The Public Sector, 1980 February 13

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- ALBANY — CSEA President William L. McGowan last week lashed

out at Governor Carey’s proposed state budget for fiscal 1980-81, calling
the document a “‘blueprint for disaster.”

Testifying before a joint meeting of the Senate and Assembly Ways
and Means Committees, McGowan said CSEA’s 107,000 members in state
service have carried an unfair share of the state’s economic burden,
while the governor has appropriated $3 million to purchase an executive
airline and proposed $800,000 so legislators only have to wait 30 seconds
for an elevator at the State Capitol instead of 60 seconds.

“Tt is unconscionable for this state to target its public employees for
cuts, target the taxpayers for reduced services and then turn around and
splurge on luxuries for the leadership,”” President McGowan said.

“Between January of 1971 and January of 1977, a total of 10,783 state
employees were laid off. Although this can be attributed to three
different efforts to reduce state spending by reducing the state work
force, the fact remains that the delivery of efficient and adequate state
services to the public was also effected,”’ he said.

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Carey's budget blasted,

for disaster’

McGowan told the Legislators that the Governor’s proposed budget
for the coming fiscal year provides for only a 1.8% increase in State
Purposes Fund spending despite the 13% annual inflation rate.

“No provision has been made,” he said, ‘‘to increase the State
Purposes Fund in a fashion which would permit current level state
operations to continue while meeting the threat imposed by the
inflationary spiral. The State Purposes Fund cannot be forced to bear
more than its proportional share of economic cutbacks.”’

CSEA represents about 107,000 state employees in the Administrative,
Institutional and Operational bargaining units. In his testimony,
McGowan said these employees have borne the burden of the state’s
economic woes over the past seven years in the form of modest salary in-
creases, numerous layoffs and cutbacks in programs. He said the propos-
ed budget would worsen the already poor staffing patterns in state ser-
vice and endanger continuity of efficient public services.

(ecGowan cited as an example that previously in the Department of
Mental Hygiene the staff-to-patient ratio was one staff per .96 patients.
Under the Governor’s proposed budget, that ratio would drastically
change to one staff per 1.25 patients, resulting in a further erosion in the
level of care for the state’s mentally handicapped.

“This union has taken the lead over the past several years in publicly
fighting the declining conditions in this state’s mental health and mental
retardation institutions,’’ he said. ‘‘When the state wouldn’t listen, we
took our case directly to the public through an information campaign
financed solely by our members. Now that the issue has quieted down, the
state purposes to return to the era of decline in care for the least
represented segement of our society.”

The union leader said CSEA and its membership want the State Pur-
poses Fund aspect of the budget increased to at least continue present
service levels in state operations. h

“We also insist that if it is the policy of this state to cry poverty and
take its economic woes out of the hides of its public employees, then

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maybe the leadership can tolerate some hardship as well and forego
helicopters and elevators.”

Delegates election announced

mittee and in consultation with the

ALBANY — CSEA will be sending
223 delegates to the 1980 International
Convention of the American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees and the
procedure for nomination and
election of those delegates has now
been announced by CSEA.

The June 9 to 13 convention will be
the first in which an elected slate of
CSEA delegates will participate since
CSEA affiliated with AFSCME ‘in
April, 1978. The International holds its
Conventions bi-annually and this
year’s convention site is Anaheim,
California.

Under procedures dictated by
federal laws regulating international
labor unions, a complex process has
to be used. Details of the nomination

and election process appear on page
12 of this edition of the Public Sector
and will also appear in the next two
editions.

A certain number of delegates will
be elected within each of CSEA’s six
regions based on the number of
members within the region.
Nominations will take place at
nominating meetings which will be
held in all six regions on March 1.
Details on the location, time and
procedures of these meetings can be
found in the official election notice on
page 12.

“We intend to make this process as
open and fair as our other internal
elections,’ CSEA Executive Director
Joseph J. Dolan said. ‘‘Under the
direction of the CSEA Election Com-

International, we will proceed in an
orderly and responsible manner to
nominate and elect delegates to the
International Convention.”

The AFSCME Convention is held
every second year to deal with

- proposed changes to the Constitution

and By-Laws of the organization. Ex-
penses incurred by elected CSEA
delegates to the convention will be
reimbursed by CSEA. .

While the methods and procedures
of both the nomination and election
process are outlined in the notice
appearing on page 12, any persons
with questions concerning the
procedures may contact: William M.
Wallens, CSEA Counsel’s Office, 33
Elk St., Albany, N.Y. 12224.

ALBANY — CSEA attorneys
plan to appeal a recent State
Supreme Court Appellate
Division ruling that public
workers are entitled to 30 calen-
dar days, not 30 working days, of
military leave per calendar
year. That ruling reversed a —
lower court decision last June
favoring CSEA’s position that
working days, not calendar
days, should be the basis -for
military leave payment. CSEA
said nearly 100 public employees
who spent more than 30 days on
ordered military duty, but not
more than 30 working days, are
adversely affected by the latest
ruling.

OK Olympic work rules

LAKE PLACID — CSEA and the State have worked out an agreement
regarding accommodations and working conditions for civilian state
employees at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid.

Such employees who have volunteered for Olympic duty will be housed in
Building A at Camp Adirondack, and will be supplied with linen, laundry,
housekeeping services and hot meals.

Those in State-supplied housing will be paid $15 for each day of their
assignment from Jan. 26 through March 2. This amount is the difference
between the State Comptroller’s approved rate and the cost of providing meals
and lodging to these employees.

In addition, the State will arrange for access into the Olympic area for
approved visitors of the employees, and bus service will be provided for travel
to and from Lake Placid and the camp.

The State will also provide cable television and other recreational
facilities for the employees for the duration of their stay.

Joint discussions between CSEA President William L. McGowan and
representatives of the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations will continue
to address working-condition problems as they arise. The talks, according to
the agreement, will be conducted ‘“‘in a mutually cooperative and peaceful
spirit, conducive to the success of the Olympics.”

Quarterly meeting
held in Newburgh

NEWBURGH — The first joint CSEA Region III-
State Office of Mental Health (OMH) quarterly
meeting was held in Newburgh on Jan. 21.

Region III President James Lennon, who co-
chaired the meeting with OMH Regional Director
Dr. David McDonnell, said: ‘‘The meeting was to
establish a dialogue for topics of mutual interest
and concern of labor and management.

“In the future, this meeting could discuss big
problems but will not involve itself in what should
be handled at the local level.”

Psychiatric centers involved in the meeting were
Harlem Valley, Hudson River, Mid-Hudson
Middletown, Rockland and Rockland Children’s.

The agenda for the first meeting included:

¢ Regional resources.

e Facility closings

¢ Performance evaluations.

¢ District Management.

¢ Shared Staffing.

At the conclusion of the meeting, Region II
Director Thomas Luposello said: “A lot was ac-
complished at this first meeting. An exchange of in-
formation makes both union’s and management’s
job easier.”

Luposello, noting that union and management
persons sat together around the table, said: ‘There
were no sides reflected at the table.

Some of the information presented at the meeting
included:

—Psychiatric centers in the region would be hit
hard if the proposed budget passes the legislature,
Lennon said.

— Action by CSEA may have saved a number of
mental health jobs in the region.

—Rumors of facility closings were hurting morale
at some facilities.

ROM IRENE

Intern assigned

THE FIRST JOINT CSEA Region IlI-State Office of Mental Health quarterly meeting was
chaired by CSEA Region III President James Lennon, center, and OMH Regional Director Dr.
David McDonnell, right. At left is CSEA Region Ii Director Thomas Luposello.

CSEA REGION III staff and psychiatric center local officers attend the CSEA-OMH meeting
g, from left, CSEA Field Representatives Flip Amodio and Thomas Brann
and Rockland Psychiatric Center CSEA Local 421 President Eva Katz.

on Jan. 21 inch

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Saratoga infirmary problem

for Syracuse

SYRACUSE — William C. ‘‘Skip”
Hidlay, a senior journalism major at
Syracuse University, is the first
Public Sector intern.

Hidlay will be helping cover CSEA
Central Region V for The Public Sec-
tor through early May 1980. He will be
working under the direction of Public
Sector Executive Editor Roger Cole
and Associate Editor Dr, Gerald
Alperstein.

He will be working closely with
Region V Director Frank Martello,
his field staff and Region V President
James Moore.

Hidlay, 21, a native of Bloomsburg,
Pa., has worked as a reporter on the
Berwyn (Pa.) Enterprise, a daily
newspaper, for three summers.

William C. “Skip” Hidlay-

BALLSTON SPA — Efforts to
resolve a long-standing problem in-
volving employees of the Saratoga
County infirmary are continuing, ac-
cording to Local 846 President John
Miller. He said he and members of his
executive committee are determined
to continue to negotiate a solution
acceptable to all. Z

At issue is a long-standing practice
by the county of charging infirmary
employees for a meal whether or not
it is eaten. The current charge is 75
cents a day — $7.50 a pay period.

The meal is prepared for the day
shift’s lunch and is kept on steam
tables for the second and third shifts
(3-11 p.m. and 11 p.m.-7 a.m.).

Miller said the county has made two
proposals to the union:

¢ The: county will not supply food
for any infirmary personnel.

© The county will supply food for
only the day shift and charge only the
day shift employees.

Miller said neither proposal is
acceptable because while virtually all
the approximately 80 second and third
shift employees want the food
program ended, the same is not true
for the day shift.

He said about half the 150 day shift
employees want the program con-
tinued while the other half want the
program ended.

—~Calendar *
of EVENTS

FEBRUARY

Huntington library contract

HUNTINGTON — The employees represented by the Hunt-
ington Library Unit of CSEA Local 852 will receive pay increases of
at least 22 percent over the next two years, CSEA Field Represen-
tative James Walters reported.

Capital Region

13 — Region IV Political Action Committee meeting, 5 p.m., Regional Headquarters,
1215 Western Ave., Albany.

16 — Binghamton 002 Valentine Dinner-Dance, 6:30 p.m., Banquet Master's Restaurant,

The unit unanimously ratified the increase Jan. 25 for the . peice: aren 5 fees ciate cn
Fi sey A — Fulton County Local inner-dance, Eagle's Club, Johnstown.
pecone ane third years of a five-year contract with wage reopeners, Nene mactinnd Coun locclifaa lead aahisicentsrencess/ainiisneraion tint Nanueh e

23 — Region VI meeting, 10 a.m., Buffalo Convention Center, Buffalo.
25 — Long Island Region | delegates meeting, Musicaros, Melville.
29-March 2 — Region V Conference, Hotel Syracuse, Syracuse
MARCH
1 — Babylon Town Unit of CSEA Local 852, second annual dinner-dance, 9 p.m.,
Musicaro’s, Walt Whitman Road, Melville.
1 — Metropolitan Region II general membership meeting, 14th Street Armory, New
York City.
6 — Southern Region Ill Executive Committee meeting, 7:45 p.m., Holiday Inn, New-

burgh
Vj } 9-11 — Delegates meeting, Albany.
| APRIL
4 7-9 — Long Island Region | spring conference, Gurneys Inn, Montauk. y @

During the next two years, the employees will receive five
percent each .year plus cost-of-living adjustments of six percent
each December and June, Walters said.

If the cost of living goes over 12 percent, the wage reopener goes
into effect, he said. President of the unit is Nora Marshall.

Page 2‘ THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, February 13, 1980

NEWARK DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER CSEA LOCAL 417 members recently raised more than $400 on

behalf of the Special Olympics Fund with a raffle of a 10-speed bicycle donated by the Local and won by Sarah

Taylor. Tim Paradise,

a silver medalist in floor exercise events at last summer’s Special Olympics in

Brockport, drew the winning ticket. In the photo, from left, are NDC Acting Director Charles Soper, CSEA
Local 417 President Tony Cinquingrana; Special Olympics area representative Essie Barnes; Tim Paradise,
and NDC Administrator Sylvester Zielinski.

Reach accord
in Watervliet

WATERVLIET — The City of
Watervliet Unit of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. and the city council
have come to terms on a two-year
contract for employees after an im-
passe in negotiations was declared in
November.

The new contract calls for salary in-
creases of seven percent in each year,
retroactive to January 1, 1980. The
council has also agreed to pay for a
$5,000 life insurance policy for each
employee and to raise the longevity
rate by two cents per hour in the
second year of the contract. Early in
negotiations, the city refused to pay
for an insurance policy and threaten-
ed to stop longevity payments en-
tirely.

Other benefits include increases in
uniform allowances and reim-
bursements for eyeglasses and eye

“examinations. A new vacation
schedule was also established.

The union went to impasse in
November when the city refused to
grant several major proposals. At the
time, Capital Region CSEA field
representative Joseph Bakerian ac-
cused management of not being attun-
ed to the negotiating process and said
its attitude was ‘‘demeaning and in-
sulting’ to the employees.

Scott, sito a ete the Het
_ times and approached
unit President

ELLENBURGA — Town of | Bllenburgh highway de
aes oe by the Civil Service Em

‘ ior existing
which include a town paid retirement plan, 11 paid holidays and
- sick, personal and vacation leave time.
a ding to Capital aoe CSEA |
iating team,
the fact finding stage, but the team, led by
mnie ie remained united.

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Local constitution change

ALBANY — The CSEA’s Model
Local Constitution was amended by
the union’s Board of Directors last
week to formalize an unwritten union
policy concerning delivery of services
to the membership.

By an overwhelming majority, the
Board approved an amendment which
requires any local seeking to expend
funds to provide services already
provided by CSEA, to seek advance
Board approval.

The amendment requires that when
the union is providing a service for its

Gasoline reimbursement obtained

BABYLON — The Town of Babylon
Unit of CSEA Local 852 obtained
reimbursement of money for those
employees who recently had been re-
quired to pay for gasoline used in
town-owned cars during the work day,
Unit President Cathy Green has
reported.

In September 1979, the town re-
quired those employees driving town-
owned vehicles during the workday
and to and from work to supply a
minimum of five gallons of gasoline

each week, causing the unit to file an
Improper Practice charge, Ms. Green
said.

In an informal hearing by the
Public Employment Relations Board
on Jan. 8, 1980, the town agreed to
reimburse the employees involved
and to abolish the policy, Ms. Green
said.

Ms. Green and Unit First Vice
President Aileen Ronayne were
among those at the hearing on behalf
of the employees.

members such as in collective
bargaining, research, etc., any local
that wants to hire outside assistance
in these areas may do so only with the
advance approval of the Board.

The change, a full description of
which will appear in the next edition
of the Public Sector, protects the un-
ion from possible liability which could
occur under the Duty of Fair
Representation which legally
obligates the union to provide and
maintain certain services for its
members.

Tf a local could purchase services
outside the control of CSEA,
President William McGowan told the
Board, then ultimately the union
would be held legally responsible for
the consequences,

Mr. McGowan also noted that the
union maintains expert services in all
areas of employee representation and
that expenditure of local rebates for
that same purpose would be a waste
of membership dues.

in the public service

Compensation
awarded to
3 employees

GLENS FALLS — Three part time
employees of the City of Glens Falls
Recreation Department were award-
ed a total of more than $2500 as com-
pensation for personal, sick and
vacation leave time denied to them
over a two year period, after the Civil
Service Employees Assn. represen-
tatives put pressure on the city to set-
tle a grievance which had been
pending for two years.

According to Glens Falls CSEA
Unit President Mike Kelly, part time
employees were not covered under
the CSEA contract with the city, until
an agreement put into effect in 1977
called for coverage of those working
an average of 20 hours per week. The
city, however, refused to grant the
time off and certain medical benefits
to three employees, Robert Clark,
John David and Champ Rierdon, who
fell into this category. Though the
union immediately filed a grievance,
city administrators continually put
off the hearings.

Kelly, who took over as unit
president some months ago, enlisted
the aid of Capital Region CSEA Field
Representative William Lochner to
take the matter to an arbitrator.
Prior to the arbitration hearing,
however, the city called a meeting
with the union and agreed to the
monetary award.

In addition, the city recognized the
right of 20 hour part time employees
to contract coverage and benefits in
the future.

Kelly indicated that he and the
employees were satisfied with the
settlement and praised Lochner for
his assistance.

Agreement is
announced

NEWBURGH — The Newburgh
City School District Unit of the
Orange County Local of CSEA has
come to a tentative agreement with
the city school district for a two-year
contract.

Unit president Frank LaRocca an-
nounced the agreement which is
retroactive to July 1, 1979 and runs to
June 30, 1981.

According to LaRocca the tentative
pact provides for a 5 percent or $500
increase — whichever is greater —
for each of the two years and, for
hourly employees, a 15 cent per hour
increase for each of the two years.
These amounts will be applied to the
salary schedule.

Other elements of the agreement
include a provision for mileage reim-
bursement equal to the state rate, ad-
ditional stipends for professional
library staff based on post-graduate
work, some modifications in vacation
procedures for custodial staff during
the Christmas and Easter vacation
periods and the establishment of a
labor-management committee.

The unit represents about 200
people, mainly in custodial, cafeteria,
clerical, maintenance and teacher
aide categories.

CSEA Field Representative John
Naughter assisted unit officers and
negotiators in the contract talks.

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Meetings set

NEW YORK CITY — One general
membership meeting was held
recently and two others are being
planned for members of Department
of Labor CSEA Local 350.

Local 350 President George
Caloumeno said the meetings cover
such topics as the evaluations,
stewards, the local’s executive com-
mittee, committees of the local and
meeting the new local officers.

Members of the local who work in
New York City met on February 11, at
2 World Trade Center, 44th floor.

The two meetings being planned
will be for members of the local who
work in Nassau and Suffolk counties
and in Westchester and Rockland
counties, Caloumeno said.

New officers

NEW HAMPTON — Officers of
Local 448 at the Mid-Hudson
Psychiatric Center here were recent-
ly installed by CSEA Region III
president James J. Lennon.

The officers are Margaret Zettle,

president; Gary Weyant, vice
president; Armando Verrasi,
treasurer; and Josephine Davis,
Secretary.

In addition, Lennon recognized the
appointment of Shirley Grebeldinger
as Local 448's representative on the
Agency Performance Evaluation
Appeals Board.

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Health Care in Home

Many people in the local area
are not aware that Medicare
health insurance can help pay
for care provided in the per-
son’s own home, a social
security representative said re-
cently.

Medicare provides hospital
insurance and medical in-
surance for most people 65 and
over and for many disabled
people under 65. Hospital in-
surance helps pay the cost of in-
patient hospital care and for
certain follow-up care and
medical insurance helps pay the
cost of doctor bills and many
other medical care expenses.

Sometimes people do not
need full-time skilled care in a
hospital or skilled nursing
facility, but still have a condi-

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tion that prevents them from
leaving home to receive the
health services they need. Peo-
ple in this situation can get part-
time skilled health services in
their home from a home health
agency.

Both Medicare hospital in-
surance and medical insurance
can help pay for covered home
health services when certain
conditions are met.

When Medicare can cover
home health care, it can pay for
the following services:
© Part-time skilled nursing
services
@ Physical therapy.

@ Speech therapy.

If a person needs one or
more of these three services,
then Medicare can also pay for

the following services:

@ Part-time services of an oc-
cupational therapist, home
health aide, or medical social
worker.

@ Medical supplies and the use
of medical appliances furnished
by the home health agency.

Medicare cannot pay for full
time nursing care at home,
drugs and biologicals, meals
delivered to a person’s home,
or homemaker services.

For more information about
home health care, ask for a
copy of the leaflet, ‘Home
health care under Medicare” at
any social security office. The
address and telephone number
of the nearest social security
office can be found in the

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Region Il locals set up EAP

NEW YORK CITY — Three locals
have functioning Employee
Assistance Programs (EAP) in
Metropolitan Region II, according to
Regional EAP Coordinator Felton
King.

King said five other locals are in the
process of organizing their own
EAPs, though his goal is to see each
of the region’s 20 locals have function-
ing EAP.

He urges all local presidents in the
region to call him at 698-1440, exten-
sions 135 and 136, to get the ball roll-
ing on establishing local EAPs.

EAP, a statewide program es-
tablished under the CSEA-State con-
tracts, provides confidential referrals

for State Employees seeking help
with alcohol, drugs, family, money,
legal and other problems, King said.

“This can be especially important
in reducing patient abuse,
absenteeism and other alcohol and
drug-related problems.

“Such reductions benefit the state
by causing more productivity and
lead to lower legal assistance costs
for CSEA,”’ he said.

He said the key person in the
program is the coordinator of the
local’s EAP, whose confidentiality is
protected by law. The coordinator
must be a person approved of by both
the union and by management. The

coordinator is a 100 percent released-
time position.

In addition to the coordinator is a
committee of union and management
which promotes EAP and can assist
the coordinator if needed, he said.

Both the union and management
can recommend to an employee that
he seek help from EAP.

King said one aim of EAP is to head
off possible disciplinary actions by
correcting the personal problems
causing the need for the disciplinary
actions.

FELTON KING, CSEA Region II
EAP Coordinator.

Court employees contract
explained at meeting

NEW ROCHELLE — The contract between CSEA-represented
employees of the State Office of Court Administration (OCA) was explained
to members of Judiciary Local 332 at a meeting on Jan. 21.

Local 332 represents OCA employees in the former county courts in
Rockland, Putnam, Orange and Dutchess counties and in most of the former
city courts in those four counties and in Westchester County.

Explaining the new contract was CSEA Collective Bargaining Specialist
Emanuel Vitale. The meeting was chaired by Local 332 President Pat
Neelon.

Also attending the meeting were Southern Region III President James
Lennon and Field Representative Thomas Brann and Judiciary Board of
Directors Representative Thomas Jefferson.

1) CSEA COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SPECIALIST
Emanuel Vitale explains the CSEA-OCA contract to
members of Judiciary Local 332 at meeting in New Rochelle
on Jan. 21.

| 2) SOUTHERN REGION III PRESIDENT James Lennon,

i left, discusses the new CSEA-OCA contract with Judiciary
Local 332 President Pat Neelon, center, and Judiciary
Board of Directors Representative Thomas Jefferson at the
Jan. 21 New Rochelle meeting.

3) WHITE PLAINS COURT EMPLOYEES, from left,
Dorothy M. Pela, Shannon G. Koss and Roslyn Bazzo attend
the Local 332 meeting in New Rochelle.

4) DETAILS OF THE CSEA-OCA contract are explained

to, from left, Constantine Konios, New Rochelle court, and

Isaac Welburn, Mount Vernon court.
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, February 13, 1980 Page 5

Push is on
in support
of union's
legislative
objectives

Amessage from
the president

Dear Sisters and Brothers:

4980 promises to be the most political year
of the decade. Our members will help elect
a President, a United States Senator, the en-
tire New York State Congressional delega-
tion, and a new New York State Senate and
Assembly. The importance of these elections
is further heightened by the fact that 1980

will be a redistricting year. This means, of
course, that the parly which controls tH
New York State Legislature in 1980 will, in all
likelihood, continue to control tt for at least
the first five or six years of the decade.
lam personally gratified at the dramatic
increase in political activity and legislative
clout at both the local and State levels
which CSEA has achieved in the past sev-
eral years. In addition, our affiliation
AFSCME has provided us with desperately
needed input on. the Washington political
scene. We have made great progress but
there is much that remains to be done. As

long'as one public employee in New York
Pate must negotiate without the protection
of a fair collective bargaining law or go to
work without the protection of an Occupa-
tional Safety and Health Act, our job is not
done. Our members are not asking for “wine
and roses; we are demanding “meat and
potatoes.” We don't seek preferential treat-
ment, but we deserve equal treatment.
@2ur legislative goals for the ‘80's will not be
achieved by wishing. They can only be
achieved by working. 1 call-upon all of you
to joinme in this struggle.None of us expects
all of our legislative goals to be achieved

CSEA’s ‘bread and butter’ —sis |.
1980 legislative proposals

4. OSHA

State and local government employees are pre-
sently the only employees in New York State who do
not benefit from a program designed to make the
work place safe. This bill would mandate minimum
health and safety standards for public employees
no less than those promulgated pursuant to the Oc-
cupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

2. BOARD OF TRUSTEES
FOR RETIREMENT SYSTEM

The Employees’ Retirement System is presently ad-
ministered by the Comptroller, who is also the sole
trustee of the more than $44 billion in assets. Public
employees who are members or pensioners of that
system have no voice in investment decisions made
by the Comptroller, unlike those in the five pension
systems in New York City and the New York State Tea-
chers’ Retirement System. This proposal would guar-
antee voting membership on the Board of Trustees
for the Employees’ Retirement System, and invest-
ment decisions would require the vote of at least
one such member.

3. INJUNCTIVE NOTICE

The Taylor Law presently allows the issuance of a
temporary restraining order against a strike. The vio-
lation of such orders may result in fines and jail
terms. This bill would give unions and employees the
tight to notice and an opportunity to be heard be-
fore the issuance of a temporary restraining order.

4, NO UNION LIABILITY FOR A
STRIKE CAUSED BY AN EMPLOYER
IMPROPER PRACTICE

This bill would prevent the imposition of penalties
upon an employee organization representing em-
ployees in a unit where an improper employer
practice was responsible for a strike.

5. LIVERPOOL

The Liverpool case recently decided by the Court of
Appeals unduly restricts the arbitration of contract
disputes under the Taylor Law. In the field of arbi-
tration there is generally a presumption that the
parties agreed to arbitrate a contractual
difference. This bill would restore the presumption of
arbitrability for N.Y.S. public employees which
disappeared because of Liverpool.

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6. TRIBOROUGH

The New York State Court of Appeals has recently
overruled the Triborough doctrine, which required
that the terms of an expired collective bargaining
agreement be continued until a new agreement is
negotiated. This bill would make it an improper em-
ployer practice to refuse to continue such terms.

7. COURT EMPLOYEES COVER-IN
(GRANDFATHER)

Employees in the Unified Court System represented
by CSEA who are subject to the reclassification
scheme mandated by Chapter 966 of the Laws of
1976 will be granted permanent status in the com-
petitive class if they have performed the duties of
their respective positions for a period of one year
prior to the effective date of this proposal.

8. MILITARY BUY-BACK FOR
VETERANS OF WWII, KOREA
AND VIETNAM

This bill would allow the veterans of WWII, Korea,
and Vietnam to purchase up to three years of credit
in the retirement system for service in those wars.

9. MINIMUM WAGE FOR
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

Public employees are unfairly discriminated against
by the minimum wage provisions of the New York
State Labor Law. This proposal would guarantee
that public employees, like private employees, re-
ceive a guaranteed minimum wage.

40. DELETE EXAMINATION FEES

The Department of Civil Service has recently insti-
tuted a $5.00 examination fee for open-competitive
examinations, which this bill would eliminate for pre-
sent employees of the State and its political sub-
divisions.

44. CONTRACTING OUT FOR THE
PROVISION OF GOODS
AND SERVICES

The decision of a public employer to contract out
for goods and services, in addition to abolishing
public employee jobs, is frequently more expensive
than providing those services directly, particularly in
the long run. This bill would require the State and
local governments to file a financial impact state-
ment prior to signing such a contract.

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, February 13, 1980

42. RETIREE SUPPLEMENTATION

Federal retirees receive cost-of-living ee
based on increases in the Consumer Prite
every six months. By contrast, those retired fror
or local government service receive no aut
cost-of-living increase, and in fact, those who
on or after April 1st, 1970 have received no sib-
tnentation at all, despite the fact that the of
living has almost doubled since 4970. This bill
provide a modest increase for all pre-April 4}
retirees, depending upon the cost-of-living ins
since the date of retirement.

43. $2,000 DEATH BENEFIT

This bill would make State employees who
before September 30th, 1966 eligible for a
benefit in the amount of $2,000. Individuals w-
tired after that date are presently eligible
benefit in the amount of $2,000 or $3,001
pending upon the date of retirement.

44. HEALTH INSURANCE

IN RETIREMENT e;°

retiree who had family coverage in his healt!
ance plan would be allowed to continue suc!
erage after the employee's death, at no mor
25% of the full cost.

This bill would provide that the surviving a

45. EDUCATION LAW PARTY

The Education Law presently encourages thd

tracting out of transportation services by @hot @

tricts by giving private contractors a more fav
state-aid formula. This bill would eliminate
advantage.

46. MEMORIAL DAY

The General Construction Law should be am:
to provide that Memorial Day will be celebrat
the last Monday in May, rather than on the 30f
of May. e

47. PERMANENT AND
MANDATORY AGENCY SHOP

The 1977 Agency Shop legislation, continued}
additional two years during the 1979 legislati
sion would be made both permanent and
datory for both State employees and those
political subdivisions. e

48. REPEAL OF 2 FOR 4

Public employees determined to have been on
strike are fined two days pay for every strike day. This
bill would eliminate the second day's penalty.

419. ARMORY EMPLOYEES

Civilian employees of the Division of Military and
Naval Affairs would become “public employees”
under the Taylor Law, and therefore could organize
and bargain collectively with the State of New York.

20. INDEMNIFICATION IN
POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS

Although Chapter 466 of the laws of 1978 sub-
stantially amended Public Officers Law §17 to pro-
vide a uniform procedure for the defense and in-
demnification of State employees who are sued in
civil courts for acts which arise out of the course of
employment, the change was not extended to em-
ployees of the political subidivisions and other
public entities. This bill would make that procedure
uniform for all public employees.

24. DEPUTY SHERIFFS’ RE-OPENER

This bill would allow sheriffs, under-sheriffs, and reg-
ular deputy sheriffs directly engaged in criminal law
enforcement activities to elect participation in the
retirement plan provided for by Retirement and
Social Security Law §§89-a or 89-b, where such par-
ticipation is presently barred by the failure to make
a timely election.

22. U-GRADES, STATE
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

The Chancellor of the State University presently de-
termines which positions shall be removed from the
classified service and placed in the unclassified ser-
vice. This decision would be returned to the Civil Ser-
vice Commission.

© 23. UNIVERSITY OF

BUFFALO BUY-BACK

This bill would allow State employees who were em-
ployed by the University of Buffalo prior to its acqui-
sition by the State of New York to purchase retire-
ment credits from the New York State Retirement
System for the time of employment by the University,
with electing employees contributing both indivi-
dual and employer contributions together with ap-

ropriate interest.
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this year, but all of us expect that they will be
achieved, With your help and hard work we
can together fulfill that expectation.

Fraternally,

LJ Wie x Sime swan-

William L. McGowan
President

24. SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT
ATTORNEY INVESTIGATORS

This bill would implement a provision in the collec-
tive bargaining agreement between CSEA and the
County of Suffolk allowing investigators to elect the
twenty-year retirement plan.

25. 20-YEAR RETIREMENT PLAN FOR
CORRECTION OFFICERS

This proposal would amend the Retirement and
Social Security Law to provide that correction offi-
cers employed by counties would be eligible to
participate in a 20 year retirement plan.

26. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT FUND
COVERAGE FOR PART TIME AND
SEASONAL EMPLOYEES

This bill would enable seasonal and part time em-
ployees who are now eligible for participation in the
State dental and prescription drug/Major Medical
plans to participate in benefits afforded through an
employee-benefit fund administered by the em-
ployee organization representing the employees,
and is intended to implement an agreement
between CSEA and the State of New York.

27. NON-UNIFORMED
PERSONNEL DEATH BENEFIT

Employees of correctional facilities who have died
as a result of personal injuries sustained in the line of
duty, who are not public safety officers, would be
entitled to a benefit of $50,000.

28. LOBA

The final resolution of an impasse in negotiations
would be resolved with a system of Last Offer Bind-
Ing Arbitration under which a panel consisting of 4
member appointed by the public employer, 4
Member appointed by the employee organization,
and 4 public member appointed jointly, would
select the most reasonable final offer of either the
public employer or the union.

29. NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTY
SNOW DAYS BILL FOR
STATE EMPLOYEES

State employees in the counties of Nassau and Suf-
folk would not be required to charge leave to cover
absences on January 20 and 24, 1978 and Feb-
ruary 6, 7, and 8, 1978.

30. HEIGHT OF BUS SEATS

Transportation Law §142(17) (3-a) would be amend-
ed to require motor vehicles seating 11 passengers
or more, and used in the business of transporting
school children, be equipped with a padded seat
back at least 24 inches in height, rather than 28
inches in height.

Activity
increases
markedly

ALBANY — The level of union ac-
tivity associated with CSEA’s 1980
legislative goals has increased
markedly.

Within the past few days CSEA’s
Legislative and Political Action office
has conducted a series of infor-
mational meetings around the state to
explain the union’s legislative
proposals for 1980. And during this
same brief span of time, CSEA
representatives participated in the
annual legislative breakfast for law-
makers, sponsored by the Public
Employee Conference, of which
CSEA is a key member among the 28-
union coalition.

This was quickly followed by
CSEA’s annual legislative seminar
for union activists. Dozens of union
members from across the state par-
ticipated in the February 2nd
program in Albany. This in turn was
followed by CSEA’s own annual
legislative breakfast for state law-
makers, held on February 6 in
Albany. During that program, CSEA
introduced its 1980 legislative
proposals to the lawmakers, the 30-
point “bread and butter’ package
listed on these pages.

Photos and stories concerning those
and other union activities as CSEA’s
legislative push begins in earnest will
appear in future issues of The Public
Sector.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, February 13, 1980

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Report of
Revision of Constitution and By-Laws
Committee
To the Special Delegates Meeting
Convention Center
Albany, New York
March, 1980

Key: Italics—New Material
Brackets—Removal of Old Material

The Constitution and By-Laws Committee has met
twice since the Annual Delegates Meeting in October, 1979.
The meeting dates were December 4, 1979 and January
15-16, 1980. Because of the limited time available at this
Special Delegates Meeting, the Committee is reporting on
completed work only, and all other amendments will be
reported out at a future meeting.

The following item is presented to the delegates for a
second reading and, if passed, will become part of the
CSEA Constitution:

The following amendment, which would create a new
Article X to the Constitution, is a result of a resolution sub-
mitted to the Committee by Barbara Stack, Ist Vice
President, Local 674. If this amendment passes a second
reading, the present Article X “AMENDMENTS” would
be renumbered to Article XI as noted below.

“ARTICLE X

AFFILIATION AND MERGER

Any affiliation or merger of The Civil Service Employees
Association, Inc. with another organization after approval by
the Board of Directors must be ratified by a majority vote of the
delegate body in order to be effective.”

ARTICLE X — No change — becomes ARTICLE XI.

Explanation: The Committee recommends adoption of
this amendment.

‘The following items are presented to the delegates by the
committee as proposed amendments to the constitution.
The presentation to the delegates at this meeting con-
stitutes a first reading of these amendments.

(1) The following amendments to Article VI, Section 1
and Article VII, Section 1 are the result of a recommen-
dation submitted to the Committee by Sue Buerzinski,
Board of Directors Representative, Mental Hygiene,
Region 5. If these amendments pass a second reading, it
will be necessary to amend Article IV, Section 5(b)3 of the
Constitution as noted below:

“ARTICLE VI

STATE DIVISION

Section 1. STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The
power and authority to transact business relating to state
employees shall, except as provided herein, be vested in a
State Executive Committee. The State Executive Com-
mittee shall consist of the officers of the Association, and
one representative from each State Department. ‘The
Judiciary, the State University, the Waterfront Com-
mission and state public authorities as one unit, shall be
deemed State Departments. The Faculty Student
Associations and Teachers’ Retirement System shall as a
unit be deemed a State Department. In addition to the
foregoing, each State Department with more than 3,000
members as of January 1 in the year of an election, shall for
the term of office beginning the following July, be entitled
to one representative on the State Executive Committee
for each 3,000 members or major fraction thereof. The
State Executive Committee shall elect from its
membership one member to be known as the Chairperson
of the State Executive Committee. The State Executive
Committee may create one or more subcommittees to per-
form such duties as the State Executive Committee shall
delegate, Each department representative shall be elected
by ballot by the members in that person's department in
the manner prescribed in the By-Laws. No person shall be
eligible for nomination unless that person shall have been a
member in good standing of the Association on or before
June Ist of the year preceding the year in which the

‘Se| Constitution and By-Laws

Changes in the Constitution and By-Laws of the Civil Service
Employees Association have a direct effect upon the day-to-day operation
of the union, and therefore upon the membership itself.

Traditionally, the largest block of time devoted at CSEA conventions
is given over to consideration of such changes. This will undoubtedly be
true at the upcoming meeting of the union delegates.

As the official publication of CSEA, ‘The Public Sector’’ has a legal
obligation to publish proposed changes prior to delegate sessions. More

election is held. They shall hold office for a term of two
years or until their successors shall have qualified.
Commencing with the term of office beginning July 1, 1983
and each term thereafter, the term of office shall be three
years. Vacancies in the office of the State Department
representatives including termination of employment with
the Department may be filled for the remainder of the term
by members of the Association employed in such
department at a special election to be called by the Board
of Directors within fourteen days after the first meeting of
the Board subsequent to the time that such vacancies occur
under rules established by the Board. No statewide officer
shail be eligible for nomination to or serve as an elected member
of the State Executive Committee except for the 1981 elections
in which case a member may be a candidate for statewide office
(Region President) and a candidate for member of the State
Executive Committee; however, a member elected to both
ions shall be ineligible to serve in both capacities.”
RTICLE VIL

COUNTY DIVISION

Section 1. COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The power and authority to transact business relating to
employees of the political subdivisions of the state shall, ex-
cept as otherwise provided herein, be vested in a County
Executive Committee which shall consist of the officers of
the Association and one representative from each County
Division Local, and one County Educational Local
Representative from each CSEA Region elected by the
County Educational Local members within each region, In
addition to the foregoing, each County Division Local with
more than 10,000 members as of January 1 in the year of an
election shall, for the term of office beginning the following
July, be entitled to one additional representative. The
County Executive Committee may create one or more sub-
committees to perform such duties as the County Ex-
ecutive Committee shall delegate. The representati ofa
County Local shall be elected by such local for a two-year
term of office to be coincidental with the term of office for
members of the State Executive Committee. Commencing
with the term of office beginning July 1, 1988 and each
term thereafter, the term of office shall be three years. The
County Executive Committee shall elect from its
membership one member to be known as the Chairperson
of the County Executive Committee.
No statewide officer shall be eligible for nomination to or serve
as an elected member of the County Executive Committee ex-
cept for the 1981 elections, in which case a member may be a
candidate for statewide office (Region President) and a can-
didate for member of the County Executive Committee;
however, a member elected to both positions shall be ineligible to
serve in both capacities.”

“ARTICLE IV

ORGANIZATION OF THE ASSOCIATION

Section 5. OFFICERS.

(b) NOMINATIONS.

3. Such election shall be by seeret ballot. The names of
the committee members selected by the various Regions
shall be filed with the Secretary and Executive Director of
the Association not later than January Ist. The
Nominating Committee shall select at least two nominees
for the offices of President, Executive Vice President,
Secretary and Treasurer. The State Division members of
the Nominating Committee shall also select at least two
nominees for each position on the State Executive Com-
mittee. In all eases an incumbent shall be one of said
nominees if the incumbent consents to become a candidate.
No nominee shall be eligible as a candidate for more than
one statewide office. [However, a position on the State Ex-
ecutive Committee or County Executive Committee shall
not be deemed a statewide office.]” REST OF SECTION
REMAINS THE SAME,

Explanation: The Committee concurs with Ms. Bucr-
zinski’s recommendation that no member of the Board of
Directors of CSEA should hold two voting seats. For the
following reasons, the Committee recommends adoption
of these amendments:

(a) CSEA is paying for full-time officers;

(b) It is unlikely that an individual can act effectively in
both a Region President position and as a departmental

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, February 13, 1980

importantly, however, we feel an obligation to the membership to present
such proposed changes for informational rather than legal, purposes.
The membership has a right and a need té know what major changes
are being considered that affect them directly. Therefore, we are
publishing the report of the CSEA Constitution and By-Laws Committee
to the upcoming special delegates meeting March 9, 10 and 11 in order to
(1) meet our legal obligation, and (2) keep the membership informed of
events that are important to them.

representative on the Board of Directors at the same
time;

(c) An individual elected to a Region President position
is not as closely in touch with departmental problems as
is someone working within the department on a daily
basis;

(d) Except for the election in 1981, the timetable for
future elections will be in step to allow an individual to
resign from his or her current position to accept a new of-
fice.

(2) The following proposed amendment to Article VII of
the Constitution was referred to the Committee by the
delegates after having been acted upon affirmatively by
the delegates from the County Division:

“ARTICLE VII

Section 1. COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
‘The power and authority to transact business relating to
employees of the political subdivisions of the state shall, ex-
cept as otherwise provided herein, be vested in a County
Executive Committee which shall consist of the officers of
sociation and one representative from each County
n Local, and one County Educational Local

Representative from each CSEA Region elected by the
County Educational Local members within each region. In
addition to the foregoing, each County Division Local with
more than [10,000] 3,000 members as of January 1 in the
year of an election shall, for the term of office beginning the
following July, be entitled to one additional representative
for each 3,000 members.” REST OF SECTION REMAINS
THE SAME.

The Constitution and By-Laws Committee has explored
all of the potential methods for dealing with the overall
problem which is the focal point of the proposed
amendment. The amendment as proposed would provide
for additional representation on the County Executive
Committee for loc: in the County Division whose
membership is in excess of 4,500 members, Currently, the
Constitution provides for one additional position on the
County Executive Committee for a local which has in ex-
cess of 10,000 members. The proposed amendment would
track a portion of the language set forth in Article VI deal-
ing with election to the State Executive Committee in that
it would provide for multiple representation for each 3,000
members or major fraction thereof assigned to a County
Division local. At first glance, the proposed language seems
equitable in that it equates the formula for representation
on the County Executive Committee from the County

. Division locals with the formula for representation on the
State Executive Committee by State Departments.
The Committee recognizes the apparent inequitable
situation which the amendment, purports to deal with,
namely, the reality that a local in the County Division with
only 100 members is entitled to a representative on the
County Executive Committee, whereas a local with as
y as 20,000 members is entitled to only two represen-
tatives on that committee, However, in analyzing the en-
tire composition of the CSEA Board of Directors through
the composition of the State Executive Committee and
County Executive Committee, the Constitution and By-
Laws Committee seeks to address not only the imbalance
currently existing within the County Executive Committee
the imbalance that currently exists between the
Executive Committee and the State Executive
Committee. Currently, membership records reflect the fact
that the State Executive Committee and the County Ex-
ecutive Committee both haye approximately 90,000 dues
paying members, while the County Executive Committee,
pursuant to existing constitutional language, has 62
members and the State Executive Committee has only 41
members. Since membership on these committees
automatically comprises membership on the Board of
Directors, it is clear that while the two major divisions
within the Association have approximately the same
number of dues paying membet presentation on a major
governing body within the Association is grossly in-
equitable.

In an effort to address both of the inequities referred to,
the Committee met for two days for the sole purpose of
attempting to formulate a solution which would aceom-
modate the needs of both the membership in the County

Division and the membership in the State Division, In ad-
dition to its own analysis, the Committee reviewed reports
of the Methods and Procedures Committee compiled
through the past years relating to the same problem, While
these reports contained some factual information, the
recommendations and findings regarding a restructuring of
the Board were inconclusive. After analyzing the proposed
amendment referred to above, the Committee rejected it
for two primary reasons. First, based upon current
membership records, the amendment would have the effect
of increasing the number of seats on the County Executive
Committee from 62 to 71, thereby increasing the number of
members on the Board of Directors by 9. Increasing the
number of members on the Board of Directors from its
current size would serve no useful purpose and would
create a chaotic type atmosphere. Second, and most im-
portant from the point of view of equity and fairness, the
proposed amendment would widen the’gap between the
number of members on the Board representing the State
and County Executive Committees, a move which the
Committee unanimously rejects in that it would further
erode the voting power of the State Division on the Board
of Directors.

In formulating an amendment which the Committee
believes will be fair and equitable to the membership in
both divisions, the Committee examined three general
areas relating to the composition of members on the Board
of Directors,

1. Utilize a weighted voting system at meetings of the
Board of Directors allowing those members of the Board of
Directors representing a higher proportion of the
membership to cast a corresponding higher number of
yotes on issues before the Board. For example, a State
Department representative or County Local representative
whose membership comprises 3,000 persons would have 30
votes each (one per 100 members), whereas a represen-
tative from a State Department or County Local whose
membership is 200 would have two votes on each issue.
County Locals or State Departments having 15,000
members would correspondingly have 150 votes. After
careful analysis of this proposal, the Committee rejected it
for the reason that it would make meetings of the Board of
Directors unduly long and confusing in that it would
require roll call votes on practically every issue for which a
vote was needed to fairly and accurately determine the ex-
act wishes of the membership's representatives, In ad-
dition, the accuracy of each vote would always be in
question because virtually every member of the Board
would be casting different numbers of votes than every
other member,

2. Initiate a completely new method for electing the
Board of Directors and eliminate the State and County Ex-
ecutive Committees and their roles as members of the
Board. This proposal was one considered by the Methods
and Procedures Committee and published in one of its
recent reports. The proposal contemplates moving the
composition of the Board to a region concept. For example,
the Board of Directors of the Association would be the of-
ficers and/or executive committee of each region. In ad-
dition, some consideration could be given for at-large
representation to reflect the difference of membership
within each region. While this proposal does not contain
the same disadvantages as proposal No. 1, it involves a
complete realignment of the Association, a move which the
Committee feels would not be in the best interest of the
Association. For example, this procedure does not
guarantee a broad based representation from as many
State Departments and County Locals as is feasible
without a drastic change in the method by which Region
Executive Boards and Officers are elected. The Committee
spent a considerable amount of time analyzing various
possibilities within this concept and concluded that there
was no feasible alternative which would allow for orderly
elections based upon a prorated distribution of the
membership in various State Departments and County
Division Locals within each region and throughout the
State. In summary, the Committee felt this approach
would be too drastic and not in the best interests of CSEA,

3. The third general alternative considered by the Com-
mittee and the one ultimately adopted was a realignment
of the existing seats on the Board of Directors. Within this
category, the Committee considered changing formulas for
the election of members for both the County and State Ex-
ecutive Committees, as well as changing the number of
members required by a State Department and a County
Local in order to elect a member to their respective Ex-
ecutive Committees, The Committee concluded that a uni-
versal formula applicable to both the State and County
Executive Committees was inappropriate because of the
distribution of membership and the method of election;
that is, from departments in the State Division and from
Locals within the County Division. The Committee con-
cluded that the current method for election of represen-
tatives to the State Executive Committee is the best
method for electing State Division representatives, It
provides for a broad base of representation and addresses
the needs of the Union in its representation of members
e assigned to various State Departments within the New

York State governmental structure. Having concluded

that this method was appropriate for electing represen-
tatives to the State Executive Committee, the Committee
examined the method of election of representatives to the
County Executive Committee and ways in which this
method could be changed within the two areas of concern,
namely (a) a method which would produce a reduced
number of representatives on the County Executive Com-
miftee to reflect the fact that the total membership
between State and County Divisions is approximately
equal and, therefore, membership on the Board of Direc-
tors through the State and County Executive Committees
should also be approximately equal; and (b) a formula
which would provide for a more equitable distribution of
representatives on the County Executive Committee, tak-
ing into account the number of members within each local.
Within these two constraints, the Committee examined
various formulas and methods for electing representatives
to the County Executive Committee. After weighing the
pros and cons of these methods, the Committee
recommends an amendment to the Constitution as stated
below, which would have the following effect.

The total number of members on the County Executive
Committee would be reduced from 62 to 46, bringing this
number closer to the number of members on the State Ex-
ecutive Committee (41). The method would allow County
Division Locals with 2,000 or more members direct
representation on the County Executive Committee. The
method would allow locals with more than 2,000 members
an additional representative for each 2,000 members or ma-
jor fraction thereof, thereby recognizing the “one man, one
vote’ principle within the County Division, The method
would provide for at-large elections within each region for
those County Division Locals which do not have a
minimum of 2,000 members. This approach more closely
follows representation ii the State Division where a State
Executive Committee member is representative of more
than the local to which he/she is assigned, In formulating
this proposal, the Committee recognized that the negative
aspect of the proposal is that smaller County Division
Locals will no longer have direct representation on the
County Executive Committee, ‘but will have representation
from an at-large election from the region where the local is
assigned. While this Committee recognizes this negative
affect, it recognizes that the overall impact is not as drastic
as it may appear since attendance records for meetings of
the Board of Directors during the past fiscal year (10/1/78
through 9/30/79) indicate that representatives from 14
County Division Locals did not attend any meetings of the
Board of Directors. In most cases, these locals represented
only a small number of members in terms of the overall
membership in the County Division. In- two other cases,
the County Executive Committee representative appeared
at the Board meetings on only one occasion during the
period reviewed and in one other case, the County Ex-
ecutive Committee representative appeared on only two
occasions. Since, on the overwhelming number of occasions
and on a regular basis, 16 of the 62 County Executive Com-
mittee representatives were not present at Board meetings,
the effective representation on the Board by County
Division representatives was 46, which is the exact number
the Committee's proposal will permit if adopted by the
delegates. A few locals, however, whose membership is less
than 2,000 and whose representatives did attend a substan-
tial number of Board meetings will be provided represen-
tation on an at-large basis under the new proposal.

For a better perspective of the effects of the new
proposal, the Committee has prepared the following outline
showing the composition of the County Executive Com-
mittee under the current system, as well as the composition
under the proposed system.

(Based upon membership records as of June 1, 1979)

REGION
CURRENT SYSTEM
PROPOSED SYSTEM

Region 1
Nassau County Local 210
Suffolk County Local 14
Educational Locals 1 Nassau Edue. 1
Suffolk Educ. 2
Total 417

Region 2 Does not apply Does not apply

Region 3

Dutchess County Local
Orange County Local
Putnam County Local
Rockland County Local
Sullivan County Local
Ulster County Local
Westchester County Local
Edueational Locals

At large 3

1
1
1
1
1
1
15
1
rge
8 9

Total

Region 4

Albany County Local 1
Clinton County Local 1
Columbia County Local 1
Essex County Local 1
Fulton County Local 1
Greene County Local 1
Montgomery County Local 1
Rensselaer County Local 1
Saratoga County Local 1
Schenectady County Local 1
Schoharie County Local 1
Warren County Local 1
Washington County Local 1

Educational Locals 1
At large 5
Total 14 6
Region 5
Broome County Local 1
Cayuga County Local 1
Chemung County Local 1
Chenango County Local 1
Cortland County Local 1
Delaware County Local 1
Franklin County Local 1
Herkimer County Local 1
Jefferson County Local 1
Lewis County Local 1
Madison County Local 1
Oneida County Local 1
Onondaga County Local 2
Oswego County Local 1
Otsego County Local 1
St. Lawrence County Local 1
Schuyler County Local 1
Seneca County Local 1
Tioga County Local 1
Tompkins County Local 1
Educational Locals 1
At large 6
Total 21 8
Region 6
Allegany County Loeal 1
Cattaraugus County Local 1
Chautauqua County Local 1
Erie County Local Ve
ienesee County Local 1
Livingston County Local 1
Monroe County Local flea
Niagara County Local 1
Ontario County Local 1
Orleans County Local 1
Steuben County Local 1
Wayne County Local 1
Wyoming County Local 1
Yates County Local 1
Educational Locals Let,
At large 4
Total 15 7

* Educational employees are currently 32 members short of
their own representative. At large number would change
to 3 if Educational Locals acquire their own represen-
tative.

The issue of more equitable representation on the Board
of Directors is one which has plagued the Association for
several years. It is the Committee’s belief that the follow-
ing proposed amendment to the Constitution, supported
by the foregoing analysis and justification, will serve to
eliminate the current inequities in the composition of the
Board of Directors both within the representation on the
County Executive Committee, as well as between the
representation on the County Executive Committee and
the State Executive Committee. The Committee,
therefore, recommends the adoption of the following
proposed amendment.

Delete Article VII, Section 1 as it currently exists.

“ARTICLE VII

Section 1. COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The power and authority to transact business relating to
employees of the political subdivisions of the state shall, except
as otherwise provided herein, be vested in a County Executive
Committee which shall consist of the officers of the Association
and one representative from each County Division Local and
each County Educational Local with 2,000 members, in ad-
dition to the foregoing, each County Division Local and
County Educational Local shall be entitled to a representative
for each additional 2,000 members or major fraction thereof as
of January 1 in the year of an election. Locals from each
Region with less than 2,000 members shall elect a represen-
tative at large for cach 2,000 members or major fraction thereof
based on aggregate figures for that Region as of January 1 in
the year of an election. The County Executive Committee may

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Constitution and By-Laws committee report

(Continued from Page 9)

create one or more subcommittees to perform such duties as the
County Executive Committee shall delegate. The represen-
tatives of a County Local and County Educational Local shall
be elected by such local for a two-year term of office to be coin-
cidental with the term of office for members of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee. The representatives at large shall be elected
by locals with less than 2,000 members on a Regional basis for
a two-year term of office to be coincidental with the term of of-
fice for members of the State Executive Committee, Commenc-
ing with the term of office beginning July 1, 1983 and each
term thereafter, the term of office shall be three years, The
County Executive Committee shall elect from its membership
one member to be known as the Chairperson of the County Ex-
ecutive Committee.”

It should be noted that if the above amendment passes a
second reading, it will be necessary to change Article IV,
Section 2(a) of the Constitution as follows:

“Section 2, BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

(a) Voting Members — The voting members of the
Board of Directors shall be the Officers of the Association,
members of the Executive Committee of the State
Division, members of the Executive Committee of the
County Division [who represent locals having 100 or more
members as of the preceding January first, one additional
member of the County Executive Committee, to be elected
by the members of the County Executive Committee,
representing County Division locals which have
membership of less than 100 on the preceding January
first], the immediate past president of the Association dur-
ing the term or terms of the immediate past president’s
successor provided that such past president shall be a
member of the Association and not a paid employee of the
Association.”

The following items are presented to the delegates by the
committee as proposed amendments to the By-Laws. If
passed at this meeting, the amendments will become effec-
tive immediately.

(1) The following amendment to Article I, Section 6 was
submitted to the Committee by Mr. M. Rea, Region 4
delegate, at the October, 1979 Delegates Meeting:

PROMOTIONAL E

(State Employees Only.)

Filing Ends February 18, 1986
Title
Senior Municipal Research Assistant
Senior U I Hearing Representative ..
Associate U I Hearing Representative

Filing Ends February 19, 1980
Associate Biostatistician

Administrative Analysis Promotion Series M-1 and M-2 .

Director of Administrative Analysis I and II
Principal Administrative Analyst
Supervisor of Administrative a Anan
Associate Statistician
Head Clerk
Head Clerk (Payroll)
Head Clerk (Personnel)
Associate Examiner of Municipal Affairs
Principal Examiner of Municipal Affairs
Associate Aquatic Biologist (Marine) ..
Principal Marine and Wildlife Biologist
Associate Budget Examiner
Associate Budget Examiner (Employee Relations)
Associate Budget Examiner (Management)
Associate Budget Examiner (Public Finance)
Principal Budget Examiner
Principal Budget Examiner (Employee Re! lations).
Principal Budget Examiner (Management)
Principal Budget Examiner (Public Finance)
Assistance Public Buildings Manager
Public Buildings Manager
Principal Clerk (Collection) :
Principal Payroll Audit Clerk ..... 4
Mental Hygiene Therapy Assistant I .
Mental Hygiene Therapy Assistant I .
Supervisor of Vocational Rehabilitation Unit
Administrative Services Manager I .
Administrative Services Manager II .

Filing Ends February 25, 1980
Chief Recreation Therapist ....
Head Recreation Therapist

“ARTICLE I

OFFICERS

Section 6. HONORARIUMS. The Board of Directors
may establish honorariums for each officer of the
Association in an amount to be determined by the Board of
Directors.

Honorariums for the Board of Directors may only be es-
tablished by the delegate body stablishment of any
honorarium or increase in any existing honorarium may not
take effect during the term of office of the incumbent.

The establishment of any honorarium or the increase in any
existing honorarium must be approved by the appropriate body
prior to the beginning of the election procedure for the next
term of office for the position or positions affected. All newly
created honorariums or any changes in honoariums shall be
published in the official paper of the CSEA within thirty (30)
days of the change.”

Explanation: This amendment was referred to the
Committee by the Delegates. The Committee
recommends adoption of the amendment because of the
obvious intent of the language expressed in the
amendment. Honorariums for the paid positions within
the Association should be known in order that individuals
can decide on an informed basis whether or not they wish
to seek election to a particular office. The amendment
would impose no undue burden upon the organization and
would simply require full notice to all when honorariums
aer established or changed.

(2) The following amendment to Article I, which would
create a new section, was sumbitted to the Committee by
James J. Lennon, Region 3 President, at the October, 1979
Delegates Meeting:

“ARTICLE I

OFFICERS

Section 6. The Officers of the Association, President, Ex-
ecutive Vice President, six Vice Presidents who are Region
Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer, shall by virtue of their
office be designated as voting delegates at all meetings of the
Association,”

It should be noted that if this amendment passes, it will
be necessary ‘to renumber the existing Section 6

HONORARIUMS to Section 7.

COMPETITIVE
XAMS

Explanation: The Committee recommends adoption of
this amendment in order to clear up any confusion as to
the rights of the Statewide Officers at Delegates’
meetings.

(3) The following amendment to Article V, which would
create a new section, was submitted as a referral to the
Committee to formulate appropriate language by Joseph
E. McDermott, Region 4 President, at the October, 1978
Delegates Meeting:

“ARTICLE V

EXPULSION OF MEMBERS

Section 4. Any member of the Association who publicizes
through the media a political endorsement in the name of a
unit, local or region of the Association or as an officer thereof
contrary to the endorsements and positions approved by the
Statewide and/or Region Political Action Committees shall be
subject to immediate suspension from membership by the
President of the Association. The procedure outlined in
Section 8 hereof shall be followed within ten (10) days of the
suspension. ’”

Explanation: In order to ensure that endorsements
authorized on behalf of CSEA by the appropriate Political
Action Committee are fully effective, it is necessary to
prohibit individuals who occupy official positions within
CSEA from publicizing contrary endorsements in the
name of CSEA. There is no limit on an individual’s right
to announce his/her own personal endorsement; however,
when the individual identifies himself/herself with CSEA,
the endorsement is misleading to the CSEA membership
and undermines the entire purpose of CSEA’s political
action program, In view of the foregoing, the Committee
recommends adoption of this amendment.
COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF CONSTITUTION AND
BY-LAWS

Mary Ann Bentham, Chairperson
Carol Craig

Nick Dellisanti

Kirk Scott

Raymond J. O'Connor

Marie Romanelli

John Francisco

Nicholas J. Cimino

Amelia Clay

STATE OPEN COMPETITIVE
JOB CALENDAR

FILING ENDS FEBRUARY 25, 1980

‘Tith
Salary Exam No. e

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- $16,420 36-942
$19,210 36-943

+ $21,345 36-429

“$20'300 39-440 (NYC only)

General Research ...
Economic Research
Statistical Research
Research Specialist II (Al

$21,345 36-427
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$13,885 36-963
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Public Buildings Manager
Public Buildings Manager,
Rehabilitation Counselor
Rehabilitation Counselor,
Stockroom worker

Optician ..

Archivist I. .
Archivist II.
Archivist III

Assistant ...........
Recreation Therapist, Chi

Recreation Therapist, Head

Automotive Facilities Inspector
Automotive Facilities Inspector
(Spanish speaking) ...
Canal Structure Operator .
Community Client Services Assistant
Crime Victims Compensation Claims Examiner

Electronic Computer Operator .

Motor Vehicle Referee (Downstate) .
Motor Vehicle Referee (Upstate)

Research Specialist III (Alcoholism)
Research Specialist IV (Alcoholism)

Optometric Technician ........ ah
Evaluation of ‘Training 0 or perience and/or Oral Test

Director for County Services Programs,

Salary Exam No.
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25-169

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25-171
25-172
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icoholism) .

, Assistant

Trainee

Supervisor of Vocational Rehabilitation

25-173

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+» $11,695
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+ + $16,420

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$21,345 39-419

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Mental Hygiene Education Program Coordinator “

-. $16,420
» $21,345

Metro CSEA Local 350 levels charges

managerial

local impotent ..

Labor by CSEA officials.

management personnel
Department of Labor are making a

represent our members.’’
Specifically, Caloumeno says the
local grievance chairman, Michael
Isaacoff, is being continually
harassed and is being prevented
from functioning as he should un-
der the CSEA/State contracts.
CSEA Field Representative Al
Sunmark called the treatment of

union.”

on Jan. 22 when Isaacoff was
presented with a memorandum
from his supervisor, Thea
Maitinsky, which severely limited
his ability to function as grievance
chairman.

The memorandum caused Sun-
mark to file an Improper Practice
against the Department of Labor
with the Public Employment
Relations Board. He called the
policies in the memorandum
violations of the contract.

“I find particularly obnoxious
Maitinsky’s contention that
Isaacoff can only investigate
grievances through the second
step,’’ Sunmark said. The
memorandum reads:

“State policy on employee
organization leave, as set forth in
the Employee Relations Manual,
permits its use for ‘investigation’
of grievances up to the point where
a grievance reaches the
Department-level hearing (under
the old agreement, Step 3; under
the new agreement, (Step 2).’”

Caloumeno says Maitinsky in-
vented a new category of the

‘Stop Arthritis’

NORTH AMITYVILLE — The Long
Island CSEA Region has voted a §1,-
000 advance contribution to help
stimulate CSEA participation in the
annual ‘‘Stop Arthritis’ telethon on
WOR-TV Channel 9, Feb. 16 and 17.

The donation was one of many, in-
cluding $100 gifts by the Suffolk
Educational Local 870 and Pilgrim
Psychiatric Center Local 404, pledged
in advance,

CSEA will be represented on the
telethon by Long Island President
Irving Flaumenbaum, CSEA
President William L. McGowan and

George Caloumeno, President of
Metro Department of Labor CSEA
Local 350, charges that ‘Some
in the

concerted effort to render this
local impotent to properly

Isaacoff ‘‘harassment and in-
terference with the operation of the

The situation reached its height

Management
harassment, interference
alleged against
Department of Labor |

NEW YORK CITY — Charges of
interference,
harassment of union officials and
“a concerted effort to render this
.”’ have been
leveled against the Department of

grievance process — preparation
time — which is not part of the con-
tract. The memorandum reads:

“All other activities in con-
nection with grievances (e.g. con-
sulting with counsel or with the
local president) fall into the
category of ‘preparation time’ for
which employee organization leave
is not authorized.”

Other objectionable parts of the
memorandum include:

e “Employee organization leave
will not be allowed unless it has
been requested and approved in ad-
vance. The only exception will be
an allowance of up to 30 minutes
per day for disposition of brief
telephone inquiries and unsolicited
desk visits,’ the memorandum
reads.

¢ “You will be held accountable
for low productivity not
attributable to approved employee
organization leave ...’’ the
memorandum reads.

The memorandum was presented
to Isaacoff at an informal labor-
management meeting called to
work out the harassment problem
which Isaacoff said has been going
on since early fall 1979.

Instead of attempting to discuss
the problem, the memorandum
was presented. CSEA withdrew
from the meeting after the
memorandum was presented.

“This was the union’s good faith
attempt to solve a problem without
going to an IP. They turned it into a
coercive meeting,” Sunmark said.

Backing Maitinsky and her
memorandum at the meeting were
Unemployment Insurance Appeals
Board Chairman Louis Sitkin and
Fred Purcell and Joseph Kearney
of the Department of Labor Office
of Employee Relations.

“Can you believe they wanted us
to negotiate rights already won at
the bargaining table, such as the
union’s access to employees?’’
Caloumeno asked.

»Caloumeno hopes the ha-
rassment of Isaacoff is the work of
these middle managers and is not
the result of official Department of

telethon

others.

Advanced gifts will be announced,
and additional pledges will be receiv-
ed and recognized on the air. Mr.
Flaumenbaum said CSEA members
may also contact the Long Island
CSEA Regional Office at 740
Broadway, North Amityville, New
York 11701, telephone (518) 691-1170
with pledges for this telethon. CSEA
support has been a key factor in the
growth of the arthritis fund for the
last four years. Flaumenbaum said
the disease is the number-one crippler
of working people,

LOCAL 350 PRESIDENT George Caloumeno.

Labor policy eminating from the
leadership of the department.

A situation on Jan. 24 leads
Caloumeno to believe the
harassment may not be a
department policy.

On that date, Isaacoff and
Michael Manister, both members
of the Brotherhood Committee,
were denied permission to attend a
committee meeting by Maitinsky,
Caloumeno said. He said her denial
was in opposition to department
policy.

Caloumeno said he was forced to
contact the second-ranking com-
missioner in the department,
William O’Toole, to have Isaacoff
and Manister released from work
to attend the committee meeting.

Isaacoff described in part the
harassment he has been subjected
to since October 1979 as follows:

— His residence was watched by
a member of the department’s in-
vestigation section one day when
he was out sick.

—He has been criticized for
producing less work on the job
since becoming grievance chair-
man.

— Management has wanted the
names of persons with whom he
meets, speaks on the telephone and
speaks at his desk.

povene

Department employees.

—A memorandum has been
placed in his file for his so-called
excessive use of the telephone.

— He has heard rumors that his
telephone is going to be removed.

— The essence of a confidential
memorandum he wrote to
Maitinsky was made public.

— On a number of occasions, he
was assigned work at a time when
he had previously scheduled
grievance work. (Isaacoff is one of
approximately 60 employees who
do the same work.)

— Maitinsky refused to speak
with an employee regarding a
potential disciplinary with Isaacoff
present.

Caloumeno said in addition to the
harassment of Isaacoff, another of-
ficial of the local, Grievance
Representative John Gianguercio, |

j

has been harassed and investigated
to the point where he is becoming
reluctant to get involved in |
grievance matters. q

And, Caloumeno further |
charged, the department might be |
applying restrictions selectively ~
since the questioned memorandum |
to Isaacoff apparently has no |
application to another union, PEF, |
which represents some Labor

CSEA Safety Hotline

The Civil Service Employees Assn. has established a toll-tree
800 hotline to receive information relative to unsafe working
conditions and reports on job-related mishaps. If you believe
you know of any unsafe work conditions, please call:

800-342-4824

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oY Sa Ste CARRERE

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Notice: nomination procedure to elect

Delegates to the AFSCME Convention to
be held in Anaheim, California from June 9
to June 13, 1980, will be elected from
members in good standing of CSHA as of
February 1, 1980.

Delegates will be elected on a Regional
basis. Each CSEA Region will elect the
number of delegates to which it is entitled in
accordance with the AFSCME and CSEA
Constitutions. Based on the formula set

delegates to 1980 AFSCME convention

forth in the AFSCME Constitution, the
following number of delegates will be
elected from the six CSEA Regions:

Region 1—56 Region 4—38
Region 2—24 Region 5—35
Region 3—35 Region 6—35

Expenses for the delegates for
transportation and room and board at the
AFSCME Convention will be paid by CSEA.

Nominations Procedure

Any member in good standing as of
February 1, 1980, shall be entitled to
be nominated as a delegate to the
AFSCME Convention. Any member in good
standing as of March 1, 1980 shall be
eligible to nominate delegates to the
AFSCME Convention.

Nominations will be made at a meeting to
be conducted in each Region on Saturday,
March 1, 1980. The meeting will continue
until such time as all those present who
desire to make nominations have been given
the opportunity to do so. f

Persons nominated for delegates from a
particular Region must be members of that
Region and be nominated by members from
that Region.

Persons nominated need not be present at
the nomination meeting.

A qualified member may nominate as
many candidates for delegate as he/she
desires, not to exceed the total number of
delegates to be elected from his/her par-
ticular Region.

To make a nomination, the nominator

must provide the name, address, social
security number, and work location of the
nominee. In order to assist in the nominating
process it would be beneficial if each
nominator presented a list of nominees at
the meeting containing the necessary infor-
mation.

A person who is nominated more than
once may have his/her name appear on the
ballot only once. If nominated as part of a
slate, the nominee’s name will appear on the
ballot as a member of that slate and not
elsewhere.

Each nomination must be seconded by a
qualified member at the time the
nomination is made.

Nominations may be made by slates; that
is, a number of individuals who will appear
on the ballot as running together or under a
particular designation. Persons nominated
by slate will appear on the ballot in-the order
in which they are nominated.

The ballot will provide that individuals
who are running on a slate can be elected in-
dividually, separate and apart from the
slate.

Nomination Meeting Locations

All meetings will be held on March 1, 1980 at
the following locations and times.

— Holiday Inn, Long Island Expressway Exit 565,
Hauppauge, L.I., 10 a.m.
Region If — 9th Regional Armory, 125 West 14th Street at 6th
Avenue, Manhattan, 2 p.m.
Region III — Holiday Inn, Route 17K, Newburgh, 10 a.m.

Region IV — Knights of St. John Hall, Washington Avenue Ex-

tension, Albany, 10 a.m.

Region V — Hotel Syracuse, 500 S. Warren Street, Syracuse,

10 a.m,

Region VI — Holiday Inn, 200 Oak Street, Batavia, 10 a.m.

Elections Procedure

Ballots will be mailed to members
sometime between April 1, 1980 and April 15,
1980,

» In accordance with the AFSCME Con-

stitution, returned ballots will be counted no

re than twenty (20) days after mailing
e.

Nominees will have the opportunity to
campaign from the time they are nominated
until the ballots are counted.

In accord with Federal law, candidates
desiring to mail campaign material may

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utilize the facilities of CSEA, Inc., 33 Elk
Street, Albany, NY for the purposes of label-
ing and mailing. Expenses for these
processes will be borne by the candidate and
paid for in advance.

Ballots will be prepared, mailed and
counted under the supervision of the CSEA
Election Committee.

Candidates or their observers are entitled
to be present during the addressing, stuf-
fing, mailing, pickup and tabulation of the
ballots.

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