
@ more active part in the fight for their own benefits.

At the workshop, Donald Meyerson, of the Cornell School
of Industrial and Labor Relations, told the delegates that
some people resist union membership because they believe
they are above it all,

Mr. Meyerson continued with what we think is an ex-
cellent statement to rebut that kind of thinking: He said:

“Unless you set your own hours, set your own wage
rates, decide who your clients are and make at least $100,000
@ year, then you are not a professional,"

In the current battle with the state, CSEA needs all
the strength it can muster, and now would be a good time
for the onlookers to join with their fellow workers in the
union movement,

Don’t Repeat This!

(Continued from Page 1)
had been the dominant charact-
eristic of state government since
the administration of President
Roosevelt in the Thirties.

This was the prevailing ap-
proach of the state even during
the years that Thomas E. Dewey
and Nelson A. Rockefeller served
as the state's chief executives.
Tt was this approach to govern-
ment that led conservative Re-
publicans to tag both Dewey and
Rockefeller as leaders of the
Eastern Republican Eestablish-
ment

Redirecting Priorities

The basic philosophy pro-
nounced by Governor Carey calls
for reductions in taxes, retrench-
ment in the quantity and qual-
ity of public services, and incen-
tives to industry and business to
locate here. As both Senate Ma-
jority Leader Warren M. Ander-
son and Assembly Minority Lead~
er Perry B. Duryea, Jr., either of
whom may well be the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor in
1978, pointed out, the Governor
has stolen some of the most sig-
nificant parts of programs called
for over the years by the Re-
publican legislative leadership.

Underscoring the position tak~
en by Anderson and Duryea is
the comment of Senate Minor-
ity Leader Manfred Ohrenstein,
who warned against the rejec-
tion of “vital social programs”
in the Governor's program to
pare down the scope of the state's
governmental operations.

The Governor's program will
impale many legislators on the
horns of a dilemma. Obviously,
legislators are prepared to vote
with enthusiasm for any pro-
posal to relieve the taxpayer of
the high burden of state taxation.
On the other hand, they find it
distasteful to support programs
that involve cutbacks in the level
of public services, with their ac-
companying disastrous impact
upon the security and tenure of
elvil service employees

Details To Come

Moreover, State of the State
Messages are typically vague and
full of generalizations. The pre-
cise details of the Governor's
program will not be spelled out
until he submits his budget to
the Legislature. It is only then
that legislators, the public and
lobbyists will get a full picture
of what the Governor has in
mind. The reaction then among
the legislators is likely to be
explosive.

Thus, legislators from urban
ghetto and poverty areas, who
constitute a significant bloc of
votes among the Democrats, are
Ukely to react sharply to sub-
stantial cuts in welfare and
Medicaid services, even though
they concede that the adminis-
tration of those programs leaves
much to be desired.

Legislators from all areas will
no doubt react sharply to any
proposals to make sharp cuts in
the level of state aid to local
governments, Any such program
will expose the legislators to the
combined lobbying powers of lo-
eal school boards, the Organiza-
tion of Towns, the State Con-
ference of Village Mayors, as
well as civil service employee
crganizations

During the past two years,
Governor Carey leaned heavily on
the statesmanship of Senator
Anderson to round up Repub-
lican support in the Senate for
many of the drastic programs
that had to be approved by the

(Continued on Page 7)

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LEGISLATURE

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

Union’s Internal Business

An employee of the Suffolk County Department of Social
Services filed charges of improper practices against the Civil
Service Employees Assn., alleging that the CSEA had denied
the employee membership in the CSEA in violation of Sec-
tion 209-a.2(a) because he had engaged in activities that
are protected by the Taylor Law, The charging party had
invited an employee_organization that was in competition
with the CSEA to address a meeting of the Social Services
unit of the Suffolk County chapter of the CSEA and to solicit
support for a challenge to the CSEA’s representative status.
At the time he issued the invitation to the competing labor
organization, the charging party was president of the Social
Services unit of Suffolk chapter and a member of the Board
of Directors of the statewide CSEA. He issued the invitation
to the rival union after a vote taken at a meeting of the
Social Services unit.

A HEARING was held by the director of Public Employ-
ment practices. He determined that the charging party was
still a CSEA member, although his positions of president
and Board member were stripped from him. The director
further found that this was an internal matter of the
CSEA and could not be litigated before State PERB so long
as the union’s actions did not have an effect on the charging
party's terms and conditions of employment.

The charging party filed exceptions as to the facts and
the law. He argued that the director erred in finding the
charging party was still a member of CSEA. This particular
exception, says the Public Employment Relations Board, is
supported by the evidence. There was no question that the
charging party's membership in CSEA was suspended. Dur-
ing that period of time, the charging party was denied all
the privileges and benefits of CSEA membership. He also
argued that penalizing him for inviting a competing labor
organization to address a CSEA meeting interfered with,
restrained and coerced him in the exercise of his protected
right to “form, join and participate in, or to refrain from
forming, joining or participating in any employee organi-
zation of his own choosing.” This, he claimed, violated
fection 209-a.2(a).

. . .

As to this latter claim, PERB disagreed. The Board
agreed with the director in holding that the action taken
by the CSEA related to its internal affairs, and “that this
Board is not the forum to regulate the internal affairs of
an employee organization.” The Board pointed out in its
decision that the director recognized the difference between
actions taken by an employee organization to discipline
@ member and action taken against that member as an em-
ployee which would have an adverse effect upon the terms
and conditions of his employment or upon the nature of the
representation accorded him by CSEA as a member of the
negotiating unit.

(Continued on Page 7)
Filing For Rockland Decide Unemployment Issue
* Titles Closes Jan. 12

NEW CITY—The Rockland
County Personnel Office has
opened filing until Jan. 12
for four open-competititve
titles and four promotion titles.

‘The open-competitive jobs are
principal clerk-stenographer (ex-
am 65-356), which has a Feb.
5 test and three levels of child
psychologist (exams 65-175, 6
and 7), which are based on an
evaluation of training and ex-
perience.

‘The promotional titles are
medical secretarial assistant (73-
762), secretarial assistant II (73-
763), principal clerk-typist for
Pearl River Public Schools (73-
772, and principal clerk-stenog-

rapher of the county health de-
partment (73-771). They have
Feb. 5 tests.

For further information con-
tact the Personnel Office at
County Office Building, New City,
New York 10956.

Rensselaer Filing

TROY—The Rensselaer Coun-
ty Civil Service Commission has
opened filing until Jan. 12 for a
Feb. 5 promotional examination
(no, 73-781) for principal sten-
ographer.

The salary varies from $7,405
to $11,895, depending upon jur-
isdiction.

MANHATTAN — Should a
person who has been dis-
qualified from collecting un-
employment insurance be-
cause he provoked his dismis-
sal still have to continue to re-
Port to his local unemployment
office while appealing his firing?

A state appeals court recently
said yes, rejecting the man's
claim that weekly visits to the
unemployment office were “an
exercise in futility.”

The man wanted unemploy-
ment pay for a five-month peri-
od in 1974. He was disqualified
by @ local New York City office
from collecting benefits as of
September 1973, the date of his
firing, because by provoking his
dismissal, he was considered to

have quit his job.

He appealed his job loss to the
New York Ctiy Commission on
Human Rights, which ruled he
was entitled to backpay and re-
instatement to his old job be-
cause of a City Human Rights
‘Law violation. Through an “over-
sight" however, he was not
granted full back pay. He at-

Hold Seminar

WHITE PLAINS—The final
shop steward seminar of the
Westchester County unit was
scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 13,
‘at 7:30 p.m. in the basement con-
ference room at 85 Court St.
here. Topic for the meeting is
“The CSEA Pield Representa-
tive.”

@rocanmnaen oF antmns, sme

Atter bringing you a perfectly practical car, it
should come as no surprise that we now bring
you a car that's practically perfect.

The Volkswagen Rabbit.

in February of 1976, Car and Driver said of our

car,

What we have now is a faster Rabbit thot

has benefited from step-by-step, under-the-skin

Practically perfect.

Beetle last almost four decades. Using that sys-
tem, the Rabbit may be the world's first perfect
car in just o few short years: Last year alone, we
made 17 major changes and improvements
toward making our '77 Rabbit even more perfect.

Since it was already big on room ond perform

ance, we added fuel-injection to

velp give it

tempted to make up the differ-
ence through unemployment
benefits for that five-month
period.

The Appellate Division in Al-

sions of its own constitution and
by-laws und violated his constl-
tutional rights. Here again, the
Board said the charging party
could test these contentions in a
plenary court action if he so de-
sired. The private sector has
recognized the right of a union
to penalize a member who sup-
ports a rival labor union. Such
decision, however, would not
support any action which would
adversely affect the right of fair
representation. The charging
party argued that he was in
fact denied certain dental bene-
fits and grievance procedures
because of his suspension from
CSEA. The Board, however,
found that this was not the case.
Accordingly, the Board dismissed
the charge in its entirety. CSEA
Inc., Respondent, and John Bo-
gack, Charging Party, Case No.
U-1615, 9 PERB 3109.

Gaba Relocates

MINEOLA — Richard Gaba,
Leader columnist and attorney
for Long Island Region I, Civil
Service Employees Assn., has re-
located his offices.

Mr. Gaba's new address is 170
Old Country Road, Mineola. His
telephone number remains the
same. It is (516) 742-0242.

Don’t Repeat This!

(Continued from Page 6)

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easier starts, yet allow it to use the most economi

attention to detail—which is damn encouraging
cal grade of gas
In a world that's far from

because it shows that VW is e
The Rabbit. perfect, isn't itnice tofindsome-

sending the already-excellent
ment path that made the One of the new generation Volkswagens. thing that's practically there.

Legislature to insure the fiscal
Stability of the state, the City
of New York, Yonkers, and other
local governments that were in
& deep financial bind.

As the issues shape up at this
early stage of the legislative ses-
sion, it is not unlikely that the
Governor will face more difficul-
ties from Democratic legislators
(than from the Republicans.

guy
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Visit your loca! authorized Volkswegen dealer and find out why
there are over 4% million Volkswagens on the American road today.

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RVICE LEADER, Friday, J

CIVIL SE

| Band Together In Ulster To Protect Employees’ Rights |,

SWEET Cres
FORSALE

Thomas Phillips, president of the Civil Service Employees Assn.'s
Ulster County chapter 856, joins other interested citizens of Ulster
County during the open budget hearing last month. Ulster CSEA
members joined with the Ulster County Community College union
and with Ulster County Sheriffs Assn. to form the Coalition of Public
Employees in order to provide a united front in the face of threats
to cut back in contractual benefits. Among items that the County
are said to be trying to force on the employees is 300 additional hours’
work per year at no increase in salary and that employees should
pay for higher costs of current benefits. Negotiations are now in
impasse, with a second mediation session scheduled for this week.

Nominators Named

(Continued from Page 1)
ident, secretary and treasurer
will pe chosen.

According to CSEA’s constitu-
tion, the committee must file its

reports with the secretary and
the executive director of CSEA
no later than March 1. Each

candidate will be advised of his
or her nomination by certified
mail, return receipt requested.

Following are names of the
members of the CSEA statewide
nominating committee, arranged
by region

LONG ISLAND REGION I;
Not available at presstime.

ROPOLITAN REGION I;
Salvatore Butero (of Psychiatric
Institute), 97-99 42nd Ave., Cor-
ona 13368; Joseph R. D'Amore
(of South Beach Psychiatric
Center), 686 Penn Ave., Teaneck
07666; Ann Wadas (of Institute
for Basic Research), 455 Decatur
Ave., Staten Island 10314

SOUTHERN REGION IH; Eva
Katz (of Rockland Psychiatric
Center), 128 No. Main St., Pearl
River 10965; William George (of
State University College at New
Paltz), 16 Millbrook Rd., New
Paltz 12561; Patsy Masciolli (of
Westchester Co.), 61 Victoria La.,
Yonkers 10761

CAPITAL REGION [V: Alicia
Pisher (of Department of Cor-
rectional Services), 47 Provi-
dence 8t., Albany 12203; Jon Sch-
ermerhorn (of the Dept. of Ag-

riculture and Markets, State Of-
fice Building Campus, Washing-
ton Ave., Albany 12226; Samuel
P. Ciraulo (of the City of Troy),
2320 17th St., Troy 12180.

NTRAL REGION V: Robert

Vincent (of Upstate Medical
Center), 107 Abernathy St.
Liverpool 13088; Robert R.
Greene (of Utica Psychiatric
Center), Ilion Rd. RD 2, Ilion
13357; Angelo Vallone (of the

Town of Union), 627 Paden St.
Endicott 13760.

WESTERN REGION VI: Rose
Marie Saunders (of Erie County),
108 Cunara Rd, Buffalo 14216;
Geraldine Prieday (of SUNY at
Buffalo), 424 Esther St., No.
Tonawanda 14120; Willie White
‘of West Seneca Developmental

Center), 112 Longview Ave., Buf-
falo 14211
Nominations for the CSA's

state executive committer an
also handled by the State Diy!
ston members of the committee
who must choose at least two
candidates for each seat. Nomin-
ation is offered to all incumbents
who desire to run.

In announcing the names of
the nominating committee mem-
bers, Mr. Lochner also reminded
potential candidates of some
other regulations that are part
of CSEA's nomination and elec-
tion procedures

* Candidates may not run for
more than one statewide office.

Gary Decker, representing the Ulster CSEA chapter, explains public employees’ views on the proposed
changes in their contractual agreement with the County.

Members of the Ulster County Legislature face audience during open budget hearing.

Coalition of Public Employees leaders picketed outside legislative meeting to alert public to their cause.

From left are Ulster County Sheriffs Assn.’s Larry Sulanitri, Ulster County Community College’s Harry
Matzer and Ulster County CSEA's Thomas Phillips.

However, « seat on the State or
County Executive Committees ts
not considered a “statewide” of-
sflee

good standing since June 1, 1976,
are eligible for statewide or ex-
ecutive committee positions,

Name Rensselaer Fact-Finder

The CSEA, which represents
about 1,100 county employees,
declared & contract negotiations
impasse Noy, 3 after county ne-
gotiators offered no wage tn-
crease for 1977; the CSEA local
seeks an $800 across-the-board
increase plus fringes.

(Leader photos by Ted Kaplan)

tee may seek independent nom-
ination by petition, by obtaining

& prescribed form from any @
CSEA regional office or from
CSEA headquarters. To ensure
proper delivery and confidential-
ity, the form should be submit-
ted clearly addressed to the
chairman of the committee at
CSEA headquarters.

At Leader presstime, the com-
mittee had not yet scheduled its
first meeting, where the mem-
bers will select a chairman, Pur-
ther information on the CSEA
statewide election procedure will €
appear in future issues of the
Leader.
Belated Christmas Gifts:
Madison Man Wins Back
Job; Gets Retro $ Award

WAMPSVILLE—Christmas 1976 holds a special meaning
for Theodore Zaglaniczny, a member of Madison County
chapter of the Civil Service Employees Assn.

Through the efforts of the CSEA and Central Region V

attorney, Earl Boyle, the State
Supreme Court recently ruled
that Mr. Zaglanicany be rein-
stated to his position and title of
computer programmer with res-

OK Back Pay
At Creedmoor

QUEENS—The Creedmoor
chapter of the Civil Service
Employees Assn, won its con-
tract grievance requiring the
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
to pay overtime retroactive
to Dec. 19, 1975.

The following employees
are eligible for the overtime
pay:

1, Those who worked more
than 40 hours in a week,

2. Those who worked more
than 8 hours in a work
day and received compen-
satory time off; or had
their past days changed
within that work week.

All employees should subinit
their claims (T and A sheets)
retroactive to Dec. 19, 1975,
beginning the week of Jan.
17, to Howard Thaler in the
personnel office, building 70.

CSEA urges all employees
to submit their claims the
week of Jan. 17. No claims
will be accepted by the busi-
ness office after Feb. 11, 1977

toration of probationary status
and retroactive pay amounting
to approximately $4,000.

A spokesman for the region
said the CSEA began legal pro-
ceedings pursuant to Civil Prac-
tice Law Article 78 on the grounds
that Mr. Zaglaniczny was 1l-
legally removed from his posi-
tion in the Madison County data
processing department prior to
the expiration of his probation-
ary term and after receiving a
permanent appointment in the
competitive. class of the civil
service

‘The decision handed down by
Justice Howard A. Zeller ruled
that judgment be in favor of Mr.
Zaglaniceny and against the re-
spondents of Madison County. In
addition to ordering the rein-
statement of position, title, and
back pay from July 9, 1976, the
Court also ruled that Mr. Zag-
laniczny be given credit for
time already served in proba-
tionary status from July 16, 1975,
to July 9, 1976.

The Zaglanicany award was
the second Supreme Court deci-
sion favorable to members of the
Madison County chapter of the
CSEA in the past few months.
A prior decision ruled for the
county White Collar unit,

Madison County chapter prest-
dent Joseph Capparelli and field
representative Ted Modrzejewski
were instrumental in initiating
original grievance proceedings.

CSEA Legislative Goals

(Continued from Page 1)
the state or municipality's last
offer, or the recommendation of
the fact-finder. The committee
believes that this would meet
many of the objections to last
year's LOBA bill, because the op-
tion of choosing the fact-finder's
recommendation was not includ-
ed in the earlier version, “Nego-
“ations would proceed through
the fact-finding stage, and if the
fact - finders recommendations
were rejected by either side, the
case would automatically go to
the arbitrator for his choice of
one of these three options,” Mr.
Langer explained, “This would
allow, we feel, for settlements
that would be the most reason-
able for both sides and at the
same time tend to eliminate the
probability of strikes.”

® Another high-priority legis-
lative proposal, which has great
support from CSEA members
throughout the state, is a bill
that would allow public-em-
ployee unions to have an “agency
shop.” This would mean, Mr.
Langer said, that no longer
would there be “free-loaders” at
every state institution and pub-
le-employee work location who
benefit from the vacations,
raises, personal and sick days
and all the other improvements
won by their union, but who re-
fuse to pull their share of the
load by paying dues to that
union. An “agency shop” would
assure that every employee rep-
resented by a union would have
to pay dues, or the equivalent of
dues, to the union that repre-

sents him.

® CSEA Is also sponsoring var-
fous amendments to the Taylor
Law, such as: doing away with
strike penalties, and giving pub-
le employees the right to strike:
giving the state Public Employ-
ment Relations Board the power
to enforce contracts; and pre-
ting the employer from tak-
ing away benefits while negotia-
tions were continuing after the
expiration of a contract.

© CSEA will also attempt, on
the advice of its statewide re-
tirees committee, to make im-
provements in the supplemental
retirement allowance and in sur-
vivor's benefits. The union will
also try to correct some of the
flaws in the three-tiered retire-
ment system that now exists.

* CSEA will also offer amend-
ments relating to layoffs and

preferred” lists.

* An important legislative
goal of the union this year is to
equalize the rights und benefits
of veterans, regardless of the
years or wars in which they
served,

® CSEA will also try to amend
Section 75 of the Civil Service
Law, regarding disciplinary pro-
ceedings against public employ-
ces.

Mr, Langer, in conjunction
with CSEA state programs ad-
ministrator Bernard Ryan and
lobbyist James Featherston-
haugh, will issue # weekly report
to all CSEA chapter presidents
on the major statewide legisla-
Uon being enacted affecting pub-
Uc employees.

ve:

[Metropolitan Region Il Executives Meet |

SEA vice-president Solomon Bendet, right, greets two members of Metropolitan Region II executive
committee as they arrive for December meeting. As with CSEA's other five regions, the Regiorf II ex-
ceutive committee, comprised of chapter presidents, meets at regular intervals to transact business that
comes up between larger regional delegate meetings. Shown with Mr. Bendet are Division of Housing and
Community Renewal chapter 258 president Thomas DiNatale and Willowbrook Developmental Center
chapter 429 president and Mental Hygiene representative Ronnie Smith. Mr. Bendet heads the five-
county region that was formerly known as the New York City Region I.

Officers of Metropolitan Re-
sion II take time out for
quick exchange of opinions
on matters concerning mem-
bers in their region. Second
vice-president William De-
Martino, left, joins with
third vice-president William
Cunningham, center, and
first vice-president Vincent
Rubano, All three are also
chapter presidents: Mr. De-
Martine for Metropolitan
Division of Employment Lo-
cal 350; Mr. Cunningham fer
Kingsboro Psychiatrie Cen-
ter chapter 402, and Mr. Ru-
bano for State Insurance
Fund chapter 351.

Three chapter presidents join
with regional supervisor for
moment of discumion prior
to business session of Metro-
politan Region I executive
committee. From left are
Downstate Medical Center
chapter 646 president Robert
Keeler, Region II supervisor
George Bispham, New York
State Puychiatric Institute
chapter 419 president Salva-
tore Butero and New York
Parole District chapter 259
president Jack Weisz, Mr.
Butero and Mr. Weisz are
also members of CSEA Board
of Directors.

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L6L “FT Savnue,
10

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, January 14, 1977

Nassau Filing Closes

Jan. 21 For

MINEOLA — The Nassau
County Civil Service Com-
mission has opened filing
until Jan. 21 for six open
competitive examinations to be
held Feb. 5.

Fire alarm dispatcher (exam
no. 65-442) pays $7,500 in Levit-
town fire district and requires

Strike Time

ALBANY—New Year State,
for the third consecutive year,
fell below the national average
for time lost because of strikes.

“Tt is clear that peaceful col-

Six Exams

one year’s experience operating
a telephone switchboard or
radiotelephone. The salary varies
according to jurisdiction.

Secretary to drug abuse coor-
dinator (65-447) pays $8,694 in
Oyster Bay and requires three
years’ secretarial experience and
high schoo) diploma.

Low In N.Y.

lective bargaining is the dom-
inant process in New York State
and prolonged strikes are the

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American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Em-
ployees, AFL-CIO, in violation of
the no-strike provision of the
Taylor Law.

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Bank Examiner
Jan. 24 Closing

ALBANY—The State Civil
Service Department has opened
Promotional filing until Jan. 24
for supervising bonk examiner
and supervising overseas branch
bank examiner (both exam 39-
17) and until Jan. 31 for as-
sociate in educational integration
(exam 39-178).

Both ora] exams will be held
in February. Applicants for the
bank jobs need one year’s ex-
perience at the principal level.
‘The education job requires one
year’s experience on the aasist-
ant level.

For further information con-
tact your agency personnel office.

Eligibles

Notice to all interested parties
and supported by proof of good
faith compliance with Section
210.1 of the Taylor Law. It
should also be accompanied by
an affirmation that the local no
longer asserts the right to strike
against any government as re-
quired by the provisions of Sec-
tion 210.3(g) of the Taylor Law.

The union may apply to the

PERB after the expiration of
nine months from the com-
mencement of the forfeiture for
conditional: saspension of the
forfeiture. Application is to be
made in the same manner as for
full restoration.

A suspension of the forfeiture,
if granted, shall be subject to
revocation in the event of a
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Jimmy Carter May Have A Job Just For You

(Continued from Lan Week)

By HARRY BERKOWITZ

Jimmy Carter may still have
openings ‘among 5,000 non-civil
servite federal jobs, just right
for you

The lst of jobs, which has
become a best-seller, is known
popularly as the “Plum Book.”
The Leader, herewith, continues
its presentation of some of the
ripest plums.
Job requests should be sent to
P.O, Box 2600, Washington, D.C
20013.

3 Program Analysts, GS-15.
Planning and Program Staff
Acting Director, GS-18
3 Planning Officers, GS-14-15
Intelligence Coordination Staff
Director, GS-18
2 Intelligence Officers, GS-15-16.
Scientific Affairs
Technical Adviser, GS-17.
Military Technology Specialist,
GS8s17
Operations
Affairs
Senior Staff Member, GS-18.
Operations Staff—East Asian Af-
fairs.

Staff—Africa UN

Senior Staff Member, GS-16.

3 Staff Members, GS-14-16.
Operations Staff—Europe
Sentor Staff Member, GS-17
Staff Member, GS-15.

Latin American Affairs

Senior Staff Member, GS-18.
Middle East /South Asia Affairs
Senior Staff Member, GS-18.
Staff Member, GS-15.
International Economic Affairs
Senior Staff Member, GS-17.
2 Staff Members, GS-14-15.
Office of Security

Staff Member, GS-15.

Office of the Special
Representative for Trade
Negotiations
Special Representative for Trade

Negotiations, Level I.
Deputy Special Representative for
Trade Negotiations, Level III.
Special Assistant to the Special
Representative, GS-18.
Confidential Assistant, GS-13.
General Counsel, GS-18.
2 Assistant General Counsels,
GS-15.
Office of Telecommunications
Policy
Director, Level II.
Deputy Director, Level IV.

Executive Director, Right of Pri-
vacy Support Group, GS-18.
Science Advisor, GS-18.
Assistant Director International
Communications, GS-17.
Senior Economist, GS-15.
Policy Development Officer, GS-
15.
Program /Policy Manager, GS-15.
Policy Development Officer, GS-
15.

Special Assistant to the Director,
GS-15.

Senior Economist, GS-15.

Deputy Executive Director Right
of Privacy Support Group, GS-
15.

Systems Analyst, GB-15.

Operations Research Analyst, GS-
15.

Senior Systems Analyst, GS-15.

Systems Analyst, GS-14.

Engineer /Policy Analyst, GS-14.

Confidential Secretary, GS-11

Department of State
Deputy Secretary of State, $39,-
900-$44,600.
4 Ambassadors at Large, $44,600.
3 Under Secretaries, $39,900.
12 Assistant Secretaries, Level IV.
Counselor of the Department,
Level Iv.

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Legal Adviser, Level IV.

Administrator, Bureau of Secur-
ity and Consular Affairs, Level
Iv.

Inspector General, Foreign As-
sistance, Level IV.

Deputy Inspector General, For-
eign Assistance, Level IV.

2 Assistant Inspectors General,
Foreign Assistance, Level IV.

Foreign Services Institute

3 Training Officers,GG-15.

4 Scientific Linguists, GG-14.

Office of the Secretary

Executive Officer.

Bureau of Oceans and Interna-
tional Environmental and Sci-
entific Affairs.

5 Science Officers, GS-15.

Office of Foreign Buildings

Deputy Assistant Secretary, $37,-

800.

4 Special Assistants, $18,612-
$37,800.

2 Private Secretaries, GS-13.

2 Special Assistants, $18,612-$28,-
582.

Personal Assistant, GS-11.

Special Assistant, $37,800

Office of the Secretary

3 Deputy Executive Secretaries,
$36,092.

Executive Director, $36,092.

Deputy Assistant Secretary, $37,-
800.

Office Director, $36,092.

Senior Adviser, $37,800.

Coordinator, Humanitarian Af-
fairs, $37,800.

3 Deputy Coordinators, $37,800.

Chief of Protocol, Level IV.

Deputy Chief of Protocol, $37,800,

4 Assistant Chiefs of Protocol,
$28,582.

Private Secretary, GS-10.

Protocol Officer, GS-12.

Office of the Deputy Secretary

Private Secretary, GS-12.

Executive Assistant, $36,092.

2 Special Assistants, $22,906-$37,-
800.

Staff Assistant

Under Secretary for Political Af-
fairs

4 Special Assistants, $36,092-$28,-
58.2

Private Secretary, $18,612

Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs

2 Special Assistants, NE, $37,800.

Confidential Assistant, GS-12.

Executive Assistant, $37,800.

3 Special Assistants, $36,092.

Staff Assistant, $18,612.

Office of the Deputy Under Sec-
retary for Management

Executive Assistant, $37,800.

2 Deputy Directors, $37,800.

17 Members, GS-16, $36,092-
$18,612.

Office of the Legal Adviser

2 Deputy Legal Advisers, $37,800.

Private Secretary, $13,770.

Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Congressional Relations

3 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,

Legislative Management Officer,
$28,582.

Bureau of Politico Military Af-
fairs

Director, $37,800.

2 Deputy Directors, $37,800.

Private Secretary, GS-10.

Under Secretary for Security As-
alstance

Deputy Coordinator, $37,800.

2 Special Assistants, $28,582.

Secretary, GS-12.

Office of the Counselor

3 Special Assistants, $22,906

Staff Assistant, GS-11.

Inspector General of Foreign As-
Alstance

2 Private Secretaries, GS-10.

Bureau of Security and Consular
Affairs

2 Deputy Administrators, $37,800,

Bureau of African Affairs

2 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
$37,800,

Bureau of Kast Asian and Pactfic
Affairs

2 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,

$37,800.

Secretary, GS-10.

Bureau of International Organi-
zational Affairs

3 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
$37,800.

Executive Secretary, GS-15.

2 Secretaries, GS-10.

Bureau of Intelligence and Re-
search

Director, Level Iv.

3 Deputy Directors, $37,800 to
GS-16.

Private Secretary, GS-10.

Bureau of Oceans and Interna-
tional Environmental and Sci-
entific Affairs

4 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
$37,800. 4

Special Assistant, $28,582.

Coordinator, $37,800,

Secretary, GS-9.

Bureau of Economic and Business
Affairs

5 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
$37,800.

Special Assistant, GS-16.

Secretary, GS-10.

Bureau of European Affairs

4 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
$37,800.

Private Secretary, $13,770.

Bureau of Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs

3 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
$37,800.

Secretary, GS-10.

Bureau of Inter-America Affairs

4 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
$37,800, 2

Bureau of Educational and
tural Affairs

3 Deputy Assistarit’ Secretaries,
$37,80.0

Private Secretary, GS-10.

Bureau of Public Affairs

3 Deputy Assistant Secretaries,
$37,800.

Private Secretary, GS-10.

F Service
136 Ambassadors, $37,800-$44,600.
(To Be Continued)

Cul-
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FEDERAL
SALARY SCHEDULES 1976
‘The information in the body of
this repor{ reflects grades or
salaries as of September 3, 1976.

@ salary range,
trance salary a8 of @eptespber 3
is shown. In some cases, these
entrance salaries may have been
increased subsequent to Septem-
ber 3, as there was @ general
increase in the salaries of most
Federal white-collar employees
effective on the first day of the
first pay period beginning on or
after October 1, 1976, This ap-
pendix shows the salaries that
are in effect for the different
grades of the several pay sys-
tems after that pay increase,
under Executive Order 11941,
October 1, 1976.
Executive Schedule

The Executive Schedule con-

sists of five levels, with the fol-

lowing rates:

Level 1 $66,000
Level 46,800
Level OT 44,000
Level IV 41,800
Levie V 39,600

However, under Public Law 94-
440, the Legislative Branch Ap-
propriation Act, 1977, funds are
not available to pay the rates
shown above to most positions at
Executive Schedule levels. In-
stead, most positions at Execu-
tive Schedule levels are still paid
only at the rates that were in
effect on September 30, 1976, as

follows:

Level I $63,000
Level 44,600
Level TT 42,000
Level IV 39,900
Level V 37,800

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YONKERS CROSSING GUARDS’ RIGHTS AFFIRMED

Viewing the copy of a recent Westchester County Supreme Court decision giving school croming guards
im the City of Yonkers the right to arbitrate with the city are, from left, Civil Service Employees Assn.
Southern Region II attorneys Arthur Grae and James M. Rose, crossing guards unit president
Delores Nyahay, and Westchester County CSEA local president Raymond Cassidy.

Feds Open A Variety Of Posts

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The
US. Civil Service Commis-
sion has opened filing until
further notice for several
Positions on its general notice
listing.

Piscal and accounting support,
shorthand reporter, reporting
stenographer, sales store checker
and structural firefighter are
included. Textile conservator is
also under the mid-level an-
nouncement.

Fiscal and accounting support
positions, which currently have
vacancies in Orange and Rock-
land Counties, require one year's
general clerical experience and
one year’s specialized experience
at the GS-4 level, which pays
$8,316. An extra year's special-
fed experience is required for
GS-5, which pays $9,303.

The specialized experience re-
quired depends on the particular
area desired. The areas are gen-
eral accounting and administra-

tion, benefit—payment roll, ac-
counts maintenance, cash pro-
cessing, voucher examining and
payroll. Education can be sub-
stituted for experience.

Shorthand reporter requires
one year’s experience for GS-7,
which pays $11,523, and three
years’ for GS-9, which pays $14,-
097.

Reporting stenographer, which
pays $9,303 at GS-5, has no
training or experience require-
ments.

Teacher Careers

Columbia University Teachers
College is offering a free con-
ference for laid-off New York
area teachers on recertification
and other career alternatives.

The conference will be held
Jan. 17 at Horace Mann School
Auditorium, Broadway and 120th
Street from 3 to 6 pm. Call
Pat Bonney (678-3352) for fur-
ther information.

Sales store checker requires six
months’ general experience or a
high school diploma for G6-2,
which pays $6572, and one
year's experience that includes
a half year’s sales store checker
experience for GS-3, which pays
$7,408.

Strectural firefighter requires
one year's general experience and
one year's firefighting experience
for GS-4, which pays $8,316,
and an extra year's specialized
experience for GS-5, which pays
$9,303. A high school diploma
can be substituted for one year's
general experience and an ap-
propriate associate degree is fully
qualifying for GS-4

Sheetmetal mechanic is open
in Orange and Rockland Coun-
es. Beat operater is open in
Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
High voltage electrician has been
closed,

Por further information con-
tact a Federal Job Information
Center.

Group Insurance Head
Retires: CSEA Job Opens

CSEA is looking for an individual to replace Patrick
DeMurio, who retired from CSEA after over 37 years of out~
standing service, to administer the group insurance pro-
grams available to members employed by the State of New

York and participating political
subdivisions. The successful ap-
plicant must be able to deal
with carriers on contract com-
pliiance, claims, rates and under-
writing. in addition to communi-
cating with policyholders on
technical matters.

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Long Islanders Celebrate Holidays

Each of the Civil Service Employees Assn.’s six regions has certain traditions that are special for thi
For Long Island Region I, the annual holiday get-toxether is one of those customs, and attracts hun-
dreds of members to share in seasonal camaraderie, Regional president Irving Flaumenbaum, seated left,
shares a pleasant moment here with other Long Island officers: fourth vice-president Ruth Braverman,
seated center, and secretary Dorothy Goetz; standing, from left, third vice-president Robert Conlon,
first vice-president Ralph Natale and second vice-president Nicholas Abbatiello,

Capital District
Fete A Success

ALBANY—More than 120
members of the Capital District
Retirees chapter, Civil Service
Employees Assn., and their guests
attended the recent annual
Christmas party hosted by the
chapter.

Guests included CSEA presi-
dent Theodore C. Wenzl and
CSEA retiree affairs coordinator
‘Thomas Gilmartin, chapter vice-
president Elizabeth Steenburgh
said,

Social chairman Delores Fus-
sell arranged the party; reser-
vations were handled by Irma
Wilkie.

Three Steuben Policemen

Are Ordered

Reinstated

ALBANY — The State Public Employment Relations
Board has ordered the Village of Wayland, Steuben County,
to reinstate three police officers whose positions were abol-

ished by the village.

The board elso ordered that
the village compensate the three
officers for wages and benefits
lost as a result of this action,
plus interest at the rate of 3
percent minus any wages actu-
ally earned by each from the
time of his termination until his
reinstatement.

The PERB upheld the deter-
mination of its hearing officer,
Kenneth Toomey, who found
that the village abolished the
Positions of its three patrolmen
in order to avoid having to nego-
tlate with the recently formed
Wayland Police Benevolent Assn

The board further ordered the
village to desist from engaging
“in similar coercive and discrim-
inatory acts” toward the three
police officers because of their
exercise of rights protected by
the Taylor Law.

‘The village was also ordered
to post notices setting forth the
reinstatement and the desisting

‘ ce, Although Long Island Region I has the largest number of members, they are concentrated in relatively
Greece Unit Gift ‘ew tarce chapters. Thus, it is reasonably possible to picture most chapter presidents or their represen-

Helps Children

ROCHESTER—The 80 mem-
bers of suburban Greece's unit
of the Civil Service Employees

chapter 618, and Gregory Szurnicki, Kings Park

chapter 870; Peter Higgerson, Long Island Park chapter 10:

tatives in a single photo. Seated, from left, are Daniel Donohue, Central Islip Psychiatric Center chap-
ter 404; Phyllis Terzella, Transportation District 10 chapter 508; Dorothy Rabin, SUC at Old Westbury
yehiatric Center chapter 411. Standing, from left,
are Donald Brown, Long Island Armory Employees chapter 253; Walter Weeks, Suffolk Educational
irving Flaumenbaum, Nassau chapter 8:

Albert Vi . SU t ¥ if . .
‘Assn. helped make Christmas and rt Varacchi, SUNY at Stony Brook Local 614; James Corbin, Suffolk chapter 852, and Joseph Noya,

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center chapter 418.
the New Year brighter for resi- "¥#rim Payehiatrle Center chap

dents at nearby St. Joseph's Villa.
The CSEA members raised $372

in the raffie of a CB radio and
donated all of it to the villa, a
home for emotionally disturbed
adolescents

Douglas Lynch, unit president,
said the money will go into a
children's fund and a building
fund for a physical, academic
and vocational education facility.

BuY
BONDS!

Legal Note

Under the photo of the Civil
Service Employees Assn. legal
committee, pictured in the Jan
7, 1977, issue of The Leader, com-
mitteeman Sid Grossman was in-
correctly identified as a member
of New York City chapter 010.
Mr. Grossman is with Suffolk
chapter 852. Missing from the
photo is vice-chairman Ethel
Ross, who is from chapter 010.

Among those whom regional president Irving Flaumenbaum, left,
greeted at their tables during the festivities were Lois and John
Aleiaio, Jr. Mr, Aleisio is with the Town of Hempstead Sanitation

Department.

(Leader photos by Sulo Aalto)

from discriminatory action at lo~
cations ordinarily used for writ-
ten communications to employ-
ees in the police department.

Merit System

(Continued from Page 1)
ality, would restrict rank-and-
file employees from Qualifying
for, management-level. , promo-
tloris by merit and fitness, and
open up management level Jobs
to political appointments without
any consideration to merit, fit-
ness or qualification.”

In planning to hire its own
consultant, CSEA “has taken the
firm position of committing it-
self to defending the’ basic ¢on-
cepts of the competitive merit
system and resisting in the
strongest possible ways any ef-
fort by the state to return to 4
spoils or political appointment
system, even in a limited way,”
Mr. Lochner continued.

He noted that CSEA ts gravely
concerned on behalf of public
employees but “also concerned
for the public in general. If the
Merit System is weakened or
eliminated, public citizens who
might otherwise be qualified to
enter public service could easily
be denied that opportunity if
they did not know well some
county political chairman or
other political hack who would
control a spoils system. And if
people were to be hired without
qualifications, then the level of
service would drop and the pub-
le would not be getting the most
from their tax dollars.”

Binghamton Retirees

BINGHAMTON — The Bing-
hamton Area Retiree chapter
902, Civil Service Employees
Assn., will hold a meeting Mon-
day afternoon, Jan. 24.

Binghamton Mayor Alfred J
Libous will be featured speaker
at the meeting to begin at 2 p.m.
at Garden Village West.

35-Hour Workweek
For Willowbrook 36

ALBANY—Thirty-six doctors and dentists at the Wil-
lowbrook Developmental Center have been restored to their
original 35-hour workweek, thanks to an agreement reached
last week between the State and the Civil Service Employees

Assn.

On April 20, 1976, the institu-
tion's management issued &
memo, without consulting the
union, ordering the doctors and
dentists to begin working a 40-
hour week. The employees im-
mediately filed a contract griev-

WHERE TO APPLY
FOR PUBLIC JOBS

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

‘Those requesting applications
by mail must include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope, to be
received by the Department at
least five days before the dead-
line. Announcements are avail-
able only during the filing period

By subway, applicants can
each the filing office via the
(IND (Chambers St,); BMT (City
fall); Lexington IRT (Brooklyn

3ridge). For information on
itles, call 566-8700.
Several City agencies do thew

own recruiting and hiring. They
include: Board of Education
(teachers only), 65 Court St.
Brooklyn 11201, phone: 5¥6-
3060

‘The Board of Higher Educa-
tion advises teaching staff ap-
plicants to contact the individ:
ual schools; non-faculty jobs are
{illed through the Personnel De-
partment directly.

STATE — Regional offices of

the State Department of Civil
Service are located at the World
Trade Center, Tower 2 55th
floor, New York 10048 (phone
488-4248: 10 a.m.-3pin.); State

Building Campus, Albany 12239;
Suite 750, 1 W. Genesee St.,
Buffalo 14202: 9 a.m.-4 p.m, ‘Ap-
plicants may obtain announce-
ments by writing (the Albany of-
fice qnly) or by applying in per-
son at any of the three.

Various State Employment
Service offices can provide ap-
plications in person, but not by
mail.

For positions with the Unified
Court System throughout New
York State, applicants should
contact the Staffing Services
Unit, Room 1209, Office of Court

Admin, 270 Broadway, N.Y.
phone 488-4141
FEDERAL — The US. Civil

Service Commission, New York
Region, runs a Job Information
Center at 26 Pedera! Plaza, New
York 10007. Its hours are 6:30
am. to 5 p.m. weekdays only.
Telephone 264-0422.

Federal entrants living upstate
(North of Dutchess County)
should contact the Syracuse Area
Office, 301 Erie Blvd. West,
Syracuse 13202, Toll-free calls
may be made to (800) 522-7407
Federal titles have no deadline
unless otherwise indicated.

ALBANY
BRANCH OFFICE

FOR INFORMATION regarding advertise
ment, please write of call:

JOSEPH 7. BELLEW
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ALBANY 6, M.Y, Phone IV 2-8474

ance, and an arbitration session
was scheduled for Dec. 29.
Shortly before the arbitration
was to begin, the state agreed to
restore the employees to their
original 35-hour workweek.

In addition, the state agreed
that doctors and dentists who
were working full-time at Wil-
lowbrook on May 13, 1976, and
who still work full-time, may use
a total of 2,700 hours of com-
pensatory time, to be distributed
equally among them.

“This agreement acknowl-
edges, in effect, that the state
oinnot unilaterally change the
terms and conditions of employ-

State Seeks

2 Engineers

ALBANY —The State De-
partment of Civil Service is
continuously recruiting state
workers for promotional
posts of assistant sanitary en-
gineer and senior sanitary en-
gineer in the Environmental
Conservation Department. To
qualify, candidates must take an
oral test, which is frequently
held in Albany.

Assistant sanitary engineer,
No, 30-282, is open to Environ-
mental Conservation Depart-
ment employees with @ year's ex-
perience as a junior engineer and
an intern engineer's certificate.
A year's engineering experience
in a grade 19 or higher position
ts good for senior sanitary en-
gineer, No. 30-281.

The oral exam for both posts
is designed to test the appli-
cant's ability to reason clearly.

ment for workers covered by a
CSEA contract,” said Stephen J.
Wiley, an attorney with the
CSEA law firm of Roemer,
Featherstonhaugh. “The state is

obligated to negotiate with the
union on any such changes that
it wants to effect

SHORT TAKES

WOMEN TROOPERS

In January 1974, the New York State Police graduated tts
class of troopers with women. Of the four women in thet
Regina M. Robbins, a Syracuse University graduate, received

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public interest group's Mark Dunlea, who was researching the fund.
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disclosure could interfere with the agency's decision-making pro-
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{EA memBeRsH”, ERS
HEAD HUNTER®

MoS. WS

Never in the history of our union has it been so
vital to stick together — grow together and share the
load to keep us strong. In these tough times, the

gaining table. The greater the percentage of state
employees belonging to CSEA, the greater the
strength of the state bargaining units.

Therefore, we are offering members in good stand-

ONE (Member) WILL GET
YOU FIVE ($5)

For each new member you sign up between now
and April 1, 1977, CSEA will award you $5.00. After
you have signed up the new member he must be on
the payroll for four bi-weekly pay periods or the
equivalent thereof.

CHAPTER OR UNIT PRESIDENT
HAS CONVENIENT SIGN-UP

CARDS

Ready to go? See your Chapter or Unit president
for special sign-up cards which have a place to re-

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EXTENDED TO APRIE 1. 1977

cord all the necessary information.Send your cards in
as soon as you sign up a new member — and we'll
credit your account with $5.00 for each member
signed up.

We'll keep your account up to date and will return

to you, in writing, a receipt for each new member
you've signed up. In approximately 8-12 weeks you
will receive your cash payoff.
New members must work in a unit of government
represented by CSEA. So we urge you CSEA mem-
bers — go to it — start signing up non-members for
cash in your pocket and security in your future.

NON-MEMBERS SHOULD
HELP SHARE THE LOAD

If you're a non-member, we ask you to think of
this: sharing the load in these tough times is im-
portant. Legally, we represent you — at the bargain-
ing table — and even in processing grievances. And
we need your support — morally and financially —to
fight the battles ahead. Our dues are most reason-
able for the services provided...services which
benefit you in many ways.

So help us share the load by signing up with us.

CSEA — the most powerful force in New York State
working for public employees.

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