The Public Sector, 1979 June 6

ALBANY — The Civil Service
Employees Assn., charging that ad-
mission restrictions on an upcoming
Civil Service exam were dis-

Union forces state to halt

The new CSEA
employee benefit fund

The new CSEA Employee Benefit Fund,
which will provide improved dental insurance
and new prescription drug insurance to CSEA
members in three major state bargaining un-
its, has moved several steps closer to being
activated with the appointment of a fund
director, appointment and election of
trustees, and the receipt of bids from in-
surance carriers interested in providing
coverage.

In the above photo, the Fund trustees and
new director discuss types of benefits to be
provided. From left are Thomas P. Collins,
the new Fund Director; Trustee Irene Carr;
President William L. McGowan, also a
trustee, and Trustees James Moore, Elaine
Mootry and Louis Mannellino.

In photo at left, President McGowan, Fund
Director Collins and CSEA Executive Vice
President Thomas McDonough review bids
for insurance carriers.

For more information about the new CSEA
Employee Benefit Fund, turn to page 8.

CSEA wins major appeal, test resch

criminatory against lower-paid
employees, has won a major appeal
decision from the Civil Service Com-
mission.

The full Civil Service Commission
heard CSEA’s appeal on May 24, and
decided the appeal was valid and that
the exam will be reopened to the
lower-paid workers. As a result, the
original June 23 exam day will be
rescheduled to a later date.

CSEA had protested in March that
the scheduled test for the position of

disruptive staffing pattern

ALBANY — CSEA Pilgrim Psychiatric Center Local President Betty
Duffy and Grievance Chairman William Chacona have won an agreement from
state officials preventing the state from rushing headlong into a disruptive
staffing plan for ‘‘discrete mental retardation units’ (DMRU’s) at Pilgrim

and other facilities.

Computer Programmer Trainee,
which pays $10,624 a year, had ar-
bitrarily been closed to state workers
in Grades 6 and under. The last time
the exam was given, in 1977, 23 of the
Grade-6-and-under employees who
took the exam were appointed to the

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Computer Programmer positions in
the state service.

Civil Service Commission President
Victor Bahou had rejected: CSEA’s
protest in March, saying that only a
few people below grade 6 passed the
1977 test. CSEA then appealed that
determination to the full Commission,
and the hearing was held May 24.

After the union’s hour-long appeal,
the commission deliberated on the
matter and made its decision later in
the day. It immediately affects about
2,300 workers, according to union es-
timates, the number of Grade-6-and-
lower employees who filed for the
exam last time. However, there may

“The union’s position always was that the retarded should be served by
those who are trained and experienced in caring for them — the Mental Retar-
dation employees. But the State’s plan called for segregation of these patients

‘into DMRU’s, and for the Pilgrim employees — on 24 hours’ notice, and with no

training or preparation, and with no regard for their scheduled shifts or days
off — to go right into the DMRU and start taking care of these patients,’ CSEA
Collective Bargaining Specialist Bob Guild said.

The agreement signed by the state officials makes several major con-
sessions to the union! For one thing, 80 funded jobs will be made available to
the Office of Mental Retardation so that recruitment and training of Retar-
dation employees can begin. This recruitment and training has already begun,
according to Ms. Duffy.

Secondly, the planned movement. of patients at Pilgrim into the DMRU
there was postponed from the original date of May 30, and will now begin on
June 6.

Also, the state agreed that the DMRU staffing will be accomplished solely
with volunteers and/or new Mental Retardation employees.

And perhaps most importantly, the state has assigned two representatives
— one from the Office of Mental Retardation and one from the Office of Mental
Health — to go to Pilgrim and stay there until the transition to the DMRU is
completed, consulting with CSEA and keeping the union informed every step of
the way. i

Region I President Irving Flaumenbaum said: “I'm glad they came to this
understanding. But it should have been worked out a long time ago. I hope the
department of mental hygiene learns they must come to CSEA and consult
with us from the beginning.:This would have prevented the problems.’

trainee jobs, which lead to Grade 14 be more this year.

SUCCESSFUL CSEA APPEAL resulting in the re-opening ot the Computer
Programmer Trainee exam to all state workers in grades 3 and above produc-
ed some tense moments. From left to right on the tar side of the table are four
of the people who presented the union’s case: Research Analysts Tim Mullens
and Joe Abbey; Executive Assistant to the President Thomas J. Linden; and
CSEA Local 653 President Delores Farrell. Collective Bargaining Specialist
Jack Conoby and CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene Carr also represented the
union during the appeal presentation.

LOCAL

REPORT

reaction to member problems?

thus the union reacts.

guidance and assistance.

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Editor, The Public Sector:

As a youngster attending
Brentwood High School (Sonderling
Building), Brentwood, New York, I
tried my utmost to secure part-time
employment — to no avail, until I
heard of the Pilgrim Youth Oppor-
tunity Program headed by Super-
visors Alfred O. Carlsen of Bay Shore
and Clayton Chesson, Selden, N. Y.
With Pilgrim Psychiatric Center
Director Dr. John P. lafrates
blessings, they petitioned the New
York State Legislature and got a
Youth Opportunity Program es-
tablished in Pilgrim in April of this
year, to employ high school students
giving them incentive to stay in
school.

I applied for entrance in the
Program and was accepted. I am now
employed as a part-time secretary-
trainee at Pilgrim Center, still
attending Brentwood High School and
receiving credits along with 35 other
students who are also in the Program.

May I, on behalf of these high
school students, let the public know
that Mr. Chesson’ and Mr. Carlsen,
earned, and deserve, the love and
thanks of their fellow citizens here on
Long Island for making this Program
possible and creating incentive for
these high school students to
graduate, go on to college or enter the
civil service field as well as the
private business sector — to say
nothing of the cash the student will
now have in his or her pockets.

Melissa Esquilin

Bay Shore, N.Y. 11706

Editor's Note: Alfred O, Carlsen and
Clayton Chesson, mentioned in the
letter, are both members of CSEA

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GOVERNMENT

I wonder how many of you are
aware of the various steps taken by
CSEA to improve and insure union

There are at least four levels at
which these problems can occur.
The most common one is at the in-
dividual member level. Someone is
fired, harassed or abused. That
someone (if they are aware of their
rights!) goes to the union rep and

A second level is work location
A building is unsafe, too hot or too
cold. Complaints are registered
and the union (usually by a field
rep) reacts to correct the problem.

A third level is the bargaining un-
it. At this level the union is organiz-
ed to negotiate, arbitrate, and ad-
minister contracts. Local and unit
officers have good contact with
regional and central resources for

The last level is one that often is
missed by our members, and is
almost always missed by other un-
ions. That level is the career level.

Any union which strives to
represent public employees

“Local Government Report’ will appear regularly in ““The Public Secto
Lazarony, chairman of the Civil Service Employees Assn. County Di
CSEA members in general and employees of local government jurisdictio

”’ The column is preparéd and edited by Joseph
jon, and contains information of interest for all
in particular. Comments and questions per-

taining to this column may be addressed to Mr. Lazarony c/o ‘The Public Sector.”

Problems? Call CSEA

must face up to the problem of
representing members with a wide
variety of careers. Mechanics,
secretaries, truck drivers,
lawyers, accountants, food service,
etc. Another aspect that needs con-
sideration is the departmen-
talization of units. Thus employees
consider problems as centered
about the Social Services
Department, or the Highway
Department or the bus drivers, etc.

This combination of a wide
variety of careers and the
departmentalization of employees
creates a real identity problem for
any union attempting to represent
each of them. Yet, the basic
necessity for UNITY, calls for us
to meet this challenge!

One method started by the
County Executive Committee and
myself was to develop active com-
mittees along these levels. Such
committees offer expertise and
dedication based on specific
careers and/or work situation.
Thus, with the approval of
President Bill McGowan and the
statewide Board of Directors, local

Local Pilgrim Psychiatric

Center.

An Open Letter To All L.P.N.’s:

I was informed that the Governor
made the statement that there will be
NO reallocations or reclassifications
due to the fact that the 6% we would
receive plus the 7% wage increase,
brings us over the 7% President's
guide lines.

Well, I still intend to go ahead and
meet with the Civil Service Com-
mission.

With your continued support and the
help we have gotten from our R.N.’s
and Doctors, who feel we have been
treated unfairly, something must
come from all this support. Please
don't get discouraged — a good fight
often brings good results.

Thanking you all for everything you
have done and with your continued
support, how can we lose? Any infor-
mation you need or want, please let
me know. Sincerely

Alice Pope L.P.N.

Sayville, N.Y. 11782

Local 404, C.L.P.C.

P.S. No More Second Hand Nurses or
Second Hand Citizens for us!

418,

AFSCME
appoints

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, June 6, 1979

government committees
representing Social Services,
Probation, Non-Teaching school
personnel, Nursing and Uniformed
personnel have been created and
are functioning.

Each has proved its value. Social
Services Departments have un-
dergone very difficult service
changes. Many problems con-
nected with these changes were
avoided or corrected through the
knowledge and efforts of this com-
mittee.

Non-Teaching personnel have
benefitted from their committee's
action in the areas of un-
employment insurance, job
qualifications and career ladders.

Probation and Nursing com-
mittees have had important and
direct effects on pertinent
legislation involving their specific
careers.

Each of these committees will
have open door meetings at our
Local Government Workshop in
June. Anyone interested is
welcome to attend and participate.
Thus we are able to complete the

Joseph Lazarony
County Division Chairman

circle, Career or department
problems can go to a committee
set-up to discuss them and
recommend solutions, which are
then forwarded to those best
equipped to implement the
solution. q
Please note the primary need for |
members to inform the com- |
mittees of their problems. |
1 think this system has been
effective; and can be expanded.

What do you think?
See you soon...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The million member American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), with 400,000 women members
throughout the nation, has named Eve Johnson Coordinator of Women’s Ac-
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Ms. Johnson joins the AFSCME International staff following 4 years as
education and training coordinator for AFSCME’s Council 28, Washington
Federation of State Employees.

AFSCME membership continues to experience increasing growth among
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State charged in IP
for dropping vehicles

ALBANY — The Civil Service
Employees Assn. has announced that
an Improper Practice charge has
been filed with the Public
Employment Relations Board

(PERB) against the New York State ©

Department of Parks and Recreation.

Nels E. Carlson, CSEA Collective
Bargaining Specialist and represen-
tative fof employees in the Parks and
Recreation Department, indicated
that New York State allegedly
violated Article 14, Section 209-a, sub-
section (d) of the Public Employees
Fair Employment Act when on
February 9, 1979, it unilaterally dis-
continued its practice of providing
state-owned vehicles on a 24-hour
basis to employees assigned such
vehicles as a condition of their
employment.

The IP charge further contends that

unlawfully discontinued providing
state-owned vehicles without
negotiating such change with the
duly recognized bargaining represen-
tative (CSEA).

“CSEA contends that any unilateral
change is a violation,” Carlson said.
“We carefully investigated similar
charges and PERB decisions involv-
ing public employees in Onondaga and
Cattaraugus counties and, based upon
those decisions, have filed an IP
charge on behalf of state employees
from the Parks and Recreation
Department who were assigned
vehicles as a condition of their
employment. At present, public
employees have a difficult time keep-
ing up with today’s spiraling costs of
living and runaway gasoline prices
without the state adding undue
hardship by taking away work

the State of New York, through its vehicles,’ Carlson said.
agent, Commissioner Orin Lehman,
i f
PERB orders pay increases for :

Clinton :County airport workers

PLATTSBURGH — After passing a
resolution in January of 1978 to freeze
the wages of county airport per-
sonnel, the Clinton County
Legislature has been ordered by a
Public Employment Relations Board
mediator to grant the workers the
same increase awarded to other
county workers in a two year contract
effective January 1, 1978.

According to Jeanne Kelso,
president of the Clinton County CSEA
Local, the employees will receive a
lump sum payment for $500 which
should have been added on to salaries
in January 1978 and a partial payment
for $500 which should have been added
on for January 1979, in addition to an
adjustment in salary schedules to
reflect the increases for the
remainder of the contract period.

Region IV election

ALBANY — Due to recent
changes in the Civil Service
Employees Assn. Constitution,
the schedule for elections in the
Capital Region has been chang-
ed to allow for nominating com-
mittees to be restructured and
new candidates named. __

According to the revised
schedule nominations must be in

to the committee by June 6. Can-
didates will be chosen by June 8
and notified by June 10. Anyone
wishing to decline must do so by
June 22.

Other dates are as follows:

July 9 — Deadline for petitions
to be filed. "

July 19 — Drawing for ee
position.

New coalition organized

ROCHESTER — Civil Service
Employees Assn. representatives
from the staffs of Wilton, Broome
County and Newark Developmental
Centers have joined parents and
former members of the Professional,
Scientific and Technical unit
representing six other upstate
developmental centers in forming the
New York State Coalition for Mental
Retardation and Developmental
Disabilities, an organization seek9ng
increased staffing and improved ser-
vices in the centers, as well as the
communities served by them.

The formation of the coalition, says
chairperson and parent C. Richard
Jones, is ‘‘due to a common
recognition, by both the relatives of
the mentally retarded and
developmental disabled and the staff
that is responsible for their care, that
the present services being received
by our handicapped citizens are in-
adequate, harmful and fail to meet
the standards that the State ad-
ministration has established for these
people.

"Political -

Frank Wilucz, a CSEA represen-
tative from the Wilton Developmental
Center says a change is needed in the
Willowbrook Consent Decree, a court
agreement that spells out the re-
quired ratio of staff to patients, to
allow for more staff. In addition he is
seeking to obtain community services
which have been assigned, but not im-
plemented in the Wilton area. He
blames the center's problems on the
failure of the central office ad-
ministration in Albany to properly
plan and implement programs and a
lack of communications between that
office and the parents and staff at the
centers,

Representatives for Newark and
Broome County centers have also ex-
pressed concern over inadequate
staffing and the quality, and in some
cases the lack, of services.

The coalition first met in February
of 1979 to discuss deficiencies that ex-
isted at each center and to formulate
its goals. The group hopes to bring
about changes through meetings with
the State administration and through
legislation.

SUFFOLK LOCAL 852 President William Lewis, left,
discusses political action with Don Leden, President;
Muriel Brush, Secretary; and Charles Grattan, Vice
President, of the Southold CSEA Unit.

CSEA STAFF MEMBER IRWIN SCHARFELD, stand-
ing, discusses the program with, from left, Dave
Ward, President; Fred Siegel, Vice President; and
Bob Eckert of the Political Action Committee, of the
Southampton Unit.

workshop.
in Suffolk

SAG HARBOR — More than a

dozen officers of Civil Service

Employees Assn. units from five
Long Island east-end towns par-
ticipated in a CSEA Political
Action workshop at the
Bridgeview Restaurant here in
May. The all-day session,
designed to keep local union of-
ficials abreast of current and up-
coming political action affairs,
was conducted by CSEA Region
I staff personnel and officials of
Suffolk CSEA Local 852, the
parent Local of the town units,

Attending the program, ac-
cording to Suffolk County Local
852 President William E. Lewis,

were officers and members:

from CSEA units at Shelter
Island, Southampton, East
Hampton, Southold, and
Riverhead.

REPRESENTING EAST HAMPTON CSEA UNIT
were, in foreground, Dorethea Ling, Secretary; Jac-
queline Dutton, President; and Preston Anderson,
Vice President.

sate TANCE OF ORGANIZED ACTION is stressed
by John Desmond, standing, of the Si folk County
CSEA Local. Riverhead CSEA Unit offi eated
from left, are Lorraine Zuhoski, Vice Presid Eliot
Barth, President; and member Vicky Martin.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, June 6, 1979

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College polls
membership

HAUPPAUGE — Enmpire State
College at Hauppauge, which serves
all Suffolk County employees, is con-
ducting an extensive research project
to ascertain the educational needs of
the county employees.

A questionnaire will be distributed
some time in June and all employees
are urged to complete the question-
naire as carefully and frankly as they
can, and return it to Empire State
College as soon as possible.

The information developed from the
survey will help the college plan and
develop new programs that are
geared to the needs of county
employees.

Many county employees have
already taken advantage of the
various degree and non degree
programs available at Empire State,
mainly due to the flexible study
features designed specifically for the
working adult, and secondly, the
tuition reimbursement of up to 75%
provided by the county.

Any Suffolk County employee
wishing information about Empire
State College, and what programs are
available, call 979-0330.

Election deadline

BUFFALO — The SUNY Buffalo
CSEA Local 602 deadline for
members bécoming candidates for
Local office has been set for June 14.
Officials have circulated nomination
forms for all offices within the Local,
and the form should be returned by
the deadline date to the Local 602
nominating committee, General
Delivery, Station H, Buffalo 14214.

Interested candidates must have
»been a member in good standing of
Local 602 for at least one year prior to
the date of their nomination, it was
noted.

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reclassification plan for non-
judicial employees of the Office of
Court Administration (OCA) has
been signed, employees wanting to
take the June 9 exams for Office
Assistant, Office Typist or Office
Stenographer finally know exactly
what the respective salaries for

Salaries for June 9 exams listed

ALBANY — Now that the new '

those jobs will be.

The assistant and typist jobs
have a starting salary of $6,149 for
those who are on the 1974 salary
scale and $7,038 for those on the
1978 salary scale. The stenographer
position has a starting salary of $6,-
451 for those on the 1974 scale and
$7,383 for those on the 1978 scale.

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Irving Flaumenbaum, President
Ed Cleary, Regional Director

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Solomon Bendet, President

George Bispham, Regional Director

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Therapy aide
symposium

STATEN ISLAND — The first Men-
tal Hygiene Therapy Aide Symposium
was held at South Beach Psychiatric
Center recently. The Symposium is
expected to be scheduled here as an
annual event.

The purpose of the program was to
generate a sense of identity among
South Beach Psychiatric Center
Therapy Aides by providing an oppor-
tunity for open discussion of key
issues confronting employees in this
job title. Approximately 75 MHTAs
and other staff members involved in
the MHTA Traineeship Program
attended. The symposium was
organized and sponsored by the
MHTA Traineeship Council, and was
coordinated by Catherine McCoubrey,
Trainee Advocates Representative.

Presentations were made by Martin
Kaufman, M.D., Deputy Director,
Clinical, on the role of the MHTA in
the team treatment approach; by
Mark Bienstock of the Personnel Of-
fice on issues related to advancement
on the MHTA career ladder; and by
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WITNESSING THE CONTRACT SIGNING — CSEA representatives from the
various bridges were on hand as a new 3-year agreement between CSEA and
the State Bridge Authority was signed last month. Seated, from left, are CSEA
Collective Bargaining Specialist Emanuel Vitale, CSEA Local 050 President
Frank J. McDermott, Authority Chairman John S. Stillman, and former

TIME FOR TEA — CSEA Local 050 President Frank J. McDermott, center,
discusses the new labor agreement with State Bridge Authority Chairman John
S. Stillman, left, and Authority Executive Director Patrick Moloney, right.

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Elections Timetable
Statewide Officers and State Executive Committee

The following dates are to be used as a guideline for the 1979 CSEA Election. To the extent possible, each date
will be complied with unless intervening circumstances beyond the control of CSEA make compliance with

the exact date impractical.

June 8—Report of Nominating Committee
June 22—Deadline for Declination of Nomination

July 9—Final day for Nominations to Fill Declinations
July 9—Final day for Petitions to be Filed

didates (or proxies) may attend as observers

presidents

August 6—Ballots delivered to Post Office for Mailing

=O SESS RTS SSIES OSE TEE

delivered
August 30—Return of ballots — 6:00 p.m. Deadline

chairman David C. Schoentag. Standing, from leit, are CSEA Field Represen-

tative Flip Amodio; union members George Wells, James Ban, John Brooks,
Roland Kelly, Wally Decker; Authority Commissioner George Hoover, and
Patrick Moloney, Executive Director of the Bridge Authority.

Local 050, State
in contract settlement

ALBANY — The Civil Service
Employees Assn. has announced a
new 3-year contract agreement
reached between the New York State
Bridge Authority and CSEA Local 050
which represents 125 Bridge
Authority employees.

According to Emanuel Vitale,
CSEA Collective Bargaining
Specialist and chief negotiator for the
bargaining unit, the new pact calls for
salary increases of 7 percent April 1,
1979; 7 percent April 1, 1980; 5 percent
April 1, 1981; and 5 percent effective
October 1, 1981, with additional job

|

July 13—Request to each candidate for spelling of name as it will appear on Ballot. To be sent by cer-
tified mail, return receipt requested, Deadline for changes is July 20, 1979

July 13—Drawing for Position on Ballot — 10:30 a.m., CSEA Headquarters Conference Room. Can-

July 13—Mailing of printed copies of Rules and Regulations for the Election to all candidates and local

July 25—Publication of Names of all candidates in the Official CSEA Newspaper

August 16—Replacement ballots may be requested as of this date if Original Ballot has not been

August 31—Ballots to be removed from envelopes to prepare for counting. Ballots which cannot be
machine-counted will be counted manually during this period

September
September

September 7—Official Results Announced

September 17—End of Protest Period (10 days after Official Results are announced)

NOTE; Those eligible to vote shall be dues paying members in good standing as of June 15, 1979

Censncomess

RRND UIC EATEN ESL WRITE

7—Return of Replacement Ballots — 6:00 p.m. Deadline
7—Ballots to be Counted. Candidates to be notified by telegram by September 11

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, June 6, 1979

performance increments each year.

The contract also includes new ar-
ticles and language pertaining to
longevity, holiday and vacation buy
back time, differential pays, a pro-
rata rate structure plus cash
allowances for personal leave, sick
leave and vacation pay for part time
employees, paid preparation time for
toll collectors, improved uniform and
work clothing allowances, increased
meal allowances, a new simplified
grievance procedure and other con-
tract clause modifications.

In regard to longevity, the
Authority has agreed to continue the
system in effect March 31, 1977, with
the following modifications:

(A) Once years of longevity are
earned, they remain with an
employee during employment with
the Authority. If promoted to a higher
grade, an employee receives a
minimum of a performance advance
at the new grade level, and any
longevity steps at the new level that
were carried at the previous grade. If
an employee has not earned full
longevity steps, the employee still
shall be given credit toward longevity
for every year spent at the job or at
the first longevity step.

(B) If, because of promotions, a
person is not given full opportunity to
receive longevity steps, after twenty
continuous years of permanent ser-
vice with the Authority it will be
assumed that person has earned the
second longevity step and salary shall
be adjusted the next April 1.

(C) If a person is appointed to a
position with the Authority other than
by Open Competitive Examination,
time in grade at another Civil Service
position with New York State, .its
Agencies and Authorities shall count
towards longevity with the Bridge
Authority.

The new agreement, retroactive
from April 1, 1979, was signed May 18,
1979.

Page 5

The rush for ae
legislative action

ALBANY — As the current legislative session draws nearer to a summer adjournment, the
Civil Service Employees Assn. has quickened its pace in pushing for action on a number of bills the
giant labor union considers important. Special emphasis has been directed to the permanent
agency shop proposal, although several other bills are also being pushed hard now by CSEA.

On June 5 CSEA had scheduled a major, statewide lobby day which was to feature a big outdoor
rally on the Capitol steps, and lobbying sessions by union members with their individual legislators.

But last week, it was union activists from CSEA’s Central Region who were in Albany pushing
for legislative action on the bills the union considers to be of major importance. It was the latest in
a series of regional lobby efforts sponsored by CSEA. The June 5 lobby day and rally will climax the
big push for action before the state legislators call it quits for the summer. On these pages are
photos of the Central Region lobby effort.

CSEA CENTRAL RE-
GION PRESIDENT
JAMES MOORE, left, and
Bernard Ryan, right,
CSEA Director of
Legislative and Political
Action, briefed the union
members prior to the q
meetings with legislators. ie ia v ,

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER WARREN M. AERSON shares a lighter moment in his ot-

fice with, from left, Barbara Pickell, Gwen Mang and Alene Beall, all from Broome County

CSEA Local 804.

: ai

RAL L. YOUNG of Oneida County CSEA
Local.

AMONG THE CSEA MEMBERS from the union’s Central Region who came to
Albany last week to lobby with their legislators were, from left, Kermit A.

Pearl and Robert A. Roberts, both of Marcy Psychiatric Center CSEA Local
414; and John J. Blair of Utica Psychiatric Center Local 425.

CSEA’s CHIEF LOBBIEST, Atty. James Featherstonhaugh, right,
helped brief members before beginning lobby effort. At left is Thomas
Haley of CSEA’s Office of Legislative and Political Action.

AFL backs agency shop

State AFL-CIO President Raymond Corbett says that a permanent,
mandatory agency shop fee for all public employees in New York State
would insure that all workers who share the benefits of union represen-
tation also share the cost.

“There is absolutely no sound rationale for exempting non-union
members within a bargaining unit from paying his fair share,” Corbett
said in a statement.

“The public employee unions are required to represent both
members and non-members in negotiating contracts and in grievance
proceedings,” he said. ‘‘The non-members have always enjoyed the in-
creased wages, job protection and fringe benefits negotiated by the
union.’’

“Since the services of the union and the benefits of this service are
shared by all workers, there is no justification for union members alone
= to bear the substantial financial burden of representation,’ Corbett
gre. emphasized, ‘A permanent, mandatory agency shop fee in all public

ASSEMBLYMAN JAMES R. TALLON JR, meets with Gwen Mangini employee units in the state will alleviate this inequality.”
and Barbara Pickell, both of Broome County Local 804.

4 r
OSW#O COUNTY LOCAL 838 members par-
ticip#ig in the lobby effort were Thomas J.
K@jhafandgElizabeth D. Geers.

ao WPeLCNCHI NTE on crema: —

Page 6 ‘THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, June 6, 1979

(TERT RTT ORES EI a

egislative Update

Political action at home needed

In the April 18th, 1979 issue of
The Public Sector, President
McGowan called for an immediate
step up in local government
political activities. This call should
be answered both by our local
government members and also our
State employees.

In many ways government in
New York State is like a funnel
with ideas being fed upward from
the broad expanse of local
government officials throughout
the State to the State legislature
and which narrow the ideas down
and pass them forth as laws.

It wasn’t really the State
legislature that defeated the
passage of the Liverpool
amendment legislation last year. It
was the New York State School
Boards Association which is made
up of all of our elected local school
officials in the State.

Likewise, it isn’t the legislature
which is opposed to making the
agency shop both permanent and
mandatory for local governments,
it is the Conference of Mayors, the
New York State School Boards
Association, the New York State

ASSEMBLYMAN CLARENCE D. RAPPLEYEA, left, discusses the
legislation with Dale Mumbulo of Oxford Veterans Home Local 305.

DISCUSSING THE
ISSUES are Assemblyman
Zimmer, left,
's Moira Greiner
SUNY Oneonta Local
and Central Region
President James Moore.

Association of Counties, the
Association of Towns, etc. The dif-
ficulty is that our elected State of-
ficials are inclined to look to the
elected officials of local
government as genuinely
representing the wishes of all the
constituents who live in that local
government. All too often our State
officials ignore the self-interest in-
volved in local government of-
ficials opposing ‘such legislation as
Taylor Law reform, OSHA and
Agency Shop.

The major voice in this State for
regressive, anti-labor, anti-public
employee, Proposition 13 sen-
timent is local government of-
ficials. If you don’t believe that,
then just ask a public employee
who works in the City of Albany or
read Mayor Koch’s Civil Service
Reform proposal

CSEA must be active in local
government elections both to have
a voice in the election of the people
with whom we bargain and equally
important to demonstrate to the
anti-public employee demigods
that we don’t intend to ignore their
challenge.

Between June and November,

CENTRAL
Committee Chairperson Moira Greiner

this year, virtually all of the im-
portant local government elections
in New York State take place.
What better time to show our
clout?

Let the local legislator who is
busy writing to his State Senator in
opposition to a mandatory agency
shop for local government
employees, know that we can
address letters too, Letters urging
his defeat and his opponent's elec-
tion

The Senate and Assembly won't
be up for re-election until
November, 1980, but working
‘together, we can see to it that the
quality of the correspondence that
they receive from local
government officials next year is
greatly improved.

Legislative Update is a column
dealing with the legislative and
political program of CSEA. It is
written by Atty. James D. Feather-
Stonhaugh, CSEA Lobbyist of the
legal firm of Roemer and Feather-
stonhaugh. The column will appear
regularly during the State Legis-
lature sessions and during non-
‘session periods.

REGION Political Action

of SUNY Oneonta Local 635 discusses
the importance of passage of an agency
shop bill with Assemblyman Anthony J.

Casale.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, June 6, 1979

Page 7

Dental, prescriptions
New welfare fund
to operate shortly

ALBANY — In the very near future, a new and comprehensive benefit from
CSEA representation will be available to New York State public employees
when the CSEA Employee Benefit Fund goes into effect providing improved
dental insurance and new prescription drug insurance in the CSEA’s Ad-
ministrative, Institutional and Operational bargaining units

The Fund, a creation of CSEA’s successful negotiations this year with the
Governor's Office of Employee Relations, will for the first time provide direct
benefits to bargaining unit employees from their collective bargaining
representative. It will be a first for state employees.

CSEA President William L. McGowan is Chairman of the Board of
Trustees that will monitor and regulate the Benefit Fund. Other Trustees are:
CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene Carr, elected Secretary of the Fund; CSEA
Region 5 President James Moore, elected Treasurer of the Fund; and CSEA
Members Elaine Mootry and Louis Mannellino, members of the negotiating
team that created the fund for the Administrative, Institutional and
Operational bargaining units.

The President of CSEA is an automatic trustee of the fund under the fund's
rules, adopted by CSEA’s Board of Directors. The president appoints two of the
other four trustees, in this case Mr. McGowan appointed Mr. Mannellino and
Ms. Mootry — and the union’s Board of Directors elects two trustees — in this
case Mr. Moore and Ms. Carr.

The Trustees have appointed Thomas P. Collins, Comptroller of the union,
as Director of the Fund. Mr. Collins has resigned his position at union head-
quarters to devote his energies to the Fund.

First order of business for the new Director and Trustees was deciding
what types of benefits will be provided to participating employees by the Fund.
Since the negotiated agreement with the State for the three bargaining units
transferred funds used by the State to provide employee dental insurance for
unit employees to the Fund, the Trustees decided that continuation and im-
provement of Dental Insurance was a priority benefit. Additionally, the
Trustees decided to provide the first Prescription Drug Insurance program for
the three bargaining units.

Details of the Fund’s benefits will be released as soon as the Trustees
award contracts for the coverage to the insurance carriers that bid on the
program. Bids were opened on May 22 by President McGowan, Director
Collins and CSEA Executive Vice President Thomas McDonough. The bids
were referred to the Fund’s consulting firm for review, and recommenda-
tions and will be awarded early in June.

Under the new CSEA-State contracts covering the three state bargaining
units, the State will pay $50 per quarter, per employee, to the CSEA Benefit
Fund to provide benefits to bargaining unit employees. There is no cost to the
employees. The Trustees of the Fund determine the types and levels of benefits
to be provided with the available resources.

In the future, other CSEA represented bargaining units can buy in on the
Fund’s benefits by negotiating with employers to provide the necessary cost of
participation.

While a Benefit Fund is new to most CSEA members, similar funds have
been serving union members across the country for decades with great
success. The Trustees of the CSEA Benefit Fund are convinced that this Fund
will also mean another major improvement in the services provided to public
employees in New York by the CSEA.

With the July 1979 implementation date for the Benefit Fund rapidly
approaching, work is continuing to finalize arrangements for the start of this
new era in CSEA service to public employees. Information about the Fund will
be sent to participating employees in the near future

Stack acting comptroller

ALBANY — David M. Stack has
been appointed Acting Comptroller
of the Civil Service Employees
Assn. by William L. McGowan,
President of the state’s largest
public employee union.

Mr. Stack’s appointment was
made May 14, following the
resignation of Thomas P. Collins,
now Director of the CSEA
Employee Benefit Fund. Mr. Stack
had been serving as assistant to
Mr. Collins.

A certified public accoutant, Mr.
Stack has been with CSEA since
1974.

The Comptroller of the union is
responsible for maintaining vital
financial and membership infor-
mation and coordination of subor-
dinate administrative functions un-
der the direction of CSEA Ex-

David M. Stack ecutite Director Joseph J. Dolan,

THE PUBLIC. SECTOR, Wednesday, June .6).1979°_

CSEA PRESIDENT BILL McGOWAN — “. . . it’s absurd that this should
have taken so long . . . I will most strenuously urge Judge Evans to ex-
pedite the payment of salary increases and retroactive payments. . .”’

CSEA backing immediate

_court reclassification plan

ALBANY — CSEA President William L. McGowan has directed union
officials to move for the immediate implementation of the long-awaited
reclassification plan in the state’s Office of Court Administration and to
use the union’s legislative resources to assure prompt payment of
retroactive salary increases to some 10,000 state court employees.

President McGowan issued the directives following the signing of the
classification plan by Herbert Evans, Chief Administrative Judge of the
Office of Court Administration. Implementation of the plan means salary
increases for most of the court employees affected by the Unified Court

_ Program adopted by the state legislature in 1977.

Under the Court Reform Program, court employees formerly

_ employed by the counties and cities became state employees when all of

the local courts were merged into the state’s new Unified Court System.
The classification study was begun to determine where on the state’s
salary schedule these newly merged employees should be placed. Due to
the major changes in the court system as the result of the Court Reform
Program, all employees of the Court of Appeals, the Appellate Division,
the Court of Claims, etc., who had been state employees prior to the
reform implementation, were also reclassified.

Classification determines which salary grade an employee should be

| placed on. In collective bargaining agreements salary grades are

ans

negotiated. While CSEA and the Office of Court Administration presently
have a contract providing salary increases for these employees retroac-
tive to April of 1977, the employees never received the salary increases
they deserved because they were not classified on the appropriate salary
grade. The Court Reform legislation gave the Office of Court Ad-
ministration exclusive authority for classification of the newly merged
employees.

With the signing of the classification plan, employees affected by the
Court Reform Program will now be assigned to a salary grade and, in ad-
dition to receiving salary increases up to their new grades, they will
receive a lump sum payment for the salary increases they have not received
since April of 1977 as a result of the classification delay.

The classification plan provides an appeals mechanism if an employee
feels he or she has been.improperly classified, but since CSEA has not
had an opportunity to study the full classification program it declined to
comment on its reaction to-the full package.

“We are of course happy that this mess has finally been cleared up
and we are at long last on our way to getting these people the money they
have been owed for the last two years,” President McGowan said, “‘but
it’s absurd that this should have taken so long. The Office of Court Ad-
ministration has pushed our people beyond the point of reason and there
are a great deal of hard feelings over these delays. I will most strenuous-
ly urge Judge Evans to expedite the payment of salary increases and
retroactive payments as a gesture of good will on the part of the state and
a means to restore employee morale.”

The union president said he would offer the support of the state's
largest public employee union to help the Office of Court Administration
to expedite passage of an appropriation bill in the legislature needed to
fund the retroactive lump sum payments. The salary increases are ex-
pected to be implemented in the near future.

Mr. McGowan said union staff members and attorneys will examine
the classification document during the next several days and undertake
an information campaign to advise the union's membership of its
reaction to the plan.

CSEA is the state’s largest employee union and represents approx-
imately 5,500 of the court employees affected by the classification plan

a ae aA amis

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eat : ,
BOARD MEETS — CSEA Region V President James Vice President Pat Crandall, Treasurer Anna Mae Darby, President Moore,
Neste: ahaesicer: Tr aRttae of the regional executive board recently in Third vice President Ralph Young, Regional Field Director Frank Martello, and

Syracuse. From left are Corresponding Secretary Jackie Chambrone, Executive Recording Secretary Helen Hanlon.

: CSEA program bills

All bills on this status report are supported by CSEA

CSEA Program Bill Number _Bill Number, ‘Suis CSEA Program Bill Number, Bill Number, Steen
Summary of Provisions Sponsors Summary of Provisions Sponsors
P-79-1, Agency Shop—Agency shop would _A-6748 Barbaro Vote expected P.79-16, Office of Court Administration— _A-6194 Connor Governmental
become permanent and mandatory. Unified Court System employees would Employees Comm.
bes caer ; be transferred to the State payroll as of S-4142 Rolison Civil Service Comm.
ules Civil Service Comm. “Apel 10rd. saud would Tacelve per
P.79.2, OSHA—Minimum health and 4.6619 Weprin, DelToro, Ways & Means fomeettiedia| i their jane ae
safety standards for public employees Marchiselli, et aj Comm. th tapes : pe pedi er tetiee cline
would be established S-Pending ee oie i = pl b fe
; 79-17, E Ad
P-79-3, Two-for-One—The fine for strik- A-4169Connor,Greco, Governmental misltian Gatieee ee cael Banioyent Gon
reed are Ue Ald Barbaro Employees Comm, employees should be indemnified from $-2766Schermerhorn Judiciary
{oF can Gay aisuck. to onaiday’s pay fot. S-440y. elles Civil Service Comm. suit by the employer for acts which arise
spells A Le, in the course of performing their duties.
P-79-4, Injunctive Notice—Unions and A-4167Barbaro,Greco, _Vote expected P-79-18, Sheriff's Reopener— A-Pending
employees would be required to receive Johnson, et al pporoxicnalsly ae eunloyess o the S-Pending
notice an have an opportunity to be $-4452 Rules Civil Service Comm. ae eran es henae: the
heard before a temporary restraining bak by
order could be issued against a strike. Bririguen aeuenliao eke
P-29-5, Presumption of Arbitrability— A-4168 Connor, Johnson, —_Vote expected racltenedt’)
The presumption of arbitrability sree Marchiselli, et al naive P-79-19, State University Unclassified A-3836 M. Miller Governmental
tract grievances; would be restored, S-4451 Rules Civil Service Comm. Service~The power to remove State Employees Comm.
P-79-6, Limited Right to Strike—Strike A-6423 Barbaro Governmental University employees from classified S-3754 Cook Civil Service Comm.
would be redefined to mean a work stop- Employees Comm. seve soa me pe uned ie Ag ihe
page that threatens irreparable snl S-7588 Fahey pps alice rom the State
fare. .
Cie LC ee i censey ans Weare j P-79-20, University of Buffalo Buy- A-7559 Rules Ways & Means Comm
P-79-7, 1979 Contract—The provisions of A-Pending Back—State employees working at the
the CSEA-State contract would be im- S-Pending University of Buffalo before it was ac-
plemented. quired by the State would be allowed to $-4928 Volker Civil Service Comm.
P-19-8, Triborough—A public employer A-4165 Greco, et al Vote expected Purchase retirement credits for the time
would be required to continue an expired they were employed by the University.
contract until a new agreement is $-4454 Rules Civil Service Comm. P-79-21 (a), Veterans Buy-Back—World A-Pending
reached. War Il veterans would be allowed to S-Pending
P-79-9, Redefine Daily Rate of Pay— A-4171 Connor, Finneran, Governmental purchase up to three years of credit
Strikers assessed a two-for-one penalty Nine Employees Comm. toward retirement.
would be fined based on net take-home 's-4456 Rules Civil Service Comm. P-79-21 (b), Veterans Buy-Back—Korean A-Pending
pay, not on gross pay. War veterans would be allowed to S-Pending
P-79-10, Alternative Disciplinary A-4186DelToro,Greco, Governmental purchase up to three years credit toward
Procedures—Unions, including sub- Finneran, Barbaro, Employees Comm retirement.
ivision employers, would be allowed to etal P-79-22, Sanitarians—Sanitarians work- A-Pending
negotiate disciplinary procedures. $-4453 Rules Civil Service Comm. ing for public and private employers _S-Pending
would be certified by the Department of
P-79-11, Retirees Death Benefit—State A-4416 Greco Ways & Means Comm. | Education
employees who retired before Sept. 30, P-79-23, Suffolk County Reti t—The A-4204 Hochbrueck Ways & Means Comm.
1966, would be eligible for a $2,000 death S-3221 Flynn Civil Service Comm Sich Curent nes Ee ” hee
henefit. vestigators to elect 20-year retirement S-3079 Johnson, Lack, Passed
P-79-12, Permanent Cost of Living— A-6618 Rules Governmental would be implemented. Trunzo
Starting in 1980, retirees would receive Employees Comm, P-79-24, Pension Advisory Board—Power A-Pending
an increase in the retirement allowance ¢ 4158 Rules Civil Service Comm to invest pension funds would be vested S-Pending
based on increases in the cost of living in a board of trustees with meaningful
for the previous year. public employee representation.
P-79-13, Extension of Supplementation— _A-4509 Barbaro Governmental P-19-25, Correction Officers—Correction _A-Pending
Pension supplementation would in- Employees Comm, officers employed by Westchester S-Pending
clude those who retired before April 1, $-3361 Flynn Vote expected County would be eligible to elect par-
1969, would be extended to those who ticipation in a 20-year retirement plan.
retired before Jan. 1, 1972, and would in- P-79-26, Showing of Interest—The A-Pending
crease supplements to reflect increases procedure for verifying a showing of in- S-Pending
in the cost of living terest in a representation determination
p. : 7 : would be chang
P-70-14, Education Law Parity—The A-4877 Orazio Ways & Means Comm. | p.79.27, Court Employees Contract—The _A-1773 McCabe, et al Passed
financial advantage school districts §-3441 Donovan, et al Vote expected collective bargaining agreement for -1304 Barclay, et al Passed
receive when contracting out for student employees of the Unified Court System (Ch. 4, Laws of
transportation would be eliminated. be implemented 1979)
P-79-15, Division of Youth Transfer— ; ;

: P ace : P.79-28, Employer Improper Practice A-4170 Greco, Barbaro, _ Governmental
Division of Youth employees transferred A-2519 Budget Ways & Means Comm. | 7 crnbioyee organization would not be Rete ara Bruplovana Comm,
to a non-profit corporation would not lose 8-1719 Budget Finance Comm. ldeteriiiieg 16 be quilts Of violating thes’ hace rave Civil Servite Comm:
benelits of State service no-strike provision when the strike was

: a caused, in whole or in part, by an im-
Amenity iinet proper employer practice

Week of May 28, 1979

ae . BP a aot SR aha Sasa
THE PUBLIC. SEGTOR;. Wednesday} .June 6, 1979 Page 9*

STAN AND FRIENDS — Stan Jarosz, center, is flanked by. CSEA Field
Representative Tom Christy and Pat Pfleger, Vice President of CSEA Local
003. Stan is treasurer of Local 003.

Stan Jarosz retiring

BUFFALO — When you mention the name of Stan Jarosz to his friends and
coworkers, a few things always seem to pop up in the conversation — his love
for his family, his devotion to public service and his passion for dill pickles —
not necessarily in that order.

Stan is retiring this month after 43 years of public service and when his
associates held a luncheon recently at the Statler Hilton Hotel to honor him, it
was no surprise to anyone that more than 150 people showed up.

“He is one of the nicest people I’ve ever known,’’ said Peter Blaabouer,
President of Buffalo City CSEA Local 003. I know that it’s an old saying, but it
really fits. He was a joy to work with and a perfect gentleman. He always went
out of his way to make people feel comfortable.”

A CSEA member since 1966, Stan served as vice-president of Local 003 for
four years and as treasurer for the past six years.

He began his career in 1936 as an accountant with the Water Bureau in
Niagara Falls and worked actively for many years with the New York State
Civil Service Forum there.

In 1951, Stan was named Administrator of the Sales Tax Division, a post he
held for fifteen years, before transferring to the state Department of Taxation
and Finance in the Buffalo District Office, where he has worked since then in
the Sales Tax Audit program.

An accident at birth left Stan blind in one eye, but what some people might
call a handicap has never slowed him down. In addition to his work with the
CSEA, Stan has been active in community and church affairs.

Married for 39 years with four children, Stan is anxiously awaiting the
arrival of his sixth grandchild. He says he plans to ‘‘just take it easy for a
while’ now that he’s retired, but if you ask his friends, they're not quite sure

that’s possible.

CETA meeting June 11

ALBANY — The Civil Service
Employees Association is planning an
all-day conference on- proposed
changes in Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act
(CETA) regulations, June 11 at the
Quality Inn in Albany.

Invited are representatives from all
public-employee unions in New York
State; the 30 ‘prime sponsors’’
(employers in counties and localities
with more than 100,000 population) of
CETA employees; and the state
Labor Department.

New York State currently has about
43,000 people working under CETA
auspices, Paul Burch estimates. They
include state employees as well as
employees of nearly every local
jurisdiction.

A recent memo to the “‘prime spon-
sors’’ from the, U.S. Labor
Department directed the employers
involved to try to achieve the man-
dated $7,200 average annual wage for
CETA employees by creating new,
sub-entry-level jobs. The problem the
Department directive was trying to
address was that employers were
finding it impossible to reach the
Congressionally-established $7,200
average salary for CETA employees,
in areas where the cost of living —
and consequently, salaries — are
relatively high,

The Northeast was a particular
problem area, Mr. Burch said. ‘'The

D. 10

state of New York, for example, has
an entry-level salary for Grade 3
employees of $7,200’ he noted. ‘‘In
order to hire a CETA employee at a
salary higher than that, the State
would have to employ another
employee at a correspondingly lower
salary in order to meet the average
annual wage. The federal proposal
creates a whole new class of sub-
entry level jobs, which are in reality
sub-standard jobs, held by a group of
essentially disenfranchised workers.”

Mr. Burch, a collective bargaining
specialist, explained that “it was
never contemplated or intended in
any collective bargaining agreement
that the union represent any workers
who are at salaries below the
minimum that was negotiated.
Creating a whole new class of
workers at sub-entry-level jobs will
leave those workers, without
representation.’”

But more fundamental he says, is
the fact that the new regulations will
undermine the original purpose of
CETA.

“The purpose was to help the disad-
vantaged, the elderly, and the
chronically unemployed find dignity
through meaningful jobs. If these
regulations are allowed to stand, it
will be like telling these people,
‘You're not worthy of standard civil
service jobs, so we have to create sub-
standard jobs for you.’ That, it seems
to me, is contrary to the whole idea."

THE PLIRIIC SECTOR Wadnecdav lune A 1070

OPEN CONTINUOUS
STATE JOB CALENDAR

Title
Pharmacist (salary varies with location)
Assistant Sanitary Engineer
Senior Sanitary Engineer
Clinical Physician I ...
Clinical Physician II
Assistant Clinical Physician
Attorney
Assistant Attorney.
Attorney Trainee
Junior Engineer. .

(Bachelor’s
Junior Engineer

(Master's Degree)
Dental Hygienist
Licensed Practical Nurse
Nutrition Services Consultant.
Stationary Engineer ...
Senior Stationary Enginee:
Occupational Therapy Assistant I .
Occupational Therapy Assistant I .

(Spanish Speaking)
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Trainee
Medical Record Technician 5
Histology Technician ....
Professional Positions in Auditing and Accountin
Computer Programmer...... +e
Computer Programmer (Scientific).
Senior Programmer
Senior Computer programmer. (Scientific)
Mobility Instructor
Instructor of the Blind .
Health Services Nurse...

(salary varies with location)
Senior Heating and Ventilating Engineer ..
Senior Sanitary Engineer (Design)
Senior Building Electrical Engineer
Senior Building Structural Engineer
Senior Mechanical Construction Engineer ...
Senior Plumbing Engineer ..
Assistant Stationary Engineer .
Electroencephalograph Technician .
‘Radiologic Technologist
(salary varies with location)

Medical Record Administrator
Food Service Worker I
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee .
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee

(Spanish Speaking)
Associate Actuary (Casualty)
Principal Actuary (Casualty)
Supervising Actuary (Casualty
Assistant Actuary .

Nurse II (Psychiatric) .

Nurse II (Rehabilitation)

Medical Specialist II

Medical Specialist I

Psychiatrist I...

Psychiatrist II...

Social Services Management Traine

Social Services Management Specialist .

Social Services Management Trainee...
(Spanish Speaking)

Social Services Management Specialist .
(Spanish Speaking)

Industrial Training Supervisor

(salary varies depending on specialty)

Physical Therapist .......

Physical Therapist (Spa ish Speaking).

Senior Physical Therapist ......

Senior Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking).

Speech Pathologist .....

Audiologist .......

Assistant Speech Pathologist .

Assistant Audiologist

Dietician Trainee

Dietician ...

Supervising Dietician

Stenographer

Typist . ie

Senior Occupational Therapist .

Senior Occupational Therapist ..
(Spanish Speaking)

Occupational Therapist .....

Occupational Therapist (Spanish Speaking) .

Salary Exam No.

. $14,388-$15,562
. $16,040:

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

$13,876

+ $8,950
+ $8,051
$13,404
«$10,042
$11,250
«$9,029
«$9,029

- $14,142
. $11,983
$9,481

-. $8,051
. $11,250
- $11,250
- $11,250
. $14,075
. $14,075,
- $11,904
. $11,250
“$11,250-$12,025,

- $18,301

++ $11,904
» $6,456
+» $7,204
+» $7,204

. $18,369
$22,364
- $26,516
$10,714
. $10,624
. $11,904
- $11,904

$11,904
» $33,705
$27,942
$27,942
$33,705
. $10,824
. $11,450

$10,824

. $11,450
$10,624-$12,583

$11,337
$11,387
$12,670
$12,670
$12,670
$12,670
$11,337
» $11,387
$10,624
$11,250
.. $13,304
. $6,650
$6,071
$12,670
. $12,670

+ $11,337
. $11,337

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

20-109

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

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

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

20-334

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

20-416
20-417
20-418
20-556
20-584
20-585
20-586
20-587
20-840
20-841
20-842
20-843
20-875
20-875
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20-880
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20-885
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20-891
20-894
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20-895

You may contact the following offices of the New York State Department of Civil Service for an-
nouncements, applications, and other details concerning examinotions for the positions listed above

State Office
2 World Tr

iter, 55th Floor, Ne

ilding Campus, First Floor, balding J, Albany, New York 12239 (518) 457-6216.

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

Court upholds

As an attempt to provide a broad range of services to its membership, The Civil Service
Employees Association will run a bi-weekly column to be known as the ‘Insurance Ad-

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insurance
advisor

Nearly 18,000 state employees who are members of the
Professional, Scientific and Technical bargaining unit are insured
through the various CSEA-sponsored Membership Insurance Programs.
Because of the confusion over their representation status and the con-
fusion over the PEF-sponsored insurance plans, many of these PS&T
employees have been calling and writing CSEA hoping to continue their
existing coverage. Let me attempt to clarify. i

Through a recent change in the CSEA Constitution, a new
classification of CSEA membership has been established. This
membership, known as Associate Membership, allows persons employed
in the Civil Service of the State of New York, who are not represented by
CSEA for the purpose of collective bargaining, to continue membership in
CSEA. Associate Members shall be eligible for participation in the in-
surance programs sponsored by CSEA. However, since CSEA does not
have payroll deduction for these people, Associate Membership dues and
insurance premiums must be paid on a direct payment basis.

The last deduction for CSEA-sponsored Membership Insurance
Programs was taken on May 16, 1979, for the Institutional Payroll and on
May 23, 1979, for the Administrative Payroll. An instructional letter and a
premium notice will be received during the week of May 28 by all PS&T
insureds advising them of the eligibility to continue in the insurance plans
and instructing them how to go about making premium payments. Please
be assured that your insurance coverage will continue uninterrupted until
you have had adequate time to pay on a direct-mail basis. Future
premium notices will be sent on a quarterly basis, commencing August 1,

pledge to answer these questions as quickly as possible

PS&T can keep insurance

Local 860

WHITE PLAINS — With two court
victories in its favor already, the Civil
Service Employees Assn. said it an-
ticipates yet another in the near
future to prevent the planned July 1
merger of the Westchester County
Sheriff's Department with the coun-
ty’s Parkway Police.

According to CSEA Regional Atty.
James Rose, the County will appeal a
May 11 State Supreme Court,
Appellate Division ruling in Brooklyn,
by a 3-2 vote, that the planned merger
is both unconstitutional and a
vioiation of Civil Service Law. The
Appellate Division upheld an earlier
decision by Justice George Beisheim
Jr. in February, who decided in favor
of a suit brought by the Westchester
County Unit of CSEA Local 860.

It is anticipated that the State Court
of Appeals will be asked to hear the
county’s appeal prior to July 1.

CSEA filed suit to block the planned
merger because of union concerns
over the status of the deputy sheriffs
in the merged department, their
future promotional opportunities, and
their pension rights.

CSEA represents the deputy
sheriffs, as well as the lieutenants,

Michael Carroll

1979.

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PARKING FOR CITY EMPLOYEES
in Schenectady has been a sore point
for a long time. But now an arbitrator
has ruled that the city must provide
designated free parking spaces near
City Hall for employees, recently
ordering that action after the city fail-
ed to act on his earlier ruling that the
city must negotiate the parking
question with CSEA, which

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represents the workers. Discussing
the important victory in the above
photo are, from left, Anthony Conte,
First Vice President of the CSEA
Unit; Unit President Edward P.
Kearney, and CSEA Capital Region
Director John D. Corcoran Jr. They
stand at the entrance to the Jay Street
parking facility near City Hall, where
the city must provide 60 spaces.

captains and civilian employees of the
Parkway Police.

Flag Day holiday dispute

By Bill Butler

MINEOLA — Flag Day, June 17,
will apparently come and go while a
CSEA victory winning that and one
other holiday for Nassau County
employees remains tied up in court on
an appeal by the county.

However, Nick Abbatiello,
president of Nassau County CSEA
Local 830, said the union remained
hopeful of winning the appeal and that
employees would be granted credit
retroactively if the appeals court up-
holds the earlier ruling.

Local 830 had won Flag Day and
Martin Luther King Day, the third
Sunday in January, in a decision
March 1 by Supreme Court Justice
Alexander Berman.

Berman ruled that Nassau County’s
14,000 employees are entitled to the
holidays under terms of the Nassau
CSEA contract.

The ruling was limited to the

Nassau contract and does not affect
employees of the state and other
jurisdictions. The ruling put Nassau
ahead of most jurisdictions on
holidays for the moment, with 11 stan-
dard statewide holidays plus King
Day and Flag Day.

State employees receive 11 paid
holidays: New Year’s Day, Lincoln’s
Birthday, Washington’s Birthday,
Memorial Day, Independence Day,
Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans
Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas plus
their option of either Election Day or
Martin Luther King Day.

Abbatiello said that CSEA was
seeking early action in the Appellate
Division on the county’s appeal of
Justice Berman’s ruling. “If we do
not have a decision before June 17, we
will ask for assurances that
employees will be given the proper
time or overtime benefits retroac-
tively,”’ Abbatiello declared.

JUNI
6— Westchester County Local 860 Executive Committee meeting, 8 p.m., 196 Maple

Ave., White Plains.

7 — SUNY Buffalo Local 602, quarterly meeting, Mindy’s Wine Cellar, Century Mall,
Northtown Plaza, Cocktails, 5 p.m., dinner, 6:15 p.m.

8 — Capital District CSEA Armories meeting, dinner, election. Guilderland Range.

9 — SUC Brockport Local 601 24th Annual Awards Banquet, Elks Club, Brockport,
Prime Rib sit down dinner. Entertainment by Robert Maxwell Case.

11 —CETA Conference, Quality Inn, Albany

12 — Westchester County Unit membership meeting, 6 p.m., 196 Maple Avenue, White

Plains.
13-15

County Workshop, Kutcher's Country Club, Monticello.

15-17 — Region V Spring Workshop, Holiday Inn, Watertown.
21 — Statewide Board of Directors, Thruway House, Albany.

23 — Saratoga County Local 846 installation dinner, 6:30 p.m., Elks Club, Saratoga

Springs

22-23 — Western Region No. 6 Conference, hosted by Chautauqua County Local 805,

Holiday Inn, Jamestown.

JULY

20-22—Region. |V Summer Workshop, Sagamore Hotel, Lake George.

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School district negotiations continue in summer

Although the traditional school year is winding down in an-
ticipation of summer vacation. the labor-management scene is still ex-
tremely active all across the state. The articles on this page illustrate
some of that activity.

‘And, as CSEA Coordinator of School Affairs Arne Wipfler noted in
her ‘Report Card’’ column last week, more than 650 non-city school
districts across the state have voting on proposed school budgets

Contract
problems
continue

AMSTERDAM — The Montgomery
County Local of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. and the Capital
Region of the CSEA have undertaken
a massive media campaign to make
the public aware of the problems they
are having settling a contract for non-
instructional employees of the
Greater Amsterdam School District.

The union will buy radio spots and
place ads in local newspapers to
emphasis that negotiations have
been dragging on for months with no
prospect for an equitable settlement
in the near future. The campaign will
point out that teacher aides have gain-
ed a total salary increase of 65 cents
over the past six years and are still
below the federal minimum wage,
while school administrators have
been awarded increases which range
from $5,750 to $6,050 during the same
period, and that after granting a ten
cents per hour increase to the aides
last year, the administration cut back
their hours so that no salary increase
was realized.

CSEA is also requesting that the
school board sit in on negotiations ‘‘to
make sure that the professional
negotiator hired by the school board is
doing what the Board wants. We feel
that there may be a breakdown in
communications and that all parties
should be present and know what is
being discussed,’ said a CSEA
spokesman.

One aim of the campaign is to make
the public aware that they, too, are
being affected by the delay in settling
the contract. Harmon Swits, the
Collective Bargaining. Specialist
handling negotiations for CSEA, said,
“When the Taylor law is used as a
weapon against public employees the
public must be informed of more than
just the controversial issues. They
must realize that prolonged
negotiations are having an adverse
effect on the whole community, not
just the special group of public
employees. In a school district this
situation can have an adverse effect
on the children attending the
schools."”

meeting of the school board.

CSEA opposes Westchester school layoffs

WHITE PLAINS — CSEA-represented non-teaching employees of the White Plains School District have
promised more public demonstrations to protest the planned termination of 60 or more employees at the end of
this school year due to the closing of three schools and the consolidation of staff.

A related public hearing on the proposed new budget is coming up early in June and the union, after having
analyzed the proposed budget carefully, will have speakers on the public hearing schedule.

The above photos were taken during a May 14 demonstration outside the Mamaroneck Avenue School during a

scheduled in May and June. CSEA represents thousands of non-
teaching employees in those districts, and will be monitoring the
budget ballotings.

Pupils and most teachers may be looking forward to a long
summer vacation, but for many non-teaching employees, their union,
and the district administration, there is no such thing.

Ay:

Impasse in
N. Rockland

FISHKILL — CSEA North
Rockland School District President
Charles L. Jones has declared im-
passe in the negotiations between the
union and the district for a new con-
tract.

The impasse was reached after two
bargaining sessions, when the ad-
ministration unilaterally abolished
six positions in the district.

The union also filed Improper Prac-
tice charges against management,
alleging that the abolition of the
positions constitute a unilateral
change in the terms and conditions of
employment for the workers affected
Such a change amounts to bargaining
in bad faith, since the union and the
district were in the process of
negotiating over the abolitions when
the axe fell.

“Both this bargaining in bad faith
and the unilateral change are in
violation of the Taylor Law,’ noted
CSEA field representative Larry
Scanlon. ‘How can they say they
were negotiating in good faith when
we were right in the middle of talking
about it when they unilaterally decid-
ed to abolish the six jobs?”

PERB orders representation election

HUDSON — The Public Employment Relations Board has recently
approved the Civil Service Employees Assn. bid to hold a represen-
tation election among teacher aides and monitors in the Hudson City
School District. Those employees currently do not have a union.

Ballots were mailed the end of May and will be counted in mid-
June. A special meeting will be held after the ballots are mailed to dis-
cuss the election and answer any questions.

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