Civil Service Leader, 1976 June 11

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Vol. XXXVII, No. 10

Friday, June 11, 1976

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Lockport Hospital Group
Repudiates AFSCME; Seek
An Affiliation With CSEA

LOCKPORT—Expressing frustration with “a total lack
of service” culminating “with a year having gone by without
a contract,” 104 workers, led by top officers of Local 2721
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em-

ployees, AFL-CIO, have signed

Agency

membership cards here in the
Civil Service Employees Assn.

Deadline Nears
For Bill Ideas

ALBANY — Martin Langer,
chairman of the Civil Service
Employees Assn.’s statewide
political action committee,
reminds members that July 10
is the delegate-mandated dead-
line for submitting suggestions
for New York State legislation
affecting public employees

At the spring delegates meet-
ing of CSEA, it was decided
that 90 days prior to the fall
convention would be. the dead-
line. ‘The fall convention will
begin on Oct. 10 this year.

Suggestions on legislation may
be submitted to Mr. Langer at
CSEA Headquarters, 33 Elk St
Albany, N.Y, 12203

and asked that that union rep-
resent them.

“We had to do something,”
said Sandra Ward, vice-president
of Local 2721, She, together with
local president George Arm-
strong and other officers, led
more than 60 percent of 173
eligible workers of the Lockport
Memorial Hospital, Lockport,
into CSEA ranks.

Ms. Ward added that “no one
even explained the contract to
us, Then again, we haven't seen
anyone from AFSCME in a year.

“When it comes to grievances,
forget it," she said. “There's
neither assistance nor training
to help us do them ourselves
It's just a $6 per month dues
rip-off and we're fed up."

Represented by AFSCME since
1967, the disgruntied employees
include orderlies, dietary, house-
keeping, laundry and mainte-
nance workers at the city-affil-

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STEPHEN R. GRECO

om Assembly calendar

L EADE R Albany Region IV Meets

See Pages 8&9

JOHN E. FLYNN

im Semate committee

Impasse Is Declared In State
Bridge Authority Pact Talks

New Troubles Keep
Surfacing To Extend
Legislative Session

WRUSTRATION, com-
pounded by fatigue, does
funny things to people, es-
pecially if they are legisla-
tors and accordingly assume that
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dispute.

trative

CSEA collective specialist W.
Reuben Goring, chief union ne-
gotiator on behalf of the Auth-
ority employees, changed that
Edward J. Burns, chief udminis- Mr
officer for the State
Bridge Authority, “attempted to

unilaterally change a contract
settlement previously

POUGHKEEPSIE—The Civil Service Employees Assn. charged the New York State
Bridge Authority with reneging on a negotiated
ately 140 employees represented by CSEA.

As a result, according to a union spokesman, CSEA has declared an impasse in the
prolonged contract negotiations
and has requested the appoint-
ment of a mediator to enter the

contract agreement covering approxim-

May 24 after weeks of bargain-

agreed to ing, Later, Mr. Burns attempted

by both sides, resulting in the to insert a significant change

agreement and

Bridge Authority reneging on its
leaving us no
choice but to declare an impasse
and request mediation

Goring added,
contract agreement
by both negotiating

that would e prohibited fut-
ure negotiations relative to lunch
time for the affected employees
By virtue of Mr. Burns’ unilat-
eral attempt to alter the agree-

“A new
was settled ™ent, the Bridge Authority re-
teams on (Continued on Page 3)

By SUSAN DONN!
BUFFALO—Unlike the two New
York City drug addict treatment
facilities, Masten Park Rehabilita-~
tion Center in Buffalo is surrounded
by lush green.

Until it became an Office of Drug
Abuse Services facility in 1968, Mas-
ten Park's main building was a con-
vent constructed in 1880. Things,
however, are not as peaceful as they
appear at first sight. Masten Park,
@ multi-modality treatment center,

Masten Park: ODAS’ Last Western Outpost

the only one of its kind in an area
that covers Buffalo, Niagara Falls,
Rochester, Syracuse, the Catskills
and the entire Southern Tier of the
state, is being partially dismantled.

Although it is one of the three
ODAS treatment centers slated to
remain open, it will be left only in
a skeletal state,

“It's putting us right back to
where we started,” said Joyce Ma-
caluso, assistant director of Masten
Park. “We've spent years struggling

to build this facility. Now they're
cutting out just about every impor-
tant program we have.”

Until recently, Masten Park of-
fered a male and female admissions
unit where a client was physically
and psychologically evaluated, then
placed in a program that fit his or
her individual need. Its other ser-
vices are for male clients only.
The main intramural facility has a
capacity of 100 beds. Here the client

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Shop Bill,
Termed ‘A Must’,
Now On Calendar

ALBANY—A bill, whose passage was termed “a must to every public employee in New
York State” by the Civil Service Employees Assn., is presently under study in both houses of
the State Legislature.

The “Agency Shop” bill, as it is commonly known, was sponsored in the Assembly

by Assemblyman Stephen Greco
(D-C, Buffalo), chairman of the
Assembly Governmental Em-
ployees Committee, Its Senate
sponsor was Senator John E.
Flynn (R-C, Yonkers), sponsor
of the majority of civil service
bills in the Senate in past years.

‘The bill has been tagged “the
perfect bill” as far as public em-
ployee unions are concerned.

Dues Equivalent

The bili, with Senate number
85127C and Assembly number
AT078, would make it mandatory
for all union non-members rep-
resented by.a union to contribute
an amount equivalent to dues in
support of that union. It would
be effective immediately upon
the certification of a union as
the bargaining agent for any
group of public employees.
Martin Langer, chairman of
e CSEA statewide political ac-
committee, said, “Every
s public employee should
take the time this week to write
to b he Governor \nd his
tate senator and assemblyman
in support of this bill. Nothing
nore unjust to a public em-
1 to have to carry on
shoulders the weight of those
who refuse to support his union,”

Mr. Langer pointed out that
the Taylor Law, which governs
public employees in New York
State, says that when a majority
of workers in a certain bargain-
ing unit yote for a certain union
to represent them, all the raises,
working conditions and fringe
benefits the union wins in nego-
Uatios must go to all the mem-
bers in that bargaining unit,

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, June 11, 1976

Suffolk CSEA. Observes Bicentennial

Civil Service Employees Assn. president Theodore C. Wenz! is greeted by four Suffolk County leaders.
Left from Dr. Wenal are County Legislator Joseph Caputo, Congressman Thomas Downey, CSEA Suf-
folk chapter president James Corbin and Assemblyman William Bianichi.

Suffolk chapter vice-president Edward Valder, treasurer Dorothy Goetz and corresponding secretary
Barbara Rottunno look over programs with Bicentennial dinner-dance chairman Al Tasso. The func-

tion was held last month at the Colonie Hill in Hauppauge.

CSEA Long Island Region I second vice-president Nicholas Abbatiello
and his wife Pat, left, and first vice-president Ralph Natale and
his wife Helen were among the many couples who took advantage
of the dance music.

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Three Fact-Finders Fail ,
To Agree In Nassau Cnty.
Contract Stalemale

MINEOLA—The Nassau County chapter, Civil Service
Employees Assn. has received three separate fact-finder's
reports on the county contract impasse. One recommends
a 6.6 percent general salary increase plus benefits. A second

@ 6.6 percent salary increase ef-
fective July 1 plus some benefits.
The third a wage freeze coupled
with abolition of the graded
salary plan and a contributory
and reduced pension system.
Irving Plaumenbaum, presi-
dent of the chapter, told a press
conference that the chapter
would accept the first report, He
forecast that the chapter would
submit to the members the sec-

ond plan if it is accepted by the
county executive.
However, he sald that the

CSEA negotiating team expected
that both reports making provi-
sion for a wage adjustment
would be turned down by County
Executive Ralph G. Caso. That
would set the stage for the
county's second imposed contract
in as many years to be fixed by
the Board of Supervisors

Tt was apparently the first
time under the Taylor Law that
the three-member fact finding
panel had been unable to reach
and minority report
bers submitted in-
reports. They are
‘SEA's nominee to
impartial chairman
Marx Jr. and the
nominee, William B.

panel;
Herbert 1
county's
Corbin.

Observers noted that Mr. Cor-
bin adopted the county's nego-
tiating position in toto, while Mr.

Peak went to some lengths to
reach & compromise agreement
with Mr. Marx

The reports revealed that

gotiators had already agreed on

two benefits: increasing automo-
bile mileage reimbursement from
15 to 18 cents per mile and de-
fini eligibility for bereave-

ment days.

The Marx and
agreed on

Peak reports
several major issues

cluding retention of the grad-
ed salary plan; payment of in-
erements; binding arbitration on
tevances; a 90-day limit on in-
stitution of diselplinary actions,
land provisions for time off for
volunteer firemen.

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On the issue of money, how:
ever, Mr. Marx offered a com-
promise between the 6.6 percent
figure found to compensate for
the previous year's increase in
the cost of living and the coun-
ty's demand for immediate cur-
tallment of rising expenses and
taxes. He recommended a wage
freeze for the first six months
of the current year to give the
county a breather, but a 6.6 per-
cent general increase effective
July 1 “to provide equitable
treatment for the employees and
in response to their legitimate
needs.”

The County Executive has 10
days to either reach a settlement
with CSEA or submit the matter
to the Board of Supervisors

Last year, Mr, Caso rejected a
fact-finders’ report and refused
to raise an offer of 4 percent.
The Board of Supervisors im-
posed a settlement providing 6
to 6.5 percent increases.

Mr. Peak called for the 6.6
percent cost of living adjustment
for the full year, noting that
county expenditures for salaries
were running below the amount
allowed in the budget.

Expenditures for employees
t in a runaway condition
with unanticipated expenditures
further increasing the deficit,”
he observed

Mr. Peak also called for a 50-
cents-per-hour night differen-
tal; 100-day accumulation of
sick and vacation time with 100
peroe edit on separation; job
security for labor and non-com-
titles; promotion by
pro-rata benefits for
time employees; a ban on
out the work of
employees; 100 percent
health insurance premium pay-
ment for retiring employees, and

petitive
seniority
pa
contracting

county

sick-time credit be restored
when the county securés cash
reimbursement

Mr. Flaumenbaum asserted,

‘The day has yet to come when
Mr. Caso says, ‘I do care about

the employees.’

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MERIT AWARDS — Thomas A. Harnett, superintendent of
the State Insurance Department, presents merit awards to two
members of the Insurance Department chapter, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn., in Albany, won in the employee suggestion program.

From left are Joanne Stapf, Mr. Harnett, and Mary Alice Powell.

2. CSEA Officials Attack
Dyson ‘Deadwood’ Remark

ALBANY —In reply to remarks made by John Dyson, Commissioner of the State
Commerce Department, about employees in the department, two Civil Service Employees
Assn. officials met with media representatives to present a rebuttal to Mr. Dyson's alle-

gations.

‘The two were George Olson,
Commerce Department chapter
president and Emil Spiak, De-
partment representative to the
CSEA Board of Directors.

“Pirst, Mr. Dyson claims he
wants to work to improve the
Commerce Department by get-
ting to know his: employees,” Mr
Olson said. “Then he switches
positions and starts tearing his
employees apart, He character-

Recognition Is Sought By CSEA
As Agent In Washington County

ALBANY—Albany Region fV, Civil Service Employees Assn., has initiated efforts to
be recognized as official bargaining agent for Washington County public employees.

Field representative William Lochner commented, “CSEA has been well aware of the
unique circumstances surrounding the Washington County employees. CSEA currently rep-

resents employees in every
county of New York State, with
the exception of Washington, Al-
legheny and Hamilton, We were
approached by a number of
Washington County employees
who wished information regard-
ing the rights of public employ-
ees to organize. The feasibility
of establishing & bargaining unit

ployees and every attempt is cur-
rently being made to inform
them of their rights guaranteed
under the Taylor Law, Mr. Loch-
ner sald.

“In addition to a general in-
formational meeting held May 19
for county employees, CSEA has
distributed organizational ma-
terfals at various county facil-
ities, and the CSEA mobile of-
fice has made frequent appear-
ances in Washington County.

“The prevailing concern ex-

Lockport Hospital Repudiates AFSCME

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‘ated hospital. The local is the
sole remaining AFSCME local in
Niagara County.

Two years ago, local officers

Medina also led that county's re-
maining AFSCME locals into
CSEA.

Under Public Employment Re-
lations Board rules, when there
is a substantial showing of inter-
est in decertifying 4 bargaining
agent, an election is to be sched-
uled.

No date has yet been set on
the CSEA petition which was
filed with PERB May 27 by Pat
Phelan, CSEA Western Region
VI field representative,

° CSEA calendar ©

Information for the Calendar may be submitted directly

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

JUNE
I2-SUNY at Albany chapter 691 steak roast: noon-9 p.m., Tironi’s
Grove, Waterford—Mechanicville Road,
13—SUNY at Buffalo chapter 602 bowling evening and supper party:
Suburban Lanes, Niagara Falls Blvd., Buffalo.

13-15-County Division workshop: Granit Il, Sullivan County.
15—Hudson River Psychiatric Center chapter 410 meeting: 8 p.m.,
Cheney. Conference Room 1A. FIRFC. Poughleersie

15—New York Metropolitan Retirees chapter 910 meeting: | p.m.
Room 5890, Two World Trade Center, Manhattan.

15—Buffalo-Niagara Frontier Retiree chapter meeting: Buffalo
Public Library auditorium.

15—Dutchess-Putnam Counties Retiree chapter Hudson River cruise,

16—Oswald D, Heck Developmental Center chapter 445 executive
council meeting: 5:30 p.m., Building | library, Balitown at Con-
saul Roadrs, Schenectady.

18—Buffalo District Department of Labor chapter 352 spring dinner-
dance: 6:30 p.m., John's Flaming Hearth, 1830 Abbott Rd.,
Lackawana,

18—Hudson River Psychiatric Center chapter 410 Bicentennial Ball:
Holiday Inn, Fishkill.

21—Capital District Retiree chapter Hudson River-Erie Canal cruise,

25—Butfalo chapter dinner-dance: 7 p.m., Stetler-
Buffalo,

pressed by Washington County
employees to CSEA ts their ap-
parent feeling that without
union representation they can
exercise very little control over
the preservation of present bene-
fits." Many workers ure fearful
that these benefits are gradually
being eroded away due to county
financial pressures, Mr. Lochner
added. “The consensus seems to
be that a binding, negotiated
agreement between the County
and {ts employees ts a viable
answer. Certainly by presenting
& unified posture, the employees
hope to obtain commitments
from management in Washing-
ton County entailing job secu-
rity, grievance procedure to re-
solve labor problems, and a
greater input in determining
their present and future econo-
mic situation.”

CSEA will be sponsoring var-
tous meetings to keep employees
aware of the devieopments in the
representation process, Mr.
Lochner said.

“Of course, CSEA has in-
formed both the county admin-
istration and the Public Employ-
ment Relations Board of the ex-
istence and makeup of various
membership committees to pro-
tect these employees from any
repressive actions by anti-union
elements. We will keep our ac-
tions public, and hope that the
county will continue to act as a
reasonable employer during this
campaign,” the field representa-
uve concluded.

ized various employees facing a
politically caused layoff as
‘deadwood.’

“And now he is telling the
public what a great Department
he will have if he can hire a few
‘experts’ in non-civil service
‘political appointee’ positions
with supplemental budget cash.

“We must remind Dr, Dyson
that it was he, not any of his
hard-working employees, who
informed the legislature that his
Department could be cut back in
various areas.

“Tt is also Mr. Dyson who
tripped himself up by making
this known before getting the
Legislature to fund the non-
civil service positions he wants.

“Either Mr. Dyson is very in-
experienced or very inept fn

dealing with employees and poll-
tlcians.”

Mr. Spiak added: “While
CSEA 1s ready to assist the af-
fected members in any legal
matter against Mr, Dyson, it is
apparent that the damage has
already been done.

“Prospective employers of all
recently laid-off state employees
are now wondering if they are
interviewing a ‘deadwood’ job
candidate.

“The Commissioner has caused
additional hardships on a group
of hard working. honest individ-
uals

“If Mr. Dyson was really as
sincere in his reconstruction ef-
forts as it appears, he should
issue a statement to correct the
situation for all concerned.”

Bridge Authority Impasse

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neged on its previous agreement.”

The disputed agreement af-
fects approximately 140 toll col-
lectors and maintenance em-
ployees of the State Bridge
Authority assigned to five major
bridges spanning the Hudson
River and opertted by the Auth-
ority. The employees involved
are assigned to the Mid-Hudson
Bridge at Poughkeepsie; the Rip
Van Winkle Bridge at Catskill;
the Bear Mountain Bridge at
Peekskill; the Kingston-Rhine-
cliff Bridge, and the Newburgh-
Beacon Bridge.

Mr, Goring said the agreement
reached at the bargaining table

included a money offer amount-
ing to a 2% percent salary in-
crease, and that the union in
return had withdrawn its own
salary request as well as de-
mands to upgrade maintenance
employees and provide check-in
and check-out time for ¢ollec-
tors.

The agreement in question,
retroactive to April 1, 1976, was
for two years with a salary re-
opener clause for the second
year of the contract.

The union negotiator said
CSEA has filed a formal request
for mediation in the contract
with the State Public Employ-
ment Relations Board.

mental institutions.

similar legislation.

Begin Mental Hygiene Study

ALBANY—The Mental Hygiene Presidents Council,
led by Civil Service Employees Assn. executive vice-
president William McGowan, has begun an intensive
study of the possible consequences of closing state

The group plans to release its findings in the form
of a position paper which will be issued to all state
and county legislators and to officials of local govern-
ments throughout the state.

The Menta! Hygiene presidents are using the ex-
perience of California under the 1969 Lanterman-

Petris-Short Act for the basis of the study. This act
closed state-run institutions there in favor of a dis-
persed county-run mental health program, New York
State lawmakers are currently being asked to approve

The report will be released shortly.

Watkins Drivers Fight School Budget

WATKINS GLEN — Infuri-
ated that their local school
board ignored a_ petition
signed by 527 concerned
voters, Schuyler County Civil
Service Employees Assn. leaders
are looking for other means of
halting the layoffs of school bus
drivers here.

‘The schoo] board recently voted
to balance its budget by firing
half the regular drivers from
thelr regular runs and doubl-
ing up assignments for the re-
maining drivers.

The “savings expected from
the busing cutback is @ mere
smoke screen,” said Clayre Liam-
mari, CSEA director representing

Schuyler County employees. She
explained that while the firings
keep the budget in balance, the
expenditures for other individual
items within the budget have
been increased.

A survey taken and presented
to the board last month showed
93 percent opposition to the pro-
posed busing changes.

When this falled to move the
board, a petition was circulated
to separate the transportation
item from the rest of the bud-
wet at the June 8 balloting.

Ms, Liammari pointed out that
the 527 signators were more than
half of the approximate 1,000
voters who voted on the last

budget.

“Only one of us has a man-
date from the people right now:
either the board or the drivers,”
said Ms, Liammari.

“Considering the survey and
the petition,” she continued, “we
believe we're the ones who do.
Somebody's got to help the com-
munity volee to be heard, We're
it, Up to now, no one has been
Ustening. Parents don't want
kids walking up to a mile or
more, leaving in the dark, get-
ting home by dark in winter.
And they deserve the right to
say so at the polls, without it
being sandwiched into the rest
of the budget.”

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, June 11, 1976

Corbin To Suffolk Legislators: [SHORT TAKES |

Repudiate Pact

‘Illegal Tactics’

HAUPPAUGE—James Corbin, president of the Suffolk County chapter, Civil Service
Employees Assn., has called on the 18 members of the county legislature to repudiate what
he termed “the illegal tactics" of the County Executive in unilaterally withholding incre-
ments and some longevity payments as negotiations for a new contract continue.

The appeal was contained in
personal letters hand delivered in
face-to-face meetings with each
member of the county legisla-
ture by Mr, Corbin and members
of the CSEA negotiating team.

‘The county appears to be stall-
ing a CSEA lawsuit now in the
Appellate Division of Supreme
Court seeking payment of the
increments and longevity pay.

‘The letters were accompanied
by copies of a CSEA legal brief
filed with the Appellate Division
and other data interpreting the
controlling laws,

“We believe that, as a falr-
minded public official, you wil)
be able to judge for yourself
that the county has violated
the law and that you should
speak out in opposition,” Mr.
Corbin wrote,

Court Upsets
A Federal Ban
On Aliens, Jobs

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The
U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4
decision, voided a nearly cen-
tury-old government prac-
thee and ruled the Civil Service
Commission may not bar resident
‘liens from federal civil service
jobs.

The decision sald the Commis-
sion's regulation banning many
non-citizens from competitive
federal civil service posts vio-
lated the Fifth Amendment right
of aliens to due process of law
in denying them an “interest in
liberty” with no rational basis.

‘The case stemmed from a sult
brought by five Chinese residents
of San Francisco who had been
dented federal jobs because they
were resident aliens. However,
the ruling does not seem to ban
future job limitations for aliens
as it opens a possibility that the
President or Congress could es-
tablish a valid limitation saying
the national interest would be
affected.

‘The decision also left the door
open for the Commission to at-
tempé to justify a narrower limi-
tation on jobs for aliens.

ALBANY — Gov. Hugh L.
Carey has announced the ap-
pointment of George M. Brooker,
an officer in a real estate man-
agement, consulting and broker-
age firm, to the Municipal As-
sistance Corporation for New
York City. The nomination is
subject to Senate confirmation.

succeed William Ellinghaus, of
Bronxville, who resigned to be-
come a member of the Emer-
gency Pinancial Control Board.
Mr. Brooker, 50, is secretary-
treasurer and principal stock-
holder in Webb 4& Brooker Inc.
He s chairman of the board
of directors of the New York Ur-
ban League, and a member of
the board of the Management
Division of the Real Estate
Board of New York, The position
carries a salary of $100 @ day,
while on official business.

The Suffolk leader had earlier
charged that the county had
withheld the payments merely
to “pressure” the CSEA negotia-
ting team to agree to a hasty
settlement.

Mr. Corbin has ruled out any
compromise on the issue of in-
crements.

“Increments are not a negoti-

able item, so far as I am con-
cerned, and the negotiating com-
mittee agrees with me 100 per-
cent.”

Pact-finding sessions resumed
this week in the long contract
impasse as attorneys fought the
county's bid to postpone the le-
gal challenge on the withholding
of the payments.

Kingsboro Administration
Assailed By CSEA Official
In Nurse Termination Case

BROOKLYN — A nurse at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center

has been cleared of charges of sexually abusing a patient
and George Bispham, supervisor of New York City Region
Il, Civil Service Employees Assn., accused the Center's ad-

ministration of unjustifiable
harassment of the employee.

The nurse, Paul Sam, had had
three actions brought hgainst
him by the State Department of
Mental Hygiene.

On June 9, 1975, the Depart-
ment served Mr. Sam with a
notice of discipline charging mis-
conduct. CSEA, representing Mr.
Sam, thereupon filed a timely
grievance which was processed
through to arbitration.

However, while the arbitration
hearing was still pending, the
Department, on Aug. 21, served
Mr. Sam with additional speci-
fications which Mr. Sam and his
supervisor interpreted to be not
new, but additional charges, to
the original specifications of un-
Satisfactory performance.

On Aug. 25, the Department
served a second notice on Mr.
Sam, incorporating the new
specifications. A new grievance
was not filed since the union
contended that the Aug. 26 no-
tice merely amended the notice
of discipline served on June 9,

A Third Notice

After the 14 days for grieving
had elapsed, the Department, on
Sept. 12, served Mr. Sam with
yet a third notice of discipline
alleging serious criminal charges
of “sexual abuse,” and suspend-
ing him without pay effective
Sept. 11, Mr. Sam's attorney,
Howard Meyer, then requested
and was granted @ postponement
of the arbitration pending pro-
cessing of the criminal charges.
The Grand Jury of Kings Coun-
ty, in a felony hearing, later dis-
missed the criminal charges.

After serving the third notice
of discipline, the Department,
Spparently discovering that Mr.
Sam had failed to grieve the
second notice, terminated his
employment effective Sept. 16.

The administrators then en-
gaged in a series of procedural
maneuvers, The first and third
notices of discipline were with-
drawn, leaving only the disci-
pline of Aug. 25, for which Mr.
Sam had been terminated for
failure to file @ timely grievance.

The Department then resisted
the union's efforts to replace
Mr. Sam's-oase on the calendar
based on the withdrawal of
charges in the original case and
claimed there was nothing left
to arbitrate.

Mr. Bispham accused the ad-
ministration at Kingsboro of
pursuing a course which would
preclude Mr. Sam from having
an “impartial review of the
charges," and on Dec. 1 the un-
jon served the Department with
a notice of arbitration.

Fired, But Employed

The hearing was held before
arbitrator John E. Sands who
found for the union and Mr.
Sam. Mr. Sands stated that the
Department apparently maneu-
vered to oust the arbitrator of
jurisdiction, thus avoiding a
hearing on the merits of the dis- +
puted charges. Further, Mr.
Sands said, “the Department was
attempting to ride two horses to
its best advantage, treating Sam
as fired to preclude review on
the merits while treating him
as still employed to preserve via-
bility of specifications charged
in the first and third notices of
discipline.”

Mr, Sands found that the De-
partment of Mental Hygiene il-
legally terminated Mr. Sam's
employment and ordered him
reinstated with back pay.

Tha final hearing arbitrator
James J. Kiristis dismissed the
charges of sexual abuse, finding
that the testimony of Mr, Sam
was “much more cogent than
that testified to by the two wit-
nesses presented by the Depart-
ment.” Pronouncing Mr. Sam
“not guilty,” the arbitrator said
that the administration witness-
es jumped to a conclusion which
evaporated upon close scrutiny,
and a lack of medical evidence.

‘Nightmare Over’

“Thank God, this nightmare
is over,” Mr, Sam sald, express-
ing his appreciation to CSEA
and its representatives. “I would
Nave been lost without the un-
jon's help."

Mr, Bispham said that the Of-
fice Of Employee Relations in the
Department of Mental Hygiene
is staffed with “Philadelphia
lawyers advocating open. con-
fronfation with the union and
drafting trumped up charges
against employees in  institu-
tions,

“Let this serve &s an education
to Dr. Wallach, whom I consider
& complete novice in the field
of labor relations,” Mr. Bispham
concluded.

ADDED INTEREST

The state has abandoned a longstanding practice of permitting
profits earned from parimutual betting at tracks around the state
to lie for periods up to a month in non-interest earning bank ac-
counts. The expected interest to be earned from the 12 harness and
flat tracks amounts to approximately $700,000. Tax Commissioner
James Tully said the practice of permitting the cash to lie idle was
“ostensibly in return for services performed" by the banks. Under the
new procedure, the use of intermediary banks has been eliminated and
collections from the tracks will be deposited twice weekly in an
Albany bank as additions to the state general fund. He said another
$58,000 in interest will be gained by requiring the New York Racing
Assn. to make payments of its parimutual taxes on time. The NYRA
is required to pay the taxes within 30 days after a race but payments
have previously been allowed to lag for as many as 40 days.

JACKPOT

Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut predicted that state-operated
gambling casinos could generate up to $60 million annually for state
coffers, Speaking at New York City’s Baruch College, Mr. Steingut
said that the introduction of 35 such gambling casinos—the maxi-
mum number considered so far—in New York City, the Catskill area
and Niagara Falls, might generate more than $200 million in re-
lated business revenues. Casino-enabling legislation is currently be-
fore the Assembly Ways and Means Committee and the Codes Com-
mittee. It is considered « study bill and not an actual legislative
proposal. Another bill, which would permit the introduction in the
state of jai lai and dog racing, has been under consideration but
has been apparently scrubbed due to lack of interest.
AFSCME OREGON DEFEAT

A hearing officer from the Oregon Employment Relations Board
has dismissed objections to a collective bargaining representation
election at the University of Oregon filed by the American Federa-
tion of State, Cotinty and Municipal Employees, APL-CIO. The hear-
ing officer ordered that the Oregon State Employees Assn, be certi-
fied as sole bargaining agent for UO employees OSEA defeated
APSCME by an employee vote of 483-274, AFSCME had charged
irregularities in the election.

IMARY VOTERS

istered voters to vote in party

a given party 60 days prior to the primary. Under former law,
someone who wished to vote

the party 30 days prior to the last general election.

eee
CRIME VICTIMS

“The best-kept secret since the atomic bomb” was the way
Assemblyman Stanley Fink (D-Brooklyn) described the existence of
provisions providing monetary benefits to victims of crime available
from the Crime Victims Compensation Board. The Assemblyman
made the comment upon passage of his bill which would require
police officers to notify crime victims of their right to compensa-
tion. The measure, given a fair chance to win Senate approval,
would increase maximum available benefits to victims from $15,000
to $20,000; eliminate the present requirement that the victim must
have lost at least $100 in earnings to be eligible for compensation,
and extend the filing period for benefits from 90 days to a year. The
increased benefits, it is estimated, will cost an additional $2.1 million.
‘This would be paid by proceeds from another bill increasing the
fines levied on all persons convicted of felonies and misdemeanors,

.

mission. Buffalo law professor Herman Schwartz, recommended
the post earlier by Gov. Hugh L. Carey, was rejected
Senate. The rejection was seen by some as a
which Republican legislators obtained a highly visible

:
:
;
i
aHEE

Investigation, plainclothes arm of the State Police, has
ground check on Judge Green, a routine move prior to
state appointment. Mr. Schwarts's rejection was
many years. He was opposed by several groups,
rections committee of the Civil Service Employees
of his alleged lack of administrative experience and his appointment,
while serving as acting chairman of the three-member commission,
of several former prison inmates to posts on the body. The job
pays $39,650.

EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS

A survey by the Oregon State Employees Assn. of its members
reveals that thelr most common job-related complaints involve
promotional merit ratings, annual merit ratings and reclassifications.
More than 20 percent of the respondees believe that personal bias
by a rater plays an unfair part in merit ratings, Other complaints
involved forced transfers, the fact that not enough weight is given
to seniority experience in merit ratings, the lack of protection af-
forded public employees who file grievances, alleged favoritism ex-
tended to minorities, and supervisors “who play favorites.” Some 1,400
questionnaires were sent to OSEA members, In response to one ques-
tion, nearly half the respondees—49.5 percent—said they do not
believe that the Oregon public employee personnel system works.

i
&

ih

Veterans Administration
Information Service
Call (202) 389-2741

Washington, D.C, 20420

Wanna be a good ?
Give a pint of bleed,
Blood is meant to circulate.

Keep it moving, by donating
Suffolk Schedules 3 Exams & 1 Promo; Filing Date June 16

HAUPPAUGE — Open-
competitive posts of public
health aide, mental health
aide and labor mediator, and
‘a promotional post of public
health nurse II are presently
open for filing in Suffolk
‘County.

Piling for all positions will
close June 16 with exams set for
July 17. The jobs have starting
salaries between $5,798 to $15,-
860 a year.

Applications and detailed an-
nouncements are available from
the Suffolk County Department

Executive Office Building, Hup-
pauge; the Bast Northport Test-
ing Center, 295 Larkfield Road,

Bast Northport; and the River-
head Information Center, Coun-
ty Center, Riverhead.

Social Service $ Distributed

ALBANY—State Comptrol-
ler Arthur Levitt has an-
nounced the distribution of
$90,503,950 for June 1976, to
57 Social Service Districts in the

proximately 90 percent of the
federal and state share of the
anticipated welfare expenditures

$77,413,045 to the City of New
York for anticipated welfare ex-
penditures for the period June 1-
June 15. The federal share
amounts to $48,811,775. A pay-

be made to New York

of Civil Service, H, Lee Dennison

ment
for June by localities. The Fed- City on June 15

Special"Notice

FOR CSEA MEMBERS ONLY

CSEA Basic Accident and Sickness Plan.

If you are a new employee under age 39% and apply for this
insurance within 120 days from your employment date, you are
guaranteed $150.00 per month in benefits. All other members
may also apply and will be required to show evidence of insur-
ability.

You can now apply tor
Htyour disability income benefits
annual salary is up to

$4,000 but less than $5,000 $150 a month
$5,000 but less than $6,500 $200 a month
$6,500 but less than $8,000 $250 a month
$8,000 but less than $10,000 $300 a month
$10,000 and over $400 a month

When your annual salary is increased to a new wage bracket,

you should apply for additional disability income. YOUR IN-
CREASE IN DISABILITY INCOME IS NOT AUTOMATIC.

For complete intormation and costs, complete and mail the

coupon below or call your nearest Ter Bush & Powell represen-
tative for details.

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Name.

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Employee item No..

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State Job Calendar

Assistant Clinical Physician $25,161 20-413
Associate Actuary (Life) $18,369 20-520
Supervising Actuary $26,516 20-622
Principal Actuary (Life) $22,694 20.521
Associate Actuary — red 204l6
Supervising Actu 16,516

Senior {lite} $14,142 20-519
Clinical Physician | $27,974 20-414
Clinical Physician II $31,055 20415
Compensation Examining Physician | $27,942 20-420
Dental Hygienist $ 8,523 20-107
Dietitian $10,714 20-124
Supervising Dietitian $12,760 = 20-167
Electroencephalograph Technician $7,616 20-308
tony Rapeter Siiss7 20211

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Histol ‘echnician $ 8,05! 20-170
Hospital Nursing Services Consultant $16,538 20-112
Industrial Foreman $10,714
Laboratory Technician $ 8,051 20-121
Legal Careers $11,164 20-113
Public Librarians $10,155 & U; 20-339
Licensed Practical Nurse $ 808 20-106
MaintenanceM an (Mechanic)

(Except for Albany area) $7,616 Various
Medical cialist | $27,942 20-407
Medical Specialist I! $33,704 20-408
Mental Hygiene Asst. Therapy Aide $ 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 Il lays gees $11,337 20-587
Nutrition ices Consultant $31,404 20-139
Occupational Therapist $11,337 20-176
Offset Printing Machine Operator $ 6450 20-402
Pharmacist $12,670 = 20-194
Physical Therapist $11,337 20-177
Principal Actuary (Casualty) $22,694 = 20-417
Principal Actuary (Life) $22,694 20-521
Psychiatrist | $27,942 20-390
Psychiatrist Il $33,704 20-391
Public Librarians $10,714 20-339
Radiology Technologist (erate ,004) 20-334
Radiology Technologist (T.B. Service) ......($8,079-$8, 20-334
Senior Actuary {ute $14,142 20-519
Senior Medical Records Librarian $11,337 20-348
Senior Occupational Therapist $12,670 20-137
Senior Pharmacist $14,880 20-194
Senior Physical Therapist $12,760 20-138
Senior Sanitary Engineer $17,429 20-123
Asst. Sanitary Engineer $14,142 20-122
Senior Stationary Engineer $10,714 20-101
Specialists in Education {$16,358-$22,694) 20-312
Stationary Engineer $ 9,546 20-100
Assistant Stationary Engineer $ 7,616 20-303
Stenographer-Typist $ varies varies
Varitype Operator $6811 20-307

Additional information on required qualifying experience and
application forms may be obtained ae or in person at the State

rtment of Civil Service: State ice Building Campus, Albany
12226. Applicants can file in person only at Two World Trade Center,
New York 10047; or Suite 750, | West Genesee Street, Buffalo,
New York 14202.

Specify the examination its number and title, Mail your
application form when “ to the State ent of Civil
Service, State Office Building Campus, Albany, New York 12226.

RETIREMENT AND |
PENSION SEMINARS

We are pleased to announce that one of the city’s fore-

most pension and retirement analysts, David Moss will
conduct Seminars on Retirement Problems at 45 East

33rd Street, New York City, Suite 601 at 5:30 P.M.
on the following Wednesdays, June 9, June 16 and
dune 23, 1976.

limited, s0 Mrs. Cerisse Rubenstein at (212) 689-2016
for confirmatis

A service of the Council of Jewish Organizations in Civil
Service and Ramblewood East Information Center.

Absolutely bd ony or obligation, however participation is
ion.

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, June 11, 1976

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we

FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1976

List Extension Bill

RGUMENTS from New York City Mayor Abraham
Beame's office and from the State Civil Service De-
partment against extending the lives of civil service job
candidate eligible lists do not strike us as particularly good
ones. .

A bill has been drafted by Assembly Leader Stanley
Steingut’s office which would extend the lists beyond their
normal four-year life span. The measure was drafted be-
cause, due to the New York City-State money pinch, few
if any list candidates are being hired.

Mayor Beame’s objection is that the Steingut measure
would give civil service commissions discretion to extend
all lists; he seems to feel that the lists should be extended
on an individual basis. The Civil Service Department com-
Plains that the proposed bill would cause administrative

problems in determining which persons are still available
for hiring.

But the Steingut proposal seems a fair one to us. People
did take the trouble to take the tests, did pass, and were
given positions on the lists. And there they stay. It is
certainly not their fault that the city and state have money
problems, It is not excessive to say that in many instances,
due to the hiring freeze, the lives of the eligible candidates
have been sorely disrupted; it is difficult to make career
decisions while suspended in limbo. And, of course, the test-
ing program did cost money to administer, money that will
be lost if the lives of the lists are not extended.

So far as the Civil Service Department's argument goes,
we could—perhaps—accept it if this was the age of Bob
Cratchett, with clerks seated on high stools making entries
with quill pens, and not the age of the computer. But even
Scrooge—and the Department appears to have adopted some
of that character's less lovable characteristics—would admit
that that age has been long gone.

“Agency Shop” Bill

F simple fairness prevails, passage by the State Legisla-
ture of the public sector “Agency Shop” bill, now on the
Assembly calendar and in a Senate committee, is assured.

Briefly, the measure would provide a mechanism in
which public sector employees who do not belong to a union
would have an amount of money removed from their pay-
checks equivalent to the amount removed for dues from
the paychecks of union members. This money would then
go to the labor organization representing the sector in which
the non-union employees work.

Sponsors of the measure are Senator John E. Flynn
(R-C, Bronx, Westchester) and Assemblyman Stephen R.
Greco (D-C, Erie).

It must be stressed that the measure will not force
union membership on those who do not wish to be union
members; employees can join or refuse to join a union as
they see fit.

However, the measure will eliminate a long-standing
abuse, This abuse, of course, is the fact that in the past
union members carried all the burden in the fight for im-
proved working conditions and pay. Non-union members,
although they shared in the bounty, contributed nothing
to the fight. “Freeloader” is a harsh term but nothing else
seems to come to mind,

Civil Service Employees Assn. officials have urged mem-

bers to write or call their senator and assemblyman urging
passage of the bill. We endorse this call.

o

which the Albany solons would
double their salaries. In view of
the state's fiscal picture, and in
view of the endless sacrifices that
civil service employees have been
compelled to make on the altar
of fiscal responsibility, this pro-
posal in Albany makes for a
great closing act in the theatre
of the absurd.

Adjournment Delayed

Obviously the members of the
Legislature are frustrated. Not
too long ago they had hoped to
adjourn by Memorial Day, or at
the latest during the first week
in June. Both of those deadlines
are already past and gone, but
the end still seems to be some-
where beyond the horizon.

Indeed the trouble seems to be
that a new problem churns up
on almost a daily basis. The crisis
at the City University has ex-
ploded into a disaster, teachers
and employees have not been
paid, examination and gradua-
tion plans have been scrapped,
and no hope is in sight. The
problem that the Legislature has
is a classic one: how to recon-
cile the different views between
New York City legislators with
those from other parts of the
state. No doubt at some point
an accommodation will be reach-
ed, but that ts largely a leader-
ship problem, while the bulk of
the members sit around, biting
their nails until the leadership
is ready to signal an agreement.

Meanwhile, Mayor Abraham
Beame slipped another hot po-
tato into the legislative program.
In this one, the Mayor renews his
demand for legislative authority
to increase the City's commuter
tax to make up for revenues that
the city originally anticipated
from the city tax on decedents’
estates, a tax which the Legis-
lature repealed before it became
effective. The Beame proposal
has as much prospects as the
proverbial snowball in hell. Such
& tax can’t possibly pass without
the consent of the suburban leg-
islators, and their consent will
not be forthcoming just a few
months before the primary and
general elections.

Default Still Looms

In addition, word came through
jJast week from the Secretary of
the Federal Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development that
the Federal government will not
guarantee certain mortgages held
by the State Housing Finance
Agency, unless the deal is sweet-
ened. This means that that state
agency is again faced with the
spectre of default on its bonds,
unless the Legislature appropri-
ates millions of dollars to keep
the Agency afloat.

In the meanwhile, very little
progress has been made by the
Legislature on the program rec-
ommended by Governor Carey
for reform of the state's judicial
system. Again there is conflict
here between City legislators and
legislators from other areas. Most
public dissatisfaction with the
performance of the judicial sys-
tem centers on the system in
New York City, Many of the
upstate legislators and their
constituents ave not prepared for
* radical restructuring of the
Judicial system just to take care
of the special problems in New
York City.

(Continued on Page 7)

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,

Seniority In Layoffs

A very recent case (Matter of Coleman-D'Ambrose),
decided in Supreme Court, New York County, offers guid-
ance for the determination of seniority in a layoff situation.
It is described by Justice Arnold Fein in his decision as “A
case of first impression.”

eas

PETITIONER WAS an employee of the archives section
of the New York Public Library, On Oct, 11, 1957, when the
City of New York took over the archives section, he became
a civil service employee. In 1975, the City determined that
its financial plight necessitated a reduction in staff in
the archives section. The City set the section’s employees
in order of seniority, but backdated seniority only to Oct.
11, 1967. Petitioner was dismissed. Petitioner then com-
menced an Article 78 proceeding contending that the City
had misapplied Section 45 of the Civil Service Law and that
he should be returned to his employment with back pay.

IN ITS DECISION, the Court stated that civil service
employees should not be denied time towards seniority
earned before the private institutions employing them were
taken over as government facilities. The Court took note
of the legislative history of Section 45 of the Civil Service
Law and stated that this section was added to the law
primarily to permit employees in a private institution to
remain in their employ and become civil servants, without
the necessity of taking civil service examinations, It was
not the intent of the legislators to deny credit for time
in service before a private institution was taken over as a
government facility.

THE COURT CONCLUDED herein that although an or-
iginal appointment in the City of New York might be the
date the archives section came under the operation of the
city, seniority for employees in the archives section must be
backdated to the day each employee was originally hired
by the library. Any exercise by the city of demotions or sus-
pensions or abolition of positions must be predicated on this
measure of seniority.

Questions & Answers

ceive social security credit not
only for your summer camp pay

eereera es amen

(ROTC), Do I get social security
credit for weekend drills and
summer camp?

A. Pay you get for weekend
ROTC activities does not count,
but pay for annual training duty
of 14 days or more (including
travel) does count. You will re-

but also an additional free $300
earnings credit will be recorded
to your social security record for
the calendar quarter you were at
camp. Since benefit amounts are
based on average earnings, the
extra credit can mean higher
social security checks for you.
‘What's Your Opinion’

By SUSAN DONNER

QUESTION
Now that there are fewer policemen around, what sort of extra precau-
tions do you take, if any?

THE PLACE
Downtown Manhattan

Janet Mansfield, homemaker: “I don't go out after
dark, I don't take a pocket
book with me when I'm with
my children. I have definitely
noticed that there are many
less policemen around since the
layoffs, in my neighborhood es-
pecially. I don’t go on the sub-
ways at all, no way, just on
the bus. I'm just extra cautious
these days. When I go into my
building I look to make sure
that no one is following me.

We also have a lock on the door which is supposed

to be the best you can get, but when I'm inside

I keep the door double locked with the chain on

anyway. I also always look through the peephole

to make sure I know who it ts before letting any-

‘one in.”

Art Fazahas, law firm clerk; “It’s really not all
that noticable to me and I can’t
say that it is affecting my life
all that much. I used to take
the GG subway from Brooklyn
to Queens at night, and I would
see three or four cops get on
the train together and then get
off at the same stop together,
instead of splitting up and pa-
trolling the subway in a better,
more all around way. There
have, of course, been times in
the Bronx or Brooklyn, even Manhattan, when
T've been scared. There's no other word for it. But
the things that really bother me in this city
are air pollution; that’s a real problem that’s
slowly killing us, And I feel that people in general
are much more uptight than in other parts of
the country.”

Barry Alt, accountant: “I stay home more often
and I've put two extra locks
on my door. It cost me $25 per
lock. When I walk on the
streets at night, I walk very
fast. Actually I try mainly to
walk with laid off policemen.
I really haven't noticed that
there are that many less po-
Meemen around because I never
saw them much before either.
Since I was a kid I've always
had trouble finding a police-
man. I also try to stay close to one special friend
who just happens to be a karate expert.”

The Editor |

contract would be cancelled and
firm ruled

Letters To
Bias Bill

the

Barbara McFadden, office cleaner: “I'm a senior
citizen first. of all. I wouldn't
even consider going home alone
after work. We go in groups
and always try to follow near
men who live near us, just in
case. There is no protection
whatsoever on the subway when
we come home at midnight
I'm always very frightened. Not
too long ago a young man
started to follow us, so we walk-
ed into the first public place,

which hapepned to be a bar, and didn’t leave

until the bartender escorted us home. That's how
we got away. I think that they should hire back
as many policemen as possible both for the streets
and the subways. I'm very careful about where
I go and what I do.”

William Robinson, student; “I honestly don't no-
. tice any difference since before
the layoffs. There have never
been enough policemen around
and they still do the same kind
of job: nothing. It’s like sani-
tation. I just saw them clean-
ing the streets with one of
those trucks and all they were
doing was pushing the dirt on-
“to the sidewalk. It’s absurd. As
far as being afraid, no one
really bothers me cause I'm six
feet two inches tall and many people just don't
want to start with me. But I do have plenty of
locks‘on my doors and nails on my windows. Four
Jocks to be exact.”

—_

Ann Romano, clerk: “I always look around very

carefully and try not to walk
« Bx on streets where there aren't
many people. I also try to walk
with a friend whenever pos-
sible and I'm very careful about
carrying a handbag. I've lived
in New York City all my life
and I've noticed a great dif-
ference since so many of the
policemen have been laid off.
T live within walking distance
from work, but occasionally
when I do have to take a subway I am afraid.
If I have to go out at night I always take a taxi.”

tickets by out-of-state firms may
well be subject to constitutional
challenge, .
Justice demands that public
funds to which members of all

Editor, The Leader:

The solution to the state lot-
tery controversy, in which lot-
tery tickets are printed by a firm
in Georgia, & state which has no
anti-job discrimination law, lies
in @ bill already passed by the
State Assembly and awaiting
Senate approval.

My bill, A2327-C, would pro-
hiblt New York State from buy-
ing services or goods from any
out-of-state firm that practices
job discrimination based on race,
creed, sex, color or national or-
igin. Current law requires non-
discrimination clauses in con-
tracts signed with New York
State firms but exempts out-of-
state contractors.

Were 2327-C already in effect
and the Georgia contractor
found deficient in meeting New
York's wnti-discrimination re-
quirements, the lottery ticket

ineligible for
future bidding,

Of course, this bill's signifi-
cance extends beyond the cur-
rent lottery dispute. It would
prevent all similar future ocour-
rences whether the contracts in-
volved goods or services.

At first glance, A2327-C may
seem unconstitutional since it
appears New York will become
directly involved with actions
cecurring in other states. But
this is not the case. The law
would affect only contracts,
which are consensual agree-
ments, made within New York.
A firm can legally agree to ablde
by anti-discrimination laws, to
supply information at hearings
within New York, and to on-site
inspections.

In contrast to A2327-C, pro-
posed legislation to prohibit spe-
elfically the printing of lottery

races contribute not be spent in
any manner which encourages
discrimination. The situation be-
comes even more unfair when an
Out-of-state firm enjoys a com-
petitive bidding edge over New
York based competition because
the former does not have to
@bide by anti-discrimination
standards, or because he pays
substandard wages.

A number of other states, in-
cluding New Jersey, Connecticut,
California and Michigan already
have laws similar in intent to
A2327-C on the books. It is time
that New York, historically «
progressive state, had the same.

SEYMOUR POSNER
Member of the Assembly
Albany

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RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS
The Mysterious Board

The New York City Retire-
ment Board manages a fund of
approximately $3.5 billion —
monies that will eventually be
paid to public employees when
they retire, or to their estates if
they should die before they re-
tire. Bach year the fund pays
out approximately $500 million
to about 100,000 of the 557,000
members.

‘The administration of this
fund is about as closely held a
secret as the work of the CIA.
Each month the Board meets,
usually on the first Thursday of
the month. The meeting to which
the public ts invited lasts ap-
proximately four minutes and
consists of a series of motions,
duly made and seconded, to ap-
prove calendar items numbers 1
to 11, 18 to 21, 133 to 142, ete.
The bulk of the work of the
Board is done in executive ses-
sion which may last two to three
hours and to which admission is
by invitation only. The total in-
formation released about the
meeting consists of a calendar
of seven pages of which the typi-
cal item is “P.1-11 R-1 47 ser-
vice retirement allowances with-
out optional modification for
adoption.”

In effect, the Board receives
a billion dollars a year and dis-
poses of half a billion dollars
@ year with only an inkling of
whys, wherefores, or questions.

Moreover, if the fund is typical
of other retirement funds which
do make information public, be-
tween 03 and 5 percent of the
persons entitled to funds are
never located. When this hap-
pens to a bank or insurance com-
pany, the names under which
such unclaimed accounts are
listed must be published. For
New York State employees, ap-
proximately 2,500 are published
each month in the New York
State Bulletin, the official New
York State publication The
Leader re-publishes these and
locates at least one claimant
ach month.

For many months The Leader
has been requesting of the New
York City Retirement Board ac-
cess to the list of unclaimed ac-
counts. The requests have been
made to the director of the fund,
to the information access offi-
cer, to the Board itself, The re-
sponse has been uniformly “no,”
At various times the reason given
has been “We don't have the
staff to handle inquiries” and
“We are concerned about ‘bounty

hunters.’ ”

In the meanwhile, unlike the
unclaimed accounts of other in-
surance companies and banks,
the funds from these unclajmed
accounts redound to the fund
itself. The State requires no ac-
counting of them. The opportu-
nity for abuse, error, delinquen-
cy, and even fraud in such a
situation, is evident, Here lies
perhaps $5 million a year, un-
claimed, unaccounted-for, and
available at the discretion of the
Board.

As far as The Leader can
ascertain, the only effort at lo-
cating the proper owners of
these accounts is the sending of
@ letter to the last-known ad-
dress of the employee. In a
period of much movement, deal-
ing with people who have re-
tired, died, or suffered other
major trauma in thelr mode of
living, the Jast-known address is
a fantasy. In most cases, the
Board is nine months to a year
behind in making payments.
Mail sent three months after an
address has been changed is re-
turned to the sender.

The Board ts therefore placed
in @ position where, by its own
negligence, it can accumulate
huge sums of money properly
due to retirees or their beneficia-
ries— widowed or ophaned, un-
Jess these beneficiaries are suffi-
clently aggressive and knowl-
edgeable to search out and ob-
tain funds properly due to them.

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 Fund.
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 ndivid-
uals whose membership terminated par-
sant to the provisions of section 40,
paragraph 1 of the Retirement and So-
Gial Security Law os or before August
31, 1974,

(Continued from Inst week)
Downing, Carl L New York
Dunmore, Leroy A
Dunston, Gertrude J Hawthorne
Edsall, Clarence V Valley Cottage
I Floral Park

Brooklyn

Omar A. Poughkeepsie
Ferguson, Vivian D ..New Haven, Cona.
Movant Verson

Bultalo
Albaoy
jen Inland

Fitzgerald, John

ine
Gagne, Germaine ¥
(To Be Continued)

Don't Repeat This!

(Continued from Page 6)

With these and other prob-
Jems that are simmering in the
legislative subsurface, the mem-
bers may be lucky if they get
out by July 4. At least they can
count on a day off on that oc-
casion to participate in the Bi-
centennial celebrations.

‘There is an old cliche about
the Legislature in Albany that

suggests that the life and prop-
erty of no one is safe so long as
the Legislature is in session, The
notion of doubling legislative
salaries is one of the many
strange things that can happen
when the Legislature hangs
around too long. The only bene-
fictaries of & long legislative ses-
sion are the Albany motels and
the favorite watering places of
the members and lobbyists.

9261 “TE ung ‘epg “YaAGVAT AOIAWaS TIAL
RVICE LEADER, Friday, June 11, 1976

CIVIL SE

Morning educational session on health maintenance services featured talks by Blue Cross’ Diana De-
Angelis, at microphone, and Community Health Plan's Beverly Paisley. Seated from left are CSEA
counsel Richard Berstein, Albany Region IV president Joseph McDermott, secretary Julia Braden, sec-
ond vice-president John Vallee and treasurer Mary Jarocki.

at
CSEA director Bernard Dwyer, representative of the Public Service
Department, has reputation for reminding fellow delegates of un-
finished business from prior meetings. Here he is shown as he care-
fully makes notes of proceedings for future reference.

Albany County chapter 801 president and state- Julius Stein, left, checks over some notes with Jack Members of delegation from Department of Labor chapter 668 were
wide County Executive Committee vice-chairman Dougherty. Both are CSEA directors, Mr. Stein among chapter leaders who crowded Herbert's Restaurant in Albany
Howard Cropsey makes forceful statement on po- _—representing the Law Department and Mr, Dou- last month. From left are shop stewards Deran Akullian and Ernestine

litical action, which he heads for Albany Region IV. —gherty the Department of Taxation and Finance. Lafayette and chapter president Kaye Yuschak.

Smiling delegation from Saratoga Educational Employees chapter 864 includes, from Capital District Armory Employees chapter 250 president James Stevens, left, joins

left, Saratoga Springs School System unit president Helen Tragni, Robert O’Brien, Transportation Main Office chapter 687 president Joan Tobin, secretary Gerry Suth-

chapter second vice-president Les Cole and president Charlie Luch. erland and building representative Joyce Cole and DOT Region I chapter 676 treasurer
William Lucas.

Environmental Conservation chapter 655 social chairman Carole Delegations from Taxation and Finance chapter 690 share table with those from Agriculture and Markets
‘Triffietti, left, and chapter board member Sylvia Henry discuss issues chapter 650, From left are Tax delegates Lee Johnson, Carmen Bagnoli, Molly Koncsewski, third vice-
with Nicholas Fiscarelli, Education chapter 657 president and de- president Mary Jaro, first vice-president Reger Hoyt and president Ronald Townsend, with Ag and Mar-
partmental representative to statewide Board of Directors. kets’ vice-president Sandra Sokolowski and corresponding secretary Veronica Thibodeau.
Eileen Salisbury, Albany Region
TV third vice-president, is shown
in attentive mood.

Albany RegionIV

Acts To

Protect

Pay Increments

By MARVIN BAXLEY

ALBANY —

Amid rumors that longevity

increments

might be eliminated by the Legislature, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. delegates at an Albany Region IV meeting last
month voted to initiated a contract grievance

Regional president Joseph Mc-
Dermott said that he had been
assured by CSEA’s research ex-
perts that no one would have
their salary cut, even if such a
law were to be passed

Nevertheless, acting on a mo-
tion by John Fitzgerald, presi-
dent of Insurance chapter 666.

Commerce chapter 654 president George Olson was spirited particl-
pant in political action debate. At left is his wife, Helen, Among
points made during discussion was effectiveness of engaging in po-

litieal action during the primaries.

From Fulton chapter 818, members of the County Infirmary take
part in regional meeting. From left are Betty Conroy, Grace Beving-
ton and Sally Beatty. Blue Cross representative Carolyn Gillis is at

right.

Social committee members in charge of the meeting last month at
Herbert's check over roster of delegates. Left is Ken Hahn, of Trans-

portation Main Office chapter 687,

chapter 668.

with Wayne Dessingue, of Labor

the delegates yoted to bring “a
contractual or a non-contractual
grievance in relation to elimina-
tion of the extended maximum
increments, if necessary.”

Laboratories and Research
chapter 665's Dorris Rabinowitz
followed up the motion with a
recommendation that the Region
bring the matter to the attention
of the negotiating teams so that
wording can be included in fut-
ure contracts to protect the
longevity increments.

Political action was another
subject of extended debate

It was pointed out by Bernard
Dwyer, of Public Service chapter
675 and the departmental rep-
resentative to the statewide
Board of Directors, that political
clout can sometimes be more ef-
fective in primaries than in the
generfal elections

He noted that some legislators
run in districts that are over-
whelmingly Democratic or Re-
publican. In those instances, he
said, more impact could be felt
in the primaries. He suggested
that the political action commit-
tee give thought to the idea of
supporting primary challengers
when they run against incum-

Three of the county chapters were represented by, from left, Edward
Wilcox, president of Saratoga chapter 846; Grace Vallee, delegate for
Rensselaer chapter 842, and Eugene Nicolella, CSEA director repre-

senting Schenectady chapter 847.
bents with notorious anti-civil
service records.

‘The question of regional au-
tonomy in political action was
also discussed. It was pointed out
that the regional political action
committee sends its recommen-
dations to the statewide com-
mitee for approval.

“This does not mean that the
regional political action is lim-
ited to reporting up to the state-
wide political action,” the re-
gional president explained

Mr, McDermott then went on
to say that regional members
can supply aid through volun-
teer work, individual contribu-
tions and local endorsements. He
cited the recent case of a school
district election, where the local
CSEA unit worked successfullly
for the election of a specific
school board member

Discussion was also held on
what seems to be a violation of

General Services chapter 660 president Earl Kilmartin, left, gets
together with Thomas Kissane, of Transportation Region 1 chapter
676, and Cindy Egan, of Criminal Justice.

(Leader photos by Erwin Ganc)

contract by some departments in
unduly restricting travel funds
for various funetions, including
professional meetings attended
by certain employees for the bet-
terment of their jobs.

Education chapter 657 presi-
dent Nicholas Fiscarelli ex-
phined that he had been in-
formed that if a person attends
a meeting as the official repre-
sentative of a department, then
there would be approval of the
travel funds. Approval would not
be granted if the trip was un-
official or by personal initiative.

‘The mistter remains to be clar-
ified at the individual depart-
ment level

Geraldine Dickson, of Education
chapter 657, charges travel funds
are being unfairly restricted by
some departments.

Leaders from several Albany Region IV chapters confer on regional policy. From left are Executive
chapter 659 president Anson Wright, Clinton Correctional Facility chapter 154 president Ronald Marx,
Correctional Services chapter 656 first vice-president Anne Murnane and SUNY at Albany chapter 691

vice-president Charles Bennett.

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Mr. Bucaro, whose chapter

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staffer . for the union's
Southern Region III office in
Fishkill,

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“We check out and try to make sure that all the private programs
we fund and license are suitable facilities and will provide adequate
services,” said Commissioner Emil Drysdale. Above, Commissioner
Jesse Arnette, left, with Commissioner Drysdale.

WHERE DO 9
THEY GO NOW:

(This ig the sixth article in a Leader series on drug
addiction problems that must be faced in the light
of threatened cuthacks in aid at both the private and
the public levels. Leader staff member Susan Donner

has been intervi

wing addicts, administrators and

union leaders, joining them at protest rallies and
touring various facilities. Photography, original art-
work and story are by Ms. Donner. The problem is

everyone's.)

To Help Addicts Find
Paths To Useful Lives

(Continued from Page 1)
lives, gets counseling and attends
classes in both vocational and
academic subjects. Masten Park
also has @ detoxification unit
and a halfway house, a “transi-
tion” facility in which the client
can Hve while he works or at-
tends school and socializes in the
community.

Masten Park offers one of the
finest methadone programs
‘evailable, combining methadone
maintenance with psychological
and vocational counseling. Mas-
ten Park also has an after-care
program which services several
hundred “graduates” from the
intramural program as well as
volunteers who are on parole or
probation. The program offers
support and guidance which very
often makes the difference
whether the client can make a
successful and productive life
for himself when back in the
community.

Masten Park's halfway house
is being shut down. Its metha-
done maintenance program is
being phased out. The main in-
tramural facility can no longer
accept any volunteer patients.
‘The after-care program, its least
expensive, and probably most
important program, is being cut
by two-thirds. The program will
be cut from 580 to 300 clients.

“The kids are being put back
on the street,” said after-care
counselor Anthony Marino, «
narcotics parole officer. “The
worst part is that they're just
ino, who is also the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Asan. grievance
officer for the union's Masten
Park chapter. “It's all been
happening so fast that the
clients haven't been given time
to digest what's going on. Two
months from now I don't even

‘There appears to be much
fear and confusion wmong both
the clients and staff at Masten
Park these days. Although ODAS:
Commissioner Daniel Klepak

spoke reassuringly in a recent
interview (Civil Service Leader,
June 4) about no one being “put
back on the streets,” or left
without emotional support, this
does not appear to be the case,
not only at Masten Park but at
every other ODAS facility.

Although the dismantling of
facilities and dismissal of clients
in an alloted time period might
appear satisfactory on paper bt
the executive offices of ODAS,
it is simply not the case. The
staff, moreover, are receiving
confusing and conflicting letters
of termination.

“One day I get a notice of job
termination,” said a distressed
ODAS employee. “The next day
I hear that I can stay on for six
more months, or get temporary
employment of sorts, and the
day after that I receive another
notice saying that I must leave
within the week.”

“Is this what one gets for six,
eight, and 10 years of state ser-
vice? It's so tronic,” said Mr.
Marino. “Many people have
given up higher-paying jobs in
the past for the ‘security’ of state
employment. It’s just incredible
‘this could be happening.”

“It's hurting everyone here,”
said one 18-year-old resident,
Bill D. “We're very close to the
staff. We can talk to them.
‘They're our friends and they
understand us. Now they're tak-
ing them away. They're also
bringing in new people from
New York City whose attitude
toward us may be completely
different. It’s making us all very
nervous. y
‘was transferred to Masten
Park when they closed Iroquois
(another ODAS facility) last
March because of budget cuts,”
Said Freddie 5, a resident from
Rochester, “I'm very upset about
the cutbacks. I want to be in
after-care when I leave here, It's
important to have someone to
talk to who understands. We all
feel if the program closes there'll
be no one to turn to. What if I
need help agein? Where would
T go, and what about the next

guy? It could be my brother.”

Mike G., 19 years old, from a
small town near Elmira, which
has a gigantic drug problem in
its schools, said, “I've benefited
greatly from the program here.
I can't say that I'm going to get
out and be totally rehabilitated.
I know that I still have to go
back out and see if I can really
handle it. If I can't and Masten
Park is no longer available,
where do I go? Jail?"

One specific incident that took
place last week at Masten Park
illustrates the kind of chaos
caused by the dismantling of the
program.

When word to phase out the
methadone program at Masten
Park arrived, the clients were
given the choice of continuing
methadone maintenance at one
of two private clinics. One, Sis-
ters’ Hospital in Buffalo, ran
into financial problems at that
time. It gave its 150 methadone
patients two days’ notice that
they would no longer be able to
continue their methadone supply.

“Can you imagine telling a
patient that?” asked Mr. Marino.
“Their lives are in balance!”

‘The DART (Drug Abuse Re-
habilitation Treatment) Clinic is
the only other private program
available in the area. It is fund-
ed by the state and provides
counseling services.

“The whole idea of Musten
Park's methadone program,” said
Mr, Marino, “is to get the pa-
tient prepared for detoxification
eventually, This can sometimes
take years, for if a patient stops
methadone maintenance defore
he’s ready, his craving for nar-
coties often returns. He ends up
back on the street with a drug
habit all over again. Through
the program we give him time
to get his feet on the ground.
We get him off the street and
out of the drug cycle so that he
can do something with his life

“Most important we remove
‘him from the drug environment.
Many of these clients, for the
first time in thelr lives, have
Jobs; families, friends and live a

crime-free,

normal existence.
Taking their methadone once a
day can be equated to a diabetic
taking a dally insulin injection.

“Some of our clients have been
on drugs for 20 years,” continued

Mr. Marino, “You don’t cure
them in six month:

Out of 100 methadone pa-
tients, only 20 chose to transfer
to DART; the other 80 chose to
detoxify themselves, rather than
transfer, Most of these clients
lure considered not ready for such
a step.

Many who attended the DART
program had been approached
with offers to buy heroin and
other illicit drugs by pushers. All
felt that the environment put
them into contact with the drug
subculture that they were trying
to escape. They cited DART’s
lack of proper security and com-
Plained of harassment, arro-
gance and lack of understanding
on the part of DART’s staff.
They further complained of
having to wait for long periods
of time to see a doctor. If they
were five minutes late, however,
for their own appointments,
they would be denied methadone.

‘The Masten Park clients also
claimed that many DART clients
were on dope because the meth-
adone dosages given were ex-
cessively diluted and they were
allowed to miss their dosage for
two days or more without pen-
alty.

In both cases the effects of
heroin would no longer be
blocked because enough metha-
done had not been taken and a
client could get “high” on illegal
narcotics,

“The DART setup is designed
for drug usage.” said Masten
Parker John P. “I'm doing the
best I've done since I started
using drugs. Since I've been in

ten Park's methadone pro-
gram I've gotten my high school
equivalency diploma, I've fin-
ished college. I have an excellent
job, and I've started a family.
T'm not ready to get off metha-

members of that drug scene
again. I've worked too hard to
get away from tt. I'll take my
chances with detoxification
rather than go to DART.”

Experts agree with the client's
evaluation, In his book “Liclt
and Illicit Drugs” (The Consum-
ers’ Union Report), Edward M.
Brecher points out that “certain
methadone programs, if not
properly maintained, can be a
breeding ground for contraband
drugs.”

Mr. Brecher quotes Gerald E.
Davidson of Harvard Medical
Schoo! and director of Boston's
Chestnut Hill Clinic, which has
a large methadone maintenance
program: “Addicts, like otner
patients, frequently know what
is good for them. They frequent-
ly know better than doctors and
otherwise helpful, well-inten-
tioned people. . .”

Mr. Brecher notes many meth-
adone patients “are very fearful
of being caught up in the drug
scene once again through asso-
clating with certain clinic mem-
bers after having spent years
trying to get away from such an
environment.”

ODAS Deputy Commissioners
Jesse Arnette and Emil Drysdale
investigated the Masten Park
situation.

The result of this investigation,
in Commissioner Drysdale’s ow!
words, was: “We have reviewed
DART and it meets both state
and federal standards concerning
the treatment and counseling re-
quiremerits. I am convinced that
there is no evidence that the
staff here is trying to ‘bad-
mouth’ the private programs, but
I emphasize the question of the
client resisting change.

“The psychology of these
clients has shortcomings to be-
gin with, They feel secure here.
We say we're going to send you
out, and there is the whole sense
of the unfamiliar, Here they
have friends that they can re-
late to. They're afraid of the
type of people that they might
encounter at DART. Street
people know what kind of has-
sles other street people can put
them through, so they're seared.”
The investigation of DART
lasted for 25 minutes.

When I visited DART the fol-
lowing morning and spoke with
DART assistant director, Charles
Jones, he denied all allegations
made by the Masten Park pa-
tients. My interview with an
available counselor was closely
monitored by Mr. Jones.

Between the time of my visit
to Masten Park and the publl-
cation of this article, the transfer
of methadone maintenance
clients to DART has been tem-
porarily modified. The adminis-
tration will now not use this
plan until the transfer question
has been discussed with every
patient and objections aired.

WHERE TO APPLY
FOR PUBLIC JOBS

NEW YORK CITY — Persons
seeking jobs with the City
should file at the Department of
Personnel, 49 Thomas St., New
York 10013, open weekdays be-
tween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Special
hours for Thursdays are 8:30
am. to 5:30 p.m.

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

By subway, applicants can
reach the filing office via the
IND (Chambers St.); BMT (City

Hall); Lexington IRT (Brooklyn
Bridge). For information on
titles, call 566-8700.

Several City agencies do their
own recruiting and hiring. They
include: Board of Education
(teachers only), 65 Court 8t.,
Brooklyn 11201, phone: 596-
8060; NYC Transit Authority,
370 Jay St, Brooklyn 11201,
phone: 852-5000.

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

STATE — Regional offices of
the Department of Civil Service
are located at the World Trade
Center, Tower 2, 55th floor, New
York 10048 (phone: 488-4248: 10
am.-3 pm.); State Office Cam-
pus, Albany, 12226; Suite 750, 1
W Genesee St., Buffalo 14202
9 am.-4 p.m, Applicants may ob-
tain announcements by writing
(the Albany office only) or by
applying in person at any of
the three.

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

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

Admin., 270 Broadway, N.Y.,
phone 486-4141

FEDERAL — The US. Civil
Service Commission, New York

Region, runs a Job Information
Center at 26 Federal Plaza, New
York 10007, Its hours are 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m, weekdays only,
Telephone 264.0422.

Federal entrants living upstate
(North of Dutchess County)
should contact the Syracuse Area
Office, 301 Erie Blvd, West,
Syracuse 13202, Toll-free calls
may be made to (B00) §22-7407
Federal titles have no deadline
unless otherwise indicated,

Young resident, above, at Masten
Park Drug Rehabilitation Center,
one of three remaining state
ODAS facilities, helps with
chores, Below, another resident
practices ironing in basic home
economics class at the all-male
facility. Obviously, in bottom
photo, it’s real work.

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\

There has

heen to subutantial weversent concerning the supplemental budget.
A bill to restore $6.7 million in funds to the private programs has been preposed by
Senator John Marchi (R-C, Staten Island) Chairman of the Senate Finance Com-
mittee, Senator Warren Anderson (R-Binghamton) Senate majority leader, and As-
semblyman Burton Hecht (D-L, Bronx) Chairman of the Assembly Ways and Means
Committee, It was later blocked, but is now being negotiated. The “City of the For-
gotten” has been camping out on an Albany riverbank since May 3. There is no word
yet on how much longer they will be “the forgotten.”

OL6l ‘IT aunf — ‘WaQVa1 FOIAWAS TAD

For Some, It Was Too Much

Bill Stewart (all names are fictitious; the incidents described,
however, have happened) was a resident at Ridgehill, an ODAS facility
that was shut down last fall.

Bill returned home to live with his family in an upstate suburb
and continued treatment in a local ODAS after-care program. He
saw a counselor once a week, and managed to build a sound rela-
tionship with her. He seemed to be making progress toward produc-
tive goals, Last week, Bill's counselor informed him that, due to
budgetary cutbacks, she had lost her job and would be laid off within
two weeks. On the following day Bill took his life by leaping from
a bridge.

Bill Stewart was 24 years old.

Reynolds Majors was a narcotics charge correction officer at
Ridgehill. When the ODAS facility was closed because of cutbacks,
Mr. Majors was transferred to Brooklyn Central Rehabilitation fa-

Charlie was told that,
longer be able to keep voluntary patients.

Several days later, Charlie wandered in to Brooklyn Central Re-
habilitation Center “very strung out on something,”
staffer there.

“Where do I go now?”

cility. The staff morale at Brooklyn Central has been extremely low
for the last couple of months because of ODAS job layoffs.

On May 12, Mr. Majors received a notice that his job would be
terminated June 6. On May 15, Mr. Majors put a gun to his head
and killed himself. He leaves a wife and three children.

Charlie Tanner had been a voluntary patient at Masten Park
Rehabilitation Center, Buffalo, for two years.

“We raised him here,”
want him and he seemed to be ‘working things out.’” Last week,
due to budget cuts, Masten Park would no

said a staff member.

“They don’t want me anymore,” said Charlie

“His mother didn't

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» LEADER, Friday,

CIVIL SERVICE

Columbia Legislature’s Tricky
Footwork irks CSEAers, Media

HUDSON—The Columbia County Legislature, sources said here, appeared to irritate
both public employees and the local news media by its actions when issuing a contract to
be imposed on all Columbia County Civil Service Employee Assn. members.

Daniel Campbell, CSEA Albany Region IV public relations associate, described events:

“First, after CSEA members
packed the large public hearing
room of the Columbia County
Courthouse, those good elected
officials informed these county
residents that they were meeting
in the much smaller Board of
Supervisors chamber.

“Nearly 150 CSEA members,
county taxpayers, then squeezed
into this room and, most likely,
broke the fire department's rules
for maximum permissible oc-
cupancy of that area, That's
what the Legislature seemed to
want since they were too impor-
tant to come to their county
residents who happen to be
county employees. Then they
proceeded to pass a very detailed
piece of legislative work that in-
cluded two paragraphs of de-
tailed changes.”

After that, Mr. Campbell said,
“They addressed the issue that
had brought concerned county
residents, a contract they de-
seribed, In the good interest of
the public and public employees
of Columbia County.”

“That was the only informa-
tion concerning the contract
that was mentioned in the reso-
lution, These gentlemen did not

even have the decency to ex-
Plain the areas that this con-
tract would effect,

“And then, quicker than be-
Mevable, the supervisors ad-
journed, leaving many of the
taxpayers present with their
questions unasked &nd ‘unan-
swered because this was a public
hearing, a special meeting at
which only residents who were
not public employees could ask
questions.

Mr. Campbell called the legis-
lature’s acts “insulting.”

“The 150 county residents who
attended this example of official
bad manners then joined with
another large group of Columbia
County CSEA members in Stat-
ville and found out what their
elected officials claimed they
could not legally include or pre-
sent in that resolution.

“The Board of Supervisors
who have approved non-union-
ized personnel raises ranging
from 7 percent to 74 percent had
imposed a wage freeze on county
unionized employees, They had
curtailed summer hours by not
extending work hours but by in-
troducing staggered shifts and,

in one area of the imposed docu-
ment, have included a clause
that, if allowed, would limit
CSEA ability to service its Co-
lumbia County membership by
requiring the union to get de-
partment head approval before
CSEA could meet with members
who might be filing a grievance
against that very department
head.”

Following the direction of a
previously heli membership
meeting, which authorized the
negotiating committee to take

— BULLETIN —

At Leader press time, the State Public Employ-
ment Relations Board had scheduled a meeting for
Friday evening, June 4, between Columbia County
negotiators and negotiators for the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn.'s Columbia County unit, in hopes of
averting a walkout by county employees set for Tues-
day, June 8. The employees, represented by CSEA, have
voted to strike if they have no contract by then.

whatever action necessary, in-
cluding a strike, to gain a fair
and equitable settlement, CSEA
informed the press and the
county that it will strike Colum-
bia unless an acceptable nego-
tated agreement {s presented
for ratification at or before that
date

“We will meet and either rati-
fy an agreement or assign strike
site leaders, introduce counsel
and provide our membership
with all necessary information

Set Deadline For Pact

ALBANY—Dorothy Rabin,
chairman of the Civil Service
Employees Assn.’s platform
committee, has requested all
State Division chapter presidents
to submit suggestions for amend-
ing current provisions of the
1973-1976 CSEA-State collective
bargaining agreements to her
committee by July 20.

In a letter matled recently to
state division chapter presidents,

Ms. Rabin wrote, “Each of our
negotiating teams will have the
right to reopen negotiations in
order to amend the continuing
provisions of the 1973-1976 col-
lective agreements. Each Unit
team — Administrative Services,
Professional, Scientific and
Technical Services, Institutional

Services and Operational Ser-
vices—will be limited to present,
for the reopening negotiations,

| Probation

ALBANY The Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn.’s state-
wide probation committee
convened in Albany last
month to discuss problems
encountered by probation of-
flcers and pending legisla-
tion that would affect these
employees. The group met
with Theodore C. Wenal,
president of CSEA, and two
high-ranking state proba-
tion officials, then toured
the state probation offices
located here in the Empire
State Plaza.

RIGHT: The CSEA statewide
probation committee met with
Theodore C. Wenzl, president of
CSEA, in his office last week
te discuss its activities. From
left are Joseph Gilligan, proba-
tion officer, Suffolk County;
Peter Grieco, probation officer,
Jefferson County; Dr, Wenal,
and James Mattel, probation of-
ficer, Nassau County,

LEFT: Robert Sullivan, acting director of the State Probation De-

partment, met with members of the CSEA statewide probation
committee. From left are James Brady, chairman of the CSEA com-

mittee; Mr, Sullivs

John Whalen, probation officer, Westchester

County, and Harold Fanning, probation officer, Monroe County,

Committee Meets With Albany Bigs

RIGHT; Pending legislation that affects probation officers ts dis-
cussed with Donald Urell, chief counsel of the State Probation De-
partment, From left are Bulis Cathey, probation officer, Erie County;
James Frisina (standing), probation officer, St, Lawrence County;
Mr, Urell, and David Singer, probation officer, Rensselaer County.

to achieve a successful job ac-
tion.” Nels Carlson, CSEA neqo-
tiator added in conclusion.

Local media representatives
informed CSEA that they would
take county officials to task
over the treatment they received
at the hands of the supervisors
at this meeting.

CSEA has requested that the
Public Employment Relations
Board immediately enter the sit-
uation and attempt through su-
per conciliation to reach a pact

Proposals

two articles in the 1973-1976 col-
lective agreements.”

The July 20 deadline has been
set in observance of CSEA's con-
stitution and by-laws. However,
Ms. Rabin suggested that de-
mands on reopened negotiations
for the final year of the current
two-year agreement be submit-
ter as early as June 16, the pro-
posed date of the next meeting
of the platform committee.

State Division chapter presi-
dents should forward these de-
mands to PO Box 1030, Capital
Annex Station, Albany, N. Y.
12225.

CSEA's platform committee
has responsibility of reviewing,
editing and consolidating pro-
posed amendments to current
contract provisions. These de-
mands may originate from any
chapter member or officer in the
State Division.

CSEA State Division members
have already ratified a memo-
randum of understanding pro-
viding for a salary increase in
the fiscal April 1, 1977-March 31,
1978.

‘The exact amount of the in-
crease sought will be determined
by CSEA negotiating teams this
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whether or not they pay dues
to the union,
Some of these free-loaders
say they don’t pay dues because
they can do without the union,”
Mr. Langer said. “But let's see
them do without the vacations,
sick days, personal days, holi-
days, raises, legal assistance and
all the other benefits the union
wins for them.

“It's not fatr for some of us
to be paying dues to support all
these services, while others just
enjoy all the benefits without
supporting the union that wins
those benefits for them.”

Mr, Langer stressed that the
bill would not force employees
to join a union; it would simply
require them to pay an amount
equivalent to dues to the union
that bargains for them.

“If there has ever been a need
for @ mass show of support for
@ plece of legislation, it is now,”
he said. “If passed, this bill will
directly result in increased
strength for public employees-
both state and local—at the bar-
gaining table.”