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Vol. XXXVIII, No. 43

Friday, January 27, 1978

Padavan Questions
At Prevost Hearing
Earn CSEA Praise

(Special to The Leader)
ALBANY—James Prevost cleared a major obstacle in
his bid to become the state’s next head of the Office of Men-
tal Health last week, when he answered questions before the
Senate Mental Hygiene Committee to the satisfaction of the

union that represents 60,000
workers in state Mental Hygiene
facilities,

The Civil Service Employees
Association praised the efforts of
Senator Frank Padavan (R-11,)
in questioning Dr.’ Prevost “to
see how he stands on the major
issues affecting the care of the
mentally disabled in New York
State,” according to Bernard J.
Ryan, CSEA’s director of legis-
lation and political action.

Senator Padavan chairs the
Senate Committee on Mental
Hygiene and Addiction Control,
before which Dr. Prevost ap-
peared at his confirmation hear-
ing. The psychiatrist, formerly
director of Hutchings Psychiatric
Center in Syracuse, has been in-
formally nominated by Gov.
Hugh Carey to head the new
state Office of Mental Health.
Dr. Prevost has been acting
Commissioner of the Department
of Mental Hygiene since the res-

New Political
Action Forces
Set Priorities

By RON KARTEN

ALBANY — The Civil
Service Employees Associa-
tion legislative and political
action committee met last
Thursday night, setting Taylor
Law reform, a Veterans’ buy-
back bill and retiree legislation
as priorities for this session of
the Legislature.

Specific changes in the Taylor
Law that the committee will
promote include removing the
two-for-one penalty days
charged to striking workers,
mandating hearings before in-
junctions, making disciplinary
procedures negotiable (Assembly
Bill 9214, representing the com-
mittee view, passed on Jan. 16),
and overturning a recent court
decision which denied a pre-
sumption of arbitrability for
grievances.)

The committee will also sup-
Port a veterans buy-back bill
that will enable veterans of
World War I and Korea to pur-
chase extra pension credit for
years served in the armed forces,

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ASSAULTS: SPECIAL RI

ignation of Lawrence Kolb.
The department’s reorganiza-
tion into the Offices of Mental
Health, Mental Retardation and
Alcoholism and Substance Abuse
is scheduled to take effect April

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Price 20 Cents

SENATOR PADAVAN
..» Efforts Praised

CSEA Committees

— See Page 14

Broome Unit Votes
Negotiators Power

To Call Job Action

By KENNETH SCHEPT
BINGHAMTON —Nearly 700 members of the Broome
unit of the Civil Service Employees Association voted over-
whelmingly last Thursday night to give their negotiating
team the authority to “do whatever it deems necessary up

to and including a job action,”
in an effort to resolve the con-
tract dispute between the union
and the county,

‘The meeting was originally ex-
pected to be for ratification of
a contract, but the negotiating
climate changed after Jan. 12,

Insurance Bonus, Women’s Committee
Approved At January Meeting Of Board

By MARVIN BAXLEY

ALBANY—An increase in death benefits was approved by the CSEA Board of Direc-
tors at its January meeting here at the Quality Inn,
Responding to a recommendation presented by James Corbin, chair of the standing
insurance committee, the Board agreed to an additional $1,000 death benefit this year to

the designated beneficiaries of
workers with coverage equal to
or in excess of $7,500 and an ad-
ditional $500 to those with cov-
erage less than $7,500.

The additional benefits are a
bonus, and must be renewed an-
nually as a non-permanent ad-
dition to the Basic Group Life
Plan. They are made possible
this year by a $900,000 surplus in
the insurance fund.

The bonus becomes effective
on April 1, 1978, to those policy-

holders insured prior to April 1,
1977 (excluding premium watv-
er).

Mr. Corbin also noted that the
committee will make recommen-
dations within the next few
months about extending term
coverage beyond age 70. This
possibility is currently being
studied by the committee.

Women's rights also took a big
step forward when the Board
approved of an ad hoc committee

to act on behalf of women,

Encouraged by the enthusiasm
of CSEA secretary Irene Carr
and director Francis Bessette
(Clinton County), both recently
returned from the Women’s Con-
vention in Houston, and by the
long-time advocacy of director
Jean C. Gray (Authorities), the
Board empowered CSEA presi-
dent William L. McGowan to set
up the committee to work with

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One of the most prestigious committees of the Civil Service Employees Association is the budget com-
mittee, which is composed of members of the statewide Board of Directors. Budget committee members,
elected by their fellow directors, are responsible for examining proposed budgets and making recom-
mendations for adoption or modification by the full Board. It is one of only two CSEA committees that
have their own sections in the union By-Laws (Article VI, Section 2 (a), This term’s committee mem-
bers are, from left, chair Howard Cropsey, of Albany County; Raymond Cassidy, of Westchester County;
G. Geraldine Dickson, of Education, and vice-chair John Weidman, of Agriculture and Markets, The
fifth committee member, Raymond Pritchard, of Central Region V Mental Hygiene, had to testify at a
hearing ‘at the time the photo was taken.

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when a two-year offer made by
the union was rejected by the
county, which countered with a
one-year, take-it-or-leave-it sub-
stitute. A fact-finder had rec-
ommended $525  across-the-
board for the first year, with 5¥
percent, plus an escalator clause,
for the second.

A hearing was scheduled for
this Tuesday, at 7 p.m., by the
finance committee of the Broome
County Legislature, which will
hear presentations by both coun-
ty and union negotiators before
making a contract. recommenda-
tion to the full legislative body
on Jan, 27.

‘The CSEA and the County are
divided mainly over non-money
issues. The County wants to
change hours when county of-
fices would be open—from 9 a.m.
until 5 p.m., to 8 a.m. until 6
p.m. It wants workers to accept
shift changes required by the

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Erie County
Unit Votes
Yes On Pact

BUFFALO — Members of
the Erie County unit of the
Civil Service Employees As-
sociation voted last Friday,
by a margin of 41 votes, 789-748,
to approve a contract with the
county which calls for pay raises
of 4 percent in 1979, 6 percent
in 1980, with no pay raise in the
current year. An agency shop
Provision is also included,

Two weeks ago, the same pro-
posed pact was turned down,
668-652, That vote was over-
turned because of irregularities,
By accepting the contract the
unit avoids the prospect of fact~
finding and a legislative hearing.

Proponents said the contract
was needed by the 1,700 workers
at county-run Meyer Memorial
hospital because the county 1s
interested in contracting-out its
responsibility there.

CSEA. president William L.
McGowan said under a privately
run corporation taxpayers “would
be still be required to pay huge
amounts of money to the cor-

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, January 27, 1978

Report

The Kyer Wire

From The Capitol

By PAUL KYER

Democratic legislators
from New York City are find-
ing themselves in the usual
election-year bind. Commit-
ted by the politics of party
survival on a statewide basis,
they are going to have to
give enthusiastic and vocal
support to Governor Carey's
tax-slashing 1978 budget,
which outdoes current Re-
publican proposals by about
50 percent.

Reductions in personal and
business taxes will make a
good many of the State's
citizens happy. But the City’s
labor unions have already
started a squawk over cut-
ting into tax revenues at the
expense of more money for
the City, money that will be
needed to meet wage de-
mands.

All this is not to say that
the Governor's proposals will
pass intact. Powerful Senate
Majority Leader Warren An-
derson has his ideas on the
subject (as well as on the
office of Governor). What-
ever happens, City politicians
seeking reelection will have

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The fragile basis for this
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A majority of Senators and
Assemblymen have favorite
watering holes where you
can sometimes accomplish
more at the bar than in an
office meeting.

Latest hot spot in New
York City for possibly find-
ing your local representative
at the end of the day is the
newly’ revived Cotton Club
on 125th Street in Harlem.
The handsome, Art Deco
night spot is drawing them
in with a mixture of nostal-
gic and up-to-date show biz
revues. The politicoes feel it’s
good for Harlem as well as
for themselves to be seen
there.

State’s Employees
To Face New Work
Evaluation Pilot

ALBANY—The state Department of Civil-Service has an-

nounced plans to conduct, on

a pilot basis, a type of em-

ployee evaluation and development program increasingly
used in private industry, called “the Assessment Center.”

An Assessment Center is a
comprehensive selection and
staff development procedure for
evaluating the knowledge, skills
and abilities of individuals to
perform certain jobs.

Assessment Centers are widely
recognized as comprehensive and
job-related selection devices, say
state officials, They were first
used in private industry and in
recent years a number of gov-
ernmental jurisdictions have also
used them. Two officials claim
they are well accepted by both
Participants and management.

‘The process involves a variety
of job-related exercises. Persons
being assessed may be asked to
solve written problems, respond to
oral questions, work with groups
and take part in acting out real-
istic work-related problem situa-
tions, Each center lasts two
weeks,

Vets Preference Plan Due
To Congress Next Month

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Con-
gress, it is expected, will be
presented next month with

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the Carter Administration
Plan to limit veteran's prefer-
ence in the competition for fed-
eral jobs,

Currently, veterans are able
to claim an additional 5 points
on their test scores for an un-
limited length of time.

If veteran's preference should
be restricted by Congressional
action, the principal beneficiaries
would be women, since consider-
ably more men than women are
able to claim military service.

The move is expected to bring
about an uproar from veterans
groups and perhaps some civil
service unions, Veterans groups
have long insisted that the na-
tion owes veterans this edge to
make up for the years they spent
in service, time they could have
used in shaping their civilian
careers.

The announcement came as no
surprise. Federal civil service of-
ficials have been hinting for
months that such changes were

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Procedures for selecting as-
sessors and those to be assessed
will be developed by the Depart-
ment of Civil Service and the
State Personnel Council. The
Council is made up of represen-
tatives from approximately 60
state departments and agencies.

The first assessment center is
Scheduled for June, a second in
September. They will be con-
ducted at Topridge, a State-
owned facility in Franklin
County.

Twenty-four state employees
from entry professional level
Positions will be the first par-
ticipants. They will be assessed
by 12 middle-management state
administrtaors, Thirty-six more
trainees will be evaluated by 18
assessors in the September ses-
sion,

Session's first week will be de-
voted to training those who will
perform the assessing. During the
second week, the participants
will be observed and precise an-
alyses of their strengths ‘and
weaknesses will be prepared, say
officials.

Detailed results of assessments
will be available to the trainees
and their agencies, say officials.
They will provide an indication
of the individual's ability to cope
with work-related problems and
of how performance and pro-
ductivity can be improved through
additional training, they added,
Training recommendations, they
say, will be tailored to the in-
dividual and will include courses
administered by the Civil Service
Department's training section.

‘The department will evaluate
its experience with this pilot pro-
gram in hopes of applying the
Assessment Center concept to
other positions, particularly those
at higher management levels, say
officials,

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Fifty Eligibles
ALBANY — The state Civil
Service Department established
an eligible list for assoc, real
Property info. specialist on Oct.
17, 1977, as the result of a Sept-
ember 1977 open competitive ex-
am, The list contains 50 names.

State Promotional

Job Ca

lendar

FILING ENDS FEB. 6

Head Data Entry Machine Operator
Principal Data Entry Machine Operator
Senior Data Entry Machine Operator

$11,337
$ 9,029
$ 7,204

FILING ENDS FEB. 21

Principal Accountant

$21,545

FILING ENDS FEB. 27

Asst. Dir. Environ. Consytion., Law
Dir. Land Resres. & Forest Mgm.

Enforc, $21,545

$33,701

For more information about these and other state jobs, contact
the state Civil Service Department, Albany State Office Building

Campus; | Genesee St., Buffalo,
York City.

or 2 World Trade Center, New

Broome Unit Votes Negotiators Strike Power

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new hours, with two-weeks’ no-
tice. The union rejected the idea
of making new shifts compulsory
on two-weeks’ notice, but it did
agree to make changes on an
experimental basis.

The county wants to eliminate
binding arbitration for the dis-

Duryea Says

ciplinary procedure, The union
Opposes this change.

There are grievance procedure
modifications that were recom-
mended by a fact-finder and
supported by the county, but that,
the union rejects. Barbara Pic-
kell, Broome unit president, said
that the group did not object to

some modifications in grievance
procedure, but that major
changes would be opposed.

Other matters in negotiation
are:

© Parking: Although the union
requested free parking for all
county employees, it agreed to go
along with the fact-finder’s rec-

‘Public Servants Invaluable’

MANHATTAN — Perry B.
Duryea, Minority Leader of
the New York State Assem-
bly, presiding over the instal-
lation last week of new officers
for the Civil Service Employees
Association's New York City Lo-
cal 010, said that state public

servants were “invaluable” and
“should not take the brunt of
the problems of New York State
and New York City.”

He also charged that Mental
Hygiene institutions were
“dumping” residents into com-
munities without sufficient pre-

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Paration.

In other action Local represen-
tatives gave a vote of confidence
to Solomon Bendet, president of
the region, reaffirming the Lo-
Cal's opposition to the recent
statewide agreement on the sal-
ary schedule.

Assembly Minority Leader Perry Duryea swears in officers of the Civil Service Employees Association
New York City Local. From left, corresponding secretary Alice DeSimone, recording secretary Marie
Robinson, financial secretary Anthony Vericella, second vice-president Ben Lipkin, Mr. Duryea, president
Solomon Bendet, first vice-president Gennaro Fischetti, third vice-president Canute Bernard, and treas-
urer Marvin Braham.

Monroe Local Says County's
Delay Prevents Strike Fine

(From Leader Correspondent)

ROCHESTER—The Monroe County Local of the Civil Service Employees Association
has a tactic that it thinks can prevent 1,300 members from paying an estimated $200,000
in penalites because of the county strike last August.

Under the state's Taylor Law, CSEA members who struck the county Aug. 22-24 can

be penalized two days’ pay for
every day of the strike,

County labor negotiator Ber-
nard Winterman said employees
who didn’t show up for work
those days automatically were
not paid. He said the county has
complied with state law and no-
tified strikers they will be docked
for an additional three days. But
so far that money hasn't been
taken from their paychecks, —

Martin Koenig, CSEA Local
president, said he will ask in
State Supreme Court that the
county’s notification be voided

because of unnecessary delays.

Mr, Koenig said that under
state law the county must notify
union members “forthwith” that
their pay is being docked. He
said some members still haven't
received notification, and it has
been almost 4% months since
the strike.

“It's against the law for
County Manager (Lucien A.)
Morin to wait that long,” Mr.
Koenig said.

Other Local sources believe
‘one reason for the delay was po-

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FEBRUARY
10—Long Island State Parks Local 102 Valentine Dance: Narragan-

sett Inn,

21—New York Metropolitan Retirees Local 910 meeting: | p.m.,

2 World Trade

enter» room 5890, Manhattan,

21—Livingston County unit of Rochester Area Retirees Local 912
meeting: 2 p.m., Youth Center, Main St., Mt. Morris.
* (CH

4-Binghamton School unit dinner-dance: 6 p.m., St. Mary's Ortho-
dox Church, Baxter.St., Binghamton.

litical, They said Mr. Morin held
back notification until after the
November election so as not to
antagonize employees, many of
whom are Republicans, Mr, Mor-
in was appointed by Republican
legislators, ?

“Department heads were given
the notifications to give to em-
ployees who struck and then
were told to wait until after the
election,” a Local source said.

Mr. Winterman said he ex-
pects the issue of unnecessary
delay to end up in court along
with another union contention
that the County had agreed that
Aug. 24 would not be counted as
a strike day.

Mr. Koenig maintains that
there was an agreement that
Aug. 24 would not be counted as
a strike day because pickets
were taken off the lines by mid-
morning when the tentative
agreement had been reached on
@ new three-year contract.

“Winterman said there was no
undue delay,” in notifying coun-
ty employees about pay being
withheld from their paychecks.

“We had to go through all the
files and reports of all county
departments, and they’re pretty
widespread throughout the coun-
ty,” be said.

ommendation of free parking for
some and an increase in the re-
imbursement rate for all who
use cars for county business.

© Uniform allowance — The
union requested that nurses and
others be supplied with uniforms.
The fact-finder rejected uni-
forms for nurses, but suggested
that a uniform policy, such as
the one for food service workers,
be applied to certain other job
categories. The union was open
to this possibility. The County
rejected it.

© Mileage — The County op-
posed any mileage increase, al-
though the fact-finder suggested
increasing the rate from 15¢ per
mile to 18¢ in 1979, with no raise
this year. That was acceptable to
the union.

® Overtime — The County re-
fused a fact-finder’s recommen-
dation, supported by the union,

CSEA’s Board
Acts On Bonus,
Woman’s Group

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other organizations in improving
the station of women.

Mr. McGowan also announced
that he had accepted an invita~
tion to serve as a member of the
Committee for Women in Gov-
ernment, He noted that at a
later time he will “choose five
women to serve on subcommit-
tees of the organization.

Acting on a motion by director
Jimmy Gripper (Mental Hy-
giene, Region II), the Board also
approved an ad hoc committee
on minorities,

Mr. McGowan, despite oppost-
tion led by several of the state-
wide vice-presidents, gained ap-
proval from the Board for allo-
cation of $50,000 to mount rep-
resentation challenges against
riVal unions.

The money would be used to
hire part-time workers for such
tasks as circulating petitions, Mr.
McGowan explained. The vice-
presidents had argued in favor
of permanent additions to the
field staff.

Mr. McGowan’s winning argu-
ment included the statement that
he is “sick and tired of being on
the defensive with the rival
union’s effort to raid CSEA
members and, with this $50,000
allocation, they will realize that
CSEA is prepared to take the
offensive.”

The expenditure, although ap-
proved in principle by the Board,
must still be referred to the bud-
get committee for recommenda-
tion before final action may be
taken on it.

Tt was also announced that the
publicity campaign against con-
tracting out was scheduled to get
under way on Jan, 16, and that

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As part of his effort to
strengthen communication
with the members of the Civil
Service Employees Associa-
tion, union president William
L. McGowan has granted ap-
proval for the Civil Service
Leader to report on CSEA
Board of Directors meetings.
In the past, these meetings
were closed to all represen-
tatives of the press, including
The Leader. We are grateful
for this special privilege.

that workers be given the option
of being paid in cash or com-
pensatory time off for overtime
work.

® Promotion — The fact-find-
er suggested a raise of from 5%
to 7 percent. The county said
that the union must then agree
to the elimination of severance
pay.

© Increments — The fact-
finder agreed with the County
in rejecting a union request that,
after working two years, no
worker earn less than 5 percent
above the entry salary for his
Job.

®A dental and retirement
plan were also rejected by the
fact-finder. Improvements in va-
cations were ruled against, as
was an agency shop provision.

Fifty percent of the members
of the Broome County CSEA unit
earn less than $7,000 per year.

THOMAS J. CALLANAN
. » « Director, Division of
Probation

McGowan Praises
Callanan Choice
For Probation

ALBANY—Thomas J, Cal-
lanan’s appointment as direc-
tor of the State Division of
Probation has been praised
by Civil Service Employees
Association president William
L. McGowan.

In a letter to Gov. Hugh L.
Carey, Mr. McGowan noted
that Mr. Callanan was unan-
(mously endorsed for the po-
sition by the CSEA statewide
probation committee, which is
made up of 10 probation offi-
cers from throughout the
state vepresenting the vast
majority of line probation of-
ficers.

Mr, Callanan had been
serving as acting director.
He has served in the past as
the division director of train-
ing at the Correctional Ser-
vices Training Academy; as
an adjunct assistant professor
of correctional administration
at the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice of the City
University of New York and as
president of the New York
State Probation and Parole
Officers Association.

“It is important to note,”
Mr. McGowan wrote the Gov-
ernor, “that Mr. Callanan
has risen through the ranks
of the Probation Department
and, therefore, has the ad-
vantage of knowing the prob-
lems of the rank-and-file em-
Ployees. We look forward to
working closely with Mr. Cal-
lJanan in his new position for
the betterment of probation
throughout the state.”

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, January 27, 1978

RETIRES
North Hempstead Highway De-
partment employee Arthur R.
Smith was awarded a certificate
for his 20 years’ service to the
town, just prior to his retirement
last month.

U.S. Psych, Other Positions Open

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A
new series of federal jobs are
open this week, the result of
a promise of new hirings by
officials of the Carter Admin-
istration.

All the jobs are for areas
outside New York, however. Most
are in Washington, D.C. Several

Info. Specialists

ALBANY — The state Civil
Service Department established
an eligible list for senior real
property information specialist on
Oct, 17, 1977, as the result of a
September 1977 open competitive
exam. The list contains 52 names.

BUY
UL Ss.
BONDS!

are in California. Several US.
Departments are recruiting can-
didates for the posts.

The Uniformed Services Uni-
versity of the Health Sciences
is seeking a research psychologist
for its facility at Bethesda, Md.
The post pays $15,000 a year.
Filing ends Jan. 27.

The Coast Guard 4s recruiting
an attorney-advisor for legisla-
tion for its Washington, D.C.
headquarters and a naval arch-
itect. Salary range for naval
architect is from $9,959 to $21,883
and for attorney-advisor, $21,883
to $30,750. Pilfng for these jobs
also ends Jan. 27.

‘The Treasury Department has
personnel officer opening in
San Francisco, Calif. Personnel
officers earn $21,883 a year. The
filing deadline is Feb. 21.

The Treasury Department also

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World War II. He can tell you about 20 years of service to the Boy Scout move-
ment. If you're interested, you can hear about his activities as an amateur gem
cutter and mineral collector. Or perhaps you'd like to know about the time he’s
criss-crossed America in a trailer, or about his adventures as a cross-country skier.

Al Snyder does one other thing you ought to know about: he helps people
like you protect your way of life now and in the future through the CSEA insur-
ance plans. For almost 30 years — 15 of them with Ter Bush & Powell — he
has helped people create insurance programs to protect the good life for them-
selves and their families.

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has two clerk-dictating machine
transcribing openings in the
agency's Office of the Chief
Counsel, Washington, D.C. These
jobs pay $9,959 and $11,101.
There is no announced filing
deadline on either job.

‘The Federal Railroad Admin-
istration has openings for two
Program analysts, an operations
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a clerk-typist, a budget analyst-
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Roanoke, Va.; Boston; Milwaukee
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SHORT TAKES

FIRM TO SCREEN JOBLESS BENEFIT CLAIMS

The Buffalo Board of Education will spend $10,150 to hire an
outside firm to weed out improper unemployment claims. The firm,
Gates, McDonald & Co., is expected to save the school system con-
siderable money. The federal government had been paying public
employee claims until Jan. 1. School districts and municipal gov-
ernments became responsible for the payments after that date.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. PENSIONS 'TOO GENEROUS'

‘The General Accounting Office is recommending that 1,500
federal employees be pulled out of the Washirigton, D.C., police and
firefighter retirement system because the system is too generous and
too costly. GAO says the district's retirement system requires smaller
employee contributions than the federal civil service system does but
offers more generous retirement and death benefits and permits
retired workers to collect higher pension benefits while holding
down other jobs.

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5,000 TEACHERS ATTACKED EACH MONTH

More than 5,000 teachers in the nation are attacked in school
each month and 1,000 of them are badly injured, enough to require
medical attention, says a study conducted by the National Institute
of Education. However, the rate of school vandalism, the report
continues, has remained the same. The study says strong and
dedicated principals who institute “firm, fair consistent” discipline
systems are needed to effectively combat school crime.

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BUFFALO CITY HALL IN UPHEAVAL OVER FIRINGS

Buffalo City Hall is in turmoil atest shakeup, newly appointed
over recent changes made by Human Resources Commissioner
the new administration of Mayor _ David L. Echols dismissed all six
James D. Griffin. Mayor Grif- Human Resources division heads.
fin has dismissed many of the One of them, Joseph P. Gallagh-
officials left over from the Ma- er, former youth director, said he
kowski Administration. In the will go to court to fight his ouster.

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100,000 MORE PUBLIC SERVICE JOBS

WASHINGTON—Labor Secretary Ray Marshall has announced
that nearly 627,000 Americans are employed in public service jobs.
‘This is 100,000 less than the administration’s goal. Mr. Marshall pre-
dicted by March, all of the 725,000 public service jobs authorized by
Congress last year will be filled.

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WOMEN FIREFIGHTERS HAVING HAIR PROBLEMS

A woman recruit for a firefighter job with the Milwaukee Fire
Department has resigned from the department's training program,
because Fire Department officials insisted she cut her long hair.
Christy Ihlenfeld, 25, was one of three women admitted to the
program. The other two got haircuts, fire officials say, but were
told to get their hair cut even shorter,

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Keeping City Balance

LEIGHT-OF-HAND is a political skill that must be mas-
tered by any politician who expects to be around to run
another day.

New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch exhibited that
skill last week when he offered his plan to reduce the city
workforce by attrition while continuing to hire new em-
ployees.

He was also adroit enough to except from his plan the
uniformed services of Police, Fire and Sanitation. Score one
for the new Mayor: It is not politick to gouge the most visible
civil servants, who have already proved their ability to raise
howls of protest from the public.

So, instead, the Mayor has turned to the mass of the
city’s workers in less glamorous, but still vital jobs: people
who man the desks, who work with the outcasts, who handle
the humdrum tasks that keep the city functioning. Score
two for the new Mayor: Zero in on the people who occupy
the lowest paying jobs.

Mr. Koch announced that the city's workforce will be
reduced by 10 percent during the next four years. This would
be less than the number of workers laid off in a couple of
deftly swung ax blows by former Mayor Abraham Beame
in one year alone. Score three for the new Mayor: Soften
the blow in advance, so workers can get used to the idea,
instead of waiting for a miracle and then having to resort
to layoffs.

In terms of numbers, it means that there will be 20,000
fewer New York City workers by 1982, but the rate of attri-
tion becomes less during each of the years leading up to
it, During fiscal 1979 the attrition rate will be 4 percent,
followed by 3 percent in 1980, 2 percent in 1981 and 1 percent,
in 1982. Score three for the new Mayor: Make it sound as
though things are getting better instead of compounding.

Then, to top it off, Mayor Koch offers a formula that
for every two people dropped from the city payroll through
attrition, one new employee will be hired. Score four for the
Mayor: It all seems to work out well in the end.

We are sympathetic to the new Mayor, who has, as
everyone knows, inherited one of the biggest fiscal messes
in the country. The public wants more services. The workers
want more pay. The banks want more interest. The City
wants more loans, The federal government, which was the
salvation of last resort during the beleaguered Beame days,
wants less of everything in less time. And the unions, whose
pension funds were used to save the City until federal help
arrived, will surely want something for future favors.

It all amounts to a chicken-or-the-egg-first puzzle. Per-
haps, in time, evolution will reduce the question to a polemic
exercise, but meanwhile, down at City Hall the Mayor and
his staff continue to hatch solutions to buy a little more
time (since the City can afford to buy little of anything else).

We are not so callous that we do not appreciate the
city’s fiscal discomfort. We feel, however, that city officials
should look elsewhere for methods to close the budget gap.

As one example: Why not scrap the City Council? It
seems to be common knowledge that this is one of the most
useless, powerless organizations ever created. If this is so,
why is the taxpayer saddled with this showpiece luxury.
We're probably conservative in saying that it would be a
million-dollar savings right there.

What is needed are some exhilarating innovations —
not more belt-tightening on civil servants as usual.

Don’t Repeat This!

State Taylor Law
Revision Should
Hold High Priority

It’s in the nature of the
legislative process for every
session of the Legislature to
begin with a backlog of bills
that should have been acted on
in the past session, or for that
matter, many sessions ago.

‘The legislative session just con-
vened in Albany is faced with
such a backlog, particularly with
respect to civil service legislation.

Admittedly, a great deal of
progress has been made since the
Condon-Wadlin Act was adopted
during the years of the Thomas
E. Dewey Administration. That
law was clearly punitive and the
Legislature was obliged to adopt
special amendments to avoid its
application to public employee
strikers in New York City and
in Buffalo.

An Improvement

The Taylor Law, adopted dur-
ing the Rockefeller years, was
certainly an improvement over
the unworkable Condon-Wadlin
Law, but it nonetheless retain-
ed some of the punitive provi-
sions of its predecessor, even
though in modified form.

Years of experience with the
Taylor Law have clearly dem-
onstrated that it is one-sided
and tips the collective bargain-
ing scale in favor of the em-
ployer. Thus, there are no penal
provisions that the law imposes
upon the public employer to bar-
gain in good faith. And if bad
faith bargaining provokes a pub-
lic employee strike, all of the
forces of government, including
injunctions and other penalties,
are invoked against the public
employee, while the public em-
ployer accumulates the benefits
of a two-day penalty on strik-
ing employees for each day they
stay off the job.

Bills are pending in the Leg-
islature, as a carryover from the
last session, that would modern-
ize the Taylor Law and equalize
the position of employer and em-
ployee representatives at the bar-
gaining table. The Legislature
should move promptly to ap-
Prove those proposed measures,

One of these bills, sponsored
by Senator Franz Leichter and
Assemblyman Frank Barbaro,
would eliminate penalties against
public employees accused of
striking. These penalties include
loss of tenure and the double
loss of salary, Similar legislation
has been introduced by Assem-
blyman Stephen Greco, of Buf-
falo.

Legislation is also needed to
Prohibit the public employer
from changing the terms and
conditions of an expired con-
tract during the period of nego-
tiation for a new agreement, Ob-
viously, nothing is more likely
to precipitate a strike than the
unilateral change of working
conditions while the parties are
negotiating the terms of a new
one.

Employers Market

Unfortunately, it is a matter
of record that a number of
public employers have taken ad-
vantage of their position during
a period after a contract has
expired to revoke certain bene-
fits that the employees had en-
joyed under the pre-existing
agreement.

Legislation is also needed

(Continued on Page 7)

Civil Service
Law & You

By RICHARD GABA

Mr. Gaba is a member of the New York Bar and Chairman
of the Nassau County Bar Association Labor Law Committee.

Tenure Remains

The petitioner, a tenured teacher, received notice on
May 28, 1975 from the Three Village Central School District
Board of Education charging him with incompetence, in-
subordination, neglect of duty and other unsatisfactory
conduct,

On the second day of the hearing, Oct, 5, 1975, petitioner
and the board reached a settlement in which it was agreed
that the charges would be dismissed if the teacher would
take a year’s leave of absence without pay. It was also
agreed that after that period the petitioner would be allowed
to resume his teaching duties from September 1976 to De-
cember 1976, and that during this period the school prin-
cipal would determine whether petitioner's employment
should be permanently terminated. The parties further
agreed that the petitioner “waive his right to a hearing in
the event that the principal determines at Christmas, 1976,
that his employment should not continue in the district and
that the petitioner waives all rights that he might have had
under Article 78 of the CPLR, or any other provision of law
to challenge the determination of the principal as to his
non-retention.”

In accordance with the stipulation, the petitioner took
a leave of absence, returned to work in September 1976, and
was terminated in December 1976. Subsequently, the peti-
tioner instituted an Article 78 proceeding in Supreme Court,
Special Term, Suffolk County. He alleged he was not fully
aware that under the stipulation “he was giving up his
property rights (teachers’ contract), statutory rights as a
tenured teacher and was permitting his property rights and
statutory rights as a tenured teacher to be taken away with-
out due process of law at some future date.” The stipulation
was, according to the petitioner, a violation of public policy
and an improper alteration of his contract rights. The court
stated that since the petitioner was represented by counsel,
the issue is whether the petitioner could waive tenure rights
in advance.

The court held that the procedure for removal of teach-
ers provided for in the tenure statute of the Education Law
is the exclusive method for dismissing teachers with tenure.
Therefore, it was a violation of the teacher's right to a hear-
ing and due process for the principal to recommend his
dismissal without notice and hearing. According to Educa-
tion Law, Section 3020-a, subdivision 2, a teacher may waive
his right to a hearing or terminate a hearing by resigning.
Here, the court noted, the petitioner did neither waive the
hearing nor resign,

The court stated that the general rule is that a party
may waive a statutory or constitutional provision enacted
for his benefit or protection where it is exclusively a matter
of private right and no consideration of public policy or
morals are involved. However, a statutory right conferred
on a private party affecting the public interest may not be
waived or released if the action contravenes statutory policy.

The court concluded that apart from their constitution-

(Continued on Page 7)
| WHAT’S YOUR OPINION

By PAMELA CRAIG
THE PLACE; State Insurance Fund, lower Manhattan.
QUESTION: The Governor has promised to cut costs and lower taxes
to make New York’s economic climate more fertile for industry.
What is your reaction as a state resident and civil servant?

Walter Kelsey, senior actuary; “As a state resi-
dent, I feel that cutting taxes
will not benefit the poor per-
son very much. The amount of
money involved is peanuts. I
feel he should cut sales taxes
to make New York State more
competitive with other states. It
is very easy for many state and
city residents to travel to New
Jersey to buy clothes and food.
‘They should actually lower the
sales tax to draw residents from
other states, The price of oil has risen from 20
cents to 50 cents a gallon, I feel the state is rip-
ping off the citizens when they charge a 4 percent
sales tax. The state got a windfall of profits on
the increase on the price of oil. The state actually
has doubled its taxes on the consumption of oil
and gasoline.’

Jules Linefsky, underwriter: “I think the Gov-
ernor may have a good idea by
trying to bring private enter-
prise into New York, but as far
as civil service workers are con-
cerned, this act will not change
our lives. This is politically
thought out and it certainly en-
hances his chances for re-elec-
tion with the voting public, but
in no way, shape or form does
this help the civil servant. He's
taking from state workers in
order to help private industry, It’s a negative
action for the state worker. If I were a business-
man, I would feel differently about it.”

Jacqueline Davis, telephone operator: “My reac-
tion is that the cuts for busi-
ness will help business restore
its ability to attract other busi-
ness. But I feel residents should
also have a tax cut. Of course,
my reaction to any cuts is that
this is an election year and he
will promise cuts for anything.
It happens every four years.
Politicians make promises they
never keep in order to get
elected. We desperately need to
be upgraded in our titles, A telephone operator is
only a Grade 4 and I feel it should be higher.”

Norman Satz, principal account clerk: “My reac-
tion is one of anger. The Gov-
ernor has arbitarily chosen to
give a tax break to business in-
stead of giving a tax break to
consumers. If he were to give a
tax cut to consumers, they
would have more purchasing
power, which would generate
more business for the state.
Business is known for not low-
ering its rates. They are also
known for passing all cost in-
creases to the consumer, Consumer tax relief
could come in the form of lower ‘sales and in-
come taxes. He could also remove the taxes on
many necessities, such as soap.”

Alvin Overton, principal statistics clerk: “As for
cutting of costs, does this mean
that the state plans to cut our
costs in order to finance the
projected cuts for private in-
dustry? As a state worker, I see
a two-edged sword within his
budget. As a resident, I feel a
tax cut is beneficial, yet I know
. I wouldn't want to be working
with a reduced work force in
a 1 order to reap the benefits of a
tax cut. I think this budget is
a political gimmick. I will also say that next
year all these good things will probably go back
to status quo.”

Johnson, medical dictaphone transcriber: “I
think what the Governor 1s
proposing is a_slap in the face
to state workers. If he is pro-
posing the reduction as stated,
how is he going to finance
raises for state workers who
desperately need an increase in
salary? What is he going to do
for state workers who also need
a reduction in their taxes? I
feel that his action to cut taxes
for business and his choice to
omit state workers from any relief is a disgrace.”

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RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS

Social Security Benefits For Students

Almost everyone knows that,

unmarried children of retired
and disabled workers and sur-
vivors of deceased workers can
get social security benefits on a
parent's social security record if
they are full-time students be-
tween 18 and 22, But, many
people are confused about what
students can qualify.

‘There are two rules, one for
university, college, and junior
college students, and another for
high school, trade, or vocational
school students.

For social security purposes, a
university, college, or junior col-
lege student is considered full-
time if his classes last at least
13° weeks.

A high school, vocational, or
trade school student in a 13-week
or more course is also consid-
ered full-time if he is enrolled
for at least 20 hours a week.

A student is not eligible for
benefits, however, if he is paid
by an employer to attend classes.

Another point that seems to
confuse people is just what kinds
of schools qualify. Students of
the following kinds of institu-
tions can get social security stu-
dent benefits:

© A high school supported or
operated by a state or local gov-
ernment, or the federal govern-
ment;

© A vocational or trade school
supported or operated by a state
or local government, or by the
federal government.

® A state college, or university
or a community college.

© A private school or college
approved by a state or accredited
by a state recognized or na-
tionally recognized accreditation.

® An  unaccredited private
school or college, provided that
at least three accredited schools
or colleges accept its credits on

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

United

The following letter was sent
to Felton King, president of the
Civil Service Employees Asso-
clation's Willowbrook Local 426,
Dear Felton:

As a local, we have tried to
keep abreast of all the events
concerning Willowbrook and the
United Cerebral Palsy Associa-
tion (UCP) takeover. While we
stand in support of quality com-
munity-based programs for the
mentally retarded, we believe that
these programs can exist for the
most part under the state sys-
tems. The State has a re-
sponsibility to provide quality

care for the mentally retarded
and the mentally ill. The State
cannot be allowed to divest it~
self of these responsibilities, Fur-
thermore, it is clear that not one
state employee should lose a job
or benefits as a result of this
transition. The mentally handi-
capped haye been victimized by
a society that has turned its
back. But these problems will not
be solved by victimizing another
population—the employees who
seryed them.

We know that thes¢ are hard
times for the brothers and sis-
‘ters at Willowbrook, As a gesture
of solidarity, the board of Lo-
cal 455-O.D. Heck (Development

withheld upon request.

LETTERS POLICY

» Letters to the Editor should be less than 200 words.
The Leader reserves the right to extract or condense
pertinent sections of letters that exceed the maximum
length. Meaning or intent of a letter is never changed.
Extensive letters that cannot be edited to a reasonable
length are not used unless their viewpoint is so unique
that, in The Leader’s judgment, an exception should
be made. All letters must be signed and bear the
writer’s address and telephone number. Names will be

Center) voted to hold $250 for
the Willowbrook Local if it be-
comes necessary for you to take
job action, We realize that this
is a_token amount, but we hope
that every CSEA local will fol-
low suit,

This letter is being sent to
all local presidents, the Leader
and Bill McGowan,

Keep in touch, we are with
you.

VERA MICHELSON, President

Local No, 445
Schenectady

Ten Percenters

Editor, The Leader:

I enjoyed your article on the
makeup of regions, etc. and I
felt it was very timely in ac-
quainting our many newly ac-
quired members with some good
solid background information on
our union's structure. We, also,
tend to forget that not everyone
gets the structure explained
when they become involyed in
CSEA,

It was interesting that you
noted the fact that Local 999
(Capital Area Retirees) was the
largest in membership of Region

IV chapters.

A study of our latest member-
ship report vividly points out
that the retiree membership at
one tenth our standard dues
structure now numbers almost
10 percent of our rolls,

This pressure group within
CSEA has become increasingly
more vocal and demanding of at-
tention,

Obviously, the matter of how
and in what manner CSEA as a
public employee union will be re~
acting is of interest to all our
membership. The topic of our
retirees’ role in our organization
is becoming more and more an
area of heated debate at various
meetings. Perhaps, your readers’
reaction to where the CSEA
should be standing policy-wise
in this matter of retiree vis-a-
vis still publicly employed mem-
bers would be worth exploring.

JOSEPH E. McDERMOTT
Region IV President
Civil Service Employees Assn.

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transfer on the same basis as
credits transferred from an ac-
credited school.

Schools outside the United
States may also qualify under
certain circumstances.

Students’ benefits can con-
tinue during a vacation for up
to four months if the student is
full-time before and intends to
return to full-time attendance.

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As a public service, The Leader
continues to publish the names
of individuals who are benefict-
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.
uals whose membership terminated pur
suant to the provisions of section 40,
paragraph 1 of the Retirement and $o-
cial Security Law oo or before August
31, 1974.

(Continued from last week)

Davies, Wiley
Davis, Daniel E
Davis, Robert

Freeport
sovsnnneRochester
New Hyde Park

Flushing
“Wurtsboro
coun Spring Valley

Brentwood

Delanson
Buffalo

DeMura, Thomas G Jr Albany
Denny, Beverly J Syracuse
Diesu, Anthony Bayshore
Divaleatino, Antoni Stony Point
Dondero, Donald L Miller Place

(To Be Continued)

Civil Service
Law & You

(Continued from Page 6)
ally protected interest in the
right to employment and com-
pensation therefor, of which
tenured teachers cannot be de-
prived of without due process of
law, there are public policy fac-
tors involved in the tenure laws.
Tenure laws express a strong
public policy “to give security to
competent members of the edu-
cational system in the positions
to which they have been ap-
pointed,” ‘The court held that the
statute enacted to protect ten-
ured teachers for their own and
the public’s interest could not
be rendered inoperative in the
fashion contained in the stipu-
lation, Abramovich y, Board of
Education of Central School Dis-
trict No. 1 of the Towns of
Brookhaven and Smithtown,
Suffolk County, 398 N.Y.S.2d 311.

Don’t Repeat This!

(Continued from Page 6)
under which some restraint
would be imposed on the courts
before they issue an injunction
against a public employee strike.
Among factors a court should be
required to consider are the im-
pact of the strike on the public
health and welfare and the con-
duct of the public employer dur-
ing the period of negotiation.
This would permit the court to
consider whether the strike may
have been provoked by bad-faith
bargaining on the employer's part.

The time for action on such
proposals is overdue.

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- Special Report Part 2

ASSAULTS AGAINS
MENTAL HYGIENE
WORKERS:

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, January 27, 1978

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Working in Mental Hygiene centers with the low-
functioning retarded and the emotionally disturbed involves
unavoidable occupational risks. The retarded may become
agitated and physically strike out with no premeditation;
the emotionally ill may misperceive reality and violently
retaliate to a non-existent threat.

Nadine Hunter, director of Craig Developmental Center,
said that “anyone who goes into this type of work realizes
that there will be exposure to some acting out behavior.”
According to Gabriel Koz, director of Manhattan Psychiatric
Center, “things are going to happen at any large mental
institution. You want to keep them down to a minimum.”

However, in some New York State mental institutions,
the problem of assaults against staff seems to have reached
proportions beyond what could be justified as basic occu-
pational risk. Several possible explanations for the magni-
tude of the problem, alluded to in the first installment of
this series, were suggested by the following incident, which
was described by a nursing administrator at Creedmoor
Psychiatric Center.

“A 19-year-old patient returned from school disturbed
... He wanted to kiss one of the women employees; she
said forget it. He picked up a chair and threw it at her.”

Eva Coleman, the nursing administrator who told this
story, added that, “patients who never did anything before
will slap you in the face now and laugh.”

One of the many questions that the incident raises
about the causes of assaults against staff is this: has the
increased emphasis on patients’ rights given some clients
the idea that it is their prerogative to assault staff without
fear of consequences?

A statement made by a worker at Hutchings Psychiatric
Center is typical of what ward service workers have been
reporting throughout the state: “Patients know their rights.
They have literally told me, ‘I can hit you and you can't
do anything.’”

At West Seneca Developmental Center, a worker who
had to have an eye surgically restored as a result of a resi-
dent assault, said: “patients are smart enough to know
when they can act out.”

Dr. Louis G. Huzella, director at West Seneca, said “these
are the exceptions not the rules. I am absolutely convinced
that in an institution such as ours for the mentally retarded
the majority of the general assaults are not premeditated.”

Craig Developmental Center director Hunter said that
people flaunting an assumed right to be hurtful would be
found in no greater numbers in a developmental center than
“you would find in any school, any group of adolescents.
You'll always have a smart aleck who says you can’t hurt

me because teachers can’t hit kids.

Understaffing
was named as
a chief reason
for . assaults
against work-
ers.

When patients’ rights first received attention certain
residents, aware of the change, reminded staff that it had
occurred. The same group was not always cognizant that
their rights had limitations. Dr. Hunter described an inci-
dent where a resident brandished a knife and threatened
an employee saying, “‘I have my rights and you can’t take
this away from me.’ And be wanted whatever he wanted
right now,” Dr. Hunter said. 5

She disarmed the resident by asking for the knife. “He'd
forfeited his rights when he threatened another with harm,”
Dr. Hunter said.

“The staff may feel they're being used and manipu-
lated,” said Alvin Mesnikoff, Department of Mental Hy-
giene New York City regional director. Patients’ abuse of
their rights may represent “a fraction of the incidents ...
I'm not discounting that some of it may be manipulative, but
I think that the staff's feeling of being manipulated needs
to be dealt with as part of the problems of a treatment
community,” he said.

In most Mental Hygiene institutions throughout the
state, workers are distressed because some clients proclaim,
if not the right to hurt a staff member, then the knowledge
that such an attack would not result in serious conse-
quences to the patient.

Dr. Koz, director of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, at-
tributed the unreasonable number of assaults against staff
to several other influences, including the staffing ratio:
“T have a ward with 53 patients which is built for maxi-
mum 35. If you've got two therapy aides there at night
it’s going to be difficult to handle and it’s going to be more
likely to happen in those wards,” he said.

Understaffing was named as a chief reason for assaults
against workers by Civil Service Employees Association col-
lective bargaining specialist Robert Guild. Mr. Guild, a for-
mer ward attendant, focuses on Mental Hygiene problems
for the union. About one-fourth of CSEA-represented
workers are employed by the Department of Mental Hygiene.

Peter Crain, a psychiatrist at Bronx Psychiatric Center
who consults throughout that hospital on violent behavior,
and administrates its locked ward, said, “The first thing is
you've got to have adequate staffing. With adequate staffing
patients are less likely to become assaultive.”

He gave the following example: During a day shift,
in a ward staffed by only one person, a patient was pacing
back and forth, accusing everyone of being a Nazi, out to
get him. He said he would do whatever was required to pro-
tect himself.

“This guy was clearly an assault risk. If he interpreted
anyone as a risk to him, he would think you were a Nazi
and attack you, Dr. Crain said.

The female aide on the ward saw the state which the
patient was in, and went to the unoccupied nurses station
to call for help. The patient followed her in and punched
her down to the floor.

“Patients themselves, when they see the place is under-
staffed, feel nervous. They are afraid of each other and fee!
safe when there is more staff around. When patients gel
nervous, who are they going to pick a fight with? They ih
hit a staff member because if they hit another patient, they
know that the patient might hit back. They know the staff
member must restrain himself.”

“There aren't enough staff to do what's demanded of
us,” said Russell Barton, Rochester Psychiatric Center
director.

“There are sometimes 5, 10 or 15 staff members look-
ing after 100 patients. “It isn't really enough. It's a con"
tributing reason to assaults because if a patient is a psycho-
path or a schizophrenic, or has any other illness and sees
that there aren’t many about, he’s much more likely '
take a poke.” s

According to former Commissioner of Mental Hyegie’
Lawrence Kolb, “It comes down to the Legislature votine s
sufficiently sizable personnel budget for the department - »

ne

Last year we were cut some 730 positions.”

Dr. Koz, of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, listed other
factors that affect the level of assaults, which he feels occur
not only randomly, but in relationship to other aspects of
the ward environment, such as the quality of staff and
leadership.

He classified incidents of assaults against staff in this
way: “the assaults that are provoked by people who
shouldn't be working in this sort of institution; the assaults
that happen because of a faulty therapeutic environment;
the random assaults, even in the best of units with the best
of staffs.

For example, when the 19-year-old Creedmoor patient
struck a female aide after she refused to be kissed by him,
was it a matter of a violent patient striking out? Or is it
possible that the aide was either ill-trained or incompetent
and responded to the boy’s request without the tact and
understanding which is required for effectively working in
a ward service position?”

“There are some staff who are not very popular, who
are maladroit and who provoke hatred .. . There are some
staff who are maladroit, who have no social skills, who try
to put out a fire with a blow torch,” said Dr. Barton, of
Rochester Psychiatric Center.

According to Roger Heath, director of Utica-Marcy
Psychiatric Centers, the staff member who gets attacked
is the one who “unconsciously provoked it. We have a group
of people who for reasons unknown to them and not really
cbvious to the rest of us, seem to get beat up all the time.”
The tendency to be assaulted cuts across length of ser-

Its

dg Vice and job classification, Mr. Heath said. “For instance
droit there is Dr. Know-It-All, who has a special relationship
ned with the deity. He walks on the disturbed ward. Some pa-

tient’s going to spot that right off.

“Some doctors get assaulted frequently, others have
been around for 40 years and no one’s ever bothered them.

“It's deadly,” Mr. Heath said. “The staff sometimes gets
some satisfaction from seeing a patient doing to someone
what they'd like to do themselves.”

Chuck Soper, deputy director of Syracuse Developmental
Center, views provocation by staff as a lesser factor in the
assault problem.

“Non-verbal cues that one person gives another are hard
to really plot or graph. Whether staff would set up a client,
I am very doubtful . . . I think it is more random.”

“Sometimes these assaults are provoked by the actions of
the staff, but more often they are the consequence of the
defective thinking of the people who are being treated,” said
former Mental Hygiene Commissioner Kolb.

“Occasionally there is someone working on the wards
who, indeed, has a personality defect . . . but much more
often the attack is made by the patient upon the individual,”
he said.

Rochester Psychiatric Center director Barton said that,
“regardless of how socially skilled and pleasant and agree-
able the staff is,” some patients “just go for them because
they're staff, or because they’re under some delusion.”

Dr. Huzella, director of West Seneca Developmental

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“We're getting much more of that,” Rochester Psychiat-
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managers who ought not to be appointed to positions of
authority because it’s disproportionate to their know-how
and insight. . . You're getting hopeless managers, making
stupid decisions, demanding unnecessary work,” he said.

Mr. Heath, director of Utica-Marcy Psychiatric Centers,
said, “One of the things that happened in our field is that
it’s so easy to end up overclassified in the system because
all you have to do is go to school for too long and you can
have absolutely no understanding of what goes on in the
place over which you have supervisory responsibilities.”

Another factor to be considered in examining the prob-
lem of assaults against staff is, according to Mr. Soper of
Syracuse Developmental Center, “that we have gone away
from heavy medication for clients . . . We've become very
selective in providing tranquilizing medication.”

Utica-Marcy Psychiatric Centers director Heath said that
the current rule which places a time limit on a doctor’s
recommendation that a patient be physically restrained, in
a camisole for example, contributes to the possibility of as-
sault, If the patient requires an extended period in restraint,
the doctor must visit every two hours to renew the order.

The rule “tends to minimize the use of restraint when
it’s sometimes needed, especially in the evening and night
hours; because to the physician on call it’s kind of a hassle
to walk over to ward 36 and sign again,” Mr. Heath said.

Instead, he said, the doctor assigns an extra staff person
to the patient, which results in a staff shortage elsewhere.

Changes in client population in the institutions may
contribute to the assault problem.

Mr. Heath said that figures seem to indicate that the
number of male admissions with criminal histories has in-
creased throughout the department.

“I believe I read some OMH material that says that
male admissions with previous criminal records have in-
creased from 32 to 40 percent in the last 10 years,” he said.

He estimated that 80 percent of assaults are perpetrated
by 3 percent of the patients.

As a result of the state’s deinstitutionalization policy,
the resident populations at the developmental centers have
gone, “from the high moderate-borderline to the more
severely and profoundly retarded,” which is the way Mr.
Soper described the situation at Syracuse Developmental
Center.

“Consequently, the number of true assaults has de-
creased because the population has changed,” Mr. Soper
said. “There is more hands-on contact where you begin to
work with the severely retarded, multiple-handicapped in-
dividual, and the process of carrying out the duties results
occasionally . . . in injury.”

“Deliberate attacks by clients on staff are very rare,”
he said. “But in the course of duty, in helping an individual
who is acting out emotional problems, staff frequently en-
counters a swat, slap, thrashes, glasses pulled off, shirts torn,
simply because the client is acting out that way: his arms
flail, etc.”

Generally, although in varying degrees, assaults against
staff occur at Mental Hygiene institutions throughout the
state, the problem seems greatest in New York City.

There are many reasons that contribute to this fact,
not the least of which is that patients in state institutions
located in New York City come from an urban, perhaps
more violent population than those upstate.

According to Dr. Mesnikoff, New City regional director
for the Department of Mental Hygiene, the state in New
York City “is a very large provider of acute care. . . Acute-
ness and disruptive behavior go together.”

“You get a funneling of the more difficult patients to
the state system, with the increased number of incidents
that relate to it, because the involuntary patients are not
taken by the private hospitals,” he said.

The regulation which permits keeping a patient for
72 hours without consent papers only applies to the city
and state hospitals.

Dr. Mesnikoff also said that the staff-to-patient ratio
was lower in the state hospitals, Understaffing has been

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For positions with the Unified
Court System throughout New
York State, applicants should
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phone 488-4141.

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Region, runs a Job Information
Center at 26 Federal Plaza, New
York 10007. Its hours are 0
a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays only.
Telephone 264-0422.

Federal entrants living upstate
(North of Dutchess County)
should contact the Syracuse Area
Office, 100 South Clinton &t.,
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Federal titles have no deadline
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The Federal Employee

By PETER ALISON

Now There Are Two

Protection Board. The protection
board will hear and decide ap-
peals and review operations
periodically.

The special council will deal
with Hatch Act violations and
charges of political appointments

(Continued on Page 15)

Everyone in civil service is
watching for the effects of
the Carter reorganization.

One facet is evident. The
Civil Service Commission will be ,
split into two or three different
organizations. New teams of po-
litical appointees will administer
them. Best guess is that five
non-career assistant directors
will replace the bureau director.
‘The assistant director will come
in at the executive level with
salaries of $50,000.

A newly created organization,
the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment, will take over policy mak-
ing. It will be headed by a level
II director with a level III dep-
uty. The director will appoint
the five assistant directors.

The present Federal Employees
Appeals Authority and the Ap-
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up of career employees, will be
replaced by three political ap-
pointees. A special council will
serve the new board. The Office
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R.E.—Florida

Five beautiful private acres with
magnificent view of the Berkshire
Mins, Plus 2 year old Cape featuring
fplce in liv. room, den, formal din
room, 3 bdrms, 14 baths, 2 car garage.
All in excellent condition, 18 miles from
Albany, NY, Call Hallenbeck Realty
(518) 756

Long Island

HOUSE FOR SALE: WESTBURY.
brick/cedar split corner plot
bedrooms, 3 baths, den, finished bas
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$58,990, Principals only 516-ED 4-675,

SAYVILLE VILLAGE

VICTORIAN DELIGHT

‘TEDDY ROOSEVELT SLEPT HERE!

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100, desirable area, excellent schools,

anxious to sell, Principals only.
281-4983 after 6 PM.

Nassau-Suffolk Co,

SEA CLIFF—Charming North Shore
village. Large expanded Cape, LR, OR,
eat-in-kitch, 3 BR's, 2 bihs, Ige studio
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‘Move-in cond. Princ only, Ask’g $74,900
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Putnam County

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Mid $60 Eves 914-628-3892

Suffolk Co.

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Ulster Co.

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Box 258L, Islesboro, Maine 04848

MAHWAH-Luxurious estate on 11
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References required.
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ISLA VERDE

Beautifully furnished 3 bedroom con
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facilities including pool, tennis,
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(212)285-0049(516) 536-468:
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, January 27, 1978

Friday,

RVICE LEADER,

CIVIL SE

CSEA Statewide Committees Are Appointed

(Continued from Last Week)

ALBANY — Names of com-
mittee members for the Civil
Service Employees Associa-
tion were announced last
week by CSEA president Wil-
liam L. McGowan.

The directors committees
are elected by members of
the statewide Board of Di-
rectors. Other committees
are named with the advice
of the regional presidents
from names submitted by
the Locals.

NURSES COMMITTEE
Ethel Cobb, Susan Kolesinskas,
Marguerite Hopkins, Regina
Nemchek and Kathleen Keegan.

PLATFORM COMMITTEE

Dallas McCormick, chairman,
and Michael Curtin, Willie
Raye, Joan Tobin, Helen Hanlon
and Andy Azzarella.

PROBATION COMMITTEE

James Brady, chairman, and
Jim Mattei, Tom Taylor, John
Whalen, David Singer and Peter
Grieco.

PUBLIC RELATIONS
COMMITTEE
Paul St. John, chairman, and
Dudley Kingsley, Thomas Di Na-
tale, Roseanne Lanza, Suzanne
Burczinski and Russ Bettis.

REGIONAL OFFICE

COMMITTEE
Anne Wadas, chairman, and
Molly Falk, Alex Hogg, Eileen

Salisbury, Dorothy Moses and
Sam Notaro.

SOCIAL SERVICES
COMMITTEE
Grace Vallee, chairman, and

Gennaro Fischetti,
Bernard Dwyer, Kermit
and Ed McGreevy.
STATE SAFETY COMMITTEE

Arthur Allen, chairman, and
Hayward Quann, Patricia Tho-
mas, Ron Draper and David Wil-
bur.

AD HOC COMMITTEES
AD HOC CETA COMMITTEE
David Mance, chairman, and
Robert Maletta, Paul Kamrass,
Al Rubin, Robert Gailor and
Annette Harding.

AD HOC CONTINGENCY
ACTION COMMITTEE
Marie Romanelli, chairman,
and Luke Whelan, Robert Sage,
Ronald Galinski, Audrey Snyder
and Robert Stelley.

AD HOC MENTAL HYGIENE
TASK FORCE COMMITTEE
James Bourkney, chairman,
and Dan Donohue, Ronald
Smith, Patricia Miller and Wil-
Yam Krivyanik.

Jim Otte,
Pearl

AD HOC COMMITTEE TO
STUDY COMPUTER
OPERATIONS
George McDonough, chairman,
and Emil Spiak, Karen White,
Kenneth Glastetter and J. Mic-

hael Murray.

UNIFORM OFFICERS
COMMITTEE
Mac Smith, chairman, and
Dorothy Garage, Glenn Garnsey,
Rod Watson, Keith Poole and
James Wiley.

WORK PERFORMANCE
COMMITTEE
John Makin, chairman, and
Alex Castaldi, Giles Spoonhour,
Harold Ryan, Robert Weinbloom
and Jo Anne Miller.

Assaults On Staff

(Continued from Page 9)
mentioned as a situation which contributes to assaults.
Another factor which distinguishes the state institutions
in New York City from those upstate is the difference in
the general social and educational levels of the staffs.
In Utica, for example, because of the depressed economy,
$7,000 or $8,000 per year ward service jobs are considered
good opportunities by people coming out of college with

master’s degrees.

Upstate, there also seems to be a greater feeling of com-
munity involvement in the hospitals,.which is lost in the
vastness of New York City, where a person may work in
the Bronx but live two islands away in Richmond County.

There are also many examples of several generations
of one family working in the same facility upstate, a tra-
dition which seems missing in New York City.

It is more difficult to make a living on the state salary
in New York City. There is greater staff turnover. Accord-
ing to Dr. Mesnikoff, “the kinds of pressures which exist,”
with the greater proportion of acute patients, ‘make for

great difficulty.”

“You need people who have a lot of frustration toler-
ance ... who can handle someone who's assaultive in a very
controlled way. These are a lot of demands that are placed
on people,” Dr. Mesnikoff said.

Plan Political Action

(Continued from Page 1)

Legislation will be supported
which extends supplemental and
permanent benefits to retirees.

Occupational safety and health
coverage is a fourth priority for
the committee this year. The
OSHA plan would provide better
safety regulations and inspec-
tions of work-places resulting in
fewer job-related injuries with
high workmen's compensation
costs.

In addition, James Feather-
stonhaugh, partner in the CSEA
law firm of Roemer and Feather-
stonhaugh, said that the com-
mittee would be supporting
“hundreds of other bills” includ-
ing two that would retrieve per-
sonal days lost to state workers
caught in last winter's blizzard
in the western part of the state,
and those caught in last sum-
mer's New York City blackout.

DEPARTMENTAL
COMMITTEES

MENTAL HYGIENE LABOR/
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Betty Duffy, Greg Szurnicki,
Joseph LaValle, Patrick Fraser,
Ronnie Smith, Dorothy King,
Jimmy Gripper, Nicholas Puzzi-

ferri, Richard Snyder, Patricia
Miller, William Deck, James
Moore, Ray Pritchard, James

Bourkney and William McGow-
an.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT
LABOR/MANAGEMENT
COMMITTEE
Robert Stelley, Gen Clark,
Grace Steffens, Judith Garanson,
Dale Mumbulo, Ernst Stroebel,
Robert Weinbloom, Pat Comer-
ford, Bee Kee, Al Mead, Milton
Friedman and Tony Muscatello.

DRUG ABUSE CONTROL
COMMISSION LABOR/
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Vidla Richardson and Anthony
Marino.

DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTION LABOR/
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

James Chapman, Susan Craw-
ford, Ralph Schwartz, Rose Mar-
cinkowski, Larry Natoli, Fred
Depew, Richard Becker and
Ronald Marx. ~

DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION LABOR/
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Tim McInerney, chairman, and
Joan Tobin, William Lucas, Nic-
holas Cimino, Lyle Woolson, Ed-
ward McGreevy, Earl Logan,
John Riley, William Dupee, San-
dra Deyo, Louis Visco, Arthur
Allen, Edgar Canavan and Wil-
liam Saunders.

JUDICIARY NEGOTIATING
COMMITTEE
Ethe} Ross, Ruth Joseph, Rich-
ard Szymanski, Joseph Johnson,
Jr., Julia Drew, Mel Schnitzer,
John Casey and Allen Hanley.

STATE UNIVERSITY LABOR/
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Al Varacchi, chairman, and

Edwin Fitts, Marle Romanelli,
Betty Lennon, Loretta Rodwell,
Dale Dusharm, Barbara Chap-
man, Sara Sievert, Edward Du-
dek, Patricia Crandall and June
Boyle.

CONTRACTUAL
COMMITTEES

RECLASSIFICATION AND
COMPENSATION COMMITTEE

Sara Sievert, chairwoman, and
Florence Murphy, Robert Keeler,
Fred Haalck, James Hull and
Frank Winslow.

JOINT STATE/CSEA TRAINING
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Loretta Rodwell, chairwoman,
and Delores Farrell, Mary Doyle,
Nicholas Puzziferri, Lou Mannel-
lino and Evelyn Glenn.

DENTAL AND HEALTH
INSURANCE COMMITTEE
Robert Wall, chairman, and

Joe Aiello, Ralph Susskind, Rob-
ert Minyard, Leonard Smith, Pat
Crandall and Sylvia Ebersold.

| West Seneca DC Grievance Seminar |

Elaine Mootry, left, president of West Seneea Developme:

secretary for West Seneca Local,
was in charge of semimar ar-
rangements.

Barbara Biniecki, corresponding J. N. Adam Developmental Center Local 400’s vice-president David

mtal Center Local 427

that hosted a recent
grievance workshop, looks attentive as CSEA field representative Thomas Christy looks over agenda
Prepared by statewide education chair Celeste Rosenkranz, right.

Polisoto, left, and treasurer Gary Patterson look concerned as they
listen to lecture on grievance procedure.

(Leader photos by Hugo Unger)

Among the participants from other Western Region VI Locals were, from left, SUC at Buffalo Local

640's president Barbara Chapman, treasurer Diane Scrappo and second vice-president William McMillan
and Gowanda Psychiatric Center Local 408's Sam Bucco and Karen Bucco, both members of the Local’s
board of directors. Here they are shown taking a test to check their knowledge of grievance procedures-

(Continued from Page 10)
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To Honor Perry Duryea

MANHATTAN—Sam Emmett,
chairman of the New York State
Employees Brotherhood Commit-
tee, Inc., announced last week
the 25th annual Brotherhood ob-
servance to be held Feb. 9, with
& panel discussion from 9 a.m. to
12 noon and a luncheon to fol-
low at 1 p.m, at the Roosevelt
Hotel, Madison Avenue and 45th
Street, Manhattan.

Perry B. Duryea, State Assem-
bly Minority Leader, will be hon-
ored with the Benjamin Potoker

Award. Eugene Vizzini, an un-
employment insurance referee,
will receive the Civil Service
Employees Brotherhood Award.

‘The awards are presented to
an elected or appointed official
and a career civil service em-
Ployee, who by their deeds and
actions have exemplified broth-
erhood in all fields of endeavor.

The Civil Service Commission
has approved time off without
charge to accruals for all em-
ployees who attend.

Ban Lie-Detectors
For Jobs: Posner

ALBANY—A bill to prohibit
employers from using psycholo-
gical stress evaluators on present
or prospective employees has
been reported out of the Assem-
bly Labor Committee, the bill's
sponsor, Assemblyman Seymour
Posner (D-Bronx), announced.

Mr. Posner, chairman of the
Labor Committee, said, “The bill
is the first step toward banning
employer use of all lie detectors.”

Senate Labor Committee
Chairman Norman Levy (R-
Nassau) {s sponsoring the bill in
the State Senate. The measure
passed the Senate last year. Mr.
Posner says it has a good chance
of passing both houses this
session,

Supporters of the bill, includ-
ing the AFL-CIO, the Communi-

cation Workers of America, the
Civil Service Employees Associa-
tion, the Retail, Wholesale, and
Department Store Union, and the
New York Civil Liberties Union,
argue that detectors represent
an invasion of privacy and are
susceptible to abuse. They cite
studies indicating levels of ac-
curacy far lower than those
claimed for the devices by their
operators.

“Even if test results are 95
Percent accurate—which they're
not—that still means thousands
of innocent people are denied
employment,” said Mr. Posner,
“Meanwhile, pathological liars
might easily pass the test. Most
courts won't accept these test
results as evidence. Test questions
and interpretations are far too
subjective.”

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LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

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St, NYC. Substance of Certificate of
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1977. Business: Own and operate real
Property. General Partners: Lawrence
Devine, 72 Fifth Ave., NYC; Susan Ab-
bor, 37 W 72 Se, NYC. Limited Part-
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the remaining general partner has the
right to continue the business. Limited
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LEGAL NOTICE

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West 38th St, NYC. Substance of Certi-
ficate of Limited Partnership filed in
New York Couaty Clerk’s Office Dec.
28, 1977. Business: Own and operate
real property. General Partners: Stanley
Fuchs, 97 Bayberry La.

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to contributions or as co compensation
by way of income. Limited partners
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Actuary (Life), Principal $22,694 20-521
Actuary (Life), Senior $14,142 20-519
Actuary (Casualty), Supervising $26,516 20-418
Actuary (Life), Supervising $26,516 20-522
Audiologist, Assistant $11,337 20-885
Aud iologist $12,670 20-882
Chief Accountant $26,516 90-008
Dental Hygienist $ 8,523 20-107
Dentist-In-Training $20,428 27-679
Dentist | $22,694 27-629
Dentist II $25,161 27-680
Dietitian Trainee $10,118 20-888
Dietitian $10,714 20-887
Dietitian, Su ervising $12,670 20-886
Electroencepl alograph Technician $ 7,616 20-308
Engineer, Assistant Sanitary $14,142 20-122
Engineer, Junior, $11,337—$12,275 20-109
Engineer, Senior Sanitary $17,429 20-123
Food Service Worker $ 5,827 20-352
Histology Technician $ 8,051 20-170
Legal Careers $11,164—$14,142 20-113
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Medical Specialist i] $27,942 20407
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(Reg & Spanish Speaking) $ 7,204 20-394
Motor Carrier Transportation Specialist $13,404 20-889
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Nurse Il (Psychiatric) $11,337 20-586
Nurse il (Rehabil ition) $11,337 20-587
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Nutrition Services Consultant $14,880 20-139
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$12,670 20-894
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$ 9,029 20-175
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$10,714 20-101
$ 6811 20-307
$14,142 20-140
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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, January 27, 197:

Snow, Blackout Days On CSEA Action Agenda

By RON KARTEN

The Civil Service Employ-
ees Association law firm of
Roemer and Featherston-
haugh has decided to push
for resubmission of bills that
would retrieve lost leave tire for
state workers in the western part
of the state and in New York
City, according to James Feather-
stonhaugh, a partner of the firm.

At the union's legislative and
political action committee's stra-
tegy session last week, legislative
plans to get back days lost dur-
ing a blizzard last winter in the
western part of the state and
during a blackout last summer in
New York City were approved,

In the Western Region last
winter, a blizzard turned nine
counties into a disaster area, yet
those who did not show up for
work had to charge their ab-
sence to leave time. Union offi-
clals turned to state legislators,
who introduced and passed both

Senate and Assembly bills that
would retrieve those lost days.
Governor Carey, however, vetoed
the bill because, as one CSEA
legal representative interpreted
the Governor's reasoning, the bill
was “flying in the face of Civil
Service Law.”

CSEA Region VI president
Robert Lattimer was incensed at
the Governor's veto in light of
@ more recent development last
December when Mr, Carey sent
Albany state workers home an
hour and a half early, at no
cost in leave time, because of an
area snow storm.

The Governor's office had no
recollection of this, although a
spokesman for the state Office
of Employee Relations verified
the fact.

The decision in last week's
Political action committee ses-
sion, however, means that CSEA
lobbyists will be urging state leg-
islators to reintroduce again this

Department.

Victor Pesci

dents

in the selection of candidates.

NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR STATE BANKING
DEPARTMENT CSEA BOARD VACANCY

ALBANY—Civil Service Employees Association president
William McGowan has ordered an election to be held to fill
@ vacancy on the State Executive Committee of the union’s
Board of Directors for a representative of the State Banking

The election was called as the result of the promotion of
to a management-confidential position in the
Banking Department. The election will take place in February.

Bernard C. Schmahl, chairman of the CSEA’s special elec-
tion procedures committee, has called upon state Local presi-
representing Banking Department members to make
nominations for the vacancy on the Board of Directors.

The nominees are to be submitted to Mr. Schmahl at CSEA
Headquarters, 33 Elk St., Albany, by Feb. 3. Mr. Schmahl asked
that names of nominees be submitted with resumes of the
candidates' membership, activities and other information vital

year the bill to retrieve lost days.

“The state has an obligation
to its workers,” said Mr, Lattimer.
“We are continuing to work to
get this resolved.”

During last summer's blackout
in New York City, many state
workers who showed up for work
at the World Trade Center were
turned away by guards at the
door, but others, in different
buildings, showed up for work,
performed their duties and then
were told to go home because of
the electrical blackout.

While CSEA-backed legislation
may be forthcoming to retrieve
lost leave days for all New York
City workers, the state has al-
ready agreed to pay a full day's
wage for those who reported to
work, performed their duties and
then were told to go home. These
workers, who have not yet had
their leave time returned, are
asked to contact the New York
City regional office to see that
this time is retrieved.

In another development, mem-
bers of the Hudson Valley Com-

munity College unit recently won
an arbitrator’s decision against
the college, which closed down
for a week to save heating costs
and subsequently tried to charge
the days to workers’ leave time.
‘The workers retrieved their lost
days and while some thought
that this ruling might set a pre-
cedent for the blizzard and
blackout cases, Solomon Bendet,
president of CSEA’s Region II,
Mr. Lattimer, and a spokesman
for Roemer and Featherston-
haugh disagreed,

Erie Contract Vote: Yes

(Continued from Page 1)
poration without any real con-
trol over how it is used or how
the hospital facility would func-
tion.” A contract, it is thought,
would provide Meyer workers
with greater security, while the
contracting-out issue is disputed.

The County Legislature had
been scheduled to meet to con-
sider the contract. It must con-
duct a public hearing before im-
posing a contract on the 2,100-
member white-collar unit,

The unit, which bargains for
more than 4,500 county em-
ployees, had turned down an
earlier contract proposal in De-
cember by a 3-1 margin,

‘That pact offered no pay raise
in 1978, a 4 percent hike in
1979 and a wage reopener clause
for 1980.

“A big part of the problem
in last month's rejection was
the feeling that a wage reopenef
clause for the third year really
meant a zero pay raise,” Erie
Local president Eiss said.

Praise Padavan’s Questions

(Continued from Page 1)
1, Senator Padavan asked Dr.
Prevost about the department’s
policy of “deinstitutionalization”
—the dumping of patients out of
the state-run facilities and into
communities that are often ill-
prepared to receive them. “What
are your recommendations in the
area of deinstitutionalization for
the state?” Senator Padavan
asked.

“T have found that in the de-
velopment of transitional and
community services, that the
state employee, accustomed to
working with the severely and
chronically disturbed within our
institutions, is, with additional
training, the worker of choice
with the patient outside the hos-
pital,” Dr. Prevost said.

Senator Padavan also grilled
the psychiatrist with regard to

his feelings about the place of
the multiply handicapped in the
reorganization of the depart-
ment, and about the commit~
ments made by Governor Carey
last year to patients and staff
of the state Mental Hygiene fa-
cilities.

The proposed commissioner
added that the blame for the
“dumping” policy should be laid
on “professionals” who failed to
realize in the past that patients
institutionalized for years need

Metropolitan Local

MANHATTAN—The executive
committee of the Civil Service
Employees Association's Region
II will hold a meeting at Fran-
cols Restaurant, 110 John St,,
Manhattan, beginning at 5:15
p.m, on Jan, 31.

more than tranquillizers to live
on the “outside.”

The CSEA has launched a
statewide publicity and political
action campaign to halt the
practice of dumping of mental
patients as it is currently being
carried out by the DMH.

Dr. Prevost said, however, that
he endorses deinstitutionalization
as a concept—as does the CSEA,

Mr, Ryan said, “The chair-
man’s questions accurately re-
flected the concerns of the union
on the important issues. As a
result, we now have a much
clearer idea of the direction the
Office of Mental Health may
take under Dr, Prevost’s leader-
ship.”

A vote on the psychiatrists’
nomination is expected to be
taken in the state Senate within
two weeks.

Both proposed contracts es-
tablished an agency shop in the
county bargaining unit and of-
fered improved vacation, sick
leave and personal leave benefits.

‘The latést pact, to resolve a
dispute with the county workers
over time lost during two De-
cember snowstorms, also estab-

lished a snow-leave policy that
mandated a full days pay if
county offices close after 1 p.m.,
@ half-day’s pay for closing be-
fore 1 p.m, and no pay but the
option to take personal leave if
offices did not open,

The CSEA's former contract
with the County expired Dec. 31.

CSEA Board Meets

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$25,000 will be spent in New York
City alone, to publicize the situa-
tion at Willowbrook Develop-
mental Center, where United
Cerebral Palsy has taken over
direction of seven buildings at
the institution.

Several directors expressed.
concern over the number of titles
being taken out of the open com-
petitive class. CSEA research di-
rector William Blom explained
that his office is constantly
policing these actions, and is in
contact all the time with Civil
Service Commission president
Victor Bahou.

In other action, Mr. McGowan
noted that he is calling a special
meeting of delegates for April 3
and 4 at the Conyention Center
in Albany.

Remodeling of the CSEA head-
quarters in Albany is expected to
be completed by that time, To
refurbish the lower floors and to
revamp the third floor for more
efficient office structure, the
Board approved the use of $60,-
000 from the building and main-
tenance und.

Mr. McGowan said the re-
modeling will be completed in
time for members to view their
headquarters when they attend
the delegates convention,

Secretary Irene Carr pointed
out that a new procedure will be
followed for motions at conven-
tion, Forms must be filled out in

triplicate (one each for the sec-
retary, maker of motion and
hearing reporter). An aide will
be conveniently located to assist
delegates in preparing and typ-
ing their motions.

Court Policy Staff
Continue To Review
The Pay Structure

The new salary structure for
court workers is still weeks
away as the Court Adminis-
tration wrestles with the prob-
lem of determining job clas-
sifications.

Court workers have been
under state jurisdiction since
April 1, 1977. Before that
time, as either county or mu-
nicipal employees, they work-
ed under an assortment of
job titles and salary classifi-
cations,

The Court Administration
seeks to establish statewide
uniform job titles and equal-
ize the uneven salaries work-
ers are now paid,

Manhattan Retiree

MANHATTAN—The New York
Metropolitan Retirees Local of
the Civil Service Employees As-
sociation will meet at 1 p.m., on
Feb. 21, at 2 World Trade Cen-
ter, room 5890, Manhattan.

MANHATTAN—"It's to

Cornell

Part Il

Robert B, McKersie, CEC chairman and dean of
University's School of Industrial and Labor

Continuity Of Employment Committee

(Continued from last week) Dr.
keep people working, em-

ment, researchers have begun a study of 1,015 unem-

ployed at what they do best; to train people to fill jobs
similar or comparable to jobs that haye been elimin-
ated; and to provide the best possible employees for
the people of the State,” said Solomon Bendet, v-pres.
of the Civil Service Employees Association about the
first statewide labor-management committee, the Con-
tinuity of Employment Committee,

The state appropriated $1 million to see this job
through and the money has been allocated 25 percent
for research and administration and 75 percent for a
direct action program toward that end.

“The major premise underlying the creation of the
Continuity of Employment Committee,” according to

Relations, “is that employees represent the key resource
available to the State to perform its wide range of
governmental operations and ‘services.”

On target with this human approach, researcher Todd
Jick noted in his study, “Coping with Job Loss,”
“Whereas layoffs have traditionally been considered as
an economic phenomenon alone, the current emphasis
has also explored the social and psychological conse-
quences. The general thrust of the research has been
to examine how layoffs affect the employee's physical
health, psychological well-being, and family life, as well
as economic stability.”

In developing strategies to mitigate worker displace-

ployed state workers responding to a canvass of some
2,400 who were listed as jobless or working in lower-
paying titles as of mid-1977.

A “skills inventory profile” is planned for each worker
to be matched with a complementary inventory of po-
sitions available in state, city, and federal governments,
and the private sector. The committee seeks a perman-
ent, long-range system whereby the fluctuations of the
state’s workforce needs will become predictable. In this
way, the CEC hopes to be able to provide all state work-
ers with continuity of employment.

Next week: preliminary results ef the study with
the 1,015 groups.