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Vol. XXXVI,

». 53 Tuesday, March 23, 1976

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Convention Coverage

See Pages 8&9

Delegates Bite Bullet On Dues Increase

Strike Orange County

GOSHEN—Orange County
employees, armed with sup-
port from fellow Civil Service
Employees Assn. members
from other chapters, began pick-
eting county offices last week
after the union membership ap-
proved strike action.

Braving sub-zero weather con-
ditions, demonstrators marched
at entrances to several county
offices in Goshen in order to
protest the County Legislature's
vote to freeze salaries and to
reduce increments. As the week
progressed, locations in other
cities were added.

Although a temporary re-
straining order has been issued,
the New York State Appellate
Division, Second Department, re-
affirmed the employees right to
peaceful picketing. The right to
strike, of course, is prohibited by
the Taylor Law.

a three-year contract.

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The employees, members of
Orange chapter 836's county
unit, are in the second year of

tion of salary schedules only.
Increments were established
when the contract was signed,
and, as such, were regarded as

‘The pact provides for negotia- CSEA vice-president James Lennon demonstrates solidarity of
statewide union in backing employees on strike against Orange
County. Employees on picket lines were joined last week by
volunteers from numerous other CSEA chapters from through-
out the region and the state. Mr. Lennon heads Southern Region
III, which inctudes the 1,100-member unit.

File A Suit To Block Pension
Fund Buys Of Bail-Out Bonds

ALBANY—As a result of a resolution passed by delegates at the statewide Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn.’ delegates convention in Kiamesha Lake last week, union attorneys
are preparing a lawsuit to block the investment of $450 million in public pension funds in

so-called “moral-obligation bonds"

CBEA’s counsel of Roemer,
Martin and Featherstonhaugh is
opposing @ bill recently passed in
the state legislature which

For Judicial
Reform Among Issues
Pressing Legislature

‘OW that the State budget
has been adopted for the
coming fiscal year, the State
Legislature will have to come
to grips with a wide variety of
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authorized state Comptroller Ar-
thur Levitt, the sole trustee of
the State Employees Retirement
System, to invest the funds in
agency obligations to save the
Housing Finance Agency, the
State Dormitory Authority, the
Medical Care Facilities Pinance
Agency and the Environmental
Facilities Corp.

CSEA lawyers say the bill vio-
lates Article 5, Section 7 of the
New York State Constitution,
also called the “non-impairment
clause." ‘The clause states that
pensions are an employee benefit
which cannot be diminished nor
impaired.

‘The clawe was cited by CSEA
attorneys last year in thelr suc-
cessful effort to stop the invest-
ment of public employee pension
funds in Municipal Assistance
Corp. bonds.

‘The sale of these morul-ob-

intended to bail out several floundering state agencies.

ligation notes is a major part of
the state's spring financing plan.
CSEA contends that the bill re-
cently passed was therefore in-
tended to help the state's fiscal
condition, and not the retire-
ment system's, This, the union
says, is @ violation of the fidu-
clary duty of Mr. Levitt to invest
in bonds which would benefit
the retirement system. The bill
would also impair Mr. Levitt's
discretionary powers to invest in
notes and bonds that he thinks
appropriate. For 15 years, Mr.
Levitt bas been an outspoken
critic of the concept of moral-
obligation bonds.

Finally, the union claims that
the bill conflicts with an “un-
written” law that the comptrol-
ler must diversify his investment
of pension funds.

‘The teachers union has al-

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CSEA Still Cheapest Despite
50-Cent Pay Period Hike

By MARVIN BAXLEY

KIAMESHA LAKE—A fifty-cents per pay period dues
increase was approved by Civil Service Employees Assn. dele-
gates after tumultuous debate that dominated the union's
spring convention here last week.

The vote was a sharp rejection of the union leadership’s
plea for a one-dollar a week dues increase to meet mounting
expenses since the last increase four years ago. The current
dues of $1.75 a pay period has been in effect since October
1972, when it was increased by 25 cents.

The new 50-cent increase will push the dues to $2.25
a pay period, effective as of April 1, The yearly total goes

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Rank And File Voting
On State Pact Terms

ALBANY — Moving swiftly
to implement a decision by
delegates at last week's con-
vention of the Civil Service
Employees’ Assn., the union has
mailed out ballots to its state
employee members, returnable
by March 30, for voting on a
tentative two-year work agree-
ment worked out with state ne-
gotiators.

The proposed pact, which gen-
erally extends the present con-
tract due to expire on March
31, also includes a guarantee of
annual and longevity increments
for two years, & reopening of
negotiations next November for
@ guaranteed pay raise effective
April 1977, layoff protection for
non-competititve and labor class
workers with one year of service
equal to that enjoyed by com-
petitive employees and other sig-
nificant job protection features.

Along with the ballot form
which goes to CSEA members in
all four state negotiating units
represented by the union, is &
complete verbatim copy of the
memorandum of understanding
signed by representatives of
CSEA and state negotiating

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OFFICIAL BALLOT

To Vote On CSEA » State
Tensauie Agreement an Comune! Cosenng
Period Apel 1, 1976 00 March 31.1978

Vote 4s unc of the boars below ta suwept
1 reject tne lentative CSEA » State agree
Ment just segoriated. 4 summary of
‘which i enclosed wich this ballot

Mark X in box to indicate your wou

BALLOTS MUST OE RECHIVED
NO LATER THAN 10 AM. TUESDAY,
MARCH 30, 1976,

Mail Your Ballot Today.

‘This is smaller facsimile of
state contract ratification
ballet, which must be re-
turned by March 30. For cer-
tiffeation purposes, signature
and social security number
must be on back of return
envelope,

Affirm Independence

By ALAN BERNSTEIN

KIAMESHA LAKE—Affili-
ation with another union at
this time was overwhelming-
ly rejected by Civil Service
Employees Assn. delegates last
week,

Although one union, the
American Federation of State,
County und Municipal Employ-
ees, had been actively campaign-
ing for affillation with CSEA by
sending propaganda to rank-

and-file members, there was no
contest when the vote was taken.
The delegates recorded ap-
proximately 92 percent in favor
of retaining CSEA’s independent
status, thereby reducing the
AFSCME claim (that affiliation
would be a major issue at the
convention) to a pipe dream,
The delegate vote, in effect,
reaffirmed the position of the
CBEA expansion committee and
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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Tuesday, March 23, 1976

CSEA Officials Term Kinzel Pla

A ‘Blueprint For Degradation’

By HARRY BERKOWITZ

MANHATTAN—A representative of the Civil Service Employees Assn. was the only
person to offer testimony against the recommendations of the Kinzel pension-reform com-
mission at hearings last week in New York City.

CSEA programs administrator Bernard Ryan was the sole defender of the public em-

Ployees viewpoint after New
York City unions boyeotted the
hearings to protest their opposi-
tion.
Proponents of the Kinzel plan
were primarily officials from
money-starved communities.
These included New York City
Council President Paul O'Dwyer
and Yonkers Mayor Angelo R.
Mantinelli, who testified that the
commission recommendations, if
adopted, would lower initial re-
tirement benefits for civil ser-
vants hired after June 30, 1973.
Mr. Ryan criticized the plan
and called for the extension of
the temporary state pension
rules adopted in 1973 and which
will expire June 30. The state
legislature must pass some kind
of pension law by then,
Leaders of New York City la-
bor unions boycotted the hear-
ings at the World Trade Center
in protest of the plan produced
by the five-member commission,
which is headed by Otto Kinzel
The Kinzel plan would stipu-
late the reduction of a retirees
pension total by one-half of his
social security benefits and a
cost-of-living escalation of up to
3 percent of that total each
year. It also would require em-

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ployees to contribute 3 percent
of each of their salaries to the
pension fund. Those employees
hired before June 30, 1973 would
not be affected by the plan un-
less they decide to switch to it.

Council President O'Dwyer
called the plan “hopeful and re-
freshing” and “a realistic ap-
proach.” He declared that pres-
ent pension formulas “must
come to a grinding halt if we are
to fulfill our obligations to those
who presently belong to them."

He also called for allowing
pensioners to choose representa-
tion on the boards of the pen-
sion systems and for no more
than 7% percent of a pension
fund's money to be invested in
city und state bonds.

Mr. Ryan complained that
when state civil servants voted
for Social Security coverage in a
1956 referendum they were as-
sured it would not be integrated
with their pension plans. As for
the 3 percent contribution re-
quirement under the plan, Mr.
Ryan said his union had won
decreases of employee contribu-
tion requirements in the past in
leu of salary increases.

He called the plan “a blueprint

Otte Kinzel, left, presides over pension hearing last week in New York
City World Trade Center. At right is commission member Harold A.
Conroy.

(Leader photos by Jane Bernstein)

for the long-range degradation
of union members in New York
State.”

Mayor Martinelli said of the
union leaders who boycotted the
hearings, “they have their heads
in the sand because pension re-
form would save jobs.” Saying he
would fight for approval of the
Kinzel plan the mayor chimed
it would save Yonkers taxpayers
$3.3 million over the next ten
years.

State Assemblyman Arman P.
D'Amato (R-Nassau) said the
Kinzel recommendations “don't
go far enough” and suggested
that overtime payment not be
included in computing retire-
ment pensions. He also urged
that employees be given incen-
tives to retire as early as 50. He
said the plan would save Nassau
County $50 million in the next
five years.

Larchmont Mayor Kenneth
Wanderer praised the plan ex-
cept for the 3 percent contribu-
tory requirement which he said
would increase pressure for sal-
ary raises.

State Senator John R. Dunne
(R-Nassau) also lauded the plan.

Mr. Ryan also testified at
hearings held in Albany. Addi-
tional hearings will be held in
Rochseter this week.

At further hearings held in
Albany, business and civic or-
ganization representatives said
pension costs and benefits should
be cut even more than the plan
suggests. But representatives of
The New York State Retired
Teachers and the New York
State Permanent Piremen’s As-
sociation criticized the plan say-
ing it disregards “the human
dignity of working people."

80 Newly Hired
Will Battle Cold

The Community Development
Agency will hire and train 80
people to insulate homes against
cold weather in 26 poverty
neighborhoods.

Funded by a $1 million federal
grant, the year-long experimen-
tal program will involve replacing
windows, caulking, weatherstrip-
ping, wrapping steam pipes and
sealing roofs and skylights in
selected low-income apartment
buildings and buildings in re-
ceivership.

Operation Open Cities, Inc., an
arm of the CDA, will employ a
supervisor, senior and junior han-
dymen and clerks at salaries from
$6,150-$8,500 a year.

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n Suffolk Postpones Vote

Private Firm

To Provide School Guards

HAUPPAUGE—After hearing from irate Civil Service
Employees Assn. leaders last week, the Suffolk County Legis-
lature public safety committee decided to delay voting on
a resolution to hire a private agency to provide school cross-

ing guards until It verifies a po-
lice proposal that pegs the cost
of the county guards at $12 an
hour.

The CSEA leaders were angered
because the committee voted on
Feb. 19 — after receiving thou-
sands of signatures on petitions
supporting the present system —
not to change the crossing guard
system. Despite the public outcry
and the committee's vote, County
Executive John V. Klein submit-
ted the resolution to the com-
mittee for the April 13 meeting
of the County Legislature that
would convert the county to a
private guard system.

Lillian Tully, president of the
CSEA crossing guard unit, and
William Griffin, field representa-
tive appearing for James Corbin,
Suffolk County chapter president,
challenged figures from the po-
lice report that estimated a cost
of $12 an hour to the county —
including wages and fringe bene-
fits—for each crossing guard.

The police report included a
proposal from a private firm, the
Wackenhut Corp., which claims
it could provide guard service to
the county for $4.25 per hour,

In testimony before the com-
mittee, Mr. Griffin said that the
average hourly wage of the cross-
ing guard is less than $4 per
hour and that fringe benefits do
not exceed 30 percent of wages.

“That doesn't add up to $12 an
hour,” he said, “and keep in mind

Ex-Firemen

The transit system {s hiring
100 laid-off firefighters to operate
buses in Manhattan and the
Bronx.

‘The unusual move follows the
recent hiring of 72 laid-off tran-
sit policemen as bus operators
in the other boroughs and 139
more as token booth clerks. The
rest of the 294 transit police
laid off last July either didn’t
apply for the openings or are
waiting for more bus openings.

Recent Civil Service Commis-
sion rulings have made all the
juggling of jobs possible. The
commission says transit police
and fire preferred lists can be
used to fill openings in the other
areas. Those taking the jobs still
remain on the old preferred lists,
however, and will be eligible for
their old jobs when the city starts
rehiring. More such moves are

that the average crossing guard
must show up for work three
times a day; in the morning, at
noon and in the afternoons. This
averages six trips a day for part-
time jobs.”

Ms. Tully cited a case of one
crossing guard who travels 44
miles a day and pays $15 a week
for gas.

“You talk about a four-and-
a-half-hour day. We don’t pres-
sure the county into paying us
for the hours we really put on
the job,” she said.

In a prepared statement Mr.
Corbin said, “We ask that the
committee throughly check the
figures that the police depart-
ment {s using and for your sup-
port in opposing the passage of
the resolution to convert the
county to the contractual sys-
tem.”

Committee Chairman Joseph
F. Bassano moved to have the
Legislature's budget analyst check
the police department figures and
ruled to delay voting on the
resolution until the figures are
verified and CSEA is allowed to
rebut and defend its own position
that the figures are inflated.

‘The issue arose when Mr, Klein
asked Police Commissioner Eu-
gene Kelly last year to trim $1.5
million from his 1976 budget and
Mr. Kelly suggested the change
in the crossing guard system and
the hiring of additional police.

In Bus Jobs.

possible, a Transit Authority
spokesman said.

Laid-of city police officers will
reportedly also be hired for bus
driver openings, in proportion to
the laid-off firefighters, but not
until the police prefereed list ts
straightened out.

“Until we know whether 205
People are coming back under
federal funds, we don't know
who's first on the list,” explained
Sam Demilia, second vice-presi-
dent of the Patrolmen's Benevo-
lent Association,

‘The city is expecting a ruling
by April 1 on whether Law En-
forcement Assistance Administra-
tion funds can be used to retain
police officers rather than re-
hire more temporarily, The rul-
ing had been expected March 15
but the deadline was extended

SS Report Due April 15

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Per-
sons under age 172 who
earned more than $2,520 and
received one or more month-

by people who received monthly
social security payments, as well
‘as how much they expect to earn
this year,

Information and eaynings re-
port forms are available from
local social security offices.

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER

ALL FOR ONE — Representing the diverse local

Martin Koenig,

Monroe,

and William Sohi,

Fulton.

Everett Remington, Orange;

John Mauro, Rockland;

government entities in their counties, members of the
Civil Service Employees Assn.’s County Executive Com-
mittee link hands in a show of unity at their meeting
last month. The County Executive Committee, together
with the State Executive Committee and the statewide
officers, form the CSEA Board of Directors. From left,
in front of table, are Raymond Cassidy, Westchester;

Seated behind table are, from left, Geraldine McGraw,
Cattaraugus; Marjorie Coggeshall, Cayuga; Donald
Maloney, Chauttauqua; Maureen Malone, Madison; Jo-
seph Lazarony, Rensselaer, and CSEA vice-president
Irving Flaumenbaum, Nassau. Standing, from left, are
Frances Bessett, Clinton; Carmine DiBattista, West-
chester; Mary Battista, Broome; Ellis Adams, Dutchess;

Ralph Natale, Nassau; Nancy Roark, Chemung; Coun-
ty Division chairman Salvatore Mogavero; Erie; Clayre
Liammari, Schuyler; Eugene Nicolella, Schenectady, and
CSEA assistant executive director-counties Joseph Dolan.
The Committee meets monthly to discuss matters of
concern to employees of local government units such
as school districts, municipalities and social services.

A CSEA Strike Is Called In Orange County

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conditions of the contract’s rati-
fication last year.

Negotiations for the current
year had reached impasse earlier
this year, and gone to fact-find-
ing. Recommendation of the
fact-finder was for a 4 percent
salary boost.

County Executive Louis Mills
rejected the pay raise, but the
Legislature went even further by
voting to reduce increments in
violation of contract terms.

Increments have been reduced
to $65 by the Legislature. Under
terms of the violated contract,
@ first-step employee at Grade
1 should receive a $395 incre-
ment, while an employee at
Grade 23 would be due a $2,230
increase.

In fact, two separate incre-
ment schedules were set up by
the Legislature: one for current
employees and the other for
those hired after Jan. 1 of this
year.

Since most of the grades have
nine steps over @ seven-year pe-
riod, there would be two separate
pay scales for the same work.
Current employees can be pre-
sumed to already be at different

step levels, so it would seem that,
in fact, there would be 10 dif-
ferent salary variations for the
same grade at the same step.

Since increments are figured
on a quarterly basis, the mathe-
matical variations appear to be
in the hundreds, a situation that
almost defies the principle of
equal pay for equal work.

‘The strike vote was taken at

& mass membership meeting,
with local newspaper accounts
reporting participation by 700
employees,

CSEA’s position was stated by
staff negotiator Emanuele Vitale,
unit negotiating team chairman
Glen Erikson, vice chairman
Charles Dassori, unit president
Carol Dubovick, vice-president
Everett Remington, treasurer

Albany Region Endorses Library Program

ALBANY—Albany Region IV, Civil Service Employees
Assn., again announced support of the New York Library
Assn.’s legislative proposals for 1976 encompassed in Senate
Bil! $3587B and Assembly Bill A4595B sponsored by Senator

John J. Marchi
Manhattan),
(D-Nassau) .

Mary Leggett of the Region's
political committee explained the
situation that libraries of New
York State are facing in the
Legislature.

“We've tried — how we have
tried!—to pare system expenses
as far as it 4s consonant with
good library service. But there is
& point of no return, Something
has to give, and it is the people

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(R-Richmond,
and Irwin Landes

CHECKING THE SCHEDULE — civit service Employees
Assn, director of education Edward Diamond, left, reviews the
schedule of events for the Schenectady Educational Secretaries Assn.
chapter with Connie Colangelo, unit president, and Joseph E.
McDermott, Albany Region IV, president,

Harry Gass, team members Ger-
trude MeNally, Esther Arvanites
and Marion Drake.

At rally March 16, subpoenas
were served on Ms. Dubovick and
Mr. Vitale. CSEA statewide pres-
ident Theodore C. Wenzl was
also served while at the Dele-
gates Meeting at the Concord,
in neighboring Sullivan County.

Protest demonstrations began
peacefully on March 17, with lo-
cal members joined in their
marching by statewide CSEA of-
ficers and members of other
county and state chapters.

Among the marchers were
CSEA executive vice-president
William McGowan, vice-presi-

dents Irving
James Lennon Peeve aed to Lat-
timer, treasurer Jack Gallagher
and County Division chairman
Salvatore Mogavero.

Chapters with volunteer
marehers included Suffolk, Suf-
folk Educational, Westchester,
Rockland, Dutchess, Ulster,
Rensselaer, Essex, Oswego, Cat-
taraugus, Erie Educational,
Oneida, Buffalo Psychiatric,
South Beach, General Services,
‘Tax and Finance and SUNY at
Stony Brook. There were un-
doubtedly others,

In addition, support was given
by many members of the CSEA
staff.

field staff.

ED TO PERFORM?

FUNCTIONS?

ASK MEMBERS’ VIEWS ON SERVICES
PROVIDED BY CSEA FIELD STAFF

ALBANY—The Civil Service Employees Assn.'s ad hoc committee studying
field services is appealing to the membership of CSEA to respond to the following
questions regarding the quality and availability of services delivered by the unit

WHAT SERVICES DOES CSEA's FIELD STAFF PRESENTLY PRO-
VIDE IN YOUR REGION, AND WHAT FUNCTIONS ARE THEY EXPECT-

AT PRESENT, IS THERE SUFFICENT STAFF TO FULFILL THOSE

WHAT SERVICES SHOULD THE FIELD STAFF PROVIDE THAT

IT IS PRESENTLY NOT PROVIDING?

WOULD ADDITIONAL STAFF BE NEEDED TO CARRY OUT THESE
ADDITIONAL DUTIES?

WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS OR SUGGESTIONS DO YOU HAVE
FOR IMPROVING THE LEVEL OF FIELD SERVICES IN YOUR REGION?

Committee chairman Martin Langer asks that all members send their re-
sponses to him ¢/o CSEA 33 Elk St,, Albany, N. Y. 12207, by April 5. Responses
may also be sent to any of the other committee members, They are: Andrew Pla-
ci'o, 601 Loew Bidg., Syracuse, N.Y. 13202; Genarro Fischetti, 42 Rose Ct., Staten Is-
land; Ramona Gallagher, 46 Raintree Island, Tonawanda, N.Y, 14150; Thomas De-
vanny, 31 Iroquois Lane, Commack, LJ, 11755; or Anne Kearney, 57 Oakwood St.,
Albany, N.Y. 12208.

The same questions are being asked of CSEA administration and stoff, Mr.
Langer said. He stressed that the April 5 deadline is final,

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Guidelines Are Given For Public
Sector Worker Political Activity

By ALAN BERNSTEIN

MANHATTAN—Federal, state and city employees wishing to participate in the 1976
election should take a closer look at the laws before going ahead in the political activity.
There are restrictions for workers in the three types of government service.

The strictest politicking laws on public employees apply to federal workers who fall

under the Hatch Act, State and
municipal employees, who work
for federally funded programs, for
the most part also must adhere
to the act which took effect in
1939. For other state and city
workers there are special laws
that apply to only a small por-
tion of employees.

‘The Hatch Act, which tough-
ened the Civil Service Act of
1883, provides that federal civil
servants cannot render political
service, take an active part in
political management or in poli-
tical campaigns.

However, Hatch Act liberaliza-
tion legislation was passed by the
Senate March 12, but is expected
to be vetoed by President Ford.

‘The legislation would continue
to forbid federal workers from
engaging in partisan political ac-
tivities on duty. But Presidential
and Vice-Presidential staffs
would be exempt from the pro-
hibition.

A spokesman for the Civil Serv-
ice Commission said the laws
“have an effect of insulating the
federal employee against the in-
fluence of political considerations
that might damage his job ten-
ure. It's protection against poli-
tical reprisals, which was the
system under the spoils system,
because they eliminate grounds
Federal civil servants may:

® Join a political party or
club.

but not initiate or canvass for
them.

Among the activities which
federal, or state and municipal
employees under federal grants,
cannot participate in are:

® Working at the polls on be-
half of a partisan candidate or
political party by acting as a
checker, challenger or watcher.

The restrictions apply to fed-
eral workers in the executive
braneh, whether they are in com-
petitive or exempt service, full
or part-time. A few exceptions
@re made, including employees
paid from the appropriation for
the office of the President, heads
and assistant heads of the execu-
tive or military departments and
officials determining national
policy and who are appointed by
the President and subject to Sen-
ate confirmation,

Penalties for violations of pol-
iticking laws range from sus-
pension without pay for 30 days
to job dismissal. The federal Civil
Service Commission, which en-
forces the employee restrictions,
investigates and holds hearings
into violations, If removed, an

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in any post the salary of which
is paid from the same appropria-
tion as removed job.

of Civil Service law, prevents lo-
cal commissioners from being in-
volved in the political process.

“There is no prohibition on
political activity for other state
workers,” said Joe Healey, an
attorney for the State Civil Serv-
foe Department. “They can do
whatever they wish as long as
it doesn't interfere with the day-
to-day routine of their work.”

State workers, however, who
decide to seek a partisan elec-
tive office, must obtain a leave
of absence from their job ac-
cording to Mr. Healey. If they
are elected they must resign their
post.

“Our rules are not as strict as
the federal rules,” he said.

For municipal workers in New
York City, political restrictions
apply only to police officers, fire-
fighters and employees of the
Personnel Department. Otherwise,

Under sections of the city's
charter, police officers are pro-
hibited from joining a political
organization and may not en-
gage in political activity. ‘Those
seeking office have 10 days to re-
sign from their post or the resig-
nation will take place automa-
tieally. Pirefighters are covered
by the same rule

Section 819 of the City Chart-
er prohibits Personnel Depart-
ment employees from holding of-
fice or serving on a committee
of & political organization or as
delegates to a political conven-
tion. Employees violating the
statute are subject to dismissal.

Under the Hatch Act amend-
ment of January 1975, city em-
ployees in federally funded agen-
cles are permitted to participate
in political activity as private
citizens only, However, they can-
not engage in on-the-job finan-
cial solicitation.

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Office of Vocational Rehabilite- tat. an oral test scheduled for
tion in Albany.
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perience in rehabilitation facili- tional information may be ob- @
ties operations, including four tained from the State Civil Ser-
years’ responsibility for the di- vice Department, Two World
rection or administration of a ‘Trade Center, Manhattan; State
major rehabilitation facility. A Office Building Campus, Albany;
master’s degree in a related field or Suite 750, 1 West Genesee
may be substituted for one year Street, Buffalo.
Federal a
Job Calendar
Detailed announcements and applications be obtained by
visiting the federal job information center of the U.S. Civil Service
Commission, New York City Region, at 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan;
271 Cadman Plaza East, ; 590 Grand Concourse, Bronx; or
90-04 16st Street, Jamaica, Queens. ye
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Computer Operator and
Computer Technician aie GS-5 to 7 NS4-15
Engineering And Scientific
neering, Physical Sclences end e
‘elated Professions GS-5 to 15 424
Meteorological Technician GS-4 to 9 NY-843
Technical A\ GS-2, 3 NY-0-22
Technical Assistant GS-5 to 15 421
General
Freight Rate S; GS-7, 9 WA+-13
Junior Federal Assistant GS4 4
Mid-Level Positions GS-9 to 12 413
Professional and Career Exam GS-5 to 7
Sales Store Checker 6S3 NY-3-07 e
Senior Level Positions GS-13-15 408
Technical Assistant GS4, 5 NY-5.07
Telephone Operator GS.3, 4 NY-5-01
Telotypist “ne @S3 to 5 NY-4.02
Medical
Autopsy Assistant ae a NY-9-05
Careers In Therap; GS-6 to 9 WA-8-03
Dental Hygienist, Dental Lab Technician ..GS-5 to 7 NY-5-09
Licensed Practical Nurse GS-3 to § NY-5-06
Medical Machine Technician GS-5 to 8 NY-3-02
Medical Radiology Technician GS-5, 6 NY-0-25 e
Medical Technician GS-5 to7 NY-3-01
lursing Assistant i 2 om
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Physician's Assistant GS-7 to II 428
Veterinarian Trainee GS-5 to 17 WA.0-07
Military
Air Reserve Technician (Administrative
Clerical/Technical) GS-5 to 15 AT-0-59
Army Reserve Technician GS-4 to NY-9-26
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Social And Education
Professional Careers for Librarians GS-7 to 12 422
Psychologist . GS-11, 12 WA-9-13
Recreational Therapist GS-5 to 7 NY-5-09
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Seek Secretary, Printer, Teacher, Others

MANHATTAN — The fol-
lowing is a simulated radio
broadcast by the New York
State Department of Labor’s

ANNOUNCER: Are you looking
for work? If so, you will want to
check these openings listed with
the New York State Employment
Service. Make a note of the num-
ber to call if a job interests you.
If the position is in New York
City call (212) 488-7220. For jobs
outside of New York City in
nearby New York communities,
consult the Nassau and West-
chester telephone directories.
Look under New York State De-
partment of Labor—Job Bank.

If you find that today’s open-
ings aren't suitable for you keep
in mind that there are many
other kinds of work available at
our New York State Employment
Service Offices. And remember,
there is never a fee to you or
to the employer who lists his
job with us, Now the listing.

SPEAKER 1. An AUTO BODY
REPAIRER is needed in Queens.
‘Will straighten frames; do filing,

2, In Brooklyn, there's an
opening for a FLEXO-PRESS OP-
ERATOR experienced on labels
and tags. The employer is of-
fering $175 a week but will pay
up to $200 to someone experi-
enced on pressure tape.

3. There's also a position avail-
able for an EXECUTIVE SEC-
RETARY to the director of a
non-profit agency in Manhattan.
There's considerable typing in-
volved and applicant must type
55 words a minute with accuracy.
It’s a pressure job with empha-
sis on administrative work. Some
college is preferred, along with
two-five years of actual experi-
ence, and the salary is $200 a
week.

4. Also in Manhattan, an em-
ployer is looking for PHOTO-
GRAPH PRINTERS. Applicants
‘must have experience with 35
millimeter slide duplicator. Can
work day or evening shift. The
pay is $160 a week.

5, A manufacturer of women's
sportswear in Queens is calling

IRS, In A Switch, Wants
To Give Some Cash Back

MANHATTAN — The Internal Revenue Service office
here announced that $1.67 million, representing 7,038 refund
checks for 1974, have not been claimed by residents or former
residents in Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island plus West-

‘The undelivered checks, rang-

refund ts believed due, the type
of tax return filed, the social
security or employer identifica-
tion number, other pertinent in-
formation needed to verify the
claim. After proper identifica~
tion has been established, a new
check will be issued and mailed
to the taxpayer.

In addition to the thousands
of undelivered checks for 1974
which the IRS ts seeking to dis-
tribute, there are also a number
of unclaimed refunds for prior
tax years. Persons who have
reason to believe that they mre
due refunds for prior years
should contact the IRS office
where the return was filed, giv-
ing full information necessary to
establish their claim.

Four Are Given Top Prize
For February's $ Savers

ALBANY—Fourteen state employees won a total of $635
in cash awards in February for money-saving ideas submit-
ted to the New York State Employees Suggestion Pro-
gram. The program is administered by the State Department

of Civil Service, Estimated finst-

bany, and Mary A. Fero, Water-
ford, both Tax and Finance, and

$35—Joint award to Albert J.
Beauregard, Cohoes, and Samuel
B. Welssman, Amsterdam, both
Tax and Finance.

$25—Sylvia M. D'Alberto, Me-

surance Department; Jeremiah
J. Minthane, Latham, and Jos-
eph A. Gramza, North Tonawan-
da, both division of State Police;
Anthony M. DiNuzzo, Watervliet;
Joy Heckeler, Albany, and Lynn
Kidalowski, Green Island, all
employees of the Department of
‘Taxation and Finance.

Cash award winners also re-
ceive certificates of merit. Certi-
ficates of merit were awarded to
Leonard FPichtenbaum, Staten
Island; Dorothy L. Greenfield,
Flushing, and Carol Benn, Ra-
vena, all Tax and Pinance; and
Gerald O. Snyder, Baldwinsville,

for a SEWING MACHINE OP-
ERATOR who can operate a sin-
gle needle machine. The job is
Piece work and pay should aver-
age about $110 a week.

6. There's an opportunity for
an ADULT EDUCATION TEACH-
ER with a community organiza-
tion in Manhattan. Will teach
math to high school equivalency
students. A college degree is re-
quired plus at least three years’
experience teaching math. It’s
an 18-hour work week and pays
$10 an hour.

7. A Long Island firm ts of-
fering @ good beginning position
for a MANAGER TRAINEE. Will
begin by doing sales and then
be trained to manage personnel
selling housewares to newlyweds.
Applicant must have supervisory
ability; be able to drive. High
school graduation is also required
for this position paying $600 a
month.

8. Elsewhere on Long Island,
there's a job waiting for a MAIN-
‘TENANCE MECHANIC on textile

ASREROFF NAMED

ALBANY—Michael J. Asheroff,
4 career civil servant, will become
deputy general manager of the
Long Island State Park and Rec-
reation Commission Apri 1. Ash-
eroff is presently director of
manpower management of the
Office of Parks and Recreation
in Albany, a positon he has held
since December 1973.

He joined State service in 1966
@5 a senior personnel examiner
and in 1968 he became a re-
search analyst for the New York
State Office for the Aging. From
Aug. 1, 1968, until December
1973, he was the director of per-
sonnel for the New York State
Identificaiton and Intelligence
System. His position carries a
salary line of $29,671 per annum.

should have one-two years of
experience; a pharmaceutical
background is acceptable. Will
work in most parts of the City
and a car will be needed. This
position pays $10,000 a year.

10. A manufacturer of rain-
coats in Manhattan is trying to
locate a full-charge BOOKKEEP-
ER who can do general ledger.
Keep books for five employees.
‘Typing is not required. The em-
ployer is asking for someone with
two-five years of experience and
will pay $180 for a 35-hour week.
He'll also consider a part-timer
on @ shorter work day or week.

11. Over in Queens, a manu-
facturer of paper bags is seeking
an all-around MACHINIST who
can set up lathes, milling ma-
chines and drill presses, Must be
able to read blueprints, micro-
meters and calipers. Five years
experience is needed for this job
paying $5.45 an hour.

12. Also in demand is a HOTEL
MANAGER who is familar with
all aspects of the operation of a
small hotel. Must have good ref-
erences, The salary is $250 a week
plus an arrangement for a share
of the profits. The hote! is lo-
cated in Manhattan.

13. Checking Westchester now,
there’s a call for a MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGIST with a BS or
MS in this specialty and two-
four years of on-the-job experi-
ence. Will work on blood banking

Applicant must have a BS in
electronic engineering and one
to three years of experience. Will
work on analog circuits for elec-
tronic instruments, Salary: $12,-
000 a year.

15. A Manhattan manufacturer
of better-priced street dresses is
recruiting for an ASSISTANT
DESIGNER with at least five
years' experience. Will cut for
two-three sample hands. The po-
sition pays $275 a week.

ANNOUNCER: The phone
number again for New York City
Jobs is (212) 488-7330. For the
Jobs we've noted outside the city,
check the Nassau and Westchester
telephone directories. Look for
the Job Bank listing under New
York State Department of Labor.

Six New York City firefighters

163, Firefighter Krebbs received
the highest rating in the class.

CURLEY APPOINTED
ALBANY — State Commerce
Commissioner John 8. Dyson an-
nounced appointment of Michael
Surley, of Buffalo, as deputy
commissioner and counsel of the

State Commerce Department.

State Sets Five Promos

ALBANY —The State De-
partment of Civil Service is
accepting applications until
April 12 for promotional ex-
ams of engineering technician,

ties and performing arts educa-
tion. Tests for all posts will be
held in May.

with a year’s experience in an
engineering or drafting position
allocated to G-11 or higher may
apply for principal engineering
technician (conservation), exam
35-921 or principal engineering
technician (stream improve-
ment), exam 35-923. Former en-
gineers or draftsmen on @ pre-
ferred list may also apply.

For section maintenance sup-
ervisor, exam 35-940, candidates
must be @ section maintenance
foreman or bridge maintenance
foreman with the State Thruway
Authority for at least one year.
‘The written test will cover areas
such as equipment and materials
used for reconstruction, supervi-
sion and scheduling work.

A year’s experience as a park-
way foreman in the East Hudson

Department with @ year's experi-
ence as bureau chief with the Of-
fice for Education of Children
with Handicapping Conditions,
may apply for director, division
supervision education of handi-
capped children, exam 39-135.
Candidates will be rated on the
basis of an oral exam,

Por supervisor of humanities
and performing arts education,
exam 239-136, applicants must be
Education Department employees

with @ year's service as associate
in performing arts education or
associate in music education.

Applications and information
are available at department per-
sonnel or business offices, or from
the State Department of Civil
Service: State Office Building

Trade Center, Manhattan; or
Suite 750; 1 West Genesee 8t.,
Buffalo.

Nassau County Has Clerk,
Fireman, Engineer Posts

MINEOLA—Applications are being accepted until March
26 for open-competitive positions as senior account clerks,
control clerks, stationary engineers and stationary firemen

OL6T “St PAP “Mepsony “WIGVAT AOTAUAS WAD
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Double-Edged Sword

6647 OU SHOULD feel right at home here,” Civil Service

Employees Assn. president Theodore C. Wenzi said
when he introduced Assemblyman Andrew Stein to delegates
at the union’s convention last week.

The point of Dr. Wenzl’s remark is that Mr. Stein had
just left the grueling budget debate in the Legislature and
was to address the delegates right after they had finished
their tumultuous battle over a dues increase.

The plight of both CSEA and the state is basically the
same: the need to finance soaring expenses for operation.

Ironically, their dilemmas are also intertwined since,
as everyone knows, the state is trying to hold the line on
costs by delaying salary increases for state employees, who
are irate because of the wage situation.

Indeed, one of the principal arguments against the dues
increase—made by state delegate after state delegate during
the stormy debate—was the anger they would incur from
their members by asking for a dues Increase on one hand,
while offering for approval a contract proposal without
salary improvements. (The agreement does renew incre-
ments, however, and promises a definte wage increase next
year, as well as important job security guarantees.)

It must have been especially frustrating to the chair-
men of the four negotiating teams when they faced delegates
in their respective units to defend their actions and the
action of their elected committees—all fellow workers who
luad, without remuneration, gone through the grinding ne-
gotiation process.

‘The people who work directly with the four negotiating
team chairmen, Robert Lattimer, for PST; Ed McGreevey,
Operational; Thomas McDonough, Administrative, and
James Moore, Institutional, know the dedication with which
these men have fought for their members. They were elected
to the chairmanships because of the high regard in which
they are held.

Now the membership will make the final determination
on the acceptability of the contract proposals, and many of
those people who vote will damn the negotiators who put
their blood, sweat and tears into reaching the understand-
ing.

Hercoert Tynes
Clty Editer

Alan Bernstein
Feeteres Editor

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1976

For many of those voting, it may be the only union
activity in which they ever participate.

But that, too, is what democracy is all about. After all,
everyone cannot be a leader, and it is very important for the
rank and file to register their approval or disapproval of
their leaders’ actions by exercising the right to vote.

We hope that every member will take advantage of this
opportunity to vote, since the results will determine the
future course of action, whether"it be acceptance, an imposed
settlement as last yelr or an eventual strike.

Any organization, including the state's largest public
employees union, is only as strong as its membership is
prepared to be.

| Questions & Answers

Q. I was told that if I apply for
supplemental security income the
things | own may make me in-
eligible, even though I don't have
any money coming in to speak of.
ts this true?

A. Possibly. But you should

check with your social security
office and let them determine if
your countable resources exceed
the limit. If you exceed the limit
by @ small amount you may still
qualify for payments if you agree
to sell the excess resources with-
in & specified period of time,

(Continued from Page 1)

state and local problems that de-
mand resolution before the Leg-

eral election in November,

Must Face Problems

On the other hand the mem-
bers realize that they cannot
sweep away all problems under
the rug and let things drift until
the next session of the new Leg-
islature next January,

Among the move pressing is-
sues before the Legislature is the
matter of judicial reform and
the urgent need to take affirma-
tive action to improve the op-
erations of our criminal justice
system. These issues will bring
to stage center In Albany Sena-
tor Bernard G. Gordon, Repub-
lican of Westchester County,
and Assemblyman John 8. Thorp,
Jr, Democrat of Nassau County,
who serve respectively as chair-
man of the Senate and Assembly
Committee on the Judiciary.

Both Senator Gordon and As-
semblyman Thorp are lawyers,
who have had broad experience
from both a legislative and prac-
tical point of view with prob-
lems of court administration.
Senator Gordon was first elected
to the Assembly in 1960 and then
to the Senate in 1964. Assembly-
man Thorp began his service in
the Assembly with the legislative
session that convened in 1965.

Both legislators are respected
by their colleagues for their
ability, integrity, and for their
dedication to their legislative re-
sponsibilities. Each of them has
devoted substantial time to prob-
lems of judicial reform.

Judicial Cutbacks

Both Chief Judge Charles D.
Breitel, State Administrative
Judge Richard J. Bartelett, and
the Presiding Justices of the Ap-
pellate Divisions, as well as the
other Administrative Judges,
have done an exemplary job in
modernizing and improving our
judicial system. However, what
makes the problems so critical
for the Legislature is how much
more needs to be done, in view
of the fiscal crisis that confronts
our state and so many of our
counties und municipalities.

Part of the retrenchment pro-
gram put into effect by the City
of New York, for example, in-
volved the forced retirement of
@ number of Supreme Court Jus-
tices who reached their seven-
tleth birthday, although the
practice had been to continue
the services of such Justices for
an additional six years, Vacan-
cles that have oceurred In some
of the lower courts are not being
filled for reasons of municipal
economy. In addition, many
judges and a number of courts
have been deprived of law sec-
revaries and clerical assistance, a
cireumstance which necessarily
impairs judicial productivity,

In addition, from the point of
view of the administration of
criminal justice, there have been
sharp cuts in the budgets of the

(Continued on Page 10)

Mr. Gaba is @ member of the firm of White, Walsh and
P.C., and chairman of the Nassau County Bar Association

Gaba,
Labor
Law Committee.

LOBA Outline

People who follow the sports pages are undoubtedly
familiar by now with what has come to be known as “last
offer binding arbitration.” That is a system whereby the
impartial third party makes a binding determination of a
contract settlement by choosing either the employer's last
offer or the employees’. He is not put in the position of
attempting to come to a middle ground type of conclusion.

THERE IS PRESENTLY pending in the New York State
Legislature a bill which would create the same type of last
offer binding arbitration in public sector disputes between
public employers and employee organizations. The bill is in
the form of an amendment to the Civil Service Law and is
patterned after legislation which presently exists and has
worked successfully in other states of the union. It appears
that in the conventional binding arbitration situation, the
employer and the employee organization each tend to state
their last positions in an unrealistic fashion; the employer
offering almost nothing and the employee organization seek-
ing more than it knows it can hope to achieve. The arbitra-
tor, therefore, makes his own selection of what he deems
to be the most reasonable on the assumption that the last
offer of each side is not reasonable.

Sie eur

UNDER THE LOBA principle, which ts referred to in the
statute as “final offer evaluation,” the arbitration panel can
select only the last offer of one side or the other, in total,
It seems, therefore, that each side under these circumstances
would then put forward what it considers to be a reasonable
proposal in final form with the hope that the arbitration
panel would select the position advanced by that party. In
practice, it has worked to narrow the differences between the
parites not only in terms of monetary and fringe benefits,
but also in terms of other aspects of the collective agree-
ment, Until the point is reached in the impasse procédures
where the final offer evaluation panel is selected, the pro-
cedures remain as they are presently constituted, that is,
negotiations, mediation and fact-finding,

THE LEGISLATION does not pertain to fire and police,
but it would operate in all other sectors in which the Taylor
Law controls. Parties are always free to reach their own
agreement, and in fact, it appears that the LOBA principle
has pushed parties closer together rather than to pressure
them further apart, The statute sets forth criteria which
the panel must take into consideration as well as other
relevant circumstances. Listed below are the matters which
the panel must consider.

A. The financial ability of the municipality to meet costs.

(Continued om Page 10)
RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS
Pension Suggestions

The Permanent Commission

® simple new formula; 1) “in-
tegrate” social security into the
pension system, that means take
half of the employees social se-
curity into the pension system,
thus cutting his retirement funds
by half his social security; 2)
make a 3 percent deduction from
the salaries of state employees to
help the pension plan. The plan
also offers as a “sweetener” a 3
percent a year increment to off-
set inflation.

For the average $15,000 a year
man, retiring next year the new
plan would start after 20 years
service at age 65, with about
15 percent less than he would
have received under the old plan.
It would bring the retirement
benefit to the old level after eight
years and make him “even” after
15 years at age 80. Thus, if he
lives long enough, the new plan
would give him larger payments.

Some interesting figures are
brought out by the study. New
York State contributed 24.2 per-
cent of the 1975/76 payroll for
state employees who belong to
the 20-year plan and who en-
tered service prior to July 1,
1973. For those who entered later,
the contribution amounted to
14.3 percent. For policemen and
firemen the contribution amount-
ed to 36,2 percent; for teachers
19.4 percent.

In the New York City systems
the comparable percentages were
23.7 percent for regular employees
25.3 percent for teachers, 35.1
percent for policemen, 23.8 per-
cent for firemen, and 23.2 per-
cent for other Board of Educa-
tion employees. Altogether, in the
eight systems of the state there
were a total of 1,159,450 mem-
bers covered. The number of
members receiving pensions on

June 30, 1975 was 246,241. Al-
together $3,516,000,000 will have
been paid Into retirement funds
during the year ending next June
30 to all eight systems, including
social security payments.
see
Medical bills for the average
person aged 65 or over, rum $415
out of his or her pocket for medi-
cal treatment, a survey for 1975
indicates. The total average
medical bill was a littl more
than $1,200 per person. The dif-
ference was made up by gov-
ernment plans.
| Sen

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 a listing of those individ-
gob where sembershlp, tormianns

Joho J
ard, Herman G

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(Te Be Coatiaued>

LETTERS TO TH

Save Center

Editor, The Leader:

The senior citizens of Orange
County wish to go on record as
being opposed to the demolition
of some of the surplus buildings
at the Middletown Psychiatric
Center.

We feel that these buildings
should be renovated and put to
use as housing for the needy
elderly of Orange County.

‘The advantages of this move
are many, and the need is great.
‘These buildings are located in
the City of Middletown, on a
bus line to downtown Middle-
town and the center of Orange
County.

What with the cost of new
construction being so prohibitive,
serious thought should be given
to the preservation and use of
that which already exists and
incidentally is paid for—to a
great extent by the senior citi-
wens who are now and have been
for many years taxpayers in this
state.

IT am sure the mechanics for
funding this project and who
will be responsible for running

it—city, county or state—can be
worked out.

John M. VanDuser

Middletown

Pension Delay
Editor, The Leader:

I realize that letters of this
type are becoming a great em-
barrassment to you. No one seems
to want to answer them.

Why are your statistics so
scanty and incomplete regarding
NYC retirements?

Oh, you give out the weekly
totals all right and the total op-
ons. (See 2-10-76 issue.)

But you don’t indicate how
Jong a retiree waited for this an-
nouncement, How many months
or years? Embarrassing to give
out this kind of information, I
know.

Next month will be a year
for me.

What complicated chicanery
is introduced between the official
date of retirement, and the of-
ictal approval by the Retirement
Board?

Why do you leave these facts
out?

“What's Your Opi

By ALAN BERNSTEIN
QUESTION
What do you think of Last-Offer-Binding-Arbitration (LOBA)?
THE PLACE
Civil Service Employees Association Delegates Meeting, Kiamesha Lake.
OPINIONS

Fran DeLemo, Utica Office of General Services:
“I think it is a good idea, Bind-
ing arbitration really helps. It
would help state workers be-
cause they would not have to
go down the same road that
happened last year as to the
$250 lump payment. It’s de-
finitely much better than going

’ through the legislature and it’s,

of course, much fairer to have

a the binding arbitration, It has

to be kept out of politics. State

workers have been called second-hand citizens and

the legislature seems to feel the same way. With

the binding arbitration, state employees will get
what they have coming to them.”

Fran Goodwin, SUNY at Binghamton: “I think
state workers are definitely in
need of something like LOBA,
It would be a way of binding
the state so we don't have to
go through fact-finding and the
legislature again, and then pos-
sibly come up with absolutely
nothing. Even though there is
a chance that the arbitrator
might still pick the proposals
offered by the state negotiators,
I think binding arbitration is a
fair way. Any other way, I believe, would be
completely unfair and could usually only hurt
state employees.”

Pat Spice, Rockland County: “Prom what I know
about Last-Offer-Binding-Arbi-
tration, I am in favor of it be-
cause it seems the alternative
to the regressive points of the
Taylor Law, meaning strike
penalties and so on. It is really
& compromise, Both sides in
making their final recommen-
dations to the arbitrator would
have to be realistic and not
play the games they are doing
now at the bargaining tables.
They would have to offer a package that the
arbitrator could buy. If not, both sides will make
ridiculous offers and nothing good can ever come
of that.”

Bill Sohi, Fulton County Highway Department:
“Last - Offer - Binding - Ar-
bitration could be in your favor
or it could work against state
employees. It’s a very difficult
situation. The old way when
we went through mediation,
fact-finding and s0 on, the em-
ployees got a chance to try to
get what he thinks is right for

the arbitrator, it’s too bad and he gets nothing.
So while LOBA does have some merit, it may not
be as good a deal, because you stand to lose every-
thing.”

Kaye Yushak, Albany Department of Labor: “Well,
I am all for the binding arbi-
tration. It is the best legal way
that state employees have of
negotiating at this time. It's
much better than going through
all the other steps we have had
in the past and will make
things much easier, all the way
around, I hope the arbitrator
will be fairer than what the
“H legislature pulled on state work-
" ers last year but I think the
arbitrator will at least look at both sides’ facts
closely and will give his decision based on the facts
and not on any other issues such as emotions.”

Dorothy Sergeant, Bronx Psychiatric Center; “I
think the binding arbitration
has merit in that it lets state
workers go to the ultimate in
trying to obtain what they be-
leve is fair. We should explore
the area fully and see what we
can get. Maybe with the bind-
ing arbitration, it would be
more objective with an outside
party deciding which side is
more realistic in its offer.
Everybody is subjective when
they are presenting their proposals and maybe a
ttle objectivity is needed at the present time.
‘Too much emotion or subjectivity puts both sides
at odds and accomplishes nothing.”

EDITOR

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delicate to reveal these true
facts, when « retiree is waiting
with baited breath from the date
of his retirement to the great
announcement months or years
later by the N.Y. Retirement
Board that his retirement has
been approved?

When the City was ont he brink

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laid-off N.Y. State inspectors.
A survey of just how many
N. ¥, State inspectors were re-
hired by the US. Civil Service

could give us @ good case for
pressing the return of State serv-
ice in order to provide some
public service jobs for the un-
employed in this state.

public is not being protected as
effectively as in the past? Doesn't
the public care whether they are

protected or not?
Richard W. Fletcher
Williamson

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Tuesday, March 23, 1976

Delegates Bite The Bullet On Dues

(Continued from Page 1)
from $45 to $57, still lower than the dues charged by rival
unions.

By contrast, the Service Employees International Union
and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees have dues structures based on one to two percent
of salary, varying from local to local. Based on the smaller
figure, one percent, an employee making $5,800 annually
would pay SEIU or AFSCME $58, while someone in the
$25,000 bracket would pay $250. This, of course, would be
double ($116 and $500 respectively) if the deduction is
2 percent.

Although emotions were intense during the dues debate,
it was not reflected by the lop-sided two-to-one vote. The
tally was 1,401 votes in approval, with 769 against. There
was no obvious trend in the voting pattern.

CSEA treasurer Jack Gallagher, in making the plea for
higher dues, said that a $682,856 deficit was incurred by
the statewide union for the fiscal year that ended on Sept.
30, 1975, and that the union would face bankruptcy by August
of this year if the dues increase was not approved.

The mood of the Delegates was that in return for ap-
proval of the 50-cent-per-pay-period increase, it would be
expected that the union would tighten control of its spending
wherever possible.

Typical delegate reaction was that they would face an
angry membership when they reported back to their chap-
ters, since the members in many areas were not receiving
salary increases to meet their own needs; yet, if the union
is to continue to provide even the current level of services
to its members, the dues increase would have to be approved

Though the fact-finders recom-
mended a six percent pay raise
and CSEA's membership accep-
ted the finding 10 to 1, the Gov-

joint legislative committee whose
final, binding determination sup-
ported the Governor's original
offer months before: an incred-

the Taylor Law. Because the pro-
visions of this law severely limit
the avenues of recourse open to

top priority to amending the
Taylor Law during the coming
year.

“Stung by the legislature's

over the expenditure of public
monies by the legislature. The
legislature's —_long - established
practice of voting itself generous
monetary sums known as ‘lulus’
(additional pay in lieu of ex-

Statement of ASSETS, LIABILITIES and FUND BALANCES
as of September 30, 1975 and 1974.

ASSETS:

Cash, including interest bearing accounts and certificates

GENERAL FUNDS

Marketable securities at cost (market 1975 — $1,762,865,

1974 — $1,516,737) — Note 1 .

1975
$1,077,512

1,828,219

and they, as delegates, would have to shoulder responsibility

for their decision.

Printed below is Mr. Gallagher's report to the delegates:
eh

“This fiscal year, which began
on October 1, 1974, proved to be
one of the most difficult in the
‘Civil Service Employees Aasocia~
tion's 65-year history. The effect
of an uncertain economy and the
presence of a new state adminis-
tration perhaps contributed most
to the problems faced by the As-
sociation and its membership
during the past twelve months.

“The rate of inflation, spiral-
ling to dangerous new heights
again this year, took its toll on
every household and business in
the state—and CSEA was no ex-
ception. The increased costs of
serving our membership in the
face of rising expenses resulted
in a deficit of $682,856 for the
fiscal year ending September 30,
1975.

“In an effort to serve its mem-
bers as fully and efficiently as
possible, CSEA expanded various
programs significantly during

cost $873,176 this year as com-
pared to less than $400,000 in
1972, The Association's staff also

:
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;

and seven satellite offices.
“New York State's largest

County chapter, Civil
Employees Assn., will be held
Wednesday, March 31, at Dike-
man's Firehouse, New Street,
Goshen. The meeting ls eet to
begin at 7:30 p.m.

employees, CSEA has entered
into long, costly negotiations in
the four State units and many
counties as well.

“As expenses continue to ex-
ceed income, dealing with the
deficit becomes an urgent matter
which must be resolved soon,
Cutting back on services and
programs now available to mem-
bers or the closing of regional
offices, two obvious methods of
checking costs, would seriously
jeopardize CSEA's stature while
adversely affecting thousands of
members, After serious study of
this deteriorating financial sit-
uation, it appears that the only
viable means of returning sta-
bility to the Association's budget
would be an increase in member-
ship dues. Such action, which
can be taken by a vote of dele-
gates at one of CSEA’s semi-
annual Delegates Meetings,
would provide the funds needed
to meet current requirements
and allow a modest surplus to
accrue over the next several
years. The possible enactment of
‘an increase would be the first
raise in dues since October, 1972.

“CSEA faced further difficul-
ties when a new state adminis-
tration, led by Governor Hugh L,
Carey, began its work in Albany
on January 1, 1975. In his ‘State
of the State’ address before the
legislature, the new governor in-
troduced his policy regarding the
state and its employees: “The
days of wine and roses are over’
he declared and, immediately,
the stage was set for a year-long
battle.

“While the governor demanded
‘cut back!', CSEA members —
using their own vacation or per-
sonal leave—came to Albany on
March 18, 1975 to ‘fight back!’
In a show of unity and strength
never seen in this state before,

for in the reopener clause of
the third year of the state's con-
tract with CSEA in four nego-
ating units.

“When the new administra-
tion’s blatant disregard for the

Dues receivable ..........
Due from Insurance Fund .
Other receivables, deposits and prepayments
Note receivable — Note 3 ............
Land and buildings, executive headquarters,
Equipment, at cost less accumulated depreciation
(1975 — $230,091; 1974 — $191,402)

Total Assets

LIABILITIES:

Accounts payable, taxes withheld and accrued items — Note 5 ..
Due to Chapters for share of dues
Dues collected in advance . ..
Mortgage payable — Note 4 .

Total Liabilities .

COMMITMENTS — Notes 3 and 7
GENERAL FUND BALANCES:

Fund for general operations and working capital
Fund for welfare payments
Fund for contingency .
Fund for building and equip: :
Fund for additions to building and equipment
Fund for replacement of building — Note 1 .

Total General Fund Balances ...

Total Liabilities and Fund Balances

GENERAL FUNDS.

INCOME:

Dues — net after refunds to Chapters
State ..
County ‘

Insurance Fund reimbursement net of expenses and refunds — Note 2. .

Interest earned ..........., .

Income from other sources .

Total Income

EXPENSES:

Salaries, payroll taxes and other personal services ...
Employees’ pension and group life insurance costs
Administrative travel, lodging and meals .....
Officers, directors and committees expenses
Civil Service Leader (mailed weekly to approximately
215,000 members)
Printing and communi
Legal services .
Data processing
General expense .............+
Headquarters occupancy costs
Public relations programs . . .
Travel allowance to Chapters .
Regional offices, conferences, State and County
workshop costs other than payroll
Delegate meetings, election expenses and organizational costs . .
Additions to fund for building and equipment investment
representing purchases of equipment during year ........... 0.505

TOU MOREE 53 vc soncans th402his teXtceicnsces chase
Excess of (Expenses Over Income) or Income

Over Expenses Transferred to General
Operations and Working Capital ...........-.+

444,831
213,662
72,902
175,000
1,120,399

184,972
$5,117,697

$ 336,481
1,303,069
6,591
152,958

$1,799,099

$1,118,449
49,507
614,634
1,141,772
178,529
215,707

$3,318,598
$5,117,697

$4,243,210
3,017,667
370,884
190,431 ..
25,045,

$7,847,237

$3,170,982
452,687
651,129
42113

$1,919,025

1,524,929
438,516
98,078
368,559

-0-
1,115,059

168,262
$5,632,428

$ 291,412
1,240,217
-0-

185,235
$1,716,864

$2,088,582
45,958
371,134
1,087,445
147,388
175,057

$3,915,564
$5,632,428

Statement of INCOME, EXPENSE and CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE
for the years ended September 30, 1975 and 1974.

1974

$3,921,105
2,832,244

$1,047,837
=
o| Replacement | CSEA’s Rank & File Voting On Terms

Ballots

ALBANY — Although the
time period for obtaining re-
placement ballots in current
voting on a tentative work
agreement for state workers will
necessarily be brief, replace-
ments will be available, accord-
ing to the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn.

CSEA, which represents the
four state negotiating units in-
volved, advises its members in
those units, who have not re-
ceived a ballot by March 24 or
25, to phone CSEA's Albany
Headquarters at (518) 434-0191
no later than March 25 and ask
for one. Submission of name,
address, social security number
and chapter will be required to
enable proper verification of vot-
ing eligibility.

“In person” requests for re-
placement ballots will be hon-
ored at Albany headquarters un-
til the close of business on Mon-
day, March 29,

Replacement ballots may not
be left at Albany headquarters
by hand delivery. All ballots
must be returned in the official
CSEA return envelope supplied
for that purpose and must be re-
ceived in the mail no later than
10 am. Tuesday, March 30.
Counting will be completed on
Mareh 31

Albany Region's
Sets One-Day
Trip To Boston

ALBANY — A bus trip to
Boston has been set by Al-
bany Region IV, Civil Service
Employees Assn., for Satur-
day, April 24

The trip for sight-seers and
shoppers will depart at 7:30 a.m.
from Executive Park, Stuyvesant
Plaza, Albany, and will arrive at
Boston's Copley Square. The trip
will cost CSEAers $10 each.

Reservations may be obtained
by contacting Muriel Milstrey,
448 Wallace Road, Schenectady,
N.Y. 12304. The telephone num-
ber is (518) 377-9342. No can-
cellations will be accepted after
April 19,

CAYUGA OFFICERS — Ricrdon’s Restaurant in Auburn
was the seene of the installation of officers and directors of the
Cayuga County chapter, Civil Service Employees Assn. They were

installed by Syracuse Region ¥ president Richard E, Cleary.
seated, from left; Bruce Nolan, chapter president; Helen
recording secretary, and Ruth Curtiss, treasurer. Standing, from
Donald Short, second vice-president; Ronald Smith, Region
representative; Charles Lincoln, first vice-president; Mr.
Luke Cloora, delegate, and Gary Flick, Moravia School unit

and delegate.

(Continued from Page 1)
teams.

Treatment of the ratification
issue was based on leaving the
decision entirely In the hands of
the union's rank and file state~
employed members, CSEA
spokesmen said. For this reason,
the delegates came up with no
recommendation either for or
against the tentative pact.

State Concessions

Delegates did point out, how-
ever, that state workers should
keep in mind that the state had
withdrawn its previous demands
to reduce many long-established
benefits. These included denying
the usé of sick leave for the first
day of absence due to illness, re-

Capital Chapter
Retirees Meet

ALBANY — The Capital
District Retirees chapter,
Civil Service Employees
Assn., will hold a business
meeting at CSEA Headquarters,
33 Elk Street, Albany, N. Y., on
Wednesday, March 31 at 1:00
pm.

The meeting will be cancelled
in the event of a CSEA statewide
strike if a contract settlement is
not reached.

Guest speaker will be Arvis
Chalmers, capitol reporter for
the Knickerbocker News.

Reports concerning retiree in-
terests will be given by chapter
president John Kennedy and
John Joyce, a delegate to the
statewide March 14-18 CSEA
Convention at the Concord Ho-
tel. In addition, pending legis-
lation of retiree interests will be
covered.

Endorse Library

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who suffer: service will ultimate-
ly be cut. Since the smhll, very
small, state aid increase in 1973,
costs of operating libraries have
risen so high that we can't keep
ahead of inflation, Ms. Leggett
said.

“Without added support, libra-
ries won't survive much longer.
In the lst of things that are
necessities, braries rank high.”

‘

ducing the rate of earning vaca-
tion credits, and limiting to 10
the number of vacation days for
which an employee can receive
cash payment upon leaving ser-
vice.

Other demands dropped by the
state would have cut personal
leave to 3 days a year; termin-
ated the state's dental plan on

week to 40 hours for those now
working 37% hours; imposed
parking fees in state lots which
are now free; and brought about
reductions in numerous other
worker benefits, as well as the
loss of valuable union activity
rights for CSEA.

Retention of these various
benefits, although not men-

tive new agreement, 1s provided
for in @ general clause extending
the present contract, CSEA
spokesmen noted.

The actual memorandum of
understanding, accepted by the
negotiating teams of all four
CSEA state negotiating units,
has been sent out with a ratifi-
cation ballot to all CSEA mem-

March 31; Increased the work tioned specifically in the tenta- bers in each unit.

Tentative Pact Agreement

Those provisions of the collective agreement betwoen the State and CSEA relating to this
unit for the period April 1, 1973 to March 31, 1976 will be extended until March 31, 1978. Onl
changes in the agreement which are necessary to delete obsolete references or to reflect the f
lowing will be made,

1. Commencing with the beginning of the payroll period the first day of which is nearest
to April |, 1976, the Picts grote 40 5ey aimaal gue nevitty brernadts ab a: tate: effect
on April |, 1975 to those employees eligible to receive such incremental payments pursuant to
the provisions of Civil Service Law § 130 and 131.

2. Commencing April |, 1976 permanent non-competitive and labor class employees with-
in this negotiating unit with one year or more of permanent continuous State service who are
laid off will have such lay-off governed by the process presently applicable to competitive class
employees for the purpose of re-employment to future vacancies.

3. Effective April |, 1978 @ continuity-of-employment fund administered by a committee
will be created in order to

(a) study worker displacement problems arising from economy RIFs, programmatic
reductions and curtailments, closedowns, relocations, consolidations, technologi-
cal changes, and contracting out; and

{b) make recommendations for the solution of these problems, including but not
limited to the use of normal and induced attrition (e.g., early retirements),
sharing of ble State job opportunities (e.g., trans indemnification
(0.g., severance pay), and transition to work in the labor market beyond State
employment (e.g., retraining).

Recommendations made by the Committee will not be binding on either the State or

CSEA, although they may form the basis for negotiations and such agreements as the parties
may enter into.

The Committee shall be instructed as follows: there shall be four representatives from the
State, four from CSEA, and one impartial person who shall serve as Chairman.

The State shall cause to be placed in the continuity-of-employment fund for expenditure
pursuant to this memorandum of agreement the amount of $1 million,

The Committee shall continue in existence for @ period of one year unless the parties by
mutual agreement agree to extend the life of such committee.

4. Effective April 1, 1976, labor and non-competitive class employees within the negotia-
ting units represented by CSEA if laid off, will be laid off within title on the basis of seniority,
provided, however, that such employees shall not gain greater rights than they would have if they
were covered by the provisions of the Civil Service Law, Sections 80 and 81, and provided,
further, however, that this proposal does not extend to these employees’ coverage under Civil
Service Law, Section 75 or Article 33 of the collective negotiating agreements with CSEA.

5. Commencing April 1, 1976 and continuing until March 31, 1977, the State will give
written notice to CSEA of the closing of an agency, a facility, or a division or major depart-
ment of an agency or fecilty at least six full calendar months prior to the closing. A permanent
non-seasonal employee in such agency, facility, division or major department who ison the pay-
roll on the date of such closing and is scheduled for layoff as a result of such notice shall be
guaranteed employment and with no loss of earnings for the eforesaid six full calendar months

e provisions of this paragraph may be extended until March 31, 1978 upon the mutual agree-
ment of both parties.

6. Effective bag wb |, 1976, where under current layoff law and procedures permanent
employees are to be laid off within a given layoff unit and there are provisional or temporary
employees in the same title in another layoff unit not projected for layoff, such provisional or
temporary employees will be displaced in order to provide continued em for those
affected permanent employees. The State will manage centrally the placement of the affected
permanent employees.

7. Effective April 1, 1977, the basic annual salary of all employees in full-time employ-
ment status as of Marek 31, 1977 will be increased by an amount to be determined by the par-
ties to the collective agreements pursuant to reopened negotiations to be commenced after
October 31, 1976 upon the demand of either eat, If the parties cannot agree on the amount,
procedures set forth in the Taylor Law for the ion of im shall be available to either
party. Article 7.2c of the current Agreement shall be continued.

8. Each of the parties shall have the right by giving notice to the other prior to October
31, 1976 to reopen negotiations in order to amend the continuing provisions of the 1973-1976
ive agreements, Each party will be limited to present for reopened negotiations two articles
in the 1973-1976 collective agreements (in addition to the general wage reopener set forth in
paragraph 7).
3. Commencing vith the inning of the payroll period the first day of which is nearest
to April |, 1977 the State , one pay annual rd geri increments to those employees
| eligible to receive incremental payments pursuant to the Civil Service Law, § 130 and 131,

10. The State agrees to continue to pay its present share of the cost of health and dental
insurance during the term of this extension agreement, Any increase in the costs of such plans will
be borne by the State and the employees represented by CSEA in the same proportions as are
presently in effect.

The agreements set forth in this Memorandum of Understanding shall be subject to rati-
fication by the membership of the Civil Service Employees Association, Inc.

Dated: March 12, 1976

THE CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES

ASSOCIATION, INC. THE STATE OF NEW YORK

OL6L “SZ PAeW “Aepsony “YAGVAT AOIAUSS WAI
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Tuesday, March 23, 1976

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presently received by the em-

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in regard to other trade profes-
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taken into consideration in the
determination of wages, hours
and conditions of employment.”

It would appear from this van-
tage point that the legislation
now pending is worthy of sup-
port, and is a viable solution to
the current poor bargaining
practices that exist in the public
sector.

Gateway Seeking Lifeguards

BROOKLYN—The Nation-
al Park Service’s Gateway
National Recreation Area of
New York and New Jersey
is seeking ocean lifeguards,
Deadline for applications is
March 31,

‘The positions are at the entry
level and pay $27.28 a day. Duty
stations will be at Breezy Point,
Queens County, und Great Kills,
Richmond County, New York,
and Sandy Hook, Highlands,

New Jersey.

Applicants must be 18 years of
age or okier on or before dates
of appointment. Information and
applications are available by
calling the Gateway National
Recreation Area offices. In New
York, the telephone number is
(212) 252-9150; in New Jersey,
the mumber is (201) 872-0115.

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Save Evers
Rally Hits
Budget Cuts

In yet another attempt to save
City University of New York from
severe cutbacks, students and
community leaders staged a rally
at Borough Hall Plaza in Brook-
lyn late last week.

This time, demonstrators came
to support Medgar Evers College,
which would be reduced from a
four to a two-year college under
Schools Chancellor Robert Kib-
bee's proposal to save money.

Congresswoman Shirley Chis-
holm, Brooklyn Borough Presi-
dent Sebastian Leone, and James
E. Greenidge, chairman of the
New York City Council Against
Poverty addressed the rally.

Charles Joshua, executive di-
rector of the Central Brooklyn
Coordinating Council, said the
move would turn Medgar Evers
into a “vocational school.”

“The Brooklyn community
fought and struggled for many
years to establish a senior col-
lege to meet its educational
needs," Mr. Joshua said. “Now
the life of that senior college is
in jeopardy.”

Study Group
Calls Beame

‘A State Senate sub-committee,
appointed three weeks ago to
hold hearings on the impact of
Pire and Police Departments
budget cuts, wants top city exec-
utives to testify at open hearings.

A spokesman for Sen. John D.
Calandra, (R-Bronx) chairman
of the three-man panel, said it
will investigate the cuts which are
reducing these “most essential
services to crisis levels” and try

dents, and union heads, The sub-
committee, which was appointed
by the Senate Pinance Commit-
tee, has subpoena powers

‘The other sub-committee mem-
bers are William T. Conklin (R-
Brooklyn) and Emanuel R. Gold
(D-Queens)

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A Detroit grocer
gave him five bullets
in the chest.

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various district attorneys and in
the police forces. The inevitable
result of these retrenchment
measures has been a reduction
in the numbers of court trial
parts. This means delays not
only in the prosecution of erim-
inal offenders, but delays also in
the rate of progress in the civil
branches of the judicial system.

Both Senator Gordon and
Assemblyman Thorp and their
legislative committee have held
extensive hearings throughout

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State Civil Service Department for posts in state agencies.
Salaries range from $8,051 to $33,704 a year.

Por all posts no written exam-

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2 City Workers
Praised For Tips

New York City, which seeks
assistance from wherever it can,
last week handed out Municipal
Service Administration awards to
two employees for money-saving
suggestions. They received cita-
tions and cash awards.
Lillian D’Aguilar, a Municipal
Archives senior clerk won $50 for
her suggestion to photostat vital
records. Salvatore Brucia, a lab-
orer with Public Works, received
$30 for suggesting simpler and
less costly methods to grease city
vehicles.

“The suggestions both these
employees made were an out-
growth of their fine work and
knowledge in their respective
fields,” said MSA Administrator
John T. Carroll. “They are rep-
resentative of the many thou-
sands of civil service employees
throughout the city doing their
jobs day in and day out.”

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« CIVIL SERVICE LEADER; ‘Tuesday, March 23, 1976

Occupational And Physical
Therapist Job Slots Open

ALBANY—tThe State Department of Civil Service is con-

Mental Hygiene, Health Department and The State Uni-

versity of New York. Starting
salary is $11,337 = year.

To qualify for occupational
therapist, exam 20-176, appli-
cants must have a bachelor’s de-
gree and registration as an oc-

Candidates with a degree in
physical therapy and a license
issued by the State Department
Of Education may apply for phy-
sical therapist, exam 20-177.
Candidates who have a tempor-
‘ary license to practice in New
York State may be appointed,
but musé obtain their license
within one year.

Candidates for both positions
be rated on the basis of

will
thetr training and experience.

There will be no written test.

Applications may be obtained
from the State Civil Service De-
partment, Two World Trade Cen-
ter, New York, N.Y.; Suite 750,
1 West Genessee St, Buffalo,
N.Y. or the State Office Build-
ing Campus, Albany, N.Y.

Asst. Chief Named

The General Litigation Division
of the New York City Law De-
partment has a new assistant
chief.

Corporation Counsel W. Ber-
nard Richland last week an-
nounced the appointment of Jo-
seph F. Bruno to that post, Mr.
Bruno, who succeeds Doron Gop-
stein, now chief of the division,
has been with the Law Depart-
ment since 1971.

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ABRAMS RETIRES
Albert J. Abrams, of Albany, secretary of the State Senate since

merged those of the Secretary of the - Abrams said

he plans work for a 10-state legislative program funded

by National Science Foundation to help the northeast

energy independent and also for the National Council on the Aging,

@ group he helped found 25 years ago. e
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COMP BOOST PROPOSED

‘The State Workmen's Compensation Board has proposed in-
creasing the ceiling for total disability and death payments from
the present $95 to $215, This would be the Board’s greatest increase in
its 60-year history. The proposed increase would only cover in-
juries which occur after July 1, the proposed effective date of the
legislation. Persons now receiving such payments would not have
their grants increased.

ANNUITY SUIT

‘The New York State Public Interest Research Group, a public
interest organization, has filed a suit against New York City to halt®
payments made to nine uniformed services unions, The payments,
known as annuity funds, were begun in 1968 and now total about
$10 million annually. Under the payment schedule, the city gives
money to the unions for each date members work. Amounts vary

ae a

period, over and above regular pension and social security payments.
The NYPIRG suit states that the annuities are illegal because of a
statute passed in 1922 when New York State consolidated all city
public employee pension plans. “The annuity funds are salaries paid
after retirement,” said a NYPIRG spokesman, “and, therefore,
are pensions. Since no exemption was obtained to the 1922 statute @
from the Legislature, the annuity funds are illegal.” ,

RAP CORRECTIONS ,

The State Department of Correctional Services has been
cized at Albany budget hearings for eliminating parole officer
while allowing administrative costs to Increase because of the hiring
of non-officer personnel. Commissioner Benjamin Ward said the
Department's $202 million 1976-77 budget reflected the weakening
of the former inmate-officer ratio of about 40-1 to about 50-1. How.
ever, Assemblyman Stanley Pink (D-Brooklyn), chairman of the
Assembly Codes Committee, eau Gon tke nce ra
creased its personnel and administrative costs this year ‘more @
than $200,000 and added he will seek to replace the Suey wate
cutting back staff and expenses in other areas.

a former union administrator, succeeds Annie B, Martin in the posi-
tion. Ms. Samuels is a trustee of the New York City Central Labor
Couneil and a member of the Council's Black Trade Unionists Leader-

ASK UNEMPLOYMENT HiIK!
Assembly Democrats have proposed increases up to $40 & week
in additional unemployment benefits and a new method of taxing
employers to buoy up the dwindling State Unemployment Insurance
Pund. The leaders urged that maximum insurance benefits be in-
creased $10 a week, to $105, and that an additional weekly benefit
of $10 be provided for each up to three dependents. Speaker Stanley
Steingut and Majority Leader Alfred Blumenthal proposed scrapping
the present experience rating system under which employers are
taxed on the first $4,200 of each worker's wages according to his past 9
benefit and contribution experience and the fiscal condition of the
State Fund. Under the plan proposed by the Democrats, this method
would be replaced by a flat rate for all employers. Comptroller Arthur
Levitt recently warned that the State Pund ts seriously depleted and
could be broke next year.

Electrician Test

‘The New York City Personnel
Department says 1,025 electrician
candidates have been called for
the written part of open-com-
petitive Exam 5015 scheduled for
March 27.

LEGAL NOTICE

OAK ASSOCIATES,

A Limited Partnership, 40 Wall Strees,
NYC. Subst “4 of Certificate of Lim-
ined Parta ed in New York
County ‘Clerk's Ottice January 28, 1976. e
Business: Trading in commodities tucure
contracts, of commodities spreads and
utraddies, and in commodities options,
puis calls and straddles and conduct ali
business related thereto. General Partner
Paul L. Willensky, 1065 Park Ave, NYC;
Marc S. Sherman, 73 Jane S, NYC.
$7500.00 ‘each Limised Partners, Cash
Contributions and Share of Profits: Osias
10 Park Ave. NYC; ABC Indus:
Broadway, NYC, $30,000
D. Manshel, 2B 67 St,
NYC; Anita Manshel, 2 B 67 S, NYC,
525,000 wach. Term: January 28, 1976

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Dec. 31, 2030 unlew senses termiaaned

10 January 28, 1986. Limiced partners
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additional contributions unless they are
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Retirees Hold
B'klyn Meeting

BROOKLYN — The next
meeting of Brooklyn chapter
500, National Assn. of Re-
tired Federal Employees, will
be held Saturday, March 27, at
1 p.m, in the Kings County War
Memorial Building, Pulton and
Orange Streets, in the Borough
Hall section of Brooklyn.

Chapter secretary Samuel Ko-
mansky said the agenda will in-
clude a talk on filing 1975 in-
come tax returns, a report on
legislation affecting retirees now
pending in congress and a dis-
cussion of the chapter's planned
Bicentennial observance. Retirees
and prospective retirees are in-
vited to attend,

Manhattan PC
Holding Dinner

BRONX—Manhattan Psychia-
trie Center chapter 413 will hold

ant, 613 E. 233rd 8t,, Bronx. The
event will be from 10 pm. to
3 a.m. and several recent chap-
ter retirees will be honored.

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State Job Calendar

Assistant Clinical 20-413
Principal ety i) : 20-521
Associate Actuary 20416
Supervising Actuary (Casual 20-418
Senior Actuary (hy , 20-519
Clinical Physician | 20415
Com Examining Physician | 20420
Dental ae 20-107
Dietitian 20-124
Ecorse joao
Technician

‘hcuny Service Worker 20-352
Hit Yenc 20-211
‘echnician 20-170

20-558
20-121
20-339
20-106
20-394
york etc 20-394
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Nurs 20-584
Nurse It 20-585
Nurse Il ) 20-586
Nurse Il ie 20-587
Offset eet Fee Machine Operator a.
a Need
(er Service) vss ($8,079-$8 20-334
Senior prarsay ar Records eof E33 20-348
Asst. Sanitary Engineer “g4a2 20-122
Senior Sanitary Engineer ss $17,429 =—-20-123
Specialists in Education {$16,358-$22,694) 20-312
Stationary cond 9,546 20-100
Senior peony Engineer $10,714 20-101
Steam tw qe 20-303
Stenographer- varies varies
Varitype Operator “$6811 20-307
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Holds 33c Hour Average
Hike, Variety Of Fringes

ROCHESTER—The first contract negotiated by the Civil
Service Employees Assn. for 110 employees of the suburban
Town of Greece provides an average 33-cent-an-hour pay
raise for each of its three years.

The contract, retroactive to
Jan. 1, also contains new griev-
ance procedures, binding arbitra-
tion, a fair dismissal clause and
reduction in the work week from
45 to 40 hours over the three-
year period.

The contract covers employees
in the town’s public works, sewer,
water, landfill and recreation de-
partments. Under the contract's
terms, laborers, for example, will
be earning $5.80 an hour start-
ing Jan. 1, 1978

Employees ratified the contract
by @ vote of 48-17.

Douglas Lynch, unit president,
was in charge of negotiations,
which took place in 21 sessions
held over six months

Pield representative Thomas
Pomidoro, who also assisted in

30th Anniversary
Will Be Celebrated
By Motor Vehicles

ALBANY — Motor Vehicle
chapter 674, Civil Service
Employees Assn., will mark
the 30th anniversary of the
granting of its charter with a
dinner-dance Sunday evening,
May 2.

‘The chapter received its chart-
er from CSEA Headquarters on
May 9, 1946. Mildred Buckley,
chairman of the group's public
relations committee, said the
event will begin at 5 pm. at
Michael's Restaurant, Latham.

Fowler Named
Onondaga Head

SYRACUSE Norman
Fowler is the new president
of the Onondaga County
chapter, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn.

Other new officers are Robert
Obrist, first vice-president;
Marie Kalbfleisch, second vice-
president; Joseph Caputo, third
vice-president; Venita Cerutti,
secretary; Sally Greco, treasur-
er, and Gerald Roseman, chapter
executive representative.

Mr, Roseman was the only of-
flcer re-elected. Mr. Fowler suc-
ceeds Andrew Placito as presi-
dent.

Mr, Fowler was elected in a
reballoting. The results of a No-
vember election were set aside
because it was discovered that
an obsolete list of members had
been used, according to Carmella
Bartholomes, election committee
chairman.

Bond Lawsuit Filed

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ready consented to the inyest-
ment of a large part of its pen-

sion funds in the four state
agencies.
Court action on the CSEA

lawsuit could begin as early us
this week, according to Richard
Burstein of the Roemer, Martin
and Featherstonhaugh firm.

SAVE A WATT

negotiations, said the grievance
procedure and a job security
clause were the major contract
gains.

Under the grievance procedure,
an employee with a complaint
will go first to Public Works
Commissioner William Kinta. If
Mr. Kintz cannot satisfy him, the
employee then can have a hear-
ing with Town Supervisor Donald
Riley. If this isn't satisfactory he
or she can seek a hearing before
an outside arbitrator whose de-
cision will be binding

Previously, the last step of the
grievance procedure was a hear-
ing before the Town Board.

“The Town Board would win
and the employee would always
lose, no matter if the town was
wrong or right,” Mr. Pomidoro
said.

Under the job security clause,
an employee who has worked for
the town at least 18 months can-
not be fired unless just and suffi-
cient cause is shown.”

Mr. Pomidoro also said the
new contract represented an “im-
provement in language.” Many
provisions of the old, non-CSEA
contract were unclear, he said.
“Tt was not a workable contract

“I think the new pact ts an
excellent one,” he added. Only
public works employees in Perin-
ton and possibly Brighton have
higher hourly scales than those
in Greece in Monroe County, he
said.

Negotiations began in August.
After about a dozen meetings,
CSEA declared an impasse and
walked out of a Dec. 1 meeting
A fact-finder was appointed by
the State Public Employment Re-
lations Board, but never met with
the two sides.

Negotiations resumed in early
January and a@ tentative agree-
ment was reached about a month
ago. The Greece Town Board ap-
proved the contract after it was
ratified by the CSEA members.

VICTORY GESTURE — Kevin Betton, of Niagara, left, jumps with excitement upon learning
of his win over Lavern Mouson, of Rochester, in the Civil Service Employees Assn.-sponsored 125-
pound novice boxing championship fight in Syracuse. The bout was one of 18 on a Golden Gloves
championship card, generally regarded as the finest of its kind in a deeade in Upstate New York. At
rear, being upstaged by the referee, but displaying the CSEA championship trophies, is Chuck Mr-
Geary, Syracuse Region V public relations chief.

Watertown Seeks $ Hike

& Grievance Arbitration

WATERTOWN —A set of contract proposals involving
pay increases and binding arbitration for grievances has
been adopted by the Watertown City unit of Jefferson chap-
ter, Civil Service Employees Assn., which plans to seek a

negotiating session with City
Manager Ronald G. Forbes with-
in the next two weeks.

Roger Kane, field representa-
tive and collective bargaining
specialist for CSEA, said the pro-
posal includes a pay raise tied
to the cost of living increase. He
declined to specify the amount

Information for the Calendar may be submitted directly
to THE LEADER, It should inelude the date, time, place,
address and city for the function, The address is: Civil

Service Leader,
Attn.: CSEA Calendar,

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MARCH

24—Buffalo chapter dinner m
turant, | M & T Plaza, Buffa’
26—Manhattan Psychiatric Center
3 a.m., Mayer's Restaurant,
33 Elk St

quarters, Albany

31—Orange County chapter executive board meeting

ng: $:30 p.m

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31—Coapital District Retiree chapter meeting

Plaza Suite Res.

hapter 413 dinner-dance; 10 p.m.
233rd St., Bronx
| p.m., CSEA Head.

7:30 p.m

Dikeman’s Firehouse, New Street, Goshen.
APRIL
5—West Seneca DC chapter general meeting: Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post, 299 Leydecker Road, West Seneca.
10—SUNY at Buffalo chapter 602 dinner-dance: Pellamwood House,

Transit Road, West Seneca:

24—Albany Region IV Boston bus excursion
MAY

2—Motor Vehicle chapter 674 30th Anniversary Party

chael's Restaurant, Latham.

5 p.m. Mi

3—West Seneca DC chapter general meeting: Veterans of For
eign Wars Post, 299 Leydecker Road, West Seneca:

14—Albany Region IV "Mix and Mingle” party: 5:30 p.m., Michael's
Banquet House, Route 9, Albany.

sought, indicating it compares
“roughly” with the 6 percent pay
raise in the current pact.

He said CSEA will propose
binding arbitration for grievances
and longevity payments similar to
those won by city policemen and
firefighters in their existing con-
tracts, The latter item may be
dropped if the Public Employ-
ment Relations Board rules favy-
orably on a pending CSEA
charge that those benefits should
be awarded general workers re-
troactively because the payments
were, in effect, promised the un-
jon during last year’s nego-
tations.

A continuation of the current
no-layoff clause, which expires
when the present contract ends
June 30, is not within the pres-
ent CSEA proposal package. In-
stead, CSEA will propose a
bumping procedure for non-com-
petitive positions, The job guar-
antee provision, however, may
see discussion during upcoming
contract talks, said Mr. Kane.

Watertowner’s

Draws CSEA Ire

WATERTOWN—The Civil
Service Employees Assn.'s
custodial - maintenance unit
may take legal steps against
the Watertown Board of Educa-
tion in the wake of a union
member custodian’s job transfer
at a $400-a-year cut in salary.

Roger Kane, CSEA field repre-
sentative, has indicated legal ac-
tion is in the offing, terming
the transfer “an attempt to bust
the union.”

Involved in the case is Robert
Whittier, head custodian at Wiley
School, transferred to North Ju-
nior High School with his du-
ties at Wiley given to building
manager Cornelius Shay.

Mr. Whittier, protesting the
loss of pay, nevertheless has
taken the transfer so that he
has a job

School officials said the trans-
fer was designed to save the City
School District $11,497 by not
hiring a new person through
transfer of Mr, Whittier as re-
placement for a retiree at North

Junior, and broadening of the
duties of Mr. Shay at Wiley
Schoo!

CSEA Affirms Independence

(Continued from Page 1)
the Board of Directors in reject-
ing the AFSCME bid.

APSCME representatives im-
mediately said their AFL-CIO
unton would challenge CSEA for
representation rights in the fut-
ure

Representatives of the Public
Employees Federation also sur-
faced at the convention after the
affiliation rejection. PEF is the

AFL-CIO organization that has
been trying to find someone to
represent, A collaboration be-
tween the United Teachers and
the Service Employees Interna-
tional Union, it was formed for
the purpose of challenging for
the Professional-Scientific-Tech-
nical Bargaining Unit rights, but @
was defeated by CSEA in an
election earlier this year.

* Work Transfer @
‘ IRS Extends

MANHATTAN—Chariles H.
Brennan, Internal Revenue
Service director for New
York, Bronx, Richmond,
‘Westchester and Rockland Coun-
ties, said IRS offices there will
be open Saturdays from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. until April 15, the end
of the 1975 filing period, to as-
sist persons with their federal
income tax returns.

In addition to the extended
Saturday schedule, office hours
at IRS offices on Wednesdays
will be from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Telephone assistance will also
be available during all hours of
extended service. On other days,
TRS offices are open from 8;30
a.m. to 5 p.m. The Manhattan
office at 120 Church St. opens

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 ef Education
(teachers only), 65 Court St.,
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: 468-4248; 10
am.-3 pm.); State Office Cam-
pus, Albany, 12226; Sulte 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
mail.

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 488-4141.
FEDERAL — The US. Civil

Service Commission, New York
Region, runs a Job Information
Center at 26 Federal Plaza, New
York 10007. Its hours are 6:30
am. to 5 p.m., weekdays only.
Telephone 264-0422.

Pederal 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 (800) 522-7407
Federal titles have no deadline
unless otherwise indicated.

Office Hours

at 8 am.
Addresses und telephone num-
bers of IRS offices may be
found in appropriate telephone
directories.

Fed Computer
Jobs Available

Computer operators and
technicians are being re-
cruited by the U.S. Civil Ser-
vice Commission for federal
agency posts in New York City
and Northern New Jersey. The
GS-5, 6 and 7 posts have start-
ing salaries ranging from $8,925
to $11,046 a year.

No written test is required.
Candidates will be rated on
training and experience,

For GS-5 positions, applicants
must have two years’ general ex-
perience and one year of special-
ized work, General experience for
both posts means experience op-
erating electric accounting ma-
chines, sorters, tabulators, calcu-
lators, card punch and other
wired equipment.

Specialized experience for
computer operators means ex-
perience operating a computer
system or peripheral devices
used in support of computer op-
erations. Work in translating ac-
tions into computer languages,
heading and interpreting pro-
gram charts, or other work re-
quiring comparable knowledge of
computer techniques will qualify
for technician specialized ex-
perience.

GS-6 candidates must have
two years’ general and two years’
specialized experience, while GS-
7 candidates should have two
years’ general and three years’
specialized.

Two years of study above high
school may be substituted for
two years’ general experience.
Pour years’ study past high
school, including 12 semester
hours in data processing may be
substituted for all GS-5 require-
ments,

Additional information and
applications are available at
federal job information centers
at 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan;
271 Cadman Plaza East, Brook-
lyn; 590 Grand Concourse,
Bronx; or 90-40 16st Street, Ja-
maica, Queens.

Complete forms should be sent
to Syracuse Area Office, U.S.
Civil Service Commission, 301
Erie Boulevard West, Syracuse,
N. Y¥. 13202.

Aiello's Staying

Board of Education member
Steven Aiello has declined an ap-
pointment as executive assistant
to Mayor Abraham D. Beame.
Mr. Alello says he prefers to
remain with the board during its
financial crisis,

ALBANY
BRANCH OFSICE
FOR INFORMATION regarding advertise
ment, please write or call:

JOSEPH T. BELLEW

303 SO. MANNING BLYD,
ALBANY 6, N.Y. Phone IV 2-6474

“gibeonsex nam,

STATE RATES
CONFERENCE CENTER

BANQUET CATERING

Yoel Eisen 518-584-3000

2478 Healy

2479 Wales

2480 Benincass K P
2481 Theodore Brady
2482 FE
2483 Lewis 5
2484 Dianne G

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Cook Claudia J Albany
2509 Sholt Nancy E Brockport

2510 Protko Joseph R E Schodack 71.7
2511 Harrison Y G S$ Oxone Pk ....71.7
2512 Stracher Karen Schenectady....71.7
2513 Astafan Marcia Utica 71.7
2514 Tamer Kathieos Utica 77
2515 Cometto Paula M Alden 77
2516 Myers Robert F Grenefld Cer 71.7
2517 Thomas Schenectady 71.7
2518 Hughes Jayne K Albany 17
2519 Judd Ronald P Rensselaer ....71.6
2520 Kaney Patricia Hamburg 71.6
2521 Shedina Whanda Schoharie ...71.6
2522 Gates Evelyn S Rochester .......71.6
2523 Vele Karen L Webster 0.71.6
2524 Hodge Kathleen Schenectady 71.6
2525 Gavia Judy A Albany 71.6
2526 Grasck Ellen M Delansoa ........71.6
2527 Notaro Helen B Lindenharst 71.6
2528 Mundy James R Schenectady 71.6
2529 Phelan Robert J Reassetaer,...71.6
2530 Garceau Cecitin Waverviiet ....71.6
2531 Westerlund J M Rocky Pr ....71.6
2552 Lucas John $ Oneoora 716
2533 Dunn Deborah J Endwell ......71.6
2534 Pr J la

2538 Pfeiffer Helen

2539 Sxesoat Betty A Voorheesvil
2540 Straub Dora M Richmond Hi
Herrick Mary A Albany
Brice Mary A Rush ..

2537 Oleinik Claudia Delanson
Bronx

Linda Westerlo

Gabrielsen Mary Amityville

2552 Kelly Wilma E Perry

2553 Jones Billy J Brooklyn

Brown Jeanne Cheektowags

Richardson EV Lackawanna
Scardale

2537A Bochike Gail A Albany
2367A Livingston R A Troy

2567 Ravish Patricia Albany

2568 Cipperly Sharoa Cohoes

2569 Turallo Tony Albany

2570 Vannostrand § Farmiagdale

2572 Ladouceur Sally Ogdensburg

2573 Jones Dorothy W NYC
Valenti Maria A Brooklya,

Scott Lynda A Brooklyn

2576 Ryan Mary E Delmar

Sais Jennie L Jamesville

2580 Myers Kathy L Scotia
Jette Kathleen Saranac...
Harms Joanne 1 Belmoat

2597 Bizzaro Gail A Troy

Seek Psych Head

Another promotional exam will
be open for filing April 6 through
26, for a high-level post with the
Health and Hospitals Corpora-
tion.

Chief psychologist—Exam 5508
—1s open to senior psychologists
who have been with HHC at least
six months, Former city em-
ployees on the senior psycholo-
gist preferred lst may also apply
for the technical-oral test sched-
uled for June 14. The job pays
$22,000 a year,

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2622 Gold Susan Brooklyn js...
Pamela Rochester

2623 Burrows 70.5
2624 Swan Mary M Auburn . 70.3
‘Agnes MN Babyloa ..70.5

Giblin Mary A Binghamton ..70.5

me, 4

Hawkins Wanda D Broax.......70.'
Spahr Edna MN Babylon .....70.4
arertord 70.4

2631 Sitcerly Alan P Albany 704

McGrath Harel M Cohoes
2633 Jarolem Gail R Briarwood
Mazur Laura Amsterdam

2635 Eileen Ronkookoma..70.4
2636 Pelrah Carol J Elmira 70.4
2637 Manwaring S A Albany 70.4
2638 Macken Nancy AN Troy .....704
2639 Rickard Joyce M Howe Cave ..70.4
2640 Emerson Elaine Weedkport ....70.4
2641 Scom June M Troy ....... 70.4
2642 Smith Adalaide Napanoch 70.4
2643 Nash Mildred Hi Saranac 70.4
2644 Petrillo J L Walden 70.4
2643 Goldberg BC Seaten Is. ........704
2646 Vann Sharon A Redford .......70.4
2647 Jaquis Lisa J Tupper Lake .....70.4
2648 Driscoll B A Poughkeepsie .....70.4
2649 Seary Elizabeth Albany 704
2650 Bodane Gloria M Fairport ......70.4

NY. Seeks

ALBANY —The State De-
partment of Civil Service is
accepting applications until
Mar. 22 for the promotional
exams of senior unemployment

Investigator. The jobs are at G-18
and G-21 levels, respectively.
Current vacancies for both
posts exist in the Counsel's Of-
fice of the Department of Labor

ounty Eligible Lists

‘2651 Manchewer Bi HNO oo TOA

Gullhaven Links
Now Open To All
State Workers

CENTRAL ISLIP—Central
Islip Psychiatric Center is
opening memberships in the
Gullhaven golf course on the
grounds to all state employees.

The move, according to Oleh
Riznyk, deputy administrator,
was made in response to state
demands to make the employee's
golf course self-sustaining. The
nine-hole, 2,700-yard course and
clubhouse. enable employees to
play with a maximum waiting
time of 15 minutes, often no
wait at all,

Memberships, at $60 a year,
provide golf seven days a week
and members may bring up to
three guests, who pay green fees
of $3 week days and $5 week
ends.

The club was developed by
employees at the center and has
heretofore been limited to about
300 members of the staff here.

Investigatars

in New York City and Rochester.
Written exams are scheduled for
May 1.

Applications are available
through Labor Department per-
sonnel or business offices. Forms

750, 1 West Genesee St., Buffalo.

Promote 24 More In FD

‘The Fire Department promoted
12 firemen to Heutenant and 12
lieutenants to captain last week.

Along with five promotions
to assistant chief the week be-
fore, they were the first in about
eight months in the department,
because of budget cutbacks.

‘The new captains are Henry F.
Kittel, Joseph N. Brocco, Robert
N. Cantillo, Francis J. Beyar,
Frank R. Ruckel, John P. Ian-
nuszo, Robert V. Koeth, Henry

W Brinkworth, Salvatore D. Ab-
binanti, Stanley A. Gerardi, John
J. Stelmack, and James P. Leddy.

‘The new leutenants are Mi-
chael D. Dunne, James E. Shu-
grue Jr, Kevin P. Lynch, Wil-
fred W. Schmelzinger, Michael
F. Tempesta, Norbert R. Mee-
han, Peter R, Masiello, Thomas
J. Owens, Richard E. Mills,
Thomas J, Owens, Richard E.
Mills, Thomas F. Jackman, James
E. Ratty, and Walter A, Nichol-
son,

State Promotional
Job Calendar

Filing Closes April 12

Title

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Handicapped ‘en

Salary Grade Exam No.

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Additional information and application may be obtained from

department

Genesee Street, Buffalo 14202,

and business offices or from the State Depart-
ment of Civil Service: State Office Bui
Two World Trade Center, New York |

Campus, Albany 12226;
7; or Suite 750, | West

9L6l ‘sz ue ‘Mepseny “YACVAT AOIAWAS AID
LEADER, Tuesday, March 23, 1976

CIVIL SERVIC

Ibany Region Gets It Taped Up

ALBANY — “An educated
staff, which is totally aware
of the ongoing changes in
their professional field, is
the mainstay of any modern or-
ganization,” Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. Albany Region
president Joseph McDermott
said in explaining the region
staff education program.

“Because of this need to keep
the Albany regional staff abreast
of the newest concepts in labor
relations, bargaining techniques,
arbitrations and grievance pro-
cedure changes, and other items,
we have begun a videotape pro-
gram. In this program, experts
in various fields address our re-
gional field staff and undergo an
intensive question and answer
period by the fieldmen them-
selves.

“Since these programs are
videotaped they can be played
over again to various audiences
so that the knowledge presented
can be disseminated over a very
large area without tying up the
expert or the members of the
regional staff," Mr. McDermott
observed.

Recently the regionul staff was
addressed by the Rev. David C.
Randles and William A. Toomey
concerning various aspects of ar-
bitration. Reverend Randles’
presentation lasts ninety minutes
and Mr, Toomey's lasts two
hours; both are on half-inch
black and white videotape.
Coples of each presentation can
be made available to other CSEA
regions for the copying charge
of approximately $15 per half-
hour reel

“The Albany Region believes

As the Rev. David Randles begins his presentation on arbitration preparation, members of Albany Region
IV, Civil Service Employees Assn, staff listen and J. T. O'Toole, a state employee and director of chan-
nel operations for ACVP - Channel 16, Albany, videotapes the event for future educational use.

Amendment Spikes Effort
To Staff State Lottery
With Patronage Positions

ALBANY—An amendment to Assembly Bill 9558-A, pro-
posed by Assemblyman Neil W. Kelleher (R-Troy), has
stalled an attempt by the legislature to re-establish the New
York State Lottery as a commission staffed exclusively with

that this type of educational
program, real presentations by
experts in the field, questioned
by professional practitioners, not
a scripted, staged presentation
by Hollywood-type actors, pre-
sents current knowledge in the
best way possible," Mr, McDer-
mott said.

“We do hope that other Re
gions will utilize these tapes or,
possibly, produce their own, This
will bring about an exchange of
educational materials related to
any situation at hand and the
establishment of an up-to-date
videotape library to help edu-
cate our members and the pro-
fessional CSEA staff.”

Schenectady Secretaries
Hold A Workshop Session

SCHENECTADY —A three-part workshop session has
been concluded by the Schenectady Educational Secretaries
chapter of the Civil Service Employees Assn. Chapter mem-
bers also heard remarks from Joseph McDermott, head of

CSEA Albany Region IV.

‘The three workshops were Ne-
gotiations in the Educational
Field, conducted by CSEA col-
lective bargaining specialist
Danny Jinks; The Taylor Law—
How It Came About, conducted
by CSEA field representative
John Cummings, und Civil Ser-
vice Testing, conducted by CSEA
research analyst Walter Leub-
ner.

The workshop was held at
Central Park Junior High School.
During luncheon, chapter mem-
bers viewed a fashion show with
commentator Louise Boyka. A
review and summary, given by
CSEA regional field supervisor
John D. Corcoran Jr. and direc-
tor of education Edward C, Din-
mond, concluded the workshop.

‘Mix & Mingle’
Date Scheduled

ALBANY — Albany Region
IV, Civil Service Employees
Assn., will hold its “Mix and
Mingle” party Friday eve-
ning, May 14, at Michael's Ban-
quet House, Route 9, Albany.

‘The party will begin at 5:30
p.m. with a Dutch treat bar fol-
lowed by dinner and dancing
Tickets are $8 each. They are
available from chapter party
chairmen or Marianne Herken-
ham, telephone number (518)
270-4464 and Susie Pfaffenbach,
($18) 270-5308. Deadline for ob-
taining tickets is May 7,

Madison County
Facing Charges

WAMPSVILLE—A spokes-
man for the Civil Service
Employees Assn. announced
that CSEA has filed an im-
proper practice charge against
Madison County over contract
talks for 1976.

Roger FP. Kane, chief negotia-
tor for the county employees,
said “The charge was filed be-
cause of the wage freeze the
county has imposed on the em-
ployees.

“The Taylor Law mandates the
county to negotiate in good faith
with its employees, and there
is no way thelr negotiating team
can talk about salaries when
they are being frozen by the
board,” Mr. Kane continued.

“The reason we have filed the
improper practice charge is be-
cause the Madison County nego-
tiators are violating the law, and
the Public Employment Relations
Board has the authority to make
them live within law, This being
the situation, it ls the general
feeling of our membership that
if the Madison County negotia-
tors do not have to live by the
prescribed law of negotiations,
why should we?"

No date has been set for fur-

patronage jobs.

‘The bill, in its original form
as sponsored by Assemblyman
Andrew D. Virgilio (D-Brock-
port), would have denied more
than 300 public employees the
right to transfer into a new lot-
tery division in the Department
of Taxation after their jobs in
the Sthte Racing and Wagering
Board were abolished by Gov.
Hugh L. Carey when the old lot-
tery commission was disbanded
in December,

The Civil Service Employees
Assn. is supporting Mr. Kelleh-
er’s amendment. It provides for
the transfer of State Racing
and Wagering Board employees
into equivalent positions in the
Department of Taxation’s lottery
division, “without further exam-
ination or qualification and
(these employees) shall retain
their respective civil service
classifications and status.” Mr.
Virgilio’s bill places the appoint-
ment of lottery assistants, offi-
cers and employees in the con-
trol of a lottery director, as
appointed by the Governor.

“On two occasions,” Mr. Kel-
leher said, “bills were brought to
the Assembly floor which would
have given the Governor the

NBIL W. KELLEHER

green light to staff a new lot-
tery from top to bottom with his
political pals. The bills were
withdrawn because, anticipating
this power grab, I, in effect,
killed them with an amendment
which would have allowed the
Governor to appoint his own top
lottery boss but would have com-
pelled him to rehire the civil
service personnel he summarily
fired when he dismantled the old
lottery last year.”

According to a spokesman for
CSEA, the bill was laid aside
each time it came up for debate
because Mr. Kelleher’s proposal
had garnered enough support by
the Republican minority in the
Assembly to be passed as an
amendment to Mr. Virgilio’s bill.

“When the patronage angle
was struck from the bill, thereby
giving former lottery employees
retention rights, the Legislature
suddenly became disinterested,”
the spokesman said. Informed
sources maintain that the pat-
ronnge jobs, as called for in the
original bill, would have been
split between some of the Legis-
lature's Democrats and Repub-
Means.

CSEA representatives are at-
tempting to contact legislative
Jeaders to support Mr. Kelleher's
amendment as a measure hold-
ing up the provisions of civil ser-
vice law which provides for the
orderly transfer of job functions
within the guidelines of the
merit and fitness system.

“What a truly sorry state of
affairs the Governor's efforts to
play political hanky-panky with
the lottery has brought us to,”
Mr. Kelleher said. He also cited
“slashes in funding to programs
that relate to much needed ser-
viees to our people that could
have been saved with the rev-
enue dollars—approximately $6
million @ month—that have been
lost by Governor Carey holding
his political foot on the neck of
the lottery program.

2 Pilgrim Men
Save Toddlers

BRENTWOOD — The first
day of work is often an
eventful one, but for two
new employees at Pilgrim
Psychiatric Center, Brentwood,
it will always be a day to re-
member.

Manuel Mercardo and Ray-
mond Montalvo, who were on
their first day of work as clean-
ers, just happened to be in the
right place at the right time and
rescued three young children
from a burning automobile
parked outside the employment
office in Building 19.

For their efforts, the two new
employees were cited in letters of
commendation from Anthony M.
Primelo, Pilgrim director.

The new employees observed
two children in a car outside
Building 19 making patterns by
brushing smoke on the wind-
shield with smoke on the inside
of the vehicle.

Mr. Mercardo and Mr. Montal-
vo ran to the car and removed
Michael Jerome Barker, five, and
Lorenzo Moore, three. Tragedy
still threatened however, because
in the smoke they did not notice
4 third child, 18-month-old Ter-
esa Moore, still in the car.

But they rescued her after
taking the older children inside,
where their mother was filling
out an employment application,
and learned from her that the
baby was still in the car.

They raced back to the car
and removed the baby. Mr. Mon-
talvo recalled later, “We had got-
ten about 20 feet away when
the car blew up. Another minute
and we would have been too
late.”

The fire was extinguished by
the Pilgrim safety department
crew. The car was destroyed.

Holland Patent
Schoolers Give
CSEA A Victory

HOLLAND PATENT—In a
recent election, school em-
ployees in this Oneida Coun-
ty community gave a vote of
confidence to the Civil Service
Employees Assn.

In 4 challenge election brought
by the New York State United
Teachers for the right to repre-
sent the School employees, the
vote showed five votes for no
union representation, 15 votes for
NYSUT, and 63 votes for CSEA.

Following the announcement
of the results, Ercole Ventura, a
CSEA Syracuse Region V or-
ganizer, said, “Naturally, we are
very gratified with the results of
the election, but the victory did
not come as a total surprise, We
felt confident that if the Holland

they would vote for CSEA. They
did just that,

“We are now going all out to
get the ‘message’ to Whitesboro

Know your type?

Join the mainstream of good
guys, who donate blood.
You may not be dying to
give blood, but some day you
may be dying to get it.

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