The Public Sector, 1983 May 20

Local

Official Publication of The Civil
Service Employees Association

Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees

Vol. 5, No. 16
Friday, May 20, 1983

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ALBANY — Is there an early retirement plan
on the horizon for local government
employees? : a

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AFL-CIO

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President Bill McGowan says layoffs are reducing levels of ser-

vice, and some results are tragic. SEE PAGE 9.

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& ALBANY — Labeling as “’totally unacceptable” the final report of the
§} Permanent Commission on Public Employee Pension and Retirement
) Systems, CSEA made plans to intensify its effort to win abolition of the
# inequitable Tier III retirement plan.
: Public employee unions were unanimous last month in testifying
§) against the Commission’s preliminary recommendations concerning Tier
Tl,
eq “But the Commission’s final report is no improvement, is no com-
= promise,” commented CSEA Legislative Director Bernie Ryan. ‘The basic
§ inequity of Tier ITI is retained. You still have one group of employees paying
i 3 percent of their salaries into the system yet getting substantially reduced
§) benefits out of the system.”
: Basically, the Commission recommends: ‘
¢ The 3 percent employee contribution would be retained.
5 ¢ Benefits would be coordinated with Social Security on an “aggregate”
® basis, rather than on an individual ‘‘offset” method of integration.
& * Pension benefits would be calculated at a rate of 1.5 percent times
§ final average salary times years of service up to a maximum of 35 years.
¥ In comparison, Tier I and II benefits are calculated using a 2 percent
© factor after 20 years service.
Bl “The word ‘aggregate’ usually means a sum or addition. But in this
case, the State is applying the word to a subtraction,” Ryan pointed out.

Pensions based on $12,000 annual salary, age 62, 35 years service

$7,200

$5,170

Legislature chose instead to merely extend the law for one year in its pre-
sent form.

“Our message to the Legislature is loud and clear,” Ryan stressed.
“Tier III is an inequitable system that literally can take more from an
employee through payroll deductions than it ever will return in pension
benefits. We want Tier III abolished, so that employees hired since July 1976
will revert to Tier II.

Under the present Tier III system, employees are effectively penalized
for receiving Social Security benefits which they also paid for through
payroll deductions. After complex calculations, that even the Employee
Retirement System’s actuaries say are unworkable, a Tier III retiree’s pen-
sion benefits will be ‘‘offset” by half of their Social Security benefits.

“While we see room in which to negotiate a compromise, we do not con-
sider it a compromise to merely simplify the mathematics of the system
without addressing the inherent of the Tier III system,”’ Rayn concluded.

a
| “They subtract.3 percent from workers’ salaries, then subtract from their
)} pension benefits upon retirement.”
The union’s Political Action Liaisons (PALs) throughout the State have

{] been called upon to contact State legislators in their home districts and
/) make clear the members’ rejection of Tier IIT.
i The Tier ILI legislation is set to expire June 30. Although a Tier III com-

promise was almost reached in the closing days of the 1982 session, the

“Time to Re-tire”
(TIER 11)

WME TO SHEP SOME
LIGHT OM AN UNWORKHBLE
PENSTON PLANT

eer

A graduation at SIDC

NEW YORK CITY — A $250,000 two-year, joint CSEA/State project funded
by the federal government to train CSEA members to work in community
residences for the mentally retarded came to a close recently as graduation
ceremonies were held for the 37 graduates of the program at Staten Island
Developmental Center (SIDC).

SIDC LOCAL 429 PRESIDENT John Jackson, left, and CSEA Public Policy
Specialist Dr. Paula Lambert congratulate the graduates.

Stony Point unit

STONY POINT — Two big pay boosts totaling 18.5 percent over two
years highlight a contract signed recently between the Stony Point Unit
and the Town Supervisor of this Rockland County community. —

The first pay raise, retroactive to Jan. 1, means a 9 percent increase,
while an additional 9.5 percent salary hike goes into effect Jan. 1.
Longevity payments have also been recomputed, with increments being
paid for five, 10, 15, and 20 years of service. "

Call-in pay has been doubled to a minimum of four hours overtime
pay, and stand-by pay has also been increased to one hour for each four
hours employees are required to stand-by.

Mileage compensation has been upped two cents a mile. A new
provision in this part of the contract will allow the town to reimburse an
employee for the full cost of repair or replacement of his or her personal
vehicle for any damage done to that car when it’s used for town business.

Uniform allowances for members of the highway, sewer, parks and
maintenance departments has been increased $50.

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‘What we learned will be measured
by how we serve our clients’

pens 2-year pact

. personal leave, which will be used by town employees on the Friday after

. ad ees
LOCAL 429’s Barbara Jane Koiner gives the closing
address on behalf of the graduates.

Among the people delivering addresses at the graduation ceremony were
CSEA Public Policy Specialist Dr. Paula Lambert and SIDC Local 429 member
Barbara Jane Koiner, a graduate of the program who noted, ‘‘What we learned
will be measured by how we serve our clients ... a man is not placed on
this earth to live selfishly, but to help his fellow man.”

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SIDC LOCAL 429 MEMBER Joyce Williams, above right, is all'smiles as she e
accepts her graduation certificate from SIDC Director Dr. Ella Curry.

The new agreement allows employees to be compensated for sick
leave credits when they leave town service, and allocates an extra day

Thanksgiving.

Another new addition to the contract is a provision for educational
expenses. Upon successful completion of Town Board approved job-
related courses, employees will be reimbursed, in full, for tuition and
material costs.

Town employees will also continue to enjoy non-contributory
medical, hospitalization and dental insurance plans.

“Our collective bargaining specialist, Ron Mazzola, and the entire
negotiating committee did a superb job in working together to come up
with a fine contract,’ says Field Representative Chris Lindsay. The
negotiating team consisted of Chief Negotiator Herb Garrison, Unit
president Lucille Orof, and members William Plaisted, Dale O’Dell and
Tom Brestolli.

Complex ruling sets
precedent for Local 845
highway workers

Prisoners barred from road work until
all full-time employees are recalled

SHOP TALK — CSEA Local 845 President Richard Reno,
left, gives Mike Dafoe, steward for the St. Lawrence County
Highway Unit, a first hand look at a recent favorable deci-
sion by the American Arbitration Association involving

highway employees.

SYRACUSE — In a precedent-setting deci-
sion affecting 17 St. Lawrence County
highway employees, the American Arbitra-
tion Association (AAA) recently sustained a
CSEA grievance concerning the county prac-
tice of using prisoners to perform laborer
work before recalling all regular employees.

In reviewing the events and facts, termed
“complex” by the arbitrator, ruled the
pomery difference between the CSEA and St.

wrence county arguments centered around
the date an addendum in the contract was
agreed upon and the definition of “regular”
employee.

Prior to 1981, the county utilized a labor
category entitled ‘‘seasonal” employees. In
the 1981 contract, and following addendum,
the category of ‘seasonal’ employee was
abolished and all laborers were then classified
as “regular” or “temporary.”

According to the addendum, temporary
employees were those classified as working
less than six months in a calendar year and
not entitled to most fringe benefits. The term
regular employee would apply to anyone who
worked six months or more in a calendar year
for two consecutive years.

In September of 1982 CSEA filed a grievance
when the St. Lawrence County Highway

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Department used a group of prisoners to per-
form a variety of work normally done by
members of the bargaining unit.

In its presentation to the arbitrator, CSEA
counsel argued that the county had failed to
follow the terms of the contract addendum
and recall all regular workers before new
employees were hired. The county questioned
the effective date of the addendum which con-
tained the revised definition of employee
categories.

After carefully reviewing both presenta-
tions, the arbitrator decided: “I sustain the
(CSEA) grievance to the extent of holding that
a regular employee under the contract adden-
dum is one who had worked for more than six
months in any two consecutive years beginn-
ing in 1981. Under the recall procedures of the
addendum, no prisoners may be used to per-
form work until all regular employees as I
have defined them are recalled to full
employment.”

The CSEA grievance was filed by Local 845
President Richard Reno through Steve
Ragan, a CSEA field representative based in
Canton. CSEA Counsel William F. Maginn Jr.
made the presentation to the AAA rep-
resentative.

Dues coupons a ‘unif-saver’ in Ulster Co.

KINGSTON — Ulster County Unit members are great coupon clippers. Not
necessarily the kind that gets you 50 cents off laundry detergent, but rather a
much more valuable coupon . . . one that keeps their CSEA membership up to
date.

As of April 22, automatic dues deduction for Ulster County Unit members

@was suspended for 12 months. This was the result of a decision by the New York
State Court of Appeals, which ruled that the Unit participated in a strike, as
defined by the Taylor Law, in 1980. So until April 1984, dues will not be taken out
of members’ paychecks.

For management, there were thoughts of CSEA folding and dying. The
leadership and members have been working very hard to make sure those
dreams don’t become a reality.

A coupon book containing 12 payment coupons was mailed to each Ulster
County Unit member by the Member Services department at CSEA
headquarters in Albany. Meetings were held in the Kingston Local office to
generate ideas on how to keep memberships current. Two methods are

@currently being used.

The first involves direct mailing of members’ dues and coupons to Albany.
Posters explaining the procedure are being distributed for each worksite. A
letter detailing how and where to send the dues was included in each coupon
book.

Secondly, Field Rep. Ross Hanna and Organizer Steve Chanowsky have
been making visits to the Ulster County Infirmary and Department of Public
Works compound to accept direct payments. Shop stewards have also been
accepting checks as payment of dues.

The results have been far better than anyone could imagine. Regional
Director Thomas J. Luposello says the statewide average of such dues
collection has only been about 20 percent. For Ulster County’s first collection
period, over 60 percent of the Unit’s members paid their dues, and all signs
point to an increase in the May collection.

This failed attempt to cripple CSEA in Ulster County has, instead,
strengthened the Unit. A new Unit newsletter is being printed monthly, and

For management, there were thoughts of CSEA

folding and dying. The leadership and members have

been working very hard to make sure those dreams
@ don't become a reality.

Newsletter Committee Chairperson Grace Woods can be credited with its
method of distribution. She was able to include a copy of the newsletter in each
County employee’s paycheck. A thousand copies are printed each month, and
the response has been excellent.

The newsletter is being used to inform members about services provided
by CSEA in the Unit, Region, and statewide. It also provides news on upcoming
events, and has been helpful in explaining the dues collection procedure. There
are also looks at the lighter side of union news, with humorous anecdotes and
cartoons appearing soon.

Response by members of the Ulster County Unit has been pleasant and
positive. If County officials had hoped to weaken the union, they will find that
by April 1984, they will have made it the strongest it’s ever been.

FIELD REP. ROSS HANNA, left, Organizer Steve Chanowsky, center, and
Shop Steward Glen Schwenk, right, go over the list of Ulster County Unit
members who have paid their monthly dues.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR; Friday, Mgy:20;, 1983

Page \3,

Official publication of
The Civil Service Employees Association
Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO

33 Elk Street, Albany, New York 12224

The Public Sector (445010) is published every
other Friday by the Civil Service Employees
Association, 33 Elk Street, Albany, New York
12224.

Publication office, 1 Columbia Place, Albany,
New York 12207.

Second Class Postage paid at Post Office,
Albany, New York.

ROGER A. COLE — Editor
TINA LINCER FIRST — Associate Editor
GWENN M. BELLCOURT — Assistant Editor

Address changes should be sent to Civil Ser-
vice Employees Association, The Public Sector,
33 Elk Street, Albany, New York 12224.

RETIREE EXECUTIVES — CSEA retirees met
in Albany recently to elect officers of the Retiree
Executive Committee and set up plans for an up-
coming retiree workshop. Pictured here are
members of the committee. Seated, from left to
right, are John Chesslin, of the Statewide
Political and Legislative Committee; Mary Mc-
Carty, Syracuse Retirees Local 913 president;
Sol Bendet, New York City Metro Local 910; and
Ed Holland, committee secretary and Suffolk

Area Local 920 president. Standing, left to right,
are Leo Hope, administrative assistant, CSEA
Retiree Department; Denise Murnighan, CSEA
stenographer; Agnes Durantino, Rockland Local
918 president; Charles Foster, committee chair-
man and Capital District Local 999 president;
Melba Binn, committee vice-chairwoman and
Rochester Area Local 912 president; and
Thomas Gilmartin, coordinator of CSEA’s
Retiree Department.

C

COPING with LAYOFFS

‘How to make direct payments

Ds

ALBANY — A year’s dues-free membership is available to any CSEA
member who is laid off and placed on a Civil Service Preferred List.

ALBANY — If you are a CSEA member who is
| from. employm od ; ge
Applications, available at CSEA Headquarters or any of the six regional

You may be

ent, fet
CSEA-spons

layoff status.

dues-free
membership

offices, require the signature of the employee’s personnel officer to verify

Once completed, the forms should be returned promptly to: CSEA, 33
Elk St., Albany, N.Y. 12224.
Dues free membersip expires if an employee is returned to the payroll.

MAY
23: Discussion on state barge canal, 8 p.m., WGY-
AM radio call-in show. State Senator Hugh
Farley and CSEA Department of
Transportation board member Joan Tobin
review the canal system.

24: Region I Executive Board Meeting, 7 p.m.
Region I office, Hauppauge Atrium Building,
300 Vanderbilt Motor Pkwy., Hauppauge.

24: Defensive driving course, 5:30-10 p.m., Region
IV office, 1215 Western Ave., Albany.

25: Methods & Procedures Committee Meeting, 9
a.m., Second Floor Conference Room, CSEA
Headquarters, 33 Elk Street, Albany.

25: Defensive driving course, 5:30-10 p.m. Region
IV Office, 1215 Western Ave., Albany.

25: Defensive driving course, 6-10 p.m., Region III
office, Route 9, Fishkill.

JUNE
3: Syracuse Developmental Center combined

iP al

How to continue EBF H As an employee currently covered by the CSEA
e Employee Benefit Fund, | hereby request an |

coverage if you are application for direct-pay coverage while off the |
e | Payroll. |

on a Preferred List ! |

ALBANY — State employees who currently | rn | e
receive benefits under the CSEA Employee Benefit | ME. !
Fund may continue coverage if they are laid off and | !
placed on a Civil Service Preferred List. ADDRESS.

It should be noted that dues free membership | cry. |
does not entitle a person to EBF benefits. Instead, | I
you have the option of making direct payments to | soc. sec. NO. |
the CSEA Employee Benefit Fund to maintain (for | 1
up to one year) participation in dental, optical and | state ZIP. |
prescription drug plans. | H

Anyone interested in the option should fill out the ' |@
following form and return it to: CSEA Employee | Mail to: CSEA Employee Benefit Fund I
Benefit Fund, 14 Corporate Woods Blvd., Albany, | 14 Corporate Woods Bivd. |
N.Y. 12211. 1 Albany, NY 12211 1

The EBF will notify you of the cost of coverage, ! |
which must include all three plans. ! (09 nol send Rayment at:thie ime) d|

Calendar of EVENTS 3

union/management retirement dinner, 6:30
p.m., Wysocki’s Manor, Oneida Lake.

3-4: Western Region VI Conference, Alfred State
College, Alfred.

17-19: Region V Thomas H. McDonough Summer
Conference, Holiday Inn, Lake Placid.

22-23: Internal organizing workshops, CSEA White
Plains satellite office, 222 Mamaroneck
Ave., White Plains.

Page 4

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983

Ballots went out
May 14

Ballots were mailed May 14 to eligi-
ble CSEA members for the election of
new members of the State Executive
Committee and county educational
representatives to the statewide
Board of Directors.

Under the union’s timetable, ballots
are to be returned no later than 5 p.m.
on June 15, and are to be counted on
June 15. In order to obtain a replace-
ment ballot, you must contact Brenda
L. Smith, the Independent Election
Corporation of America, 7 Delaware
Drive, Lake Success, N.Y. 11042;
telephone number (516) 437-4900.

Replacement ballots shall be
counted as valid provided they are

received on or before the date |

specified above and accompanied by
a signed affidavit.

POET AT THE PLAZA

EDWARD T. GILLEN, a member of CSEA Educational
Local 657, spends his spare hours writing poetry. Recently,
he was one of nine state employees who participated in a
reading of their original works at the Egg at the Empire
State Plaza in Albany. The program, sponsored by the
Cultural Education Center, drew an audience of about 170,
which included 100 high school students. For Gillen, a
library technical assistant for the CONSER (Conversion of
Serials) Project of the New York State Library, it was the
first time reciting his works in public. But at 25, he has been
penning poems for about a decade, ever since he won a high
school writing award for a poem on cheating. ‘‘I really don’t
write for prizes or money,” he explains. “I write for my own
satisfaction. It’s a great emotional release.” Gillen
describes his work as both humorous and as “poems that
make you think.” Some of his works have been influenced
by his five years as a public employee, such as the piece,
below, on performance evaluation ratings. Others deal with
everyday things, such as frisbees, also printed below.

RATINGS

She’s outstanding
beats her kids

y All her time invested
she’s so demanding. Sichariiinis
He’s just effective in room for improvement
every way for this dumb office clerk?
sits in bars
drinks his life away.

FRISBEE WARFARE
They met on a field to do battle
with no artillery, guns or men in saddles.
Just multi-colored machines flying in the air
causing great disorder among the ranks.

Men are falling here, there and everywhere
laughing gallantly at their wounds. Tanks
are no where to be found.

Now the battle has ended, no one has won
and there are no dead on this battle ground
mainly because the hamburgers are done. EDWARD T. GILLEN
1980, Dreams, Poetry Press Egg.

4

#
4

. reciting his poems at the

Union petitions NLRB to represent
bus drivers of West Coast firm

PREPARING FOR HEARING — Dave Kennedy, right, presi-
dent of Custodial/Transportation Unit 6 of Onondaga County
Local 834, discusses the text of a petition with field represen-
tative Terry Moxley prior to the initial NLRB hearing at the
State Office Building in Syracuse.

SYRACUSE — In a bold move that could have
a statewide effect on school district trans-
portation, CSEA has begun an all-out effort to
become the official bargaining agent for more
than 100 employees of the ARA Corporation, a
California-based private firm currently trans-
porting a portion of Syracuse City School District
students.

According to David Kennedy, president of
Syracuse Schools Unit 6 of Local 834 Onondaga
County, the union filed a petition April 6 with the
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) re-
questing a representative election. The NLRB
conducted an initial hearing April 29 with
representatives of CSEA, ARA Corporation,
Syracuse City School District, and their legal
counsels.

ARA Corporation has taken the position that
the people it employs to transport Syracuse City
School District students have no right to organize
into a union and collectively bargain for wages,
benefits and working conditions.

In a statement issued after the fourth day of
the hearing, Terry Moxley, a CSEA field
representative said, ‘‘We anticipate the pro-
ceedings will be lengthy, but our commitment in
time and effort to protect employees from the
threat of sub-contracting is crucial and will con-
tinue to be a top priority item. In our opinion, the
final NLRB determination will set a precedent
and have a direct impact on all CSEA school
transportation employees in New York State,”
he concluded.

CSEA Unit 6 is one of two Syracuse City School
District Units and currently represents 259
transportation and custodial employees.

Employee Benefit

Fund moves

The CSEA Employee Benefit
Fund has moved its offices from
One Park Place, Albany, to 14
Corporate Woods Boulevard,
Albany, N.Y. 12211.

The main telephone number is
now (518) 463-4555.

The toll-free number remains
the same. It is:

1-800
342-4274

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983

Page 5

"Union was most encouraging

Carol Kelly to find new job via Erie Co. °

BUFFALO — Erie County has been ordered to
find a new job for a CSEA member and former
records clerk in the district attorney’s office
because she had been duped into resigning “for the
good of the office.” _

Carol Kelly, who held the job for seven years, is
also entitled to full back pay and seniority rights
dating back to her Jan. 29, 1982 dismissal, ruled
arbitrator Howard G. Foster.

The arbitrator supported CSEA attorney Ronald
L. Jaros’ contention that Kelly’s resignation in the
early days of District Attorney Richard Arcara’s
administration was solicited and came with the
scarcely veiled suggestion” that her job would be
cut anyway. Kelly was also falsely informed by the
county that her resignation was necessary to
protect her unemployment insurance benefits, the
arbitrator said.

Kelly was asked by the deputy district attorney
for administration to submit a resignation letter
“for the good of the office’ because her job was
being eliminated. Kelly’s record-keeping job was
cut to expedite creation of another post of
administrative coordinator, to supervise the
office’s support staff.

The prosecutor’s office lacked budgetary
authority to create such a post without eliminating
an existing job. So inventing a vacant job by forcing
Kelly’s resignation circumvented the need to seek
county legislative approval to convert an occupied
position.

Kelly said she was ‘delighted and pleasantly
surprised at the happy outcome of the case.”

“The union was most encouraging,” she said.

“They were convinced of the merits of the case and
that my rights had been violated.”

“CSEA Attorney Jaros did a fine job and now I
am waiting to hear where I will be reassigned to my
new job for the county.”

Region VI Director Lee Frank praised field
representative Bob Young’s tenacity in pursuing
the case through to its successful conclusion. “Bob
believed all along, in contrast to some, that Mrs.
Kelly’s resignation could be proven to have been
made under force,” Frank said,

Although Kelly withdrew her resignation eight
days after submitting it, she lost her job anyway.
She can now wait for the county to assign her to a
new job in comfort of the knowledge that she will be
fully paid at the same rate of pay when all her
troubles began.

Theft charges lifted
in Steuben County

BATH — A Steuben county employee has been vindicated of theft charges
and cleared of any wrongdoing by his union representative without having to
go through the grievance process.

CSEA steward Terry Miller, in describing what he sees as a growing
effectiveness of the union in the Steuben County Highway Department, said he
and Field Representative Ray DuCharme met with their personnel director
“to clear up a potentially messy situation before it got out of hand.”

In the incident, a county highway department employee, working with the
state Department of Environmental Conservation, had been charged with
stealing gravel which theoretically belonged to the state.

The gravel, which was being cleared from a creek to alleviate a sewer
system problem, had to be hauled several miles away to be dumped at a county
site, as the state was giving the gravel to the county.

The employee in question requested a truckload or two of the gravel for use
on his own property, which was a short distance from the creek site. He was
given permission by the DEC supervisor, but when gravel was seen being
dumped in the employee’s driveway, eyebrows were raised and suspicions
arose.

Now that the employee’s name has been cleared, a better working
relationship appears to be in place as a result of cooperation on all sides,
according to DuCharme. ‘This shows that everybody working together in a
cooperative manner can eliminate a lot of unnecessary red tape,” he
concluded.

Local 807 OKs 2-year pact

ELLICOTT — The 19 members of
the Town of Ellicott unit of Local 807
has reached agreement on a two-year
negotiated contract that calls for
swage increases of $1,3052 in the first
year and $1,044 in the second year
plus increments.

Police officers in the unit will
receive an increase in court
appearance allowance, from $250 to
$350. The unit gained a waiver of the
maximum use of sick days per
calendar year. Longevity pay for
those employed five through 15 years
will increase by $75 and shift
differential pay will rise from 15 cents
to 25 cents per hour.

Highway employees will now be
covered under the grievance
procedure after six months rather
than the previous two years. The
employer may seek alternative health
coverage from the present Blue
Cross-GHI, but no implementation of
such a plan will be made without
approval of the unit, which includes
motor equipment operators, police
officers and office workers.

Field representative Mark Higgins
was joined in negotiations by Unit
President Bud Rhodes, Steve Fox,
Larry Swanson, Gary Frazier and
Darryl Braley.

Town of Clarence reaches accord

CLARENCE — The 35-member Town of Clarence unit of Local 815
has reached agreement on a three-year contract that boosts wages by 6
percent in each year of the pact. The unit’s negotiators also gained a
longevity increase, a safety shoe allotment and payment for out-of-title
work. The unit also established a career ladder for certain job titles.

Field Representative Vince Sicari was aided in negotiations by Unit
President George Horan and Tom Scott.

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983

ALBANY — In the first four
months of 1983, 796 ‘A members
participated in|20 different
workshops sponsored by the
union’s Education and Training
Department.

Those statistics were among
topics discussed at an April 22
meeting here of the standing
Education and Training
Committee, according to
Chairman Sean Egan. saree

Statewide officers, regional
Education Committee chair-
persons and staff attended the
session, described by Egan as “an
opportunity to promote better
coordination.” For example, a
tentative training program for the
next three months was developed.
Among events recently held or
upcoming are:

Region I: Stress Management
Workshop, May 3; regional County
Workshop, May 3-5; Officer
Training Program, June 18;

Region II; Stress Management
Workshop; May 2;

Region IM: Officer Training
Program, April 27-28; Basic
Negotiations Workshop, OSHA
Workshop, American Labor
Movement Workshop, May 14-15;
Internal Organizing Program,
June 22-23;

Education and Training
Committee Chairman
Sean Egan

Region IV: Negotiations in
Political Subdivisions Workshop,
April 23; Stress Management
Workshop, April 27;

Region VI: Principles of
Leadership Workshop, April 30;
Internal Organizing Workshop
(Niagara County), May 2-3.

Also discussed were plans for the
final six months of the year, with

ga he regional representative
rotted tg they ectly use

the Education, und Ti i

on five) different occasions.
Programs which could be planned
include a ‘major weekend,” that
is, an extended program of up to
four days; a “minor weekend,”
that is, a two-day event utilizing
one trainer; and various weeknight
events conducted by one trainer.

In other business, Tom Quimby,
director of the CSEA Labor
Education Action Program
(LEAP), reported that the office is
now located at 488 Broadway,
Albany, N.Y. 12207. Telephone No.
(518) 434-8151.

A brochure describing the
program, which is funded for state
workers in the Administrative,
Institutional and Operational
bargaining units, is available by
contacting the LEAP office.

ONLY
$4.50

ALBANY — Retired public employees can pro-
tect their futures for just $4.50 — the cost for a
limited time 6-month membership in a CSEA
retiree’s local.

The union’s legislative accomplishments for
retirees have included pension increases for peo-
ple who retired after April 1, 1970 and before
Dec. 31, 1979, drug prescription cards for those
with health insurances in the state program, and
survivor’s death benefits for state employees.

But these benefits could not have been ac-
complished without the political clout of the
40,000 people who already belong to retiree
locals. And, it is in the special interest of retirees
who have not yet joined their ranks to do so.

Membership gives them a voice in the state’s
capitol to lobby for their needs. In addition, there
is an official retiree’s newsletter issued
periodically, mailings go out on selected
issues, locals meet regularly to share ideas and
exchange information, social gatherings are
held, and there is access to a retiree’s depart-
ment, staffed by professionals, in CSEA
Headquarters.

For additional information, contact the

CSEA retiree membership
tremendous bargain;
protect your future

through retiree power ({ nV

retiree’s department by calling (518) 434-0191. To
sign up, fill out the following form and with a
$4.50 check send it to: CSEA, 33 Elk St., Albany,
N.Y. 12207.

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THE CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, INC.
Local 1000, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
33 Elk Street, Albany, New York 12207

For employees taking early retirement,

maintaining insurance programs is easy

retirees to continue their participation in CSEA-sponsored insurance

programs.

First, you must join a CSEA retirees local. See accompanying arti-
cle above, for more information and an application form.

Then, you must arrange to pay insurance premiums directly
because once you retire payroll deductions stop.

If you have any questions, call one of the following telephone

numbers:

Basic Group Life Insurance...

Supplemental Life Insurance. . 1-800-342-6272 Ext. 537

Family Protection Plan...

Accident and Sickness Plan... 1-800-342-6272
MasterPlan (Home and Auto).. 1-800-462-2636
Jardine Ter Bush & Powell can also be reached by calling

(518) 381-1600.

To obtain more information, fill out the following coupon

and mail it to: CSEA, 33 Elk St., Albany,

Info Center on
preferred lists
opened to help
layoff victims

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ALBANY — The Department of Civil Ser-
vice has set up a Preferred List Information
Center for state employees facing layoffs.
Counselors will be available 8 a.m. to 6
p.m. to answer telephone questions.
The phone number Is (518) 457-2973.
The Center, In Room 119 In Bullding 1 of cr)
the State Office Bullding Campus In Albany,
will also provide Information on a walk-in
basis from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. dally.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983 Page 7

Civil Service Centennial:

Legislative resolution praises
public workers as cornerstone of system

ALBANY — 1983 is the centennial of the Civil
Service system in New York State. To mark the
occasion, the state Legislature recently passed a
resolution urging that Gov. Mario Cuomo pro-
claim 1983 as ‘‘Civil Service Centennial Year.”

The resolution praises the work done by public
employees and reads, in part:

The Givil Service System has been responsi-
ble for construction and maintenance of a road
and transportation system linking the outer
reaches of our state into one community;

Civil servants have been responsible for the
development of a public health system that has
virtually eliminated the scourges of disease; in-
sured that our food and water supplies are
potable and untainted, and that our health and
medical care standards are models for the
western world;

The Civil Service system has led to the
establishment of a free universal public educa-
tion system reducing illiteracy and acting as the
precursor of a higher education system un-
paralleled in the history of mankind;

Civil servants have been responsible for the
safety of our workplaces, our public facilities,
and indeed our very homes;

The Civil Service system has been principally
responsible for the humane and caring treat-
ment of those less fortunate, ill, infirm, and
addicted;

Civil servants have been responsible for
building a system of parks, recreational
facilities and cultural institutions on a scale
dwarfing anything known to man before;

The Civil Service system has been responsi-
ble for the construction of hundreds of thousands
of housing units, replacing tenements and hovels
with safe and decent housing;

Civil servants have been charged with the
preservation and management of our natural
heritage of water, land, and wildlife in order that
future generations may enjoy this God-given
legacy for time immemoriam;

The Civil Service system has been responsi-
ble for the creation of a comprehensive
regulatory framework enabling the free enter-
prise system to grow and flourish;

Civil servants have been responsible for the
development of low cost power, ports and har-
bors, and waterway systems benefitting all
citizens;

The Civil Service system has been responsi-
ble for the implementation of a fair and equitable

cs

staff openings

BACK IN 1883 — Admiring the original piece of legislation, signed by Governor Grover Cleveland,
establishing the Civil Service System are, from left: Joseph F. Valenti, Civil Service Commissioner
and President of the State Civil Service Commission; Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, chairman of the
Assembly Governmental Employees Committee; Josephine Gambino, Civil Service Commissioner
and Bernard Ryan, CSEA’s Director of Legislative and Political Action.

system of self taxation enjoying unprecedented
acceptance and compliance;

Civil servants have been responsible for insur-
ing the safety of our highways and motor
vehicles so necessary for the commerce and
leisure time pursuits of all citizens;

The Civil Service system has been responsi-
ble for the development of public law advocacy
actions on behalf of the citizens of this state;

The Civil Service system has been responsi-
ble for the development of licensing standards
and frameworks insuring that our professions
could grow to a stature of universal trust;

Civil servants have been responsible for pro-
viding public safety and natural disaster ser-
vices so vital and fundamental to any functioning
society;

The Civil Service system has been responsi-
ble for nurturing our youth and the care and
enrichment of the lives of our elderly;

Civil servants have been responsible for the
creation of a system of criminal justice uni-
versally acknowledge for its impartiality and
fairness;

Civil servants have been responsible for the
administration of an unemployment and
workers’ compensation system that is a model
other industrialized nations have copied.

Two state officials who went on to become U.S.
presidents had roles in setting up the state’s Civil
Service system. Assemblyman Theodore
Roosevelt sponsored the legislation. Gov. Grover
Cleveland signed it into law on May 12, 1883. It
later withstood a constitutional challenge, and
has been in place ever since,

OSHA specialist sought

ALBANY — CSEA is seeking candidates to fill the position of occupational
safety and health specialist assigned to the Region V office in Syracuse.

Duties include investigating violations of safety and health standards,
preparing follow-up reports, advising union members of their rights under
such legislation as the public sector OSHA Law and the Right-to-Know act, and
preparing and conducting safety educational program.

Minimum qualifications are as follows: Highschool graduation or posses-
.sion of a high school equivalency diploma, plus three years of experience in a
position or positions involving work of an investigatory or inspection nature, or
the development of and participation in group training programs, or direct
public contract work and/or knowledge of safety and health standards; or the
possession of a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or
university, in a related field; or a combination of an Associate’s Degree and
one year of experience in the above.

Candidates must possess a driver’s license and a car for business use.

Resumes should be submitted by May 31 to: Personnel Director, 33 Elk St.,
Albany, N.Y. 12224.

Communications
positions open

ALBANY — CSEA is seeking candidates to fill two vancancies in the
union’s Communications Department. Positions to be filled are assigned to the
Region I office in Long Island and the Region II office in New York City.

Duties include preparing articles for The Public Sector, writing news
releases, answering press queries, preparing fliers, posters and other printed
materials, and assisting CSEA locals and units with their communication
needs.

Applicants should have a college degree in journalism or related subject plus
two years of satisfactory newspaper, magazine or public relations experience.
Five years of satisfactory experience may be substituted for a degree. Can-
didates must have a driver’s license and car for business use.

Resumes should be submitted by May 31 to CSEA’s Personnel Director, 33
Elk St., Albany, N.Y. 12224.

Page. 8

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May. 20, 1983

President’s

Message

Fraternally,

McGOWAN | : 5 ee Bae |

| at

‘We know that we've been doing
more with less for a long time. We
know about double shifts and forced

e overtime ... We'll do our best. But

‘ some of us will keep thinking about the
young man af one of our psychiatric
centers who hanged himself just hours
before a meeting fo discuss severe

shortages at the institution.

e
e
A 23-year-old patient at Middletown During the controversy over May layoffs, we _ they’re cutting back to ‘‘do less with less.’’ But
Psychiatric Center committed suicide last heard from many of the critics of public the governor takes that a step farther and tells
week. He hanged himself with bedsheets. employees. Our critics said: Private industry us that we’re going to ‘’do more with less,
lronically and tragically, this young man’s has had its layoffs, its unemployment, its cut- and the public likes the sound of the slogan.
death occurred just hours before represen- backs and concessions. Why should public Th: i i
tatives of CSEA and other public employee employees be immune? Why should they be Fa Mel ate ea head RAUL pet
unions, the center’s management and the allowed to retain their jobs when private public employees all just worked hard, we
| Board of Visitors were scheduled to meet to employees have lost theirs? could get the job done with fewer people. That
@ |. discuss severe. staffing shortages at the #5 9 criticism that’s understandably born slogan is part and parcel of the damning
institution. out of the pain of nationwide unemployment _ stereotype of paper-pushing public employees,
Originally scheduled for 64 cuts under the and economic hard times, but it’s a criticism of employees who “‘have it made” at tax-
worst Cuomo layoff plan, the center will soon that’s also born out of basic misunderstanding _ payers’ expense. That slogan is an insult.
have a shortage of 183 employees through of the nature of public service. It’s a criticism : }
retirements, resignation and layoffs. that must be answered. We know that we’ve been doing more with
Programs have been cut, client facilities have = less for a long time. We know about double
been shut down, and hospital administrators lf business gets bad and car sales fall, in- shifts and forced overtime. We know about
fear loss of accreditation. dustry needs fewer employees to manufacturer —_ covering two jobs because vacancies aren’t fill-
It’s not an isolated situation. At Rome fewer cars. We have not questioned the state’s eq. We know that just as many motorists will
Developmental Center, where employees have right to manage the size of its workforce accor- jing up next month to renew their drivers
been working double shifts because of staff ding to this same simplified principle. Indeed, —_jicenses. We know that the same number of
e shortages, nearly 100 CSEA members will this is what happens when governments im- highway miles will have to be maintained. We
retire in June — 100 fewer workers ina facility POSe programmatic layoffs. They ‘‘gooutofthe know that just as many unemployment in-
where employees are already stretched to the business’’ of providing a service, and therefore —_ surance claims will have to be processed. We
breaking point. no longer need the employees who were pro- —_ know the same number of tax forms will have to
Statewide, more than 2,500 of the 8,000 state viding that service. be examined.
employees who applied for early retirement Across-the-board layoffs when management . ‘ f
were from OMH and OMRDD. arbitrarily reduces the workforce by ‘‘X’’ BUN e Sele ail nas amon ue
Staff shortages, relocations, and cutback of number of positions to achieve budgetary goals jobs in private industry. Some will hold on and
facilities and programs are factors thatcanlead — js another story. What those of us in public hope that we don’t get cut in the next round of
to patient anxiety. Patient anxiety can result in — service understand is that there is still work to jayoffs,
violent incidents. Clients who neither know nor be done, still services to be provided, still -
C) care about a balanced budget may become its clients to bathe and feed and care for. And some of us will keep thinking about that

tragic victims.

When a car manufacturer lays off workers,

young man who hanged himself with bedsheets.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983

Page 9

Page 10

WATERFORD — “‘DOT doesn’t understand the

what we do, why, or how

Local 500 President Harold Kenyon

CSEA LOCAL 500 PRESIDENT Harold Kenyon, right, a chief lock operator at

canal operation,’’ Harold Kenyon, president of the
Eastern Barge Canal Local, said after working a
nine-hour day on Friday the 13, the opening day of
the state barge canal system.

“it?s not like working on a highway. One slip
and | kiss my life goodbye,’’ Kenyon said
describing his first work day without a helper as
**hectic, dangerous and busy, busy, busy.””

Kenyon went to work at 7 a.m., an hour early,
because ‘‘! expected it was going to be a tough
day and it was; | didn’t even stop to eat.’’

Normally, Kenyon, a chief lock operator, works
with one assistant to help him with the operating
of a flood control dam, paper work, regular
maintenance and ‘“‘locking’’ the raising or
lowering of boats through Lock 9 on the Erie
branch of the state barge canal in Rotterdam. But
due to budget cutback of the Department of
Transportation’s Division of Waterways
Maintenance he worked the first day alone and
had little hope of having a helper in the near
future.

But during the first day of operations, Kenyon
did nearly a dozen ‘“‘lockings.’’ which take about

Lock 9 on the Erie branch of the state barge canal, obtains a signature of a boat
operator on a union petition protesting the planned layoffs of 164 canal
maintenance workers. The petition is one of several methods being used in an

effort to prevent the layoffs from taking place late this year.

“THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983
Tse AE tate

‘The powers that be . . . don’t realize

45 minutes each, permitting 40 vessels to oe
through the lock.

Kenyon, however, added one additional duty to
his normal routine — he passed out bright red
lapel stickers with a simple message ‘‘Don’t Pull
the Plug SAVE THE STATE BARGE CANAL
SYSTEM”’ and asked passers-by to sign a CSEA
petition urging no cutbacks in operating person-|
nel of the canal so that the system can be properly,
maintained. The concern, cooperation and sup-
port of the vast majority of peope was
tremendous. e

CSEA wants to save the jobs of 100 of its
members who are being treated badly by the
budget and the management of DOT. Some
workers have been laid off, others are slated for
layoffs, and still others have been transitioned
from permanent full-time employees to seasonal
workers.

Kenyon blamed the layoffs, the transitions and
the lack of replacement for retiring personnel
on DOT’s ‘‘procrastinating and lack of
understanding of the canal operations.’

“It’s plain and simple, the powers that ® inj
their plush offices in Albany don’t realize what w
do, why or how we do it,’’ Kenyon said. ‘‘Now with]
these cutbacks, they’re playing with our lives.’’

The Honorable Mario Cuomo
Governor of New York
@bany, NY 12247

My dear Governor:

it was a pleasure to talk with you Thursday night, April 28, on the “Talk to Your Governor”
tadio program. Congratulations on opening the lines of communication between your office
and the concerned citizens of our state.

As you suggested when we talked, | am writing to you and explaining the layoff situation on
the Erie Barge Canal.

First, as | told you during our conversation, about 35% of the Department of Transportation
layoffs is taking place in the Division of Waterways, which actually constitutes much less

jan 10% of the department’s personnel. To further compound this injustice, the acting

sistant commissioner, Office of Operations, on the team for layoffs had a personal feud with
the waterways director, and he took a “canal and public be damned,” vindictive attitude with
regard to the layoffs. No one with a day-to-day knowledge of the canal operation would have
concentrated the layoffs in the operating personnel (canal structural operators). Locking boats
is only one of many jobs the canal structural operators perform daily. Not considered was the
effect of the canal on tourism, boating, flood control, parks, irrigation, hydroelectric power,
etc. In addition, layoffs of the canal structural operators will completely halt the winter
maintenance programs on our 70-year old locks. The layoffs will close the canal as surely as
if the locks were blown up. The only difference is one way is instant and the other will take a
little time; but both will have the same devastating effect.

The canal structural operators and the chief lock operators touch the public in their day-to-
@ay operations more than any other employees in the Department of Transportation. They
touch the boating public — the tourists, the picnickers, etc. These are the employees who do
all the lock maintenance — our antiquated lock machinery is kept running because of the
winter repair/overhaul work done yearly. We were operating with less than one-half of our
normal personnel before these latest layoffs (due to cutbacks in early 1970 and attrition). | am
sure the acting assistant commissioner who formulated the layoffs did not take this into
consideration.

The canal structural operators have received letters asking them to return for a seven-
month seasonal job. Even the “sin” tax on liquor and cigarettes ends in 1986, but these 80
men who have had their permanent jobs made seasonal have no hope of returning to full-time

coca yruest: This is the injustice that made me speak up.

1am asking you to open the lines of communication with our new commissioner, who | am
sure is not aware of this situation. As you said in our talk, we all have to bite the bullet, but
these men are paying more than their fair share. The current attitude of the Department of
Transportation seems to be: “If you can’t blacktop, it, do away with it.”

| look at the canal as the oldest operating museum in New York State. | feel its historical
value cannot be measured — nor its economic value to the State of New York. Perhaps with
the Department of Transportation’s present attitude toward the canal division, some thought
ly be given to putting the canal under a more public-oriented department, such as Parks
and Recreation.

Since our new commissioner, Mr. Larocca, was appointed after these layoffs were made, |
would appreciate your asking him to review how the cuts were made in the Department of
Transportation. There were many other layoffs within the canal division in addition to the
reduction from full time to seasonal positions — we have been hit much too hard!

| would be more than happy to share with Mr. Larocca any knowledge | have gained during
the past 19 years | have worked on the canal. Any additional information, facts, figures, etc.
which would be helpful in appraising this situation that | can provide, | will be happy to do so.
Thank you for listening to one of the “family” and for your sincere interest in our State.

Sincerely,

Harold Kenyon
President, Chapter 500
Erie Barge Canal

Barge canal
controversy

to be aired

on WGY radio

SCHENECTADY — The Barge
Canal situation will be the topic of a
panel discussion on the popular “‘Con-
tact” call-in radio program starting
at 8 p.m. Monday night, May 23 on sta-
e tion WGY (810 AM on the radio dial).

Participants will be Joan Tobin,
CSEA’s Board of Directors represen-
tative from the Department of Trans-
portation and president of DOT Local
687; Harold Kenyon, president of
Eastern Barge Canal CSEA Local
500; and State Senator Hugh Farley.

Listeners will be given the
telephone number during the panel
discussion to be used to contract the

e participants on the air.

LOCAL 524 PRESIDENT
FRANK LANGDON

Western Region
reflection of
conditions all

along the canal

State Barge Canal employees in Region VI greeted the opening day of
the canal with the shadow of decreased employment for themselves and
fellow CSEA members clouding the usually-sunny spring weather that nor-
mally opens the boating season.

Local 524 President Frank Langdon and several members of his local
feel the state’s plan to make bridge and canal structure operators seasonal
employees is ‘criminal’ and circumvents the intent of the Civil Service
statutes.

‘Many of us have worked ten years or more at our jobs, and this is the
thanks we get,” said Langdon, an employee at the Adam St. bridge in
Lockport.

“This plan will cut nearly 40 percent out of our paychecks, in addition to §
causing the needed maintenance of the old gears and parts of these old
bridges to decrease, ‘Langdon continued. “It’s very short-sighted on the
part of the state.”

DOT Local 504 has employees in the Albion and Rochester sections of §
the Barge Canal and President Bob Wilson has joined the other CSEA locals
calling for a reversal of the state’s plan that “‘makes no sense,”’ in Wilson’s
words.

Wilson and Langdon will be joining other canal locals who will be
distributing fliers, petitions and bumper stickers that urge the public to
voice their hope that state government not ‘‘pull the plug on the Barge
Canal.”

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983 Page 11

by Gwenn Bellcourt
Assistant Editor

ALBANY — After a series of rigorous tests and
months of training, they will have done a com-
plete ‘about face’ in their careers — transition-
ing from a potentially deadend clerical job to an
administrative post normally requiring a college
bachelor’s degree. -

“They” are 40 state workers enrolled in a

. branch of the Clerical and Secretarial Advance-

*ment Program (CSEAP). And the enormous
challenge they face as future administrators was
the focus of ‘Transition 83,” an intensive two-
day seminar held last week at the State Universi-
ty of New York at Albany.

“Transition 83” participants were praised as
“doers,” “achievers” and “motivators,” by a
host of speakers including CSEA Statewide
Secretary Irene Carr, Administrative Assistant
to the Governor Al Levine, CSEA Director of Col-
lective Bargaining Jack Carey, a panel of state
administrators and a renowned psychotherapist.

CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene Carr remind-
ed participants that they wouldn’t be where they
are today if it weren’t for the Grade 3 and 5
clerks ‘‘who had a dream, a vision for those of us
who were once stuck in low-paying, go-nowhere
jobs.”

“Don’t forget these people. And above all,
remember those members of the negotiating
team who made it all possible,” Carr said, as she
referred back to 1979 when the CSEAP program
was negotiated in an agreement between the
union’s Administrative Services Bargaining Unit
(ASU) and the State.

In his keynote address, Levine, a computers
and administrations specialist, was straightfor-
ward in his advice. “You must be innovative and
persistent and do what you have to do within the
limits of the law to get the job done.”

To illustrate this point, Levine spoke of when
he was hired 13 years ago as consultant to
reorganize the then-inefficient Department of
State. No one else wanted the job, he mused, but
since he had just finished a 25-year career in the
Air Force, he welcomed the challenge.

At that time in the Department of State, Levine
said it took six months for a beautician to get a
license, over a year for a real estate agent to get
scheduled for an exam and nearly eight months
for a broker to get a license.

Within a week, he found who he has since dubb-
ed “Mrs. Licensing Bureau,” a woman who took
it upon herself to personally process 380,000 ap-
plications a year. “Whatever happened to ser-
vice to the public?” Levine queried, adding that
an essential duty of administrator is to delegate
responsibility.

Soon the licensing bureau was equipped with

computers. The entire Department of State ex-
perienced a 40 per cent reduction in staff without
a single layoff. This was accomplished through
attrition and “generally eliminating the fat
layers of middle management,” Levine noted.

The state’s first-ever administrative
assistants program was enacted in the Depart-
ment of State, a project Levine said was “‘very
close to his heart.” The program provided an in-
centive for promotion, boosted morale and in-
creased productivity in the newly re-organized
department, he said.

In closing, Levine stressed the importance of
adopting an innovative and persistent manage-
ment style. ‘The only thing we can’t do is live
forever,’ Levine said. ‘(Remember words like
‘you can’ and ‘I will’ and you’ll be way ahead of
the game.”

Following a brief break for lunch, participants
were privy to an informal panel discussion entitl-
ed “State of the State.” Panelists included
Florence Frazer, assistant director of the Gover-
nor’s Office of Employee Relations; Ramon
Rodriquez, executive deputy director for the
State’s Division of Youth; and BruceFeig, deputy
commissioner for budget and finance in the Of-
fice of Mental Retardation and Developmental
Disabilities.

Frazer, an attorney who is also a member of
the CSEAP Committee, spoke of a new breed of
managers in state government. Within the past
ten years, managers have become much more
aware of employee concerns, she said. This new
awareness is due, in part, to the increasing
political power of public employee unions.

“When a union grows like CSEA did from a
small social group to a major organization which
actually changes the direction of government,”
Frazer said, “‘an administrator has to pay close
attention to the worker’s interests.”

Along these same lines, Ramon Rodriguez
from the Division of Youth noted that ten years
ago, support staff was taken for granted.

“How many of you carried your bosses? ”
Rodriguez asked, adding that negative stereo-
types have changed as clerical staff are now
beginning to get the recognition they deserve, he
said.

Dr. Megen Ruthman, a psychotherapist and
director of the Meta-Center in Albany, conducted
a workshop on goals, stress and power for the re-
mainder of this first day of ‘Transition 83”

In goal-setting, Ruthman said, ‘‘we create our
own futures. There are exactly 1,440 minutes in a
day. It’s what we do with this time depends on
what we want from life.”

Ruthman outlined common resistances to
goal-setting such as fear of failure and converse-
ly, the fear of success. By devising a carefully
mapped-out series of ‘‘action steps,” Ruthman
explained it is much easier to attain long-sought

Al Levine, Administrative
Assistant to the Governor

Page 12

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20,

1983

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‘or place to another: CHANGE 2) a movement, § |
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WELCOMING REMARKS—CSEA’s Director of
Collective Bargaining, Jack Carey, welcomes
trainees to the ‘‘Transition 83” seminar. At right
is CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene Carr.

after goals. “‘Success is the result of many small
victories,” she said in quoting a favorite
philosopher.

Ruthman spoke in body metaphors when refer-
ring to symptoms of stress such as “‘shouldering
a burden” and “stomaching a problem.”
Headaches are often the result of overthinking,
she noted, whereas lower back pain is a sign of
internalized anger.

By becoming aware of these physical symp-
toms and working to relieve them by setting
well-defined goals, Ruthman said a person’s
quality of life can be greatly enhanced.

“Transition 83” participants were then in-
structed to break into groups and identify their
goals, devise “action steps’ and generally
discuss the stresses in their lives.

The second day of the seminar concentrated on
the program itself. Case studies were presented
of clerical workers who have advanced through
CSEAP to any one of nearly 100 titled positions
such as Information Processing Specialists, In-
vestigative Aide and Administrative Assistant.

Participants met in small groups to talk about
the problems they faced during the traineeship.
Later in the day, they were asked to make
recommendations to better serve the thousands
of state workers in the union’s Administrative
Services Bargaining Unit (ASU).

Established in 1979, CSEAP is the result of con-
tract negotiations between the CSEA and the
state. The program is administered through
the Employee Advancement Section of the New
York State Department of Civil Service located
at the State Office Building Campus in Albany.

a

FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR — Some of the people who pitched in during the
food drive honoring the late Tom McDonough are surrounded by contribu-
tions. From left are Erie County Executive Edward Rutkowski; Richard
Marks of West Seneca Developmental Center Local 427; Barbara Justinger
of Erie County Local 815; Terry Melvin of Local 427; and Rev. Robert
Timberlake, director of the city mission, where a large portion of donated
food was presented. Buffalo Local 003 also contributed.

4

HEAVE HO! — Local 427’s Terry Melvin and Richard Marks haul a large
box of donated food to Erie County distribution center.

Region VI food drive helps ease burdens of needy

The ongoing effort to help the needy continues
in Region VI as more locals contribute to helping
their less fortunate fellow citizens as part of a
food drive in memory of the late Tom
McDonough, former CSEA executive vice
president.

In Hornell, where Department of Trans-
portation Local 007 recently completed a suc-
cessful drive, Local Secretary Dawn Smith said
four large boxes of groceries will be donated to
two needy families, who were chosen by
members who knew of their needs.

9

D.O.T. DRIVE — D.O.T. Local 007 members who helped with the food drive are pic-
tured here. Seated, left to right, are Local Secretary Dawn Smith, Administrative
Unit Representative Darlene Krupp and First Vice President Tom Flaitz. Standing,
left to right, are Second Vice President Robert Palanowski, Operational Unit
Representative Richard Northrup, President John Wallenbeck, and Terry Miller of
Steuben County Local 851, who also participated.

“One of them is a county employee, grade
four, who has five or six children and is always
struggling to make ends meet, which is under-
standable on a grade four salary,” said Smith.
“And another recipient was unemployed until
lately, and his wife has been having problems
with her current pregnancy, so we wanted to
make things as easy for them as we possibly
could.”

At Alfred State University College, Local 600
members used food donated by fellow members
to help a family that was a victim of a fire at

their home. “We heard about their situation, and
we felt that it would be in the spirit of the food
drive to donate these goods to someone obviously
in need,” said Local President Randy Brewer.

Other locals that have pitched in to help the
drive include Erie County Local 815, West
Seneca Developmental Center 427 and Buffalo
Local 003.

Region VI President Robert L. Lattimer laud-
ed the efforts of everyone involved and the
“spirit in which CSEA members showed their
compassion for their fellow man.”

SUNY FREDONIA DRIVE — Capt. Dennis Gensler of the Salvation
Army of Chatauqua County, pictured at left in front row, accepts
checks and food from members of SUNY Fredonia Local 607 and
SUNY Fredonia FSA Local 627. They include Rose Meyer of Local 607,
Local 627 President Chris Palmer, Field Representative Mark Hig-
gins, Lois Bialaszewski, Fanny Graham, Mary Wright, Marietta Colby
and student participants.

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Page 13

Region [i Political Action Seminar

POLITICAL POINTERS — Political
Action Training Specialist Ramona
Gallagher leads a one-day political
action seminar held in Metropolitan
Region II recently, which attracted
some 50 members. Seated at the dais
are Robert Nurse, chairman of the
region’s political action committee
and president of Kingsboro
Psychiatric Center Local 402, and
George Caloumeno, regional presi-
dent. Among the topics covered at the
session were lobbying, organizing
political action committees, CSEA’s
1983 legislative program and organiz-
ing for elections.

Quimby named
head of LEAP

THOMAS QUIMBY

ALBANY — CSEA Statewide’

President William L. McGowan has
appointed Tom Quimby director of
CSEA/LEAP, the union’s Labor
Education Action Program.

LEAP administers tuition-free
courses and high school equivalency
programs for state workers in the
Administrative, Institutional and
Operational bargaining units. It also
cooperates with the Governor’s Office
of Employee Relations to provide
other training programs, including
tuition reimbursements and agency
experimental grants.

Quimby joined CSEA in 1974 as a
field representative. In 1979, he was
appointed the union’s director of
education.

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Broadway, Room 518, Albany, N.Y.
The telephone number is (518)
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Warren County info day proves impressive

WARRENSBURG — An Informa- q
tion Day with three stops for the q
CSEA represented workers in Warren
County was conducted recently.

“The Warren County work force is
so spread out that a single location
would not serve the needs of all the
workers, so we moved the involved
representatives to the workers,
rather than the workers to a single
location,” Mike White, CSEA field
representative explained.

The Information Day started at the
Westmount Health Facility, moved to
the Municipal Center at noontime,
and ended the day in the basement of
the County Highway Department.

ant. cet
, es WELCOME TO WARREN COUNTY INFO DAY — Jim Blanchard, War-
‘The members were quite impress- ren County section president at the health facility, center, welcomes John
ed,” Doug Persons, Local president D. Corcoran, Jr., left, Region IV director, to the Westmount Health
said. Facility. At right is Field Representative Mike White.

Page 14

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983

SIGN OF THE TIMES — An employee at the Gowanda
Psychiatric Center pickets against further prison ex-
pansion on the facility’s grounds with a sign denounc-
ing the Department of Corrections.

| for public support

Members rally

against further
prison expansion

The fight goes on at Gowanda Psychiatric
Center and Craig Developmental Center,
where CSEA members continue their efforts
to halt or reverse further prison expansion by
the state despite what they say are attempts
“to wear us down.”

Gaining enough public support, which
would, in turn, lead the state Legislature to ef-
fect a plan that would guarantee a meaningful
existence of the facilities, is their aim, stress
Gowanda Local 408 President Adolph Namlik
and Craig Local 405 President Bub Dunlop.

Gowanda local members, with active sup-
port of other regional mental health locals and
Western Region President Robert L. Lat-
timer, took their case to the streets of nearby
Gowanda recently, using bullhorns and infor-

LISTENING TO DETAILS of Craig Developmental Center impact study are, ‘above, left to right,
Craig Local 405 President Bob Dunlop, First Vice President Kathy Pontillo and Joan Palmer.

GOWANDA
PSYCHIATRIC
CENTER Local
408 Vice Presi-
dent Joe
Hageman at re-
cent rally.

mational fliers and petitions. Their'literature
cited the negative economic effect the loss of
the center would mean. A flier to be mailed to
Gov. Mario Cuomo asked that he put into
writing his promise of last year that Gowanda
would remain a viable mental health facility.

The Craig local is using a high-powered
media campaign of radio and newspaper ads
to inform the community of the ills that await
their area if the prison on the center’s grounds
totally replaces the developmental center.

Craig-area residents are being asked to in-
form their elected officials that they want to
save the center from extinction. A public
meeting is being planned to allow state Sen.
Dale Volker and Assemblyman Richard
Wesley to explain the latest status of the
state’s plans for the facility.

LATTIMER RALLIES — Western Region VI President Robert L. Lattimer makes public
aware of the negative effects the Gowanda closing will have on the community.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983

Page 15

TROY — With Rensselaer County
Highway Department employees still
caught in the middle of a heated
political battle, CSEA’s Capital
Region is fighting hard to have 49 laid-
off workers rehired while protecting
the safety of the remaining 30
workers.

On April 29, County Executive
William Murphy refused the request
of top regional officials to rescind the
layoff notices to the 49 workers and
allow the union additional time to
mediate the highway fund controver-
sy in the county Legislature.

That following Monday morning,
the majority of highway workers sign-
ed up en masse for unemployment in-
surance, social service programs and
all benefits due employed workers.

During that week, union officials at-
tempted to get the parties together
and succeeded in getting the

Battle still rages over
highway dept. layoffs

UNEMPLOYED AND ANGRY —
workers sign up for all the benefits due them in photo above left. Above,

Laid-off Rensselaer County highway

they vent their anger and frustration to the media. At right is sticker
developed to keep county residents aware of the status of county

Democrats to put forward a new posi-
tion supporting a bond anticipation
note rather than rejecting out of hand
the total bonding concept. At the same
time, one of the county highways
listed for eventual repair began to
crumble and moved four inches from
its original position.

While the politicians refused to con-
sider the new funding offer, the re-
maining 30 highway workers began to
air complaints about on-the-job safe-
ty. The Capital Region responded to

highways, many of which are due for repair.

the members’ concerns by filing an
Occupational Safety and Health Act
complaint with the state Labor
Department citing a possible lack of
flagpersons on depleted highway
repair crews.

“Our position in this matter is still
clear — our members should not be
used as pawns in a game of political
brinkmanship,” C. Allen Mead,
Capital Region president said.

The union will continue to represent
the on-the-job safety requirements of

the remaining 30 workers and will
continue to lobby for the resolution of
the highway funding controversy so
the 49 unemployed workers can quick-
ly return to the work line rather than
remain on the unemployment line.

Unemployment benefits a give-and-take
proposition for school district employees

ALBANY — ‘‘One court gives and the other takes’”’ best describes the
situation for school district employees denied unemployment benefits.

The U.S. District Court, southern region, has entered into an agreement
with the state Department of Labor by which all claimaints denied
unemployment benefits by the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
since March 1, 1978, will have their cases reopened. The reason is that pro-
cedures used were judged to have denied them due process and equal pro-
tection. They were also particularly discriminatory against Spanish-
speaking persons.

The state will notify all the people affected, who should immediately

Koonalty and return the response form. Thus, the court gives.

What happens, however, in cases where unemployment benefits were
denied school employees on vacation breaks or on summer recess?

The state’s highest court — the Court of Appeals — has ruled that if an
employee has a letter from his or her employer indicating he or she will
return to work after the recess period, the employee is ineligible for
unemployment benefits. The judges ruled that such a letter is, in effect, a
“contract.”’ Thus, the court takes.

Even though issues of unemployment insurance are the individual's per-
sonal responsibility, and beyond the scope of the union’s legal assistance
program, CSEA’s office for school district affairs wishes to make this news
available to the membership so they can be informed should they decide to
pursue their case on an individual basis. Ay,

Page 16 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983

—At Suffolk Developmental Center

Program targets

MELVILLE — A Quality of Work Life (QWL) program aimed at giving
employees greater participation in the day-to-day decisions affecting their jobs
will soon be set up at the Suffolk Developmental Center (SDC).

“Employees want to be self-reliant and feel good about themselves,” says
Joseph T. LaValle, president of SDC Local 430, who, along with Long Island
Region I President Danny Donohue, helped initiate the QWL effort at the
facility.

“They want to — and have — the ability to solve their own problems, and
they have a higher degree of commitment to the solutions they help to
develop,” says LaValle.

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STEERING COMMITTEE — Members of the Quality of Work Life steering
committee at Suffolk Developmental Center are pictured here with Region I
President Danny Donohue. From left are Paulette Barbara, Eugene Haynes,
Suffolk DC President Joe LaValle, Donohue, and Vivian Langstrom. LaValle
and Donohue initiated the effort to set up at a QWL program at the facility.

workers’ input

The QWL program is a joint effort by CSEA, the Public Employees
Federation (PEF), Council 82 and management at the Suffolk Developmental
Center, with the assistance of the statewide QWL committees of the three
unions.

“QWL is based on a philosophy of trust and respect between labor and
management, and it looks to treat the ideas and efforts of employees with
dignity,” says Guy Dugas, assistant director for CSEA Of CWEP, the joint
labor-management Committee on the Work Environment and Productivity,
which administers QWL. ‘‘People who perform a certain task or job know the
most about how to accomplish that job.”

A top-level labor-management steering committee at the developmental
center has spent several months planning, guiding and supporting the QWL
process. Labor representatives on the committee include Joe LaValle, Eugene
Haynes, Paulette Barbera and Vivian Langstrom from CSEA; Alice Peters
and Terry Blackshaw from PEF; and Jim Scorzelli of Council 82. Representing
management are Fred McCormack, director; Joe Ryan, associate director;
Marv Colson, deputy director of administration; George Smith, director of
community services; and Bob Voss, director of staff development training.

To date, the steering committee has sponsored three workshops for some
40 labor and management participants. Employee work teams or ‘‘quality
circles” — groups of people who work together and who identify, analyze and
solve problems in their work areas — will be established soon.

“The steering committee recognizes that employee involvement cannot
happen throughout the facility overnight, so it is currently trying to decide
where to pilot a QWL effort at the center,” said Dugas.

During the last several years, more and more unions have become involv-
ed in setting up QWL programs, considered by many labor proponents as a
significant way to extend the reach of collective bargaining. Greater involve-
ment in the decision-making and problem-solving process, they say, can result
in higher employee self-esteem, dignity and respect — a crucial goal of the
labor movement.

“As long as labor is an equal partner with management in the QWL pro-
cess, QWL can be a positive supplement to both collective bargaining and the
grievance procedure,” says Dugas.

Says Local President LaValle: “Greater influence and involvement in
their jobs is what employees and managers at all levels want, is what they
deserve, and is the direction in which we are trying to move.

“Training and structures like work teams can be very helpful, but we also
need to be patient and understanding that changes in attitude and how we
manage and relate to each other take time.”

Tentative pact marks Local 847 talks

SCHENECTADY — After 11 months of
sometimes bitter negotiations, Schenectady County
Local 847 has a tentative contract.

The two-year pact, which has the full support of
the negotiating team members, will provide for a7
percent salary increase across-the-board plus in-
crement retroactive to Jan. 1 and a similar in-
crease in January 1984 for the 862 members.

Nearly two dozen other items and issues were
also addressed in the protracted negotiations,
which began last July 20 and concluded April 20.

The major stumbling block to speedy resolution
of the contractual process was the county’s initial

refusal in July to sign a letter automatically extend-"

ing the contract benefits beyond Jan. 1, 1983. This
refusal to comply with an established past practice
delayed the negotiations until September, when
‘County Manager Robert McEvoy signed the re-
quired letter.

In January, after the union refused to declare an
impasse in negotiations due to a lack of progress,
the county administration, frustrated at the union’s
determination, moved to impasse.

Again the union’s strong determination for a
“fair and equitable” contract was clear in the
February and March mediation sessions. During
this time local politicians exposed the fact that the
county administration was “unjustly” enriching
itself by using county employees’ retirement funds
as county investment instruments gaining high in-
terest payments and paying a small interest penal-
ty to the NYS Retirement System for the late pay-
ment of retirement funds.

Public outcry and public employee indignation at
this disclosure apparently caused the county ad-
ministration to reconsider its bargaining position
and a tentative agreement was hammered out be-

tween the parties at an April fact-finding session.
Along with the salary increase, the union gained
an increase in the highway longevity payments,
premium pay for all Saturday and Sunday work
regardless of time worked during the normal
workweek, and an increase in vacation accruals.
In areas outside of the agreement, the union gain-
ed administration support to study the feasibility of
flexible work schedules. This item will be remand-
ed to labor-management meetings on a departmen-

CONTRACT MEASURES UP — More than 275
operational unit employees at Utica, Marcy and
Central New York Psychiatric Centers can ex-
pect to be measured in the next three or four
weeks for work-related clothing to comply with
work conditions in Article 15 of the operational
unit contract. Taking part in the first ‘sizing up”

tal level. The County Civil Service Commission is to
review classification materials of highway depart-
ment crew leaders and senior clerk-library.

“We are preparing fact sheets for membership
review before the ratification meeting,” CSEA Col-
lective Bargaining Specialist Patrick Monachino
said. ‘‘We anticipate the membership will
recognize the tremendous efforts of the bargaining
team to resolve the numerous negotiation problems
and come forward with a recommended package.”

session were: Robert Goodrow, plumber at Mar-
cy PC; Gary Philipson, clothing supplier; John
Giehl, president, Local 425; John Sikora, assis-
tant stationary engineer, Marcy PC; Bud
Mulchy, president, Local 414 and chairman of
the statewide labor management committee.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983
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Page 17

HYDE PARK — Twelve highway
department employees had to work
almost four months without a con-
tract, but an agreement between this
CSEA Unit and the Town Board has
finally been signed.

Members had approved a three-
year contract in January, but the
Hyde Park Town Board did not finally
approve the agreement until April 25.

The pact calls for an 8 percent wage
increase retroactive to Jan. 1. the
second year contains a 7 percent pay

Hyde Park employees
approve 3-year pact

nagging issues: Back pay covering
the previous two years, longevity
payments and language involving
promotions. The clothing allowance
for employees has also been
increased.

CSEA Field Representative John
Deyo says, “This is a very good con-
tract that was well worth the wait.”

Deyo praised the work of the
negotiating team, which was chaired
by Unit President Bill Dingee. The
committee also consisted of members
George Fuller and Rich Williamson.

hike, while the third year contains a
wage re-opener clause.

There was a clarification on three

Deyo served as CSEA negotiator.

The unit is part of Dutchess County
Local 814.

Richard Williamson.

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OFFICERS of the Hyde Park Unit and Town Supervisor William Bartles watch
as Town Highway Department Bookkeeper Betty-Jo Ficher notarizes the new
contract for the 12-member unit, making it official. Seated from left are
Ficher, Bartles, and Unit President Willian Dingee. Standing from left are Unit
Secretary George Fuller, Field Rep. John Deyo and Unit Vice President

Delaware Co.
OKs new pact

DELHI — A new one-year contract
calling for an increase in wages, new
drug plan and other improvements in
working conditions was recently
ratified by members of Delaware
County Local 813.

According to George Lawson,
chairman of the negotiating
committee, the agreement affecting
500 county employees includes: a
salary increase of 4 percent, or a
minimum of $500, whichever is
greater; a prescription drug plan;
new language covering overtime for
County Home and Infirmary
employees; and an improved
vacation time clause calling for three
weeks at eight years and four weeks
at 16 years.

Joe Reedy, collective bargaining
specialist and chief negotiator during
the bargaining period, offered this
comment on the new pact:
“Considering the present economic
conditions in the county and
throughout the state, I believe the
negotiating team hammered out the
best agreement possible.’’ The
negotiating team included. Chairman
George Lawson, David Utter, Linda
Utter, Ruth Drumm and Francis
Oliver.

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The slogan ‘‘Bread and
Roses’’ comes from the historic
strike of 20,000 textile workers in
Lawrence, Massachusetts in
1912. The strikers — most of
them women and children and
all of them immigrants — struck
against intolerable wages and
working conditions. They sought
more than just a few additional
pennies in their pay envelopes.
They wanted to be treated as
complete human beings with
hearts and souls, not just as fac-
tory “hands.” Their banners
proclaimed, ‘‘We Want Bread
and Roses, Too.” They fought
and they won.

“Bread and Roses” is also the
name of a cultural project of
District 1199, National Union of
Hospital and Health Care
Employees, RWDSU/AFL-CIO.
It offers, at discount prices,
books, records and posters to
union members and friends of
labor. Publications are ideally
suited as training aids for educa-
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union members or students,
materials for distribution at con-
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While there are many books,
posters, records and postcards
available through ‘Bread and
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by taking advantage of a special
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six Images of labor posters
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983 Page 19

SUES Se eR a eR BB er ee

It’s not fair.”

Mario Cuomo

Press Conference
January 27, 1983

Yet the state is again making public
employees the scapegoats. The Governor's
determination to lay off 3300 workers
despite the many economic

concessions public employees have
already made is ridiculous.

Here’s why.

The state set out to balance the budget
through workforce reduction by means of
attrition, voluntary furloughs, layoffs and
early retirement incentives. The fiscal
calculations counted on just 4200 state
employees taking advantage of the early
retirement option, with the State giving the
unions assurances that fewer layoffs would
occur if this number were surpassed.

So the unions supported the plan.
And 7200 workers opted for early retirement
— 3000 more than requested.

Logically, ethically, and certainly
mathematically, wouldn't you think this
should prevent the layoffs?

Not so.

Apparently using a form of arithmetic which
defies reasoning, 3300 workers are still
being laid off. And state officials even admit
that “the numbers will eventually work out...”
and that most of the employees laid off will
be rehired. But not until after the state suffers
serious morale and productivity losses.

This “Mario Math” doesn’t add up.

Not in numbers. Not in terms of fairness.
Several thousand men and women will face
the personal trauma of unemployment.
Men and women with families, who want to
work, but can't.

In the name of common sense, let's look
for a solution that doesn’t victimize
good workers.

Let's be fair.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, May 20, 1983

YOU SAID IT, MARIO!

“We have a tendency to
scapegoat the unions.

CSEG

The Civil Service Employees Association
Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO

William L. McGowan, President