Civil Service Leader, 1976 April 30

XXXVII, No. 4

Friday, April 30, 1976

Price 20 Cents

— See Pages 8,9 & 14

UP TO THE WIRE — Neis Carison, CSEA collective bargaining agent, briefs members of the
Montgomery County chapter on progress of contract negotiations.

CSEA Moves To Prevent
OGS Group Mass Layoff

(Special To The Leader)

ALBANY—The Civil Service Employees Assn. has charged that laying off 138 em-
ployees in the State Office of General Services, the result of a Legislature-ordered $2.5
million budget reduction, will actually end up up costing the state taxpayers “millions and
millions of dollars” and cause “a multi-million dollar loss in the private construction sector.”

SEA, which represents the
employees involved, said it will
immediately file a grievance on
behalf of the 138 OGS employees
in the Design and Construction
Group who were handed pink
slips.

“We think we've got a clear-
cut case of contract violation
because the work being perform-
ed by the employees to be laid
off will have to be contracted
out, Our contract specifically
states that the employer cannot
lay off workers and contract out
for goods and services those em-
ployees would be capable of pro-
viding,” a union spokesman said.

The layoffs are scheduled to
become effective on May 12.

CSEA said the State Legislature
is “penny wise and pound fool-
ish” in reducing the original bud-
get for OGS's Design and Con-
struction Group by $2.5 million.

“This thing is actually going
to cost state taxpayers and the
general economy five to ten
times the amount the Legislature
feels it saved in the budget cut,”

Rockland

NEW CITY—The Rockland
County unit of the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn., which
has been in negotiations for
® new contract since July 16,
1975, will have the matter
brought to a vote within the
next week or #0, according to

the CSEA spokesman said.

‘The union spokesman urged
the legislators to restore the $2.5
million in the supplemental bud-
get “as an act of common sense
to restore the jobs of the threat-
ened employees and prevent the
unnecessary expenditure of mil-

Calandra Subpoena
Of Beame Raises
Contempt Question

N an election year, the
Easter recess taken by the
Legislature is typically not a
time of vacation for the
(Continued on Page 6)

lions of dollars.”

‘The Design and Construction
Group is involved with the main-
tenance and restoraton of state-
owned buildings and property.
The nearly 600 employees in the
Group have the prime repair and
rehabilitation responsibility for
the 7,500 existing state buildings,
including emergency repairs of
structural damages.

“As the result of this nearly
25 percent workforce reduction
just announced, she state will be
foreed to contract out to pri-
vate consultants a much larger
portion of the work normally
performed by the state em-
ployees. Because of the high vol-
ume of work and understaffing
that exists even before these lat-
est layoffs, some of the work is
already farmed out, We know
from experience that it cost 20
percent more to have this work
performed by private consulting
firms than it does by state work-
ers,” & CSEA spokesman charged.

(Continued on Page 3)

To Meet On Pact

Phil Miller, CSEA collective bar-
gaining specialist for the unit.

CSEA represents about 1,700
Rockland County employees. The
workers have been without a
contract since Jan, 1.

Mr, Miller said “negotiations
have not been progressing as we

had hoped,” and added that the
employees have utilized the im-
passe procedures under the Tay-
jor Law.

‘The county legislature also has
to vote on the contract dispute
issue before the matter can be
resolved.

Strike Averted
In Montgomery;
Sign New Pact

FONDA— Four hundred members of the Montgomery
County unit of the Civil Service Employees Assn. were ready
to strike twice during the past week.

Seven months of contract negotiations under the Taylor

Law had failed to gain an offer
from the county administration.
Faced with this situation, and a
dictated settlement, the members
voted to test the Taylor Law
beginning at 7 am. Monday,
April 19.

Public Employment Relations
Board “super-conciliator” Theo-
dore Gerber, who entered the
Montgomery County dispute
when CSEA members voted to
strike, requested a 24-hour post-
Ponement of the job action “In
order to address the Board of
Supervisors of the seriousness of
the situation.” The Montgomery
County unit negotiators agreed
to this postponement aad the
period was granted to give the
super-conciliator room to nego-
tiate a settlement.

‘Twenty-two hours later, a ten-
tative PERB-recommended con-
tract offer was agreed upon by
the county supervisors and unit
negotiators.

This tentative pact was pre-
sented to the unit members and
the County Board of Supervisors
at approximately the same time
Tuesday evening.

The proposed agreement is a

(Continued on Page 16)

Sehermerhern (R-C, Cornwall).

Columbia Members
Schedule Meeting

HUDSON—A general member-
ship meeting of Columbia Coun-
ty chapter 811 has been sched-
uled for May 4 to discuss the
current contract dispute between
the employees and the County.

‘The meeting has been set to
coincide with a meeting of the
County Board of Supervisors.

County employees have been
working without a contract since
December. The Supervisors have
rejected a fact-finder's report
recommending a 7 percent wage
increase.

Herkimer CSEA Unit
Approves Contract

HERKIMER — The Herkimer
County unit, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. and the legislature
of Herkimer County have agreed
to a 6 percent increase in sal-
ary, increments and longevity for
the year 1976, the final year of
the current two-year contract.

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, April 30, 1976

SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION — im « recent deci-
sion, the Suffolk County Legislature rejected a proposal to replace
the county's 433 school street crossing guards with guards provided
by a private concern. The vote to defeat the proposal came after
Civil Service Employees Assn. leaders and members addressed the
legislature stressing the effectiveness of the work of the CSEA-repre-
sented guards. Above, some of the guards who shuttled back and
forth from thelr duty posts to staff an informational picket line
outside the legislative auditorium in Hauppauge.

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Million-Plus Food Stamp Clients
Could Face A Loss Of Eligibility

By ALAN BERNSTEIN

MANHATTAN — More than a million Americans presently participating in the na-
tional food stamp program, including many in New York State, may lose their eligibility
if the House of Representatives follows recommendations passed by the Senate earlier this

month.

Voting 52-22 April 9, the Sen-
ate moved to tighten food stamp
eligibility rules and cut 1.5 mil-
lion people from the program.
However, savings will be put
back into added benefits for the
poorest families.

‘There are approximately 19
million Americans on food
stamps, of whom more than 2.5
million reside in New York.

The bill now moves to the
House, where the Agriculture
Committee has ulready started
work on a similar measure. It
took the Senate legislation more
than @ year, and many revisions,
to reach the floor,

The Senate bill, sponsored by
Senators Robert Dole (R-Kan.),
George McGovern (D-8.D.) and
Agriculture Committee Chair-
man Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.),
would deny food stamps to near-
ly every family of four with a
gross annual income of $7,800

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ALBANY—Gov. Hugh L. Carey
has announced the appointment
of Clemenct Frank, of North
Branch, to the board of visitors
of Middletown Psychiatric Cen-
ter. The nomination is subject to
Senate confirmation.

Ms. Prank ts secretary of
Golden Egg Farms, of Wurts-
boro, and H.H-F. Farms of North
Branch. She is past chairman
and present board member of the
Sullivan County Mental Health
Board, a director of Sullivan
County Community General
Hospital, ® member of the New
York State Regional Committee
for Mental Health Planning, and
a board member of Sullivan
County Health Planning Coun-
ell,

Ms. Prank was named for a
term ending December 31 in the
unsalaried post. She would suc-
ceed Edward M. Mitchell, of
Middletown, whose term expired.

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Senator Dole in sponsoring the
bill said close to $300 million
dollars could be saved in fiscal
19TT with the legislation. The
current program costs $6.3 bil-
lion; the new plan would cost
$6.084 billion.

A major program alteration
would be a change in the deduc-
tion system that enables families
with a gross income of $9,000 or
$10,000 a year or more to buy
stamps. Under the present pro-
gram, by pyramiding deductions
for tuition, day-care allowances,
medical and utility bills, all-
mony, work-related expenses and
other items: from gross income,
a family of four could reach the
$6,636 allowable income for a
year.

Under the legislation, most of
these deductions would be re-
placed by @ standard $100 a
month deduction ($125 for elder-
ly or working families). A family
of four would only be eligible if
their net Income after this stan-
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of social security and income
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ilies to pay 25 percent of its net
income for stamps, instead of
the 23 percent sliding scale now
in operation. Also, college stu-
dents will be ineligible if they
are or can be claimed as a tax
exemption by this family.

Carol Brownell, director of
public information for the New
York State Food Stamp Program,
affirmed that the new method of
eligibility would effect families
currently in the program.

“It will clearly effect some in
the state because now there are
so many deductions a family
can get,” she said. “In the future
that might be taken away from
them.”

Ms. Brownell said the Depart-
ment of Social Services, which
oversees the program, had no
figures on how many state work-
er families could be affected by
the program change. The pres-
ent program, according to Ms.
Brownell, 1s accomplishing quite
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CONTINUE RESTRUCTURING — Newly named members of the Civil

Service Employees

Assn. statewide restructuring committee meet with chairman C. Allen Mead, right, president of chap-
ter 664. From left at the table are Edward Perrott, of Nassau Educational Employees chapter 865;

Robert Diaz, of New York City chapter 010

William McCann, of Broome chapter 804; William Davis,

of Marcy Psychiatrie Center chapter 414, and Nicholas Puzsiferri, of Rockland Psychiatric Center
chapter 421. Mr. Puzziferri is a holdover member, having served on it since inception when he was

president of what is now called Southern Region III. Although certain restructuring proposals are still
pending for delegate action, primary function of the committee now is to oversee that follow-through is

implemented for changes that have already won delegate approval. One of the major changes resulting
from restructuring has been the establishment of regional offices.

Wenzl Rips AFSCME
As ‘Can’t Do’ Union

ALBANY—The Civil Service Employees Assn.’s president
declared last week that the union’s chief rival, the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees “is
finally learning the painful facts of life about the state's

economic condition first-hand”
and that AFSCME “now knows
it can’t produce in its negotia-
tions with the State for some
9,000 employees in the Security
Bargaining Unit.”

‘Theodore C. Wenzi noted that
“APSCME, in failing to come
even close to its self-proclaimed
objectives, reveals how badly
they misread the negotiations
climate. They derailed, by their
own failures at the bargaining
table, their well-publicized plans
to try to impress other public
employees with their bargaining
power. Now all the wind is gone
out of their sails and their boasts
have been proven empty.”

CSEA Moves To Prevent OGS Layoffs

(Continued from Page 1)
The union said that some $87
million ts budgeted for rehabili-
tation projects on state-owned

buildings for this fiscal year.
“Because of understaffing,
OGS employees estimate they can
handle about $55 million worth
of these projects. That means

out at the inflated cost,” the
CSEA spokesman said. “If the
state farms out work on some
$45 million in projects this year
alone, at 20 percent more cost
that state employees could do
the same work, that will cost the
taxpayers an additional $9 mil-
lion. Thus, the $2.5 million bud-

the state already has to contract
out for work on about $32 mil-
lion in projects, at an average
cost of 20 percent higher than
state employees themselves could
perform the tasks if the work-
force was sufficient. Now these
new layoffs mean that perhaps an
additional $13 or $14 mililon in
projects will have to be farmed

get cut actually costs $9 million
more right there alone. That's
being fiscally irresponsible, any
way you want to cut it.

The alternative, according to
CSEA, is that some of the pro-
jects budgeted for this year will
have to be delayed.

“That means two things, at
least,” the union spokesman

© CSEA calendar ©

Information for the Calendar may be submitted directly
to THE LEADER. It should inelude the date, time, place,
address and city for the function. The address is: Civil
Service Leader, 11 Warren St., New York, N. Y. 10007.
Attn.: CSEA Calendar.

APRIL
30—Bronx Psychiatric Center chapter installation of officers: 5 p.m.,
BPC rehabilitation building.
30—Brooklyn Developmental Center chapter 447 annual membership
meeting: 6 p.m., President Chateau, Utica and President Streets,
Brooklyn.
MAY
2—Motor Vehicle chapter 674 30th Anniversary Party: 5 p.m., Mi-
chael's Restaurant, Latham.
3—West Seneca DC chapter general meeting: Veterans of For
eign Wars Post, 299 Leydecker Road, West Seneca
4—Columbia County chapter 81! meeting
7—New York State Psychiatric Institute chapter 419 spring dinner-
dance: 7:30 p.m., Astorian Manor, Astoria.
7-9—Mental Hygiene Department workshop: Friar Tuck Inn, Catskill

11—Nassau County Crossing Guards unit meeting: 8 p.m., Police
Headquarters, Mineola
12—Ithaca Area Retirees chapter meeting: 2 p.m., Moose Hall, 125

N. Fulton St., Ithaca.

12—Suffolk Area Retirees chapter meeting:
office, 350 Motor Pkwy., Hauppauge.

13-14—Capital District Armory Employees chapter meeting: Veter.
ans of Foreign Wars Home, Cortland

14—Suffolk chapter bicentennial party: Colonie Hill, Hauppauge.

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

New York City Metro Retirees chapter meeting: | p.m., 2 World

Trade Center, Room 5890, Manhattan,

Craig State School chapter 405 meeting: American Legion

hall, Sonyea.

22—Broome County unit shop stewards’ training day.

22—Albany Region IV meeting: 10 a.m., Herbert's, 138 Washington

Ave., Albany.
3i-June 2—New York City chapter annual workshop and convention:
Concord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake.

| pam., CSEA satellite

noted. ‘If all the projects are
not carried out, it will cause a
serious slump in the private con-
struction sector. Also, since the
rehabilitation work is necessary,
it must eventually be carried out,
but at higher costs, at some later
date due to increased material
and service costs.”

The OGS Group does the plan-
ning, design, engineering and
supervisory portion of the re-
habilitation projects, but the ac-
tual construction work is done by
contract with private construc-
tion firms. “A delay in any of
the projects could very easily
boost the costs by many addi-
tional millions of dollars,” the
union spokesman said.

CSEA said it is engaged in an
independent effort to have the
funds restored in the state's sup-
plemental budget through strong
lobbying efforts with legislators.
A union committee has already
met with the Assembly Ways and
Means Committee staff to discuss
the necessity for restoring the
cuts and preventing the layoffs.

Lobbying efforts with individ-
ual legislators is continuing as

well, Additionally, CSEA said, it
is working closely with top OGS
officials who are also attempting
to have the funds restored.

“We agree completely with
OGS Commissioner James O'-
Shea who said yesterday the cuts
are detrimental not only to the
state’s physical plant, but also
to the severely depressed con-
struction industry,” the union
spokesman stated. He described
the coopertaion between the un-
ion and top-level OGS offictals
as “extremely good in our ‘mu-
tual efforts to convince the Leg-
islature..that the budget cuts
were unwise and fiscally irre-
sponsible.

“Our first hope is that the
funds will be restored in the
supplement budget, making these
layoffs unnecessary and saving
millions of dollars. Meanwhile,
we fully intend to pursue our
grievance that the layoffs con-
stitute a violation of the con-
tract. We are prepared to take
this important issue to arbitra-
tion, that’s for sure,” the union
spokesman said.

MISS LIMERICK — Maryann Carey, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, William J. Carey, of Albany, was recently named Miss Limerick,
USA in an annual pre-St. Patrick's Day contest for Capital District

APSCME has been negotiating
for a wage reopener in the third
year of a three-year pact cov-
ering some 9,000 correctional
guards, conservation officers,
capitol police and narcotics offi-
cers. Their original demand was
for a 10 percent wage hike, and
recently APSCME notified
CSEA-represented state workers
that they intended to stay firm
on that demand.

“The State has offered them
increments and no pay increase,
and now AFSCME has caved in
and 45 talking about improved
Job security in Meu of salary in-
creases. They know they can't
produce on their demands and
are now trying to save face,” Dr.
Wenz! stated.

The CSEA leader noted that
even Donald H. Wollett, director
of the State Office of Employee
Relations and chief state nego-
tiator, recognizes that APSCME
{s as much interested in impress-
ing employees they don’t repre-
sent as the ones they do. Mr.
Wollett recently stated that AP-
SCME wants a good settlement
to impress other state workers
at a time when AFSCME is try-
ing to mount a membership
drive

“AFSCME is still stinging, and
stinging good, @bout the over-
whelming rejection our CSEA
delegates gave them at the re-
cent convention,” Dr. Wenal
said. “They know, privately, that
these negotiations represent the
last chance they have to prove
they are any kind of a union at
all. They've called an impasse,
threatened w strike and waved
paper swords all overathe place,
and it's easy to see the despera-
tion that prevails over their sit-
uation.”

Dr. Wenzl noted that while
CSEA was fighting recently for
the best possible contract for
state workers in four Bargaining
Units, the rival union was down-
playing CSEA's ubility to nego-
tlate.

“Now APSCME is learning the
painful facts of life about the
true economic situation in this
state, The shoe is on the other
foot, and it is clearly pinching.
The time has come for them to
put up or shut up, and every-
body knows they are not capa-
ble of putting up,” he said,

NYSPI To Hold
Spring Party

MANHATTAN The spring
dinner-dance of the New York
State Psychiatric Institute chap-
ter 419, Civil Service Employees
Assn, will be held Friday, May 7,
at the Astorian Manor, Astoria,
Queens. Cocktails will be served
“at 7:30 p.m. followed by dinner
at 6:30 pm.

BPC Installation

BRONX—Officers will be in-
stalled by the Bronx Psychiatric
Center chapter, Civil Gervice
Employees Assn. on Friday,
April 30. The ceremonies, set for
5 p.m., will be held in the center
rehabititation building.

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, April 30, 1976

Need Driver, Receptionist, Engineer, Others =

MANHATTAN — The fol-
lowing is a simulated radio
broadcast by the New York
State Department of Labor's
Manpower Services Division. The
Jobs noted, however, are real ones.
. ANNOUNCER: Are you look-
ing for work? If so, you will
want to check these openings
sted with the New York State
Employment Service. Make a
note of the number to call if a
Job interests you. If the position
is in New York City call (212)
488-7330. For jobs outside of
New York City in nearby New
York communities, consult the
Nassau and Westchester tele-

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Open Continuous
State Job Calendar

Assistant Clinical Physician $25,161 20-413
Associate Actuary (Life) $18,369 20-520
Beginning Office Worker $ 5.871 Various

ising Actuary (Life) $26,516 20.522
Principal Actuary (Life) $22,694 20-521
Associate Actuary $18,369 = 20-416
Supervising Actuary (Casualty) $26,516 20-418
Senior Actuary {lite} $14,142 20-519
Clinical Physician | $27,974 20-414
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pensation Examining Physician

Dental Hygienist
Dietitian

Supervising Dietitian
Electroencephalograph Technician
Food Service Worker

Hearing Reporter
: ‘echnician

Hospital Nursing Services Consultant
Industrial Foreman :
Laboratory Technician
Legal Careers
Public Librarians
Licensed Practical Nurse
Maintenance Man (Mechanic)
Medical Specialist |
Medical Specialist Il
Mental Hygiene Asst. Therapy Aide
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide (TBS)
Motor Equipment Repairman

(Statewide except Albany)
Nurse |
Nurse Il :
Nurse I gett

Nurse II (Rehabilitation)
neien arviant Consultant
ccupational Therapist
Offset Printing Machine Operator
Pharmacist .
Physical Therapist
Principal Actuary
Principal Actuary {Life}
Psychiatrist |
Psychiatrist “II

Radiology Technologist im
Radiology Technologist (T.B: Service)
Rehabilitation rouse ty

Senior Actuary (Life)
Senior Medical oe Librarian

Senior Occupational Therapist

Senior Pharmacist

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Senior Stationary Engineer

Specialists in Education

Stationary Engineer
Fireman

Additional iniarenstion:s on Bays
application forms ma ai
int of Civil Tacviene Stote

3. A Queens firm 1s looking for
‘an experienced RECEPTIONIST.

5. A pharmaceutical house in
Brooklyn is recruiting for a
CHEMICAL ENGINEER, Will as-
sist in preparing and presenting
seminars to customers and sales
representatives. Also supervise lab
technicians. Applicant must have
a BA in chemistry or chemical
engineering and zero to five years
of industrial experience.: Some
knowledge of metal cleaning is
required too. Salary $14,000-
17,000 @ year.

6. There's also a position avail-
able for an AIR COMPRESSOR
MECHANIC to rebuild compres-
sors. The employer requires some-
one with two-five years of ex-
perience and offers an opportu-
nity to move up. The starting
salary is $250 a week, but it’s
negotiable.

‘T. Out on Long Island, an em-
ployer is calling for a FIELD
ENGINEER to advise, assist and
instruct on installation, mainten-
ance and operation of electronic
equipment. Applicant must have
& degree in electrical engineering
and at least two years of re-
lated experience as a technician
or engineer. Must be prepared to
travel both in and outside the
US. The employer is offering
$200-290 a week, depending on
the job-seeker's credentials.

8. Also on Long Island, there’s
an opening for a first or second
class MACHINIST with at least
two years’ experience, particu-
larly on lathe work. The pay is
$4.20 to $5 an hour.

9. In Brooklyn, an employer is
seeking an AUTO SERVICE STA-
‘TION MANAGER with one-two
years’ experience. Will supervise
four attendants. The job pays
$132 a week, could go higher.

10. A manufacturer of men's

cuffs. The firm is in Queens and
the pay is about $3 an hour,
depending on the job-seeker's ex-
perience.

11. A hospital in Brooklyn
wants an INHALATION THER-
APIST to administer an IPB ma-
chine. Will work Monday to Fri-
day from 4 pm. to 8:30 p.m.
The pay is $6.16 an hour for

TER to set precious and semi-
precious stones in rings. Will use
hand tools. Applicant should have
two-five years of experience and
checkable references. This is
plece work and pay should aver-
age between $250 and $300 «
week.

13. Up in Westchester, an em-
ployer is seeking a TAX AC-
COUNTANT. The position is with
an industrial firm and involves
work on tax compliances, federal
and foreign consolidations, and
also financial data analysis. Ap-
plicant must have a degree in
accounting and five years in the

field. The salary is $1,400-2,000
@ month, depending on experi-
ence.

14. Elsewhere in Westchester,
& VALUATION ENGINEER with
two-five years of experience in

‘and cost control to insure timely
product delivery. A degree in en-
gineering is also required for
this position paying $14,000 a
year.

15. A beauty salon in Brooklyn
is calling for a HAIR STYLIST
who can set, cut and comb out.
‘The job pays $4.50 an hour.

Federal
Job Calendar

Detailed announcements and applications may be obtained by

visiting the federal job information center of the

.S. Civil Service

Commission, New York City Region, at 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan;
271 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn; 590 Grand Concourse, Bronx; or
90-04 161st Street, Jamaica, Queens.

Applications for the following j-.sitions will be accepted until
specifi

further notice, unless a closing dai
federal agencies throughout the co

fied, Jobs are in various

untry.

Agriculture

Title Salary Grade Exam No.
Meatcutter . GS-8 NY-0-30
Warehouse Examiner GS-5, 7 CH-0.02
Business
Computer Operator and
Computer Technician GS-5 to 7 NS4-15
Engineering, ical
elated 1 Eta 424
Meteorological Technician GS-4 to 9 NY-8-43
Technical Aide GS-2, 3 NY-0-22
Technical Assistant GS-5 to 15 421
General
Freight Rate Specialists 63-7, 9 WA-6-13
Junior Federal Assistant GS4 4il
Mid-Level Positions GS-9 to 12 413
Sales Store Checker GS-3 NY-3-07
Senior Level Positions GS-13-15 408
Technical Assistant GS4, 5 NY-5-07
Telephone Operator GS.3, 4 NY-5-01
Teletypist GS-3 to 5 NY4.02
Medical
Autopsy Assistant GS4, 5 NY-9-05
Careers In Thera) GS-6 to? WA-8-03
Dental Hygienist Dental Lab Technician ...GS-5 to 7 NY-5.09
Licensed Practical Nurse S-3 to 5 NY-5-06
Medical Machine Technician GS-5 to 8 NY-3-02
Medical Radiology Technician GS-5, 6 NY.0.25
Medical Technician GS-5 to7 NY-3.01
Nursing Assistant GS-2, 3 NY-1-16
Nursing Assistant (Psychiatry) 682 NY-5-05
Nurses GS-5 to 12 4g
Physician's Assistant GS-7 to I! 428
Veterinarian Trainee GS-5 to 17 WA.0.07
Military
Air Reserve Technician (Administrative
Clerical/Technical) GS-5 to 15 AT-0-59
Army Reserve Technician GS-4 to 9 NY-9-26
Social And Education
Professional Careers for Librarians GS-7 to 12 422
Psy jist SSM VERA ERT RTT WA-9-13
Recreational Therapist so GS-5 to 7 NY-5-09
Stenography And Typing
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NY.9-17
WA-9-01
NY-5-04
WA-9-01
RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS
A Retirement Study

Some city and state employees

@ can manage to retire with a bet-

ter after-tax income than they
recelved during the last year
they are working, a study by the
Twentieth Century Fund has re-
vealed. The retirement income
includes income from Social Se-
curity which is tax-free and oth-
er tax benefits, and assumes
30-year pension accumulation.
‘The study, presented by Robert
Tilove of Martin E. Segal Co.,
noted pension experts, goes on to
warn against withdrawal of the
Social Security benefits for gov-
ernment employees because of
the inequities to survivors. How-
ever, Mr. Tilove points out that
the average state or local em-
ployee retiring at age 65 after
30 years’ service, receives a pen-
sion equal to 49 percent of his
final year's salary. Added to this,
Social Security benefits for a
man and spouse where earnings

@ are not $14,000 a year, the total

goes up to 70 percent, where
earnings are $5,000 a year, the
total is 100 percent. In the na-
tion, two-thirds of state and lo-
eal employees are covered with
combined pension and Social Se-
curity benefits. Over-all they re-
ceive 80 percent of their final
year’s salary of $10,000 after 30
years’ service. The public, read-
ing these figures, often forgets

@ that much of this retirement

benefits is a return of employee
contributions.

Add to the pension studies cur-
rently being released one by Max-
well School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs at Syracuse Uni-
versity. This one deals largely
with the underfunding of NYC
employee pension plans. Inter-
esting statistics revealed the
city's pension expense rose from
$361 million in 1965 to $1.1 bil-
Hon in 1974, rising substantially
faster than salaries. The 1972-
1973 cost per member for each
of the systems was: Employee Re-

tirement System $2,141; Teachers
Retirement System $3,903; Po-
lice Pension Fund $4,041; Fire
Pension Fund $3,212; Board of
Education Retirement System
$2,280. In addition, the Teachers
Fund received » special contribu-
tion of $32.7 million in 1972 and
$99.2 million In 1972 to adjust
for a transition to a two-year
lag in timing of payment.

As & public service, The Leader
continues to publish the names
of individuals who are benefici-
aries of unclaimed checks from
the New York State Employees’
Retirement System and the State
Policemen’s and Firemen’s Pund.
‘The Leader or the New York
State Employees’ Retirement Sys-
tem in Albany may be contacted
for information as to how to
obtain the funds.

Following is s listing of those individ-
wals whose

31, 1974,
(Continued from last week)
Schreiber, Harry L
Schware, Doris A
Scudder, Rudolph V

Smith, Helen
Smith, Paul

Traynor, Kay

‘Tripiciano, Margery
Unterberg, Marin D
Valdez, Orlando
VanDenHeuel, Theodore R

Volimeret, Harold F
Wagner, Margaret C
Walker, Mary E
Wamsley, Kermit F Jr
Wantman, Arnold L

‘Westcott, Clarence O
‘Wheeler, Ralph E., Jr.
(To Be Coatineed)

eel OMNE
Jamesville

By SUSAN DONNER
QUESTION
Unemployment benefits run out this month for many city employees,

inaluding police officers and firefighters. Asa result they might be
added to the welfare roles. What ts your reaction to this?

THE PLACE
Midtown and lower Manhattan

OPINIONS

Marian Johnson, typist, Police Dept.: “I think
it's so unfair for one to have
to go on welfare because the
city can't afford to keep them
employed, Welfare can't give a
family what they would have
if the head of the household
was out working. I also think
it does terrible things for a
man’s self-respect. I know what
{t would do to my husband.
Maybe the federal government
should take over everything,
No more cities as they exist now, maybe that's
the answer.”

John Conners, government management intern:

= “I believe that our local rep-

resentatives should search for

alternatives as far as grants

and monies from the federal

government to re-employ cops,

firemen and so forth. At jeast

in that sense they would be

productive members of society.

If that couldn't be done, I

think unemployment should at

least be extended because there

is a stigma in our society at-

tached to welfare. I think many people would be
reluctant to accept it.

John T. Tallie, assistant architect: “I think it
will be a very sad day when
many of our citizens are added
to the welfare rolls. How are
these families going to pay the
rent? How are they going to
eat? I think it will be terribly
embarrassing, especially for the
head of the household. A man
loses his dignity. I think that
the answer to the whole prob-
lem should be more federal in-
tervention. The government
should certainly provide necessary funds until New
York is able to balance its own budget. I see very
little hope for the elty until we can get a new
administration in Washington.

Jerry Murphy, police officer (detective): ‘I think
the whole situation is tragic.
That the city has come to the
point of reducing some of their
primary departments and forc-
ing them into this situation.
The police officer is living in
two worlds now. It’s not like
he’s untrained or unskilled. He's
been there and now he’s out,
through no fault of his own.
I think that’s the tragedy. The
problem with some of these peo-
ple taking other jobs is who wants them, figuring
they might go back to their original calling for
which they're trained and dedicated.”

Angelo Seminerio, calendar clerk: “I don't think
it makes any difference whether
they're on unemplayment roles
or welfare roles. What the city
has to look at now is what's
going to cost them more, wel-
fare or unemployment. Actually
they might be saving money by
giving them their jobs back.
Welfare checks can go up pret-
ty high depending on the size

« } of one’s family. The city has to
look into just how much mon-

ey they are actually going to save by putting

them on welfare.”

Bradford Martin, police officer: I think there
should be an alternative to wel-
fare for people who eventually
or hopefully will get back on to
city payrolls, It's a matter of
paying them while they're on
welfare or paying them while
they're working and I can’t see
paying people for doing noth-
ing. I also feel that welfare ts
very demeaning. As a police
officer, I feel if I had to go on
welfare I would be more or
less disgraced. Of course, I would take any kind
of a job before I would accept welfare. It’s a matter
of pride. I, myself, as well as many police officers
that have been laid off took pay cuts to join the
force for the sake of security. Now they're up a
creek without a paddle.

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Questions & Answers

Q. I plan to apply for sup-
plemental security Income pay-
ments, I have a foster child in
my home, and receive payments
from the agency which placed
him, here. Would the ‘foster-care

as $65 a month without effecting
thelr supplemental security in-
come payments. If there is no
other income, such as social se-
curity checks or a company pen-
sion, they can earn as much as
$85 a month. Over that, the
basic supplemental security in-
come payment is reduced by $1
for each $2 in earnings,

Q. My son, who ts 19, has been
severely retarded since birth.
Could he get payments under the
supplemental security income
program? My husband works
full-time and supports us.

A. Regardless of your family
income, your son may be eligi-
ble for supplemental seourity in-
come payments. Under the law,
mentally retarded people who re-
main unmarried are conskdered
independent of their families be-
ginning at 18 or 21 if they're in

social security office for more in-

formation ‘bout applying for
payments for your son.

9261 ‘og dy ‘epg ‘YAGVAT AOIAWGS TAD
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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1976

Policy Of Poverty

B*. JUNE 30, the Legislature will have to come up with
some action on a pension law, since that is the time
that the temporary law runs out.

Earlier in the year, the latest Kinzel report was made
known on recommendations to cut back pension rights.
Following the report of that state pension commission has
come the Shinn Pension Task Force recommendation, which
out-Kinzels Kinzel.

We find particular irony in the fact that Social Security
is an issue in the pension controversy.

While the State Pension Commission, headed by Otto
Kinzel, recommends the incorporation of one-half of Social
Security benefits into the pension computations, Mayor
Abraham Beame of New York City has announced that
notice has been given to the federal government that the
City will withdraw from Social Security altogether.

The irony, to us, is that employees pay half of the con-
tribution to Social Security.

The angle of the Kinzel recommendation is that the
employer would be paying in less to the pensions, because
the total benefit would be less. The Beame approach is to
remove Social Security deductions from employees so they
would have greater take home pay now, but no Social Se-
curity later.

We feel that it is not the pension systems that are
wrong, but rather the abuses of it,

More attention should be paid to closing the loopholes
instead of generally lopping away at the basic structure of
the pension system. The general “chop 'em down to size”
approach will be most harmful to the low-income employee
who must continue to cope with spiraling costs on a fixed
pension income.

We do not think it is the role of government to keep its
employees—or its retired employees—poor.

College Lulus

E CAN only add a fervent ‘Amen’ to a comment made

by Claude Campbell before a recent hearing of the Civil
Service Employees Assn./Stein Joint Committee To Investi-
gate Waste and Inefficiency in Government.

Professor Campbell is a Staten Island Community Col-
lege faculty member and secretary of the Professional Staff
Congress of City University. He told the hearing of special
payments, nicknamed “rems” for renumerations, made to
City University of New York presidents, deans, chancellors
and their deputies. The “rems” range from $4,500 to $22,000
and average $6,390.

“We question such expenditures at a time when fiscal
cuts have severely reduced faculty and backup personnel

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and the instructional program,” Professor Campbell declared.

We agree wholeheartedly. According to most recent data
from City University, more than $2.1 million in “rems” were
paid to 337 individuals. These payments were made in excess
of the salaries drawn by the recipients; these salaries, it is
estimated, average more than $30,000 per person per year.

CUNY is facing grave fiscal problems. Among other
things, the problems have led to the proposed merger of
several colleges and the elimination of programs at others.
We feel reduction or elimination of “rems” could ease these
problems,

Assemblyman Andrew Stein (D-L, Manhattan), the com-
mittee chairman, observed the “rems” appear “hard to jus-
tify in this time of fiscal crisis,” Very true,

VERN RRR eke ee

members, Instead it is an oppor-
tunity for them to work their
districts, meet with thelr con-
stituents, and get a feel about
how the voters in their home
districts think they are doing.

This is particularly true this
year, with @ Presidential cam-
paign under way, and the pros-
pect that many members will
face not only stiff primary chal-
lenges, but also uncertain re-
election prospects, during a year
when voters are more signifi-
cantly concerned with national
rather than with local problems,

Power To Subpoena?

Most prominently busy among
the legislators this Easter recess
has been Senator John D. Cal-
andra of The Bronx, What he
has done may precipitate a crisis
for the Legislature that will
arouse once again all the diffi-
culties and confusion that
troubled the Legislature in vot-
ing to override the Governor's
veto of the Stavisky-Goodman
bill compelling the City of New
York to appropriate annually for
the Board of Education a fixed
Percentage of the City's budget.

Senator Calandra wants @ sim-
ilar formula adopted with respect
to appropriations for the City's
Police and fire departments, As
chairman of a subcommittee of
the Senate Finance Committee,
the Senator invited Mayor
Beame to testify before the
Committee. When the Mayor re-
jected the invitations, Senator
Calandra countered with the ser-
vice of a subpoena on the Mayor
directing the Mayor's appear-
ance.

Thus the Legislature will be
confronted with the issue wheth-
er Mr. Beame’s refusal to appear
in response to the subpoena con-
stitutes contempt. It is the posi-
tion of both Mayor Beame and
his Corporation Counsel, W. Ber-
nard Richland, that a standing
committee of the Legislature
does not have the power to issue
subpoenas, It Is also their posi-
tion that a citation for contempt
of a subpoena must be approved
by the entire membership of the
Senate.

Under the circumstances, the
Senate will be confronted with
the issue whether the Calandra
subpoena was properly issued,
whether the fatlure of the Mayor
to appear constitutes contempt,
and ultimately what procedure
to follow to impose penalties for
such contempt.

Tough Minded

How far Senator Calandm will
move along those lines remains
uncertain. However, the Senator
is known to be a tough-minded
legislator and a tough-minded
politician. Apart from being a
Senator, he is also
County leader and an experi-
enced fighter in political wars.
A 10-year veteran of the Senate,
Calandra was formerly an As-
sistant United States Attorney,
engaged in an aggressive war
against narcotics pushers.

The theory of Senator Calan-

ho are threatened by

Mr. Gaba is a member of the firm of White, Walsh and Gaba,
P.C., and chairman of the Nassau County Bar Association Labor
Law Committee.

Review Time Limits

The Court of Appeals has ruled in a recent case that
Section 213 of the Taylor Law controls the time limits for
judicial review of remedial as well as determinative portions
of a Public Employment Relations Board order. Section 213
sets forth the exclusive means of seeking judicial review
of a PERB order. An aggrieved party may seek review in@
an Article 78 proceeding brought within thirty days after
service of a copy of the order sought to be reviewed. Alter-
natively, if PERB institutes an enforcement proceeding be-
fore the expiration of that same thirty-day period, respon-
dent in his answer may raise any questions that could have
been raised in an Article 78 proceeding.

THE ISSUE HERE arose in a dispute between the Board
of Education of the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Building
Trades Council of Board of Education employees and the
District Council of Buffalo and Vicinity, United Brother-
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO. The,
Board of Education of the City of Buffalo unilaterally
changed the terms and conditions of employment of its
tradesmen employees, Without negotiation with the unions
representing its tradesmen employees, the Board placed
these skilled employees in graded civil service status and
established specified wage grades with annual salaries. With
this action, the Board effectively changed these employees
from their status as ungraded skilled tradesmen entitled
to compensation at prevailing wage rates.

CHARGES WERE FILED with the Public Employment
Relations Board. The determinative portion of the
order found the Board of Education of the City of Buffalo
guilty of a refusal to negotiate in good faith with the union
as the duly certified representative of its members. The
remedial portion of the Board order directed the Board of
Education to cease and desist from the specified conduct
and to restore the affected employees to their status quo
ante and to pay them lost compensation with interest. More
than thirty days after service of a copy of the order on the
Board of Education, PERB instituted a proceeding to en-
force the order. The Board of Education sought in such pro-
ceeding to challenge both the determinative and remedialg
provisions of the PERB order. Special Term held that the
scope of its review was unlimited.

THE APPELLATE DIVISION held that failure to comply
with the time limitations of Section 213 foreclosed judicial
review of the determinative provisions of the PERB orders,
but not of PERB's exercise of remedial powers, In this case,
the Court of Appeals found that Section 213 of the Taylor
Law bars review of both the determinative and remedial
provisions of the PERB order. This, despite contention by
the Board of Education that PERB erred as a matter of
law in fashioning the affirmative remedy. The court noted
however, that situations may be imagined in which PERB,
either in its determinations or in the exercise of its remedial
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death or serious injury through
fires as a result of depletion of
our firefighting resources and
the closing of fire houses.

Obviously, the Senator enjoys
the support of Michael Maye,
head of the firefighters union,
and of Ken MeFeeley, president
of the Policemen's Benevolent
Assn.

At the public hearings con-
ducted by Senator Calandra’s
subcommittee, both Fire Com-
missioner John O'Hagan and
Police Commissioner Michael
Codd testified concerning the
impact on their operations of
staff reductions and other bud-
get cuts. However, their testi-
mony was bitterly questioned by

spokesmen for the firefighters
and the police,

‘There is very little doubt that
many Senators, both Republi-
cans and Democrats, will seek to
disuade him from pursuing the
Beame subpoena matter any fur-
ther. They may even succeed but
they will have a tough time of
it. The Senator is not likely to
let go of an Issue once he sinks
his teeth into it.

TECH LIST
ALBANY—A senior laboratory

009, was established April 12 by
the State Department of Civil
Service. The list contains 13
names.

State Seeks Supervisors

ALBANY —The State De-
partment of Civil Service is
accepting applications until

records, No. 35-948. A written
test covering filing, records main-

tenance, administrative supervi-
sion and preparing written ma-
terial will be held June 12.

For principal medical care ad-
ministrator, No. 39-134, appll-
cants must have three months’
experience as an associate medi-
cal care administrator in the De-
partment of Health, A June oral
test for the G-28 job will cover
to reason clearly and

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West Genesee St., Buffalo; or
State Office Building Campus,
Albany.

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power, acted wholly beyond the
Jurisdiction conferred on it by
the Legislature. In such ¢lreum-
stances, the court might allow
Judicial review of the provisions
of a PERB order notwithstand-
ing failure to comply with the

however, by saying that the pres-
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CSEA CONVENTION REPORTS, PHOTOS |-

Members of Professional-Scientific-Technical Unit negotiating team met with PST delegates to discuss e
provisions of proposed contract agreement with state. Standing is CSEA vice-president and PST nego-
tiating chairman Robert Lattimer. Seated at left is committee coordinator Paul Burch. Left from micro-
phone are vice-chairman Timothy Melnerney, of Transportation District 1; Gene Treacy, D of E,
Utiea; Arthur Allen, Transportation District 10; Canute Bernard, Labor, NYC; Patricia Comerford,
Helen Hayes Hospital; William Pitsing, Taconic State Park Commission; Jack Dougherty, Taxation

and Finance, and Betty Duffy, Pilgrim PC.

Offering a welcome from Transportation Region 1 chapter 676 are
Barbara Sullivan, left, and Desiree Vallone, who stopped by to visit
with her father Angelo Vallone, former president of Broome chapter 804.

Constitution And By-Laws Committee Report

e
Constitution VI, Section 2 (a) and Section 2 (b) of the tor a regularly assembled meeting of the
By-Laws. Association]. No funds of the Association
THE FOLLOWING ITEM WAS RE- shall be disbursed in a manner which
FERRED BACK TO COMMITTEE: THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WERE win result in a personal profit to an of-
DEFEATED: fieer, director or employee of the Asso-
clation.
ARTICLE X: AMENDMENTS Menete vil
This Constitution may be amended by section 2 (a) CHAPTERS. A chapter By-Laws
& two-thirds vote at any duly organized ay be formed by members in the County THE FOLLOWING ITEM WAS
meeting of the Delegates of the Associa- — ivision in any county, or in any region TABLED:
tion providing the proposed amendment containing one or more counties, upon 4
has been submitted in writing and or- the ‘approval by the Board of Directors ARTICLE VI e
dered published at the last meeting of of the Constitution and By-Laws of such Section 2 (a) BOARD COMMITTEES.
the Association and thereafter published chapter. One Chapter for non-teaching At the organizational meeting of the
In the (Ofticin} magazine or matied t0 employees of school districts may be (Statewide) Board of Divectors the fol-
each [delegate] Chapter President and rormed in each county provided fifty lowing committees shall be elected: 1
Member of the Board of Directors not percent of the eligible school district Budget and Finance; 2. Charter: 3. Com-
less than ten days before the meeting at units, put in no event less than 200 mittee to Study the Cost of Operating
which the proposed amendment is voted school district members, shall request Group Life Insurance; 4. Personnel; 5.
Gerry Caputo, administrative representa- Pon. If proposed amendment to the formulation thereof. Political subdivisions Directors. No officer of non-voting mem-
tive for SUNY at Buffalo chapter G02, Constitution is rejected, lit, or] @ sub- with a membership of 1,000 or more ber of the Board of Directors shall be
takes part in debate on critical issue. stantially similar amendment (in the members shall be permitted to form  cligible to serve on these committees. The
opinion of the Delegates.) may not be their own chapters, Each such chapter committees shall elect their own chair-
ordered published at the same meeting. sna) make available to the duly author- men. e
ized representative of the Association at
komanrgijuul THE FOLLOWING ITEM WAS he request of the President or the Board THE FOLLOWING ITEM WAS
ue eee eee meee) | TAM of Directors at reasonable intervals, all OEFEATED:
and Recreation delegates at the ARTICLE IV chapter Pa ged for mepection by the
CSEA Convention was reproduced Section 2 (b). The Board of Directors Assoeiatlon.” ee ae ARTICLE VI
backwards on page 9 of the Leader's shall establish and appoint committees ROOD emRae: ene Section 2 (b). AD HOC BOARD COM-
April 23 edition. Therefore, the iden- to be known as Board Committees(. ‘The MITTEES. The Board may appoint such
tification for the people should have Board Committees shall consist of only ARTICLE IX, FUNDS other ad hoc committees as it deems
been from the right, rather than voting members of the Board of Direc- Section 1, AUTHORIZATION, No funds necessary. All members of the Board of
from the left. tors and each committee shall elect its of the Association shall be disbursed un- Directors including officers shall be en-
own Chairman.) as enumerated in Article ess authorized by the Board of Directors titled to serve on such committees,

Looking for a ruling from the chair on a disputed matter are, from
left, William Deck, a OSEA director (Mental Hygiene, Region V) and
convention sergeant-at-arms A. Victor Costa, Workmen's Compensa-
tion Board chapter 671 delegate and former statewide second vice-
president, and Solomon Bendet, CSEA vice-president and head of
New York City Region I.

JoAnne Leegant, left, and
from Erie chapter 815, were among early arrivals
at the convention center, Here
prior to start of » business session.

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CSEA vice-president Joseph McDermott, head of
Albany Region IV, looks over menu held by Richard
Tarmey, convention sites committee chairman
and a former third vice-president of the union.

(Landes phovos by Ted Kaplan )
CSEA CONVENTION REPORTS, PHOTOS

Constitution And By-Laws Committee Report

‘The revision of constitution and by-laws
committee report was submitted by chair-
man Kenneth Cadieux, of Nassau County,
with committee members William Roberts,
Nicholas Cimino, Joseph Kenney, Eugene
Nicolella, Audrey Snyder, Genevieve Luce,
Karen White, Earl Mayfield, Sr. and Jay
Berman.

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WERE AP-
PROVED BY THE DELEGATES IN A
FIRST READING. THEY MUST BE
APPROVED AGAIN AT THE NEXT
CONSECUTIVE DELEGATES MEET-
ING BEFORE THEY CAN BECOME
EFFECTIVE. BRACKETS INDICATE
MATERIAL TO BE DELETED; BOLD-
FACE TYPE EMPHASIZES ADDI-
TIONS.

ARTICLE IV

(Section 4. No member of the Board
of Directors who is physically present at
® Board Meeting and who is entitled to
vote in more than one capacity, shall
have the right to a proxy; provided, how-
ever, that he may cast one vote for each
office or capacity he represents.

(This language is to be placed in the

By-Laws, Article II, Section 8,

PROXIES.)

Section [5] to be renumbered to Sec-
tion 4.

Section (6) to be renumbered to Sec.
tion 5.

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ARTICLE VI

Section 1, STATE EXECUTIVE COM-
MITTEE. The power and authority to
transact business relating to ‘state em-
ployees shall, except as provided herein,
be vested in a State Executive Commit-
tee. The State Executive Committee shall
consist of the officers of the Association,
and one representative from each State
Department. The Judiciary, [the Legisin-
ture,} the State University, the Water-
front Commission and state public au-
thorities as one unit, shall be deemed
State Departments. The Faculty Student
Associations, Teachers’ Retirement Sys-
tem, and the Higher Education Assis-
tance Corporation shall as a unit be
deemed a State Department. In addition
to the foregoing, each State Department
with more than 3,000 members as of
January 1 in an odd-numbered year,
shall for the term of office beginning the
following July, be entitled to one repre-
sentative on the State Executive Com-
mittee for each 3,000 members or major
fraction thereof. The State Executive
Committee shall elect from its member-
ship one member to be known as the
Chairman of the State Executive Com-
mittee. The State Executive Comunittee
may create one or more subcommittees to
Perform such duties as the State Execu-
tive Committee shall delegate. Each de-
partment representative shall be elected
by ballot by the members in his depart-

New York City delegate Willie Raye, center, explains his reasons for running for
the State Assembly to Peter Higgerson, of Long Island Inter-County State Park chap-
ter 102, and Kathy O’Brien, of Rochester chapter 012, at left, and CSEA regional
supervisors Edwin Cleary, second from right, and George Bispham.

Gerald Husong, left, and Andy Beaty, Jr, of Public Service Motor Vehicle Inspectors chapter 451, and
Lawrence Rowland, CSEA director representing Washington County chapter 858, check over the numer-
study prior to delegate votes. The formal meetings were held by bar-
divisions and in general scastons.

ous reports they were given to
gaining units, by state and county

ment in the manner prescribed in the
By-Laws. No person shall be eligible for
nomination unless he shall have been a
member in good standing of the Associa-
tion on or before June Ist of the year
preceding the year in which the election
is held. They shall hold office for a term
of two years or until their successors shall
have qualified {, except that for the elec-
tion to be held in 1973, the term shall
be for one year and 9 months, ending
June 30, 1975, or until their successors
have qualified]. Vacancies in the office
of the State Department representatives
may be filled for the remainder of the
term by the members of the Association
employed in such department at a special
election to be called by the Board of
Directors within fourteen days after the
first meeting of the Board subsequent to
the time that such vacancies occur under
rules established by the Board.

Section 2. NOMINATIONS. The State
Division members of the Nominating
Committee selected in accordance with
Article IV, Section [6] 5 of this Con-
stitution shall constitute the Nominating
Committee for the State Executive Com-
mittee.

(Rest of article remains same.)

ARTICLE Vil

Section 2 (b). The members employed
in each political subdivision in a chapter
shall be entitled, if they have 200 mem-
bers or 50 percent of the employees with-
in the division as members, whichever ts
smaller, with minimum of 75 members,
to the formation of a unit. [Guch unit
shall receive a portion of the refund of
the dues which shall be determined with-
in the discretion of the parent county
chapter.) Other units may be organized
as the Board of Directors or Executive
Council of the chapter may determine is
in the best interests of the members in-
volved. Each unit shall be entitled to
elect its own unit officers and to estab-
lish its own progress.

(This language is included in the
By-Laws, Article IV, Section 3 (b).)

ARTICLE Vill: [MEETINGS
OF) DELEGATES

(Section 1. DELEGATES.)

(Rest of article remains same.)

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Dorothy Rabin, president of SUNY Col-
lege at Old Westbury chapter 618, takes
turn at microphone to express feelings of
her chapter membership.

CSEA executive director Joseph Lochner,
left, who has served the union for 44
years, relaxes for a few moments with
NYC regional attorney Stanley Mailman.

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, April 30, 1976

3 New State Auto & Law Reinstatement Qccupational And Physical

Investigation Jobs Open

Take out some time and see if you are eligible for
new state automotive facilities inspector, law department
investigator or investigator trainee openings in state agen-

cies.
Vacancies exist in the State

test. New York City area and
Monroe County appointees will
receive an additional $200 annual
salary differential.

A college degree in automotive
technology may be substituted for
up to four years’ experience.
Candidates must hold a New
York State driver’s license.
Law department vacancies ex-
ist in several areas of the Gtate.
Deadline is May 10. A written
exam will be June 12. Law de-
Partment investigutor positions

Pay $12,670 a year to start and

or's degree may be substituted
for two years’ experience. An as-
sociate degree can count as one
year's experience.

Law department investigator
trainee I positions begin at $10,-
118 a year. Candidates need a
bachelor’s degree or law degree
including 18 semester credit
hours in criminal] justice. Three
semester hours in abnormal psy-
chology, three semester hours in
investigative techniques, and
three semester hours in criminal
or constitutional law must be
ineluded. Candidates must sub-
mit detailed listings of all quall-
fying courses. A driver's license
is also necessary.

Applications may be obtained
from: State Office Bulking
Campus, Albany 12239; Two
World Trade Center, New York
10047; or Suite 750, 1 West Gen-
esee Street, Buffalo 14202

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Fire Cap’t
Going To Court

WATERTOWN —The Wa-
tertown Municipal Civil Ser-
vice Commission has been
ordered to appear in Supreme
Court to show why its ruling
that Frederick D. Wiley be re-
instated as a city fire captain
should not be overturned.

of the city manager's ordered de-
motion. The commission ruled
the city manager’s punishment
was “excessive so as to offend
the senses of @ reasonable man,”
and that Mr. Wiley be returned
to duty as captain.

The city’s petition charges
the commission acted “in an ar-
bitrary and capricious manner”
because “there was no reasonable
nor plausible basis for its said
modification of the said penalty.

City firemen belong to the
Watertown Firefighters Assn.

State Seeks
2 Engineers

ALBANY—The State De-
partment of Civil Service is
continuously recruiting state
workers for promotional
posts of assistant sanitary en-
gineer and senior sanitary en-
gineer in the Environmental
Conservation Department. To
qualify, catididates must take an
oral test,

No. 30-282, is open to Environ-
mental Conservation Depart-
ment employees with a year's ex-
perience as a junior engineer and
an intern engineer's certificate.
A year’s engineering experience
in a grade 19 or higher position
is good for senior sanitary en-
sineer, No. 30-281.

‘The oral exam for both posts
is designed to test the appli-
cant’s ability to reason clearly
and make sound judgments, pre-
sent ideas clearly and establish
® satisfactory relationship with

be sent to the State Department
of Civil Service, The State Office
Building Campus, Albany, N.Y.
12239.

Therapist Job Slots Open

ALBANY—The State Department of Civil Service is con-

and

tinually accepting applications for eceupational therapists
physical therapists for posts in the Department of

Mental Hygiene, Health Department and The State Uni-

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

education and exhibit planning
eligible list, resulting from open-
competitive exam 27-548, was
established April 5 by the State
Civil Service Department. The
Ust contains eight names.

partment, Two World Trade Cen-
ter, New York, N.Y.; Suite 750,
1 West Genessee St., Buffalo,
NY. or the State Office Build-
ing Campus, Albany, N.Y.

Set Cashier
Promo Exam

MANHATTAN — The Ad-
ministrative Board of the
Judicial Conference is ac-
cepting applications until
May 12 for the promotional ex-
am of eashier, No, 55-492, A
written test for the New York
City opening will be June 12.

To qualify for the test, candi-
dates must have a year's exper!-
ence us an account clerk, clerk,
stenographer or typist in the
New York City Criminal Court.
Applications may be obtained
from court administrative offices
or from Room 1209, 270 Broad-
way,-New York 10007.

‘*CHICAGO’ IS A MARVEL!”

“THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
aT ITS BEST.”

mum jobless pay is $95,

SHORT TAKES

SOLONS' SALARIES

New Hampshire's legistators recetve the lowest pay of any legislators
in the nation, according to the New Hampshire Citizens Conference
on the State Legislature. Pay there is $100 a year. New York's legis-
lators are the highest paid at $23,500 annually. New Mexico legis-

lators receive no pay but receive $40 per diem. The national average
ts $9,043.

LAFAVE RESIGNATION THREATEN

Hugh G. Lafave, director of the Oswald D. Heck Developmental
Center, Niskayuna, has said he may quit if staff cuts at the center,
threatened by the State Department of Mental Hygiene, are
implemented. Layoffs of about 220 Heck staffers, and proportionate
cuts at other DMH centers around the state, are one option the DMH
is said to be studying in response to the legislature's decision to
trim the Department budget. Dr. Lafave said he plans to stop ac-
cepting most patients scheduled to return to the Albany area from
other facilities in the face of the proposed cuts; only patients who
are ready to return directly to their communities will be accepted,
he said. The proposed cuts of 200 employees from a staff of al
720 would emasculate programs at Heck, Dr. Lafave said.

a client population of about 1,200.

PACT NEGOTIATION SUGGESTION

Roy Bahl, a Syracuse University economist, suggested that
‘municipal employee contracts may have to be negotiated at the
state level if New York cities are to be spared fiscal chaos. Mr.
Bah] said standardized wage and fringe guidelines should be es-
tablished statewide, “Central city governments simply cannot afford
to continue granting the kind of wage rate and fringe benefits which
they have in the past,” he said.

PREDICT PARK CUTS

Sharp reductions in state park services have been predicted by
officials unless a $1.8 million cut is restored to the Office of Parks
and Recreation. The officials noted that unless the cut is restored,
state facilities would be obliged to close one or two days a week,
seasons would be shortened and, in some cases, facilities would
be closed. According to OPR Commissioner Orin Lehman, 45.5 mil-
lion persons visited parks last year. New York State has 140 parks
and 35 historical sites maintained by OPR.

URBAN CCC PROPOSED

A legislative proposal creating a group to serve urban areas
and modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930's, has
been proposed by Assemblyman G. Oliver Koppell (D-Bronx) and
Joseph Ferris (D-Kings). Mr. Koppel] is chairman of the Environ-
mental Conservation Committee. The function of the organization
would be to assist in air and water pollution reduction efforts, restore
and repair parks and beaches, assist in urban clean-up campaigns
and assist in energy conservation efforts. The Governor would be
authorized to provide payments to UCCC members when enrolled
and taking part in the program. For those receiving public assistance,

participation would meet the work requirements of the Social Ser-
vices Law.

LEVITT SEES "DEADLY THREAT’

State Comptroller Arthur Levitt termed “a deadly threat” a
proposal by a special state commission to eliminate the constitutional
requirement of voter approval of public bond issues. The suggestion
was one of several made by the Moreland Act Commission on the
Urban Development Corp. and other state financing agencies to
restructure the state debt system. Mr. Levitt, who praised some of
the suggestions, observed that “creation of debt without voter
approval is a deadly threat to the fiscal integrity and credit of
the state. To allow the legislature to decide how much debt
the state can incur is a throw-back to the 1800's.” Commission
chairman Orville H. Schell Jr. noted, however, that “New York
cannot settle its statewide problems by a town meeting and that's
just what a referendum is.” Mr, Schell said the legislature is better
informed than the average voter and that the state constitution
should be amended to reflect that.

TROOPER CUTS ATTACKED

The New York State Police Benevolent Assn. issued a warning
that budget cuts imposed on state police have reached a point where
“we no longer oan fulfill our mission.” The warning noted that fiscal
cutbacks mandated by the state legislature and Governor have been
“trresponsible.” The warning was issued following reports that de-
spite the recommendation 18 months ago that 486 new troopers be
hired, current police strength is 370 less than authorized. A etate
police spokesman has pointed out that in the next year, the depart-
ment's manpower will drop by 80 to 100 officers through normal
attrition. Authorized strength 1s-3,681 officers,

. «78

WHITE COLLAR PAY UP
White collar private sector workers in New York State averaged
8.5 percent salary increases in the year ended March 31, compared
with raises of 5.6 percent in the preceding year, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Chemists, accountants, engineers and
engineering technicians all posted record mlary gains.
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UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS

Approximately 3,500 recently laid off state workers drew about
$4 million in unemployment insurance payments during the first
three months of this year, according to the State Labor Department.
‘The Department said the average amount collected was $75; maxi-

Private Sector Feels The Pinch
Of The Public Sector's Layoffs

MANHATTAN—The layoff of thousands of New York City employees has contributed
to the decline of private businesses in areas where there are an abundance of govern-
mental offices. However, say shop owners and salesmen, the sales slowdown has not
changed their way of thinking on how to operate their businesses.

‘The private businessmen, for
the most part, agree that their
shops have less people coming
through the doors since layoffs
began last July, Unlike their
counterparts in the public sector,
however, no layoffs or cutbacks
are expected because of the loss
of revenue.

David Conlon, ® salesman at
Wallach’s clothing store on New
York's City’s Broadway, near
City Hall, said the store started
Christmas sales earlier last year
than ever before in order to get
more business. Otherwise, “Bus-
iness as usual.

“Sure, business has been slow
since the city began cutting back
last year, but other factors,
such as the weather and short-
age of money also contributed to
‘the decline in sales.

Items in Wallach’s have not
been reduced, according to Mr.
Conlon, and no price decreases
are expected. “Basically, we're
running the store in the same
manner as always, but it's been
quiet,” he said.

In another clothing store on
Broadway, Rogers Peet, a sales-
man sald that business had def-
inHtely slowed. To combat the
decline, he said, the store has
been putting more high-quality
goods on sale in an effort to
draw customers.

“It's a very depressing situa-
tion,” he said, “but we hope to
build up the store and possibly
bring in more workers if busi-
ness picks up.”

According to sales reports from
all the firm’s stores, the sales-

man sald, the City Hall store has
been running behind, Rogers
Peet has been in the urea for
about 60 years.

Clothiers are not the only
businesses feeling the pinch of
less workers around to buy their
merchandise, Restaurants, for
the most part, have seen a de-
crease in customers.

Irving Stern, manager of the
Broadway Coffee Shop at Broad-
way and Chambers Street, aid
his business is off at least 15
percent, The shop, which has
been in existence for six years,
doesn’t expect to lay off any
employees.

“Layoffs of city employees
have definitely cut down on the
business,” Mr. Stern said. “We
used to get a large breakfast and
lunch crowd, but now it seems
we have been seeing less people.”

Mr, Stern said his monthly
figures have shown a drop in
profits, the first time this has
ever happened. With wholesale
food prices rising, he said, there
is no way he could lower his
prices to entice customers to eat
there.

In contrast to the coffee shop,
Longchamps, @ long-time water-
ing hole for city officials and
workers, has not lost any busi-
ness, according to Arthur Ri-
bach, director of Marketing for
National Restaurants, the parent
company.

“Business has not been cut
down at all,” he said. “That's
because we're more of an upper-
echelon restaurant and not

everybody can afford to eat at
Longchamp’s.”

He denied rumors that the res-
taurant had been sorely hurt by
the layoffs. He said higher ml-
aried employees, “the ones not
laid off,” still frequent the res-
taurant,

At Barney’s at 261 Broadway,
which sells radios and appli-
ances, as well as drugs, a sales-
man said that business had
started to drop off Inst July and
continued to decline with each
new round of layoffs.

“Before last July the store

“Now it seems the crowds have
thinned out and we don’t always
have the long lines anymore.”
The store, which has been in
the urea for 21 years, doesn’t
expect to fire anyone because of
the loss of business, he said, and
prices are expected to remain the
same.
The city’s Chamber of Com-
merce and Industry confirmed
the businessmen’s claims that
sales were down in the city. A
spokesman said, although he re-
leased no figures, “Yes, there
have been many business closings
and a definite drop in sales.”
The only business around City
Hall that doesn't seem to be af-
fected by the municipal layoffs
is Jerry Matiatos’ hot-dog cart
near the Municipal Building.
“People always like to eat hot-
Gogs,” he said. “I've had no prob-
lems.”

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, April 30, 1976

State Civil Service Latest State And County Eligible Lists
Opens 4 New Jobs

‘The State Civil Service Depart-
ment will accept applications un-
til May 10 for unemployment in-
surance referees, energy and gen-
eration and transmission special-
ists and analysts and ecologists,
all open competitive posts. Start-
ing salaries range between $19,-
396 and $26,516 a year.

Unemployment insurance ref-
eree—Exam 24-416 — candidates
must be state bar members with
four years’ law practice experi-
ence. Two years experience must
have been as a trial attorney
Four years’ experience with two
Years’ in either adversary pro-
ceedings or as a law clerk is also
acceptable. A written examina-
tion is scheduled for June 12.

A bachelor's degree in physi-
cal or biological science or en-
gineering and four years’ experi-
ence evaluating and analyzing
energy generation or transmission
systems will qualify candidates
for energy generation and trans-
mission specialist—Exam 24-372.
Candidates who previously filed
for the examination announced
for Feb. 28 need not file again.

The June 12 written test will
cover environmental and nat-
ural resources, federal laws,
Jong-range planning, and prepa-
ration of written material.

Principal environmental pro-
gram analyst, Exam 27-410, is
open to applicants with college
degrees in economics, govern-
ment, political science, planning
or public administration with six

dates need a natural or physical
selences bachelor’s degree and
six years’ acoustics or noise con-
trol experience, A bachelor’s de-
gree in biology, or a closely re-
lated field and six years’ fish
and wildlife biology, ecology or
natural resource management ex-
perience {s good for principal
aquatic and terrestrial ecologist.

Applications may be obtained
from State Department of Civil
Service, Two World Trade Cen-
ter, Manhattan; State Office
Building Campus, Albany; or
Suite 750, "1 Genesee St., Buffalo.

Madison Holding
3 Open Exams

WAMPSVILLE — Applica-
tions are being accepted un-
til May 11 for open-competi-
tive posts of motor vehicle
application examiner, motor ve-
hicle cashier and computer op-
erator in Madison County offices.
Starting salaries range from
$4,813 to $6,760 a year.

To qualify for the June 12 ex-
aminations, candidates must be
residents of Madison County for
at least four months.

Applications may be obtained
from the Madison County Civil
Service Commission, County Of-
fice Building, Wampsville, N.Y.

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State Seeks
Consultants
In Nutrition

ALBANY—Applications are
accepted continuously for
nutrition services consult-
ants in the New York State
Department of Health.

In order to qualify for the
$13,404 positions, applicants
must have a bachelor’s degree in
foods and nutrition; have com-
pleted a dietetic internship or
its equivalent; and have four
years experience as a dietician
in a health facility, two years of
which was within the last 10
years. A master’s degree in nu-
trition may be substituted for
one year of experience. Ap-
pointees in the New York City
area and in Monroe County re-
ceive an additional $200 annual
salary differential.

Application forms can be ob-
tained from State Office Build-
ing Campus, Albany; Suite 750,
1 W. Genesee St., Buffalo; 55th
Floor, 2 World Trade Center,
Manhattan; or at local offices
of the NYS Employment Service.
Completed forms should be sent
to State Department of Civil
Service, The State Office Build-
ing Campus, Albany.

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Suffolk Court
Promotions Set

HAUPPAUGE — The Suf-
folk County District Court is
offering some of its employ-
ees a chance for promotions
to account clerk or senior ac-
count clerk,

Applications should be in by
May 10. Written tests will be
June 12.

Account clerk (Exam 55-491)
is open to court office assistants,
key punch operators and stenog-
raphers. Candidates need one
year's experience in these areas,

‘The senior account clerk test
is open to account clerks, legal
stenographers and court assis~
tants with a year’s experience,

Applications can be obtained
in the District Court, Hauppauge.

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w Joins in discussion of the final phase in restruc- From left are Howard Cropsey, of Albany chapter 801; Irving Flau- president of Rockland Psychiatric Center chapter
= turing the union. Westchester local 860 member- menbaum, of Nassau chapter 830, and AMred Jeune, of Greene 421, Mr. Langer pointed out that Last Offer Bind-
A ship is the second largest in CSEA. It is one of chapter 820. Mr. Cropsey is also vice-chairman of the County Ex- ing Arbitration is the issue that Is of primary
| two counties with two representatives on CSEA ecutive Committee and Mr. Flaumenbaum is a statewide vice-presi- importance during this legislative session, and is
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856, takes notes to report back opinions with leaders of Seneca County delegation, Reno Piagentini, Corbin, left, Nassau Educational Employees chapter 865 vice-presi~
to her membership of the im- center, and chapter 850 president Frank MacDonald. dent Ben Gumin and Nassau chapter 830 vice-president Ralph Natale.
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EDITOR'S FOOTNOTE

In @ democratically run union
as the Civil Service Employees
Assn., it is not possible to use
a few pictures of the president
and top officers and still con-
vey the feeling that nearly 1,300
elected delegates took part in the
deliberations. Yet, after six weeks
of coverage, only 135 delegates
little more than 10 percent of
the partictpants—have been in-
cluded among the 66 photos we
have already used. In our 14
pages of coverage so far, we
have tried to give recognition
to as many of the delegates as
possible. Time and space do run
State Insurance Fund chapter 351 president and New York City Although from opposite sides of the state, Millie Vassallo, secretary Ut. however, and next week we
Region II first vice-president Vincent Rubano checks out informa- of Suffolk Educational chapter 870, is joined by Neil Gruppo, left, Wl! conclude our review of the
tion viewer under watchful eye of Group Health Insurance's and William Doyle, vice-president and president, respectively, of SP€C!#! Delegates Convention
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NEW YORK CITY — Persons
seeking jobs with the City
should file at the Department of
Personnel, 49 Thomas St., New
York 10013, open weekdays be-
tween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Special
hours for Thursdays are 8:30
a.m, to 5:30 p.m.

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by mail must include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope, to be
received by the Department at
least five days before the dead-
Une. Announcements are avail-
able only during the filing period.

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reach the filing office via the
IND (Chambers 8t.); BMT (City
Hall); Lexington IRT (Brooklyn
Bridge). For information on
titles, call 566-8700.

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own recruiting and hiring. They
include: Board of Education
(teachers only), 65 Court St.,
Brooklyn 11201, phone: 596-
8060; NYC Transit Authority,
370 Jay St, Brooklyn 11201,
phone: 852-5000.

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tion advises teaching staff ap-
plicants to contact the individ-
ual schools; non-faculty jobs are
filled through the Personnel De-
partment directly.

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the Department of Civil Service
are located at the World Trade
Center, Tower 2, 55th floor, New
York 10048 (phone; 468-4248: 10
a.m.-3 pm.); State Office Cam-
pus, Albany, 12226; Suite 760, 1
W Genesee St, Buffalo 14202:
9 am.-4 p.m. Applicants may ob-
tain announcements by writing
(the Albany office only) or by
applying in person at any of
the three,

Various State Employment
Service offices can provide ap-
plications in person, but not by
mail.

For positions with the Unified
Court System throughout New
York State, applicants should
contact the Staffing Services
Unit, Room 1209, Office of Court
Admin,, 270 Broadway, N.Y.,
phone 488-4141,

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Service Commission, New York
Region, runs a Job Information
Center at 26 Federal Plaza, New
York 10007, Its hours are 8:30
am. to 5 p.m, weekdays only.
Telephone 264-0422.

Federal entrants living upstate
(North of Dutchess County)
should contact the Syracuse Area
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Department, H. Lee Dennison
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chester County Executive Al-
fred B. DelBello expressed
satisfaction with a bill
signed recently by President
Gerald Ford insuring refunding
of the county's public employ-
ment program through January
1, 1977.

According “to Mr. DelBello,
“Currently over 600 people are
employed in municipalities,
school districts and non-profit
agencies under Titles II and VI
of the Comprehensive Employ-
ment and Training Act. These
positions were scheduled to be

New York City saved $9,961
this year thanks to the imagina-
tion and ideas of city workers.

‘They submitted time and mon-
ey saving plans to the City Em-
Ployees Suggestion Program. In
return, they received cash awards
for ideas that were adopted.

Mayor Abraham D. Beame re-
cently approved 39 awards total-
ing $790, plus 11 certificates of
merit.

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lives.

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Westchester and Putnam Coun-
ties is still holding at 10 per-
cent, we are relieved that this
portion of our program will con-
tinue.”

The County's Office of Man-
power Phnning estimates that
from the new legislation, more
than $3 million will be received
for refunding public employment
Jobs, and another $1 million will
be received to fund the County's
summer employment program
for disadvantaged young people
from age 14 to 21.

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CIVIL SE

H.J. LYNCH

An Affirmative
Action Group
Appoints Lynch

FISHKILL—H. J. Lynch,
president of the Taconic
chapter, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn., has been ap-
pointed to the Taconic Affirma-
tive Action Committee.

‘The basic goal of the commit-
tee Is to ensure that all appli-
cants, employees and clients of
the Taconic State Park Commis-
sion are treated equitably, with-
‘out regard to race, sex, religion,
physical disability or national or-
igin, The committee makes rec-
ommendations to the manage-
ment of the Taconic Region in-
tended to effect this goal.

Also serving on the commit-
tee are John Kennedy, John
Middlebrooks, Orion Fowler, Nic-
hol Forsht, Cheryl Gold, Hubert
Young, Harvey Barth, and Terry
Cole.

Actions already taken by the
commission as & result of com-
mittee recommendations include
participation in the Dutchess
analysis of parks and historic
sites in order to determine modi-
fications needed to better serve
the handicapped and training
programs for all Taconic Com-
mission employees,

Brooklyn DC's
Annual Meeting

BROOKLYN — The annual
membership meeting of the
Brooklyn Developmental Center
chapter 447, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn., will be held April
30 at the President Chateau,
Utica and President Streets,
Brooklyn. The meeting will be
called to order at 6 p.m.

To Contract

~ Halt Downstate Attempt

Out Service

BROOKLYN—Officials of the Downstate Medical Center
chapter, Civil Service Employees Assn., have been successful
in bringing about the termination of a plan by the institu-
tion’s administrators to contract out service performed by

employees in the cleaning de-
partment.

Robert Keeler, CSEA chapter
president, said that the contract
with Service Master Corp. would
have cost the institution $263,-
000; the hospital would also sup-
ply cleaning personnel and ma-
terials. Mr. Keeler said “all the
contractor would have provided
would be a manager and ma-
chinery. We found out that the
machinery would have cost $40,-
000 and the rest of the money
would have gone for manage-
ment fees.”

Mr. Keeler stated that Service
Master unilaterally had drawn
up @ contract which would have
changed the job specifications of
the employees. This, he said,
would have led to the phasing

Capital Armories
HoldingMeeting

CORTLAND — The state-
wide Conference of Armory
Employees, Civil Service Em-
Ployees Assn., will hold a
two-day meeting, Thursday and
Friday, May 13-14.

Capital District's James E.
Stevens sald the event will be
held at the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Home, Cortland. The an-
nual banquet will be held on the
evening of May 14.

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HAMBURG — Police will
lose no time or money and
the Village of Hamburg will
receive full protection as @
result of a compromise reached
recently between the village
board and the Civil Service Em-
Ployees Assn. on recent police
contract improvements, accord-
ing to Western Region VI CSEA
field representative Robert E.
Young.

Under terms of the agreement,
the village agreed to pay an
educational bonus retroactive to
June 1, 1975, when the old con-
tract expired, and to credit of-
flcers with added retroactive va-
cation.

CSEA agreed to the change of
these additional earned vacation
credits to sick leave credits, thus
making it unnecessary for the
police to use the time off before
June 1.

Police Chief Francis Conroy

out of 26 job items this year and
the eventual replacement of all
personnel in the cleaning de-
partment with outside help.

In labor-management meet-
ings, the CSEA special commit-
tee was led by Mr. Keeler and
Bart Brier, the union's field rep-
resentative. Other members of
the committee were James
Woods, first vice-president, and
Francis Dubose, second vice-
president,

The union warned Howard
Dorfman, vice-president for ad-
ministration, that the contract
with Service Master was illegal
in that it violated the existing
contract with CSEA and in other
aspects violated Civil Service
Law.

On winning termination of the
plan to contract out services, Mr.
Brier said, “We have saved the
jobs of 114 employees involved
in the cleaning department.
These people would have been
pressured out of their jobs if the
contract had been effected. It
was obvious that it was manage-
ment’s plan not to fill line items
us they became vacant and use
the money to pay the contrac-
tor."

Service Master Corp. had been
doing the work for approxim-
ately two months without a
signed contract when the union
brought its operation to an end.

Police Pact

had expressed concern that if
the additional vacation credits
had to be used up before that
date, he would have problems
scheduling duty shifts of the 18-
member police force.

Under the contract, officers
will receive five weeks of vaca-
tion after one year of service;
six weeks of vacation after five
years of service, and seven weeks
of vacation efter ten years of
service.

‘They also will receive an edu-
cational bonus of $100 per year
after completion of an associ-
ate's degree in police science and
$200 for a bachelor’s degree.

A 9 percent pay raise ts retro-
active to June 1, 1975; a 7 per-
cent raise begins June 1,

‘The pact was signed by Ham-
burg Mayor Dorothy W. Meloy,
unit president Edward G. Ash-
croft and Mr. Young.

Strike Averted In Montgomery

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two-year package which provides
job security for non-classified
employees / laborers; improve-
ments in accumulation of sick
leave to 165 days; the ability to
place unused personal leave into
this sick bank; a $300 across-the-
board increase in the second year
of the agreement, and payment
of full longevity and regular in-
crements in both years of the
agreement.

At a ratification or rejection
meeting, approximately 300
members of the unit voted by
@ better than two to one margin
to accept this agreement, The
County Board of Supervisors

ratified the pact by a 16-2 vote.

Neither side is apparently com-
pletely happy with the agree-
ment. The county believes that
the package will cost too much,
possibly as much as $415,000.
‘The members of the Montgomery
County unit believe that the
county offer was too stingy, but
in ght of the fiscal situation
facing the county, the agreement
was acceptable.

Albany Region IV, CSEA,
moved to the brink of a job ac-
tion but reminded the public
through various media that they
believed it was the county that

was forcing the people out be-

cause of their failure to negotiate
in good faith.

Region president Joseph E.
MeDermott summarized the situ-
ation: “Somebody blinked and
it wasn't CSEA. If confrontations
of this sort are necessary to force
politics out of the bargaining
process under the Taylor Law,
then such confrontations will
happen much more frequently in
all Regions of CSEA until the
‘Taylor Law is changed, with
some sort of last-offer-binding-
arbitration or final offer evalua-
tion process which would elimi-
nate the politicians and replace
them with responsible employer-
employee relationships.”

Theodore Wenzl, president of CSEA, chats with Thomas L. McDon-
ough, left, chairman of the CSEA State Executive Committee, and
their host, William F. Dupee, right, president of the Black River
Valley chapter of CSEA, at a bullhead dinner in Watertown.

Wenzl: If Economy

Improves,

Contract

Benefits To Follow

WATERTOWN—Theodore Wenzl, president of the Civil
Service Employees Assn., said he believes that if the economy
improves, the union “has a good shot of getting some bene-
fits” when contract negotiations with the state reopen next

November.

In an interview in Watertown
where the union leader was @
guest of the Black River Valley
chapter, CSEA, at a bullhead
dinner, Dr. Wenz] expressed dis-
satisfaction with the state's pay
freeze for its government work-
ers.

“CSEA members are entitled
to reasonable working conditions
‘and adequate remuneration on a
par with the better aspects of
the private sector,” he said.

He chastized Gov. Hugh L.

Carey for “failure to follow
through on his campaign prom-
ises,” adding “he reneged on
Just about everything.”

Admitting that the Governor
“has a tough situation on his
hands,” Dr. Wenz! said the Gov-
ernor's greatest defects are “he
ts too inaccessible, he shuns
people. You just can't get to
him and he is so insulated you
don’t know if he is getting the
right readings on situations.”

Expect Report On Nassau
Tax & Layoff Situations

(From Leader Correspondent)

MINEOLA—A report is expected to be issued this week
by a special panel investigating whether Nassau County
needs a sales tax Increase in order to avoid personne! layoffs.

The panel, headed by Assemblyman Arthur J. Kremer

(D-Long Beach), and composed
of state legislators and members
of the county Board of Supervi-
sors; was empowered to make the
study after an unprecedented
conference on the budget crisis
between the Republican-control-
led board of supervisors and the
Democratic legislators from the
county, The meeting had been
arranged by Irving Flaumen-
baum, president of the Nassau
County chapter of the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn, in a bid to
break a deadlock between them

Mr. Plaumenbaum, who is also
president of CSEA Long Island
Region I, warned that partisan
polities had been obscuring the
facts of the crisis, with County
Executive Ralph G. Caso threat-
enjng 2,000 layoffs if he did not
wet the tax increase and the leg-
islators blocking state authoriza-
tion for the tax on the ground
that it was not needed.

Mr. Flaumenbaum warned both
sides that “chaos would result”
in county services if the layofts

were allowed, and that both par-
ties would suffer the wrath of
the public.

Mr, Kremer's subcommittee was
chosen at the bi-partisan meet-
ing and charged with reporting
by the time the legislature re-
convenes this week, The panel
met Monday, April 19, and Inter
to cheek county budget figures

On the panel are Mr. Krem-
er, Assemblyman Lewis J. Yevoli
of Bethpage, Hempstead Supervi-
sor Al D'Amato and Supervisors
Vincent Suozzi of Glen Cove and
Hannah Komanoff of Long
Beach, Mr, D'Amato js the only
Republican on the panel.

Western Meeting