The Public Sector, 1979 April 4

A VICTORY FOR STATE WORKERS — CSEA
Statewide President William L. McGowan, lower left
foreground, leads the members of the union’s coalition
bargaining team in a victory sign after team members
met in Albany recently to approve final contract
language in tentative 3-year pacts covering 107,000
state employees represented by CSEA. Ratilication
ballots go out to union members affected later this
(Photo by Joseph Schuyler)

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Official Publication of The Civil Service Employees Association

Vol. 1, No. 27

25° (ISSN 0164 9949)

Wednesday, April 4, 1979

Ratification voting April 6-27

ALBANY — Copies of exact con-
tract language in the tentative
agreement between the State and
CSEA covering the Administrative,
Institutional and Operational
bargaining units should be in the
hands of unit members within one
week.

While contract information

meetings were going on across the
state to explain the many gains
won for employees in the affected
units, publication of the changes in
the present agreements for the
three units was underway.

The publication of changes in the
agreements is a requirement of the

Delegates to meet on April 4

ALBANY — CSEA President William L. McGowan has called a
Special Statewide Delegates Meeting for April 4 to consider
amendments to CSEA’s Constitution and By-Laws necessitated by
decertification of the PS&T bargaining unit.

The 11 a.m. session was scheduled to be held in Chancellors
Hall at the State Education Department Building on Washington
Ave., in Albany. Registration of delegates will begin at 9:00 a.m.

President McGowan said that in addition to amendments to the
Constitution and By-Laws, the Delegates will also discuss the
present schedule for the election of Statewide and Regional Of-
ficers. At press time no agenda for the meeting had been es-

tablished.

union’s Constitution and By-Laws.
Copies of present contract
language and tentative contract
language will appear in the tabloid-
type publication which will begin
arriving at the homes of unit
members this week.

On April 6, CSEA will mail

CSEA upheld

ALBANY — The Public
Employment Relations Board has dis-
missed charges by the Service
Employees International Union
(SEIU) that alleged that CSEA was
improperly certified as-the exclusive
bargaining agent for court employees
in Judicial Districts 3 through 8.

SEIU brought the charges in March
of 1978, after the State’s Unified Court
System recognized CSEA as bargain-
ing agent for the six separate district-
wide units, each of which was created
through a merger of several pre-
existing bargaining units.

_ Highest court rules in PS&T case — see page 2

ratification ballots to’ regular
CSEA members in the affected
units. Ballots must be returned by 8
A.M. on April 27 to be counted.

Included in the ratification ballot
mailing will be a fact sheet briefly
summarizing the major provisions
of the agreements.

as court rep

One of the merged units cited in
SEIU’s complaint was the City of
Cortland, which had been represented
by ‘‘Local 200, SEIU.’’ PERB hearing
Officer Louis J. Patack found that,
‘Although SEIU is an employee
organization, it is not the recognized
or certified representative of any of
the employees mentioned above, in-
cluding those in Cortland.”’

AS a result of this decision, CSEA
remains the sole, exclusive bargain-
ing agent for the 3,000 employees in-
volved.

McGowan — ‘I only have regrets that now
PS&T members will never know the answer’

ALBANY — After more than a year
of campaigning, electioneering and
litigation, the representation battle
for the State's Professional, Scienti-
fic and Technical bargaining unit has
finally ended with a decision by the
State Court of Appeals denying unit
members rights to an investigation of
alleged forgeries in the showing of in-
terest that triggered the election.

CSEA officials immediately went to
work on details of the complex decer-
tification process to protect the many
thousands of loyal CSEA members in
the PS&T Unit.

“We felt we had an obligation to do
our utmost to assure the integrity of
the representation election process,”
union President William L. McGowan
commented in reference to the Court
decision. ‘‘We felt, and still feel, that
the employees in the bargaining unit
had a right to know for sure, one way
or the other, if the forgery allegation
was true. Now we will never know
and that is the most unfortunate
element of this whole situation."

President McGowan directed CSEA
officials to participate in an orderly
decertification procedure to protect
the insurance coverage that presently
applies to a vast number of PS&T
employees. The union went to work
with insurance carriers to explore a
formula to allow PS&T members to
continue their insurance coverage

with CSEA should CSEA’s statewide
delegates agree to extend such an op-
portunity to the unit. President
McGowan has called a Special
Delegates meeting for April 4 to dis-
cuss this issue and others that relate
to the PS&T unit and CSEA’s Con-
stitution and By-Laws.

Union officials said the insurance
question would be resolved in the im-
mediate future and unit members
would not face immediate loss of
coverage until further notification.

Meanwhile, CSEA attorneys moved
into the Appellate Division of State
Supreme Court to attempt to recover
dues which have been placed in es-
crow under terms of a court in-
junction issued in connection with the
PS&T dispute last September. CSEA
had been representing PS&T
employees in grievance and ar-
bitration proceedings in the interim
and lawyers were asking the Court to
restore the escrow funds for CSEA to
compensate for the services provided.

It was unclear where unit
employees stood in connection with
future dues deductions and the
amount of those deductions.

Reflecting on the year long battle
over representation, President
McGowan said that the union had an
obligation to both PS&T and all

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CSEA PRESIDENT
decision.
this whole situation.”

CSEA members to do its best to en-
sure the integrity of the electoral
process. Just two months ago, the
Appellate Division of State Supreme
Court had agreed with CSEA’s
position that substantial questions
had been raised concerning the
propriety of the election and that
those questions demanded answers

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Now we will never know and that is the most unfortunate element ot

OWAN, studying the Court of Appeals

which could only be provided by a
complete investigation.

“I have no apologies for our long
struggle to establish the integrity of
the PS&T election one way or the
other,”’ President McGowan con-
cluded, ‘I only have regrets that now
the PS&T members will never know
the answer.”

State overturned on 26 job-status changes

ALBANY — CSEA has won a class-
action arbitration on behalf of 26
members of the Statewide
Operational; Institutional; and
Professional, Scientific and Technical
bargaining units that favorably in-
terprets the ‘Benefits Guaranteed”
articles of those employees’ con-
tracts.

The article says that the State can-
not try to diminish any non-
contractual benefits provided by

“law, rule or regulation’ without
prior discussion and negotiations with
the union. In the past, this has been in-
terpreted by arbitrators.to apply only
to cases where actual laws, rules or
regulations themselves are changed.
But arbitrator Herbert L. Haber has
found the article to apply to actions by
the State which impair any benefits or
privileges granted law, rule or
regulation.

“There’s a big difference,’ said

Report Card

A biweekly column for and about the thousands of non-instructional employees of school districts throughout New York represented by
the Civil Service Employees Association. Comments and/or questions concerning non-instructional school district employees should be
directed to Ms. Arne Wipfler, Coordinator of School Affairs, CSEA, 33 Elk Street, Albany, New York 12224.

Monitoring State aid situation

In recent weeks many of you
received a report on the’ dis-
tribution of state-aid to education
for 1979-80. The report, prepared in
the CSEAYAFSCME Legislative of-
fice, reflected the percentage of
loss or gain for CSEA represented
school districts. Approximately 100
of the 400 CSEA represented dis-
tricts will lose aid under the Gover-
nor’s proposed budget. However,
the report was prepared from the
still unamended version of the Ex-
ecutive Budget. It is anticipated
the budget, once amended, will
address the problem of school aid
more affirmatively.

We have forwarded copies of the

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report to all unit presidents
adversely affected by the proposed
budget. Although we cannot react
at this point, we will continue to
monitor the situation. It is also
suggested you watch how your
school district’s budget is
developed as it will ultimately
affect you

The Unemployment Insurance
issue, at this juncture, remains un-
changed. Reports received thus far
indicate many of you are filing
forms 1 and 2 without any problem.
Since the summer lay offs will soon
be upon us, I have been conducting
training sessions on the un-
employment appeal procedure. It

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, April 4, 1979

CSEA attorney Michael Smith, who
handled the case. ‘‘We argued for this
broad interpretation, to prevent the
state from being able to get around
the intent of the article,”

In 1976, the New York School for the
Deaf and the New York State School
for the Blind unilaterally changed the
status of 26 employees from “‘per-
manent, 10-month’’ to ‘‘seasonal.”’ As
a result, they lost many of the protec-
tions that permanent employees en-

is very gratifying for your Coor-
dinator to see so many non-
instructionals taking time out of
their busy weekend schedule to
attend the workshops. It is hoped
participants are returning to their
respective units and conducting
similar workshops. Remaining
workshops will be held in White
Plains on April 3, Batavia on April
7 and Poughkeepsie on April 21

Our legislative office is keeping a
watchful eye on S.1276 and A.1744
(Unemployment Insurance). As
these or any other similar school
related bills move, the information
will be transmitted to you.

joy — such as protections from lay-
offs. In the case of several Child Care
Aides involved, they also lost their
right to ‘inconvenience pay’? — that
is, pay for working 4 or more hours
between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
— to which permanent Child Care
Aides are entitled. The union filed a
grievance.

After the lengthy arbitration
process, during which Mr. Smith was
aided greatly by CSEA Local
President Linda Kingsley of the State
School for the Blind, Mr. Haber
agreed with the union’s interpretation
of the ‘Benefits Guaranteed’’ article.
He ordered the 26 employees restored
immediately to their ‘‘10-month, per-
manent” status. And he directed that
the Child Care Aides be repaid in full
for the inconvenience pay which they
would have received had they been
permanent all this time.

Region meeting

NEWBURGH — All CSEA Southern
Region officers and executive board
members are invited to a leadership
conference from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
April 7 at the Newburgh Holiday Inn.

CSEA President Bill McGowan and
AFSCME President Jerry Wurf are
among the guests scheduled to appear
at the program, which is being
directed by Robert McEnroe,
AFSCME's Director of Education for
New York State:

The conference is free, and lunch
will be provided. Only the first 125
persons reserving places, by writing
to CSEA Southern Region President
James J. Lennon, will be admitted.

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SETTING UNION POLICY is the responsibility of the CSEA delegates. Among more
than 1,000 delegates meeting last month in Albany were, from left, Kim Kohisci of
Department of State CSEA Local 689; and Mary Hart, Vickie Scott and Marge Egan, all

of Department of Education Local 657.

Special Olympics
receive big boost

CSEA’s efforts to help raise
funds for the International Special
Olympics received a big boost in
Livingston County when the Board
vf Supervisors voted permission
for sales on county time by the 15
member committee appointed by
CSEA Local 826 President Sandy
Hann.

The local president, who co-
chairs the fund drive with Carrie,
Ringland, also announced that help!
has been pledged to the CSEA ef-
fort by the Livingston County’
American Legion Ladies Auxiliary
and the Mt. Morris Lions Club.

Members of both organizations
will conduct sales of film and
processing, from which more than
one dollar per order goes to help
finance the Special Olympics.

A modest $600 goal, which can
be met by two sales for ‘‘each and
every member’ has been set by the
committee, and a concentrated
ten-day campaign will begin on
April 16, Ms. Hann said.

More than 3,500 mentally retard-
ed and handicapped athletes from
all 50 states and 37 foreign coun-
tries are preparing for the Special
Olympics.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY CSEA UNIT PRESIDENT
Ray O'Connor, left, says the county has a ‘‘chaotic’’
bomb scare situation that is hazardous to county
workers. O'Connor is shown discussing the situation
with Jack Whalen, of Westchester County, during last
month’s CSEA delegates session in Albany.

WHITE PLAINS — The Westchester County
Unit of CSEA Local 860 has filed a health and
safety grievance with the county regarding
failure to react properly to bomb threats against
two county buildings, Unit President Raymond
J. O'Connor said.

O'Connor said the grievance asks the county

* Clarify its bomb-threat procedures.

¢ Initiate training for personnel in bomb-
search procedures,

Unit Health and Safety Chairman James Ver-
boys, is expected to meet with the county to dis-
cuss the grievance, O’Connor said.

O'Connor told the following story:

On March 1, a bomb threat against County Of-

fice Building II, 150 Grand St., White Plains, was

multi-unit

quarters.

from Local 410,

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field representative.

Hypertension screening
for Hudson River PC

ALBANY — The staff of the Hypertension Control Program of
Columbia University, under the direction of Dr. Leslie Baer, will
conduct a hypertension screening of employees of the Hudson River
Psychiatric Center during the month of April.

Civil Service Employees Assn. president William McGowan is
urging all Department of Health employees to participate in the
free testing programs as they are held at the various developmental
and psychiatric centers over the next several months.

According to Dr. Baer, these employees are more prone to
hypertension than others, but are often unaware of having the ill-
ness,

Employees who are found to be hypertensive may receive
treatment from HCP worksite treatment centers, where available,
or will be advised where to seek outside help. To date, treatment
centers have been established at Rockland Psychiatric Center,
Letchworth Developmental Center and the New York State
Psychiatric Institute. ‘‘Previously undetected and severely
hypertensive employees are in this treatment program,’’ said Dr.
Baer. ‘It is no exaggeration that in many cases prevention of stroke
and serious heart disease can be credited to this treatment
program.” ?

Two judicial units merge

BINGHAMTON-— Two units of Judicial Employees CSEA Local
334 have banded together to form a new 6-county ‘unit. Following a
recent meeting in Oneonta, the unit 5 group (Otsego, Delaware,
Chenango) and Unit 6 group (Broome, Tioga, Cortland) formed the
new single unit and elected Patricia Roberts as Unit President.

The primary goal of the new six-county Unit is to work for im-
plementation of the court employee Classification plan. Court
workers in these counties have been working for lower county
salaries for two years awaiting raises.

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Grievance on bomb plan filed
by Westchester County Unit

received. The county’s bomb procedures were
not followed, and a number of employees were
asked to search for a bomb. The employees mak-
ing the search lacked training in bomb-search.

Many employees evacuated the building on
their own and stood across the street where they
would have been in jeopardy had a bomb ex-
to: ploded, shattering glass in their direction.

On March 2, a bomb threat against.County Of-
fice Building I, 148 Martine Ave:, was received.
The county’s bomb procedures were not
followed, and maintenance men were ordered to
search for the bomb. The maintenance men lack-
ed training in bomb-search procedures.

“Our members are instructed not to refuse
work orders from legitimate authority and to
grieve later,’ O’Connor said.

FISHKILL — A “‘first’’ for Region
III of CSEA took place here recently
when a multi-unit ‘‘grievance
workshop”’ was held at regional head-

Initiated by a request from
Madeline Mackey, president of CSEA
Local 410 at the Hudson River
Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie,
the workshop drew CSEA members
Wassaic
Development Center Local 426, and
Department of Transportation Local

The session was conducted by
Celeste Rosenkranz, chairman of the
CSEA Statewide Education Com-
mittee, and John Deyo, Region III

Southern Region holds first

grievance session

According to Deyo, the program
was designed to teach members of
grievance committees in the various
units the mechanics of procedures,
laws and forms of the grievance
procedure.

During the day those attending
were broken up into a number of
small groups and given hypothetical
cases to discuss and act upon. ‘‘These
were based on cases I've handled
before,’ said Deyo. ‘That way we
had some basis for comparing
results."”

President Mackay said she was
“elated” with the results of the

seminar, and Deyo said, ‘‘I think the
results were very good — it was very
worthwhile.”

CSEA PRESIDENT WILLIAM L. McGOWAN, left,
and John Madlon, President of the Hauupauge CSEA
Local 016, discuss union business of mutual interest
during the recent spring meeting of CSEA delegates in
Albany.

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Management
training class

announced

The 1979-80 Public
Management Trainee Program
has been announced by the
Training Section of the State
Department of Civil Service.
About 25 State employees will be
selected to receive an intensive,
year-long program of classroom
training, special projects and
on-the-job training.

Any State employee who has
worked at least one year in a
position in salary grades 9
through 23 may apply.
Applications must be submitted
by Apr. 23 to the employee’s
agency personnel or training of-
fice. Applications must not be
sent directly to the Civil Service
Department.

Each agency will screen its
applications, and may submit up
to three names. Agencies have
been urged to nominate women,
minorities and the handicapped.

Detailed information is
available from agency personnel
and training offices.

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Elections Timetable

The following is the remaining dates in the timetable for the 1979 election of

CSEA statewide officers and members of the State Executive Committee.

April 16 Final Day for Nominations to Fill Declinations (If Less Than 2 Can-
didates Remain)

April 16 Final Day for Petitions To Be Filed.

April 20 Request to Each Candidate for spelling of name as it will appear on
ballot sent by certified mail/return receipt. Deadline for changes —
May 5, 1979.

April 20 Drawing for Position on Ballot — 10:30 A.M., Conference Room,
Headquarters — Candidates (or Proxies) may attend as observers.

April 27. Mailing of Printed Copies of Rules and Regulations for the Election
to All Candidates and Local Presidents.

May 11 Publication of Names of All Candidates in the Official Newspaper.

May 14 Ballots in Mail.

May 26 Replacement ballots may be requested as of this date if original
ballot has not been delivered

June 21 Return of Ballots — 6 p.m. Deadline

June 22 Ballots to be removed from envelopes to prepare for counting. Ballots

1 which cannot be machine counted will be counted manually during
this period.

June 27 Return of Replacement Ballots — 6 p.m. Deadline

June 28 Ballots to be counted. Candidates to be notified by telegram by June
29th

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* Merger in Dutchess

opposed by

By JACK MURPHY

POUGHKEEPSIE — A proposed
merger of the Dutchess County
Department of Mental Hygiene and
the state’s Hudson River Psychiatric
Center here has drawn the opposition
of the president of CSEA Region III.

James J. Lennon, president of
Region III, sent a telegram to
Dutchess County Executive Lucille
Pattison in which he said, ‘‘On behalf
of Southern Region CSEA, I would
like to be recorded as being in op-
position to a dual appointment to
director of Hudson River Psychiatric
Center and Commissioner of
Dutchess County Department of Men-
tal Hygiene. This in no way reflects
on the outstanding qualifications of
Dr. (Albert) Newman. It is our firm
conviction that no person can fully
serve two masters.’

The idea of having one director

New contract

ELMIRA — The Elmira City Unit
of Chemung County Local 808 of the
Civil Service Employees Assn. has
ratified a new 4-year contract by a
narrow margin.

Terms of the pact, released jointly
by Jack Woods, President of Elmira
City Unit, and Roger Kane, CSEA
Collective Bargaining Specialist and
chief negotiator for the 130 employees
in the bargaining unit, include: an in-

Lennon

heading both the county and state
operations was made by Dr. Newman
who is already serving as the
Dutchess County Mental Hygiene
Commissioner.

Newman's proposal indicated he
would have more movement of
patients out into the community,
another aspect of the proposal re-
jected by Lennon.

He said that such a release of
patients could have two effects:

First, since many patients might be
cared for in privately run homes and
not by state employees, a number of
employees might find their jobs
eliminated;

Second, the private agencies might
have staff without the same training
as government employees.

Lennon also pointed out that CSEA
opposed a similar merger proposai in
Rockland County two years ago. That
proposal was never implemented.

for Local 808

crease of 35 cents per hour, plus in-
crement, each year; out of title pay
from day one; discipline and dis-
charge procedures guaranteeing job
protection for all employees.

The new contract also includes an
Agency Shop clause effective with the
signing of the agreement.

Both sides are expected to sign the
formal contract in the near future.

Hutchings aide reinstated

SYRACUSE — As the result of a
decision by the American Arbitration
Association, a Mental Hygiene
Therapy Aide has been reinstated to
his position at Hutchings Psychiatric
Center, with back pay and all
attendant’ benefits.

The aide had been suspended
without pay following an incident in-
volving the restraint of a patient who
had threatened another patient in the
lobby of the Youth Center Building at
the facility

In his decision, dated February 26,
1979, William A. Babiskin, AAA Ar-
bitrator, found the grievant not guilty
of the charges set forth in the notice
of discipline, dated December 15,
1978. ‘‘Under the state contract (Arti-

cle 33.4 (j) an employee can only be
suspended for probable cause. I find
there was no probable cause for the
suspension, While the gravity of the
charge is one factor which must be
considered, it is not the only factor
which must be taken into account
with respect to the probable cause
issue. It is evident that the Center
(Hutchings P.C,) made no evaluation
of the ‘totality of circumstances’
before the grievant was suspended,”’
Babiskin stated.

The decision also indicated that the
employee had been employed at
Hutchings Psychiatric Center for six
years and this was the first notice of
discipline issued against him. He was
represented by Atty. Earl Boyle.

CSEA staff attends
state labor meeting

The Labor Action Coalition of New York held
its annual legislative conference in Albany on

March 21.

In the adjacent photo, participants in the con-

ference included

Joseph J. Dolan, Executive

Director of the Civil Service Employees Assn. ;
CSEA Bargaining Specialist Nels Carlson; and
State Attorney General Robert Abrams, who
was a keynote speaker during the program.

Carlson, CSEA staff advisory to the union's
statewide safety committee, participated in a
workshop on toxic substances held in conjunction
with the conference.

McGowan sends message

ALBANY — Hundreds of state employees heard a message of support
from CSEA President Bill McGowan at the kickoff luncheon of the 1979
United Jewish Appeal State Division Campaign in Albany March 20.

Campaign Chairman Al Abrams read the following telegram trom
McGowan: ‘Jewish workers have historically been in the foretront of the
fight for economic justice and decent conditions for public employees. We
in the labor movement appreciate that leadership, as the struggle con-
tinues today. Please accept my wholehearted endorsement of the UJA
State Division Campaign, and my best wishes tor a successtul effort in

1979."

Campaign for agency shop

ALBANY — As part of its lobbying
effort for the 1979 legislative session,
the Capital Region Political Action
Committee of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. has asked that
Local and unit members become in-
volved in a mailing campaign seeking
the support of area legislators for
agency shop legislation.

According to Joseph McDermott,
president of the Capital region, the
Locals will be asked to purchase and
distribute post cards to individual
members, and to direct them to

address their own comments to their
local legislators on the need for
agency shop. The Locals would then
collect the cards and mail them.

The mass mailing, said McDer-
mott, is expected to cover lawmakers
in a wide geographical area and
“make the CSEA’s feelings about
agency shop widely known.”

“This is an effort to stir up political
action activity among the grass roots
members and to show them how to
direct their impact where it will be
felt the most,” he said.

Koch’s Civil Service reform plan
blasted by Bronx assemblyman

Assemblyman Guy Velella of the
Bronx, Ranking Minority Member
of the Assembly Committee on
Governmental Employees, has
blasted Mayor Koch's proposal to
remake the civil service rules, call-
ing the plan ‘‘a devious way of
bringing back the spoils system by
disguising it as civil service
reform.”

“This so-called ‘Koch reform
wipes out the basic principles
behind the civil service system
without producing one bit of im-
provement in management skill or
worker productivity,” Velella said

“Koch wants to turn back the
clock to the days of Boss Tweed
and the spoils system,’’ he
declared.

Velella particularly faulted the
Mayor’s attempt to replace the
“one in three’? rule with his
redesigned ‘‘one in ten’’ rule.

“It is here that we see Koch’s
most blatant attempt to replace the
merit system with a system that

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gives his office the maximum
leeway to dispense jobs to political
cronies,” Velella said.

Velella also criticized the so-
called reform proposal as being
“inflexible and unworkable’ in
today’s civil service climate. He
said that the city was kept afloat
during its fiscal crises through the
investment of worker pension
funds into municipal bonds.

“To turn around now and destroy
the very units that bailed out our
city is not only a sign of in-
gratitude, but also a potential
cause of problems in the future.”’

Velella concluded: ‘'My
criticism is not against the need for
reform, but it is a criticism of
those who would use the need for
reform to inflict a new spoils
system on New York City.

“T call upon the Mayor to devise
anew plan for civil service reform.
Right now, the Koch plan is one
fast sweep that is giving New
Yorkers one fast shuffle.”

CHT ST ONCE RR ee

‘Good work force planning and a
thorough consideration of alternative
strategies and programs for
redeployment could have avoided most,
and possibly all, of the layoffs of the
1970's ’

Layoffs don’t save;
usually prove costly

ALBANY — Laying off State employees, a measure often put forth as
cost-effective, is actually costing more in the long run and ‘‘can be avoid-
ed by competent work force management,” says a report published by
the joint State/Civil Service Employees Assn. Continuity of Employment
Committee.

The Committee questioned the State’s claim that it saved a million
dollars in payroll costs from layoffs occurring between the years 1971 and
1977, after an extensive study revealed such hidden cost factors as
needless quitting and rehiring arising from the mere threat of a layoff,
and the cost of paying unemployment insurance for layoff. The final
report suggests that since most layoffs are on a small scale, the State
should plan for the work force to reduce itself through attrition,
(retirement, resignation or death), and then redeploy excess workers to
other agencies which need an increase in staff.

“Good work force planning and a thorough consideration of alter-
native strategies and programs for redeployment could have avoided
most, and possibly all, of the layoffs of the 1970’s,’’ said the report.

Research first revealed that the usual reaction to the threat of layoffs
is what it has termed ‘psychological quits’ with a resultant loss of
productivity. Because they are insecure about their jobs, employees
slack off in their work, but cover up so that management cannot detect it.

Some employees actually do quit in anticipation of being laid off,
therefore causing the State to pay for a disruption of teamwork and con-
tinuity of services, as well as the lower initial output of replacement
employees, continues the report. It was found that the better workers
usually leave first, because they have the best opportunities” for
employment outside of State service. This quitting trend spills over into
agencies where layoffs have not been threatened because an atmosphere
of uncertainty exists and workers feel that if it can happen in one area it
can happen anywhere

The report points out that when layoffs do occur, the State must not
only pay for unemployment insurance, but loses even more on income
taxes revenues, since unemployment is tax free.

Other cost items revealed by the study are the operation of the
State’s preferred list system which guarantees laid off workers
preference for job openings that come up, the development of alcoholism
and depression as the result of trauma over the possibility of losing one’s
job, increased grievances and lawsuits against the State, increased
employees resistance to change and damage to the State’s image as an
employer.

When all of these cost items were totaled, ‘‘even with grossly conser-
vative estimates, the net savings of the layoff strategy was more than $1,-
000 per worker under the savings of the attrition strategy,’’ the report
concluded.

The Committee recommends that the State invest this $1,000 per
worker where necessary to induce attrition and that the State, the union
and the employees cooperate in a program of continuity of employment.
Displaced employees should be give a ‘‘reasonable’’ job offer elsewhere,
which ‘‘maintains pay levels, fringe benefits and the geographical
location.’ An offer of job training which would help the employees dis-
cover and develop new skills for other lines of work was also considered
to be reasonable.

“Furthermore, the State would be wise to reach individual job
placement decisions after reviewing a person's total work experience,
not merely his State service record,’’ reads the report. Using this
approach, the State could consider displaced employees ahead of those on
open competitive lists for any job they have shown an ability to perform.

The Committee suggested that the State set up a permanent center to
aid in redeployment and that funds for it come trom a Statewide read-
justment fund, rather than from the affected agency, It also sees the need
for a communications network to keep employees informed on all
developments and to stop harmful rumors.

a THE PUBLIC SECTO!

Minimizing the ‘ille

pt

THE CONTINUITY OF EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE — From lett
to right — Robert Lattimer, Region 6 president; James J. Lennon,
Region 3 president; James J. Moore, Region 5 president; Joseph
McDermott, Region 4 president; Thomas A. Gibbs, State Oftice of
Employee Relations assistant director; Phillip C. Sperry, State
Education Department employee relations director; Chairman Robert

CSEA-State cooperation
helps solve layoff problems

ALBANY -— Since its inception in
1976, the Continuity of
Employment Committee has been
steadily moving toward its goal to
“minimize the ill effects, if not the
occurrence, of State layoffs’. _

Among its major ac-
complishments has been aiding in
the redeployment of employees
facing layoffs at the Manhattan
Developmental Center and the
Warwick Training School, and
providing funds to the Department
of Agriculture and Markets to help
meet the costs of retraining former
meat inspectors to be farm
products inspectors.

The State and the Civil Service
Employees Assn. agreed to the for-
mation of the Continuity of
Employment Committee during
the 1976 contract negotiations when
both realized the need to find
solutions for ‘‘worker dis-
placement problems arising from
economic and program reduc-
tions.”

When the two facilities of the
Manhattan Developmental Center
were closed down in the summer of
1978, the office of Mental Retar-
dation began a massive
redeployment effort aided by the
Committee. The committee sent in
two counselors to meet with
employees to provide information
regarding their job status and to
act as an advocate for them
between CSEA and management.
As a result of the joint effort, most
of the employees have been
transferred or remain employed at
the Manhattan facility awaiting
openings elsewhere.

The Committee worked with the
State and the CSEA to provide
similar assistance when the

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Warwick Training School, a
Division for Youth Facility in
Orange County, was transferred to
the Department of Correctional
Services that same summer. The
three reviewed the job duties and
experience of each employee to
decide where they could be*placed
and succeeded in retaining most of
them at the new DCS facility. Some
were transferred to other Division
for Youth centers and a few others
left through attrition. Some were
laid off or terminated, ‘‘partly as a
result of their own choice not to
travel,” according to the Com-
mittee. The effort, which the Com-
mittee says resulted from careful
planning, inter-agency cooperation
and creative problem solving, was
considered to be a ‘‘model for sav-
ing jobs.”’

Twelve former meat inspectors
from the State’s preferred list
were retrained and employed as
farm products inspectors with
funds provided by the Committee.
The employees had some basic ex-
perience but needed training and
licensing which they could acquire
only by traveling to areas of the
State where particular products
were most available. Since the
Department of Agriculture and
Markets did not have the funds for
this, the Committee provided $27,-
500 to be used for per diem and
travel expenses.

After determining that some 10,-
000 State workers have been dis-
placed over the past eight years by
layoffs, the Committee launched
an effort which resulted in con-
tacting 3,000 of them and determ-
ining that 412 wanted the Com-
mittee to aid them in finding
reemployment with the State.

cee 4 AS

B. McKie, Dean of the New York State School of Industrial and

presiderferemy Schrauf, Office of Employee Relations assistant
examiner; and John P. McKenna, Office of Mental Retar-
Developmental Disabilities assistant director of the

JOB CENTER DIRECTOR Robert Knippenberg
discusses how the cénter attempts to match

e employees with job openings.

The articles on these pages
concerning the Continuity
of Employment Com-
mittee were compiled and
written by Deborah
Cassidy, staff writer for
The Public Sector.

‘.. . even with grossly
conservative estimates,
the net savings of the
layoff strategy was more
than $1,000 per worker
under the savings of the
attrition strategy ‘

JOB CONTINUITY CENTER STAFF includes,
from left, Armand Roberts, Michele Van Hoesen,
Pamela Van deCarr, Job Center Director Robert
Knippenberg, and Evelyn Hoff.

The Continuity of Efiployment Committee

cts’ of State layoffs

Employee redeployment goal
of Job Continuity Center

ALBANY — Hoping to establish a per-
manent means of redeployment for laid off
State workers, or those who face layoffs, the
Continuity of Employment Committee has
created and funded a Job Continuity Center,
which is operating on a 15-month trial basis
out of the State Department of Civil Service.

The Committee would like to ‘see the
Center continued as a permanent feature by
the Civil Service Department, if it proves to
be successful.

Job Center Director is Robert
Knippenberg, an eight-year career
employee of the Civil Service Department,
who has worked with the CEC on several
other projects. Assisting him are Michele
Van Hoesen, a former personnel specialist,
Pam Van deCarr, who was reassigned from
the Civil Service Department, and ad-
ditional staff personnel.

Using a skills inventory profile developed
for each client, the Center attempts to
match employees with openings in public or
private sectors. It has field copies of the
profiles with the various State Agencies and
sends notices of exam announcements and
applications to workers who appear to meet
the qualifications. This effort is intended to
go beyond that offered by the preferred list
system.

The Center will also arrange interviews
when openings occur and help clients to
write resumes and prepare for the inter-
view.

“We are a piece of a bigger effort to help
people find work,’’ says Mr. Knippenberg.
“The Center does not get people jobs, it
educates them on how to get a job on their
own. We are mainly a referral and infor-
mation service,” he said.

Non-traditional methods of obtaining State

employment are used, says Knippenberg.
That is, a Job Center representative can
make arrangements with an Agency which
has an opening to have an employee
provisionally hired until an exam comes up.
This is the most effective means, and within
the Civil Service Law, he says.

It serves as a task force in specific layoff
situations, where it functions to help
employees understand what is happening
and what options are open to them. A
representative is sent in to the layoff site to
answer employees’ questions and dispel
rumors which are considered to be harmful
to the redeployment effort. ‘‘After aiding in
a few layoffs, we are seeing significant
changes in attitudes,’’ said Knippenberg.
“Both sides are more willing to cooperate
now than they have been in the past.”

The Center offers counseling to municipal
and county workers who are seeking State
employment and to State employees who
wish to transfer to positions similar to what
they currently hold.

After approximately ten months of
operation, the Center still has a rather low
profile, commented Mr. Knippenberg.
“We're still in the process of becoming
known to both the Agencies and workers.”
Job placements are increasing monthly, but
there is still a small client file. It is ex-
pected, however, that the files will be com-
puterized once the center becomes per-
manent, so that larger numbers of clients
can be handled. The agencies are responding
well, says Mr. Knippenberg, but they do not
think to contact the Center initially when
they have an opening. To change this the
staff is making periodic visits to the Agen-
cies and leaves updated information with
them. i

Civil Service reform

Koch backing union busting

One of the most serious threats to
the future of CSEA and other public
employee unions in New York State is

reform.

the so-called Civil Service reform

legislative package proposed by New
York City Mayor Edward Koch.
This evil group of proposed laws

ALBANY — The ability of CSEA
and other public employee unions
in New York State to adequately
represent and protect their
members will be on the line if
the State Legislature considers the
so-called Civil Service reform bills
proposed by New York City Mayor
Edward Koch.

The so-called reforms have two
major thrusts — the busting of
public employee unions and the
consolidation of power in the ex-
ecutive branch of local gov-
ernments.

The bills have been introduced in

the Assembly, and the Mayor's:

legislative representative has filed
memoranda in support of the
package.

The impact of each of the propos-
ed bills in the Koch package on
CSEA and on CSEA members will
be explained below.

Consolidate bargaining units
Assembly-4163

The most dangerous of all the
proposed laws in the Koch reform
package would allow local
governments to wipe out existing
bargaining units. Local
governments would be able to pass
a law, an ordinance or a resolution
to consolidate existing bargaining
units into larger bargaining units.

For example, a CSEA non-
teaching school district unit could
be eliminated, and its members
placed in a NYSUT teachers unit;
or a CSEA county unit could be
eliminated, and its members plac-
ed in a nurses union from the
county hospital.

Equally as frightening as the
ability to wipe out a bargaining unit
would be the ability of local
governments to use the threat of
wiping out the unit during the
course of contract negotiations.

The power to control and
manipulate public employee
unions, which this bill would give to
local governments, would all but
destroy the ability of those unions
to represent and protect their
membership.

Limit collective bargaining
Assembly-4164

Under the guise of ‘‘management
rights,’’ this so-called reform
limits the scope of union-
management contract negotiations
to wages and fringe benefits and
would remove virtually all other
areas from those negotiations.

The bill would prohibit local
governments from negotiating
many of the items now considered
within the realm of negotiations,
including:

package.

“To take disciplinary action; to
relieve its employees from duty
because of lack of work or for other
legitimate reasons; to maintain the
efficiency of governmental
operations; to determine . . . per-
sonnel by which government
operations are to be conducted; to
determine the content of job
classifications. . . . (and) decisions
concerning the practical impact
that the above matters have on
employees, such as questions of
workload and manning.”

This bill would give local
governments the ability to change
the rules whenever they want. The
unions would be powerless to stop
it.

For example, under this bill a
local government could decide to
change the requirements of a par-
ticular job forcing the termination
of some employees and allowing
the hiring of new employees.

Should this bill become law, it
could be used to terminate a union
leader by the changing of the re-
quirements of his job.

Also disciplinary procedures,
which are designed to protect
employees, could be altered under
this bill to become the tool of
management.

Employee transfer
Assembly-4155

This bill would permit local
governments and the State
government to transfer employees
to different departments or agen-
cies without the consent of the
employees.

In the early years of the labor
movement, union leaders could be
eliminated by firings. With that
option no longer available, this bill
would solve that ‘‘problem’’ by
transferring the union leaders
somewhere else.

In addition to the union busting
potential of this proposal, the fami-
ly situations and other needs of the

reeks with the stench of union busting
in spite of the antiseptic camouflage of

CSEA is opposing the passage of all
the bills in the heinous Koch reform

The analysis of the so-called
reforms was prepared by Public Sec-
tor Associate Editor Dr.

Gerald

Alperstein in association with CSEA

Legislative and Political Action Direc-
tor Bernard Ryan and Research

Associate Thomas Haley.

employees would be totally un-
protected.
Enlarge managerial class
Assembly-4154

The result of this legislation
could reduce the ranks of CSEA by
as much as 50 percent, leaving
those public employees without the
protection of a union.

Virtually anyone who gives
another employee an order would
be classified as managerial. Other
“‘managers’’ would be those in the
highest class of their line of
promotion or at least in the third
level of promotion. Third level
clerical employees would be
classified as managerial under this
bill.

Union busting, by significantly
reducing the ranks of the unions,
would be the only result of this
proposal.

Enlarge exempt class
Assembly-4161

All deputies of agency heads and
all employees who assist in a con-
fidential capacity would be
automatically classified
management/confidential and
would be exempt from civil service
law andeunion protection.

Under present law, such
positions can be designated
management/confidential by the
Public Employment Relations

Board (PERB) if the public
employer can justify its request.

It is reasonable to assume that if
the public employer had a strong
case for classifying a position as
management/confidential, it would
have received a favorable ruling by
PERB.

Therefore, it appears that this
proposal is just another attempt to
thin the ranks of public employee
unions and to bring more
employees out of the protection of
union representation.

Write legislators to oppose

Koch's ‘reform’ proposals

ALBANY — Bernard Ryan, CSEA Legislative and Political
Action Director, urges CSEA members to write their State
Legislators to express opposition to the so-called Civil Service
reforms as proposed by New York City Mayor Edward Koch.

CSEA opposes all the bills proposed in the so-called reform
package. To date, the bills have been introduced in the Assembly.
Ryan suggests referring to the bill’s number when writing to your

legislators,

Non-seniority layoffs
Assembly-4156
Calendar year seniority
Assembly-4157

The layoffs bill would equally
combine seniority and perfor-
mance evaluations for the last year
of employment in determining who
would be laid off.

The seniority bill would calculate
seniority by the calendar year of
hiring instead of the actual date of
hiring.

These bills increase the ability of
public’ employers to pick and
choose which employees will be
laid off and rehired. Through that
ability, two major abuses could be
easily accomplished, including:

¢ Punitive ‘‘layoffs’ of union
leaders and others could be ac-
complished by use of the perfor-
mance evaluation, and the propos-
ed seniority calculation could
bypass those employees for
rehiring.

¢ Poor performance evaluations
for older employees and good
evaluations for newer employers
would lead to the layoffs of
employees reaching retirement
age.

Temporary managers
Assembly-4160

Political patronage would be the
“benefit’’ of this bill, which would
allow 10 percent of the managerial
positions to be filled by temporary
appointments.

Its chief purpose appears to be a
way to make additional political
appointments.

One of ten
Assembly-4162

This bill would replace the one of
three rule for hiring from the
results of Civil Service ex-
aminations with a one of ten rule.

Under this bill, management
wou'd have greater discretion in
hiring and promoting, which would
allow for bypassing union leaders
and others and would allow for ap-
pointing or promoting political
friends.

Redefine employer
Assembly-6169

When a local government con-
tributes funding, regardless of the
amount of that funding, to another
agency, that local government
would become the public employer
for collective bargaining purposes.

If City A contributed one dollar
to the City A Library Association,
City A would be deemed the public
employer for the employees of the
association for collective
bargaining.

Legislative profile

Sen. Padavan: Friend to Mental Hygiene

Senator Frank Padavan

CSEA Program Bill Number
Summary of Provisions

P-79-1, Agency Shop—Agency shop would
become permanent and mandatory.
P-79-2, OSHA—Minimum health and
safety standards for public employees
would be established.

P-79-3, Two-for-One—The fine for strik-
ing would be reduced from two day's pay
for each day struck to one day's pay for
each day struck.

P-79-4, Injunctive Notice—Unions and
employees would be required to receive
notice and have an opportunity to be
heard before a temporary restraining
order could be issued against a strike.

P.79-5, Presumption of Arbitrability—
The presumption of arbitrability for con-
tract grievances would be restored.

P-79-6, Limited Right to Strike—Strike
would be redefined to mean a work stop-
page that threatens irreparable injury to
the public health, safety and welfare.

P-79-7, 1979 Contract—The provisions of
the CSEA-State contract would be im-
plemented

P-79-8, Triborough—A public employer
would be required to continue an expired
contract until a new agreement is
reached

P.79-9, Redefine Daily Rate of Pay—
Strikers assessed a two-for-one penalty
would be fined based on net take-home
pay, not on gross pay

P-79-10, Alternative Disciplinary
Procedures—Unions, including sub-
division employers, would be allowed to
negotiate disciplinary procedures

P-79-11, Retirees Death Benefit—State
employees who retired before Sept. 30.
1966, would be eligible for a $2,000 death
benefit

P-79.- Permanent Cost of Living—
Starting in 1980, retirees would receive
an increase in the retirement allowance
based on increases in the cost of living
for the previous year

P-79-13, Extension of Supplementation—
Pension supplementation would in-
clude those who retired before April 1
1969, would be extended to those who
retired before Jan. 1, 1972, and would in-
crease supplements to reflect increases
in the cost of living

P-79-14, Education Law Parity—The
financial advantage school districts
receive when contracting out for student
transportation would be eliminated

P-79-15, Division of Youth Transfer—
Division of Youth employees transferred
to a non-profit corporation would not lose
benefits of State service.

A-Assembly S-Senate

ALBANY — High quality care for the patients of
New York State’s mental hygiene institutions and
for the former patients of those institutions are
goals of CSEA.

The goals of high quality care also are those of
State Senator Frank Padavan, Republican Conser-
vative, chairman of the Senate Committee on Men-
tal Health and Addiction Control.

As Padavan sees it, the legislative battles ot
recent years produced laws which established basic
policy regarding care of the mental hygiene
patients.

Therefore, his committee will focus its attention
on legislation to implement ‘those policies by
providing funding to increase institutional staff
ratios and to improve care to former patients in the
community.

CSEA program bills

“Funding is an important part’’ of improving the
quality of care. “You don’t get far without it,”’
Padavan said.

He said he expects bipartisan support within his
committee for improving the quality of care. In the
past, 99 percent of the bills were reported out of his
committee unanimously, he said.

As for this legislative session, Padavan expects
his committee also to consider a bill which would
prohibit the hiring in mental hygiene institutions of
felons convicted of sexual or violent crimes.

Padavan, in his third year as chairman, has been
a member of the Senate since 1973. He represents
the 11th senatorial district in eastern Queens, which
comprises a number of neighborhoods including
Jamaica, Flushing, Bayside and Little Neck.
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center is in the district.

Week of March 26, 1979

Bill Number,

Sponsors
A-Pending
S-Pending

A-Pending
S-Pending

‘4-4169 Connor, Greco,
Barbaro
S-Pending

4-4167 Barbaro, Greco,
Johnson, et al
S-Pending

A-4168 Connor, Johnson,
Marchiselli, et al
S-Pending

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-4165 Greco, et al

S-Pending

A-4171 Connor, Finneran,
Nine

S-Pending

A-4166 DelToro, Greco,
Finneran, Barbaro,
etal

S-Pending

A-4416 Greco.

$-3221 Flynn

A-Pending
S-4168 Rules

A-4509 Barbaro

$-3361 Flynn

A-4877 Orazio
$-3441 Donovan

A-2519 Budget
S-1719 Budget

All bills on this status report are supported by CSEA

Status

Governmental
Employees Comm.

Governmental
Employees Comm.

Governmental
Employees Comm.

Governmental
Employees Comm.

Governmental
Employees Comm

Governmental
Employees Comm

Governme
Employees Comm
Civil Service Comm

Civil Service Comm

Governmental
Employees Comm.
Civil Service Comm,

Education Comm.
Education Comm.

Ways & Means Comm
Finance Comm.

CSEA Program Bill Number,
Summary of Provisions

P-79-16, Office of Court Administration—
Unified Court System employees would
be transferred to the State payroll as of
April 1, 1977, and would receive per-
manent status in their competitive class
if they have performed the duties of their
positions for one year prior to the effec-
tive date of this law.

P-79-17, Employee Indemnification—
Additional instance in which public
employees should be indemnified from
suit by the employer for acts which arise
in the course of performing their duties.
P-79-18, Sheriff's Reopener—
Approximately eight employees of the
Sullivan County Sheriff's Department
would be allowed to choose the
provisions of the Retirement and Social
Security Law (optional 20-year
retirement)

P-79-19, State University Unclassified
Service—The power to remove State
University employees from classified
service would be returned to the Civil
Service Commission from the State
University Chancellor.

P-79-20, University of Buffalo Buy-
Back—State employees working at the
University of Buffalo before it was ac-
quired by the State would be allowed to
purchase retirement credits for the time
they were employed by the University
P-79-21 (a), Veterans Buy-Back—World
War II veterans would be allowed to
purchase up to three years of credit
toward retirement.

P-79-21 (b), Veterans Buy-Back—Korean
War veterans would be allowed to
purchase up to three years credit toward
retirement

P-79-22, Sanitarians—Sanitarians work-
ing for public and private employers
would be certified by the Department of
Education.

P-79-23, Suffolk County Retirement—The
Suffolk County contract allowing in-
vestigators to elect 20-year retirement
would be implemented

P-79-24, Pension Advisory Board—Power
to invest pension funds would be vested
in a board of trustees with meaningful
public employee representation

P-79-25, Correction Otficers—Correction
officers employed by Westchester
County would be eligible to elect par-
ticipation in a 20-year retirement plan
P-79-26, Showing of Interest—The
procedure for verifying a showing of in-
terest in a representation determination
would be changed

P-19-27, Court Employees Contract—The
collective bargaining agreement for
employees of the Unified Court System
be implemented.

P-79-28, Employer Improper Practice—
‘An employee organization would not be
determined to be guilty of violating the
no-strike provision when the strike was
caused, in whole or in part, by an im-
proper employer practice

99

Bill Number,

Sponsors Status

A-6194 Connor Governmental
Employees Comm.

S-4142 Rolison

A-5963 Greco Governmental
Employees Comm.

S-2766 Schermerhorn Judiciary

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-8836 M. Miller Governmental
Employees Comm.

S-3754 Cook

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-4204 Hochbrueckner Governmental

Employees Comm

$-3079 Johnson, Lack, Vote expected
Trunzo

A-Pending

S-Pending

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-Pending
S-Pending

A-1773 McCabe, et al Passed

S-1304 Barclay, et al Passed
(Ch. 4, Laws of
1979)

A-4170 Greco, et al Governmental

Employees Comm.
S-Pending

Civil Service Comm.

Civil Service Comm.

OPEN CONTINUOUS
STATE JOB CALENDAR

-- COMPETITIVE

PROMOTIONAL EXAMS

(State Employees Only)

Title

FILING ENDS APRIL 23, 1979

Dentist III ..
Dentist IV ..
Tree Pruner Supervisor .
Senior Pesticide Control Supervisor ..
Assistant Architectural Specification ‘Writer .
Assistant Mechanical Specifications Writer
Junior Architectural Specifications Writer
Junior Mechanical Specifications Writer .
Senior Architectural Specifications Writer
Senior Mechanical Specifications Writer .
Associate Occupational Analyst . ;
Occupational Analyst
Principal Occupational Analyst .
Senior Occupational Analyst...
Assistant Worker's Compensation Examiner .
Assistant Worker’s Compensation Examiner

(Spanish Speaking)

Salary

«$29,340
«$32,608
$ 8,950
$12,583
- $14,850
$14,850
- $11,904
$11,904
$18,301
- $18,301
$20,366
- $16,469
+ $22,623
$18,301
$8,454

. 39-354
|. 39-355
. 36-722
. 36-730
. 96-725

36-728
. 36-724

36-727
. 36-726
. 36-729
. 36-735,

36-733
22-623
. 36-734
. 36-732

No. 36-732

For more information about these and other state jobs, contact the state Civil Service Department,
Albony State Office Building Campus; 1 Genesee St., Buffalo, or 2 World Trade Center, New York City.

STATE OPEN COMPETITIVE
JOB CALENDAR

Title
FILING ENDS APRIL 9, 1979
Urban Park Patrol Sergeant...
Building Structural Engineer (Assistant) .
Housing and Community Development
Assistant Soe:
Housing and Community Development
Representative .
Housing Management Assistant i
Housing Management Representative -.
Lumber Inspector me
Mechanical Equipment Inspector . .
Purchase Specifications Assistant ....
Purchase Specifications Assistant
(Electronics) i
Purchase Specifications Assistant _
(Furnishings and Textiles)
Purchase Specifications Writer
(Electrical) Senior
Purchase Specifications Writer
(Electronic enior . Z
Purchase Specifications Writer
(Furnishings and Textiles) Senior
Purchase Specifications Writer
(Mechanical) Senior . .
Toll Equipment Mechanic Trainee mre
FILING ENDS APRIL 30, 1979
Architectural Specifications Writer, Junior. .
Pesticide Control Inspector .. A euistas
Pesticide Control Inspector, Senior .
Tree Pruner Supervisor .
@ Worker’s Compensation Examiner ‘Assistant .
Worker’s Compensation Examiner, Assistant
(Spanish Speaking) :
Dentist III .
Dentist IV A
Traffic Signal Equipment Special it. .
Traffic Signal Equipment Specialist
Assistant... ,
Traffic Signal Equipment Specialist,
Senior .
Building Mechanical Engineer, “Associate.
Building Mechnical Engineer, Senior..

FILING ENDS MAY 14, 1979
Medical Technologist .................
Veterinarian I (Animal Industry)
Veterinary Technician.

FILING ENDS MAY 21, 1979

$14,850
. $14,075,
. $18,301

$14,075
. $18,301

+». $11,904
. $11,904

$14,075
$14,075
$14,075
$18,301
$18,301
$18,301

- $18,301
$10,001

+» $21,129

«$11,250

vee B15, 624

«$10,024

Exam No.

No. 24-958
No. 24-979

No.

. 24-970
No. 24-971
No. 24-972
No. 24-974

. 24-975,

. 24-976

. 24-977
|. 24-980

. 24-982
. 24-986,
. 24-987
. 24-988
. 24-988

. 24-988
. 27-896.
. 27-897
. 27-907

. 27-906
. 27-908

. 27-905
. 27-904

. 27-895
. 27-901
27-870

No. 27-902

Title
Pharmacist (salary varies with location)
Assistant Sanitary Engineer .
Senior Sanitary Engineer
Clinical Physician 1 .
Clinical Physician II.
Assistant Clinical Enye cians)
Attorney .. <
Assistant Attorney .
Atiorney Trainee
Junior Engineer
(Bachelor's Degree)
Junior Engineer
(Master’s Degree)
Dental Hygienist
Licensed Practical Nurse
Nutrition Services Consultant
Stationary Engineer ......
Senior Stationary Engineer
Occupational Therapy Assistant I .
Occupational Therapy Assistant I .
(Spanish Speaking)
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Trainee
Medical Record Technician
Histology Technician ...
Professional Positions in Auditing and Accounting
Computer Programmer... %
Computer Programmer (Scientific)
Senior Programmer .
Senior Computer Programm
Mobility Instructor ... -
Instructor of the Blind
Health Services Nurse .
(salary varies with location)
Senior Heating and Ventilating Engineer
Senior Sanitary Engineer (Design) .....
Senior Building Electrical Engineer
Senior Building Structural Engineer .. .
Senior Mechanical Construction Engineer
Senior Plumbing Engineer .
Assistant Stationary Engine
Electroencephalograph Technician
Radiologic Technologist .
(salary varies with location)
Medical Record Administrator ..
Food Service Worker I , ee
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee kG
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee .
(Spanish Speaking)
Associate Actuary (Casualty) ...
Principal Actuary (Casualty) .
Supervising Actuary (Casualty) .
Assistant Actuary
Nurse I.
Nurse II .
Nurse II (Psychiatric)
Nurse II (Rehabilitation) .
Medical Specialist II .
Medical Specialist I
Psychiatrist I.
Psychiatrist II.
Social Services Management Trainee...
Social Services Management Specialist . .
Social Services Management Trainee
(Spanish Speaking)
Social Services Management Specialist ..
(Spanish Speaking)
Industrial Training Supervisor ......
(salary varies depending on specialty)
Physical Therapist .....
Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking).
Senior Physical Therapist ..
Senior Physical Therapist (Spanis
Speech Pathologist
Audiologist . ‘
Assistant Speech Pathologist .
Assistant Audiologist
Dietician Trainee .
Dietician .....
Supervising Dieti an.
Stenographer .
Typist .
Senior Occupational Therapist
Senior Occupational Therapist
(Spanish Speaking)
Occupational Therapist .....
Occupational Therapist (Spanish Speaking)

+ $14,388-$15,562
« $16,040 - 20-122

Salary Exam No.

.. $18,301
$27,942
« $31,055
. $25,161
. $14,850
$12,397
. $11,723
. $12,890

$13,876

++. $14,142
$11,983

- $9,481

« $8,051

++. $11,250
. $11,250

- $11,250

. $14,075
vee, $14,075
- $11,904

« $11,250
$11,250-$12,025

.. $18,301
+ $18,301
18,301

+, $18,301
. $18,301
. $18,301
87.616
$7,616

. $8,454-$10,369

- $11,904
- $6,456
$7,204
$7,204

eos $18,369
«$22,364
$26,516
$10,714
$10,624
$11,904
$11,904
$11,904

. $33,705,
$27,942
$27,942

. $33,705
. $10,824
$11,450
. $10,824

.. $11,450

.  $10,624-$12,583

.. $11,337
$11,337
.. $12,670
.. $12,670
.. $12,670
+. $12,670
$11,337
.. $11,337
$10,624
. $11,250
+ $13,304
. $6,650
. $6,071
$12,670
$12,670

+, $11,337
- + $11,337

20-129

20-123
20-118
20-119
20-117
20-113
20-113
20-113
20-109

20-109

20-107
20-106
20-139
20-100
20-101
20-174
20-174

20-140
20-140
20-143
20-170
20-200
20-220
20-222
20-221
20-223,
20-224
20-225
20-226

20-227
20-228
20-229
20-230
20-231
20-232
20-303
20-308

20-334

20-348
20-352
20-394
20-394

20-416
20-417
20-418
20-556
20-584
20-585
20-586
20-587
20-840
20-841
20-842,
20-843
20-875
20-875
20-876

20-876
20-877

20-880
20-880
20-881
20-881
20-883
20-882
20-884
20-885
20-888
20-887
20-886
20-890
20-891
20-894
20-894

20-895
20-895

You may contact the following offices of the New York State Department of Civil Service for an-

$14,075 nouncements, applications, and other details concerning exami for the positions listed above,
State Office Building Campus, First Floor, Building |, Albany, New York 12239 (518) 457-6216.
2 World Trade Center, 55th Floor, New York City 10047 (212) 488-4248.

Suite 750, Genesee Building, West Genesee Street, Buffalo, New York 14202 (716) 842-4260,

Supervisor tor Traffic Signal Operations, Assistant

meee Traffic Signal Coordinator $20,366 No. 27-903

You cen also contact your locol Manpower Services Office for examination information,

Page 10 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, ‘April 4, “1979

eee

WATCHING THE ACTION in two
different directions during last
month’s CSEA Special Delegates
Meeting in Albany are William
DeMartino, CSEA Board of Directors
rep from the Labor Department, New

York City; and Western Region
President Robert Lattimer.

Local 850
at impasse

WATERLOO — A spokesman for
Seneca County Local 850 of the Civil
Service Employees Assn. has an-
nounced an impasse in negotiations
has been jointly declared between
Seneca County and the union which
represents more than 150 county
employees.

Jack Miller, CSEA Field Represen-
tative and chief negotiator for the
employees, said both sides called the
impasse at a March 19 meeting of the
union negotiating team and county
representatives.

“The employees of Seneca County
have been working without a contract
since December 31, 1978,’ Miller
said.

“Our CSEA negotiating team has
met with the county in ten sessions
dating back to November 1978, and at
this point there are eight unresolved
points to offer the PERB mediator.
The key issues are a reasonable
wage increase to allow our employees
to meet the ever-spiraling cost of
living, and an Agency Shop clause,”
Miller said.

New Nassau County holidays.

By William Butler

MINEOLA — A demand by Nick
Abbatiello, President of Nassau
County CSEA Local 830, has
resulted in a court ordering two
more holidays for 13,000 employees
of Nassau County.

Abbatiello’s insistence on the two
extra holidays, earlier rejected by
the county, went to Supreme Court
where Justice William Berman rul-
ed in favor of the employees.

The holidays are Dr. Martin

Luther King Day and Flag Day.

The two holidays had been
designated by the state legislature
and have been accorded to state
employees. The Nassau County
CSEA Local 830 leader went to
court after the county refused to
observe the holidays.

Justice Berman noted that the
Nassau, CSEA contract provides
for all official holidays designated
by the State Legislature with a
minimum of li.

The county had claimed that
because both are Sundays and the
legislature distinguished the two
holidays by not providing that they
be marked on the following Mon-
day that the county could ignore
them.

He ordered the county to observe
the holidays henceforth, noting that
the contract provides for overtime
for those employees regularly
scheduled to work on Sunday and
compensatory time off for others.

Four CSEA members reinstated by court

FISHKILL — CSEA won a court
victory over the Town of Orangetown
in Rockland County recently when
Justice Theodore A. Kelly found that
four union members were terminated
illegally.

James Porter, Donald McQuown,
Marilyn O’Brien and Richardson Ban-
ford were notified by Town Super-
visor Joseph Colello early this year
that they were being laid off for
budgetary reasons. The union brought
the matter to Rockland County
Supreme Court, claiming that layoffs
must be authorized by a resolution
adopted at a Town Board meeting
that is open to the public. Such a
resolution had not been offered at any
public board meeting, at the time
Justice Kelly heard the case.

The town, for its part, claimed that
the decision to terminate the union
members was made at an executive
(closed) session of the board.

200 new members

Niagara County Local 872 grew by
200 new members last month as the
Niagara Falls Board of Education
granted representation rights to
CSEA for an aides unit.

Local 872 President Dominic
Spacone and Field Representative
James Stewart filed a petition bear-
ing more than 50 per cent of the city
school district’s aides in January.

The board restricted the

recognition to the 200 teacher, library
and lunch aides.

Local 872 already serves as bargain-
ing agent for clerical, food service,
health, custodial and maintenance
workers.

NORTH HEMPSTEAD OFFICIALS recently presented Stanley Dabrowski

with a Ce:

icate of Award on hi

retirement trom the Town's Parks and

Recreation Department. Dabrowski has been with the Town for ten years. Pic-
tured above, from left, at the presentation, are Commissioner of Parks and

Recreation Thomas P. }
Councilman Charles J. Fuschillo.

ohrman; Supervisor Tully; Dabrowski; and Town

Mr. Kelly wrote in his decision:
“There is no statutory authority for
job termination by the Supervisor,
and no indication that the Board ever
conferred such authority upon him by
resolution. . . The Board also lacked
the authority to terminate the
employees at an executive session
However, that part of its proceedings
wherein a decision is announced and
at which the vote of the individual
members is taken must be open to the
public.

“The Court finds that Colello did
not have the authority to terminate
their employment, and that the
Board's attempt to do so was illegal
and arbitrary,” Mr. Kelly concluded.

With that, he annulled the four
employees’ layoffs.

The town has subsequently held a
public meeting at which the four were
laid off in accordance with the court
decision. Since then, Mr. Banford has

retired and Mr. McQuown has got,
another job with the town, so there
are only two employees still directly
involved with this case. However, the
union is following up its protection of
its members. CSEA has brought the
matter of the layoffs of Ms. O’Brien
and Mr. Porter to arbitration, based
on a contractual provision mandating
the town to lay off part-timers,
provisionals, temporaries and
probationary employees before ter-
minating permanent workers such as
O’Brien and Porter.

Briefs in that arbitration have been
-filed and a decision is expected
shortly.

“The price of job security is eternal
vigilance,”’ said CSEA field represen-
tative Larry Scanlon. ‘‘We must in-
sure that management lives up to its
legal and contractual obligations on
all fronts.”’

Region | nominees announced

NORTH AMITYVILLE — Irving
Flaumenbaum, incumbent
president of Long Island CSEA
Region I, will be opposed by Betty
Duffy, President of the Pilgrim
Psychiatric Center CSEA Local, in
the June election of regional of-
ficers.

The names of Flaumenbaum and
Duffy head the list proposed by the
regional Nominating Committee.

Also placed in nomination were:

For First Vice President: James
Corbin, past president of the Suf-
folk CSEA Local; and Danny
Donohue, president of the Central
Islip Psychiatric Center Local and
chairman of the statewide Mental
Hygiene Presidents Council.

For Second Vice President: Nick

Abbatiello, president of the Nassau
County CSEA Local, and Alex
Bozza of the Nassau Local.

For Third Vice President: Ruth
Braverman of the Nassau Local,
and Bill Lewis, president of the
Suffolk County CSEA Local.

For Fourth Vice President:
Peter Higgerson, president of the
Long Island State Parks CSEA
Local; Bob Conlon of the Suffolk
Educational Local, and Tom
Gargiulo of the Nassau County
Local.

For secretary: Dorothy Goetz of
the Suffolk Local, and Sylvia Wein-
stock of the Pilgrim Psychiatric -
Center Local.

For treasurer: Sam Piscitelli of
the Nassau Local, unopposed.

Calendar
‘of EVENTS

APRIL

7 —Non-instructional employee training

session, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Polish

Falcons Club, 123 Swan Street, Batavia.
17 — Syracuse Area Retirees CSEA Local 913; luncheon meeting, 1 p.m., Fireside Inn,
Baldwinsville. Election of officers will be held

21
High School, Poughkeepsie

Non-instructional employee training session, 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Poughkeepsie

MAY
4 — Local 860, White Plains Schools annual dinner-dance honoring recent retirees. 7:30
p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Purchase Country Club, Anderson Hill Road, Purchase.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR,

~ Page 11

Wednesday, April 4, 1979

-: Contract orientation

Although CSEA officials conducted a series
of informational meetings around the state last
week to explain in detail the aspects of the new,
tentative 3-year agreement covering 1074000 state
employees in three bargaining units, only a
limited number of the employees covered could
actually attend such sessions.

Each of the CS9EA members in the state Ad-
ministrative, Institutional and Operational Ser-
vices Units will be receiving copies of the ten- d
tative agreement prior to participating in a
scheduled ratification vote, however.

And, as always, a prime source of accurate = oy
information about union affairs are the CSEA CHIEF NEGOTIATOR Atty. James W.
field representative, collective bargaining  eemer explained aan a ereee
specialist, and staff employees at CSEA ‘tail to union stalf members.
statewide headquarters in Albany and the union’s
six regional headquarters.

Before the first in a series of membership
meetings were held around the state last week,

CSEA staff employees from all areas attended an REGION IV FIELD DIRECTOR Jack Cor-

intense, detailed briefing session in Albany. coran listens intently to explanation of all
aspects of new contract covering 107,000
state workers.

THESE CSEA FIELD REPRESENTATIV CSEA STAFFERS Flip Amodio and John Deyo of Region II and Collective Bargaining
Ventura of Region V, James Stewart of Region VI, and Specialist Paul Burch pay strict attention to presentation.
Aaron Wagner of Region IV.

REGION I REPRE-

SENTATIVES in-

cluded Anne Chand-
% ler and Mona Cap-

DIRECTOR OF FIELD SERVICES Gerry Rogers, lett, and pola,

Region IV Field Rep Michael White absorb details.

REGIONAL FIELD DIRECTORS
Thomas Luposello of Region II,
George Bispham of Region II, and
Frank Martello of Region V,

FIELD RE

'P CHARLES BIRD of
Region VI listens closely to details of

ae tentative 3-year agreement.

Geese pace cie THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, April 4, 1979