CSEA MOURNS LOSS OF
TOM McDONOUGH
TOM McDONOUGH
How do I feel when the loss of a friend,
Leaves me helpless and terribly sad,
What can I say, much less what canI do,
To explain what a friendship we had.
The kind of a man who is always around,
Who will do anything that he can,
You might need a shoulder, a word, or a thought,
You knew to depend on this man.
tdon’t have to tell any one of his friends,
What it means to be sadly alone,
You can’t share a joke, or a problem, not now,
For! know that he’s no longer home.
No, Tomisn’t “home” in the sense that we know,
For we know we can’t call him again,
Not here on our earth, nor at any one place,
And we know we can’t ever ask when?
As sad as | feel at the loss of this man,
Ihave a mixed feeling of peace,
I know that he did everything that he could,
And with this comes a sense of release,
Yes, we can let him go to a far better place,
Though | know this is not better for me,
For as sure as | know that the Lord’s up in heaven,
I know where dear Thomas will be.
He’ll be up there of course in the Heavenly realm,
Organizing and having his say,
And I'm sure that the Lord will be happier, too —
For his good friend is with Him to stay.
This poem was written as a tribute to Tom McDonough by June
Boyle, a former member of the statewide Board of Directors, a
{ongtime union activist, and a personal friend of Tom and Pauline
McDonough.
SECTOR
- Rumors precede budget battle;
tribute to
ificis lical vil
_ Service Employees Association
Local 1000, American
Federation of State, County and’
Municipal Employees AFL-CIO
Lae;
Vol.5, No.8
Friday, January 28, 1983
(ISSN 0164 9949)
‘we're standing our ground’
ALBANY — The annual budget-balancing act
is under way again in the State Capitol, but with
next year’s projected $1.8 billion deficit, this
year’s debate has already been controversial
anda cause for great concern for public workers.
In addition to the perennial calls to balance the
budget on the backs of public workers, this year
_ media reports have spread leaks” about possi-
~ ple layoffs of state workers ranging as high as
10,000 to 15,000 people. One ‘‘public interest _
_ group” in Albany actually publicly proposed that
new state contracts be renegotiated to bail out
the treasury.
Amid this climate of rumors and targeted fear,
CSEA and its president are closely monitoring
_ daily developments, drafting alternative pro-
_ posals to balance the state’s depleted coffers,
and urging members to wait and see precisely
what Gov. Cuomo’s first executive budget pro-
poses before reacting.
Amid the media hype and the proposals and
counterproposals, CSEA and other public
employee unions were quick to voice their op-
position to reopening contract talks and to man-
datory furloughs. And Gov. Cuomo publicly
rejected both proposals (see related story).
“We're not going te apologize to anyone for the
contracts we negotiated last year. Yes, we were
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Guv rules out reopening contracts
NEW YORK CITY — Declaring that unions
are being scapegoated for the state’s fiscal pro-
_ blems, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo has rejected a call
for the state to renegotiate contracts with public
employee unions.
In response to a question posed at a forum
sponsored by the New York Pest, Cuomo
declared, “I disapprove of any effort that would
seek to force the undoing of a contract that has 1
been made ... We made an agreement, the
Legislature approved it, we should honor it.”
(Continued on Page 4)
TROY — The City of Troy, praising its public employees for their
dedication to their jobs, is rewarding them with ‘“‘bonus”’ days off for not us-
ing leave time unnecessarily.
“Two years ago, we negotiated a well-pay concept into our contract with
the city,” Joseph Cassidy, CSEA City of Troy Unit president, said. ‘‘After
numerous improvements in the idea, the city is now benefiting through bet-
ter job attendance while the employees have a chance of gaining days off for
not using leave benefits unncecessarily.””
Of Troy’s 589 employee workforce, nearly 30 percent, or 173 workers,
did not take any sick time in 1982. By not using the benefit, the employees
2
Social Security pa
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan National Commission on Social Security
Reform has told Congress that the financial problems of the social security
system can and should be met without breaking faith with America’s workers
and retirees. Q
The commission; whose members ranged the political spectrum, reached
a 12-3 consensus on’a packagexof recommendations that would meet all
foreseeable fundingineeds for thenear future and:erase most of a projected
long-term deficit.
Its members were unanimous in turning down proposals for such drastic
changes as making social security participation voluntary, imposing a needs
test for benefits, or tilting sharply the other way by linking the level of benefits
more rigidly to payroll contributions:maue during a working. career.
“Congress, in its deliberations on financial proposals, should not alter the
fundamental structure of the social securiiy program or undermine its
fundamental principles,” the commission insisted.
AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, one of five commission members
appointed by Democratic congressional leaders, joined in the consensus
report. He took exception to one recommendation that would bring future
federal employees under social security, and suggested an alternative that
would more than match the funding that would be lost.
What was notable in the commission’s report was the ability of such a
diverse group of public figures to end up in near accord on a politically
charged, controversial issue.
Ten of the commission members were appointed by President Reagan or
by the Senate or House Republican leaders. Alan Greenspan, chairman of
the commission, had been head of the President’s Council on Economic Ad-
visers during the Ford administration.
Despite the commission’s conservative tilt, the three dissenters from the
consensus were all from the political right — Sen. William Armstrong (R-
Colo.), Rep. Bill Archer (R-Tex.) and Joe D. Waggonner, a Reagan appointee
who had headed the Democratic wing of the House conservative coalition when
he was a congressman from Louisiana in the 1970s.
The consensus recommendations were supported by the commission
members most closely allied to the labor-supported campaign to stave off
social security cutbacks sought by the Reagan administration. Among them
were Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.), a revered figure among older Americans,
and Robert M. Ball, who headed the Social Security Administration for more
than a decade and helped set up the Save Our Security coalition.
But the signers also included such GOP stalwarts as Senate Finance
Committee Chairman Robert Dole (Kan.) and Rep. Barber B. Conable (N.Y.),
who is the ranking Republican on the House Ways & Means Committee. These
are the two key committees that will deal with legislation stemming from the
commission report.
Both House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., and President Reagan
endorsed the panel’s recommendations. But despite this broad support, the
final form of the legislation will be shaped after a congressional scrutiny that
will give groups with particular concerns an opportunity to influence the
ultimate product.
In some areas, such as one-time income-tax credit to offset a speedup in a
scheduled higher payroll tax, workers are partly shielded from extra costs.
But other changes, including a deferment in the next cost-of-living adjustment,
carry a price tag for beneficiaries.
Among the more controversial proposals are those dealing with groups
that are now automatically and permanently covered by social security.
One such group is made up of federal and postal employees, who now pay 7
percent of their salaries into the Civil Service Retirement System and also pay
the Medicare portion of the social security.payroll tax.
“THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, January 28, 1983 _
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Good attendance record earns bonus
vacation days for Troy employees
ckag
earned two ‘“‘bonus”’ vacation days. Six months of perfect attendance earns
one “‘bonus”’ vacation day. The majority of City employees are represented
by CSEA.
“This is a fine attendance record that few residents of the community
knows exists,” City Manager John P. Buckley said, citing the workers’ at-
tendance statistics.
“Our idea of well pay may spread to other public employers,” Cassidy
said. ‘We've proven that such a concept leads to better attendance, which
reduces substantially unnecessary benefit use and possibly stops potential |
leave benefit abusi )
e a bipartisan
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———The funding proposals
WASHINGTON — These are the principal recommendations of the Na-
tional Commission on Social Security Reform. They are estimated to raise $169
billion in revenues over the next seven years.
© $20 billion from expanded coverage. Starting in 1984, all employees of
non-profit organizations would be brought under social security, as would
federal employees hired after that date.
© $3 billion by banning withdrawal from social security system of state and
local governments already in the system.
@ $40 billion by changing the date for automatic cost-of-living adjustments
in social security benefits to January of each year instead of July. The blow
would be cushioned for those with the least income by higher allowable
payments under the Supplemental Security Income program.
@ $30 billion by making 50 percent of social security benefit payments sub-
ject to federal income tax for persons who have substantial other income. The
half of benefits assumed to stem from employer payments into the fund would
be taxable income for individuals who have at least $20,000 of other income
($25,000 on a joint return). The revenue would be credited to the social security
trust funds.
© $40 billion by advancing the scheduled dates of increases in the payroll
tax rate. The rate for workers and employers would rise from 6.7 percent to 7
percent in 1984 and then go as already scheduled to 7.05 percent in 1985.
However, workers would be reimbursed for the extra deduction in 1984 through
a refundable tax credit. The rate would also be raised above the present tax
schedule for the years 1988 and 1989.
@ $18 billion by setting the tax rate for self-employed persons at the com-
bined employer-employee rate instead of three-fourths of that amount. But
one-half of the combined rate, equal to the employer contribution, could be
deducted from taxable income as a business expense.
@ $18 billion through a lump-sum payment into the social security trust
funds of the value of future benefits attributed of years of military service
before 1957, when armed services personnel started paying social security
taxes. It also would cover social security credits based on allowances for
military service after that date.
Arelatively modest $200 million saving is estimated from changing the for-
mula for computing social security benefits of persons whose primary retire-
ment comes from pension systems for non-covered employment, such as the
federal civil service.
On the other side of the ledger, there are about $500 million in added costs
to the social security system by eliminating various gender-based distinctions
affecting benefits for widows, widowers, divorced spouses and survivors.
McEntee
to address
Region V
Presidents’
Workshop
SYRACUSE — More than 80
regional officers and local presidents
from CSEA Central Region V have
been invited to attend a Presidents’
Workshop, Feb. 11-13, at the Hotel
Syracuse here.
The highlight of the weekend
activities will be an address by
Gerald W. McEntee, international
president of the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal
Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO.
According to Region V President
James J. Moore, the agenda for the
two-day meeting will include a
membership drive kick-off presenta-
tion, two half-day information ses-
sions designed to aid union leadership
ability, a special luncheon to honor
former CSEA Executive Director
Joseph J. Dolan, and a dinner Satur-
day evening with guest speaker
McEntee.
“The Friday night program is
keyed to our regional membership
goal,”’ explained Moore. “We have
also made special arrangements with
a professional educator to present two
sessions Saturday that our local
presidents should find both in-
teresting and useful in performing
their duties.”
The address by McEntee, said
Moore, ‘‘will also give local
presidents an opportunity to meet and
hear our international union’s highest
ranking official, and to get his views
and comments regarding current
labor and economic issues that
concern us all.”’
Union officials
hail new policy
requiring posting
of occupational
injuries, deaths
Two Erie County child abuse
courage
investigators cited for
“We were just
doing our job,’
say members,
after attack by
angry dad
BUFFALO — The ‘courageous
feats” performed on a daily basis
by Child Protection Unit workers
were saluted by the Erie County
Legislature recently in a resolution
that honored two CPU employees
with firsthand knowledge of the
dangers involved in their line of
work.
“We were just doing our job,”
recalled John Fisher and Paul
Smolinski, of Erie County Local
815, when they were attacked by an
irate father brandishing a four-foot
length of hardwood flooring.
The ensuing scuffle resulted in a
number of bruises and scrapes for
both CSEA members, including a
broken wrist for Smolinski, who
was further hobbled in performing
his duties by a heavy cast.
The perseverance of Smolinski
and Fisher, who have collectively
investigated approximately 700
cases of child abuse and neglect in
their two-year tenure, was called
“typical of the bravery, concern
and dedication which has become a
CHILD PROTECTORS — John Fisher, left, and Paul Smolinski, Erie Coun-
ty Child Protection Unit employees, were presented with a resolution by the
county Legislature recently, in honor of their bravery on the job.
trademark of each and every Child
Protection Services employee in
Erie County.”
The county resolution went on to
praise the competence required of
CPU workers, citing their “neces-
sary high level of responsibility,
judgment and knowledge of the
law” in sometimes dealing with
‘‘psychotics, drug addicts,
alcoholics and violent criminals.”’
In concluding, the Erie County
resolution extended its “warmest
wishes for a multitude of future
success to Messrs. Fisher and
Smolinski and to every child
protection worker.”
UNION -
According to Robert Densmore, unit president and chairman of the
negotiating committee, the new pact requires the Town of Union to increase
the allowance for physical examinations from $60 to $75 for employees 39 years
old and over,
Town of Union unit
A new two-year agreement calling for a 742 percent pay in-
crease each year, plus improved medical and insurance benefits, was recently
ratified by the members of the Town of Union Unit of CSEA Local 804 Broome
County and the Town Board of Supervisors.
An important new record that public employers
must post in all work locations effective Feb. 1
could help unions detect health and safety trends in
the workplace and prevent potentially dangerous
situations from developing, CSEA officials say.
For the first time, public employers in New York
State must post a record of non-fatal occupational
injuries, illnesses and occupational deaths. Called
the “DOSH-400” list, employers are required to
post a copy of the report and keep it posted during
the entire month of February.
Angela DeVito, a representative on the union’s
statewide OSHA Committee from Region IV, says,
“DOSH-400 is very important to a safe and healthy
future for all our members. We should use this tool
effectively.” And that, she says, means CSEA
officers should determine where management will
be posting the local DOSH reports, and “if
management has forgotten its responsibilities,
ratifies 2-year pact
The contract also calls for the town to pay the full cost of hospitalization in-
surance for employees and dependents who are retiring on or after Jan, 1, 1983.
James Corcoran, CSEA field representative and chief negotiator for the
CSEA has to be prepared to file an OSHA complaint
with the Department of Labor citing failure to
comply with the New York State Labor Law.”
The OSHA activist noted that “‘previous to this
posting, public employees did not have access to
such records, That meant the union was often not
aware of a particular job or health problem until it
was too late. Now union officials may be able to
detect trends and prevent dangerous situations
from developing.”’
The new requirement, in addition to public
posting of the list during February, includes
maintaining the list in the workplace for five years.
employees and union representatives may view the
list at any time during that period. CSEA is
requesting that if an employer fails to post the
report as required, a union steward or officer be
immediately notified so that appropriate action
may be taken,
unit employees, said, ‘‘We are gratified that the members have ratified the
agreement. It’s a fair and equitable contract that offers wage increases and
way.”
some important improvements in benefits. I want to personally thank Unit
President Bob Densmore, Pete Olevano and Fred Durfee, members of the
negotiating committee, for their cooperation. It was a fine team effort all the
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able to put some decent money in our members’
pockets, but I’m sure the current administration
remembers that state employees lost earning
power over the past decade when our pay in-
creases were low and inflation was high,”’ CSEA
Statewide President William L. McGowan
declared.
“We've done our share. the state’s balanced
the budget on our members’ backs time and time
again. They’’ll have to look elsewhere.
“We knew this would be a bad budget year,
and when we negotiated our pay increases in this
contract, we paid the price. These so-called
public interest groups conveniently ignore the
fact that in exchange for pay increases we had to
accept several hardships including the lag
payroll.”
Indeed, the governor seemed to reflect the
union’s concern when he noted repeatedly that
he was weighing a number of budget-balancing
options, including university tuition increases,
increases in user fees and possibly tax increases,
as well as some program cuts in an effort to,
“spread the fiscal pain.”
CSEA had a proposal of its own — a temporary
surcharge on the maximum state personal in-
come tax to 11 or 12 percent. (The maximum was
reduced from 14 to 10 percent a couple of years
ago.)
“This surcharge would protect our members’
jobs and keep needed state programs and ser-
vices going,’’ President McGowan noted.
“‘We know there’s going to be some pain in this
budget, and we’re anxious to see what the Gover-
WASHINGTON — Government employees
have ‘‘v little to celebrate,” President
Kenneth T. Blaylock of the AFL-CIO Public
Employee Dept. told 500 workers gathered at a
noon-time rally to celebrate Public Employees
Appreciation Day.
“Today, public workers are maligned and
alienated,’’ Blaylock sa ‘Their careers, sys-
tem of pay, retirement and other working condi-
tions are attacked and being slowly destroyed.
They find themselves being blamed for
everything that’s wrong with government.”
The Jan. 10 rally, sponsored by the Public
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Union says it's ready to defend ground in battle of budget °
nor proposes. Economic times are tough, and
when our members hear all these budget reports
and rumors, they get scared and angry.”
The union president emphasized that the
governor’s budget proposal, due to be unveiled
by Feb. 1, will only be the opening salvo in the
budget battle, ‘It’s bound to be a tough budget
fight in the Legislature, and we’ll be right in
there battling,” McGowan pledged. ‘‘We’re go-
ing to stand our ground.
Cuomo rejects possibility
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Cuomo also took exception to claims by citizen
“watchdog” groups that renegotiating the con-
tracts would significantly help the state balance
its budget. ‘‘Their figures are wrong,’’ he said
referring to claims that the state could save
several million dollars by reopening contract
negotiations. The Governor noted that the in-
creases scheduled for next fiscal year will cost
the state between $220 and $250 million more
than this year’s salaries.
“Tf I put a gun to their (unions’) heads and
renegotiated to the inflation rate, it would save
$45,” he said. ‘Cut the increases in half and it
would only get $110 to $120 million.
“That wouldn’t even come close to solving our
problems,” he concluded. Cuomo estimated the
state budget gap for next fiscal year at $1.8
billion.
A day of celebration for public employees
Employee Roundtable, a coalition of 26 public
employee advocates, featured speakers from
unions, business and government.
Congress and President Reagan have
proclaimed Jan. 17 as Public Employees
Appreciation Day to salute the 16 million federal,
state and local public employees.
Arthur Flemming, former chairman of the
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and now
president of the National Council on Aging, told
the public employees to start demanding more
respect and protection from elected officials,
and pressure the two national parties to adopt
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“It’s one thing if everyone has to help bear
some of the fiscal pain, but we’re going to see to
it that our members aren’t the only ones hurting.
“One of the few consolations we have is that if
Lew Lehrman were the one drafting this budget
proposal, we wouldn’t be talking about pain —
we'd be talking about agony. Our members
wouldn’t just be sitting on the edge of theirseats @
waiting to see this budget; they’d already be
standing in the unemployment lines.”
of reopening contracts
The Governor dismissed arguments that the
raises granted in union contracts are the causeof @
the projected budget deficit. “We have a tenden-
cy to scapegoat unions,”’ he said. “‘It’s not fair.”’
Cuomo blamed the ‘‘depth of the recession’’ as
among the chief reasons for the projected budget
deficit, causing a drop in state tax receipts.
In discussing his executive budget, Cuomo
cited “personnel actions’? as one way to cut
spending. He refused to specify what ‘personnel
actions” he would recommend until he releases
his executive budget on Feb. 1.
Cuomo had previously endorsed the furlough- e
ing of state workers to help solve the state’s
fiscal problems, but he has apparently changed
his position. In response to a question, he offered
“voluntary furloughs’? as one way to reduce
state spending.
platform planks that acknowledge the
importance of public workers’ contributions.
Rep. William D. Ford (D-Mich.), chairman of
the House Post Office & Civil Service
Committee, said the occasion should be
‘‘joyous,”’ but “sadly, it is marred by a reckless
assault on the federal workforce under the bogus
banner of economic restraint. The demagoguery
and duplicity of the White House is disgraceful
when it comes to federal employees and the work
they do.” e
Monroe County appreciation day, page 5
ROCHESTER — The 100th anniver-
sary of the U.S. Civil Service Act was
the impetus for a Monroe County pro-
clamation that declared Jan. 17
Public Employees Appreciation Day.
The Monroe County action follows
the lead of the U.S. Congress, as part
of a national public education cam-
@ _paign designed to improve the percep-
tion and image of those working in
government service.
Local 828 President George
Growney and County Employees Unit
President Florence Tripi accepted a
framed proclamation in behalf of the
more than 3,100 CSEA members
employed by Monroe County.
Four other public emplovee nniens
fanless iia)
@ «uuuy ALSCME members, fire
fighters, social workers and operating
engineers were likewise honored in
County Manager Lucien Morin’s
office.
The proclamation was given exten-
sive media coverage in the Rochester
area, and was a leading story on
several radio and television
newscasts.
The county document, signed by
@ Morin and county Legislature Presi-
dent Edwin Foster, lauded usually-
unsung public workers who “‘perform
services that are vital to the daily con-
duct of our lives and businesses, with
little expectation of recognition or
public acclaim.”
Noting the many tasks the public
expects and cannot provide for itself,
such as highway maintenance, health
services, police protection and many
others, the proclamation concluded,
“Too often the service of public
employees is taken for granted.”
Growney, Monroe County Local 828 president, left,
Florence Tripi, president of the Monroe County
In Monroe County:
- Public‘Employees Appreciation Day
Employees Unit, and Lucien Morin, county manager, are
shown with the proclamation that declared Jan. 17 a day
of appreciation for the county’s public employees.
Non-teaching
school employees
set forth '83
ALBANY — School bus seat heights, parity with sub-
contractors who provide transportation services, and a
change in items that may be included in contingency
budgets, are the top 1983 legislative priorities set by
CSEA’s Non-Teaching School Employees Committee.
Those proposals are part of CSEA’s overall legislative
package to be presented to the State Legislature.
Chairwoman Carol Craig explained that if New
York State agreed to go along with federal regulations
regarding the height of school bus seats, then significant
savings would be realized. Standardization would reduce
manufacturing costs, and the lower seats would make it
easier for drivers to observe and account for students.
The Parity Bill would reform regulations that cur-
rently favor school districts which subcontract trans-
portation services, and the Contingency Budget Bill
would expand services that could be included in austerity
budgets.
The committee’s legislative goals are rounded out by
support of bills to make the Agency Shop permanent for
all public employees, and to have reopeners for the Tier I
and Tier II Retirement Systems.
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LABOR INSTITUTE WORKSHOP
PLANNED — The agenda for the
CSEA Labor Institute’s first educa-
tional workshop for Metropolitan
Region II members was discussed
recently by, from left to right,
Region II Office Manager Lilly
Gioia, CSEA Director of Education
and Training Thomas Quimby,
Region II Education Committee
Chairwoman Rose Fuererman-
Sutro, CSEA Training Specialist
Sean Turley and Region II Presi-
dent George Caloumeno. Details
and registration procedures for the
workshop, set for April 9 and 10,
will be announced.
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WATERVLIET — The
Watervliet Housing Authority con-
tract only took two minutes to sign,
but it took 21 months to negotiate
and along the way, the dedication
of the Authority's seven employees
to the concept of unionization and a
union contract earned recognition
and respect.
Oe wasn’t a hard contract to
negotiate,’ CSEA Field Represen-
tative Greg Davis said. ‘But these
‘9 overcome the death
~-nidant
of their original unit presw--- and
several personnel changes before
reaching their long-sought goal.
I’m very proud of their determina-
tion and persistence.”
Davis, who served as the unit’s
organizer as well as their first con-
tract negotiator, detailed the
members’ long effort’ as follows:
“CSEA was certified as the union
for the Authority’s employees in
May 1981. Everything pointed to
quick negotiations for a first con-
tract; negotiations were friendly
and productive, But problems
arose, and it seemed that just as
one problem was solved, a dozen
more took its place. ding left, and Housing y
“Bill Halliday, the original unit standing right, watch CSI ap :
prsident, who brought the workers Authority Board Chairman Walter 7
into CSEA, retired and was
Watervliet Housing Authority pact signed
to a successful : haa friendly epoeainers
ficials signed the agreement. CSEA Field Rep
“Xolonie units
ratify tentative
agreements
COLONIE — Blue- and white-
collar employees in the Town of
Colonie Units of CSEA have
ratified tentative agreements with
management.
The white-collar unit ‘‘C’’
ratified its tentative agreement
with the town on the first workday
of the new year by a 3-to-1 margin.
Unit ‘““B” voted by a 7-to-1 margin
to accept their pact a week later.
The two unit contracts will pro-
vide for a 6 percent salary increase
_~iwa to the first of this year
aa
ard will be followed by a 6.9 per-
cent increase next year. The new
two-year pact will provide for an
employee and family dental pro-
gram this year and a $10,000
employer paid life insurance policy
for each worker next year.
Also included in the pact is a
$3.50 meal allowance for those
workers forced to extend their shift
or work double shifts, and new
rates for holiday pay. For the
white-collar unit, holiday pay and
double time will be paid for work-
ing Election Day and/or In-
dependence Day. In the blue unit,
tnegi es ote + finally c
dive Greg David, san:
n Hie St ti
sign histor ‘ie agreement,
hospitalized shortly after. But he
stayed in contact with his former
co-workers and was aware that the
contract was going to be signed,
when he died suddenly. Helen Cor-
ina, the new unit president, kept up
the members’ spirits and resolve,
often reminding them of Halliday’s
dedication to their well-being,”
Davis said.
“And then there was the unex-
pected replacement of the Housing
Authority’s executive director.
That move basically meant that
the unit was back at step one, as far
as the contract negotiations went.
But even this obstacle was over-
come through quiet persistence
and personal dedication.”
The first contract addresses all
of the normal collective bargaining
needs of the Authority's seven
workers and establishes their
rights before their employer. It is
retroactive to 1981.
“It's a relief that it is finally
over,” Corina said. ‘‘We look for-
ward to a good, open and honest
relationship with the Authority.”
the holiday pay rates now include
Election and Veteran’s Day.
Approval by the town ad-
ministration is expected soon. Unit
Presidents Kenneth Bell (blue col-
jar) and Lawrence Jeram (white
collar) are working with CSEA
Field Representative John Cumm-
ings on final language for the
agreements.
State Executive Committee
election plans underway
ALBANY — Preparations have begun for elections this spring to choose
members of the statewide Board of Directors’ State Executive Committee.
The Statewide Nominating Committee. comprised of three State
representatives from each CSEA region, is charged under the union’s
Constitution with responsibility for nominating candidates to appear on official
ballots for each representative on the State Executive Committee.
Any eligible member in good standing can have his or her name placed on
a ballot either by nomination by the committee or by obtaining the requisite
number of member signatures on official petition forms.
Nominations are now open, and any CSEA members eligible to run for the
State Executive Committee are invited to apply for nomination. ‘‘Request to
Be A Candidate” forms must be completed and returned to CSEA
Headquarters no later than Feb. 24 to be considered by the Nominating
Committee.
Forms are available from CSEA state division local presidents, regional
offices, or the Office of the Executive Director at CSEA Headquarters.
The election schedule has been set as follows:
Jan. 28 Opening of nominations
Feb. 24 Nominations close
Feb. 25 Meeting of Nominating Committee
March 1 Report of Nominating Committee Petitioning for
independent nominations begins
March 19 Deadline for declination of nomination
April 15 Final day for nominating petitions to be filed
April 28 Drawing for ballot position
May 11 Publication of names of all candidates in The Public
Sector
May 14 Official ballots to be mailed
May 24 Replacement ballots may be requested
June 15 Ballots must be returned by 5 p.m. Ballots to be
counted, and election results announced
June 25 End of election protest period
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AFL-CIO sponsors art sale
to benefit Polish workers
WASHINGTON — Marking the first anniversary of martial law in Poland,
AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland declared that organized labor ‘‘will not
retreat from our demand that Solidarnosce (Solidarity) be fully restored to the
workers of Poland.”
Opening an exhibition of Polish photographic and poster art at AFL-CIO
headquarters, Kirkland announced the beginning of ‘‘a grass-roots fund-
-raising campaign — for the workers of Poland and for unemployed American
workers.”
Proceeds from the sale of the art will go to the federation’s two-year-old
Polish Workers Aid Fund.
Although Poland’s miltary regime recently announced a gradual lifting of
martial law restrictions Kirkland noted that “the regime has moved to per-
manently institutionalize its most repressive features.”
Unless genuine trade union and other rights are restored, Kirkland said,
labor would continue to demand that ‘‘the sanctions against Poland and the
Soviet Union be maintained.”
Those attending the exhibition opening included Vice President George
Bush, Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, Attorney General William French
Smith, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Senator Edward M. Ken-
nedy (D-Mass. ).
PALA SAARI ASAI AEA EAE RAS METAL RAE SA RAER ES REA ED EAE ESA ED ED EAE RAEN SEGARA SA ER EOEO AEDES EARS
TOM McDONOUGH
Executive Vice President
dies unexpectedly at 65
Union mourning loss of
a fighter and a friend
ALBANY — Thomas H. McDonough,
who once served as acting statewide
president of the quarter-million-member
CSEA during the mid-1970’s and who was
in his eighth year as statewide executive
vice president of the union, died
unexpectedly on Sunday, Jan. 16 of an
apparent heart attack. He was 65.
Along the way during his quarter of a
century as a member of CSEA Tom held
virtually every key position of
leadership within the union. And he
earned the respect of both labor and
management for his aggressive efforts
on behalf of a wide variety of union
causes and of working people in general.
CSEA President Bill McGowan said
“Tom McDonough symbolized this
union. . .”’ and called his second-in-com-
mand “‘a tireless fighter for the causes
that he believed best served the
members of our union.”
Meyer Frucher, director of the
Governor’s Office of Employee
Relations, who often faced Tom across
the negotiating table, said ‘‘Tom
McDonough earned our abiding respect
& he was amiable, but a tough
negotiator whose agenda gave top
priority to the interests of the employees
he represented.”
Tom was re-elected to a 3-year term as
statewide executive vice president last
May, and was mid-way through his
eighth year in the position when he
suffered the apparent heart attack while
walking outdoors near his home in the
Albany suburb of Colonie. He had been
recuperating from a lengthy illness and
had resumed his union duties on a part-
time basis only a few weeks ago.
In addition to his eight years as
executive vice president and his service
as acting president, Tom also was first
vice president of the Capital District
Conference for four years and a
statewide first vice president of CSEA
for two years. He was chairman of the
CSEA Administrative Unit negotiating
team for 12 years, and member of
CSEA’s coalition negotiating team for 14
years. He was president of CSEA’s
Motor Vehicle Department Local for 15
years, a member of the statewide CSEA
Board of Directors for 14 years, and
chairman of the State Executive
Committee for two years. Tom also
served as CSEA’s first Political Action
Committee chairman, and was. a
member of various statewide union
committees as well. Then-Gov. Malcolm
Wilson named Tom a member of the
governor’s Affirmative Action
Committee.
A native of Pittsford, Vermont, Tom
grew up in the New York-Vermont
border town of Granville, where he
served as a town councilman and a
Democratic committee chairman prior
to moving to the Albany area in 1956. He
worked for more than a quarter of a
century for the State Department of
Motor Vehicles, where he was a senior
clerk.
Survivors include his wife, Pauline; a
daughter, Patricia, and a son, George,
both of Colonie; his mother, Helena
Grenno McDonough of Granville, eight
grandchildren, and three great-
grandchildren.
“Fight for —
my union?
vs .Damn right
I would!”
Funeral services were held on
Thursday, Jan. 20 from St. Mary’s
Church in Granville, and burial was at
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Granville.
TOM McDONOUGH was proud of his reputation as a hard-nosed
advocate of public employees and their rights. He created this
cover for one of his campaign pieces.
The family of the late Tom McDonough has requested that remem-
brances be sent to the Hospice, Coronary Care or Hematology Units
at St. Peter’s Hospital, 315 South Manning Boulevard, Albany, New
Memorial Mass
CSEA scheduled a Memorial Mass attended by
York 12208.
“Tom McDonough symbolized this
union as much as any of its officers.
He was a tireless fighter for the
causes that he believed best served
pant in virtually all of the major de
sions that helped shape this union
over the past two decades. But
ofus.”
CSEA President
William L. McGowan
“Tom McDonough earned
our abiding respect,
although we sat on opposite
sides of the bargaining table.
He was amiable, but was a
tough negotiator whose
agenda gave top priority to
the interests of the
employees he represented.
more Because of his background
than anything else, Tom was a friend
to his brothers and sisters in CSEA.
Always willing to help when he could
or to just listen when he couldn’t. He
always cared about the people he
spent so much of his life representing
and he gave them everything he had
to offer. He will be sorely missed by all
in a variety of jobs with the
Department of Motor
Vehicles, he brought a strong
sense of issues to his union
role. Our condolences go to
his wife and other family
members and to his union.
He will be missed.”
Meyer Frucher, Director
‘ Governor’s Office of
Employee Relations
staff and area union members, union offices in the
Albany area were closed, and several major meetings
were cancelled or postponed last week out of respect
for and in memory of Tom McDonough.
CSEA state headquarters and the union’s Region
IV headquarters, both located in Albany, were closed
Thursday morning, Jan. 20 to enable staff employees
and area union members and friends of Tom to attend
a Memorial Mass arranged by CSEA at St. Francis
DeSale Church. The Mass was scheduled to coincide
with funeral services scheduled that morning in
Granville, a considerable distance from Albany, and
was held to enable as many people as possible to pay
their respects.
The January meeting of the statewide Board of
Directors, scheduled to be held on Jan. 20 in Albany,
was cancelled, as were numerous other union
meetings and programs. Under a provision of the
union’s Constitution, the Board of Directors will fill
the vacancy in the executive vice president position by
appointing any one of the union’s six statewide vice
presidents (regional presidents).
Cold building a hot issue
HEMPSTEAD — It was a case of the right hand not knowing what the left
mitten was doing when one state agency closed after the heating plant broke
down but another agency insisted on staying open.
The chilled fingers of employees of the State Insurance Fund on Franklin
Ave. were unable to type and file correctly. Letters starting with ‘‘Dear Sir”
came out “Dear Dir’’ and things like that.
Insurance Fund employees complained that it was not an isolated incident.
The heating plant broke down repeatedly last winter and again this season,
they said.
When the employees’ complaints were lodged by CSEA Field Represen-
tative Nick Pollicino, the parole office in another part of the same building
promptly agreed to close but the Insurance Fund refused to let the workers go.
The thermostat in the Insurance Fund office showed readings around 60
degrees. About 60 employees, primarily clerical, work in the office.
They struggled through the day Jan. 3, but refused to work when there was
no heat again on Jan. 4 and Jan. 5. Management declared that each employee
would be charged for two days sick leave.
There was a warm ending, however, when Pollicino appeared at the office
later to serve formal grievance papers on the agency. On the spot, manage-
ment reversed the decision to charge for sick time.
And the heating plant was (knock wood) still working.
Work and Health
Carbon monoxide:
invisible killer
By Phillip L. Polakoff, M.D.
Director, Western Institute for
Occupational/Environment Sciences
Carbon monoxide is one of the most
dangerous and widespread industrial
hazards.
The main source of this invisible, odorless gas is the incomplete burning
of anything that contains carbon. This includes gasoline, natural gas, oil,
propane, coal and wood.
‘Every -year;-some-2;000-persons are killed outright by carbon monoxide.
At least 10,000 more workers suffer from exposure high enough to cause
serious health effects. Millions of others experience milder effects.
These figures are not precise because there is a good reason to believe
that a large number of cases of carbon monoxide poisoning, both fatal and
non-fatal, go unreported or incorrectly diagnosed. The symptoms are fairly
general, especially at relatively low levels, and might suggest other causes.
Carbon monoxide also aggravates other disease conditions, particularly
heart trouble and respiratory difficulties. i
The most frequent source of carbon monoxide in the workplace is usual-
ly the internal combustion engine, although coke ovens, blast furnaces and
forges also produce the gas.
Among those obviously at risk are operators of lift trucks, front-end
loaders and diesel engines, as well as those working nearby. When such
| equipment is operated in an enclosed area, the risk is particularly
dangerous. Such areas would include garages, filling station repair shops,
warehouses, dock areas, the holds of ships during loading and unloading,
vehicular tunnels, toll collection stations and so on.
Carbon monoxide poisons its victims by displacing oxygen in the blood.
Oxygen from the lungs normally is carried through the body by the blood’s
hemoglobin. But when carbon monoxide is inhaled, the hemoglobin grabs
Bone marrow starting to take
for Jenny Harrington
Jenny Harrington, the 4-year-old daughter of CSEA member Gary Harr-
ington, an orderly at the Meadows Country Infirmary in Otsego County, is
showing signs of improving after a bone marrow transplant, according to a re-
cent story in the Syracuse Herald-Journal.
Jenny, who has leukemia, underwent the transplant of the bone marrow
from twin sister Jody on Dec. 28 at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center.
A bone marrow sample taken from Jenny on Jan. 11 showed that new mar-
row is growing and Jenny’s mother, Debbie, was quoted in the Syracuse story
as saying, ‘They think the bone marrow was starting to take.”
The Harringtons received a card from President Reagan last month when
their story received national attention. CSEA members and others at the infir-
mary where Harrington works put together a fund to help defray some of the
costs of the surgery and treatment, and more than $20,000 has been raised so
far. the poiscn first, passing over the available oxygen. This explains how
workers can die within a few minutes because of large amounts of carbon
monoxide in the air, even though there is also plenty of oxygen available.
Tests have shown that carbon monoxide combines with hemoglobin 210
(Serie bus drivers win——~
extra pay for extra work
SYRACUSE — School bus drivers belonging to the North Syracuse
Transportation Unit of Onondaga County Local 834 have won the extra pay
that they are owed for driving two extra bus runs on Nov. 19 and Nov. 24,
1981.
Arbitrator Donald E. Cullen recently made the award in response to a
grievance filed by driver Linda Wells. He noted that the grievance was ar-
bitrable even though the school district argued that it had not been filed on
time. Cullen said that an August notice of the extra runs was sufficiently
“ambiguous” so that employees really did not know until payday, Dec. 4,
1981, that they would receive the daily rate plus two hours pay for the extra
work.
The CSEA contract requires that any changes in the school calendar be
posted each August ‘“‘with the dates for such deviations.’”’ Otherwise, the
past practice was to pay at least two hours extra pay for runs that were not
specified in the August posting.
The past practice, as well as the fact that when deviations in the bus
runs were announced no specific days were given, formed the core of
CSEA’s arguments.
The arbitrator directed the district to reimburse drivers the balance of
two hours pay for each of the two days that they drove extra runs.
The case was won with the aid of CSEA’s Legal Assistance Program.
times as fast as oxygen does.
Without oxygen moving through the blood stream, the victim suffocates.
At lower levels of concentration, carbon monoxide takes over part of the
oxygen-carrying function of the blood. The effects vary with individuals, but
the most common complaints are headaches, nausea, drowsiness, tightness
across the chest, tiredness and inattention.
As exposure increases, the worker may become uncoordinated, confus-
ed and weak. Continued exposure can lead to convulsions, coma and even
death.
High doses of caron monoxide — even if the victim recovers — may
cause permanent damage to body tissues that require a lot of oxygen, par-
ticularly the brain and the heart.
Besides being a health hazard, carbon monoxide is a safety hazard as
well because of some of the effects just mentioned. A worker whose coor-
dination is affected, or who becomes drowsy on the job, is a likely candidate
for an accident and a risk to others.
There are two basic approaches to eliminating this hazard to health and
safety:
Get rid of the source.
* Get rid of the gas itself.
Some businesses — warehouses, for example — have eliminated the
source by switching to battery-operated fork lifts which give off no exhaust.
This is a good solution, particularly in the winter when doors and windows
generally are closed and the risks from gasoline-burning équipment are par-
ticularly high.
Another idea that has proved effective is to enclose dangerous opera-
tions and install blowers or fans to carry away the gas. The exhaust system
should be installed in the ceiling or high above the source of the carbon
monoxide. The gas is slightly lighter than air and, when it comes from a
tailpipe, is usually hot and has a tendency to rise.
Many tunnel attendants and toll collectors are provided with glass-
enclosed booths and an independent fresh air supply. Newer tunnels have
built-in exhaust fan systems that turn on automatically ‘when the level of
carbon monoxide reaches dangerous levels.
Portable blowers, properly placed, can dissipate carbon monoxide in
other situations, such as on shipboard where longshore workers have to
work between the decks.
A word of caution: Just because you can’t see or smell the exhaust from
an internal combustion engine doesn’t mean that carbon monoxide isn’t pre-
sent. Remember, this gas is invisible and odorless. The blue or white plumes
you see are other gases or water vapor. The killer strikes without warning.
4-page pullout
“eg alare SECTION
LAWMAKING:
the LEGISLATIVE
The process by which ideas become law has always been a mysterious one. But although the
process is necessarily an involyed one, it is not unduly complicated. This special four-page pull out
section is the first in a series of articles designed to help disperse the mystery surrounding a func-
tion that affects all our lives.
A fathomable labyrinth
In order for an idea to become a law, there is a certain procedure which
must be followed. When a legislator decides that something should become
law, that individual introduces legislation. Proposed legislation is referred
toasa bill. This bill is formally written by the Legislative Bill Drafting Com-
mission which employs attorneys who translate the idea into legal terms.
Once the bill is written, the sponsor’s name goes on it and it is given a
number. A bill sponsored by more than one legislator in the appropriate
house, Senate or Assembly, is called a “multi-sponsored”’ bill. A multi-
sponsored bill has the prime sponsor whose name appears on it first, then
the multi-sponsors are listed. A bill sponsored by both a member of the
Assembly and the Senate is called a “‘uni-bill” because the same bill could
come up in either house. A uni-bill saves the expense of printing the bill in
each house but still must pass in both houses. It is important to note,
however, that one of the ‘‘companion”’ bills must pass both houses of the
legislature if that legislation is to become law.
Once the bill is sponsored and drawn it is referred to the appropriate
legislative committee. There are many committees for each house, each one
dealing with a specific subject area. A bill may have to be considered by
more than one committee. The committee analyzes the bill and data concer-
ning the bill furnished by outside groups such as industry, taxpayers, unions
and various special interest groups. The committee evaluates the bill and
decides whether or not it should be sent to the floor to be voted on by the
whole Senate or Assembly.
If a bill is approved by the appropriate committee or committees, it is
| sent to the full house. The whole Senate or Assembly vote on the bill. Once a
bill has passed the careful consideration of the committee, it is usually pass-
* ed by the whole house. In order to pass, a bill must receive a majority vote
except in the case of bills dealing with appropriation of money, which re-
quire a two-thirds vote. After the bill has been passed in one house, it is sent
to the other house for approval. If it is passed by both the Senate and the
Assembly by majority, the bill is sent to the Governor.
The Governor has ten days in which he must either sign or veto the bill.
If he signs it, the bill becomes a law. If he rejects it, it is sent back to the
legislature, along with his objections. The legislature may reconsider the
bill and may override the Governor’s veto. Any successful override requires
two thirds vote in each house. If the override attempt is successful the bill
becomes law regardless of the Governor’s objections. If the Governor does
not sign or veto the bill in ten days (excluding Sunday) the bill becomes law.
At the end of the session, the Governor has thirty days instead of ten to sign
the bill.
There are many practical considerations that must be accounted for
when trying to bridge that gap between a bill and a law. It is imperative that
a bill be drafted properly. Often, in the waning days of the legislative ses-
sion, a bill which is otherwise passable will be dead, for it is impossible to
get such a bill reprinted, reintroduced and passed prior to the close of the
legislative session.
Yet another critically important consideration that must be attended to
is the question of sponsorship. It is important to note that, without the ap-
propriate sponsors on a given piece of legislation, the bill has little or no
chance of being enacted into law.
Still another consideration that should be addressed is the question of
timing. If a bill is relatively noncontroversial in nature, it should be in-
troduced early in the legislative session. At the beginning of the legislative
session, the legislature has a great deal of difficulty filling its calendar.
Most bills are still in the drafting stage, analysis can be slow, and the
legislature may find itself with very short calendars and not as much work
as it would like before it on the floor. Well drafted, noncontroversial bills
that are introduced early in the session can usually be passed with little
difficulty.
There are many institutions within the legislature that play an impor-
tant role in determining whether a bill will become law. In the Assembly, for
example, when a bill is referred to the appropriate committee, it is analyzed
by the Program and Committee staff. This staff is a group of approximately
twenty professionals who are assigned to work with various committees.
They constitute that group which takes the first initiative toward recom-
mending to the committee chairman that the bill should be reported out of
committee and to the floor.
The personal staff of the various legislators also play a very significant
role in determining when a bill is to be reported out of committee and what
the potential consequences of the bill are.
Legislation of a controversial nature is usually considered by the Steer-
ing Committee. For example, in the Assembly, the Steering Committee is
composed of the Speaker, Majority Leader, Speaker’s leadership team,
such as the Deputy Majority Leader, the Deputy Speaker and so forth. This
committee is essentially a listening post for the Speaker. If a bill runs into
trouble in the Steering Committee, it probably will not go anywhere until
and unless the necessary changes are made. If a bill meets with the ap-
proval of the Steering Committee, it is then taken up in Conference.
HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW
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If passed, it “ to other house; there
is treated as a new bill as noted above.
IF SENATE PASSES © IF-ASSEMBLY PASSES
PIL UNCHANGED!
BILL UNCHANGED*
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for signature, making
~< it law; or veto a
* If changed, originating house must concur before it goes to Governor
** Governor has 30 days to act on bills passed in session's last 10 days; bills sent to him
earlier must be acted on within 10 days
NOTE: Part of the above procedure may be bypassed or shortened by unanimous consent
or if sent by Governor with a message of necessity
GOVERNOR**
Senate, Assembly
Committees reviewed
pages 10, 11, 12
THE PUBLIC SECTOR | Fridaypwanuary 2s, 1983 Page 9
32 nputel vob i. ETP da ald
Senate Civil Service
and Pensions Committee
By Gwenn M. Bellcourt
Assistant Editor
Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee Chairman Richard Schermerhorn (R-40th Dist.) was
candid about his relationship with public employees unions. Nearly all the bills which come before his
committee are written up by the unions, he said, and he’s on a first name basis with each of their
representatives.
As a courtesy, the five-term senator puts all of the union’s bills into print. After going over each piece of
legislation with staff attorneys, he decides which bills go on the agenda.
Often, Schermerhorn consults with the Senate
Majority leader Warren Anderson on the merits of
a bill. “If the majority wants the bill, I won’t stop it
... even if I don’t agree with it,’”’ he explained,
echoing a common belief that party loyalties are
especially strong in the Senate.
Seven Republicans and five Democrats sit on the
Civil Service and Pensions Committee, a ratio
proportional to the number of partisan members in
the Senate. The bloc of five Democrats on this
committee plays a crucial role in the ‘‘stopping”’ of
legislation, according to the committee’s ranking
minority member, Senator Martin Connor (D-25th
Dist.)
Admittedly, Connor may have a difficult time
mustering support for a piece of legislation when
the majority is opposed. But he says his primary
function is to query public employee groups to find
out how it affects them. If his Democratic coalition
finds the bill disagreeable, Connor will make sure
his party members are present at the committee
meeting to vote against the measure.
Usually, Connor will try to get a “swing vote,” a
Republican to vote against the majority’s dictate.
This ties the vote, keeping the bill in committee or
killing it all together.
Unlike the Assembly’s Governmental Employees
Committee, the Senate’s Civil Service and Pensions
Committee does not place every piece of legislation
on the agenda.
“The power of the committee chairman is all-
encompassing,” says Connor. ‘‘He decides what
bills will or will not be brought to committee.”’
As for CSEA’s legislative program, both Senate
committee leaders believe that Agency Shop will
probably be extended another two years, even
though Gov. Cuomo proposes making Agency Shop
permanent in the state.
“The time isn’t ripe,’’ explained Schermerhorn.
“There’s too much controversy and the simplest
solution is to extend it for another two years.”
Connor called the Agency Shop extention bill a
“guaranteed victory for the union’s every two
years,” a practice he feels is getting repetitive and
outdated.
Both men voiced strong opinions on the Tier III
state retirement system. Connor called the
contributory pension plan ‘‘a phony,” which has
failed to save the billions of dollars ‘political
leaders and editorial writers have claimed as their
battlecry,”’ he said.
While he may be in favor of repealing Tier ITI,
Connor said, realistically, this won’t happen.
Schermerhorn agreed. The 3 percent contribution
requirement will stay intact, he said, but legislators
will probably take a second look at the social
security offset factor written into the plan.
Asked how the estimated $500 million budget
deficit will affect public employees, the two
Senator Richard Schermerhorn
Committee Chairman
Senator Martin Connor
Ranking Minority Member (Continued on page 12)
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, January 28, 1983
Page 10
An estimated 75 percent of CSEA’s legisla’
and Pensions Committee and the Assembly
committees represent the first step in a long
In the articles below, these committee’s cl
roles, views and philosophies on state gove:
These are the first in a series of legislativ
The Committ
Legislative committees within the Senate and A:
law.
Both the Senate and Assembly have thirty comii
of topics, from aging to transportation.
Legislative committees are comprised of a
various committees range from eight to twenty #@ve
number of bills that must be reviewed by the commit
The main function of a committee is to review
mittee meetings are usually held on a weekly basis,
At the meeting, the bills on the agenda are vote:
with. The members may vote to pass the bill, otherw}
reading on the legislative calendar. In some instances,
reported directly to third reading for immediate actit
A bill may be reported to another committee foi
This means no definite action is taken on the bill. It is hy
action at a later date. It can also be “killed” in coppmij
no action is taken on it. The bill is never allowed
Legislative committees are, therefore, extreme|
‘i apg
On writing
During the course of these Public Sector int
were asked about their reactions to full-scale letter-vw|
pay strict attention to the needs and concerns of,
“The number one political instinct is survival. Tha)
means being sensitive to the needs of the electorate.
makes good political sense. . .”
—Assemblyman Joseph Lentol (D-58th Dist.
are channeled into the Senate Civil Service
ental Employees Committees. These important’
of lawmaking procedure.
n and ranking minority members talk about their
ittees to be profiled in The Public Sector.
: An Overview
bly play a major role in the process of a bill becoming a
. These committees deal with a wide and diverse range
in and members. The number of members within the
peMling upon the importance of the committee and the
which fall within its particular field of expertise. Com-
certain bills being reviewed at the upcoming meeting.
by the members. There are several ways a bill is dealt
own as “reporting the bill’ out of committee to first
ly at the end of the legislative session, the bill may be
ry the legislature.
‘ir review. Or, a bill may be “held” by the committee.
for further discussion and may appear on the agenda for
. This term applies when a bill is held in committee and
oorof the legislature for a vote.
iprtant components within the legislative process.
ur legislator
;, committee chairmen and ranking minority members
campaigns. Universally, they agreed that legislators
ents. Their comments follow:
“Letters do have an impact... it makes you take a
| closer look at the problem, When a legislator doesn’t
respond, he won’t be in office very long. . .”
—Assemblyman Nicholas Spano (R-87th Dist.)
“I listen more to the leaders they (special interes@’
groups) elect. If I hear that a union is bothered over
particular issue, I pick up the phone and call thei
leader. . .”
—Senator Richard Schermerhorn (R-40th Ge
“Constituent pressure is singly the most important
and effective tool of a good lobbying effort. It absolute-
ly works, especially around budget time. . .”
—Senator Martin Connor (D-25th Dist.)
SENATE CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
NAME OFFICE
Richard E. 146 Lakeside Plaza
Schermerhorn (R) P.O. Box 351
Chairman Newburgh, N.Y. 12550
John E. Flynn (R) Rm. 430, 30 S. Broadway
Yonkers, New York 10701
Dale M. Volker (R) 4981 Broadway @
Depew, N.Y. 14043
Joseph L. Bruno (R) LOB 814
Albany, N.Y. 12247
205 E. Main Street
Huntington, N.Y. 11743
LOB 903
Albany, N.Y. 12247
217 Weston Road
Rochester, N.Y. 14612
RM. 1000, 270 Broadw&
New York, N.Y. 10007
Suite 201
46-07 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, N.Y. 11355
James J. Lack (R)
Hugh T. Farley (R)
William Steinfeldt (R)
Martin Connor (D)
Gary Ackerman (D)
Martin Markowitz (D) 1408 Avenue J
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11230
Israel Ruiz, Jr. (D) LOB 617
Albany, N.Y. 12247
Martin Solomon (D) 2075 86th Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11214 @
e
ASSEMBLY GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
NAME OFFICE
Joseph Lentol (D) 229 Monitor St.
Chairman Brooklyn, N.Y. 11222
Louis Nine (D) 1424 Wilkins Ave.
Bronx, N.Y. 10459
Gary Proud (D) 459 Central Park
e Rochester, N.Y. 14605
Anthony S. Seminerio (D) 109-56 111th St.
Ozone Park, N.Y. 11420
Joseph Ferris (D) 659 41st Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232
Eileen C. Dugan (D) LOB 454, E.S.P.
Albany, N.Y, 12247
Geraldine L. Daniels (D) LOB 641, E.S.P.
Albany, N.Y, 12247
Louis Freda (D) LOB 619
e Albany, N.Y. 12247
Thomas E. Catapano (D) 3456 Fulton St.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 12208
Michael R. McNulty (D) 33 Second St.
Troy, N.Y. 12180
Nicholas Spano (R) 33 S. Broadway, RM. 616
Yonkers, N.Y. 10701
Neil Kelleher (R) LOB 320, E.S.P.
Albany, N.Y. 12247
Gisene Levy (R) 1S. Madison Ave.
Spring Valley, N.Y. 10977
Assembly Governmental
Employees Committee
By Gwenn M. Bellcourt
Assistant Editor
Assembly Governmental Employees Committee Chairman Joseph Lentol (D-58th Dist.) cited a House
rule oa every bill referred to his committee must be considered by the whole group and placed on the
agenda.
Last year, anywhere from 500 to 1,000 bills were offered up for discussion. Each time Lentol privately
reviewed a bill with staff attorneys,.the committee’s ranking minority member, Nicholas Spano (R-87th
Dist.) was sitting by his side.
“We have an excellent rapport. Very rarely is a
bill reported I’ve had a strong objection to,” said
Spano, a third-term Republic from Westchester
County.
“Truth is, we work very democratically in the
Assembly,” remarked Lentol, who noted that the
broad structure of the Assembly allows him to
solicit opinions from the other side.
Still, the Democrats have their closed con-
ferences and the Republicans, theirs. Like the
Senate, membership on this important committee
is proportional to the number of partisan members
in the Assembly.
Ten Democrats and three Republicans sit on the
Assembly Governmental Employees Committee, a
ratio which makes it virtually impossible for Spano
and his Republican committeemen to stop or ‘“‘kill’’
legislation.
The fact is, says Spano, the committee doesn’t
work that way. “‘Let’s make it a Lentol-Spano bill,”’
is how the minority member described how the par-
tisan forces operate.
Since governmental employees legislation usual-
ly has fiscal implications, a bill is often reported to
the Assembly Ways and Means Committee. The
same occurs in the Senate, where bills are referred
to the Finance Committee.
In this case, all four committee chairmen meet to
“smooth over the rough edges,”’ says Lentol. Often
it takes several months before House leaders come
to terms with a piece of legislation.
“Continuous negotiations take place ... it’s a
constant give and take between the two houses,”’
explained Lentol.
Lentol estimates that half the bills referred to his
committee are submitted by public employee
unions. The remainder are a combination of gover-
nor’s program bills, staff proposals and/or the
result of legislative hearings.
Referring to CSEA’s legislative program, the
committee chairman predicted that some form of
compromise will occur with the controversial Tier
III retirement system. And, like Senate leaders,
Lentol says the bargaining point will be the plan’s
social security offset factor, which recent studies
indicate will leave Tier III retirees without a state
pension.
“The day will come when Tier III will be repeal-
ed,”’ says Lentol, ‘‘but not in this fiscal climate. Too
many local governments are pleading poverty.”
Spano echoed this view. He said the Legislature
should have tackled the Tier ITI bill last year, due to
the “‘gross inequities” of the present retirement
system.
Yet the ranking minority member doesn’t foresee
arepeal back to Tier II plan, again citing the state’s
hard-pressed economy.
Both Lentol and Spano believe Agency Shop will
be extended for another two years, although Spano
(Continued on page 12)
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol
Committee Chairman
Assemblyman Nicholas Spano
Ranking Minority Member
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, January 28,1983 Page 11
Ske February 18
ALBANY — CSEA has scheduled its
sixth annual Legislative Seminar, an
educational workshop designed to
teach union activists about the
legislative process and how to effective-
ly work within the system, for Saturday,
February 26 at the Empire State Conven-
tion Center here.
The seminar is primarily planned for
CSEA’s network of regional Political Ac-'
tion Liaisons (PALS), local presidents
and political activists, and members of
the union’s board of Directors, but ‘any
interested members may attend. All
tendees must be approved by th
CSEA Local president, who wili submit a
list of attendees. Any interest member
should contact their Local president im-
mediate, since the deadline for reserva-
tions is February 18.
CSEA’s 1983 legislative program will
be discussed in detail in preparation for
future lobbying efforts by union
members on behalf of those bills during
the current legislative session.
Additionally, the program will include
a discussion of lobbying methods by a
panel of State legislators with a view-
point toward perfecting lobbying
methods for maximum effectiveness.
Several luncheon speakers are ex-
pected to talk about various legislative
Senate Civil Service and
(Continued from Page 10)
committee leaders said there would be a balance of
layoffs and tax incentives. A hiring freeze was also
mentioned as a possibility.
“Tt’s really unfortunate,” said Schermerhorn,
“when you consider that nearly $600 million is spent
on consultation fees.” If he had the choice,
Schermerhorn would eliminate what he calls ‘‘the
sweetheart contracts’’ with private consultants.
Assembly Governmental
(Continued from Page 11)
said the permanency bill has a better chance with
the new administration.
“Governor Cuomo has publicly proposed a per-
manent Agency Shop measure. This opens the door
for debate,”’ notes the Republican assemblyman,
And his opinion of the new governor? ‘“‘We’ve had
a far better relationship in the last two months
(with Cuomo) than the last four years under
Carey,” Spano mused, adding that he rarely had
the opportunity to speak with the former governor.
“Governor Cuomo has dealt closely with the
Legislature, and knows how it works,” Lentol said,
MAKING
BBYISTS
government entities will find CSEA
: “members caught in a vice. A well-
“trained, articulute body of
1 ctivists willing fo lobby |
provides an. .
jr members to refresh
—Bernard J. Ryan, ‘
(SEA Legislative and
Political Action Dept.
and political action issues, and special
workshops for the PAL Network
members will be held.
in-person registration will begin at 9
a.m. on February 26 outside Meeting
Room 6 at the Empire State Convention
Center. The formal Legislative Seminar
program will begin at 10 a.m.
Pensions Committee
And if Connor had his choice, he would impose
stricter controls on the reporting of sales and
business taxes. Recent studies have indicated that
approximately half of the state’s taxes are actually
collected, Connor noted.
But for the record, both men have assumed a
“wait and see”’ attitude with the budget, which will
be handed over to the state Legislature on Feb. 1.
Schermerhorn and Connor ruled out the
likelihood of furloughs, a measure they
emphatically oppose. Yet layoffs are inevitable,
they said.
“My political sense is that the government and
the media have laid the groundwork for layoffs . .
because of the fiscal climate,” Connor said. “It’s
this kind of campaign which erodes public support
for public employees.”
Employees Committee
citing Cuomo’s experience as “an invaluable
asset.’”
Furloughing state employees to balance the
estimated $500 million budget deficit is out of the
question, said Lentol, who offered to sponsor a
retaliatory commission/department heads
furlough bill last year.
The original state employees furlough bill never
got a sponsor, and although it was discussed, Lentol
noted that the former governor’s proposal was for-
tunately never put into print.
Both Lentol and Spano are anxious to review the
governor's proposed budget. Layoffs are likely to
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occur, they said, but not in the high numbers
rumored in the media.
“Tf in fact the $500 million figure is accurate,
we'll see cuts in services, a job freeze and probably
a slight increase in taxes,” Spano said. He added
that any layoffs should occur in the upper echelon of
the state and not at the lower paid levels where the
day-to-day operations are vital to the success of the
state’s government.
“Public employees have been told over and over
again to tighten their belts, the economy will get
better,” Lentol remarked, adding that these
workers have ‘suffered enough.”
AFSCME wins court order forcing OSHA
fo set emergency safety standard
WASHINGTON — AFSCME International President
Gerald W. McEntee calls a recent court order giving the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration 20 days
to issue an emergency standard on ethylene oxide “a
victory for working Americans.”
More than 140,000 workers are estimated to be
exposed to ethylene oxide, which is used as a sterilant in
hospitals, a fumigant in museums and libraries and in
the production of antifreeze, polyester fibers and other
industrial processes.
According to studies by the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, about 100,000 of these
workers are regularly exposed in the health care field.
U.S. and European studies have linked the gas to cancer
and genetic damage at exposure levels significantly
lower than OSHA’s current permissible limit of 50 parts
per million (50 ppm) averaged over eight hours.
The U:S. District“Court order, issued “by Judge
Barrington D. Parker, gives OSHA 20 days to lower the
permissible exposure limit with an emergency standard,
which must be replaced by a permanent standard in six
months. AFSCME and the Public Citizen Health
Research Group had filed suit in 1982 after OSHA refused
their petitions for an emergency standard lowering the
exposure limit to 1 ppm.
AFSCME President McEntee said the court’s
decision ‘is a victory for working Americans” and
.Fecognizes the seriousness of this problem, but it’s too
bad it has taken court action to force OSHA to reduce the
exposure level for ethylene oxide.
“We trust that within the six-month period allotted
by the court, OSHA will come up with a permanent stan-
dard that protects hospital employees from the health
risks posed by exposure to ethylene oxide,” McEntee
said.
The Public Citizen Health Research Group said the
decision ‘‘sends a clear message to the Reagan
administration that it can no longer continue to abandon
. its legal duty to protect America’s workers.”
In his ruling, Judge Parker called OSHA’s failure to
issue an emergency standard “a clear error of
judgment.” He said scientific studies clearly show that
exposure to ethylene oxide at the 50 ppm level ‘“‘yields a
significant risk of contracting cancer and chromosomal
damage.”*
“Despite the overwhelming administrative record
favoring issuance of an emergency temporary standard,
OSHA had embarked on the least responsive course short
of inaction,’ Judge Parker said.
Responding to the court decision, OSHA chief Thorne
G. Auchter said, “It appears the court is trying to set our
regulatory agenda for us.” OSHA began the normal rule-
making process for ethylene oxide in January 1982. While
no decision has been reached, the agency is expected to
lauds
GERALD W. McENTEE
court order requiring emergency
added: “‘AFSCME is very pleased that Judge Parker
Oceanside secretaries
closer to pay equity
OCEANSIDE — Members of the
Oceanside Secretarial Unit of the
Nassau County Educational CSEA
Local moved a step closer to pay.
equity with other Oceanside Schools
employees this month with the
payment of the first of two catch-up
increments as part of their new 3-year
contract.
Described by Unit President Trudy
Fox as the best contract ever
negotiated for the employees, the
three-year pact calls for an 8 percent
salary increase the first year, 6
percent the second year, and 6
percent the third year, plus
increments. Another feature calls for
payment of a $20 per month catch-up
increment effective this month with
another $20 per month catch-up
increment in the January of the
second year. That will put secretaries
in the unit closer to pay equity with
other employees, which was the
principle on which negotiations were
conducted, Fox said.
In addition, the district’s
contribution to health insurance
coverage was increased by $365 per
year per member, and an additional
$200 will be paid by the district
towards anticipated health insurance
premiums in the third year.
Also, a Welfare Fund was
established by the district with a
contribution of $66 per member per
year to be used for the benefit of all
employees. At retirement time — if
an employee has worked 15 years —a
lump sum payment of $2,000 will be
paid; if the employee worked 20 years
or more a lump sum of $3,000 will be
paid.
Contract language concerning sick
leave, longevity payments, personal
days, and labor and management
meetings was improved.
The members of the Negotiating
Committee were Fox, Margaret
Pepe, Florence Stein, Anne Steinfeld,
Betty Dunwoody and John O’Sullivan,
CSEA field representative.
appeal the court order.
standard on ethylene oxide.
Washington
ind on
Reagan policies crippling cities
The nation’s cities are in deep trouble.
They have been caught in a double bind — the
Reagan cuts in federal aid on one side and the
financial drain of the Reagan recession on the other.
The deep, prolonged recession has cut in two
directions.
Jobless workers and bankrupt businesses don’t
pay taxes.
At the same time, the “new poor’ who find
themselves without jobs for the first time in their lives
and the “working poor” who are no longer working
need to be helped. That takes money.
But “‘fiscal stress is widespread and is likely to
worsen among cities of all sizes and in all parts of the
country,”’ said the National League of Cities in
reporting the results of its recent survey of 79 cities’
financial condition.
Scrambling to close the growing gap between
revenues and expenses, cities have resorted to both
tax hikes and layoffs.
As for layoffs, “for the first time since World War
II,” said the League, ‘‘cities have cut spending and
employment during a recession, thus contributing to
the downslide rather than working to counteract or
soften it.”
Almost half the cities surveyed reported that they
cut their workforce in 1982 and intended to do the same
in 1983.
‘At the same time, cities felt pressured by their
financial plight to raise taxes and fees, most of them
regressive. The survey showed that 71 percent of them
in fiscal 1982 raised or instituted fees for such services
as garbage collection, car inspections, and library
use. Property taxes were raised by 32 percent of the
cities and sales taxes by 13 percent.
Despite the layoffs, tax hikes, and cutbacks in
municipal services, cities still have been unable to fill
the gaps left by the big cuts in federal aid which the
Reagan administration pushed through Congress in
1981 and 1982.
Fewer than 10 percent of the cities surveyed by
the League felt they were able to make up with local
funds the large cuts in community and urban
development grants.
Only 25 percent of the cities said they would
attempt to make up reductions in federal revenue
sharing with local money.
The human cost of this financial pinch was
revealed in a survey taken last fall by the U.S.
Conference of Mayors. The survey found that city
agencies cannot meet even 50 percent of the need for
food, clothing and shelter by those lining up in
numbers unseen since the Great Depression.
Other services — employment and job training,
health care, aid to the elderly — have been crippled by
federal budget cuts in many of the 55 cities in the
mayors’ survey.
This survey said human service agencies are
facing a tidal wave of the ‘‘new poor’’ who have lost
their jobs, exhausted their unemployment benefits,
and are losing their homes.
The cities and their needy can expect little from
the Reagan administration whose. ‘‘do-nothing’’
philosophy has been made clear in word as well as
deed.
In the Congressionally-mandated National Urban
Policy Report it issued last summer, the
administration said virtually all direct federal aid
should be stopped and that the role of the federal
government should be limited mainly to that of a
clearinghouse for information. Cities should wait for
economic recovery and look to private enterprise for
help, the report advised.
Felix Rohatyn, a New York investment banker
and urban expert, said the Reagan urban policy report
was telling the cities, in effect, to “‘drop dead.” Detroit
Mayor Coleman Young called it a ‘disposable cities’’
policy.
Rep. Henry Reuss (D-Wis.), who chaired the Joint
Economic Committee of Congress, said the
administration’s report rejected ‘‘the notion of liberty
and justice for all as a national responsibility”
expressed in the Pledge of Allegiance.
The administration shouldn’t be permitted to try
to balance its projected $200 billion Fiscal 1984 deficit
on the backs of the cities and their needy. It’s n~v up
to the new 98th Congress to change that course.
QOS OS WU ak apa a Set
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, January 28, 1983
Page 13
Vacancies law vetoed
by Suffolk Executive
HAUPPAUGE — A Local law opposed by Suffolk
County union leaders here was recently vetoed by
Suffolk County Executive Peter Cohalan.
The new law would have eliminated an.
amendment to the Suffolk County charter which calls
for the filling of vacancies within 90 days by special
election. The law would have authorized the
legislature to appoint a candidate to serve until the
next general election.
Region I President Danny Donohue had urged
Cohalan to veto the law, which Donohue said would
have “put a dangerous amount of power into the hands
of unelected party officials.”
City of Troy
declares impasse
TROY — After five intense negotiation sessions,
the City of Troy Unit of CSEA has declared impasse in
its negotiations with the city administation.
“The major sticking points are wages and
changes which the city wants CSEA to make in the
health insurance area-ranging from dental coverage
to drug prescription changes,” Pat Monachino, CSEA
collective bargaining specialist said concerning the
issues of the impasse. ‘‘These issues are very
important to our membership and we’re determined
to do justice to their economic and health care needs.”
New Year’s baby born to Kings Park members-
SUFFOLK’S FIRST CSEA MEMBER IN 1983 — Teresa and Florentino Diaz proudly hold their
daughter, Christina, the first baby born in Suffolk County in 1983. Christina was born at 12:43 a.m.
on Jan. 1 at St. John’s Hospital in Smithtown. The Diazes work at the Kings Park Psychiatric
Center and are CSEA members. The couple has another daughter, 4-year-old Tracy. In the
background is RN Carol Graves.
‘Right to Work’ violated election laws
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the National
Right to Work Committee violated federal election laws by the method it used
in soliciting funds for candidates it supported.
The court’s unanimous ruling overturned a 1981 federal appeals court
decision and supported the position of the Federal Election Commission. The
FEC’s position was backed by the AFL-CIO in a court brief.
The so-called Right to Work Committee, whose aim it is to outlaw the union
shop, had maintained that everyone on its mailing list was a ‘‘member” of the
organization who could be solicited for its political action committee. Under
federal election law, a non-profit corporation such as the Right to Work
Committee, may solicit only its active members.
The Supreme Court ruled that those on the R-T-W Committee's mailing list @
were not members in the usual sense of playing a part in its operations,
electing its officials, or exercising any control over expenditures.
The AFL-CIO had said in its brief that unless the Supreme Court
overturned the appeals court, non-profit corporations would be able to use their
funds to solicit political contributions beyond the boundaries set by Congress
for unions and business firms.
The Supreme Court ruling upholds an earlier ruling by a federal district
court, which had levied a $10,000 fine for the R-T-W Committee’s violation.
AFL-CIO Special Counsel Laurence Gold noted that the R-T-W Committee
has filed many charges in recent years, ‘‘usually groundless,” against other
organizations for alleged election law violations.
CSEA REGIONAL OFFICES
LONG ISLAND REGION I
Hauppauge Atrium Building
300 Vanderbilt Motor Pkwy.
Hauppauge, N.Y. 11788
(516) 273-2280
(516) 435-0962
METROPOLITAN
REGION Il
100 Church St.
Room 1620
New York, N.Y. 10007
(212) 587-8200
CAPITAL REGION IV
1215 Western Avenue
Albany, N.Y. 12203
(518) 489-5424
CENTRAL REGION V
Suite 308
290 Elwood David Road
Liverpool, N.Y. 13088
(315) 451-6330
THERN REGION Ill
Old Route 9
Fishkill, N.Y. 12524
(914) 896-8180
WESTERN REGION VI
Cambridge Square
4245 Union Road
Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14225
(716) 634-3540
Capital fet
tress
EARLY MORNING LEVITY — Assemblyman Michael Hoblock shares a little humor
with CSEA PAL Cindy Egan at the recent legislative breakfast.
BREAKFAST TALK — Assemblyman Richard Conners,
standing, talks weit
Assemblyman Robert D’Andrea, seated left, and Region IV First Vice President C,
Allen Mead.
ASSEMBLYMAN’S WELCOME — John Francisco, left, CSEA
Region IV Political Action Committee chairman, welcomes
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco to his first Capital Region legislative
breakfast. Tedisco represents most of Schenectady County and
was thankful for the CSEA endorsement in a tight race in
November.
A bit of politicking
for legislators and PALS
ALBANY — The recent Capital Region Legislative Breakfast
seemed a little bit different this year.
Some of the old familiar faces from past breakfasts were
gone — Assemblywoman Gail Shaffer, now the Secretary of
State, and Assemblywoman Joan Hague, redistricted out of her
seat. But the new assemblymen, Jim Tedisco and Mike McNulty,
and redistricted Assemblyman Glen Warren, attended for a bit of
politicking with their CSEA political action liaisons (PALS).
“Lobbying is the art of speaking factually while listening
carefully,” one veteran PAL observed. ‘‘Sometimes something
said between sips of coffee provides an insight into the political
planning of the individual or his party. That little crust of infor-
mation can help our lobbying efforts, so we all try to speak fac-
tually and listen carefully.”
From the reactions of some of the PALS and from the com-
ments. of the invited senators and assemblymen or their
representatives, the upcoming legislative session is going to be a
tough one.
“When established political figures say upfront that they’re
already worried, you can be sure that the involved leadership is
not pulling any punches but is telling its troops to be ready for a
long hard session,” John Francisco, CSEA Region IV political ac-
tion committee chairman, said.
“T only hope that our legislative program proves to be as suc-
cessful as our breakfast. Now, we have to start working to defend
what we have and to justify what we are seeking.”
Westchester unit
OKs new contract
by a wide margin
WHITE PLAINS — By an almost four-to-one margin members of the
Westchester County CSEA Unit have ratified a two-year contract affec-
ting 5,700 county workers.
Unit President Jack Whalen said, ‘The membership has spoken, I’m
very pleased that a balanced contract such as this was accepted.”
The two-year agreement calls for a 6.5 percent pay increase the first
year, retroactive to Jan. 1, with a minimum of $800. County workers
would receive a 6 percent raise the second year. There would also be in-
crements for eligible employees and longevity payments would be
increased.
There are a number of non-economic benefits as well. Among them
are an improved disciplinary procedure, protection for the takeover of
county facilities, and the practice of having layoffs in the inverse order of
seniority.
Negotiating Committee Chairperson Mary Naylor-Bo; ‘d says, “We're
all very pleased that after extremely long and hard har Fe sessions
7 2: ;
several mediation sesci~~~ ee Son Os
ager oils ".. weoaivits, tne Membership has supported our com-
yiuwee and this contract by a four-to-one margin.”
A ratification vote by the Westchester County Board of Legislators 1s
expected at their next meeting.
;.. but White Plains school
unit still without contract
WHITE PLAINS — Members of the White Plains School District
CSEA Unit conducted a demonstration for a contract settlement in front
of the district’s Education House recently. The non-teaching personnel
have been without a contract since July 1, and are demanding the ad-
minstration sit down for serious negotiations. Among those marching in
photo below are, first row from left, Westchester Local 860 President Pat
Mascioli and Unit President Barbara Peters.
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A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS and seminars on electia~ —
bei eR Rae ns _-vaua procedures is
being coutuered throughont «uc state by CSEA Election Procedures
~vassaussee Cngirman Gregory Szurnicki. Two such workshops were
conducted earlier this month in Region III, one at the CSEA Regional
Headquarters in Fishkill and another at Westchester County CSEA
Local 860 offices in White Plains. Both were well attended. Szurnicki is
shown pointing out some information during one of the sessions. At left
is Region III Director Thomas J. Luposello.
Union confident election
procedure stands test of
fairness and impartiality
ALBANY — Despite whatever impressions recent news articles may have
generated about the CSEA’s 1982 election of statewide officers, it’s business as
usual for the state’s largest public employee union.
News media across New York reported last week that the U.S. Labor
Department had ruled that CSEA’s elections procedures were not in
compliance with the Department’s regulations for union elections. The
Department, the news media reported, was considering action in federal court
to require a new election.
Yet for CSEA, which conducted the elections in conformance with the
seven decades of experience behind its Constitution and By-Laws, the reports
were somewhat overstated and may have created the false impression of
impropriety. As of Wednesday, the union had still not received any formal
notice of the action from the Labor Department.
“CSEA has an admirable record of maintaining the integrity of its own
democratic process,”’ commented Chief Counsel James W. Roemer, Jr., ‘‘and
this election is no exception. We take the position that not only are our election
procedures fair, they are not subject to change by any entity other than CSEA’s
delegates.”
Despite the Labor Department’s opinion and the news stories, Roemer
said, the election results remain valid and official. ‘Should the Labor
Department deny CSEA’s administrative appeal of the opinion,” he said, ‘‘they
would have to go to federal courts to enforce their opinion and we’re confident a
court would agree that our procedures are eminently fair and impartial.”
The Labor Department issued its opinion in response to a complaint by a
former Region II officer, Helen Carter, who was ruled ineligible for office in
the 1982 election. She filed a complaint and a lawsuit which is still pending.
Union members re-elected CSEA President William L. McGowan,
Executive Vice President thomas H. McDonough (who passed away Jan.
16) and Secretary Irene Carr. Barbara Fauser, a Region VI treasurer who
qualified for ballot placement by petition, defeated incumbent Jack Gallagher
for treasurer in the same election.
“For nearly seven decades this union has conducted its own elections
fairly and impartially,” CSEA’s chief counsel said. ‘While there have been
several challenges to our elections in the courts, the courts have always upheld
our procedures as fair. I believe the same result will occur in this case.”
WASHINGTON — Congress must step in
immediately with effective jobs programs —
including $10 billion in federal grants for
community development projects — to halt the
spread of human suffering caused by the Reagan
Recession, the AFL-CIO declared at Senate
hearings.
“Tt is clearly in the economic and social interest
of the nation to put Americans who are able and
willing to work into productive jobs which generate
taxes, produce useful community services and
community improvements, and stimulate the
economy in communities with high
unemployment,”’ Federation Research Director
Rudy Oswald told a Senate subcommittee studying
federal job programs.
FILING ENDS FEBRUARY 14, 19!
Title Begi
Buoy Tender
Canal Maintenance Shop Supervisor |
Canal Maintenance Shop Supervisor II
Canal Maintenance Supervisor |
Canal Maintenance Supervisor II
Canal Structure Operator
Civil Engineer Il, New York City Only
Farm Products Grading Inspector Trainee
Industrial Hygienist Trainee |
Industrial Hygienist Trainee Il
Industrial Hygienist, Associate
Industrial Hygienist, Senior
Maintenance Supervisor II
Maintenance Supervisor Ill
Maintenance Supervisor IV
Real Estate Appraiser (Mass Appraisal Systems)
Real Estate Appraiser (Mass Appraisal Systems), Senior
Real Property Information System Specialist,
Associate
Real Property Information System Specialist, Senior
Rehabilitation Interviewer
Rehabilitation Interviewer (Spanish Speaking)
Unemployment Insurance Reviewing Examiner
Unemployment Insurance Reviewing Examiner Trainee
FILING ENDS FEBRUARY 7, 1983
AFL-CIO urges massive jobs program
Job creation is a moral, social, political, and
economic imperative, Oswald stressed.
Unemployment generates tremendous social
losses, which include physical and mental illness,
family disorganization, social alienation, and
crime, he added.
Furthermore, the loss to the economy is
staggering, Oswald observed. For every one
million jobless worker, the country foregoes the
production of nearly $100 billion in goods and
services and the federal treasury loses $30 billion.
Oswald noted that a year ago, the federation
proposed $5 billion for public service jobs. But the
deepening recession and mounting unemployment
COMPETITIVE PROMOTIONAL EXAMS state employees onty)
Associate in Educational Data Systems G-26.
Rehabilitation Interviewer G-9...... . 00-139
EXAM Senior Rehabilitation Interviewer G-13. 00-130
- Supervisor of Teacher Education G-28......................... 39-702
Ue Sala naa Raia a Ree No: Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
Civil Engineer II G-24........ SIDR acts 37-715 maalstantn gas Gneiis
Maintenance Supervisor Il G-15. A 37-796 Hels! CRC ea SR eR
Maintenance Supervisor Ill G-17. 37-797 Assistant Sanitary Engineer G-20. . 30-270
Maintenance Supervisor IV G19... 37-798 Senior Sanitary Engineer G-24.... 30-271
37-895 Assistant Chemical Engineer G-20 30-266
37-896 Senior Chemical Engineer G-24. eeiNine ; 30-267
SENIOR'CLERICAL| EXAMINATIONS Ra Real Estate Appraiser (MAS) G-18. EXECUTIVE 37-836
37-899 Senior Real Estate Appraiser (MAS) G- 23. Equalization.... 37-835
2 As
Farm Products Grading Inspector Il G-14......AGRICULTURE.... 37-874 peat ie a NMG iS YstOM ie | COCLIGUE araas
Farm Products Grading Inspector II] G-16 & MARKETS. 37-875 Senior Real Property info. System ete ERE ao “a
Farm Products Grading Inspector IV G-19...... ...........04. 37-876 Specialist G-i8.. 6 Sa ST Sieh. Poeeee: 37-834
Eniployess) He; erneby Members ip Associate Bacteriologist G-23. -HEALTH . 37-757
E Lane | oe, RT RMeCabarahl aS AL ee 37-858 Senior Bacteriologist G-18..... 37-760
mployeesh tet rement Membership col a7-a59 Senior Bacteriologist (Virology) G-18 37-761
Empprees’ Seana Me Ehig ee eee ear ge Assistant Sanitary Engineer G-20 30-268
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Employees’ Retirement Membershi Associate Ul Reviewing Examr. G-21 LABOR... 37-843
Examr. IV G-15.. 37-861 Senior UI Reviewing Examr. G-18 Main Office. . 37-842
Employees’ Retirement Membership * of
Ean Vile. nat ea ER Coe tint eet aa PR REESHS 37-862 Assistant Workers’ Compensation Examr. G-9..Worker’s Comp. Bd.. 37-819
Employees’ Retirement Membership Mental Hygiene Staff Dev. Specialist Il G-14... .MENTAL . . 37-785
Examr. VI G-20. . 37-863 peti! tyglene salt Oe: Specialist Il] G-18... HEALTH. . 37-787
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Senior Business Cangultant ies 22. R “COMMERCE . 39-685 Specialist Ill (Nursg.) G-18.............. 37-791
Canal Electrical Supervisor G-17. ..DOT. 37-723 Mental Hygiene Staff Dev. Specialist IV G-23... ... 37-789
Canal Maintenance Shop Supervisor Il G-17.... . 37-740 Mental Hygiene Staff Dev. Specialist Il G-14. 37-786
Canal Maintenance Supervisor | G-14..... 37-739 Mental Hygiene Staff Dev. Specialist Ill G-18. 37-788
Canal Maintenance Supervisor Il G-17. 37-727 Mental Hygiene Staff Dev.
Canal Section Superintendent G-23. . 37-724 Specialist Ill (Nursg.) G-18 37-792
Chief Lock Operator G-12.......... 37-885 Mental Hygiene Staff Dev. Specialist IV G-2: 37-790
STATE JOB CALENDAR
83
Exam
inning Salary No.
(Spanish Speaking)
Workers’ Compensation Examiner, Assistant
Workers’ Compensation Examiner, Assistant
$11,500
17,102
20,925
17,102
20,925
12,163
30,526
thru
35,664
25-887
25-720
25-721
25-722
25-833
25-888
(Spanish Speaking)
Senior Clerk
Services
20-984
14,668
15,473
16,383
26,640
20,492
18,718
20,925
23,351
22,132
28,778
25-608
25-902
25-754
25-756
25-755
25-798
25-799
25-800
25-836
25-838
Buffalo, NY 14202
NEW YORK: Ste
28,778
22,132
25-835
25-837
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12,852 25-785
Senior Clerk (Spanish Speaking)
Metropolitan Regional Director, Alcoholism Program
Regional Director, Alcoholism Program Services
Supervisor of Medical Malpractice Claims Reporting
Thruway Commercial Representative, Assistant
Vending Services Specialist
File Applications with NYS Department of Social Services
Detailed announcements and applications may be obtained from the
fate Department of Civil Service.
Center, New York, NY 10047 or Harlem State Office Building, 1
125th Street, New York, NY
LOCAL OFFICES: New York State Employment Service (no mail handled or
has created the need for $10 billion to fund the
program, he said.
Twelve million Americans — nearly one out of
every nine workers — are now jobless and seeking
work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The number is even higher if those who have simply
given up the search for a job are counted. Millions
more are working only part-time because full-time
work is not available.
“The economic outlook is that unemployment will
still be as severe a year from now as it is today,”
Oswald said. “Job opportunities must be made
available to unemployed men and women who
cannot find jobs in the private sector. This means
there must be direct, targeted and adequately
funded large-scale public employment programs.”
39-701
-EDUCATION ...
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Assistant
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Assistant
15,770
13,702
11,700
or 20-985
11,798
28-488
28-487
28-481
28-480
80-067
following locations:
ALBANY: Examination Information, Department of Civil Service, State Of-
fice Building Campus, Albany, NY 12239.
BUFFALO: State Department of Civil Service, Room 303, 65 Court Street,
2 World Trade
3 West
55th Floor,
10027.
Special Test Arrangements Will Be Made For Saturday Religious
17,694
16,711 shee
Observers
And Handicapped Persons When A Written Test Is Held.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, January 28, 1983
OO eeOmororoO
Page 17
THE 97th CONGRESS IN REVIEW:
From a rubber stamp to independence
THE 98th CONGRESS: "
it can, if it wishes,
move the economy
WASHINGTON — With unemployment
projected to hang above 10 percent well into 1983
and distress spreading across the land,
observers here expected the 98th Congress to
assume leadership to get the economy moving.
Besides programs to stimulate the economy,
other major issues expected on Capitol Hill
include Social Security, defense spending and
Administration proposals to tax worker fringe
benefits and further cut social programs.
President Reagan is expected to be given early
opportunities to show whether he plans to veto
job-creating programs or work out compromises
in light of new political realities.
The November elections shifted the balance of
power in Congress, breaking the conservative
coalition which had backed Reagan and
strengthening the moderates. Democrats gained
26 seats in the House and most of the 81 new
members — 57 Democrats and 24 Republicans —
are moderates.
Senate GOP leader Howard Baker (Tenn.)
said Reagan will have to choose early between
the center and the rightwingers who nearly
killed the highway bill with a filibuster.
The Congress itself changed as the recession
deepened and the consequences of Reagan’s
policies took their toll.
The 97th Congress, which began two years ago
as a virtual rubber stamp for Reagan’s budget
and tax cut program, ended by reasserting itself
as an independent branch of the federal
government.
The change in Congress occurred gradually as
the Reagan “‘program for economic recovery”’
produced the worst recession and human
hardship since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The final blow to the Administration’s working
majority of Republicans and conservative
Democrats came last Nov. 2 when voters
rejected Reagan’s plea to ‘“‘stay the course.” The
Democrats gained 26 House seats, and House
and Senate Republicans who managed to hold
onto their seats generally ‘‘ran scared’ and
often distanced themselves from their
President’s economic policies.
The Reagan Revolution got off to a heady
start. Riding the crest of voter discontent over
inflation and unemployment, the GOP in
November, 1980, picked up 33 House seats and 12
Senate seats, winning control of the Senate for
the first time in 26 years.
Not since the ‘‘First 100 days” of the Roosevelt
New Deal had Congress moved so swiftly to
enact the program of a popular Chief Executive.
Binding itself to a fast-track budget process
called “reconciliation,” the first session of the
97th Congress enacted sweeping tax and budget
cuts which produced the greatest shift in wealth
in the nation’s history — from low and middle-
income Americans to the affluent and big
business.
The Reagan ‘supply-side’? income and
business tax cuts added up to a $750 billion drain
on the federal treasury over five years. The
Reagan budget cuts hit low-income people the
hardest, with drastic cutbacks in such programs
as Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent
Children, food stamps, child nutrition,
subsidized housing, public service employment,
and legal aid to the poor.
But middle-income Americans also were hurt
by cutbacks in programs like guaranteed student
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Kirkland sees the basis
for a return to sanity
AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland has
called on the 98th Congress to change the
nation’s course and undo the damage
already done, adding:
“American cannot afford further barren
and destructive pursuit of the doctrine that
the social and economic relationships of the
American people should be governed solely
by the logic of the marketplace and that
government should play no role in sustain-
ing a democratic social order, Kirkland
said. “The groundwork for a return to sani-
ty in 1983 was laid in the elections of 1982.”"
loans, Medicare, school lunches, and
unemployment compensation.
While cutting social programs, Congress
approved the Administration’s huge hikes in
military spending, which over five years would
total $1.6 trillion.
Social Security was among the few programs
Congress didn’t cut drastically. When the
Administration proposed big reductions in Social
Security benefits, the resulting public outcry and
protests in Congress caused the Administration
to back off.
Organized labor and many economic experts
had warned that Reaganomics not only was
unfair, but that it wouldn’t work. On Sept. 19,
1981, Solidarity Day, nearly a half-million trade
unionists and their allies marched in Washington
to tell Congress to reverse the course.
By early 1982, the Reagan counterrevolution to
turn the clock back to the era of Coolidge and
Hoover had become mired in the Reagan
Recession.
The annual budget which the Administration
submitted to Congress last February
scorned as unrealistic by leaders of both parties.
The budget’s deficit projection for Fiscal 1983
was very low — about half this year’s $150
billion-plus deficit.
Congress, concerned about mounting deficits
which fed high interest rates and threatened
economic recovery, began to reassert its role in
the budget process. It rejected many of the
Administration’s proposals for further social
program cutbacks.
And in September, both houses overrode a
Presidential veto of a supplemental budget bill,
handing Reagan his first defeat in a major
legislative showdown,
To reduce runaway deficits caused by its tax
giveaways and their failure to boost the economy
as promised, the Administration was forced to
put aside its supply-side notions and propose the
largest tax increase ever — a $98.3 billion
revenue gain in three years from business taxes
and user fees. Bi-partisan cooperation eased the
measure through Congress to the dismay of
congressional conservatives.
Then came the November elections, which the
AFL-CIO called Solidarity Day II and whose
results were widely viewed as a mandate to
change the nation’s course.
The post-election Congress forced Reagan to
compromise his hands-off stance on the
recession when leaders of both parties backed a
$5.5 billion highway/mass transit repair
program financed by a gasoline tax hike.
Reagan quickly embraced the proposal,
expected to create over 300,000 jobs, while
stubbornly refusing to call it a jobs bill.
Although both houses of the lame-duck
Congress approved broader legislation to create
jobs through public works and other projects,
Reagan’s veto threat was enough to cause the
lame ducks to back down as they rushed to final
adjournment.
Despite the overall tenor of the 97th Congress,
one achievement stands out. After strong
lobbying by labor and civil rights groups,
Congress last summer extended and
strengthened the enforcement provisions of the
historic 1965 Voting Rights Act for 25 years.
Another accomplishment was enactment of a
job training program for the hard-core
unemployed and displaced workers. This
relatively modest program replaced the expiring
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
(CETA).
The House enacted domestic automobile
content legislation but the measure died in the
Senate. This jobs measure remains a top priority
for labor.
Other labor-backed legislation which failed to
be enacted included immigration reform and a
bill to stiffen penalties against convicted union
officials.
For labor and its allies, it was mostly a matter
of trying to block reactionary proposals by the
Administration and the New Right in Congress
rather than pushing for long-standing goals.
For the most part, these backward steps were
blocked. Perhaps the most dangerous of these
was the proposed balanced budget amendment,
to the Constitution.
While passing the Senate, the amendment
came 46 votes short of the needed two-thirds
margin to clear the House last October. If this
Reagan-backed amendment is ever written into
the Constitution, it would become a vehicle for
permanently reducing the government’s
financial ability to cope with the nation’s social
needs.
The Hobbs Act amendments to single out union
members for federal prosecution in picket-line
disputes failed to get anywhere.
Moves to weaken Davis-Bacon Act prevailing
wage protections on federally-aided construction
projects were defeated.
The Senate Labor Committee refused to clear
Reagan’s nomination of John Van de Water as
chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
after organized labor pointed to his anti-union
background.
Also blocked was a proposal to establish a
subminimum wage for teenagers, and an
Administration proposal to relax child labor
regulations by extending the hours 14- and
15-year olds are allowed to work.
Also biting the dust in the 97th Congress was
the Reagan-backed tuition tax credit proposal to
subsidize private education at the expense of the
public schools.
Tune
ALBANY — Your television set could be
the key to career advancement if what you
tune to is the new educational series
produced by CSEA and the Governor’s
Office of Employee Relations.
The four hours of TV programming,
funded through a grant from CWEP, the
labor/management Committee on the
Work Environment and Productivity, are
designed to help improve performance on
civil service examinations.
Written by the School of Industrial and
Labor Relations of Cornell University and
produced through the auspices of the New
York Network, the TV programs com-
plement the self-study booklets now being
made available to CSEA members.
CSEA is working with public television
stations throughout the state to broadcast
the series as part of the stations’ local
educational programming. Several
stations are working to schedule March
broadcast dates, but Channel 42 in
Poughkeepsie has agreed to air the
programs in February, in advance of the
PATT examination.
Commented Station Director Jay
Simpson: “Even though this program is
designed for people who will be taking Civil
Service examinations, it is also useful for
anyone who is preparing for a test: With a
major eivil service promotional. exam
coming on Feb. 26, we thought it would be
best if we could get the program on as soon
as possible. We’re very thankful to CSEA
for making this program available and
providing our viewers with such a public
service.”
“The television tapes are of general
interest, because they deal with general
test-taking skills and attitudes rather than
with specific test subject matter,”
explained CSEA Education Director
Thomas Quimby. ‘Whether you’re taking a
state exam or a county exam or even a test
in the private sector, these tapes can help
you perform more effectively and improve
i your exam scores.”
| “How to Prepare for a Civil Service
j Examination,” the first program in the
fs , provides an overview of test-taking,
| discusses the importance of proper test-
) taking attitudes, and provides some
suggestions for reducing stress and
overcoming the fear of taking tests.
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“How to Prepare for an Oral
Examination”’ is the topic of the second and
third programs in the series. These shows
discuss what to expect during an oral
exam, provide some suggestions for
answering the types of questions often
encountered during civil service exams,
and also focus on overcoming fear of
| exams.
q “How to Prepare for the Math Portion of
| Civil Service Examinations,” the fourth
| program in the series, deals primarily with
| word problems in the exams and is
designed to help test-takers overcome their
fear of math.
“We're pleased that this television
station in Poughkeepsie is taking the lead
in making this series available to its
viewers, and we hope that our members in
Region III will take advantage of this
educational opportunity,” said Quimby.
“This is just the beginning of what we hope
will be extensive use of these informative
programs. We look forward to announcing
many, many more opportunities for CSEA
members to view these programs
throughout the state in the next few
months."”
The four-part television series developed wy
help improve performance on civil
ams will be broadcast as ‘Channel
Poughkeepsie as follows:
¢ “How to Prepare tae ‘a Civil. Service Ex-
amination,” 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 14.
° “How to Prepare for an Oral examina ton
7p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 15. —
. “How to Preparé for an Oral camiinttin,
Part 2,” 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 16.
° “How to Prepare for the Math Portion of
Civil Service Examinations,” 7 p.m., Thursday,
Feb. 17.
The entire four-part series will then be
rebroadcast in its entirety from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
Saturday, Feb. 19.
le for Region Ill
n to TV to improve your
civil service
Channel 42 can be picked up by televisions with
: UHF antennas in Dutchess and parts of Ulster
and Orange counties.
In addition, three cable companies in the area
carry the Channel 42 broadcasts. Apple Cable,
converter Channel 7, serves subscribers in
Millbrook, Amenia, Wingdale and Dover Plains
in eastern Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie
Cable, converter Channel 10, serves subscribers
in Poughkeepsie and the towns of Pleasant
Valley and LaGrange. And U. S. Cable, con-
verter Channel 10, serves subscribers in the
. towns of Hyde Park, Poughkeepsie, Wappinger,
Fishkili, East Fishkill, Beacon, Plattekill,
Monroe, Harriman, Blooming Grove and
Woodbury.
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Three mew study booklets available soon
ALBANY — Three new instructional booklets are
being addéd to the five already available under the
new educational service being offered by CSEA to
help members ‘improve their Civil Service exam
test scores.
Expected to be available Feb. 28, the booklets will
be just in time to help those taking the Senior
Clerical Series being given by Civil Service March
26.
The exam series will be for the positions of Senior
Account Clerk, Senior Audit Clerk, Senior Clerk,
Payroll Clerk I, Purchasing Assistant I and Senior
Statistics Clerk.
“The first five booklets, which were designed for
those taking the PATT exam, will also be very
helpful for the senior clerical exam series,” noted
CSEA Education Director Thomas Quimby. “The
three new booklets deal with supervision,
purchasing and payroll practices and basic
algebra, focusing in on the material covered in the
senior clerical exams.”
All eight study booklets, as well as a four-part
videotape program soon to be available, were
developed in cooperation with the New York State
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell
University, under a grant from CWEP, the joint
labor/management Committee on the Work
Environment and Productivity.
“The booklets are self-study guides with lots of
practice problems or questions,’ Quimby
explained. ‘They review basic areas of knowledge
as well as test-taking skills, so some of them should
be helpful for members taking a wide variety of
state and local exams, not just these particular
tests.”
The three new booklets are:
¢ Booklet 6 SUPERVISION. This booklet
contains 50 questions on supervision, and includes a
self-study guide with full explanations.
* Booklet 7 PURCHASING AND PAYROLL
PRACTICES. This booklet contains information on
purchasing and payroll practices and principles, as
well as sample exam questions, and a self-study
guide with full explanations.
* Booklet 8 BASIC ALGEBRA. This booklet
describes basic algebraic methods and provides
plenty of practice questions. It’s designed for those
who have previously had a difficult time with
algebra. It also includes work with elementary
statistical methods and computations.
Orders are being accepted now, but the three new
booklets aren’t expected to be available for mailing
until Feb. 28. There is a cost of $1.50 for each of the
eight booklets in the series. CSEA members may
order copies directly from the union by using the
coupon below.
Listed below are the’ exams being atveti March 26
and the list of booklets that will he Opt for each
CEU
Senior Account Clerk
Senior Audit Clerk
Senior Clerk )
Booklets 2, 3, 4 and 6
Payroll Clerk II
Purchasing Assistant I
Booklets 2, 4, 6 and7
Senior Statistics Clerk }
Booklets 3, 4, 6and8
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES
ASSOCIATION Date
ATTN: CSEA EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
33 ELK STREET,
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12207
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_ STATE
A DIRECTORY OF YOUR
NEW YORK
SENATORS
and
ASSEMBLY MEN
During the coming weeks,
state legislators will be acting
upon numerous proposed bi
directly affecting CSE
embers as public employees
and as taxpayers and citizens
of New York State. As an indi-
vidual, you may wish to e
cise your right to contact your
legisiat
elings about some of those
proposed bill:
that you sa’
to express your
it is suggested
this listing for
possible reference throughout
the current legislative session.
Let’em know how you feel
a
COngn SON
DIST.
Keep in touch with your assemblyman
MEMBERS OF THE NEW
YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
ARE LISTED BELOW.
CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD
BE SENT TO THE AP-
PROPRIATE ASSEMBLYMAN
clo STATE CAPITOL, AL-
BANY, NEW YORK 12248.
ASSEMBLYMAN
Joseph Sawicki, Jr.
George J.
Hochbruckner
Paul E. Harenberg
Robert C. Wertz
Thomas F. Barraga
John C. Cochrane
John J. Flanagan
Antonia P. Rettaliata
Patrick G. Halpin
Philip B. Healey
Lewis J. Yevoli
Frederick E. Parola,
Jr.
Angelo F. Orazio
May W. Newburger
Kemp Hannon
Barbara A. Patton
Armand P. D’Amato
Arthur J. Kremer
Gregory R. Becker
George H. Madison
Gerdi L. Lipschutz
Saul Weprin
John F. Duane
Leonard P. Stavisky
Nattie Mayersohn
Alan G. Hevesi
Cynthia Jenkins
Ralph Goldstein
Anthony S. Seminerio
Edward Abramson
Alton R. Waldon, Jr.
Ivan C, Lafaye'
Helen M. Marshall
Denis J. Butler
Clifford E. Wilson
Frederick D. Schmidt
Stanley Fink
Edward Griffith
Helene E. Weinstein
Rhoda S. Jacobs
Clarence Norman, Jr.
Melvin H. Miller
Daniel L. Feldman
Howard L. Lasher
Frank J. Barbaro
Dov Hikind
Louis Fredo
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Joseph R. Lentol
Joseph Ferris
Eileen C. Dugan
Victor L. Robles
Thomas F. Catapano
William S. Boyland
Albert Vann
Roger L. Green
Elizabeth A. Connelly
Eric N. Vitaliano
Robert A. Straniere
William F.
Passannante
Sheldon Silver
Steven Sanders
Richard N. Gottfried
Alexander B. Grannis
Mark Alan Siegel
Jerrold Nadier
Angelo DelToro
Edward C. Sullivan
Geraldine L. Daniels
Herman D. Farrell
John Brian Murtaugh
Jose E. Serrano
Louis Nine
John C. Dearie
Aurelia Greene
Jose Rivera
Gloria Davis
George Friedman
G. Oliver Koppell
Eliot L. Engel
Vincent A. Marchiselli
Nicholas A. Spano
Gordon W. Burrows
John M. Perone
Richard L. Brodsky
Peter M. Sullivan
John R. Branca
Henry W. Barnett
Vincent L. Leibell, Ill
William J. Ryan
Robert J. Connor
Eugene Levy
Mary M. McPhillips
William J. Larkin, Jr.
Lawrence E. Bennett
Stephen M. Saland
Richard !. Coombe
Glenn E. Warren
Kelleher
ice D. Hinchey
e D. Lane
1 J. Hoblock
rd J. Conners
(Vacant)
Michael R. McNulty
James Tedisco
Robert A. D’Andrea
Glenn H. Harris
Andrew W. Ryan, Jr.
John W. McCann
John G. A. O'Neil
Anthony J. Casale
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