President's
Budget crisis rooted in politics;
legislature must act responsibly
ALBANY — The State of New York is in the
middle of another crisis, but this time the cause
of the crisis isn’t economic, it’s political. In its
mad rush to get reelected in November, the New
York State Legislature last week handed the peo-
ple of this state a budget that gutted the funding
for, state agencies and will require the im-
mediate layoff of 5,000 state employees and the
eventual elimination of another 9,000 state jobs.
Unless something is done, and soon, to prevent
this disaster from happening, the number of ~
public employees working for the State of New
York in 1981 will be 14,000 less than it is right
now. We know what the consequences of this dis-
aster will mean, but the public will soon find out.
This kind of budgetary butchering on top of the
thousands of state jobs that have already been
cut over the years will add up to tragedy for the
people of this state.
Can these layoffs be avoided? Absolutely. They
should never have occurred in the first place, but
the threatened layoffs can be stopped if the
Legislature decides to act responsibly. How can
we make the Legislature do that? The answer to
that question is the same answer that applies to
so many other problems that confront us. We
must be united and we must be involved.
CSEA has been fighting this budget battle for
months. We have worked with AFSCME in
analyzing projected state revenues using the
most sophisticated economic computer
programs. We have analyzed the budget item by
item to determine potential impact on our
members. We have lobbied hard to get our ,
Message across, using our officials and staff,
and the statewide Political Action Committee
has worked closely with. Regional and Local
Political Action Committees on-this issue. ~
We told the Legislature that Gov. Carey's
proposed budget for what is called the ‘‘State
Purposes Fund’’ was inadequate and would lead
to the attrition of thousands of needed state jobs,
yet the Legislature’s own ‘‘experts’’ claimed
that not only would Carey’s budget not result in
attrition, there was hundreds of millions of
dollars of ‘‘fat’’ that could be hacked out and sent
to election districts where the Legislators will be
campaigning in just a few months,
Within five days after the Legislature took the
word of its ‘‘experts,’’ however, the Governor of
this state stood before the press and after exer-
cising his authority to veto individual items from
Official Publication of The Civil Service Employee
Association
the Legislature’s version of the.budget-to make
expenditures equal revenues as required by law,
the Governor announced that because of the —
budget cuts made by the Legislature in the State
Purposes Fund — $204 million was cut from what ~
Carey proposed — the state had no choice but to
prepare plans to layoff 5,000 state employees in
addition to the plan to continue a hiring freeze
until 9,000 more state jobs disappear through —
attrition.
While the Legislature's ‘‘experts’’ and the
Governor may disagree about how much money
is in the budget and how much is hidden, the fact
of the matter is that it is the Governor, and not
the Legislative “experts’’, who determines how
much money there is to pay the salaries of state =
employees and to set the staff levels accor-
dingly.
So here we are in the middle of yet another
crisis for this state and this time the cause of the
crisis is rooted in election year politics and not in
economics.
Who's right? As far as we can determine
through our revenue projections and budget
analysis, the Legislature is wrong in its belief
that Carey is holding out with hundreds of
millions of dollars in “fat.” It would be naive to
think there isn’t flexibility in this budget, but
when the President of the United States is ap-
parently doing everything he can to destroy
federal assistance to state and local government
there had better be some flexibility in the state
budget or we'll be looking at an economic Ar-
mageddon next year.
Can we get out of this mess? Absolutely, but
only the Legislature can do it. Basically there
are three things that must be done to end this
crisis and protect our jobs. First, the budget
must remain in balance so the vetoes of ex-
cessive appropriations must stand. Second, the
Senate must adopt a bill passed by the Assembly
that would increase state revenues by $130
million in this fiscal year. Third, the Senate,
Assembly and Governor must agree to
appropriate $100 million of this new revenue to
the State Purposes Fund to finance the operation
= particularly ieee services — of state
agencies.
If this is done fie there will be no layoffs, but
getting the Legislature to admit it had been mis-
led by its own “experts” isn’t going to be simple.
CSEA is working in the Capitol to get its
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Vol. 2, No. 27.
Wednesday, April 16, 1980
For senators: ite
For assemblypersons: (518) 455-4100.
COIN) rare LAA susan
WILLIAM L. MCGOWAN
President
message across, but there is a job here that can
only be done by you. Every Legislator must know
how you feel about this fiasco and they must hear
that from you.
Every CSEA member should contact his or her
state Senator and Assemblymen to ,let them
know that you want these funds restored and
your jobs protected. You can do that by writing,
sending a telegram, or simply making a
telephone call. We have published the Senate and
Assembly switchboard numbers in this edition of
the Public Sector.
This budget crisis is very real and the conse-
quences could be very severe for all state
employees and for all New Yorkers. We cannot
simply throw up our hands and.walk away from
this mess simply becaise it’s ‘‘too political.’’
Next to our contracts, there is no other single
document that is as vital to the interests of our
members as is this budget.
Within a very short period of time the final
chapter of this story is going to be written by the
Legislature and the Governor. We can have a say
in what is included in this story but we can only
have that if we act decisively and quickly. CSEA
has made a difference in this budget battle but
how much of a difference remains to be seen. We
need your help to make that difference as great
as possible.
Call your legislators
To let your state legislators know that further
cuts in the State Purposes Fund of the 1980-’81 |
budget would reduce services to a dangerous and
unacceptable level, call them and tell them so, at
the numbers listed below.
(518) 455-2800.
March 1, 1980 on April 10, 1980.
1. Ballots for the election of delegates to
the 1980 AFSCME Convention will be
mailed to all members of CSEA as of
. Ballots will be picked up at the return
post office box on the morning of May 1,
NOTICE
ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO THE
1980 AFSCME CONVENTION
by April 21, 1980 should call their CSEA
Regional Office betwen April 22, 1980
and April 25, 1980 for the purpose of ob-
taining a replacement ballot. The CSEA~
Regional Offices may be contacted at
the following numbers:
1980. Tabulation will commence on May Region 1 516/691-1170 Region 4 518/489-5424
2, 1980 and continue until complete. Region 2 212/962-3090 Region 5 315/451-6330
. Members who have not received a ballot Region 3 914/896-8180 Region 6 716/634- 3540
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ALBANY — Ballots for election of CSEA’s
Delegates to the 1980 AFSCME International
Convention were mailed to all union members last
week.
CSEA Executive Director Joseph J. Dolan, Jr.,
said the ballots were delivered to the Post Office
for mailing on April 10, Ballots must be carefully
completed and received back no later than May 1.
Sample ballots have appeared in recent issues of
the Public Sector. There are different ballots for
each of CSEA’s six Regions and each Region will be
electing a certain number of Delegates based on the
population of members within the Region.
To cast a vote, a member waits for the ballot
mailer to arrive at his or her home and then
carefully reads the instructions on the ballot. The
member then votes by marking boxes on the ballot.
After voting the marked ballot is placed in the pre-
addressed, postage-paid return envelope for mail-
ing back to Albany, but a voter must put his or her
name and social security number on the spaces
provided on the outside of the envelope before mail-
ing the ballot back.
At the ballot count, these names and social
security numbers are used to verify eligibility of
voters. Envelopes are opened and ballots removed
and sorted for counting in separate operations to
protect the privacy of each voter.
When marking the ballot, a voter can cast 4 vote
for any number of candidates up to the total
number of Delegates that cam be elected ‘rom the
member’s Region. You cannot vote for more than
the allowable number of Delegates which is clearly
marked on the ballot. Voting for more than the
allowable amount of candidates will void the ballot.
Candidates are listed on ballots in the order in
which they were nominated. Voters can vote for in-
dividual candidates, slates of candidates or both,
but the voter must be careful that the number of
candidates that he or she votes for does not exceed
the number printed on the face of the ballot.
All members are urged to carefully read the in-
structions for voting printed on every ballot and to
follow those instructions carefully to insure that the
member’s vote will count.
The returned ballots will be counted beginning on
May 2 at Albany in the presence of a special CSEA
committee appointed to supervise the election
process and candidates or their observers may
attend the ballot count.
Results of the ballot count will be published in the
Public Sector and winners will be notified by mail.
The AFSCME Convention will be held in June in
Anaheim, California.
Stephen M. Saland endorsed
for 99th Assembly District
ing begins
CSEA REGIONAL MAP shows boundaries of the
six regions. Each of the regions is serviced by a
Regional Office, and the telephone number of each
region is listed below. Delegates to the AFSCME
Convention are being elected on a regional basis. If
you do not receive a ballot by April 21, call the
appropriate CSEA Regional Office to receive a
replacement ballot for your région.
JPET RENTERS TEES
———
Members who do not receive a ballot by April 21, 1980
should call their Civil Service Employees Association
Regional Office between April 22 and April 25, 1980 in order to
obtain a replacement ballot.
Regional Offices may be contacted at the following
telephore numbers:
1 ~ Region 4 518/489-5424
eee : Hevsen aoe Region 5 315/451-6330
Region 3 914/896-8180 Region 6 716/634-3540
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Reminder i
Ballots must be in the return post office i
box not later than morning of May 1
to be valid. Counting begins May 2.
seat in special election
POUGHKEEPSIE — The Political
Action Committee of the Southern
Region of CSEA, with the approval of
the Statewide CSEA Political Action
Committee, has announced the en-
dorsement of Stephen M. Saland,
Republican, for election to the 99th
Assembly seat.
A special election to fill this
Assembly seat, vacant due to the
death of Assemblyman Emeel Betros,
is scheduled for Tuesday, April 15,
1980 by order of the Governor.
On April 2, 1980, the Southern
Region CSEA Political Action Com-
mittee sponsored a Candidates’ Night
for CSEA presidents and Political
Action Committee members in
Dutchess and Ulster Counties. After
careful questioning of the candidates,
the committee determined that Mr.
Saland was deserving of the support
of the union.
Reasons for the endorsement in-
clude Mr. Saland’s belief in a safe and
healthy work environment, his open-
minded approach to the use of binding
arbitration to solve labor disputes, his
stand against the expensive
contracting-out of services which can
be performed by public employees
and his belief in providing services to
the mentally ill and mentally retard-
ed by providing appropriate facilities
rather than ‘‘dumping”’ patients into
ill-prepared communities.
Nearly 5,000 CSEA members and
their families have been informed of
this endorsement by individual letter.
CSEA will also be providing ad-
ditional services to the endorsed can-
didate.
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, April) 16, 1980)
Stephen M. Saland
State gran on
April 19 halted
The State Civil Service Department
has announced the postponement of
state Civil Service exams scheduled
statewide on Saturday, April 19. A
spokesman said about one-third of the
people scheduled to take the exams
were located in the New York City or
Long Island area, and that it was
decided to postpone the exams
statewide due to transportation dif-
ficulties in the New York City area
caused by that city’s transit strike.
Notices of the postponement of the
April 19 exams have been mailed to
those people scheduled to take them.
The postponement does not affect
most local and municipal Civil Ser-
vice exams that might have been
scheduled on April 19. Only the state
exams are affected, the spokesman
said.
No date has been set for conducting
those exams as of this time, but peo-
ple scheduled to take the postponed
exams will be notified of the new date
in the near future.
Suffolk first to get local protection law
HAUPPAUGE — Employees of
Suffolk County, including many
members of CSEA Local 852, will be
covered by an employee health and
safety law following the signature of
County Executive Peter F. Cohalan
on the law.
Local 852 President Ben
Boczkowski said Cohalan is expected
to sign into law the ‘Local Law
Establishing Standards for the
Regulation of Health and Safety Con-
ditions for County Employees”’.
“This will be the first law of any
kind in New York State on health and
ELS TESTE
STATE BUDGET PROTEST
CAMPAIGN — Public employees,
angered by a proposed state budget that
will significantly reduce the state
workforce and public service programs,
have reacted swiftly to that threat. In
Albany, members of State Social Services
Department CSEA Local 688 produced
more than 600 letters of protest and con-
cern in just two days. Copies of those
letters were immediately hand-delivered
to the offices of Senate Majority Leader
Warren Anderson and Assembly Speaker
Stanley Fink. Assemblyman Fink’s
secretary, Joyce Cassidy, is shown
accepting stacks of the letters from Local
688 political action committee members
Terry Breslin, center, and committee
chairman Guy Rivers.
safety protection for municipal
employees,’ Boczkowski said.
The passage of the legislation by the
Suffolk County Legislature came
after considerable lobbying by
Boczkowski and with the cooperation
by the bill’s sponsor, Republican
Legislator William Richards,
Boczkowski said. +.
The legislation states: ‘‘Suffolk
County shall furnish to each employee
working conditions which are free
from apparent hazards that are
judicially recognized as inherently
dangerous or likely to cause death or
serious physical harm.
“Unless such employee is qualified
to work under such inherently
dangerous conditions and is put on
notice of hazards of this working con-
dition.
“Suffolk County shall comply with
occupational safety and health stan-
dards as provided in this law.”
The legislation will apply to all
county employees and to contractors
doing business with the county.
The legislation will establish the
position of public safety officer. The
duties of the position will be to
Court employee bill gets backing
ALBANY — A CSEA program bill
to protect incumbent court employees
has received the endorsement of the
State Association of Clerks of the
Supreme and County Clerks.
The bill, sponsored by As-
semblyman Robert Connor and
Senator Jay Rolison, would give per-
manent, competitive-class Civil Ser-
vice status to all court employees who
have held provisional jobs for at least
a year. It passed both houses of the
legislature last year, but was vetoed
by the governor.
Almost 2,000 of the 3,000 CSEA-
represented competitive-class court
employees throughout the state hold
their jobs only provisionally, due to
the state’s failure for many years to
give Civil Service tests for permanent
positions, according to CSEA Collec-
tive Bargaining Specialist Pat
Urge grassroot action
in political arena
NEW YORK CITY — Every local within the
CSEA Metropolitan Region II has been urged to es-
tablish its own legislative and political action
committee. CSEA Region II President Jimmy
Gripper, in urging the local committees, pointed
out, ‘‘Our region has the greatest potential for
political action of all the CSEA regions. Approx-
imately half the legislators are from this region.”
The strong suggestion to establish such com-
mittees in all 20 CSEA Locals within Region II was
made during a recent meeting of the regional ex-
ecutive committee.
In other business, the executive committee voted
to ask that the Grade 11 Community Client Service
Assistant position be looked at with a view toward
changing it from open competitive status to part of
a career ladder program for mental hygiene
therapy aides.
Monachino. The bill would give these
employees long-overdue job protec-
tion.
Now, Harold Shore, third vice
president of the Association of Clerks
of the Supreme and County Courts,
has written to all employees of the
state’s Unified Court System, endors-
ing the CSEA bill and urging them to
write to their legislators in support of
it.
“Incredible injustices have been
created by the unjustified delays in
conducting exams for many, many
years,’’ Shore said in his letter. ‘‘This
has created an intolerable situation
whereby the provisionals are not
eligible to take promotion exams for
their positions, despite many years of
on-the-job experience.”
He cited an example in which an
“Employee A’ entered the system as
président.
work of the task force.
a provisional court clerk 10 years ago,
while ‘“‘Employees B, C and D”’
entered the system with permanent
status as office typists two years ago.
If B, C and D take a 1980 promotional
exam for the clerk title and just bare-
ly pass, any of them can still ‘‘bump”’
A, even if A takes the same test and
gets a score of 100%.
On behalf of the CSEA bill, he urged
his fellow court employees to ‘‘seek
the support of your legislators,
judges, county clerks, bar
associations and county legislators by
letter writing and/or personal con-
tact. Your active participation may
be crucial to the passage and adoption
of the bill.”
Monachino called Shore's letter ‘‘a
great and welcome addition” to the
union’s efforts to get the bill passed
and signed into law.
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METROPOLITAN CSEA REGION II Legislative and Political Action
Chairman Ronnie Smith, left, and Region II President Jimmy Gripper,
right, explain the importance of local legislative and political action com-
mittees at the regional executive committee meeting on Jan. 31. Among
those at the meeting was Frances DuBose, center, regional second vice
(Right) REGION Il Performance Evaluation Committee Task Force
Chairman Charles Bell reports to the regional executive committee on the
cooperate ‘‘with representatives of
the Department of Health Services,
Fire Safety and Buildings and
Grounds, to establish and promulgate
minimum standards for safe and
healthy working conditions for County
employees.”’
The public safety officer will report
to a Health and Safety Board which
will have among its members one
person designated by the Local 852
president.
The public safety officer will act on
information brought to him by the
board and from complaints by
employees who believe ‘‘a condi-
tion hazardous to health or safety
exists... .”
Within five days of receiving a com-
plaint, the public safety officer must
investigate the allegation and issue a
report.
If either the department head or the
union are dissatisfied with the final
report of the Public Safety Officer,
report of the public safety officer,
pointment of a hearing officer within
five days of receipt of a final report.
“The hearing officer shall be
agreed to by both sides, and shall con-
duct the hearing within two weeks of
the appointment. . .
“The corrective recommendations
of the public safety officer and/or
the hearing officer shall be binding
upon the County unless the
recommendations would have a sub-
stantial fiscal impact upon the County
or the affected department.”
ALBANY — CSEA is reminding all
local presidents in the Institutional,
Operational and Administrative
bargaining units that, for the union to
be able to follow up on the progress of
out-of-title grievances in these units, it
must be provided with copies of such
greivances.
Under the new contracts for these
bargaining units, grievances alleging
out-of-title work may be filed directly
with the Governor's Office of
Employee Relations, and the union
does not have to get directly involved.
However, Jack Carey, CSEA’s Direc-
tor of Collective Bargaining, reports
that many queries continue to be
directed to his office requesting infor-
mation on the status of such grievances
after they are filed. Therefore, he has
sent a memorandum to all affected
local presidents, reminding them ‘‘to
make every effort to provide us with a
copy of all out-of-title grievances filed
with OER. We are not seeking the
obligation to file the grievance; simply
a copy of that which is filed, so that we
may help the grievant get his answer
within the time constraints provided in
the contract.”
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday’ April 16, 1980"
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College scholarships are offered
ALBANY — Applications are now being accepted for CSEA College
Scholarships for the 1980-81 school year.
The union’s Board of Directors approved the awarding of 12 $500
scholarships (two from each CSEA region) for deserving sons and daughters of
CSEA-represented employees.
The deadline for submitting applications is April 30. The Special CSEA
Scholarship Fund Committee, chaired by Dominic Spacone, Jr., will review all
applications and make its decisions in May. Winners will be announced in June.
Applications are available from all CSEA regional offices, and from CSEA
local presidents. ; get
BEDFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL UNIT members, from left, Margaret Orlan-
do, Hazel Blauvelt and Lee Walling attend the retirement seminar in Elms-
ford. The Bedford Schools Unit is part of Westchester County Local 86.
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LEARNING ABOUT THE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM at the retirement
seminar in Elmsford are Westchester County Local 860 members Frank Duelk,
Greenburgh Unit, left; and Carroll Kostrzewski, Yorktown Heights Unit.
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GREENBURGH UNIT PRESIDENT
Eleanor McDonald introduces the
speakers at the retirement seminar in
Elmsford.
Retirement topic
of seminar in
Westchester Co.
ELMSFORD — Approximately 100
CSEA members of Westchester
County Local 860 attended a
retirement seminar at Greenburgh
Town Hall last month.
Those attending were from many of
the more than 90 units of the 10,000-
member local. The seminar was spon-
sored by the Town of Greenburgh Unit
of the local and by the town.
Speaking at the seminar were
Steven Chandler of the New York
State Employees Retirement System
and John Savage and John Budahaus
Also attending the seminar were
Greenburgh Unit President Eleanor
McDonald, Local 860 President Pat
Mascioli and CSEA Field Represen-
tative Joseph O'Connor.
Check your retirement system status
Are you a participating member of the New York State Employees
Retirement System? Are you sure?
As hard as it may be to believe, some public employees find out too late
that their employer has neglected to enroll them as members of the Employees
Retirement System.
CSEA has recently won retroactive retirement payments on behalf of
members who thought they had a pension coming but found out when they were
ready to retire that they were never enrolled in the System by their employers.
Usually the problem can be resolved, but there is no need to take the risk of
starting off your retirement with that type of hassle.
The New York State Employees Retirement System can provide you with
specific information on your status as a Retirement System member. To check
on your status a member of the Employees Retirement System, complete
To: The New York State Retirement System
Governor Smith Office Building
Albany, New York 12244
1am requesting information on my status as a member of the New
York State Employees Retirement System.
Name Date of Birth.
Address
City
State Zip.
and mail the coupen below. Please print clearly.
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Temporary attendance rule change
effective due to transit strike
NEW YORK CITY — The New
York City transit strike has resulted
in changes in some temporary atten-
dance rules and overtime-approval
procedures for New York State agen-
cies located in the city.
The Governor's office has ordered
all department heads ‘‘to recognize
and support the needs of state
employees who work under these dif-
ficult circumstances, including
protection against loss of income”’
resulting from strike-related tran-
sportation difficulties.
Changes include more flexibility in
overtime scheduling; increased
authorization of use of state vehicles
in getting employees to and from
work; and authorization for excusing
tardiness in certain cases, where
necessitated by the strike. Each
department and agency, however, has
its own emergency plans, and
employees are urged to get details
from the personnel office at their
work location.
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EMPLOYEES VOLUNTEER TO ASSIST in the’ FRANK BELLICOSE, right, a Tax and Finance A BLOOD SAMPLE to determine blood type and
blood donor program. Here, Helen and Ray Lee, employee, has his temperature taken by Milt coagulating ability is taken painlessly from ear
sitting, verify appointment of E. Jackie Mosall, a medical technician with the Red Cross. of donor Barbara Felano, left, by Nurse
Zsuspann. This is first of series of tests the potential donor Sylvilana Mosall.
takes before donating.
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ALBANY — State employees pay donate an average of 14,000
units of blood in a state-run employee blood program in cooperation with the
Red Cross. That’s an enormous amount, made all the more significant
. since modern technology makes it possible to separate blood components,
for extended use.
Bloodmobile visits to state work sites across the state are held more
» than 60 times a year under the donor program. Employee representatives
ineach department or work area help coordinate the visitation programs.
: Recently more than 200 employees in the State Department of Tax-
ation and Finance showed up to donate when the Red Cross bloodmobile |
visited the Albany worksite over two days last month.
‘The visits were re Spoteares by the Tax and Finance CSEA Local 690.
CSEA volunteers, under the director of Local 690 blood drive coordinator
Helen Butrym, provided the necessary assistance. The photos here depict
some of the Tax and Finance employees in various stages of donating the
Visi bie ari eee This page is not only a tribute to them, but to the
thousands of state workers who contribute annually to this important
nal ‘ r
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3 BLOOD PRESSURE of Margaret Corcuera is checked by Nurse ~
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PAT SULLIVAN, having been certified as a qualified donor by
passing series of tests, donates blood.
EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERS Albert Robbins and Ann Reyner, seated, hand blood
pack to donor Jacklyn Muth.
THIS BURNING QUESTION provides the back of a
very large folded piece of important literature be-
ing mailed later this month to every CSEA-
represented public employee throughout New York
State. The literature opens to contain vital maierial
concerning the need for OSHA protection for public
employees in this state. Included are tear-off, self-
addressed postal cards for mailing to Senate Ma-
jority Leader Warren Anderson and Assembly
Speaker Stanley Fink urging adoption of
meaningful occupational safety and health
protection legislation during the current legislative
session. With an initial mailing to over a quarter of
a million CSEA-represented public workers, CSEA
is looking for a huge response to its request to mail
the cards to the legislative leaders.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR) Wednesday, April 16, 1980 Page 5
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Great Meadow employees work under stress and tension
‘You brainwash yourself... .
in order to just survive your shift’
“You brainwash yourself when you
go in. You have to, in order to just
survive your shift. Then, when you get
home again, if you get home,
sometimes your body just shakes —
shakes unncontrollably.””
This statement by a civilian
employee who works at the Great
Meadows Correctional Facility in
Comstock summarizes the tensions
the 127 members of Local 157 of the
Civil Service Employees Assn. live
with on a day-to-day basis.
Recently, John D. Corcoran, Direc-
tor of the Capital Region of CSEA,
and Daniel X. Campbell, CSEA
regional communication associate,
toured the facility and spoke with
several CSEA members. Most ex-
pressed concern for proposed Oc-
cupational Safety and Health Act
coverage for public employees, and
about the proposed use of prison in-
mates in public employee civilian job
situations. Campbell prepared these
articles following that visit.
The first tour by the CSEA officials
was cut short due to a disturbance in
the prison yard. It was during this
wait that one of the major complaints
of the civilian employees was brought
to the surface. ‘‘Correction officers
get a briefing on what is going on in-
side everyday, but civilian employees
don’t; and that can put us into the
middle of a dangerous situation,”
Greg Scallero, President of the CSEA
Local said to the CSEA officials.
“We've talked to local management
about this several times and their
answer is, ‘We’ll tell you when you
need to know.’’ We need to know
everyday because we are expected to
go everywhere and do our job no
matter what.”
Linda Terenzini, CSEA Local
secretary, picked up on the com-
plaint, ‘Female employees are not
given an escort at any time. We cross
the yard, go into population (the
prison proper) without any knowledge
of what the conditions are. It’s unfair
that management only tells the
correction officers the conditions.
It's like we don’t count.”
Corcoran suggested that such a re-
quest for information should be
addressed to local management again
and, if the results are not achieved,
that this topic be dealt with through a
departmental labor-management
meeting on the Regional level.
“Our members deserve to know the
true conditions of their work location,
especially our members who are ex-
pected to work in the prison area
itself or those who are expected to
travel through it regularly. Continued
failure to keep these employees in-
formed will only cause the Region to
seek adjustment through a higher
level,’’ Corcoran said.
Various prison work sites were
visited and numerous CSEA members
were interviewed. Employees spoke
out for OSHA protection and listed a
number of existing health or safety
problems, which were photographed
for the record. In the office area of
the prison, female employees were
very concerned with the rumored use
of inmates in normal public employee
jobs. ‘‘Too much goes on in here. We
handle too much confidential infor-
mation to have an inmate clerk work-
ing here,” one CSEA member stated. e
Employee sentiment against inmate help
The phone rang once. The message
could have been a.warning of danger,
a plea for help, a report of an arrival
of a delivery or a reminder that
material was being moved out at a
certain gate at a specific time. The
voice at the other end of the line said:
“Hello, Prison Maintenance Control
Shop, | mate Clerk. speaking.”
“Inmate Clerk!”’ These two words
stopped the caller in his tracks. The
management of the State of New
York and the administration of the
Correction Department are
attempting to use inmate clerks in
various positions in prisons
throughout New York State. The
rationale is that due to a hiring freeze
and cutbacks, it is cheaper for the
State to use inmate clerks. In reality,
according to employee opinion, off-
the-record managerial opinion and
common sense, this experiment in
economics could lead, not just to the
loss of public employee jobs, but to
the loss of public employee lives.
Gregory Scallero, President of the
Great Meadow Correctional Facility
CSEA Local 157, an employee in the
Maintenance Department at Com-
stock, voiced his opinion of this move:
“The inmate clerk in Maintenance
Control handles a// repair or-
ders. A lot of them go to the
locksmith with gates broken and non-
locking.’’ The union president con-
tinued, ‘‘He also sits in the
Maintenance Control Office where
there is a blueprint file which has the
complete blueprints of the facility. If,
by chance, he were left alone, he
would have access to them easily.”’
Inmates are in prison because of
their lack of responsibility to society
and its norms on the outside of the
facility. Once inside a-prison, they are
watched, guarded, supervised and
controlled. But now, the State of New
York wants to put inmates in
positions that could end up turning the
control of a prison over to the in-
mates.
Linda Terenzini is a Senior Medical
Records Clerk at Comstock; she is
also secretary of the CSEA Local.
These are her reactions to the idea of
inmate clerks in civilian employee
situations: “‘At the moment, I have a
three-person office and there is just
myself. So that would be two inmate
see inmates being responsible in any
s
“T wouldn’t want it, definitely not,
not in this prison,’’ one female clerk
said. “There is contraband in this
room. You can’t have it here. I
wouldn’t feel too comfortable,’”’
another female employee who wished
to remain unidentified, said.
Clark Skinner noted, ‘‘We have
trained inmates out here (garage) but
I've never seen an inmate come out
“We know that the correctional facilities in this Region
are powder kegs waiting for someone to drop a
match. We demand that State management not wait
for an explosion before addressing these civilian
employee problems. We want corrective action now.’
— Joseph £. McDermott
President,
clerks assigned. Security-wise, there
is no protection for me. I deal with
medical records, outside ap-
pointments, doctors, and a lot of it is
confidential. For inmates to have
access to any of this stuff is
dangerous. The employees have
enough problems working inside a jail
without having to work seven and a
half hours in direct contact.”
CSEA members voiced their per-
sonal opinion of this proposal and
some asked that their names not be
used due to fear of reprisals from
both inmates and management. But
on the whole, the total reaction was,
“Tt stinks!” :
The following are the reactions of
some civilian employees at Great
Meadow to the use of Inmate Clerks
in Correctional Facilities: Eugene
Stark said ‘I'm against it,’’ while
Doug DeKalb called it ‘‘a security
risk."’ John Zaycheck added ‘‘I can’t
CSEA Capital Region
here who could handle the job.””
Roy Harris was emphatic; “No
way. We have to do the work over to
see that they do the job.”
Van Cholakis, felt “It’s not right;
citizens need the jobs.”’ Ginny Rivet
said, ‘I do not think that any inmates
should be able to work with any
facility records.’’ Betty Belden,
added, ‘‘I don’t feel it’s right,’ and
Nancy Young concurred, ‘‘I don’t feel
it’s right either.”
Gardner Norton said flatly, ‘It’s
dangerous,”’ while Vern Heath added,
“T don’t feel it’s a good idea. It’s bad
for the State.”’
It’s impossible to do it here. In-
mates can't be trusted,’’ Rick Potter
said. ‘‘Due to the lack of civilian
employees, we are already in a com-
promised situation. There are two in-
mates and one civilian employee do-
ing a job. Who’s in control? Not the
civilian — the inmates. So now, in-
stead of putting one civilian with two
inmates, it will be one with three.”
Ralph Forini left no doubt how he
feels. “I think it stinks. Inmates are
here because they couldn’t be trusted
on the outside. How can they b®
trusted here?”
Stanley Star concluded, ‘‘I’ve been
here 30 years and 4 months.
They've taken everything else. They
can just as well take our jobs.”
THIS MACHINE, like many others
observed at the facility, lacks safety
exhaust equipment to ‘remove
dangerous dust and fibers from the
area while the machine is in use. The
exhaust pipe, minus the necessary
tubing, is clearly visible at the base @
the machine.
Civilian employees at the Great
leadows Correctional Facility at
omstock expressed a great many
oncerns over problems they en-
ounter during the course of an or-
inary work day. The following is a
artial list of problems and con-
ferns as expressed by the civilian
ployees during a recent tour of
‘@&. Meadows by CSEA union of-
icials.
1. Civilian employee believe that
correction management is not
concerned with civilian
employee safety or contract
provisions.
. Lack of any type of daily
civilian employee update on the
internal prison population mood
or conditions.
. ®ear of the possible use of in-
mate clerks in areas of the
prison where confidential and
or security information is
readily available.
. Possible use of asbestos-based
ceiling tile and pipe insulation
materials in all parts of the
prison, from office areas to
shop areas. This is a possible
danger to all prison employees
and inmates.
. Lack of proper safety
equipment for use by civilian
employees; no safety shoes; no
safety goggles for civilian
employee use in shop areas, un-
Problems
are many at
Comstock
healthy sewage treatment dis-
posal area.
. Civilian employees are assign-
ed to supervise the actions of
numerous -inmates in areas
where correction officers are
not normally assigned nor
readily available.
ie) THIS INMATE CLERK’S DESK in the Comstock correctional facility
hted in close proximity to prison blueprint file.
) GREG SCALLERO, right, president of CSEA Local 157 at Great
ws, discusses a series of civilian employee problems at the facility with
Capital Region Director John D. Corcoran Jr., left. Corcoran recently
the facility, and says he plans to tour every correctional facility in the
to see if such problems are widespread.
7. Unsanitary and overcrowded
conditions in employee eating
areas, rest rooms, etc.
8. Lack of proper-storage areas
for chemicals, tools, etc., in
garage and sewage area.
9. Lack of proper exhaust systems
in prison work areas, Lack of
safety exhaust system on
machinery used by civilian
employees and prison inmates.
‘10. Lack of safe electrical ex-
tension cords.
11. Lack of prompt repair of
equipment when employees
report equipment broken or un-
safe. Often, same equipment is
re-issued without repair.
12. Assignment of civilian
employees to work in a trailer
which is plagued with struc-
tural problems ranging from a
collapsing roof to a slanted
floor and a leaking roof.
13. Constant use of unsafe vehicles
on state property. Vehicles
which could not pass auto in-
spections are in use daily.
THIS SCREWDRIVER is a tool to the
employee, but to inmates it could
become a dangerous weapon.
Employees are concerned about the lack
of proper storage for such tools at Great
Meadow.
THIS IS THE LUNCH ROOM for civilian
employees assigned to the sewage
treatment facility at Great Meadows.
(Above) THIS TRAILER serves as an of-
fice for civilian employees. A ceiling sup-
port bar is clearly visible, trying to keep
the roof from caving in. The files at the
right side of this photo appear to be slant-
ing, and they are — the floor of this work
area slants noticeably. The roof leaks,
adding to the problems for employees in
this area.
(Below) THIS PIPE INSULATION, which
is torn and allows small particles to fall,
is believed to be asbestos-based. The
hazards to anyone thus exposed are ob-
vious.
SARA LEE SUS ARUN IO 2 FE
(Above) LONG ISLAND REGION I Education
Chairman Gregory Szurnicki, left, receives an award
from Suffolk County Education Local 870 President
Walter Weeks in recognition of numerous
educational programs coordinated for the Local by
Szurnicki.
(Above right) MIDDLE COUNTY SCHOOL
DISTRICT UNIT of Local 870 was represented by,
from left, Michael DeLuro, Peter Petrovick and
Robert Hunter,
(Right) ATTENDING THE LOCAL 870 meeting
were, from left, Diane Klement of the Riverhead
Aides Unit; Marilyn Mahler of the Brentwood Aides
Unit; and Sue Palermo of the Patchogue-Medford |.
Operational Unit.
i CORAM — Greater efforts in
© political action was urged by Suf-
folk County Education Local 870
Executive Vice President Robert
» Conlon when he spoke at the local’s
executive board meeting recently.
‘““We can elect our own
employers,”’ he said to the more
than 80 persons attending the
meeting.
: Local First Vice President
) Michael Curtin, who is co-
| chairman of the Long Island
Region I Legislative and Political
| Action Committee and a member
| of the statewide committee, urged
|| the local’s membership to write
| their legislators about proposed
) cuts in the State budget.
q He reported that among the 30
» proposed pieces of legislation
Greater political effort urged at local level
CSEA is backing during this
session of the legislature, seven
pertain to school districts.
Local 870 President Walter
Weeks reminded the unit represen-
tatives at the meeting that after
negotiating a contract, do not sign
it until after it has been looked over
by an attorney.
He also called attention to the
retirement status coupon in The
Public Sector, urging members to
make sure they are in the
retirement system.
Weeks presented awards to
Region I Education Chairman
Gregory Szurnicki and to Field
Representative Irwin Scharfeld for
their service to the local. Scharfeld
has been transferred to work with
Suffolk County Local 852.
SERN A ANCE
Scharfeld has been replaced by
Field Representative Ronald King. |
Statewide Secretary Irene Carr |
spoke at the meeting, and noted ©
King had been her field represen- —
tative at SUNY Oneonta. a
Region I President Irving ©
Flaumenbaum addressed the |
meeting about AFSCME and the ©
AFSCME Convention. i
Local 870 Vice Presidents Carol |
Craig and Nick Avella spoke on the
appointment of Larry Scanlon as
CSEA school district coordinator
and on reporting safety problems,
respectively.
Information also was provided on
health insurance and pre-
retirement counseling.
Local 870 is the fifth largest local
in CSEA with approximately 4,000
members.
cas
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Some comp walle periods waived
ALBANY — Under section 11.1 (c)
of their current contracts, employees
in the CSEA-represented Ad-
ministrative, Operational and In-
stitutional statewide bargaining units
no longer necessarily have to wait 10
days before receiving worker’s com-
pensation benefits.
There .are four criteria for
eligibility for waiver of the 10-day
waiting period: (1.) admission as an
in-patient to a hosptial during the first
10 working days after the occurrence
of the occupational injury or disease;
(2.) having to be absent for 20 con-
secutive working days after incurring
such injury or disease; (3.) being re-
quired by the employer, the State In-
Career planning workshop set
‘ALBANY — A free ga
career planning workshop will
be held at the State University
College at Purchase May 7-9 for
women who work for the follow-'
. ing agencies: the Dept. of Tax-
ation and Finance, White
Plains; the Division of Human
Rights, White Plains; the Dept.
of Labor, White Plains and Mt.
Vernon offices; the State
Thruway Authority, Albany; the
State University College at
Purchase; and the Dept. of
Transportation, Poughkeepsie.
The program, geared to
women in New York State
government employment who
are Soule career changes:
is co-sponsored by SUNY and
the Center for Women in
Government. It offers an ‘in-
depth exploration of caréer plan-
ning, including identification of
participants’: skills, career
aspirations and values, and
helps develop strategies to
achieve the goals they have es-
tablished in the workshop.
The success of the program.
last year in Albany and Bye
locations inspired the sj
to offer it this year in the jad
state area.
For ‘more. information call
Bonnie Cohen at the Center for
Women in Government: (518)
455-6211,
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surance Fund or the Worker's
Compensation Board to attend a
medical examination or hearing dur-
ing the first 10 working days after
such injury or illness; or (4.) a re-
quest by the employee for such a
waiver.
The State will not unreasonably
deny a request for a waiver, but
failure to grant the waiver is not
reviewable. Management criteria for
granting the waiver are: credibility of
the accident report and witnesses;
timeliness of the report; and
available medical evidence pertain-
ing to the claimed injury or disease.
Under the 1977-79 contracts in
these three bargaining units, there
was virtually no waiver allowed, and
all employees had to wait 10 days
after incurring an occupational injury
or disease before collecting worker’s
compensation benefits.
Answer the
We're UONSUS
counting on you.
New contract
in Glenville
-substantial
GLENVILLE — Six months of
negotiations have culminated in a one
year contract containing a seven
percent salary increase and substan-
tial benefits for members of the new-
ly organized Town of Glenville Unit of
the Civil Service Employees Assn.
According to Glenville CSEA Unit
President Jean Paparella, prior to
joining the union, Glenville
employees lacked benefits and job
protection.
In addition to the-seven percent in-
crease, which is retroactive to
January 1, 1980, the contract es-
tablishes a longevity scale of $150
after five years of employment; $300
after ten years, and $450 after 15
years.
Benefits include health and dental
plans paid for by the town, holiday,
vacation, personal and other leave
time, a clothing allowance of $100 per
year for water department
employees, 75C retirement plan, the
60B death benefit, and an Agency
Shop.,
The language concerning work
schedules, overtime, seniority and
vacations was also clarified. In ad-
dition both sides agreed to the es-
tablishment of a labor/management
committee to meet on a regular basis.
Paparella feels negotiations went
smoothly and commented that the
package was satisfactory for a first _
time agreement.
Capital Region Field Represen-
tative John Cummings assisted the
negotiating team.
Billing change
ALBANY — Many State employees
stopped using the radiology services
at Child’s Hospital here three years
ago when a policy change called for
such services to be paid by the Blue
Shield health plan, rather than the
Blue Cross plan under which state
employees are covered. Now another
policy change will now make it possi-
ble once again for Blue Cross to pay.
According to Roger Mayers, acting
director of the hospital, the
radiologist was previously allowed to
charge a separate fee for services, re-
quiring him to bill Blue Shield. Now,
however, the radiologist is considered
a hospital based physician, whose fee
is paid in salary, thereby allowing the
hospital to charge Blue Cross for the
work,
The new policy is in effect im-
mediately.
New agreement
LONG BEACH — The Long Beach
Unit of Nassau County CSEA Local
830 and the City of Long Beach recent-
ly reached agreement on a new three-
year contract retroactive to July 1,
1979.
Members of the unit will receive
approximately a 21 percent salary in-
crease plus increments and longevity
steps, Unit President Eugene Cam-
marato said.
He said members will receive a
$700 increase in the first year; a five
percent increase on July 1, 1980 and a
four percent increase on Jan, 1, 1981
in the second year; and a seven
percent increase in the third year of
the contract.
RETIREE HONORED — Mrs.
Woodie McLean smiles at a party in
her honor recently to mark her
retirement from state service after
25 years of service. She retired as a
senior account clerk with the Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation in White
Plains, and previously had worked
jwith the Departments of
Motor Vehicles and Taxation
and Finance. She was a long-
time member of New York
City CSEA Local 010.
. Demonstration called off;
resolve staff concerns
SCHENECTADY = A
demonstration called to express dis-
content with staffing policies and
other conditions at the Oswald D.
Heck Developmental Center in
Schenectady was postponed recently
by CSEA Local officers when top
developmental budget to allow for the
hiring of five nurses and three mental
health therapy aides. As of Public
Sector press time, the hiring had
begun.
He also assured the union that the
present director of OD Heck, who will
@ level administrators at the center be leaving within the next few weeks,
promised to make some major Will be replaced immediately. The
changes. union had been worried that a delay in
The union had scheduled its protest hiring a replacement would create
for early April and was in the process Confusion over policies, resulting in
of distributing the pertinent infor- Problems between employees and
mation to members when Zygmond Supervisory personnel.
Slezak, the associate commissioner of CSEA Field Representative Donald
the Office of Mental Retardation and McCarthy, who assisted the Local in YONKERS MUNICIPAL HOUSING
Developmental Disabilities, re- °Tganizing the demonstration, com- AUTHORITY UNIT PRESIDENT Julian Yon kers act
quested a meeting with local officers mented ‘‘We postponed the Gentborge ciatt, confers with his Local ‘
@ to discuss their concerns. The demonstration based on Slezak’s good Guay tcl 140, en the wolf. conteaey sin | 1
OMRDD oversees the operation of all rat effort in eee ans these the authority. The contract will go into approva is
state developmental centers. problems, particularly those pertain- effect as soon as it is approved by U.S. at
The changes proposed by Slezak are ing to staffing. We're hoping for Department of Housing and Urban Af. antici ated
acceptable to the union, reports CSEA Positive results. fairs. p
Local President Peter Looker.
However, he added, “‘if they are not Cal id.
put into effect, to the union’s satisfac- en ar - YONKERS — Fourteen months of
‘ . egotiations will culminate in a new
tion, by mid-May the demonstration contract for the Yonkers Municipal
will go on as planned.” ; Fi
Slezak told the union he would work Pee aero we A ie of
@ out a new staffing system which APRIL aa lanoreval Lounty t ins as soon
would increase the number of staff 16—Hudson Valley Armory Employees Local 252 meeting, 1 p.m., Kingston Armory, S approval is granted by the U.S.
members working in patient areas. North Manor Avenue, Kingston. Department of Housing and Urban Af-
In addition, he said that he was able 16—Buffalo Local 003 Executive Committee Meeting, Georgian Room, Statler Hilton. ly Meta Local 860 President Pat
it ei i i state Dinner at 5:30 p.m., meeting at 6:30 p.m. ascioli reported,
to fit eight new items in the P. rs
17—CSEA Board of Directors meeting, 9 a.m., Thruway House, Albany. The contract has been ratified by
PEED A é the unit and by the authority, Mascioli
18—Southern Region Il legislative breakfast, 9 a.m., Hilton inn, Tarrytown. said. Once approved by HUD, the con-
18—Village of Tarrytown Unit dinner dance, Pleasantville County Club, Pleasantville. tract will be retroactive from Jan. 1,
° °
19—Local 119, Encon Field Employees, general membership meeting, 10 a.m., Holiday 1979 to Dec. 31, 1980.
Grievance Is won Inn, Clinton & River Streets, Cortland. After more than one year of
@ _WEST BRENTWOOD — Pilgrim 21—Southern Region Il Mental Health labor-management meeting, 1 p.m., Holiday Inn, peeobaling) the presk through came
i by ‘i in January, , and agreement was
Psychiatric Center has been ordered Mewburah s
ta aeearuinae tie assignment of some 23—Saratoga County Local 846, executive board meeting 7 p.m., general membership reached in February.
therapy assistants to clerical and ad- meeting 7:30 p.m., County Solar Building, High Street, Ballston Spa. Mascioli said throughout _the
ministrative duties following a 24—Taconic State Park Commission Local 108 installation, 7:30 p.m., James Baird Park neconanione eas unit held fon
grievance filed by CSEA Local 418. 26—Yonkers School District Unit dinner-dance, 7:30 p.m., Chateau Restaurant, Yonkers. benania forvalve Racks eaten
The instiiuilon 2 eeheme as ruled 29—Westchester County benefit seminar, 9:30 a.m., County Center Little Theater, White and in personal days.
decition by. the Governor'a Office of a may ‘The salary increase in the contract
Employee Relations, 1-2—New York State Special Olympics, Staten Island Developmental Center. will pe percent for 1979 and seven
Paula Luvera, grievance chairper- 1—Southern Region Ill Executive Committee meeting, 7:45 p.m., Holiday Inn, Newburgh. percent for 1980. All other parts of the
a A 4 expired contract will continue in the
@ son, said that the scheme threatene: 6—Westchester County Local 860 Executive Committee meeting, 8 p.m., 196 Maple Mercteonttact
to rain Personnel ay oom ea Avenue, White Plains. : Negotiating for the unit were Unit
patient care. Local resident Bi 9—Letchworth Village Developmental Center Local 412 dinner dance, Platz! Brau House. President Julian Gunthorpe, CSEA
Chacona said that the ruling may be 17—Cortland County Local 812, retirement party, American Legion, Tompkins Street, Collective Bargaining Specialist Ron
applicable in other institutions. hag Cortland. Mazzola, unit members Barbara
me ne cmnnagerent hitles 19—Saratoga County Local 846, executive board meeting, 7 pim:, Solar Building, High Cipola _and Eddie Mascara and
iy areas re Pe an “wide duties Street, Ballston Spa Mascioli. Housing Authority Board
as “Support Service es ” The 21-23—State Division Workshop, Kutcher’s Club, Monticello. Chairman Emmett Burke led
new jobs involved checking wards for 30—Harrisen Schools Unit Dinner Dance, Laddin’s Terrace, Stamford, Conn, neg oelatione 1p ee al he
cleanliness and equipment, reporting 30-June 1—Suffolk County Department of Social Services Unit 1, 2nd annual social Paiitenantate eee rey rth
needs and handling patients’ prop- weekend, Grossingers Hotel, Grossingers. F ce employees of the Hous-
e s ing Authority who work in the more
erty, food service problems and
maintenance.
than 100 buildings of the authority.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, April 16,, 1980,
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STATE JOB CALENDAR
Senior Medical Records Technician . $10,624
20-102
Pharmacist (salary varies with location) + $14,388-$15,562 20-129
Assistant Sanitary Engineer $16,040 + 20-122
Senior Sanitary Engineer . $18,301 20-123
Clinical Physician I . $27,942 20-118
Clinical Physician II. $31,055 20-119
Assistant Clinical Physician $25,161 20-117
Attorney ..........+ $14,850 20-113
Assistant Attorney . $12,397 20-113
Attorney Trainee $11,723 20-113
Junior Engineer. ... $12,890 20-109
(Bachelor’s Degree)
Junior Engineer . $13,876 20-109
(Master's Degree)
Dental Hygienist
Licensed Practical Nurse.
Nutrition Services Consultant
Stationary Engineer .
20-107
20-106
20-139
20-100
Senior Stationary Engineer . $11,250 20-101
Occupational Therapy Assistant t . $9,929 20-174
Occupational Therapy Assistant I . $9,029 20-174
(Spanish Speaking)
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor ..... «+ $14,142 20-140!
+ $11,983 20-140
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Trainee
Medical Record Technician . nS
Histology Technician ....
Professional Positions in Auditing and “Accounting,
20-143
20-170
20-200
.. $9,481
. $8,051
. $11,250
Computer Programmer. . . $11,250 20-220
Computer Programmer (Scientific) . $11,250 20-222
Senior Programmer ...... . +. $14,075 20-221
Senior Computer Programmer ( (Scientific) . . $14,075 20-223
Mobility Instructor ............ . $11,904 20-224
Instructor of the Blind = $11,250 20-225
Health Services Nurse
(salary varies-with location)
Senior Heating and Ventilating Engineer
Senior Sanitary Engineer (Design)
Senior Building Electrical Engineer ....
Senior Building Structural Engineer ..
Senior Mechanical Construction Boeineer &
Senior Plumbing Engineer ..
Assistant Stationary Engineer .
Electroencephalograph Technigian ....
“Radiologic Technologist .. Peso
(salary varies with loc: n)
Medical Record Administrator
Food Service Worker I ae
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide ‘Trainee
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee
(Spanish Speaking)
Associate Actuary (Casualty) .
Principal Actuary (Casualty) ..
Supervising Actuary (Casualty)
Assistant Actuary
Nurse I.
Nurse I. aig
Nurse II (Psychiatric) .
Nurse II (Rehabilitation) .
Medical Specialist II .....
Medical Specialist 1
Psychiatrist I....
Psychiatrist II...
Social Services Management Trainee .
$11, 250-$12, 025 20-226
.. $18,301
$18,301
$18,301
$18,301
.. $18,301
$18,301
20-227
20-228
20-229
20-230
20-231
20-232
20-303
20-308
20-334
20-348
20-352
20-394
20-394
20-416
20-417
20-418
20-556
20-584
20-585
20-586
20-587
20-840
20-841
20-842
20-843
20-875
Social Services Management Specialist .. .. $11,450 20-875
Social Services Management Trainee . $10,824 20-876
(Spanish Speaking)
Social Services Management Specialist .. $11,450 20-876
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Local 670 held a well-attended
general membership meeting
recently in Albany. A number of e
union staff representatives spoke
to the members concerning a
wide variety of topics of interest.
In the above photo, CSEA Capital
Region IV President Joseph E.
McDermott talks with Local 670
President Shirley Brown. In the
photo at left, member Ernestine
Lafayette speaks to the group.
CSEA Safety Hotline
800-342-4824 ‘
ALBANY — CSEA Statewide
Secretary Irene Carr has high
praise for a recent week-long
seminar for union women she
attended at the George Meany
Center for Labor Studies in Silver
Springs, Md.
Of the 33 participants, from
public and private-sector AFL-CIO
affiliates across the country, five
were associated with AFSCME, in-
cluding AFSCME Women’s Ac-
tivities Coordinator Eve Johnson,
who taught a workshop on ‘“‘Why
Women Earn Less than Men.”
In her report to CSEA President
Bill McGowan upon her return, Ms.
Carr noted that Ms. Johnson’s
workshop was one of the best.
“In this workshop, we learned
the major reasons — such as sexual
stereotyping, unequal educational
and promotional opportunities, and
ingrained social and economic
patterns — that have led to the
situation we have today in the
United States, where women make
up nearly half the workforce but
still earn only 59° for every dollar
earned by men,” she said. “‘We
also learned of strategies that are
now being implemented to combat
the problem, legislatively, legally,
and through organization.”
Another program Ms. Carr found
informative during the five-day
seminar was one on ‘‘Women in the
Economy Today,” which dealt
with, among other things, the need
for change in the Social Security
law.
“The Social Security law is based
on the ‘typical American family’ of
| the 1940's,” Ms. Carr reported.
| “That family consisted of a work-
| ing husband, a nonworking wife,
| and two children. The law remains
ome ayy shy ar TREES
LAE TIRES TE N
fit that description. For example,
most wives today work, and
millions of families have only one
adult present — a working
mother.”
A workshop led by an Antioch
Law School professor dealt ex-
clusively with current laws against
discrimination. These include the
Equal Pay Act, the Fair Labor
Standards Act, and Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act. The professor, at-
torney Patricia Eames, Also
the 1980's: equal pay for jobs of
comparable worth; passage of the
Equal Rights Amendment, which
needs adoption by three more
states to become part of the United
States Constitution; better day-
care programs; elimination of sex-
ual harrassment; social security
reform; achievement of greater
numbers of women in non-
traditional jobs; securing strong,
enforceable occupational health
and safety standards for public and
reviewed the various routes
available to union women to fight
discrimination.
“The Equal Employment Oppor-
tunity Commission is always there
on the federal level, and each state
has its own Human Rights division
or department, but the route that
we as union women should always
try first is to file a grievance,” Ms.
Carr said.
The title of the week-long
program was ‘‘Issues and
Concerns,”’ and by the end of the
sector workers;
private
organization of unorganized
women workers; becoming a
greater part of union negotiations;
and making sure that anti-
discrimination laws that are
already on the books are enforced.
“In addition to the educational
seminars, it was good to meet
other union women from the public
and private sectors from around
the country and get different
perspectives on the problems con-
fronting women in the laber
movement today,’’ Ms. Carr con-
| intact today, despite the fact that \ week the participants had outlined —_ cluded.
{ only 14% of American families now _ the major goals of union women for Other unions with represen-
‘Warning on difficulties ahead
By Brendan Coyne
POUGHKEEPSIE — Warning of
the difficulties ahead for organized
labor, a professor of collective
bargaining skills gave some advice to
Dutchess County Education Local 867
members at an all-day seminar
recently.
Professor Joel M. Douglas, director
of the National Center for Collective
Bargaining at Baruch College in New
York City, spoke in the afternoon
following a morning session on the
role of the negotiating committee.
Southern Region III President
James Lennon also talked about labor
relations problems in the region, in-
cluding some which resulted in
strikes. He also spoke about
Cooperation between CSEA and
AFSCME.
“The message I bring you for the
80s is one of sheer horror for organiz-
ed labor,” said Douglas who is also a
labor arbitrator. “‘You have to look
far and wide to find a situation where
a union has won recently.’’
A management trend has been to
look to subcontract, Douglas said.
“This will become a crucial issue.’”
More important than wages at the
bargaining table according to Douglas
are the job protection/job security
clauses in the contract.
“You have to do your homework.
You have to know what you want,
what you want to go after,” he said.
One tool negotiators must use is the
politician. Organized labor must get
politicians to support their needs, he
said.
Another tool in the negotiating
process is a union’s economic muscle.
For example, he said in many small
towns, the school is the major
employer. And if a school board
member has a business in town,
public employees may want to picket
his place of business in order to help
him see their side of an issue.
While noting that it is unfortunate,
Douglas said negotiators must take
the posture of asking for more than
they want. Douglas said negotiators
must play the game. Administrators
expect it. “If you think you are going
to change this role playing, you're
wrong,” Douglas said.
He said many contracts have gray
areas, ‘‘lots of loose language,” which
is difficult to interpret and may go
against the employee. “If you had
tight contracts, we arbitrators
wouldn’t have a job.”’ Try to tighten
language, Douglas advised.
He also spoke on helping a fellow
worker. He cited two examples in his
experience where the employee's side
of the story was seriously flawed. So
he advised caution in some cases
because they might be impossible to
defend.
Both Douglas and Collective
Bargaining Specialist Ron Mazzola
emphasized the importance of taking
notes at negotiations. Douglas men-
tioned the availability of a manual on
note taking. He cautioned the
employees to be careful about the
contents of their notes. Once they are
submitted before an arbitrator, they
are accessible to the other side.
(Below), TAKING NOTES at the
workshop are Clara Boscardin, left, and
Thayel Pentz of the Dover Union Free
School District CSEA Unit.
STIPE END
Week-long women’s seminar gets praise
tatives at the seminar were the
Communications Workers of
America; the Transport Workers
Union of America; the American
Federation of Government
Employees; the United Food and
Commercial Workers International
Union, the United Steelworkers of
America; the International
Chemical Workers Union; the
American Postal Workers Union;
the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees International Union;
and the International Union of
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers.
Ms. Carr, enthusiastic about the
Maryland program, has high hopes
for the success of women’s
programs now being planned by the
CSEA Statewide Women’s Com-
mittee for the upcoming State and
County Division Workshops, later
this spring. Regional and local
women’s committees throughout
the union are also preparing
seminars for 1980, and she urges
CSEA women to watch for infor-
mation about them in their local
newsletters or in the Public Sector.
Two women’s programs being
sponsored by the University and
College Labor Education Assn., in
cooperation with the AFL-CIO
Education Department, will be
held this July. One, from July 6-
July 11 in Storrs, Ct., is for women
who have already attended a union
summer school. For information
about this program, call Maria-Luz
Samper at (203)-486-3417.
The other, for women who have
not attended a union summer
school before, will run from July
20-July 25 in New Brunswick, N.J.
For information about this
program, call Ida Castro at (201)-
932-9502.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
PROFESSOR Joel M. Douglas speaks
about the potential for difficulties ahead
for labor during a Dutchess County
Educational Local 867 workshop recently
in Poughkeepsie.
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By Jerry Wurf
President, AFSCME International
When the AFSCME International Executive
Board endorsed Senator Kennedy's candidacy
for the Democratic Presidential nomination, we
were making a critically important decision.
In AFSCME, as in CSEA, we follow up political
endorsements with hard work. Right now,
AFSCME is working with our locals and councils
in some of the remaining primary states where
our union has large memberships —including
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, Rhode
Island, Ohio, Maryland — to give a boost to
Senator Kennedy’s campaign. We're urging
voters in these states to follow the lead of
Democratic voters in New York State, who voted
heavily for Kennedy in the primary March 25.
AFSCME made our endorsement this year
after a poll of our 26-member Interrational Ex-
ecutive Board — consisting of AFSCME vice
presidents from throughout the nation — reveal-
ed overwhelming support for Kennedy’s can-
didacy for the Democratic Presidential
nomination.
CSEA President Bill McGowan and Region I
President Irving Flaumenbaum explained in last
week’s edition of The Public Sector why they
joined with other members of the International
Executive Board in the endorsement. I’d like to
share with you the process by which AFSCME
endorsed Kennedy, and the considerations that
led to the endorsement.
When the union endorses a candidate for public
office, we go all out to inform our members
about the candidate’s record and programs on
issues of concern to public employees. The
AFSCME International Executive Board is well
aware that the members of our union include
Republicans and Independents, as well as
Democrats, and that — as free Americans —
AFSCME members will never march in lockstep
behind a union’s political endorsements.
Thus, at the same time that we are working to
secure the Democratic nomination for Senator
Kennedy, the International Union also will con-
tinue to assist AFSCME members who are
Republicans — or who are Democrats, but do not
support Senator Kennedy — in getting elected as
delegates to the national conventions of both par-
ties. We hope that AFSCME members who sup-
port other candidates will help convince these
candidates to support programs and policies that
are beneficial to working Americans.
The International Executive Board endorsed
Senator Kennedy because he has been saying
what needs to be said about national economic
policies.
Senator Kennedy has called for adequate
federal aid to state and local governments, and
for a decent level of federal funding for
programs such as health care, care for the men-
tally ill and retarded, education, social services,
mass transit, and other programs. Senator
Kennedy has joined with AFSCME in opposing
and exposing the demagogy of the Proposition 13,
balance-the-budget hustlers — and he has
pointed out that slashing the federal budget will
not reduce the rate of inflation.
Senator Kennedy supports fair and mandatory
SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY is flanked by AFSCME International Secretary-Treasurer
William Lucy, left, and AFSCME International President Jerry Wurf, right, following an April 2
press conference in Washington during which President Wurf announced AFSCME’S endorsement of
Senator Kennedy’s bid for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States.
controls upon prices, interest rates, dividends,
and profits — not just upon wages. An equitable
and workable system of controls is the only way
to halt the ruinous inflation which is causing so
much hardship for members of our union, and for
all low and middle-income Americans.
Budget Cutbacks Are Devastating
AFSCME’s support for Senator Kennedy was
also prompted by President Carter's severe cut-
backs in the federal budget he had already
proposed for Fiscal 1981.
In February, President Carter and his key
aides met with the AFSCME International Ex-
ecutive Board to discuss the Administration’s
policies on domestic issues. At that time, the
Carter Administration was proposing a “‘bare
bones”’ federal budget that provided no increases
at all in federal aid to state and local
governments.
When we left that meeting, I spoke with Bill
McGowan and Irv Flaumenbaum about the
budget’s impact upon New York State. We
agreed that the budget was terribly austere — but
that we probably could live with it.
Since that February meeting, President Carter
has announced at least $15 billion in new cut-
backs from the federal budget. Most of these cut-
backs will come from federal aid to state and
local governments and from vital human service
programs.
Our staff economists estimate that — at a time
ALBANY — CSEA President William L. McGowan and Region One President Irv-
ing Flaumenbaum, CSEA’s elected representatives to the AFSCME International Ex-
ecutive Board, voted for the endorsement of Senator Kennedy by the In‘ernational.
CSEA plays a democratic role in decisions of the International Exe .utive Board as
an AFSCME affiliate, but CSEA maintains its ability to use its own 1, »edures to en-
dorse political candidates. The union’s Statewide Political Action Committee makes
those endorsements.
The action taken by President McGowan and Mr. Flaumenbaum was their vote as
elected International Vice Presidents of AFSCME.
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, April 16, 1980
when state and local governments in New York
are already cutting back their budgets — the new
federal budget cutbacks will cost New York
State from $500 million to $1 billion in
assistance that state and local governments had
expected to receive.
The new federal budget cutbacks include
severe slashes in General Revenue Sharing,
which provides $745 million to state and local
governments in New York and in Counter-
cyclical Assistance, which provides another $80
million. Cutting back from $500 million to $1
billion in federal aid to New York State will
devastate state and local governments in New
York, which receive at least 20% of their general
revenues from the federal government.
If these budget cuts are upheld by Congress,
thousands of CSEA/AFSCME members in New
York State will lose their job — and what
happens in New York State will happen in other
states as well.
There is one other important reason for
AFSCME’s endorsement of Senator Kennedy. In
New York and in most other major states, our
union has a large membership working in
facilities for the mentally ill and retarded and in
public general hospitals.
As the chairman of a key Senate health care
committee, Senator Kennedy has been helpful in
our efforts to win federal assistance for public
general hospitals, and to win federal protections
for the jobs of employees in institutions for the
mentally ill and retarded that are involved in
change-overs to coramunity facilities.
Senator Kennedy’s record on health care
issues reveals that he is one political leader who
is sensitive to the importance of public services
and to the needs of public employees.
We know that this campaign will be difficult,
but AFSCME will do everything we can to help
Senator Kennedy in the remaining primary
states. The New York and Connecticut vote
tabulations won't be the last surprise of this
eventful political year.
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