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ROSWELL CHRISTMAS FETE
Shown displaying a poster advertising their chapter's coming Christ-
mas party are, from left, Roswell Park Memorial Institute Civil

Service Employees Assn. chapter

social chairman Mitehell Falenski,

co-chairman Elizabeth Watts, and chapter president Robert W.
Stelley Jr. Roswell Memorial CSEAers will join many of their co-
unionists in holiday fetes in the coming days. The Roswell party will
be held at West Seneca's Pellamwood House Saturday evening, Dec. 11.

Did Thruway Vote
Authorize Strike?

CSEA Leaders Meet This Week To Decide What's Next

ALBANY—Exactly one-half of the eligible
Thruway Authority voters represented by
the Civil Service Employees Assn. rejected
@ proposed three-year contract last week.

As a result, top leadership of the union
was meeting at Leader presstime in an ef-
fort to interpret the significance of the
vote outcome.

Part of the dilemma faced by the leader-
ship is the strike approval that was linked
to rejection of the tentative agreement.

In addition to the summary sheets on the
contract proposals, Thruway Authority

voters were informed that a “No vote means
you are willing to participate in a strike
against the Thruway Authority.”

So while 738 employees rejected the pro-
posed contract and expressed their willing-
ness to strike, the other 50 percent of the
1,476 eligible voters are presumed to be
against such drastic job action or are an
unknown factor.

The union itself had recommended ap-
proval of the agreement as “the best pos-
sible under the circumstances,” even though
there were certain aspects that were not
satisfactory.

CSEA To Carey: Dyson Idea Won’t Work

ALBANY — Civil Service
Employees Assn. president
Theodore C. Wenzl posted a
letter to Gov. Hugh L. Carey
rejecting Commerce Commis-
sioner John Dyson’s recent sug-
gestion that state workers on the
middle-management level have
their clvil service status revoked.

Mr, Dyson proposed in a
speech in New York City recent-
ly that all middle managers on
the state payroll be stripped of
their civil service status, so that
they could be fired if they failed
to perform to standards set by
commissioners.

The CSEA does not represent
any management - confidential
employees but Dr. Wenzl pointed
out that the proposal, if adopted,
could erode the entire ¢lvil ser-
system.

The text, of the letter follows
Dear Governor Carey:

Recent public statements by
one of your cabinet members
urging that middle management
personnel of our state govern-
ment be removed from the civil
service structure have aroused

sharp concern among the thous-
ands of public employees in my
organization, a concern deeply
shared by myself, of course. On
the premise that you, too, recog-
nize the continuing need to re-
spect the integrity of the Civil
Service Merit System, I would
like officially to convey to you
our feelings in the matter.

I am referring to proposals in-
fluded in a well publicized speech
by John S. Dyson, Commissioner
of the State Department of Com-
merce. News articles on the con-
tents of this speech appeared

within the past few weeks in
major New York City and Albany
newspapers.

Generally, Mr. Dyson was at-
tempting to point up the need
for greater efficiency in govern-
ment with a view to cutting costs.
According to Mr. Dyson, this
would have the effect of easing
the tax burden and, here in New
York State, make the economic
climate more attractive to busi-
ness and industry, To achieve
this greater efficiency, the major
single solution advanced in his
speech was a demand that the

INSIDE THE LEADER

Time Out On Suffolk Residency Case

PST Negotiating Team

Mental Hygiene Series: On The Streets?
SUNY at Stony Brook First Local?
November Suggestion Winners
Westchester Conducts Stewards Seminar
i After Five Years, Binghamton PCer Wins
Duffy Assails Outside Interference

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Court Battle Is Di dictgal
If Monroe Starts Layoffs

ROCHESTER—Court action is promised if Monroe County Manager Lucien A. Morin
or the County Legislature carry out the. proposed layoff of about 500 county employees.

Martin Koenig, president of the Monroe County Loca! of the Civil Service Employees
Assn, said the union “will fight it with all the resources we have.”

‘The fight won't begin, how-
ever, until formal action is taken
and “we know what we have to
fight.”

Mr. Morin said last week the
layoffs will begin in mid-Jan-
uary, He called them “very dras-
Ue" but said the Republican ma-
Sority in the legislature was firm

in its decision on the layoffs.

‘The Republican proposals also
may include a 10 percent salary
reduction for employees earning
more than $20,000, including Mr.
Morin, who now makes $50,960 a
year,

The layoffs and salary zedue-

tions are part of a Republican
plan to reduce Mr. Morin's $13.72
average tax increase by more
than $5,

A legislature ways and means
committee also will recommend
that the county withdraw from

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entire middle management group
of state government be removed
from the framework of the elvil
service structure.

As a result, Mr. Dyson con-
tended, politically appointed top-
level administrators would be
able to juggle their middle man-
agers around at will for maxi-
mum effectiveness. They could
hire and promote without ob-
servance of standardized quali-
fications or testing procedures
and, likewise, fire and demote
without restrictions, he theorized.

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—_——
Repeat This!
Carter—Congress
Honeymoon May

Be Short-Lived

RESIDENT-ELECT Jimmy
Carter is at the moment
enjoying a honeymoon pe-
riod with Congress. However,
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Fact-Finder Recommends

Silver Creek

Salary Hike

ALBANY-—A Public Employment Relations Board fact-
finder has recommended payment of increments and the ad-
dition of $5,567.65 for salary improvement for non-instruc-
tional employees of the Silver Creek Central School District

in (Chautauqua County)

Eric W. Lawson Jr., of Buffalo,
is the fact-finder named by the
PERB in a dispute between the

schoo] district and the Silver
Creek, unit, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn.

Mr, Lawson said the cost of
the salary improvement is 7.5
percent and represents an equi-
table salary adjustment. He also
recommended that the parties
hot disturb the existing provisions
for time-and-a-half for work in
excess of eight hours @ day and
40 hours a week.

He proposed a replacement
section In the Leaves of Absence
section, as follows: “Personal
leave is available to employees
for the purpose of conducting
business of & pressing personal
nature which cannot be provided
for during non-work hours. Said
leave ts not available for casual

purposes such as shopping nor
for the pursuit of pleasurable
activities. Employees acknowledge
in requesting that they be given
personal leave that it is for the
purposes outlined and shall not
otherwise be required to provide
& specific reason for said leave.”

He did not recommend any
further improvement in the re-
tirement benefits

Albany Conclave
Set For January

TROY—There will be a meet-
ing of the members of Albany
Region IV, Cjvil Service Employ-
ees Assn,, Monday evening, Jan.
11, The meeting, according to
region president Joseph MeDer-
mott, will be held at Mario's
Restaurant, Troy, and will come
to order at 5:30 p.m.
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, December 10, 1976

Judge Calls For ‘Time Out’
In Suffolk Residency Case

HAUPPAUGE—The latest battleground in the continuing controversy over the right
of a municipality to establish residency requirements for its employees is now in Su-
preme Court in Suffolk County.

At issue is a resolution adopted by the Town of Riverhead requiring town residency

and giving those non-residents
on the municipal payroll about
seven months, until next July 20,
to move into the community.
Failure to become residents
means dismissal.

A challenge to the resolution
was brought by Thomas Dorfer,
& Riverhead police officer and
President of Riverhead Police-
‘men’s Benevolent Assn., but the
suit became so bogged down in
legal semantics that Justice Gor-

don M. Lipetz, in effect, called,

for a time out

Town officials complained that
while they'd like to answer the
sult, the court papers filed by
Mr. Dorfer and the Riverhead
PBA made this impossible. They
told the judge that, to begin
with, they're not sure what the
complaint is and who is seeking
the relief: Mr. Dorfer or the PBA

The basic elements of the dis-
pute, ke others attacking resi-
dency as a requirement for a
municipal job, are that the reso-
lution is in violation of the PBA
contract with the town, which
Presumably prohibits residency as

® condition for employment, the
standard allegations of constitu-
tional violations, and the author-
ity of Riverhead to establish such
employment requirements.

In an effort to simplify mat-
ters, the attorney for Mr. Dorfer
and the PBA said he would sue

only on behalf of Mr, Dorfer as
an individual police officer. But
Judge Lipetz said things were
already getting out of hand.
“Confusion and delay" will be
the end result if Mr. Dorfer is
allowed to press his “inartistically
drawn” suit, said the judge.

N.Y. Offices Are Closing
For The Coming Holidays

ALBANY—All offices of the State of New York will be
closed Friday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 31, in observance of
the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays.

The State Civil Service Employees Assn. contract stipu-

lates that when @ holiday falls
on a Saturday, as with the two
coming holidays, employees will

day off. It is the option of the
state to allow the employees to
select a day off. or to simply
dictate that all offices will be
closed on a particular date. In
this instance, the state opted to
close its offices on the 24th and

the 3ist.
In February 1977, a similar

14 City Teachers Helping Vietnamese

The Department of Health,
Education and Welfare has given
& $100,000 Title I grant to the
City Board of Education to train
Indo-Chinese refugees for full-
tme employment,

The program entitled “Con-
centrated Vocational Training
and Supportive Services for
Adult Indo-Chinese Refugees”
will end June 30, 1977

The program will fund 14
part-time instructional and staff
personnel from an ongoing Viet-
namese training program run by
the board.

Program

coordinators say @

CETA Funds Are Applied
To Private Job Training

MANHATTAN—The private business sector of New York
City will be the beneficiary of a new State Training and
Manpower Program (STAMP) to be administered by the
New York State Department of Commerce, Commissioner

John 8. Dyson announced.

The program, which will re-
imburse employers at the rate of
50 percent of their employees’
salaries during their training
period, is funded by the US.
Comprehensive Employment and
Training Act (CETA) through
the New York City Human Re-
sources Administration, Depart-
ment of Employment.

The STAMP program was con-
ceived and developed by Ray-
mond R, Norat, Deputy Com-
missioner of the State Commerce
Department's Ombudsmen and
Small Business Services Division,
with the assistance of Commis-
sioner Lucille Rose, New York
City Department of Employment

“Every employer who needs
help in finding and training
competent, qualified people to fill
new job slots will find the
STAMP program financially re-
warding,” Commissioner Dyson
declared, “This new program 1s
another example of the deter-
mination of the City and our
State government, by judicious
use of federal funds, to attack
the City's number one problem—
putting people back to work.”

The State Commerce Depart-
ment will work closely with
Chambers of Commerce, com-
munity manpower centers, and
other business development or-
ganizations to develop @ pool of
job seekers, who will then be
pre-screened by the depart-
ment's professional on-the-job
training specialists lo meet spect-
fle employer needs. ,

“A special advantage to every
employer participating in this
training program,” Deputy Com-
missioner Norat maid, “is that he
will be reimbursed each month

for half of the trainees’ salaries,
thus assuring a steady cash flow
for his enterprise.”

Private sector employers in
New York City interested in the
STAMP program may contact
Henry Kadish, Director, STAMP,
New York State» Department of
Commerce, 230 Park Avenue,
New York, N.Y. 10017, The tele-
phone number is (212) 949-9330,

Urban-Rural
Project Gets
Added Funds

The Board of Education
has authorized $27,452 for
Fordham University to renew
its Urban-Rural School De-
velopment Program in School
District 12

For five years Fordham has
given “staff development” courses
to teachers, school aides, para-
professionals and parents.

This year's program is being
conducted in at two Bronx
Schools, C.8. 134 and JHS 136.

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a field placement counselor, a
senior clerk and five school aides
will be needed.

Funds will also be for educa-
tional materials and equipment

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eK Development Train-
ing Program will provide super-
vision. They will also be respon-
sible for personnel screening and
recruitment,

Approximately 90 refugees,
living in the metropolitan New
York City urea, will receive basic
education and occupational skills,

Courses will include training
for business and clerical skills,

automotive mechanic and main-
tenance training. Two centers
have been set up in Manhattan’
and one in Brooklyn to serve the
Indo-Chinese community.

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Make a miracie.

Make a friend you'll never
meet. Donate blood soon.

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eNO waiting for MONEY payments!
eNO major MONEY headaches!

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PROFESSIONAL-SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL TEAMS BEGINS NEGOTATING

The Civil Service Employees Assn.'s Professional-Scientifie-Technical

Unit negotiating team, com-

regions, met last month to prepare its position

in bargaining with the state. At the first meeting with the state, the CSEA team reopened on Article 21,
Seniority, and Article 28, Work Week-Work Day, while the State reopened on Article 10, Attendance

and Leave, and Article 36, Protection of Employees. The current CSE/

reopener on sali

‘State contract provides for a

'y as well as two additional articles, with terms of the new agreement to become effec-

tive April 1. 1977, Professional-Scientific-Technical Unit chairman Robert Lattimer, standing second
from right, of Buffalo District Labor chapter 352, is shown here with other members of the team. Seated,

from left,

re E. Jack Dougherty, Taxation and Finance chapter 690; Patricia Comerford, Health De-
partment, Helen Hayes Hospital chapter 302; Betty Duffy, Mental Hygiene Pilgrim Psychiatric Center

chapter 418, and Arthur Allen, Transportation District 10 chapter 508, Standing are Vito Rizzo, Mental
Hygiene, Fort Stanwix chapter 422 at Rome Developmental Center; Canute Bernard, Workmen's Com-

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pensation Board, New York City chapter 010; Timothy McInerney, Transportation District 1 chapter
Jack Weisz, Correction Department, NY Parole District chapter 259, William Pitsing, Taconic State

Park chapter 108; Mr. Lattimer, and Jean Treacy, Labor Department, Fort Schuyler chapter 014 of Utica.
Missing from photo is Robert J. Bush, Mental Hygiene, Craig Developmental Center chapter 405. The
bargaining process was also got under way by the other three negotiating teams: Institutional, Opera-

thon:

nd Administrative.

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SNANANNANNANN ANNES,

*'o CSEA calendar

Information for the Calendar may be submatted 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. Y. 10007,

Attn.: CSEA Calendar.
DECEMBER

10—Capital District Retiree chapter Christmas Party: Ramada Inn.

Albany
@ io + Seneca Developmental Center chapter 427 annual Christ

mas Party

10—Fort Schuyler local 14 Christmas Party: 7 p.m, Harts Hill Inn.

10—Farmingdale SUNY local Christmas pa: 8 Huntington

Town House,

11—Sunmount Developmental Center 43! Christmas party: Canalis
Restaurant

Huntington

Tupper Lake
11—Roswell Park Memorial Institute chapter Christmas party: 6:30
p.m., Pellamwood House, West Seneca.
15—Na chapter 830 board of
p.m, Salisbury Club, Eisenhower Park

au County

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directors meeting: 5
East Meadow

@) 16—Southern Region Ili meeting: Holiday Inn, New York State Thru
way Exit 17, Newburgh
16—Suffolk County Police Department unit Christmas luncheon
| p.m., Heritage Inn, thtown By-pass, Hauppauge,
16—New York City Region !I executive board meeting: 5:15 p.m.

regional office, 11 Park Place, Manhattar
16—Long Island Region | Christmas party: Huntington Town House
Huntington
17—Oneida County chapter Christmas party: 6:30 p.m., Twin Pond:
Golf and Country Club, Utica.
18—Buffalo chapter Christmas party: 7 p.m., John’s Flaming Hearth,
Lackawanna

18—Broome County chapter Christmas party
Church, Baxter Street, Binghamton.

21—Buffalo-Niagara Frontier Retiree chapter meeting and Christmas
party: 1:30 p.m., Hotel Lennox, 140 North St., Buffalo,

23—Long Island Region i meeting: 7:30 p.m., region office, 740
Broadway, Amityville

29—Nassau County Retiree chapter 919 Christmas party; 11:30 a.m.,
Community Room, American Savings Bank, Modell Shopping
Center, Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow.

JANUARY
@ 6—Syracuse Area Armory Employees chapter meeting: | p.m.,

New York National Guard Armory, 174 South St., Auburn,

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

6 p.m., St. Mary's

Oswego Unit

OSWEGO—The charter of
the Oswego City Civil Service
Employees Assn. unit has
been suspended by the chap-
ter executive committee

CSEA members were notified
that a study will be made by
the Oswego County chapter to
determine the causes of the
“great loss in membership, detri-

Ft. Schuyler

UTICA— The Fort Schuy-
ler local 14, Civil Service Em-
ployer will hold its
annual Christmas party Fri-
day evening, Dec, 10.

The event, set to begin at 7
p.m., will be held at Harts Hill

Assn.,

Albany Area School
District CSEA Head
Seeking Disclosures

RAVENA — The union representing non-teaching em-
ployees of the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School Dis-
trict called upon the district's Board of Education to release
details concerning a proposed new steel building at the dis-

trict’s garage well in advance of
a public referendum Dec. 18.

H. Eugene Tyron, president of
the Ravena - Coeymans - Selkirk
unit, Civil Service Employees
Assn., said the board has been
evasive as to the purpose of the
new building

“Surely the board can at least
give the taxpayers the reason for
this building if they expect them
to vote on spending public
money to build it,” said Tryon.

Mr. Tryon, whose union rep-
resents some 80 maintenance,
transportation and clerical em-
ployees of the school district,
viid the employees are in com-
plete agreement on the need for
the structure, “if it will be used
to house school district vehicles
that presently must be left out
in the open.” Rumors persist,
however, that the purpose may
be actually to provide shelter for
private buses owned by Brennan
Transportation, of Cohoes, which
holds a contract with the district
to provide certain transportation
services.

“We want to clear the air, to
put these rumors to rest if they

Is Suspended

mental newspaper publicity, lack
of unity in membership and city
administration and excessive
grievances at the local leve!

Unit activities were placed un-
der the direction of the county
chapter. A steward was to be
named in each department of
the unit by chapter president
Francis Miller.

Yule Party

Inn. Tickets are $8 each for
members and $14 each for non-
members, although each member
will be allowed one guest at. a
member price. Tickets may be
obtained from James Currier,
Philip Caruso, Marguerite Curcio
and Ronald Majcak

are nothing more than rumors,
or to be told the truth if they
are facts. Only the board knows
for sure, and so far they aren't
saying anything. Why?.” asked
Mr. Tryon

The CSEA unit, which is at
impasse in a contract dispute
with the district, also released
an open letter calling on the
board to tell the public whether
or not taxpayer funds were used
to install a two-way radio in one
of Brennan‘s buses serving the
school district

“If so, it was an unnecessary
expense, and I think the taxpay-
ers have a right to know,” the
CSEA unit president said, He
said it may be more than coin-
cidental that that radio instal-
lation closely followed board ap-
proval of a yet-to-be installed
two-way radio for the district's
transportation supervisor.

“All we're asking is for the
board to be more open to the
taxpayers on how they are
spending our money, Maybe then
there wouldn't be so many ru-
mors flying around,” he said.

Mr. Tryon also challenged an-
other aspect of the district's
transportation contract with
ennan. He claimed there was
no need to contract out the late
sports runs to Brennan because
the district's own bus drivers are
available to make those runs.

“But we're not making those
runs. and the buses the taxpay-
ers paid for are sitting idle and
depreciating while the taxpayers
pay f private vehicles. That
just doesn’t make any sense, but
again, the school board remains
silent as to how that scheme Ss
supposed to save money,” he
stated

Tt is indeed ironic that the
taxpayers are being called out
to vote on a steel building, but
there was no vote on how their
children are to be transported to
school. For now, at least, we re-
spectfully ask the board for an
answer on the reason for the
steel building, and we ask that
it be given publicly immediately.”

Predict Monroe Court Battle

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the federal social security system
for county employees, That move
would require full legislature ap-
proval

Although no one has said
where the layoffs will be, Mr.
Morin said the only areas to be
exempted will be the sheriff's
road patrol, the jail staff and
county court

He said the layoffs will hit
most county departments harder
than the layoff proposals he
made last spring. The legislature
rejected that phn

Mr. Koenig said neither Mr.
Morin nor any representative
from the legislature has discus-
sed the layoffs with the CSEA
yet.

“They're supposed to do that
before anything js made, nublic,”

he said. “After that, 30 days’ no-
tice must be given.”

The full legislature may act
on the proposal at its next meet-
ing. About 4,200 of the 4,500
county employees ure members
of the CSEA.

“We're taxpayers too,” Mr.
Koenig said. “I don't think that
for $1.80 the taxpayers want to
see 500 people laid off. It will
only increase the welfare rolls.”

Republicans estimate the lay-
offs will reduce the property
tax increase by $1.80 per $1,000
assessment.

“The county manager got in &
box by giving election-year tax
decrease during the past three
years,” Mr. Koenig sald. “So,
once again, county employees are
supposed to pay for them."

He said the CSEA Wil! take le-

gal action if the legislature at-
tempts ‘across-the-board salary
cuts or if it refuses to permit the
county administration to negot!-
ate pay raises with the CSEA

‘The layoff and other proposals
come during CSEA-county nego-
Mfations, which began in early
October

“We've met several times,” Mr,
Koening sald. “We've exchanged
proposals, which, for a change,
kept us out of the position of
being on the defensive.

“But we're still quite far apart.
No impasse has been declared,
but we expect negotiations to be
Jong and difficult.”

He said the CSEA Js asking for
@ pay raise and improvement in
benefits. “But they're taking an
opposite position, Their position
is rather inflexible and rigid,
We're about five miles apart.”

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, December 10, 1976

Jacobs Back On The Job State Schedules 11 Exams

V. Jacobs, public information
specialist for New York City
Region II, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn., has returned to
work following corrective eye
surgery at Manhattan Eye and
Ear Hospital

Mr. Jacobs said the surgery
was successful and an additional
operation, which had been a pos-
sibility, is now considered un-
necessary.

Mr. Jacobs, former president
of the CSEA's Metropolitan Con-
ference, predecessor of the New

NAME TRUSTEE

ALBANY ~~ Frederick R. Clark,
of Albany, has been named by
Gov. Hugh L. Carey as a mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees of
the College of Environmental
Science and Forestry at Syracuse
University.

‘The post is unsalaried. Mr
Clark's name will be sent to the
Senate for confirmation when
that body reconvenes in January

York City Region, expressed
thanks to “the many good friends
who were kind enough to send
cards and letters to me when I
was recuperating.”

L.I. Region Meeting

AMITYVILLE — Members of
Long Island Region I. Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn., will meet
Thursday evening, Dec. 23, at
region headquarters, 740 Broad-
way. Amityville. Region presi-
dent Irving Plaumenbaum said
the meeting will begin at 7:30
pm.

Southern Meeting

NEWBURGH — There will be
@ meeting of members of South-
ern Region If, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn., on Thursday, Dec.
16. Region chief James Lennon
said that the meeting will be
held at the Holiday Inn near New
York State Thruway Exit 17.
Newburgh.

ALBANY — There is still
time to file for 11 state open
competitive titles that will
close this month, including
employment service assistant 1.
which offers a four-year training

ity hospital treatment assistant,
security hospital senior treatment
assistant and assistant traffic
supervisor. All these have Dec.
13 filing deadlines and Jan. 15
written tests.

There are Dec. 20 deadlines
and no written tests, but evalua-
tions of training and experience,
for associate social service man-
power development specialist. di-
rector of the bureau of manpow-
er planning and development
and the employment service as-
sistant I tithe (exam no. 27-616)

Most openings for employment
service assistant I are in New
York City, in various Work In-

Labor. The job pays $8,723 to
start in the New York City area
and $200 less upstate, where
there are also some openings.
Employment interviewer pay*
$10,714 a year in the New York
City area.

‘The four-year training pro-
gram includes on-the-job train-
ing and free college training,

mental or non-profit agency.
This experience must have in-
cluded outreach activities in the
manpower fields or development
of employment opportunities, job
placement, or job preparation
orientation,

The on-the-job training in-
volves job placement and devel-
opment, test administration and
scoring, and orienting WIN

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‘There are four one-year train-
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contract and must satisfactorily
complete all on-the-job training
requirements before advancing
to the next higher level.

By the end of the second year,
appointees must have completed
30 college credits, 45 by the
end of the third year and mus@®
possess an associate degree by
the end of the fourth year.

Candidates who possess an as-
sociate degree or 60 credits and
who are appointed directly to
Level III will not be required to
complete the additional college
credits, but rather will be given
® full two years’ on-the-job
training

Computer programmer trainee
jobs are open throughout thay
state, with a $10,318 salary in’
the New York City area and
$200 less elsewhere. After a one
year traineeship, appointees be-
come computer programmers at
$10,914 in the city area. Only a
bachelors’ degree is required
(Exam 24-409).

Security hospital treatment as-
sistant (Exam 24-482) requires
either one year’s specialized ex-
perience in treating mental pa-
tients, or patients with social?
behavior problems, where there ts
emphasis on the security of pa-
tients or residents, or two years
direct experience in treating
emotionally disturbed or mentally
retarded patients.

The positions are with the
Department of Mental Hygiene.
Security hospital senior treat-
ment assistant (Exam 24-483)
requires either three years spe-
cialized experience or four years
general experience. It pays $13,-
404. Good physical condition is
necessary

Health care fiscal analyst (Ex-
am 24-452) starts at $10,714
@ year. It requires a bachelor’s
degree, including 15 hours in ac-
counting and three years health
care fiscal experience.

Senior health care fiscal ana-
lyst (Exam 24-453) pays $13,404
and requires an extra year oj
experience.

Cartographer (Exam 24-434)
pays $10,714. It requires 15 credit
hours of classroom training, in-
cluding nine hours in cartogra-
phy and six hours in any com-
bination of related courses.

Also necessary is either a bach-
elor's degree or four years’ ex-
perience in cartography or @
combination of both. Senior car-
tographer (Exam 24-435) re-
quires an additional two year@
experience. Graduate study can
be substituted for up to one
year’s experience.

Assistant raffle supervisor
(Exam 24-196) starts at $11,463 a

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power development

(Exam 21-624) pays $17,429. A
degree and four years’ em-
ployee training and redevelop-
ment programs experience ts re-
quired. Higher degrees and study
can be substituted for experi-

(Bxam 27-625) pays $26,516. A
master’s degree and seven year
experience ts required.

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md MENTAL HEALTH ff

thousands of workers and pa-
tients, This ts the second of a
series.

By JANE B. BERNSTEIN

IRANSFERRING mentally

disabled individuals out

of large institutions and into

the community does not al-

ways guarantee an improvement

in care. As a matter of fact. if

strict plans are not implemented,

de-institutionalization can be-

come a disaster.

e And it did become a disaster

in the state of California, from

which New York State officials

should take heed. for that po-
tential exists here.

Small establishments where
quality care is given to mentally
retarded children were exam-
ined in the first part of this
series. But these facilities may
be looked upon as the exceptions
rather than the rules of com-
munity mental health care at
this time

When large institutions are
shut down, proper controls for
follow-up patient care are vital,
whatever form that future care
may take, including small de-
velopmental centers, halfway
houses, sheltered workshops, or
hostels. In the case of Califor-
nia, the controls were virtually
non-existent. The failures of the
community care system were re-
e searched and collated into a

Paper entitled “Where Have All
The Patients Gone?” by mem-
bers of the California State
Employees Association.

And that study gives those in-
dividuals opposed to de-institu-
tionalization an awful lot of fuel
for their respective fires.

The policy came into being in
California through part of the
provisions of the Lanterman-

@ Petris-Short Act, which went in-
to effect in 1969, The provisions
called for a fuller utilitization of
community-based mental health
care services, and the eventual
cutback of the population in
large institutions.

‘The problem was, researchers
found, that the community was
not equipped to deal with a
large influx of mental patients.

Individuals looking for money-
making enterprises began open-

@ ing and running board-and-care
facilities for the mentally ill, for
all that was required by the state
to run a six-bed home was # $10
business license.

Persons in need of medica) at-

released from such state hospi-
tals as Atascadero. Stockton and
Camarillo, which were reduced in
size as part of the de-institu-
Uonalization plan.

And state hospital officials met
with difficulties trying to get
guardians of patients to sign re-
lease forms for them. Many of
these people who were due to be
released were in desparate need
of constant care, being unable to
feed or dress themselves. One
30-year-old retarded woman with
the mentality of a 3-year-old
was induced to put an ‘X” at
the bottom of her release form
after her legal guardian refused
to sign it.

After years of moving toward
cutting back the state's institu-
tion population, California is
now returning to a more cen-
tralized mental health system
because of outraged workers, pol-
iticians and public.

Here in New York, indications
have pointed toward a potential
for the same type of situation
that arose in California.

By now, New York residents
are familiar with what was
known as the “Nursing Home
Scandal.” Assemblyman Andrew
Stein released the report in
February of this year that open-
ed many eyes to the tragedy of
poor care given in adult care
homes.

In March, Sen. Prank Moss
followed up with his own in-
vestigation. His findings were al-
most identical to those of As-

“I have visited the psychiatric
ghettos of Long Beach and Par
Rockaway. I have toured several
of the old hotels and boarding
homes where thousands of form-
er mental patients live. I have
seen their world of cockroaches
and peeling wallpaper, of flak-
ing paint and falling plaster

I saw medicine cupboards
that were wide open. Almost any-
one could walk off with large
quantities of amphetamines and
barbiturates. I met no licensed
nurses; most drugs were admin-
istered by unlicensed personnel,
who most likely could not detect
possible adverse reactions and
side effects that occur when pat-
jents take large amounts of psy-
choactive drugs.”

‘The potential for harm to
former mental patients living in
these places was almost limitless.
Many cases were reported of pat-

home, who allegedly died from

Into The Community:
Out On The Streets?

patients.”

Now that the problems have
come to light, now that they are
recognizable, what is the Board
of Social Welfare doing?

“They're doing the best they
can to control the licensing pro-
Deputy Commissioner of Mental
Hygiene for the state. “But the
board is understaffed. We must
be accountable when -a patient
is discharged from a state in-
stitution to make sure that he
cr she is properly placed,” Dr.
McKinley added.

Dr. McKinley said he has seen
patients in proprietary homes
who asked to be sent back to
the institution from which they
were released, because the living
situations were so dismal.

“The fact is, community fa-
cilities haven't developed quickly
enough to keep up with the rate
of de-institutionalization.” he
said.

According to estimates, the
anticipated decrease in state fa-
cilities {s 8 percent each year.

“e4s long as communities are

not equipped to handle the men-
tally il, profiteers and their
adult care homes will continue
to exist. And despite the fact
that certain homes were ex-
posed, many more are thriving
which have not yet been brought
to the public eye.

For example, Ms. H. has a 26-
year-old son who's been in and
out of various mental health fa-
cilities for many years. We'll call
him John.

At present, John resides at
the Northeast Nassau facility at
Kings Park County Hospital, and
is shipped 30 miles by bus each
day to a hospital in Gien Cove,
Long Island, for activities, Ms,
H. said he is able to work in

and is unable to live at home be-
cause of this.

John could not stand living
there and ran away.

Shortly after his disappearance,
Ms. H. got a call from the police
telling her that John had run
@ car off an embankment in
Goshen, N.Y. and had been put
in Hudson River Psychiatric
Center.

“It's been like a merry-go-
round,” Ms. H. said. “It got to
the point where we did not know
where to put him. He was happy
at Hudson River, but they re-
duced the facility and released

Jchn then wound up at an
adult care home in Levittown,

The house he referred to is in
Hicksville, and is run, according
to Mr. T, by a daughter and
her father. Patients are thrown
into small rooms, with some-
times as many as four people to
@ room. For this the charge is
$120 a month without food, Meals
may be purchased, with prices
as high as one dollar for a cup
of soup.

Since all of the patients dwel-
ling in this house are no longer
in state care, they receive supple-
mental security income (SSI),

which provides $386.70 each
month.

“I couldn't understand it,” Mr.
T. said, “My son would come to
me every day and ask me for
couple of bucks. I didn’t know

Mental Hygiene Deputy Commissioner Robert McKinley sees need

fer state accountability in follow-up care of mental patients.

which, according to Ms. H., was
run by South Americans.

“That house was like a rathole
—it was dirty, crowded, and the
patients were left on their own,”
she said.

John was finally removed from
there after he was found in the

reaction.

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where his payment was going.

“Then one day I got a phone
call from the SSI people who
told me they'd sent my son
three checks for one month in-
stead of one, and could I please
send back the money.” Mr. T.
continued. “Well, the checks
were gone and my son had not
seen a penny of the money—
the owner of the house got it all.”

Mr. T. maintains the housing
care system must be organized,
with follow-up care watched
closely by state mental hygiene
officials.

“When a patient comes out of
@ large institution and looks ter-
rible, he’s dirty and his clothes
are ragged, the only kind of pri-
vate place that wants to take
him ts a place like the one in
Hicksville,” Mr. T. said.

Both parents of mentally re-
tarded and mentally il) individ-
uals and officials agree that in
order for success, the process of
reducing the populations of large
institutions must be well organ-
ized and well planned. That ap-
plies not only for patients, but
for institutional workers as well.

Employee thoughts on the mat-
ter of de-institutionalization will
be examined in the next part of
Uhis series.

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They Aren't Gifts

N editorial that appeared in a recent issue of the CSEA

Monitor, a newsletter published by the Fort Schuyler
local 14, Civil Service Employees Assn., caught our eye and
we thought we would share it.

The editorial read this way:

“Under the title of ‘Things That Irritate,' let's talk about
those bulletins that find a way from the State Campus in
Albany to your desk and are designed to keep you informed
about changes in various systems.

“Ever notice how they attribute those changes to Civil
Service, Employee Relations, the Governor, ete? These im-
provements are attributed to everyone and anyone except
the CSEA and nine times out of 10, the change was brought
about through negotiations between the CSEA and the state

-so why in hell can’t they say so?

“For instance, this past week Bill O’Toole, executive
deputy industrial commissioner in the Department of Labor,
issued a bulletin outlining several significant improvements
in the employee health insurance program. O'Toole makes
no mention of the fact that every one of those improvements
were gained for the employees by the union. They were not
gifts from the gods; they were fought for hard and long.

“We get a little sick when our employer tries, no matter
how subtly, to make you think that your paycheck, your
leave, sick time, health insurance, work schedule and so on
came to you right out of the blue sky. They would like you
to think that one morning, God the Father (the Governor)
woke up and told God the Son (Employee Relations) to in-
struct the Holy Ghost (Civil Service) to provide all those
things.

“Well, we are here to tell you that the State of New York
has never ‘given’ you one solitary thing. Your employer, who
expects your unending loyalty, would be happy as hell to
cut your pay, deny you leave, increase your hours and elim-
inate your fringes if it thought it could get away with it
Anybody who thinks differently has (a) never tried to ne-
gotiate with the state or (b) lives in a dream world.

“The only thing between you and a sweatshop is your
union.”

Police Dilemma

EW YORK CITY has created a new dilemma for laid-off

policemen already dizzy from being buffeted by the
city's financial turmoil.

By offering to hire 57 of them as correction officers,
but threatening to drop those who decline from the police
preferred rehiring list, the city is guilty of unpardonable
insensitivity.

These men were already cheated when the Transit Auth-
ority skipped over them in hiring bus drivers because the
TA feared they would be rehired soon. The laid-off workers
that were hired by the TA did not even have to give up
their places on preferred lists,

Another blow hit laid-off police officers when the city
offered to rehire 400 of them Noy, 1, but only if the Patrol-
men’s Benevolent Association funded the rehirings by de-
ferring employee benefits. That matter is still the subject
of contract negotiations,

If personne! director Thomas Roche were to give his
assurances that he will restore all names to the preferred
list, then the Corrections Department could go down the
preferred list until it finds men who want the jobs, rather
than those who feel they must take them or nothing. HB.

(Continued from Page 1)
whether it will be an enduring
one or of short duration is a
question which won't be resolved
until after Carter is inaugurated
on Jan, 20.

So far Carter has succeeded in
making the Congressional leaders
happy wtth a gesture of no great-
er significance than giving them
his private, unlisted telephone
number, suggesting that unlisted
numbers are a congressman's
best friend. However, once the
inauguration has taken place,
and Carter assumes the burdens
and prerogatives of the Pres!-
dency, he is likely to find that
Congress cannot be so easily
placated or appeased.

Changeover Of Members

The fact is that Congress is a
much more different body than
it was a dozen years ago. During
the past two Congressional elec-
tions, there has been a dramatic
change in the personnel of both
the Senate and the House of
Representatives, due to death,
retirement or defeat of incum-
bents. As a result, a majority of
both the Senate and the House
Democrats have never served un-
der a Democratic President.
That means that they have not
Jearned how to subordinate their
own prerogatives to the party
leadership that emanates from
the White House and the execu-
tive branch of government.

Starting with the Johnson
Administration, because of the
divisiveness created by the Viet-
nam War, and during the Nixon
years, particularly as a result of
the Watergate scandals, Con-
gress has become a more inde-
pendent body and individual
Congressmen have become more
aggressive

Gone are the days when
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Sen-
ate Majority Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson used to rule their re-
spect mbers with cajolary
and arm-twisting. The kindof
leadership offered in more recent
years by Speaker Carl Albert and

Senate Majority Leader Mike
Mansfield, where they served
mostly as moderators between

contending Congressional forces,
seems more attuned to the new
mood of Congress.

“Tip” A Question Mark

No one quite knows how Con-
gressman Tip O'Neill, who ts
slated to be the new Speaker,
will conduct his office. He is
likely to be a more forceful lead-
er than his predecessor, but by
no stretch of imagination is he
likely to take the reins of lead-
ership in the image of Speaker
Rayburn,

In the Senate, the post of Ma-
jority Leader seems to be shak-
ing down to a contest between
Senator Hubert Humphrey and
the present majority whip, Sen-
ator Robert Byrd of West Vir-
ginia. Between the two, Hum-
phrey is likely to be a more
powerful leader because of the
sheer force of his personality.
Byrd is largely a technician,
whose major strength among the
Senate delegation is that he has
never tried to exert any leader-
ship.

Of course, Senator Byrd func-
toned in the shadow of Senate
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield,
and it may well be that should
he succeed Mansfield, Byrd
would emerge from his shell und
attempt to exert greater qual-
ities of leadership than were
characteristic of Mansfield.

Somehow, Congress will pre-

(Continued on Page 7)

Civil Service
Law & You

By RICHARD GABA

Mr. Gaba is a member of the firm of White, Walsh and Gaba,
P.C,, and chairman of the Nassau County Bar Association Labor
Law Committee. e

Examination Suit

A state employee commenced an Article 78 proceeding
on his own behalf and on behalf of those similarly situated
in which he asked the court for an order directing the State
Civil Service Commission to allow the petitioner and others
to take certain examinations and enjoining the Commission
from promulgating an eligible list as a result of an exam-
ination already given until such time as a new examination
had been ordered.

@

PETITIONER WAS employed by the Department of
Transportation as senior training technician. In August
1975, the Commission announced interdepartmental pro-
motion examinations for positions of associate administra-
tive analyst and associate budgeting analyst. The announce-
ment set forth which qualifying titles would be eligible to
take the examinations. The petitioner made application
but was denied promotion on the ground that his current
title was not one of those listed, Petitioner appealed to the
Commission unsuccessfully. Petitioner argued that a Civil
Service Department memorandum issued in 1974 declared,
his title of senior training technician to be among the
collateral administrative titles specified in Section 52.1 of
the civil service law, therefore making him eligible to par-
ticipate in the subject promotion examination. Furthermore,
petitioner argued, on prior occasions other employees with
his title were allowed to participate in the subject examina-
tions. In addition, he contended that the Commission’s de-
termination was based strictly on its own administrative
convenience and was arbitrary, capricious and an abuse
of discretion.

. . *

THE COMMISSION argued that petitioner's title was no®
in a lower grade in the direct line of promotion either to
associate administrative analyst or associate budget analyst,
and that only where the Civil Service Commission deter-
mines that there may not be enough candidates in the
direct line of promotion do they open up collateral lines
under Section 52.6 of the civil service law. Section 52.6 pro-
vides as follows: “Promotion Examinations. Promotion and
transfer to administrative positions in the state service:
(a) For the purpose of this subdivision, the term ‘adminis-
trative positions’ shall include competitive class positions in
the state service in law, personnel, budgeting, methods an@
procedures, management, records analysis, and adminis-
trative research, as determined by the state civil service
department, (b) Except as provided in section fifty-one,
vacancies in administrative positions shall be filled, so far
as practicable, by promotion as prescribed in subdivision one
of this section, which may be made from among persons
holding administrative positions in lower grades without
regard to the specialties of their lower grade positions.”

. . .

THE SUPREME COURT of Albany County at Special
Term granted the relief petitioner requested. The cour
pointed out that it is loathe to interfere with the Commis-

(Continued on Page 17)
What's Your Opinion

By PAMELA CRAIG
QUESTION

what would

you do?

THE PLACE
Manhattan

OPINIONS
Louis A. Pagnuceo, retired family court judge:

@ John Dimagio, physical education teacher: “The

first thing I would do is to take
@ course In standardbred racing.
T have always wanted to be a
professional standardbred har-
ness driver. The sport is the
training, driving and racing of
pacers and trotters. I've been a
follower of harness racing for
many years. The money is good.
it’s adventurous, and there is
an eliteness about the sport
that makes it special to me.

It's a difficult sport which requires a special

intelligence and skill.”

Iris Rosofsky, English teacher; “Teaching is not

my first love in life, since I'm
a writer and a playwright. I
recently had my second play
produced in New York at Play-
wright’s Horizons with an
Equity cast. I also write short
stories and I've taught English
using the book they are print-
ed in, My plays have been read
over the radio. I would try to
work with a theatre group
where I could be the playwright

Ray Stenger, retired policeman: “I would play

music and entertain, since I
play the piano and sing. When
I retired in 1959, I started to
play music full-time to supple-
ment the city pension I was
receiving. If I had lost my job
or quit, I would have joined the
local musicians union and
worked in a club. I'm very for-
tunate to have another career
that gives me satisfaction. My
life today, thanks to music, is

If you were to retire from your job in civil service today,

“I would devote my life to
working for needy causes. Since
I recently retired, I have work-
ed full-time helping to organize
relief efforts for the tragic
earthquake victims in Northern
Ttaly. I am teaching Spanish
to my grandchildren, a lan-
guage they should know. My
life has been abundantly ful-
filling. Now I feel the
need to work only for the pub-

Uc good. I have abilities that I must use to help

other people.”

Art Portnow, publications, John Jay College: “I

on the island of

Daniel Mack, math teacher:

as fulfilling as my life before retirement.”

Don't Repeat This!

(Continued from Page 6)
sumably Jearn how to react with
restraint with a Democrat in the
White House. During the Ford
years, Congress passed a wide
‘variety of bills challenging Presi-
dent Ford to exercise his veto
power. In this way the Demo-
crats in Congress built a party
record which they exploited dur-
ing the presidential and con-
gressional election campaigns.

However, with a Democrat in’
the White House, Congress is
likely to be much more circum-
spect about passing bills that
they know will be vetoed. No
doubt many Republican members
of Congress wilt seek to embar-
rass the Democratic majority by
calling on them to send to the
White House bills they passed
during the past two years and
were yeloed by President Ford

In addition, the Democrats will
be faced with a problem of what
to do about the Humphrey-Haw-
kins full employment bill, In
many respects, from a Congres-
signa) point of view, this bill be-
came the Democratic slogan for
putting an end to high levels of
employment and for coping with
the sluggish economy,

During the course of the cam-
paign, Carter's support for that
bill ranged from warm to luke
warm to its total disregard to-

wards the end of the campaign.
This is an area in which a
confrontation with the White
House and Congress seems to be
highly likely. Moreover, in view
of the fact that all the economic
indicators point to a worsening
of the economy, it is likely to
become the first battle line be-
tween Carter and Congress.

What seems clear is that if
the honeymoon between Carter
and Congress turns out to be a
short-lived one, it will flounder
on questions of how to deal with
economic matters.

?andAnswers

Q@. I know that my social se-
curity retirement benefits may be
reduced if my income for the
year is over $2,520, But do I have
to count all income I have in
figuring the total amount for the
year?

A. You must count earnings
from work of any kind—whether
or not the work is covered by
social security — except tips
amounting to less than $20 in
& month from one employer,
‘Total wages, not just take-home
pay, and all net self-employment
earnings must be added together.

Buy American!

would move to San Francisco
and buy a 40-foot ketch. My
first desire is to be near the
sea. I could make a living
selling fish, taking passengers
to fish or on boat trips. I am
very disappointed with the sta-
tus of New York City and I
would like to get as far away
as possible. Careerwise, my
| chances are better on a fish-
ing boat in the Pacific than
Manhattan.”

“I would open my
own private school, if I had
the funds. I would make the
educational policy as well as
teach. Teaching is my first
Jove in life, yet I disagree with
the way the new math ts pre-
sented. It's the same math but
all the vocabulary has been
changed. I would take the best
of the new math and the
best of the old math and
make math simple to learn.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS
NYC’s Retirements

‘The New York retirement cal-
endar for December includes a
total of 435 applications for re-
tirement. Of these 100 applied
under Option 1; 25 under Option
2; 73 under Option 3; 59 under
Option 4; 11 under Option 4-2;
23 under Option 4-3, and 144 re-
tired without options.

Refunds for 227 members un-
der $5,000 were approved, and
loans to 2,962 members amount-
ing to $3,732,750 were approved.
In addition, 139 members with-
drew excess contributions
amounting to $139,910. Fifteen
applications were denied; five for
ordinary disability, and 10 for
accidental disability

The much talked-about new
pension plan law known as
ERISA has not yet been fully
enforced. Enforcement of several
parts has been delayed, and de-
layed again. One problem that
makes the administration of the
new law particularly difficult is
that two departments of the
government have jurisdiction —
the Department of Labor and the
‘Treasury Department's Internal
Revenue Service.

This has created paper work
burdens for filing with the two
agencies, plus filing with the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
which also requires reports.
Hope is that the new Carter
ministration will set up an inde-
pendent agengy to administer
ERISA and avoid the triplication
of reports,

The involvement of the two
agencies grows out of the fact
that two tax committees and two
laber committees wrote the bill

together — two from the House,
and two from the Senate, Organ-
ized labor wanted to keep ERISA
in the Department of Labor.
Business wanted it in the IRS.
Result: Confusion and so much
paper work that many employ-
ets are cutting out their pension
plans altogether.

As a 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 Firemen’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 indtvid-

cial Security Law oa or before Augu
31, 1974,

(Continved trom last week)
Sherman Edward E.

Soter, Ruth E.

Stoker, Will
Sturgeon, Phyl)
Summons, Robert W.
Swirscky, Jeanne M.
Tillery, ©

Torres-Nadal, Hector J. New York
Toye, Jeffrey E. Stony Brook
Tower, Ana M Moira
‘Trayaham, Myrtle ‘Albany
Ukasinski, Martha A. Rome
Van Derwerken, Lita Waterford

(to be continued)

anette

On CETA: Does NYC Violate Seniority Law?

Editor, The Leader:

On Nov. 22, Supreme Court
Justice Edward Greenfield dis-
missed an Article 78 proceeding
brought by five laid-off New
York City firemen against the
City for its rehiring procedure
using Comprehensive Employ-
ment and Training Act funds.

The petitioners fully realized
they could not be rehired as fire-
men under the federally funded
CETA program due to their being
non-residents of the City of New
York. However, it cannot be ig-
nored that rejection for re-em-
ployment to the exact job one
held prior to lay-off regardless
of the title, (Fireman CETA) is
arbitrary, unreasonable and in
clear violation of Section 81 of
the Civil Service Law (rehiring
by seniority) and Section 3, Sub-
division 9 of the Public Officers
Law. (Firemen are permitted to
reside in contiguous counties)

The CETA program is a yolun-
tary one which must be subsi-
dized by the City, While CETA
pays ® maximum of $10,000 per
man, the City must use tax levy
funds to supplement that amount
up to the rate of compensation
for a regular flreman. Petitioners
recognize they have no legal
right to be continued in their
positions in the absence of funds

appropriated to pay their com-
pensation, but the fact that the
City used tax levy funds to main-
tain the CETA program indicates
they could have rehired (in this
case approximately 85 men) laid-
off firemen in their proper order
of seniority as mandated by
state law.

The CETA program offends
the civil service system. Besides
usurping an individuals seniority,
it obviously interferes with the
Job opportunities of those await-
ing regular permanent employ-
ment. All individuals on the
preferred civil service lists are
residents of the State of New
York and are entitled to the
protection of its Constitution and
Laws. Neither Judge Greenfield
nor the City of New York have
the right to circumvent those
jaws or the merit system,

Judge Greenfield points out in
his decision that “temporary”
CETA jobs “must be in addition
to those that the locality could
fund on its own.” Where was
Judge Greenfield in July and
August 1976 when the City re-
hired, with tax levy funds, 400
“temporary firemen" while still
maintaining the CETA program?
Surely the City has proved to be
in violation of federal law at
this point and should have been

forced to forego federal funds
and re-appoint members.

It is hoped the Court of Ap-
peals will see the matter differ-
ently from that of Judge Green-
field.

Ronald Carritue
East Northport

Civil Service
Law & You

(Continued from Page 6)
sion’s action if any fair argu-
ment can be made to sustain it
even though the court may be
of a different opinion. However,
the court decided that once the
Commission determines “it is
impracticable or against public
interest to limit eligibility for
promotion to persons holding
lower grade positions in direct
line of promotion, the Commis-
sion must extend eligibilty for
promotion to persons holding
competitive class positions in
lower grades which the Commis-
sion determines to be in related
or collateral lines of promotion,
and which cannot arbitrarily
leave out any persons in such
categories.

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, December 10, 1976

CSEA CONVENTION REPORTS

PHOTOS

Constitution And By-Laws Committee Report

The following is the report of the Com~-
mittee on Revision of Constitution and
By-Laws submitted at the CSEA annual
convention this fall, and acted on by
the delegates, Chairman is Kenneth
Cadieux, of Nassau County chapter, and
committee members are William Ro-
berts, Nicholas Cimino, Joseph Kenney,
Eugene Nicolella, Audrey Snyder, Karen
White and Earl Mayfield, Sr. New ma-
terial is in boldface type, and words to
be deleted are within brackets,

CONSTITUTION

THE FOLLOWING PROPOSALS ARE
NOW PART OF THE CSEA CONSTITU-
TION, HAVING BEEN PRESENTED TO
THE DELEGATES FOR A SECOND
READING AND PASSED.

© Article IV, Section 4;

\"Section 4. No member of the Board
of Directors who is physically present at
a Board Meeting and who is entitled
to vote in more than one capacity, shall
have the right to a proxy; provided,
however, that he may cast one vote
for each office or capacity he repre-
sents.

This language ts to be placed in

the By-Laws, Article II, Section 8,

PROXIES.

*Article IV, Section {5! to be re-
numbered to Section 4.

© Article IV Section (6! to be re-
numbered to Section 5.

© Article VI, Section 1

“Section 1. STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE. The power and authority
to transact business relating to state
employees shall, except as provided here.
in, be vested in a State Executive Com-
mittee. The State Executive Commit-
tee shall consist of the officers of the
Association, and one representative from
each State Department. The Judiciary,
(the Legislature) the State University,
the Waterfront Commission and state
public authorities as one unit, shall be
deemed State Departments. The Faculty
Student Associations, Teachers’ Retire-
ment System, and the Higher Education
Assistance Corporation shall as a unit
be deemed a State Department. In
addition to the foregoing, each State
Department with more than 3,000 mem-
bers as of January 1 in an odd-num-
bered year, shall for the term of office
beginning the following July, be en-
titled to one representative on the
State Executive Committee for each
3,000 members or major fraction there-
of. The State Executive Committee shall
elect from its membership one mem-
ber to be known as the Chairman of
the State Executive Committee. The
State Executive Committee may cre-
ate one or more subcommittees to per-
form such duties as the State Executive
Committee shall delegate. Each depart-
ment representative shall be elected by
ballot by the members in his depart-
ment in the manner prescribed in the
By-Laws. No person shall be eligible
for nomination unless he shall have
been a member in good standing of
the Association on or before June 1st
of the year preceding the year in
which the election is held, They shall
hold office for a term of two years or
until their successors shall have quali-
fied [,except that for the election to
be held in 1973, the term shall be for one
year and 9 months, ending June 30, 1975,
or until their successors have qualified).
Vacancies in the office of the State
Department representatives may be filled
for the remainder of the term by the
members of the Association employed in
such department at a special election
to be called by the Board of Directors

Kenneth Cadieux presided over portion
of meeting that dealt with proposed
changes in the union's constitution and
by-laws. Several changes became official
after passage by the delegates. (The
items that are now law appear on this
Page; pending items will appear in a
future edition of the paper.)

within fourteen days after the first
meeting of the Board subsequent to the
time that such vacancies occur under
rules established by the Board.”

Note: It is the Committee's rec-
ommendation to delete “the Legisla-
ture" since the Board representative
resigned and the number of individ-
uals represented number approxi-
mately fifteen. The second deletion
is made merely to eliminate obsolete
wording

© Article VI, Section 2:

“Section 2. NOMINATIONS. The State
Division members of the Nominating
Committee selected in accordance with
Article IV, Section {6} 5 of this Con-
stitution shal] constitute the Nominat-
ing Committee for the State Executive
Committee.”

Rest of section remains same.

© Article VII, Section 2(b):

“(b) The members employed in each
political subdivision in a chapter shall
be entitled, if they have 200 members
or 50 percent of the employees within
the division as members, whichever is
smaller, with minimum of 75 members,
to the formation of a unit. (Such unit
shall receive a portion of the refund
of the dues which shall be determined
within the discretion of the parent
county chapter.) Other units may be
Organized as the Board of Directors or
Executive Council of the chapter may
determine is in the best interests of
the members involved. Each unit shall
be entitled to elect its own unit offi-
cers and to establish its own progress.”

This language is included in the

By-Laws, Article IV, Section 3(b).

© Article VIII;

“(Meeting of] Delegates”

“(Section 1, DELEGATES. )"
Rest of article remains same.

BY-LAWS

THE FOLLOWING PROPOSALS ARE
NOW PART OF THE CSEA BY-LAWS,
HAVING BEEN PRESENTED TO THE
DELEGATES AND PASSED. (CHANGES
IN BY-LAWS REQUIRE ONLY ONE
READING.)

© The Committee received the
following amendment to Article I,
Section 2 of the By-Laws as follows:
“Section 2. BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Meetings of the Board of Directors shall
be held upon call of the President.
Upon written request of [five] ten or
more members of the Board of Directors,
the President shall call a special meeting
of the Board.”

The Committee recommends
adoption of this amendment on
the basis that ten represents &
reasonable requirement for calling
& special meeting in view of the
costs involved.

© The Committee received the
following amendment to Article I,
Section 4 of the By-Laws as follows:
“Section 4: STATE EXECUTIVE

COMMITTEE. Meetings of the State
Executive Committee shall be held
upon call of the President. Upon the
written request of (five! tem or more
members of the State Executive Com-
mittee, the President shall call a spe-
cial meeting of the Committee.

The Committee recommends
adoption of this amendment on the
basis that ten represents a rea-
sonable requirement for calling a
special meeting in view of the costs
involved.

© The Committee received the
following amendment to Article II,
Section 5 of the By-Laws as follows:
“Section 5: COUNTY EXECUTIVE

COMMITTEE. Meetings of the County
Executive Committee shall be held upon
call of the President, Upon the written
request of [five] tem or more members
of the County Executive Committee, the
President shall call a special meeting
of the Committee.”

The Committee recommends
adoption of this amendment on
the basis that ten represents a rea-
sonable requirement for calling a
special meeting in view of the costs
involved.

© The Committee received a
proposed amendment to Article VI,
Section 3 of the By-Laws entitled
Negotiating Committees.” The rec-
ommendation was to create wording
with regard to all division bargain-
ing entities. After much discussion,
the Committee voted that such an
amendment would be too burden-

some as there are approximately

600 different negotiating units, As

an alternative, the Committee rec-

ommends the following amendment:

“Section 3: STATE NEGOTIATING
COMMITTEES. There shall exist the
following negotiating committees: 1,
Operational; 2.° Administrative; 3. In-
stitutional; 4. Professional, Scientific
and Technical, in addition to any other
duly certified state bargaining unit or
units which CSEA may be elected to
represent, All appointments to the Ne-
gotiating Committees shall be made by
the President upon the advice and con-
sent of the appropriate Regional Ex-
ecutive Board.”

© The Committee received the

following amendment to Article VI

of the By-Laws entitled “Commit-

tees" which would add a new sec-
tion to read:

“Section 5. COMMITTEES, No mem-
ber of the Association may serve on
more than two committees of the As-
sociation except that a committee of
the Board of Directors shall not be
deemed a committee of the Association,
eMective with the 1977 election.”

The Committee recommends de-
feat of this amendment on the
basis that it is an unworkable
amendment and too difficult to con-
trol.

© Article VII of the By-Laws:
(ARTICLE VII)
(BOARD OF DIRECTORS)

(“Section 1. No chapter, Region, com-
mittee or group of members shall strike,
picket, demonstrate or engage in any
concerted stoppage of work or slow-
down unless such action is specifically
authorized by the Board of Directors
of the Association,”)

("Section 2. Whenever a strike, piek-
eting, demonstration, any concerted
stoppage of work or slow-down or any
other job action is authorized by the
Board of Directors or the Delegates,
one of the terms of the settlement of
such strike, picketing, demonstration,
concerted stoppage of work or slow-
down or any other job action, must
be that no retaliatory measure or meas-
ures shall be taken by the State or
other employer against any member or
members of this Association. This pro-
vision shall upply to all County Chapters
as well as State Chapters."}

In view of recent Taylor Law
penalties imposed against the As-
sociation and upon recommendation
of Counsel, the committee recom-
mends deletion of this Article of
the By-Laws which can only serve
to implicate the parent union in
any job actions in which units or
chapters may be forced to partici-~
pate. The Committee unanimously
recommends adoption of this
amendment.

®@ Article (VIII) to be renumbered
to Article VII, *
CSEA CONVENTION REPORTS, PHOTOS

CSEA director Jean C. Gray (Authorities), left, gets
some advice from Marge Karowe, attorney with the
union's legal counsel, as they prepare for debate on

union policy.

\

Pat Martinez, left, of James E. Christian Memorial
Health chapter 664, makes his views known to CSEA
lobbyist James Featherstonhaugh, center, and the union's

Rockland chapter 844’s Clarkstown unit president W.
Arthur Huggins, left, seems pleased at news he is recelv-

ing from Southern Region III supervisor Thomas Lupo-
state programs administrator Bernard Ryan. sello.

Report On Comptroller’s Advisory Council For Retirement Systems

The following is the report submitted
by James Currier, of Fort Schuyler
chapter of Utica, at the CSEA annual
convention this fall. The report is on
the Comptroller's Advisory Council for
the Retirement System.

By way of background, the Comp-
troller's Advisory Council for the Re-
tirement Systems was originally es-
tablished by Comptroller Arthur Levitt
im 1959 to advise him and make rec-
ommendations concerning the formu-
lation of policies in relation to the
administration and management of the
Employees Retirement System. The
Council reaches no conclusions in its
deliberatio: rather, many ideas and
suggestions are discussed for the bene-
fit of the Comptroller to enable him
to consider as many points of view as
possible in his decision-making process.

I was appointed to the Council in
June, 1976 by Comptroller Levitt for a
term to eqincide with the balance of
the Comptroller's term of office. Other
public employee unions are represented
on the Council, are representatives of
the Legislature, private industry, retired
public employees, municipal representa-
tives and State Agency representatives.
A list of the names of other Council
members and the group or organization
they represent is attached to this report

Since my appointment, the Council
has met on two occasions. The first
meeting was called in June to discuss
the Pension Reform Bill pending in
the Legislature. This particular meeting
soon became anticlimactic since just a
few days after hearing Comptroller
Levitt denounce the Eckert Bill as be-
ing unworkable, expensive, and diffi-
cult to administer, the Bill was passed
and signed into law, It might be sig-
nificant to note that the Eckert Bill
and its compromise version sailed
through the Legislature so quickly that
the Retirement System top staff work-
ed virtually around the clock to study
the Bill, analyze it, and offer chapter
amendments to make it workable.

Our second meeting, held September
13, 1976,.wag called by the Comptroller
to bring tlie Council up-to-date on
certain difficulties with the “Coordin-
ated-Esculator (CO-ESC) Retirement
Plan.” We were advised that the Gov-
ernor had appointed a Task Force to
study the new pension plan, outline its
technical problems, point out discrepan-
cies in its workings and to formulate
proposals to deal with correcting its de~
fickencles. As an aside, pleasé note that
the Governor has asked the Task Force
to work up an accurate set of figures
dealing with the cost estimate of CO-
ESC because the figures accompanying
the Bill through the Legislature are
not accurate, It will be interesting to
see what the experts come up with for
costs a8 compared to those touted by
the “Kinzel-Eckert Team of Pension

li Deform.”

We face very serious problems with
CO-ESC. The Bill was drawn so poorly
and passed in such haste that the law
is, in many respects, virtually unwork-
able in its present form. By way of
illustration, let me point out some
probable cases.

1) Under CO-ESC, it is possible for a
low income employee to receive no
pension benefit at retirement, For the
sake of discussion, let us take a Grade
3 part-time employee and assume that
at the time of retirement this person
is entitled to a $1,000 a year State
pension and a $2,000 Social Security
benefit. This person's State pension must
be reduced by 50 percent of the So-
cial Security benefit; therefore, all of
the State pension benefit is eliminated.
The employee has contributed to a pen-
sion which he will not receive and
even the amount contributed by the
employee is not refundable.

2) Assume that a person enters the
CO-ESC plan today and works for 30
years during which time the person
contributes 3 percent of salary to the
plan, and over the years this contri-
bution amounts to $15,000 or $20,000.
Let us further assume that this person
has never married and has no depend-
ent living parent. When the member
dies the maximum death benefit will
be $3,000 paid to the member's estate,
irregardiess of the fact that the con-
tributions to the plan far exceed that

Nassau Educational Employees chapter 865 delegation at
meord meeting included, from left, Robert Torel, Ben
Gumin and chapter president Edward Perrott, who also
heads union's statewide non-teaching school employees

committee.

amount. The difference between the
amount contributed and the amount
paid is apparently lost to the system.

3) The Social Security offset pro-
vision of the law poses several disasters
if, as is becoming more and more
probable, the employer withdraws
from the Social Security System. At
the present time 15 municipal sub-divi-
sions of New York State have notified
the Federal Government of their in-
tention to withdraw and nearly 100
municipal employers have inquired of
the Comptroller's Office for withdrawal
information; so potentially we have a
very serious situation here. Under CO-
ESC the retiree’s State pension bene-
fit must be reduced by an amount com-
puted to be the member's Social Se-
curity entitlement without regard to
whether or not the member is actually
getting a Social Security benefit pay-
ment. Additionally, for other than a
job related disablement, a member of
CO-ESC must be receiving Social Se-
curity disability payments to be eligi-
ble to receive a disability pension from
the Employee's Retirement System.

4) CO-ESC will be costly to the em-
ployer with frequent turnover ‘of em-
ployees. Under CO-ESC every employee
must be enrolled as members, even if
that person works one day, they must
be enrolled. This provision will result
in significant administrative costs to
both the employer and to the Employee's

(Leader photos
by Ted Kaplan)

Retirement System since the ERS must
process the enrollment and, a short
time later, will have to handle the em-
ployee’s request for a refund of con-
tribution since obviously a short-term
employee will not care to remain in
the system.

I have identified some of the many
difficulties of CO-ESC for your informa-
tion. There are many areas of con-
cern regarding pensions with which we
will continue to be involved, make our
voice heard, and work towards those
goals which will be most beneficial to
our membership. A copy of my report
has been delivered to those officers and
staff within CSEA responsible for di-
recting our response to pension problems
and I feel certain that our reaction
will be positive.

‘This report is submitted for informa-
tional purposes.

(Comptrolier’s Advisory Council; Vic-
tor Bahou, President, Civil Service Com-
mission; Donald Brossman, Executive
Director, N¥S School Boards Associa-
tion; Herbert Brown, President, Retired
Public Employees Association; James H.
Currier, Civil Service Employees Asso-
ciation; William Clay, Council 82, AFS-
CME; Raymond Cothran, Executive Di-
rector, Council of Mayor William J.
Courlis, Police Conference; Stephen R.
Greco, Assembly Committee on Gov-
ernmental Employees; Edward Jones,
Director of Administrative Services,
Thruway Authority; Robert Peters,
Mgr. Corporate Compensation & Bene-
fits, Mobil Oil Corp.; Terese P. Pick,
Director, Employee Benefits, AT&T;
John P. Przekop, Professional Fire
Fighters Association; William Sanford,
Executive Secretary, Association of
‘Towns; Richard E. Schermerhon, Sen-
ate Civil Service Committee, and Her-
bert Smith, Executive Director, Asso-
ciation of Counties.

Leader editor Marvin Baxley bs attentive as Hudson River Psychiatric
Center chapter 410's Lorraine Scott, left, and Margaret Connors re-
fleet on progress being made by delegates in resolving some of the
problems besetting public employees throughout the state,

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W’Chester Sex Discrimination
Settlement Is Won By Teacher

ALBANY—The New York State Division of Human Rights has obtained a settlément
of more than $2,500 on behalf of a teacher who had charged a Westchester school district

with sex discrimination.

In the Fall of 1975, when the birth of her baby was imminent, the teacher, Terry Jack-

schools informed Ms. Jackrel that
“we do not consider the blessings
of maternity to be tantamount
to fllness.”

Instead, Ms. Jackrel was placed
on maternity leave, which did
not provide her with pay, insur-
‘ance benefits, or credit toward
seniority.

Ms. Jackrel then filed a com-
plaint with the State Division of
Human Rights, alleging that the
denial of sick leave violated the
New York State Human Rights
Law, which prohibits sex dis-
crimination in employment.

The Division investigated and
found probable cause to believe
Ms. Jackrel's allegations of dis-
crimination. After referring the
case to public hearing, the Divi-
sion secured a settlement from
the Board of Education of the
Pleasantville Union Free School
District.

The terms of the settlement
are embodied in an order after
stipulation issued by State Hu-
man Rights Commissioner Wer-
ner H. Kyamarsky. Under the
settlement, the Board of Educa-
tion of the Pleasantville Union
Free School District will pay Ms.
Jackrel $2,502 in sick pay, plus
another $75 as reimbursement of
insurance premiums.

‘The order after stipulation em-
bodies a wide range of basic
principles concerning maternity
rights which the Division has es-
tablished in its previous rulings.

In accordance with those rul-
ings, the Board of Education of
the Pleasantville Union Free
School District will treat disabil-
ities related to pregnancy, mis-
carriage, abortion, and child-
birth as temporary, non-occu-
pational disabilities. Specifically,
the Pleasantville Board of Edu-

for the beginning of maternity
leaves.

© Permit pregnant employees
to keep working as long as they
are physically able to do their
Jobs.

© Stop requiring more strin-
gent medical evidence from preg-
nant employees than from em-
Ployees who are temporarily dis-
abled for other reasons.

© Pay group health-insurance
premiums for pregnant employ-
ees, and their eligible dependents,
to the same extent as for em-
ployees who are temporarily dis-

NYC Region II
Executive Meet

MANHATTAN — The executive
committee of New York City Re-
gion II, Civil Service Employees
Assn., will meet Tuesday evening,
Dee. 16,

Region president Solomon Ben-
det said the meeting, which will
come to order at 5:15 p.m., will
be held at region headquarters,
11 Park Place, Manhattan.

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the end of maternity leaves.

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whenever they are physically able
to do their jobs.

‘The order also requires the
Board of Education to post a
memorandum notifying all em-
ployees of the maternity rights
contained in the Order.

Attorney Sandy Hom repre-
sented the State Division of Hu-
man Rights in obtaining the
settlement for Ms. Jackrel. Nor-
man Mednick served as the Di-
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MANHATTAN — Appil-
cants for federal summer
jobs must file by Dec. 9 for
January examinations.

‘The full range of jobs includes
mary typist’ and stenographer
vacancies, other clerical work,
sub-professional jobs in engineer-
ing and the physical or biologi-
cal sciences, park and forest
service. jobs, data collector post-
Hons, health career work and
‘many more.

Also there are summer intern-
ships, jobs for underprivileged
youths and Veterans Administra-
tion Hospital positions in psy-
chology, dietetics, ete.

Requirements range from little
or no experience for trades and
labor jobs to doctoral degrees for
certain professional and admin-
istrative work.

In the New York City area,
typist and stenographer jobs are
in greatest supply. Applicants can
establish their proficiency by
presenting a certificate of pro-
ficiency or by certifying their
capability to meet or exceed com-
mission standards. At the GS-1
level, typists trainees must be
able to type at least 30 words
per minute, At GS-2, 3 and 4—
40 words per minute is neces-
sary. Stenographer positions at
all grade levels require taking
dictation at 80 words per minute

For “Group I" jobs in general,
which include 10,000 office and
sub-professional engineering and
science jobs nationwide and draw
about 100,000 eligibles, no experi-
ence or education is required for
the GS-1 level, which pays
$111.73 a week. A high school di-
ploma or six months’ experience
is necessary at GS-2, which
pays $124.46 weekly. One year's
college or experience is required
at GS-3, which has a $142.46
weekly salary; and two years’
college or experience is required

at GS-4, which pays $159.92 a
week,

For lifeguard positions, appli-
cants need a current senior life
saver's certificate or water safety
instructor's certificate for the
GS-3 level and one season's ex-
perience for the GS-4 level.

Applicants who wish to renew
previous eligibility for any Group
I titles do not need to take a
written test but must apply by
Jan. 13, to the commission area
office in the region they wish to
work,

Applicants filing after Dec. 9
and by Jan. 13 will be tested in
February. Jan, 13 is the final
deadline.

Group II and IIT jobs require
college study or experience in
specific occupational fields and
are with specific agencies. Filing
periods vary according to agency.

Locally, It’s

STONY BROOK — “We
were number one” was the
cry of members of the Civil
Service Employees Assn. at
the State University at Stony
Brook following a Leader re-
port of the adoption of the ap-
pellation “local” by the CSEA at
the SUNY at Albany campus,

Al Varacchi, president of the
CSEA at Stony Brook, said his
unit had used the term “local”
since 1971, adding he believes
Stony Brook was the first in the
state to do so. The new appel-

FOOD MANAGERS

ALBANY — A correctional fa-
cility assistant manager eligible
list, resulting from open compe-
titive exam 24-421, was estab-
lished Nov. 16, by the State Civil
Service Department, The list
contains 15 names,

For trades and labor jobs,
Group IV, applicants should go
directly to the agency where they
wish work, The jobs include
work as printing plant worker,
carpenter's helper, and animal
caretaker.

In Group V there are college
student trainee programs leading
to professional positions upon
graduation. Also there is sum-
mer employment for needy youth,
16 through 21, Approximately
500 outstanding undergraduate
and graduate students nominated
by their colleges will also be
selected by federal agencies ‘or
summer intern positions.

Por further information, con-
tact federal job information cen-
ters.

Federal job information cen-
ters are at 26 Federal Plaza,
New York, N.Y. 10007, and 175
Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn.

Stony Brook

lation for the former chapters of
the CSEA was adopted at the last
delegates’ convention.

In addition to SUNY at Al-
bany, the Westchester and Me-
tropolitan Division of Employ-
ment units have used the term
“local” for some time.

NAME GINSBERG

ALBANY — Mitchell I. Gins-
berg, dean of the Graduate
School of Social Work, Columbia
University, has been named to
the newly formed statewide ad-
visory council on social services,

Dean Ginsberg was appointed
to the group by Social Service De-
partment Commissioner Philip L.
Toia. The council will serve as
an advisory body to the depart-
ment and the commissioner on
matters pertaining to public as-
sistance, medical aid and services.

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MANHATTAN — Anthony
M. Papa has been reelected
president of the Assn. of
State Liquor Enforcement
agents.

Mr. Papa is also a State Liquor
Authority delegate for the Civil
Service Employees Assn. The
ASLEA is an organization of
Authority investigators. Joseph
N. Penn was also reelected
ASLEA vice-president

Mr. Papa said he was proud of
the ASLEA record in not merely
advocating improvements but in
acting positively to obtain them
as well. He cited the Association's
Albany lobbying effort to help
obtain enactment of the recent
SLA program giving it crack-
down jurisdiction over unlicensed
“speakeasies.””

LAB DESIGNERS

ALBANY—A laboratory equip-
ment designer (electronics) elig-
ible list, resulting from open
competitive exam 27-604, was es-
tablished Oct. 16 by the State
Civil Service Department. The
list contains 39 names.

Eligibles

EXAM 35-965
ASSOC ACCT ST SYSTEMS
Test Held Oct. 16, 1976

Lise Ex. Nov. 15, 1976
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SHORT TAKES

staffed by more than 100 workers, Pension check delays
months or more have occurred, Mr. Chalmers said. Under
conditions, payment is made in about six weeks. During the
10 months of this year, 13,370 state and local government workers
filed for retirement, In the same period last

which was at the time a record.

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GOLDEN STATE BIAS?
More than 5,000 California state clerical and service employees

have filed discrimination complaints with the California Personnel
Board in Sacramento, with the suits alleging that women in state

cooks, laundry and maintenance staffers.

UPGRADING ASSEMBLY'S IMAGE

the number
of people the office employs, He said this is so because of Assembly
budgeting methods which do not give line-item expenditures in
given program area. Mr. Keiper said none of the work was of
partisan nature,
ie TB

DMH PREJUDICE ALLEGED

A group of physicians and dentists employed by the State De-
partment of Mental Hygiene has charged the administrative head
of the State Board of Public Disclosure with “racial and ethnic
prejudice” against foreign-born and/or trained doctors. The organi-
zation, the Assn. of New York State Mental Hygiene Physicians and
Dentists, then called for the resignation of William D. Cabin, the
official. A letter from a leader of the organization to Mr. Cabin con-
tained the statement: “In your opinion, American physicians are more
competent and therefore of greater value than ‘foreigners.’ Mr.
Cabin termed the letter “hysterical and absurd,” and said the letter
was “strewn with factual inaccuracies,” What apparently triggered
the ire of NYSMPHD was a confidential report prepared by Mr.
Cabin which was used to justify his agency's recent adoption of
guidelines intended to sharply restrict “moonlighting” by DMH pro-
fessionals. The report noted that attempts to recruit “American-
degree” health professionals was a failure, apparently because the
DMH could not match pay available elsewhere. The report goes on
to say: “Foreign-degree professionals do and apparently will domin-
ate DMH facilities for some time and appropriate reductions in their
pay, fringe benefits and ability to engage in outside employment
should be made to reflect their value in the professional mental
health field and the need to concentrate full time on their DMH
jobs and not two or three other jobs.” Mr. Cabin also noted: “It was
not our assertion that American-degree trained doctors are better

Mental Hygiene officials told us that.”

SUGGEST PRISON REVAMP

State Correction Commission member Dorothy Wadsworth,
speaking to the Albany chapter of the National Council of Jewish
Women, said that the Correctlons Department, instead of maintaining

LANGUAGE COMPENSATION

Canadian government employees required to use both English and
Prench in carrying out their duties will now receive financial com-
pensation. The Public Service Alliance of Canada said that em-
ployees will be compensated on a formula recognizing four factors:
reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Open Continuous
State Job Calendar

Assistant Clinical Physician $25,161 20-413
‘Associate Ai (Life $18,369 20-520
Supervising Actuary (Life) $26,516 20.522
Principal Actuary (Life) $22,694 20-521
Associate Actuary (Casualty $18,369 20-416
Supervising Actuary (Casualty) $26516 20418
Senior Actuary {lite $14,142 20-519
Clinical Physician | $27,974 20-414
Clinical Physician Il $31,055 20-415
Compensation Examining Physician | $27,942 20420
Dental Hygienist $8523 20-107
Dietitian $10,714 20-124
Supervising Dietitian $12,760 20-167
Hectroencephalograph Technician $7,616 20-308
Service Worker $5,827 20-352
Hearing Reporter $11,337 20-211
Histology Technician $8,051 20-170
Hospital Nursing Services Consultant $16,538 20-112
$10,714 20-558
Institution Pharmacist $12,670 20-129
Legal Careers $11,164 20-113
Public Librarians $10,155 & Up 20-339
Licensed Practical Nurse $8,051 20-106
Maintenance Man (Mechanic)

(Except for Albany area) $7,616 Various
Medical Specialist | $27,942 20-407
Medical Specialist II $33,704 20-408
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee $ 7,204 20.394
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide (TBS) $7,616 20-394
Motor Equipment Mechanic

(Statewide except Albany) $9,546 varies
Nurse | $10,118 20-584
Nurse Il $11,337 20-585
Nurse Il (Psychiatric) $11,337 20-586
Nurse II (Rehabilitation) $11,337 20-587
Nutrition Services Consultant $31,404 20-139
Occupational Therapist $11,337 20-176
Principal Actuary (Casualty) $22,694 20417
Principal Actuary {Life} $22,694 20-521
Physical Therapist $11,337 20-177
Psychiatrist | $27,942 20.390
Poychiatrist Il $33,704 20-39!
Radiology Technologist {$7.632-$9,004) 20-334
Radiology Technologist (T.8. Service) .($8,079-$8,797) 20-334
Senior Actuary (Life) $14,142 20-519
Senior Medical Records Librarian $11,337 20-348
Senior Occupational Therapist $12,670 20-137
Senior Physical Therapist $12,760 20-138
Stationary Engineer $9546 20-100
Senior Sanitary Engineer $17,429 20-123

ary Engineer $14,142 20-122

Typist $ varies varies

Varitype Operator $ $811 20-307
Pharmacist $12,670 20-194
Specialists in Education ($16,358-$22,694) 20-312
Senior Stationary Engineer $10,714 20-101
Assistant Stationary Engineer $7,616 20-303

Specify the examination by its number and title. Mail your

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State Office Building Campus, Albany, New York 12226.

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AMUN MMMM
Nassau Opens Four Jobs

MINEOLA — The Nassau
County Civil Service Com-
mission has opened filing un-
til Dec, 15 for four open com-
petitive titles.

Electric meter repairer (Exam
No, 65-097) has a Jan, 15, 1977
written test and pays about $13,-
175. It requires elementary
school and two years’ experience.

‘The other three jobs do not
have written tests, but have an
evaluation of training and ex-
perience.

Occupational therapist I (64-
893) pays $10,606 and requires
graduation from an occupational
therapy school or registration as
an occupational therapist.

Pharmacist I (65-063) pays
$11,459 and requires a pharmacy
Meense. Director of aloohol ad-
diction services (65-046) pays

$24,664 and requires a B.A. and
seven years’ experience in the
field.

For further information con-
tact the commission at 140 Old
Country Road Mineola, N.Y.

Nassau Will Meet

EAST MEADOW — The board
of directors of the Nassau County
chapter 830, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn., will meet Wednes-
day evening, Deo, 15.

Irving Flaumenbaum, chapter
president, said the meeting, set
to come to order at 5:30 pm.,
will be held at the Salisbury Club,
Eisenhower Park, East Meadow.

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Suffolk Has
Planner OC,
Promo Exams

HAUPPAUGE — The Suf-
folk County Civil Service De-
partment has opened filing
for four open competitive
titles and two promotional titles
until Dec. 15. Written tests will
be held Jan. 15, 1977.

The open competitive jobs are
planning aide (Exam No. 17-
117), which pays $9,840, planner
(17-118), which pays $11,954,
senior planner (17-120), which
pays $13,807, and town planning
director (17-122), which pays
$24,000.

‘The promotional jobs are plan-
ner (17-119) and senior planner
%-121).

For further informaiton con-
tact the department at H. Lee
Dennison Executive Office Build-
ing Veterans Memorial High-
way, Hauppauge, N. ¥.

Feds Open 6
Job Positions

The U.S. Civil Service
Commission has opened fil-
ing for several positions with
limited vacancies.

Engineering technicians re-
quire at least two years’ special-
iwed experience or graduate edu-
cation

Orthotist-prosthetist has been
opened in New York City at
grades GS-4 ($8,316) and GS-5
($9,303)

Two years of college training
and/or experience are required
for GS-4. GS-5 requires four
years’ technical experience or a
combination of three years’
training and experience.

Applications are being accepted
for utility systems repairer-op-
erator at WG-10 in New York
City, grade WG-7 asphalt worker
at West Point, WG-10 boat op-
erator and air safety investigator
(field) at GS-11 ($17,056) in New
York City.

The air safety job requires
three years’ general experience
and three years’ specialized ex-
perience plus a commercial pilot
certificate. Boat operator requires
a Coast Guard license.

Por further information con-
tact a federal job information
center

N.Y. State Setting
Variety Of Promos

ALBANY—The State Civil
Service Department has an-
nounced filing for 18 promo-
tional titles, 14 of them
with Feb, 5 written tests and
Dec. 27 filing deadlines and three
with Feb. 26 written tests and
Jan, 17 deadlines.

‘The titles with Feb. 5 tests are
janiter at three levels, cartogra-
phic technician at three levels,
parks and recreation jobs at
three levels, accountant jobs at
three levels und social services
at two

technician at two levels have Feb.
26 written tests and Jan, 17
deadlines.

For further information eon-
tact your agency personnel office.

years of service to the town.

HONORING SERVICE
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Michael J. Tully Jr., left, presents
retiring town park's department foreman Michael J. Lagnese, of
Westbury, with an award for outstanding service during his nine

Ag And Markets Worker
Takes Top Suggestion $

ALBANY—Ten state employees won a total of $790 in
cash awards in November for money-saving ideas submitted
to the New York State Employee Suggestion Program.

The program is administered by the State Department

of Civil Service. Estimated first~
year savings from these sug-
gestions total $6,928.

Awards, winners, and their
residences are;

$275-Joseph Jackson, Bing-
hamton, Department of Agri-
culture and Markets.

$230-Louls J. Conte, Hudson,
Department of Taxation and
Finance.

$100-Ralph A. Wever, Schenec-
tady, Department of Environ-
mental Conservation.

$85-Robert J. Mahar, Albany,
Education Department.

$25-Larry D. Dailey, Potsdam,
Department of Mental Hygiene;
Karen Fino, Huntington, Depart-

D, Seypura, Schenectady, Agri-
culture and Markets, and a joint
award shared by Elaine Garri-
son, Schenectady; Carmella Ke-
on, Albany, and Holly Pollard,
Altamont, all of Motor Vehicles.

Cash award winners also re-
ceive certificates of merit. Certi-
ficates of merit were also won
by Victoria A. Gary, Schenectady,
Tax and Finance; Doris Relkin,
Jamaica, Workmen's Compensa-
tion Board; Richard W. Carberry,
Ransomville, Department of La-
bor, and Rose P. Zegel, Pat-
chogue, Labor.

Appellate Court Upholds
L.I. Cop Moonlighting Ban

BROOKLYN—Can a part-time village policeman in Nas-
sau County hold a second “moonlighting” job?

Not if the Police Department has a rule against it.

That was the conclusion last week by the Appellate

Division in Brooklyn in rejecting

devote his entire time and atten-
tion to the service of the police

Q26T “OT 22qut000q ‘Xepyty “HAGVAT AQIAUAS TAID
-* Westchester Local 860 Leaders
’ Participate In Stewards Seminar

December 10, 1976

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WHITE PLAINS

the Civil Service Employees Assn. to its
members has been the shop stewards
seminar.

In addition to the usual amount of writ-
transmitted
various media to the union leadership, it
felt that the training programs

ten communication

has been

Among recent
toward improving the services provided by

trends

offer an opportunity for firsthand question-
and-answer sessions that enable the lead-
ers to better understand the rapid changes
taking place in today’s troubled public-em-

ployee labor sector

through

Among the most recent of these stewards
seminars was one held last month by West-
chester Local 860's county unit

A few of

the participants are pictured on this page

Among various Local 860 leaders on hand for the Westchester stewards seminar were, from left, Leon-

ard Martoni, of Booth Taylor Home; Carmine La Magna, of Playlan

; Sal Trabakino, of Greenburgh,

and Michael Quinn, of Purchase and Supply. Westchester Local 860 is the second largest chapter in the
entire CSEA statewide structure (second only to neighboring Nassau chapter).

Union vice-president James Lennon, left, head of its Southern Region

|, gets warm greeting from Michael Morella, president of West-

chester Local 860's county unit. Perhaps Mr, Lennon, a Westchester
resident, has just complimented Mr. Morella on the services county

employees provide for the public.

On hand at the seminar was S'

CSEA director Carmine DiBattista, right, sets some personal pointers
from Joel Douglas, of the Cornell University School of Industrial
and Labor Relations, Mr. DiBattista is one of two Westchester rep-
resentatives on statewide union Board of Directors,

anley Boguski, right, Local 860 second

vice-president, seen here in animated conversation with CSEA field

representative Joe O'Connor. Mr. Boguski
chairman, is undoubtedly elated over C

elections,

the local's political action
A success in recent autumn

CSEA To Carey: Dyson’s Idea Won’t Work

(Continued from Page 1)

While we are not questioning
Mr. Dyson's motives, we do ques-
tion, in the first place, the prac-
tical merit of this proposal as an
effective answer to the stated
problem. But most of all, we
strongly question and complete-
ly reject the proposal in the re-
spect that it opens the door to
the same abuses which created
the original need for the civil
service merit system, Under Mr
Dyson's arrangement, the entire
middle management group would,
in no time at all, become simply
another ample layer of patronage
jobs. The trend could only pro-
Liferate, presenting a real threat
to the rest of the civil service
structure.

The Civil Service Employees
Association ts not the champion
of middle managers, But it is
the avowed watchdog of the total

civil service system,
under the Taylor Law, a right-
ful defender of all public em-

as well as,

ployee past practices.
We {feel very strongly that Mr

Dyson's proposal, like any other

19-Year-Olds Will Require
Own Blue Cross Contract

MANHATTAN—Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater
New York is currently alerting parents with community-
rated family coverage that their unmarried children who
became 19 during 1976 will need their own individual con-

contracts Mentally retarded
ed or physically handicapped un-
married children who became in-
capacitated before age 19 and
are incapable of supporting
themselves continue to be cov-
ered on thelr parents’ family
contracts regardless of uge.

Information on obtaining
Wanslers to individual member

ship ts available from Blue Cross
and Blue Shield of Greater New
York, 622 Third Ave., New York,
N.Y. 10017

New York State boasts the
largest titanium mine in the
U.S, near Tahawus in the Adir-

-endack Mountains,

measure which would tend to
erode the strength of our civil
service, must be strongly resist-
ed. As I mentioned earlier, we
assume that you share our re-
spect for the merit system, and
would not see fit to implement
any such policy which might be
adverse to its preservation,

Syracuse Armory
Employees To Meet

AUBURN—The Syracuse Area
Armory Employees chapter, Civil
Service Employees Assn., will hold
@ meeting Thursday afternoon,
Jan, 6.

Chapter president Thomas
Burke said the meeting, which
will come to order at 1 p.m., will
be held at the New York Na-
tonal Guard Armory, 174 South
St.. Auburn.

Pilgrim Critic
Is Described
As Dictator

(Continued from Page 16)
month before accreditation hear-
ings for Pilgrim are to begin.
“we have no alternative but to
think that Mr. Levine is even
willing to destroy accreditation
to get his way.”

Complaints by parents’ groups
led to a hospital survey last year
by the Joint Commission on Ac-
creditation of Hospitals. That re-
sulted in the loss of Pilgrim's ac-

creditation in April 1975. The
hospital was reaccredited last
January and the state pledged

an additional $13 million to hire
more staff and improve condi-
tions in the hospital.

Warning the board that “you
have a power-hungry man in
your midst,” Ms. Duffy pointed
out that Mr, Levine was asking
the Governor to fill three vacan-
cles on the board with hand-
picked candidates.

He might wield considerable
influence. Those of you who have
differing opinions from Mr, Le-
vine may be silenced,” she said.
“Worse, irreparable harm would
be done to the patients and staff
of this hospital. Only you can
stop that destruction.”

After the meeting Mr. Levine
told a reporter from the Leader,
‘I hope you print the truth. The
CSEA will not stop me trom
fighting for the rights of pa-
tients, Personal threats have been
made to me by the union.”

Mr, Levine is set-
form

not on re-
but on becoming a dic-

tator of, first Pilgrim, then the
state mental health system, and,
who knows, perhaps the world’s
said

mental health programs,"
Ms. Duffy.

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Nassau Fact-Finder Report Due Soon

MINEOLA—A report is ex-
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Irving Flaumenbaum, president
of the 22,000-member local, said
that if the recommendations are
acceptable to both sides, a pro-
posed contract settlement will be
submitted to the membership by
mail ballot.

Mr. French conducted inten-
sive and fast-paced hearings Nov.
24 and 26, then promised an early
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As Would-Be ‘Dictator’

BRENTWOOD—Betty Duffy, president of the Civil Service Employees Assn. local at
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, told the hospital's board of visitors last week that “abuses have
been committed in the name of improving conditions that can not, and should not be tol-

erated.”

Ms. Duffy then called for an
investigation of “incidents of ap-
palling severity” which allegedly
were committed by members of
patient rights advocacy groups.

At the end of the meeting, the

seven-member board of visitors,
which is appointed by the Gov-
ernor to oversee operations at
the state mental hospital, voted
to hold hearings in executive ses-
sion to determine if a formal

investigation of Ms. Duffy's
charges will be made.

In her 15-minute address to
the board, Ms. Duffy pointed out
that the CSEA historically sup-
ported better conditions for pa-
tients and applauds the efforts
of parent groups trying to re-
form practices tn Pilgrim.

“However,” she said, “the
CSEA here at Pilgrim has been
swamped with complaints about
certain members of the advocacy
groups who disrupt routine, mis-

treat patients, and in general
cause great disturbances and ap-
prehension among the patients.”

Ms. Duffy listed three specific
incidents that reportedly oc-
curred in front of staff and em-
ployee witnesses. Reports were
filed with the management of
Pilgrim, “but nothing has been
done by management to discip-
Vine the parents who allegedly
committed the acts or to set up
procedures and safeguards to
avoid a reoccurrence of the in-
cidents,” she told the board.

In addition, Ms, Duffy warned
the board that Samuel Levine, a
member of the board of visitors
and a patient's rights advocate,
was trying to “usurp the powers
of the board by writing a report
to the Governor in which he
unfairly and consistently berates
medical, managerial and staff
competence in the most deroga-
tory manner.”

‘The report, which was released
to the press, complained that
the care of patients at Pilgrim
was of a “poor level and quality.”
Tt Was assailed by Gerald Ryan,
Roman Catholic monsignor and
chairman of the board of visitors,
who said he would not agree with
many of the points raised by
Mr. Levine, and by Elizabeth
Guanill, the incoming president,
who said she was “very much put
out” by Mr. Levine's report.

Ms, Guanill, who is also chair-
man of the Suffolk County Hu-
man Rights Commission, said
that Mr. Levine “continuously
runs down the institution.” Call-
ing Ms. Duffy's speech “brave
and courageous,” Ms. Guanill
said that the employees and staff
put in “good hard work” to take
care of the present patient pop-
ulation of 4,600. Three other
board members supported Ms,

Guanill's remarks.

In the Levine report, which
was sent to Governor Hugh L:
Carey and State Mental Hygiene
Commissioner Lawrence Kolb, it
was alleged that most of the pa-
tients at Pilgrim “are not receiv-
ing any real medical or psychi-
atric treatment. They only re-
ceive minimal custodial care and
sick call treatment.” Mr. Levine
claims that psychiatrists at Pil-
grim “spend half their time on
Paperwork” and “many” psychi-
atrists “have foreign language or
other impediments to their ef-
fectiveness.”

Ms, Duffy pointed out that by
releasing the report to the press
in late November, less than a

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BARR HONORED

Douglas A. Barr Sr., right, an employee with the State Office of
General Services in Albany, accepts plaque from Civil Service Em-
Ployees Assn. OGS chapter president Earl Kilmartin. The award
was presented at a recent chapter meeting in appreciation of Mr.
Barr's 23 years of service to the CSEA, as committeeman, local vice-
president, president and a member of the statewide Board of Di-
rectors, He has been in state service since 1950 and became active
in the CSEA in 1953 while employed at Wassaic State School. He
moved to Albany to work for the State Teacher's College in 1956
and has worked since 1961 for OGS.

Binghamton PCer Wins Injury

Case After A Five-Year Delay

BINGHAMTON—After more than five years, aided by the Civil Service Employees
Assn., a former employee of the Binghamton Psychiatric Center who was injured on the
job has won compensation due her.

In her suit, the employee, Dorothy Schreher, was assisted by James Corcoran, a

field representative of Syracuse
Region V.

A recent communication from
the Department of Mental Hy-
wiene stated that the facility
management has supported Ms.
Schreher's claim and, pursuant
to Article 10.15 of the New Yo
State Institutional Services Con-
tract, has agreed to pay the
balance of workmen's compen-
sation leave with pay after ad-
justment for payment received.

In reviewing the case's back-
ground, Mr, Corcoran cited let-
ters, directives, medical reports,
step procedures and other per-

tinent papers dating back to
March 1971

Between the dates of her injury
and the letter ‘upholding the
grievance, Ms. Schreher received
advice and treatment from three
physicians and, on a number of
occasions, took leave from work
Her case was further complicated
by conflicting reports by the
physicians and the contention of
management that insufficient
medical documentation of the
injury was submitted to prove
inability to perform regular du-
tes.

11% Hike For Jefferson Unit Ratified By Members

WATERTOWN Across~
the-board pay increases of 5
percent in 1977 and 6 percent
in 1978 are contained in a
new contract for the Jefferson
county unit, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. It affects 424 non-
management employees. The pact
has been approved by the Jef-
ferson County Board of Super-
visors,

The package, ratified by the
CSEA unit membership, also
eliminates automatic salary in-
crements for new employees,
those hired after Jan. 1, adds 24%
hours per work week during July
and August, and provides re-
imbursement of tuition for Jef-
ferson Community College
courses undertaken and success-
fully completed by county em-
ployees

Peter G. Grieco is president of
the CSEA county unit.

In negotiations involving the
Watertown Clerical unit of
CSEA, representing 30 city
school district employees, fact-
finder Garnar V. Walsh has pre-
sented his report recommending
& 3 percent across-the-board in-
crease for al} plus increments for
20 eligible workers; implementa-
ton of @ dental plan at a 10
percent cost to employees; a

change in the formula for health
insurance cost wherein employ-
ees will be obligated to pay 10
percent instead of nothing; a
Board of Education request for
tightening administrative control

over leaves for family ilineses,
bereavement leave and sick leave.

‘The fact-finder’s report will be
reviewed by both parties and if
rejected by either, the negotia-
tors will go back to the confer-

ence table. The Education Board,
in negotiations leading to im-
Passe, proposed a 5 percent cut in
pay for unit members, of whom
many are employed on a ten-
month basis.

State Senator H. Douglas Barcley, center, holds a plaque presented by Syracuse Region V, Civil Service
Employees Assn., in recognition of his service te the 45th Senatorial District. From left are Eleanor 8.
Perey, president of the CSEA Jefferson chapter; Richard J. Grieco, Region third vice-president, co-

chairman of the regionwide political

mittee and president of the Watertown unit of the

CSEA which made the presentation; Assemblyman-elect H. Robert Nortz, 114th Assembly District, and
State Senator Joseph RB. Pisani, New Rochelle,

May of this year brought a
ruling from the Workmen's Com-
pensation Board that her injury
was job-related. At this point the
state terminated her because she
was absent for more thar one
year and medical information in-
dicated the injury was perman-
ent. The termination was made
under Sections 71 and 73 of
Civil Service Law

The following .month, the
CSEA submitted further medical
documentation to Ms. Schreher’s
employer indicating her incapaci-
tation was due to her injury
incurred in March 1971. The
documentation did not show in-
capacitation was permanent, At
this point, Ms. Schreher began
grievance proceedings.

Step one was mutually waived
by both parties. Step two was
filed and later denied, with man-
agement claiming it had no rec-
ord of her having filed for bene-
fits outlined in Article 10.15 and
because sinjury was permanent
Step three was filed and the
hearing held in August.

“Things Turned Around”

‘The recent letter upholding Ms.
Schreher's suit from the De-
partment of Mental Hygiene
read, in part, “As a remedy, the
management of Binghamton Psy-
chiatric Center mwsgigrant you
the balance of the’ Workmen's
Compensation Leave with pay
that you are eligible for pursuant
to Article 10.15, for the injury
you incurred on March 20, 1971,
adjusted for any direct pay-
ments you have recelved from
the Workmen's Compensation
Board.”

In a comment after reading
the decision, Ms, Schreher said,
“I must admit, there were times
when things seemed somewhat
hopeless with hardly @ sign of
progress, But, thanks to the
CSEA and Jim Corcoran, our
field representative, things slowly
and surely began to turn around.
1 know I couldn't have handled
it alone.”

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