The Public Sector, 1984 March 23

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Death of Frances DuBose Batiste
affects Region Il election plans

NEW YORK CITY — Following the untimely
death of Region President Frances DuBose
Batiste, the Metropolitan Region Il Nominating
Committee has reconvened and selected addi-
tional nominees from those eligible members
who had submitted nomination forms for the of-
fice of region president.

It is still possible to seek regional office through
the nominating petition process. To qualify in
Region II, 348 signatures of members eligible to
vote in the election must be received at CSEA
headquarters by April 16.

It should be noted that under Article XII, Sec-

tion 3 of the CSEA Regional Constitution, no
person may be a candidate for more than one
regional office.

Therefore, any person nominated by the com-
mittee for one office who now wishes to seek
another must first decline in writing the office for
which they have been nominated. The deadline for
declining nomination is April 5, and without such
written declination, the individual’s nominating
petitions for another office will not. be considered.

The constitutional prohibition against dual can-
didacy also means that CSEA will only consider

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Official Publication of The Civil Service Employees Association Local: 1000,

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

ALBANY — The state Division of Budget’s
explanation of the understaffing it has caused in
OMH, OMRDD and SUNY is_ bureaucratic
gibberish, says CSEA President William L.
McGowan. :

In the deficiency budget the state Legislature
directed the governor to increase the staff levels
in those three agencies, or explain why not. On
March 16, Budget Director Michael Finnerty

_released a report explaining why the will of the
Legislature to maintain direct care staff in the
mental hygiene agencies and adequate staff at
SUNY has been thwarted.

AFL-CIO.

Basically, the budget director says early
retirements and the need for increased spending
on prisons and state police caused the shortfall.
But he adds the agencies have taken steps to
minimize the impact on services.

“The budget director’s report is so far
removed from reality that it reads like ‘Alice in
Wonderland,’ ” said CSEA President McGowan.
“Patients and workers alike are suffering in our
institutions and SUNY programs are declining
because of the Division of Budget’s actions.”’

CSEA is asking the courts to force the

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“BUREAUCRATIC GIBBERISH’
FROM DIVISION OF BUDGET

REGION ll
PRESIDENT
FRANCES
DUBOSE
BATISTE
DIES

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governor and Division of Budget to fill the jobs
that the Legislature authorized.

The budget director’s report concludes,
“... the Executive fulfilled his responsibility to
the purchasers of State notes. ..””

“The Executive also has a responsibility to the
mentally ill and handicapped who rely on the
state for care, to the students who depend on the
state university for an education and to the
workers in these agencies. In meeting his
responsibility to the banks and investment firms
that buy state notes the workers, patients and
students must not be forgotten,” McGowan said.

(Appeals readie
to invalidation
of contract in

| Suffolk County

MINEOLA — Both CSEA and Suffolk County are preparing appeals to a recent state Supreme \
Court ruling which would invalidate the current contract covering 7,500 Suffolk County workers
represented by CSEA.

Boney all provisions of the contract currently remain in effect while parties prepare their
appeals.

The judge ordered the contract invalidated after a Suffolk County taxpayer filed suit asking that
the contract be declared void because the county negotiator’s own salary increase was tied to the
amount of the increase granted in the contract. The suit charged a conflict of interest on the part of
the county negotiator.

CSEA Long Island President Danny Donohue at that time called the court ruling ‘‘an outrage.”
Donohue said ‘‘the union bargained in good faith and had no control over the way in which
management raises were determined.”

CSEA Attorney Michael Smith stressed he, too, sees no reason to invalidate the contract. “It’s
like throwing the baby out with the bathwater,”’ he said.

Donohue, meanwhile, says ‘our members must not suffer for the county’s shortcomings in
handling the negotiations. It wasn’t CSEA’s idea to tie exempt employees’ salaries to the pact, and 1
am convinced our 7,500 members in Suffolk County will see their contract upheld.”

5% state raise coming

State employees in the Administrative,
Institutional and Operational bargaining units
will soon be receiving a5 percent raise.

The increase negotiated by CSEA in the
current state contracts will show up in
paychecks of Thursday, April 26 for those on the
institutional payroll and on Wednesday, May 2
for those on the administrative payroll.

The raises go into effect for the payroll peri
nearest April 1, but because the state lag:
defers, payrolls, will be in the later paychecks.

Members of the three bargaining units are
scheduled to receive another 5 percent pay
increase in September.

NYC officials seek joint pay equity study

NEW YORK CITY — Taking the lead from
CSEA, New York City officials are calling on
Mayor Ed Koch to fund a joint city-union com-
parable worth study of the municipal workforce.

“The city must begin now to study comparable
worth so that in the future it can be implemented
responsibly,”” declared City Council President
Carol Bellamy at a recent hearing called to exa-
mine approaches to studying and implementing
pay equity.

“T believe the best way for the city to achieve
this goal, and to demonstrate its commitment to
pay equity for the municipal workforce, is to fol-
low the example set by New York state,” she said,
referring to funds negotiated by CSEA and the
Governor’s Office of Employee Relations for a job
evaluation study of state workers.

Currently underway, the $500,000 study will ex-
amine the effects of sex and race discrimination
on wage-setting, testified Ronnie J. Steinberg,
director of the Center for Women in Government’s
comparable worth program. It will also propose
corrective measures for closing any wage gap that
may be discovered in the state’s employee clas-
sification system, which was established in 1937
and last revised in the 1950’s, she said.

Steinberg stressed that the study will be the first
to provide information on the systematic under-
valuation of titles held primarily by minorities.

Countering comparable worth opponents who
argue that job evaluation studies are invalid be-
cause they do not take into account labor’s “free
market value,” Attorney Winn Newman said that
studies are ‘‘a well-established practice used by
employers for 100 years.”

Newman, who successfully represented AF-
SCME in a Title VII lawsuit against the state of
Washington, testified that the court rendered the
landmark decision based partly on information
provided by job evaluation studies.

Beacon pact ratified

BEACON — The overwhelming ratification of
a two-year contract in the city of Beacon
provides 10.5 percent in pay hikes plus bonuses
to CSEA employees here.

Field Representative Diane Campion
explained that employees will receive a 3
percent bonus plus 5 percent across the board
this year, retroactive to Jan. 1, and a 3 percent
bonus next year plus 5.5 percent across the
board.

In addition, employees will receive increased
out-of-title pay, proration of parttimer benefits,
a mileage increase, longevity increase,
increments for clerical personnel and improved
posting and bidding procedures.

“We are very happy with the provisions of the
agreement reached after many, many hours of
intensive negotiation and give and take on both
sides,” said Campion. “I would attribute our
ability to reach this agreement to the superb
efforts of the union negotiating committee and
the slightly improved financial condition of the
city and the professionalism of the city’s
negotiator.”

The CSEA negotiating team consisted of Sands
Frost, unit president, Linda Greenough, Kim
McCollum, David Eraca, David Tomlins, Sam
Slinsky and Stanley Zmudzinski.

CSEA LOCAL 447 MEMBER Ann Worthy, who serves as Region II secretary, is interviewed by
radio station WYNY reporter following her testimony at a pay equity hearing in New York City.

“All large employers use some form of job
evaluation in the course of their normal wage-
setting process,”’ Newman contended. ‘Many em-
ployers, however, have not implemented their own
evaluations’ relative worth by establishing a wage
structure based on the internal relationship of the

jobs.

“Instead, they have skewed their own wage sys-
tems by paying lower rates to ‘women’s jobs, and
occasionally ‘black’ jobs, on the grounds that they

are mirroring the market, which is simply the dis-
crimination practiced by everyone else.”

CSEA Regional Secretary Ann Worthy, a grade
5 stenographer at Brooklyn Developmental Center
Local 447, told the panel that although she per-
forms a wide range of complex and demanding
duties involving extensive skill and responsibili-
ty, she earns only $12,843 per year.

A state employee for more than 10 years, Wor-
thy is the sole supporter of her household.

SIDC contracting out decision hailed

ALBANY — An arbitrator’s ruling that the use of
private agencies to operate community residences
constitutes contracting out has been hailed by CSEA
President William L. McGowan as “‘a giant step
forward.”

CSEA won the precedent-setting decision as the
result of a grievance filed at Staten Island Develop-
mental Center. The union had charged the state with
violating Article 22 of the CSEA-state contract which
stipulates that “there shall be no loss of present jobs
by permanent employees as the result of the state’s
exercise of its right to contract out for goods and
services.”

The grievance arose after a number of positions
at the developmental center were eliminated because
the state contracted with private agencies such as
valle Cerebral Palsy to operate community resi-

ences,

Initially, the state argued that the matter could not
be arbitrated since it was “public policy” to enter
into agreements with private agencies to operate
such facilities, and because both the Mental Hygiene
Law and the courts mandated it. The state also ar-
gued that such arrangements do not constitute con-
tracting out.

Arbitrator Herbert L. Haber found that using pri-

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vate agencies to operate community homes is con-
tracting out, and he made a precedent-setting
decision that ‘“‘the grievance is arbitrable,” noting
that the movement of clients did not preclude the
state itself from using state workers to operate
such facilities.

Addressing the issue of the eliminated positions,
Haber said that their elimination came “‘as a result
of” placing clients in community residences. He also
cited a previous arbitration award which further
stipulates that contracted-out work must be “‘the
same as the services performed by the laid-off em-
ployees.””

Accordingly, Haber found that Article 22 was not
violated when 31 mental hygiene therapy aides lost
their jobs because community residence aide jobs
are different. But the state did commit a violation
when it laid off 35 other people in different job titles.
He directed the state to offer full back pay and
benefits to any of the 35 employees not previously
offered alternative job opportunities.

Attorney Pauline Rogers Kinsella, commenting on
the decision, noted, “‘We were successful in virtual-
ly all of the arguments which we made at the arbitra-
tion,” but she expressed disappointment that the
MHTAs were not reinstated.

Union mourns death of
Region Il President
Frances DuBose Batiste

NEW YORK CITY — Frances DuBose Batiste,
a staunch union activist who rose through the
ranks to become president of the 23,000-member
Metropolitan Region II of CSEA, died
unexpectedly on Sunday, March 18 at Downstate
Medical Center. She was 41.

Ms. DuBose Batiste was elevated to CSEA
Metropolitan Region president last June, moving
up from region first vice president to succeed
George Caloumeno as head of the New York City
area of CSEA.

She was born in South Carolina, the oldest of
nine children in a family that later moved to
Brooklyn, where she grew up. A homemaker for
several years, she began her public service
career in 1968 at Downstate Medical Center after
completing an accelerated training program as
a laboratory technician.

A union activist from the beginning, Ms.
DuBose Batiste won her first union election in

1974 as second vice president of Downstate
Medical Center CSEA Local 646. Two years later
she was elected institutional representative, and
in 1979 was elected president of Local 646. She
was reelected local president twice more before
becoming Metropolitan Region president.

She was elected first vice president of the
region in 1981, having previously served as
second vice president. She was also a member of
CSEA’s statewide Board of Directors and helped
set up the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
in the state university system while a member of
the statewide Labor/Management Committee of
SUNY. In addition, she served as a member of
CSEA’s Convention Motions Committee.

Ms. DuBose Batiste is survived by her
husband, Audley Batiste, an employee at
Downstate Medical Center; two sons, Lawrence
and Warren; and several brothers and sisters.

‘A STRONG LEADER WHO FOUGHT HARD’

We have all suffered a terrible loss with the death of Frances DuBose Batiste. Frances was
not only a great unionist but a wonderful person as well.

Frances was a strong leader who fought hard for the interests of the members of CSEA. In
a big union many people forget that while we work in many different jobs we have more in
common as workers than we have differences. Frances never forgot that.

Upon taking office as region president she summed it up in these words, ‘“We have to work
together to solve our problems. We have to understand that the issues we face aren’t
institutional workers’ issues or clerical workers’ issues, but workers issues.” That was
Frances’ belief and it is the kind of belief that makes a union strong.

CSEA will miss Frances, I will miss Frances.

But, most of all her family will miss her. To her husband, Audley, and her sons, Lawrence
and Warren, I extend the deepest sympathy from all of us who are part of CSEA.

—CSEA PRESIDENT WILLIAM L. McGOWAN

FRAN! DUBOSE BATISTE and
Goy. Mario Cuomo. She pursued the

interests of her members to the
highest levels.

FRANCES DUBOSE BATISTE

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Brenda Nichols becomes new

president of Metro Region

Brenda Nichols is the new president of
CSEA Metropolitan Region II, succeeding the
late Frances DuBose Batiste.

Nichols was the Region II first vice
president and automatically became region
president to fill the unexpired portion of her
predecessor’s term of office. The term expires
at the end of June.

Nichols is a member of Brooklyn De-
velopmental Center CSEA Local 447 and is
also a Mental Hygiene representative on
CSEA’s statewide Board of Directors. She was
elected second vice president of Region II in
1981, and was elevated to first vice president
when Frances DuBose Batiste became
president last June.

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State employees get ‘letter of
thanks’ for ‘Christmas spirit’

ALBANY — State employees who participated in a Christmas program for
needy families have been warmly praised in a letter to Gov. Mario Cuomo by
Albany County Social Services Commissioner John J. Fahey.

“The support of 60 state agencies was instrumental in the delivery of the
Christmas spirit to 1,047 children of 393 families served by the Adopt A Needy
Family Program,” wrote Fahey.

The commissioner termed the employees’ donations and support “‘wonder-
ful,” and noted that the Albany-area agencies comprise one-fifth of the 361
groups that assisted in the program.

Adopt A Needy Family is structured so that an individual or group may
contact social services and select a needy family to assist in various ways dur-
ing the holiday season.

Fahey expressed special praise for employees of the Workers’ Compensa-
tion Board, whose contributions, he said, ‘exceeded expectations.”

Workers’ Compensation Local 671 President Warren E. LeGere, noting it
was the first time his members had taken part in the project, said that in one
week they raised $362 to help their adopted family of four.

COMMITTEE REMEMBERS — Local 671 President Warren LeGere points to
the contents of the local’s Adopt A Family file as committee members Linda
Teal, standing, Joyce Romano and Jim Falato remember the holiday season
efforts.

New school district
officers installed

PATRICIA DEMPSEY, right, president of
St. Lawrence County Educational Local
873, congratulates the newly-installed
officers of the Hermon-DeKalb Central
School District Unit at a recent dinner
meeting in Canton. The new unit leaders,
representing non-instructional employees
at the school, are, from left, Treasurer
Nancy L. Schofell, Secretary Christine B.
LaQuier, Vice President Phyllis Gilbert,
and-President Nancy Bardeschewski.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 23, 1984

MARY E. PUGH’S
COMPELLING
COMMENTARY

ON LIFE AT A CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER

Mary E. Pugh is a mental hygiene therapy
aide, grade 9, on the crisis residence staff
at Utica Psychiatric Center. Married with
four children, she has been a MHTA for 14
years and has worked at the facility’s
Crisis Intervention Center since 1975. The
following account of one day in her working
life was written by Mary in her own
interesting style and is reproduced here
virtually unedited.

My day begins when | enter our nine feet by
eighteen feet smoke-filled, cluttered, noisy office.
To my left there are four file cabinets, a coat rack
filled with coats and sweaters, a fan and air
purifier. There is something sitting on top of every
cabinet. To my right there are four desks with
lamps, phones, writing pads, filled ashtrays,
stapler guns, rolls of tapes and, usually, dirty
coffee cups. Directly in front of me is a gray table
that is used as a catch-all for everything. There are
cans of coffee, creamers, coffee pot, magazines,
papers, pocketbooks and a small television on it
To further fill the small cluttered room there is
another file cabinet, two book cabinets filled with
books, three bulletin boards filled with memos, a
blackboard and four wastepaper baskets. There
exists no available space on top of anything within
that room. There is a “hum” from all the different
voices of the workers that are talking on the
telephones. People are walking in and out of the
telephone room and other conversations are
taking place separate from the people on the
phones. Two reports are in the process of being
given. One for the Community Evaluation Team
and one for the Crisis Residence Program. There
is a possible mobile to Rome. “You may have
contact with the Hunter House regarding so-and-
so, there's telephone alerts you should note,
please follow up with Mrs. Doe regarding her
daughter. It's been busy at St. Elizabeth's
(hospital) today so you may be called to screen:
someone there,” we are told by the dayshift as
they prepare to go off duty. They begin putting on
their coats and gathering their personal
belongings. “Good Night, have a good quiet eve-
ning” they all say as they begin leavin:

We, the 4 to 12 shift begin to sete in for the
evening. | read the log book to asCertain what has
taken place since | went off duty last evening. The
phone rings. It’s St. Elizabeth's E.R. (emergency
room). “We have a 34 yr.
to kill himself today. His

tion? And most
? | gather all the

MARY E. PUGH

things necessary for a screening. | take extra
evaluation forms (725’s), pencils, pens, writing
pads, just in case there is someone else there that
needs to be screened. Mentally | am still trying to
prepare myself for the screening of the man that
tried to kill himself. | get into the “crisis car” which
is a crisis within itself and begin my journey to St.
Elizabeth's Emergency Room.

It's a nice day and the weather is still warm.
People are walking and children are playing.
Traffic is slow. Again, my mind returns to the man
in the E.R. Why did he try to shoot himself? | see
the sign “St. Elizabeth's”; | turn onto the driveway
and feel that old familiar knot in the pit of my
stomach and wonder how many times | have felt
that knot. | ask myself, “Is it worth it?” | am finally
at the E.R. There are no ambulances parked
outside. | park the crisis car, get out and wave at

the security guard. | enter the E.R. through the
sliding glass doors. | am greeted by the E.R. staff
and given the client's chart. He is in Observation
Room B. | stand there long enough to read the
chart and gather the demographical information.
White male, age 34, Catholic, address, date of
birth and present living arrangements. Ready or
not | begin walking down the hall to Observation
Room B. | am greeted by another security guard.
We exchange greetings and | enter the room.
He is sitting there with his head bent, looking
much older than his stated years. | introduce
myself, explain | am from Crisis Intervention, and
my reason for seeing him. Within 60 minutes | not
only know a great deal about his past but also |
know a lot about his present state of mind. As | sit
listening to this human being talk about his chronic
depression, his dissatisfaction with his career
choice, his unhealthy bond with parents, and the
problems he is having with his wife and children, |
want to reach out, touch his hand and tell him
things are going to be all right. But | can’t, can't
promise something that may never take place, so |
deal with the here and now. | further question the
client to determine present level of lethality.
QUESTION: If you leave her what will you do?
ANSWER: | don't know. QUESTION: Are you

_ feeling as suicidal as you were earlier today?

ANSWER: Yes. QUESTION: Will you attempt to
kill’yourself if you return home? ANSWER: Yes.
- It is apparent that the lethality is high and in view
the fact that client cannot be admitted to St.
lizabeth’s 2A, he has to be admitted to the Utica
*sychiatric Center. This is discussed with the
lient and he is in agreement. He is aware that he
is losing control and is a danger to himself. The
on-call psychiatrist is contacted, information regard-
ing the client is given, on-call agrees that a
D.C.S. is appropriate. This information is
forwarded to the duty Dr. in the E.R. He then talks
to the client and D.C.S. papers are made out. |
speak briefly with the client's wife and she too is in
agreement.
| can only describe the way | feel after such a
screening as drained, somewhat angry at life and
at loose ends. How many times have | felt this way
‘and or gone through these emotionally charged
screenings? Hundreds, literally hundreds. | have
omforted sobbing families, have helped Kunkle
mbulance attendants strap an individual that | had
Greened to a stretcher with her sobbing and
pleading, “little black girl help me, please don't let
hem hurt me.” | try to sooth her with a lump in my
throat and tears in my eyes. | have reassured,

: ‘supported, comforted and worked out alternatives

to hospitalization. My shoulder has been used for
crying many times. | am supposed to be strong for
the people | am trying to aid and | am sure from the
outward appearance | appear to be so, but in my
heart 1 cry with them. Sometimes when | leave the
E.R.°or the C.E.T. (Crisis Evaluation Team) site |
pound the steering wheel of the car and swear |
am going to get of this emotional merry-go-round,
but the next day I return to that smoke-filled, clut-
tered, noisy toom with it’s hum of voices trying to
help and people walking in and out.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, Maughe23, 1984

ALBANY — More than 1,900 state workers in the Administrative
Services Unit of CSEA since 1979 have earned promotions — which they
“In each region, the might not otherwise have gained — because of a job advancement program

Sponsored jointly by the union and the state.
LNs a According to a list recently released by CSEA, during the past five years
CSEAP. We think the Clerical and Secretarial Employee Advancement Program (CSEAP)
that’s pretty signifi- has helped workers in ASU attain a total of 1,917 promotions. CSEA Region
cant.> = Joba IV had the highest number of new appointments at 911. Figures for the other
Conoby. regions were: Region I, 150; Region II, 274; Region III, 132; Region V, 189;
. Region VI, 261.

“The numbers for each region represent the total number of promotions
that occurred as a direct result of the program and would not have occurred
without it. We think that’s pretty significant,” said Collective Bargaining
Specialist John Conoby, who helped negotiate CSEAP in the ASU contract.

Conoby explained that the program, which serves more than 37,000
employees in over 55 state departments and agencies, seeks to improve
morale, productivity and career mobility by providing training and
advancement opportunities. In addition to workers in clerical and
secretarial jobs, it assists others in paraprofessional and professional
careers such as budgeting, investment and administration.

“But our priority is to promote the workers in grades 3 to 5, the clerks
who are making $10,000 a year,” said Conoby. ‘Their problem is that often
they feel there is no way to get out of their low-paying jobs.”

CSEAP creates advancement opportunities for these workers in three
ways: through the introduction of new promotional exams, reclassification
of existing titles, and creation of new titles.

In some cases, employees must go through a period of training in order
to get their promotions. For instance, the Public Administration
Traineeship Transition (PATT), a two-year program, can help employees in
positions as low as grade 7 move up to jobs as high as grade 18 by preparing
them for statewide civil service exams. A new word processing training
program, scheduled to start in April, aims to help workers in clerical
positions advance as high as grade 12.

CSEAP is implemented in state agencies by the Employee
Advancement Section of the Civil Service Department which provides
technical assistance, coordinates transition examinations, training and
other services.

“OMH (Office of Mental Health), OMR (Office of Mental Retardation)
and SUNY (State University of New York) are agencies that haven’t tried to
implement the program,” said Conoby. “They need to be worked on more.”

One major obstacle CSEAP faces now is the hiring freeze in state
agencies, he said.

“New York is in a no-growth period now and that makes our job more
difficult since CSEAP deals with promotion and doing things for people.
Right now we have to center our efforts around helping workers get
advanced to higher titles rather than trying to create new positions,” he
said.

Union still working to ward off layoffs i in DFY

ALBANY — While the threat of layoffs in the — po
Division for Youth remains, CSEA representatives left <i |
the third in a recent series of meetings with feelings that vee I | 1]

the layoff situation could be resolved in a positive
manner.

At the session — involving a task force of state : BB Ee 4
agencies — CSEA received the results of a comparability | : : :
survey as well as information on bumping rights. The
union also received information on the state’s desire to
have as many of the involved DF'Y employees apply for a
special corrections officer examination. The exam is
slated to be held April 14 with the results of the testing to
be known by May 5.

Because of the active involvement of the task force
and CSEA in this matter, there is speculation that should
a DFY employee be successful in the examination and
meet other requirements, he or she could switch from a
DFY title to a CO title without any break in the public
service career.

In addition, other state agencies which may be
seeking personnel are being advised of the availability of
the DF Y employees so that career opportunities can be
made known during the next few weeks and months.

Two phone numbers, one a 24-hour answering 7
service, the other manned only during the workweek, PICKETING AND POLITICKING — Division for Youth employees picketed in front of
have been established by the state to provide information DFY headquarters recently as inside CSEA representatives meet with a task force including
on the DF'Y layoffs. The numbers are, respectively, (518) | DFY, the Department of Corrections and other state agencies, Outside, the picketers were joined
473-7841 and (518) 473-7843. by 30 members of CSEA Local 553 Harlem Valley Secure Center and PEF Local 327.

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il | the Disabled = | & Disabled

NASSAU COUNTY TO HOST OLYMPIC GAMES

CSEA members to play a big role;
McGowan issues call for more volunteers

Some 1,500 members in the Nassau County
Department of Recreation and Parks are now
preparing for a world-class olympic event — the
1984 International Games for the Disabled, to be
held June 13-30 at the new Mitchell Park Athletic
Complex in Uniondale.

The county is one of the hosts of the event, and
CSEA members are working as electricians, car-
penters, sign painters, grounds and maintenance
crews, in public works and other capacities to
ready the facilities. There are 1,200 employees in
Recreation and Parks during the winter; the
workforce doubles in summer.

The games bring together about 1,500 premiere
amputee, cerebral palsy, blind and other physi-
cally disabled athletes from more than 45 coun-
tries. They compete in 22 different sports,
including track and field, swimming, weightlift-
ing, wrestling, cycling, wheelchair soccer, table
tennis and equestrian activities.

In each event, the athletes are classified by the
nature and degree of their physical disability.
Many of the competitors are considered world-
class athletes who have set national and interna-
tional records in their sport.

This is the first time the games, created in 1976
and held every four years, are being held in the
U.S. The first games were in Toronto, while Arn-
hem, Holland was the host site in 1980.

CSEA President William L. McGowan has offi-
cially pledged the union’s support and endorse-
ment of the competition, and has issued a call for
volunteers.

According to Thomas Gargiulo, president of the
CSEA Recreation and Parks Unit of Nassau

Management's logic termed ‘faulty’
in Warren County contract dispute

WARRENSBURG — CSEA’s Warren County local president says his 440

Volunteers are needed to work as
drivers, guides, information people,

computer specialists, clericals and
official starters, timers and judges.

County Local 830, more than 1,200 individuals have
already offered their help. Another 1,200 are need-
ed as drivers, guides, information people, com-
puter operators, clericals and officials (starters,
timers, judges). They must be able to work a four-
hour block of time.

The competition will be held within a one-mile
radius of the $11 million Mitchell Park Athletic
Complex, which features an ultramodern pistol
and rifle range and one of the world’s top paved
tracks with electronic timing capabilities.

Adjacent to Mitchell Park are Nassau County
Community College and Hofstra University, both
of which have excellent facilities. The Nassau
Veterans Memorial Coliseum will also be used for
some events.

Funded in large part by individuals, private
sponsors and corporations, the games are expect-
ed to attract more than a quarter of a million spec-
tators over the two-week period.

“Thanks to a great amount of talent and ener-
gy contributed on a voluntary basis, and continued
support from CSEA and the private sector, the
outlook for a tremendous event is excellent,” said

CSEA member Nicholas Dellisanti, co-chairman
of the games’ social and recreation committee.

The games are endorsed by the U.S. Olympic
Committee. Rules have been established by the
three host organizations — the National Associa-
tion of Sports for Cerebral Palsy, the U.S. Ampu-
tee Athletic Association and the U.S. Association
for Blind Athletes.

Anyone who would like to volunteer for the
games is urged to call Roda White, coordinator of
volunteers, at (516) 542-4495.

members would accept a wage hike that’s on par with the nation’s average
salary increase — if the county would increase salaries to the national
average.

“Nearly one-third of our members are earning salaries below the national
poverty level for a family of four, which is $9,999. And many of our members
are the heads of large households,” said Local 857 President Douglas Persons.
“We need a good raise.”

Persons remarks came in response to comments by Warren County Board
of Supervisors Chairman Sterling Goodspeed, who recently suggested the local
accept the national average salary increase of 2.5 percent this year, and take a
2.75 percent increase next year. The local is currently at impasse in contract
negotiations with the board.

“Goodspeed is trying to convince the public that the county workforce is
earning at or near the national average salary of $14,899, which is far from the
truth,” said Persons. ‘‘His logic is totally faulty. We need a good raise.”

In addition to a general pay boost, two other unin demands are
major stumbling blocks to a negotiated settlement — ageucy shop and job
security for the labor class.

Persons called management’s position on the job security issue
“unrealistic . . . If the county can evaluate managerial employees within one
year, it should certainly be able to do the same for a laborer,” he said.

CONNIE COLANGELO, who has served eight years in various union
leadership roles in CSEA’s Schenectady County local, has taken a year’s
leave of absence to serve as secretary to Schenectady Mayor Karen
Johnson. Colangelo, who received several honors on her departure, is
pictured here with Region IV Director John D. Corcoran, left, and Region
President C. Allen Mead, accepting an award.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 23, 1984

Illinois state workers root for
AFSCME, rout Teamsters in poll

CHICAGO — Ina statewide mail ballot, 12,500 state of Illinois professional
employees have overwhelmingly chosen representation by the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). In doing so,
they strongly rejected a bid by the Teamsters union to represent them.

“This is a tremendous victory for public employees in the state,” said
AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee. “This is the largest head-to-head
confrontation with the Teamsters that AFSCME, or any AFL-CIO union, has
had in a long time, anywhere in the country. By their vote, state employees told
the Teamsters that they have no business trying to represent public
employees. They also strongly rejected the choice of no union representation,
because they know that public employees need the voice on their jobs that
AFSCME can give them.”

Pipes repaired at Kings Park PC

KINGS PARK — A complaint lodged by CSEA concerning plastic pipes on
sterilizing dish washers has led to the manufacturer of the equipment agreeing
to replace the plastic pipe with metal pipes.

Plastic pipes on several of the dish washing machines at Kings Park
Psychiatric Center broke and sprayed boiling water around the area. No
employees were seriously injured, but CSEA Safety and Health Committee
Chairman Mike Montanino lodged a complaint. Montanino discovered that "
similar machines at other state Department of Mental Hygiene facilities were ai af
equipped with metal pipes instead of plastic pipes, according to Kings Park | ED LAVIN, right, is congratulated by CSEA President William L. McGowan
Local 411 President Tony Bentivegna. javowine rahe Sppemnenent to the union’s Judicial Board. The newest

Bentivegna said that after one meeting with a representative of the | ™ember of the board is also president of Utica State Employees Local 014
equipment aanieacierer: management officials told the union that the per “Moa: on ard ners Department of Taxation and Finance
manufacturer agreed to replace the plastic pipes with metal pipes. r/Management Committee.

VIDEO TAPES FOR
LIBRARIES — The
Albany and Schenectay
county libraries have
received video tape copies
of the program “How To
Prepare for a Civil Service
Examination” from the
CSEA Capital Region. At
far left, Lou Alteri and
Frank Tomecko watch as
Phyllis Ochs of the
Schenectady County
Library receives the
videos from C, Allen Mead,
Capital Region president.
At left, Mead and Al
Oliver, Albany County
Local president, present
tapes to Maureen Read,
Albany County Library
Job Information Center
librarian.

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A Salute to Women

National Women’s History Week was marked this month with a lot
Jess fanfare and attention than might be expected from a country where

women are a majority of the population.

CSEA, whose membership is also predominantly female, takes this
opportunity to recognize the tremendous contributions women have made
and continue to make for the betterment of CSEA’s quarter of a million

members.

A woman has served as statewide president of our giant labor union,
two of the four statewide elected officers of CSEA are women, and women
comprise a large portion of the union’s statewide Board of Directors. In

addition, scores of CSEA locals are being run by women presidents and
other key officers. Until the untimely death this week of Frances DuBose

Batiste, she was the top elected official of the 23,000-member CSEA

Metropolitan Region. She is succeeded by Brenda Nichols.
We salute the contributions of women to their union and to the society
of which they are such an important part. Still, there is much to be done,

as the various statistics on this page show. But these disturbing facts and

to reach their goals.

figures do not diminish the gains by women. Rather, the illustrate how far
women have come and the types of difficult obstacles they will overcome

WOMEN AND ECONOMICS)

e Women work because of economic need.
Nearly two-thirds of all working women are
single, widowed, divorced, separated, or
have husbands whose incomes are less
than $15,000 per year.

The number of women who are the main
support of their families has risen to the
highest level ever recorded in this country.
Today, one of every six families (almost 10
million) is headed by a woman, compared
with one of 10 in 1969. Thirty-six percent of
black families are maintained by women.
Since 1969, there has been an increase in the
number of female households below the
poverty level. In 1982, more than 50 percent
of the women who were heads of households
had incomes below the poverty level, and the
proportion of poor families headed by women
continues to increase steadily.

Twenty-five per cent of all working mothers
who head families with children still have
incomes which fall below the poverty level.
Half of all men earn over $15,000 per year,
yet 90 per cent of all women who work
outside the home make less than $15,000 a
year.

In 1955 women working fulltime and year-
round earned 64 cents for every dollar
earned by a man; in 1981 women brought
home only 59 cents for every dollar earned
by a man.

In 1980 two of every three poor adults were
women.

According to the National Academy of
Sciences, jobs held mainly by women and
minorities pay less at least in part because
they are held mainly by women and
minorities. The Academy also found that
the more an occupation is dominated by
women, the less it pays.

On average, a woman with four years of
college can expect to earn about the same
salary as a man who never finished high
school.

Fourteen states have laws mandating
equal pay for comparable work.

In New York state more than twice as many
women as men earned less than $10,000.
Five times as many men as women earned
more than $16,000

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LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION

° The greatest increase in the nation’s labor
force has come from increases in women
workers.

e Women remain in the labor force an
average of 34 years.

©The idea that most women are parttime
workers is a myth. Most working women in
the 1970s were employed full time (35 hours
or more per week) or, if unemployed, were
looking for fulltime jobs. In 1983, 70 percent
of all working women worked fulltime.

In 1982, some 55 percent of children under
18 had working mothers as compared with
39 percent in 1970.

*® By March 1982, some 50 percent of all
children below the age of six had working

\ mothers.

© Despite the ads displaying women doctors,
pilots and scientists, women are still
concentrated in low-paying, dead-end
jobs. Eighty percent of working women are
employed in only 20 out of the 427
occupations listed by the Census Bureau.
More than half of all women work in
occupations which are more than 70 percent
female, and 25 percent are in jobs which are
more than 95 percent female.

Women constitute 47.9 per cent of all New

York state employees. Yet, the ratio of
women to men in top management
positions is one to six and women are
almost 85 percent of all employees in
grades 3 to 7.
Minorities constitute 21.3 percent of the
state labor force. About 65 percent are
located in grades 3 to 12, with 24.8 percent
of minorities employed in one job title, mental
hygiene therapy aide.

¢ White males are 44 percent of the labor
force. They fill more than 48 percent of all
service and maintenance jobs, and 14.7
percent are in grades 23 and above in high
level managerial and professional jobs.

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WOMEN AND UNIONS

°On the average,
organized women exceed
unorganized women in all industries by
nearly 30 percent.

weekly earnings of
those of

¢ The number of women belonging to unions in
the United States increased from 3.9 million
in 1968 to 7.1 million in 1980.

¢ The rate at which women joined unions
was outpaced by the rate at which they
entered the labor force,

however, they constitute only 16 percent of
all women workers.

* The weekly earnings of all women working
fulltime who were repesented by labor
organizations were 73 percent of those of
all men similarly employed.

e Employed black and other minority race
women are more likely to belong to labor
organizations than white women.

¢ Forty-one percent of the employed black
and other minority union members are
women, compared to 28 percent for white

be ers earned at least $25,000. fe women. re

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Democratic nomination for president, CSEA is Kisielis, J. Leo O’Brien, Karen Johnson, James J@ @FFICES D OFFICES | uniten states (Vote any 4) (Vote for 1)
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CANDIDATES FOR REGIONAL OFFICE SELECTED

_ ALBANY — Regional nominating committees have issued their
official reports in connection with CSEA’s upcoming election of regional
officers. Nominees for various regional offices have until April 5 to
decline, and members interested in running for regional office may still
gain ballot positions by the petition process.

Candidates selected by the nominating committees in each region

LONG ISLAND REGION I ~

President, Danny Donohue and Nicholas Marrano; first vice
president, Nicholas Abbatiello, Michael Curtin, Joseph Noya and
Ralph J. Spagnolo; second vice president, Arthur Loving and
Charles J. Sclafani; third vice president, Carol Craig and James
Martino;

Fourth vice president, Jack Geraghty and Haward S. Quann;
secretary, Dorothy Goetz and Lynn P. Martins; treasurer, Jim
LaRock and Sam Piscitelli.

METROPOLITAN REGION II
President, Denise Berkley, Jimmy Gripper, Roy Johnson and
Willie J. Raye; first vice president, vacant; second vice president,
James C. Neely, Helen Boyd and Constance Girard; third vice
president, Joel Schwartz and Warren Albright;
Secretary, Ann Worthy and Alexander S. Glatt; and treasurer,
Rose Feuerman Sutro and Sharon Katz.

SOUTHERN REGION II

President, Raymond J. O’Connor, Pat Mascioli and Carmine
DiBattista; first vice president, John Cassidy, Gary ‘‘Barney”
Eldridge and Sal Trabakino; second vice president, Alexander M.
Hogg and Harold F. Ryan;

Third vice president, Francis J. DeLauri, Henry W. Walters,
Rose Marcinkowski and John E. Lowery; secretary, vacant; and
treasurer, Salvatore Greco and Doris A. Mikus.

CAPITAL REGION IV

President, C. Allen Mead; first vice president, Joan M. Tobin
and Carmen Bagnoli; second vice president, Barbara L. Skelly,
June Robak and Francis J. Wilusz; third vice president, Louis J.
Altieri;

Secretary, Santa P. Orsino and Judith A. Remington; and
treasurer, Gerald R. Toomey, Barbara A. Stack and Frances E.
Jeffress.

CENTRAL REGION V

President, James J. Moore and Irene Carr; executive vice
president, Patricia Crandall, Jon J. Premo and Edward (Bud)
Mulchy; first vice president, Ralph L. Young and Mary E. Sullivan;

Second vice president, Bruee T. Nolan, Stephen M. Arbes,
Robert W. Allen, Christine Carletta and Dolores Herrig; third vice
president, George McCarthy and Thomas B. Keane Jr.

Secretary, Helen Hanlon; and treasurer, Dale E. King and
Alberta K. Bardascini.

WESTERN REGION VI
President, Robert L. Lattimer and Dominic Spacone Jr.; first
vice president, Donald A. Van Every and Florence Tripi; second
vice president, Gerald M. Prince and Sara Sievert; third vice
president, John P. Kiss and Thomas J. Warzel;
Secretary, Sheila Brogan; and treasurer, Joan Poisella, Linda
M. Cote and James V. Kurtz.

Any member who is otherwise eligible may qualify as a candidate for
regional office by submitting official nominating petitions carrying the
signatures and Social Security numbers of not less than 2 percent of the
region membership in good standing eligible to vote in the election. the
numbers of valid voter signatures required for nomination are:

Long Island Region I, 977; Metropolitan Region II, 348; Southern
Region III, 658; Capital Region IV, 678; Central Region V, 641; and

Western Region VI, 618.

Independent nominating petition forms are available from regional
offices upon written request. The deadline for receipt of petitions at CSEA

headquarters is April 16,

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an individual’s petitions for one office. If a mem-
ber submits petitions for more than one office, the
first successful petition will determine the office
for which the individual will receive a place on the
ballot.

Independent nominating petition forms are
available from region offices upon written re-
quest. Any member who is otherwise eligible may
qualify as a candidate by submitting official
nominating petitions carrying the signatures and
Social Security numbers of not less than 2 percent
of the region membership in good standing to vote
in the election. In Region II, 348 valid signatures

expense.

mailings:

ALBANY — CSEA will comply with all
reasonable requests of candidates for union
office to distribute campaign literature to
the membership at the candidates’

The following procedures apply to such

Candidates must pay in advance for the
cost of the mailing. Mailings will be done on
a first-come first-served basis. CSEA will
mail campaign literature in standard No.
10 window envelopes, using CSEA-
produced address flashers.

Maximum size for printed material is

Procedures for candidate mailings

8%” x 11”, and the maximum number of
enclosures in any one envelope is two.
CSEA will print the requested number of
campaign materials if provided with a
master copy, and CSEA will stuff and mail
the envelopes. Or a candidate may have
campaign material printed and envelopes
stufed elsewhere and may then deliver the
sealed envelopes to CSEA headquarters for
mailing.

Questions from candidates concerning
mailing costs should be directed to
RoseAnn Hildreth at CSEA headquarters.

a are required.

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| THE SUBJECT IS SAFETY — OSHA representative Mitchell Braithwaite talks
Boa CSEA member about safety in the workplace during the Metropolitan Region
II Health and Information Fair held recently at the Bronx Psychiatric Center.
The fair, the first of its kind in the region, was organized by regional CWEP

+ representative Glinnie Chamble.

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EAP

EMPLOYER ASSISEANCT

ABC’s of EAP — Region If EAP Coordinator Patrick Curtin and his
assistant, Lisa Ortiz, were on hand to answer questions about the
Employee Assistance Program, a statewide program which offers free
confidential services to employees who need help with problems that may

DENTAL OPTIONS — Par- affect their work performance.

ticipants at the fair examine dental

service plans offered by a par-

ticipating dental center.

COMPLIMENTS OF YOUR

AFSCME, Insurer
JARDINE TER BUSH

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INSURANCE TABLE — Jardine
Insurance Representative
Burnette Andrews helps a Bronx
Psychiatric Center employee fill
out an insurance form,

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in the public service

1984 CONVENTION

SAN FRANCISCO,

e JUNE 17-22
CALIFORNIA

Ballots will be in the mail soon to members
eligible to vote for the election of CSEA delegates
to the 1984 AFSCME Convention scheduled for
June 17-22 in San Francisco, Calif.

CSEA will be sending 217 delegates to the
AFSCME Convention. Delegates will be elected
on a regional basis, with each CSEA region
electing a specific number of delegates based on
membership strength in accordance with the
AFSCME and CSEA constitutions.

Ballots must be marked according to
instructions printed on the reverse side of the
ballot. Ballots will be picked up at the return post
office indicated on Friday, April 20, 1984. Ballots
returned after that date will not be valid.

Ballots may be cast for individual candidates,
an entire slate of candidates, or a combination of
both, but the total votes cast cannot exceed the
number of delegates designated for that
particular region. Voting for more than the
allowed number of delegates will void the entire
ballot. Members may, however, vote for less
than the region’s designated delegates total.

The election is by secret ballot. Ballots should
be placed inside the ‘‘secret ballot envelope”
provided, sealed, and then the secret ballot
envelope should be placed in the enclosed self-

Protest in Schuyler Co.

WATKINS GLEN — The largest demonstration of
public employees in Schuyler County history turned
out for a recent public hearing to protest the county’s
unwillingness to agree on a fair settlement of the wage
and salary reopener clause in the 1982-84 contract.

According to Jim Hennerty, CSEA field
representative and chief negotiator for 125 county
employees in the Administrative and Highway unit
of CSEA Local 849, more than 110 employees and
supporters turned out in standing-room-only numbers
for a recent hearing brought on by a union-declared
impasse.

Hennerty said negotiations on the reopener began
in July 1983. A fact finder’s report in December
recommended two pay increases of $150 and $250 for
January and September of 1984.

“The county has refused to accept the fact finder’s
recommendations, despite CSEA’s willingness to do
so. CSEA has moved 90 percent toward a settlement.
All we ask is for the county to meet us 10 percent of the
way,” Hennerty told the legislators.

Adding CSEA support to the demonstration were
Administrative Unit President Florence Pike,
Highway Unit President Richard O’Kane, and scores
of county employees, former employees and
concerned citizens from surrounding communities.

The county Legislature is expected to make a final
decision regarding the salary increase in two to four
weeks,

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CSEA members will be electing
delegates to AFSCME Convention

addressed, postage-paid, return envelope for
mailing. Voters must sign the outside of the
return envelope and write the individual’s Social
Security number where indicated. No write-ins
are allowed when casting ballots.

Samples of the ballots by regions are printed in
this issue of The Public Sector for general
information purposes. These are sample ballots

and cannot be used for actual voting. Voting will
be by official ballots only.

The names and spelling as they appear on these
sample ballots are as requested by the individual
candidate. However, candidates could request
listing changes after this issue of The Public Sec-
tor went to press and final listings could be dif-
ferent than as they appear here.

Slate 1 (53 candidates)
| “Region 1 AFSCME Slate”

:C]Danny Donohue
2LINicholas Abbatiello
sLArthur Loving
4LCarol Craig
sL]Jack Geraghty
eL]Jean Wichmann
7LDorothy Goetz
sLJMichael Curtin
eJCatherine Green
1oL] Patrick Hahn
1LJCarol Guardiano
L] Jerome P. Donahue
13) Frank Fasano
«OShirley Germain
1s_) Walter Weeks
1eL]Al Henneborn
1UTony Bentivegna
1s_] Joseph Noya

2%
2C}Ralph J. Spagnolo

2 Stephen Goldberg

2] Doris Kasner

2)Sam Piscitelli

30] Eugene Cammarato
aL]Ken Darby

aL) Marie Fallon

ssL) Robert Ford

ss Alice Groody

3s] Fred Gropper

ae] Nancy Hernandez

a7] Roosevelt Jackson
«Tom Gargiulo

xL)Gloria Moran

ol) Michael Turner

«John Aloisio

aC Nicholas LaMorte

aL Kevin Mastridge
«CiJames Plersanti
«LlJohn Stein

«s]Lynn Martins

«Sue Carbone

«(J Barbara Harrington
«ClAlice Bender

soL] Frances Bates
s1_]Joseph Sheridan

soL] Francis W. Celentano Jr
ssL] Eugene Haynes

Region |

ss] Dorothy Garage
ss] August Nielsen
ss_] Kenneth Zwerling
s7L] Patrick Finno

se] Edward Allen
seL]Gloria Gru

iuck” Knipfing
as Stapleton
laward Quann
Sam ladicicco

es] Will Grant
eo_]Whitney Booth

7 John Bivona

7C] Barbara Johnson
z2LIElizabeth Puttre
zLlAileen Ronayne
CI Therese Ribaudo
7sLJNicholas Marrano
76_]Judy Jacobson
7LiJean W. Frazier
7s_)William E. Lewis
7] George Weyant
eo] Arthur G. Wegman
s:_]Salvatore Pezzolanti
seL]James Carey

ssL] Charles Bogacki
ss] Theresa Hughes
as] Walter J. Harris

VOTE FOR NO MORE THAN
53 CANDIDATES

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Slate 1 (20 candidates)

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‘Region II Leadership Slate”

:CFrances DuBose Batiste
2 Brenda Nichols

3) Ernest Punter
4C)George Boncoraglio
sLJAnn Worthy
«LJRose Sutro
7ODenis Tobin

sL] Robert Nurse
sL)Floyd Payne

oJ James Wood
(Tyrone Daniels
2L]Mickey Cruz

x3L) Harriet Hart
«LJMargaret Meaders
1s_] Denise Berkley
seLJEd Randall

1LEd Bischoff

1sL] Darlene Hess
#L]Leonara Lee

2L] Roy Seabrook

Slate

2 (1 candidate)

“Metro Region II
Sergeant-at-Arms”

2 Audley Batiste

Slate

|
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3 (19 candidates)
“Solidarity Slate”

22ClJeraldine McMi
23L] Robert Sage
aC] Carson.R

oung
queline Battle
ao ]¥ames Neely
a1] Reva Magazine
s2LJJoseph C. Johnson Jr.
aLJCharles Jacobsen
uCLinda Williams
asC] Rose M. Belton
xC] Vincent F. Martusciello
a7 Joseph |. Dec
ss] Madeline Perry
ao(]Connie Indovina
«L)Walter C. Nash

Slate

|
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4 (20 candidates)
“The Membership Slate”

a OJimmy Gripper
aOeErnest Richardson
«OConstance Girard
«(Warren Albright
«sC) Helen Carter
«(Sharon Katz
«QJohn Jackson
«(Sandra Febo
«(Fred Daniels

soC] Barbara Farrell
s1L]Lamont “Dutch” Wade
s2L] Regina Alford

ss] Anita Schiowitz
ss] Rene Thompson
ssCJ Everton F. Phillips
ss] Danny White
st_]Felix Rodriguez
sa]Melvin Shepard
ss] John Adams

ool |Clarence Gilmore

Region II

1984 CONVENTION © JUNE 17-22
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Slate 5 (18 candidates)

“Administrative, Operational
& Institutional Slate”

e:L]Willie Raye

eel] Todd Reisman

es] Helen Royo

esL] Nancy Hall
eCIElliot C. Bernstein
es_]Sandra Fontanez
7] Edward Lawless
es] Douglas L. Murphy
eoLJAllan S. Teitler

7] Vanessa Phillips

7m Dolly Krampner
2 Frank Rodriguez
za Cynthia Miley
mCJohn P. Jones

7L] Millicent Patrick
7L]Leo Bailey
7UCharisse Bed
7] Grace,

aide Stephen Glatt
{7 Gahdidates)

tegion II Grievance
Committee Slate”

soLJRajeeyah T. Muwwakil
s:_JJoel Schwartz

ee] Louis Smith

es] Walter Taylor
«Diane Young

asL] Gwendolyn Glenn

ae] Janet VewTrano

Slate 7 (6 candidates)
.“In Your Best Interest Slate”
(a

e7L] Roy Johnson
eaL] Helen Coley
eoL]Sadie Miles
oo] Frank Bell
«Gloria Wilson
eOIritta Dennis

«L]Willie Terry

Slate 8 (16 candidates)

“New York City
Representative Slate”

oC] Madeline Keohan
oC] Eleanor Broady

xL] Doris Kanner

»7_] Sheldon Billips

vs] Mary Mobley

» C1] Dorothy Robinson
10 L] Henry Gonzalez Jr.
11] Patricia Rose Metzger
12] Michael Ubelli

103] Gerald P. McCarthy
sos] Renee Molling

1s ]Janice Allen

1] Ann LoDato

17] Barbara Batts

we (] Ursula Jones

1] Ruby Jackson

VOTE FOR NO MORE THAN
20 CANDIDATES

Talks continue on
Onondaga payroll

SYRACUSE — CSEA and Onondaga County
have resumed their closed-door sessions to
resolve the current county plan to alter the
paycheck schedule for more than 3,500
employees in 10 units represented by CSEA.

At The Public Sector press time, CSEA
Attorney Michael Smith had concluded another
in a series of meetings with Local 834 President
Patricia Callahan, 10 unit presidents and
representatives of Onondaga County
management.

Following the latest meeting, Callahan would
not disclose proposal terms, but did reveal that
both sides were in the process of researching
proposals and counter proposals in an effort to
resolve the issue.

The controversy centers around the Onondaga
County plan to begin a “lag payroll” system that
would delay paychecks as long as 10 days at the
end of the calendar year. CSEA attorneys
obtained a temporary court injunction to block
the county move. The temporary court order
continues while both sides are negotiating.

CSEA has strongly contended that any
unilateral change in the payroll system by
Onondaga County is illegal and a mandatory
subject for negotiations. While the temporary
injunction continues, county employees are
being paid by check according to the current
system.

Hempstead reaches
terms on contract

Hempstead — The 2,300-member Town of
Hempstead Unit of Nassau Local 830 has secured
a tentative contract settlement providing
substantial wage increases with no givebacks.

The terms were announced by Gus Nielsen,
president, following long negotiations that
stretched beyond the expiration of the previous
contract last Dec. 21.

The settlement would give all employees wage
increases of 7.5 percent this year and 7.25
percent for 1984 in addition to increments.

The unit fought off a bid by the town to change
the health insurance carrier and gained an
agreement that there would be no unilateral
change and no lessening of benefits.

Employees who use their personal cars on
town business would be reimbursed at a new rate
of 28 cents per mile.

Next year, under the contract, the longevity
schedule would be increased by $100 at the 10th,
15th and 20th years of service, to a new total of
$850 increment for 20-year employees. Also,
employees would get coverage under New York
State Disability Insurance with two-thirds of the
cost to be paid by the town.

The grievance procedure would also be
tightened.

MINEOLA — Employees of the Roosevelt
Public Library have become the newest mem-
bers by choosing CSEA as their union repre-
sentatives. Theirs is the 15th local library in Nas-
sau County to come under the umbrella of Nas-
sau County CSEA Local 830.

The 15 libraries are all part of a single bargain-
ing unit, formed last year and headed by Unit
President Dina McNeice.

Local 830 President Jerry Donahue said that
contract negotiations on behalf of the Roosevelt
Public Library employees have begun.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 23, 1984

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Region III

Slate 1 (37 candidates)
| “Official Region III Slate”

[1 ,GRaymond J. O’Connor
2L) Pat Mascioli

sL) Harold Ryan

«LJ Rose Marcinkowski
sL] Eleanor McDonald
s_JGrace Woods

7 Marie Romanelli
aLJWilliam Harris
eL]Rena Kobbe

w Ellis Adams

1) Robert Watkins
12LGary “Barney” Eldridge
13_JJack Cassidy a
«LJ Frank Bosco
1s_]Sean Egan

2L) Alex Hogg

aL) Patricia Nealon
z2LJJanice Schaff McGuiness
20_]Cindy Wholey

wl Rich Saluga

31 Ed Carafa

eC] Ron Chomiw
xL]Grace Ann Aloisi
aL] Marie Lewis

aL] Florence Kimmel
aC) Pat Taylor

s7_] Mary Naylor-Boyd

‘in the public service

-seL] Henry Arvisais

~ eC] Frank DeLauri

intervention on their behalf.

VOTE FOR NO MORE THAN 37 CANDIDATES

DMV parttimers get benefits

HAUPPAUGE — Three parttime Department of Motor
Vehicles employees who were three minutes a day short of the
required 18 and three-quarters hours a week needed to be eligible
for benefits now are enjoying full benefits as a result of CSEA’s

CSEA brought the plight of Motor Vehicle Representatives
Beatrice Cook, Mary Hope and Florence Hotcaveg to the
attention of DMV’s director of personnel when additional work
time was given not to them but to new part timers.

“The situation became unfair when three other parttime
employees were hired to work 18 and three-quarters hours per
week in the same office as Cook, Hope and Hotcaveg,”’ said Tom
Byrne, president of Long Island State Employees Local 016. The
three new employees were not selected from the civil service list.

The DMV personnel director felt “it is appropriate to
increase the workweek of Ms. Cook, Ms. Hope and Ms. Hotecaveg
one-quarter of an hour per week,’’ Byrne said. ‘a

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

2eL] Carmine Dk ista

ioL_]lrene Amaral
sol] John Catoe
51) Paul Fortuna

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CONTRACT SIGNED, SEALED — Pay hikes of 18.5 percent and a new
ssL]Irene Saccende dental plan are highlights of a hifeesyear contract ies recently in the
s«1Claire Rubenstein Ardsley (Westchester County) School district. CSEA Unit President John
ssL]Sarah L. Jackson Souza, left, is shown being congratulated by School Superintendent Dr.
ssL] Russell Ceccotti Elmer Gast. Looking over their shoulders are Assistant Superintendent Dr.
sL] Barbara Ritchie Fred Kowalski, Westchester CSEA Local 860 President Pat Mascioli,
ss] Marcia C. Weinstein Director of Employee Relations Dr. Rosemary Townley, and Field
so]Gary Orth Representative Don Partrick.
eoL]Carl A. Mathieson III
si_]Charles Rexhouse
s2(_] Pearl Coleman

«:L) Ralph Matthews

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«Barbara Skelly
sOLouis Altier|
*OJudy Remington
Gerald Toome
sCJeanne Kelso

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«OGlennen wi

7L] Yvonne Nargy
nC] Barbara Weber
zL]Vernon Cason
mL] Steve Edwards

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»OBetty Nichols
«OQ Barbara Charles

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«UDonald M. Forchjij;
. Fo
«CJames Ingoldsty

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Region V

Slate 1 (36 candidates) 2 Bick oe > ;
| “Leadership Slate” “Maur :
: Jim Moore 40 anc ;
C 2L)Pat Crandall « CD LeR@ip,
3LJRalph L. Young 2
4L Bruce T. Nolan
sL]George McCarthy ‘
eL) Helen Hanlon Slate
Mary Sullivan
"0 Marae Coggeshall fe Developmental

eL)Linda Fiorentino

wClrene Carr :
1Q)Richard Wise
12) Dorothy Pengt
x3L) Jon Premgg
sL) Mary Law,
ssLCarlo g

a1] Emma Gallo
«(Kathleen Olenivch
as(]Stephen Arbes
4sL) Anthony Gallo

VOTE FOR NO MORE
THAN 36 CANDIDATES | sjate 1 (34 candidates)

“Region VI Slate”

:OWilliam L. McGowan
2Q Barbara M. Fauser
oO) Robert L. Lattimer
«QRobert C. Smith
sO Gerry Prince
eCJohn P. Eiss
7OSheila A. Brogan
sCJoan Poisella
oC] Barbara Reese
wLJoe Polito
1O Sharon Vidler
7eOHerm Parson
vOJim Bourkney
«OO Creaola Sheldag
1s) Barbara J. Gite

Region VI

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“Judiciary 335 Slate”

«Betty L. Farrell

3s Ralph W. He: a)
xO Mary L. Kr:
«OA. Sam Na

Ws John ‘Or

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z2tfRon Draper
2sL}Carol Riggall
2) Richard Grieco
2sC] Doris Pratz

2sL) Robert Allen

2 Claire McGrath
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2 Sharon Connor
sLJFrancis J. Mitchell
sO Kathy Collins

ae) Chuck Whitney
»C) Loretta Rodwell
«(Don Zimmerman
aC Linda Crisifulli
aC) Frank Peretta

die N. Brewer

“4'(5 candidates)
“Membership Slate”

«QO Betty Williams
«QO Geraldine Wiggins
«*QWilma Hasser
«Sandra Howard
«Doris W. Williams

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soOTom Warzel

2 Florence Tripi
»QElaine Mootry {__ »OWilliam Thomson

2s] Penny Bush
2» CiJames Jayes

xO Kathleen J. Berchou se Scott J. Corey

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«QQ Brian J. Madden «(Diane E. Zito

«OTom Messina ss) Dominic Savarino

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 23, 1984 Page.17.

Guild succeeds Burgess as assistant to McGowan

ALBANY — One familiar face has replaced another as assistant to CSEA
President William L. McGowan.

Robert Guild has taken the place of Judy Burgess who recently accepted
a post in the governor’s office as a deputy director for scheduling.

Guild joined the CSEA staff in 1967 as a field representative and two years
later became a collective bargaining specialist. Previously he worked more than
16 years at Marcy Psychiatric Center where he was a CSBA activist and local
president.

Burgess leaves CSEA after 19 years involvement which began when she or-
ganized co-workers at the Geneva School District intoa unit of CSEA Ontario
County Local 835. One of her proudest accomplishments as a unit president there
was achieving 100 percent membership in the union from among the employees.

Later, she became county local president, served on the union’s board of
directors, and was elected CSEA Western Region secretary. She also served on
numerous statewide committees.

In 1980, Burgess became McGowan’s assistant and in that role became a
familiar face statewide.

CSEA PRESIDENT WILLIAM L. McGOWAN is flanked by Judy Burgess, left,
his former administrative assistant, and Robert Guild, his new executive
assistant,

Region IV leaders meet to talk about
upcoming elections, Rebuild N.Y. bond

LATHAM — The economic impact of
the passage of the Rebuild New York
Bond, regional elections and AFSCME
delegate elections were among the
main topics of discussion at a recent
dinner meeting of Region IV
leadership.

“Our efforts to pass the Rebuild New
York Bond are beginning to pay off,”
C. Allen Mead, president of the Capi-
tal Region, reported to the 238 local and
unit leaders who attended the evening
business session.

“Beginning in April, the Department
of Transportation will begin rebuilding
300 bridges and replacing 500 miles of
highway,” said Mead. ‘This will cost
$825 million; $300 million of that came
directly from the bond. And many of

those projects will be carried out in the
counties which make up the Capital
Region.”

Mead reviewed the procedures for
the upcoming regional elections and
talked about the schedule for the up-
coming AFSCME delegate elections.
“These procedures are very important
and should be followed to the letter so
that every individual who is interest-
ed in seeking an office or a delegate po-
sition has equal opportunity to do so,”
he said.

Following various complaints from
the floor concerning the activities of a
discount vendor, Mead directed the
leadership to advise their local mem-
bership that CSEA does not have exclu-
sive arrangements with any vendor,

but rather notifies its membership that
a vendor has services available to
them.

“Tt’s still a ‘let the buyer beware’ sit-
uation because what a vendor says to
us may not be what he says to a local
or a member who calls him up. We
have to be careful in such situations,”
Mead said.

Regional Director John D. Corcoran
Jr. and Regional Attorney Richard
Burstein updated the leadership on
topics of concern.

Corcoran also noted that Patrick
Manchino, a regional collective bar-
gaining specialist, is retiring after 16
years of service to the union. Corcoran
paid tribute to Monachino’s service to

i C. ALLEN MEAD — “Let the buy-
union members.

er beware.”

GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS — Rochester Psy-
chiatric Center Local 420 member Hazel Stewart, right,
is congratulated by CSEA Western Region President
Robert L. Lattimer, center, and Local 420 President
Herman Parson outside Rochester TV-13 studios.
Stewart had just completed an extensive interview for the
station concerning union complaints about shortstaffing
of staff personnel at mental health facilities, including the

one at Rochester.

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"THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 28, 1984

Yorktown worker gets
job back with back pay

YORKTOWN — More than $5,000 in back pay and a pro-
motion have been awarded a town employee here in an ar-
bitration proceeding brought by CSA on his behalf.

The decision involved Norman Hughes, a town
employee for 24 years who was passed over for a promotion
when an eight-year employee was appointed to the position
of heavy motor equipment operator in April 1981.

CSEA Attorney Arthur Grae emphasized that,
according to the contract, seniority is supposed to be a
major factor in the consideration of non-competitive
promotions. In this case, the eight-year employee had no
experience in operating the equipment needed for the new
job. Hughes did, but the town contended that he was unable
to cope with the physical requirements of the position. After
a lengthy arbitration process, it was decided that Hughes
would be promoted if he were deemed fit by a physician.

A physician appointed by the town submitted a brief
report stating without specific reasons that Hughes was
unfit for the job. Grae was dissatisfied with the report and
‘insisted that Hughes be examined by another doctor.
Hughes got a second opinion and was found physically 2
able to take on the new job. He was awarded back pay in the
amount of $5,152.

Field Representative Donald Partrick credited Grae
and the CSEA Legal Assistance Program with bringing
Hughes’ case to a satisfactory conclusion.

YORKTOWN EMPLOYEE Norman Hughes, center, is congratulated by Westchester Local
President Pat Mascioli after Hughes was awarded a promotion and a check for $5,000 for
back pay as a result of an arbitration decision. Hughes was passed over for the promotion,
which was given to a less experienced employee. With Hughes is CSEA Attorney Arthur
Grae, Field Representative Don Partrick and Yorktown Unit President Lawrence Greene.

Old job, $25,000 go to Mount Vernon housing employee

MOUNT VERNON — A Mount Vernon Housing Authority employee
has recovered his job and stands to regain some $25,000 in back wages

and accruals as the result of a recent arbitrator’s decision. CSEA
member James Patrick, represented by the union in the proceeding, had
been discharged without first being given a disciplinary hearing.

After a period of hospitalization in October 1982, Patrick was told by
his supervisor that he could not return to work despite a letter from his
doctor certifying his fitness. In December, he again submitted a letter
from his doctor stating that he was ‘“‘medically cleared to return to
work.””

But the supervisor rejected the letter saying that Patrick could not
“just go to work after so long an absence and illness” and that he would
have to bring his case to the board of directors of the housing authority.

In January 1983, a letter was sent to Patrick by the executive director
of the housing authority informing him that his case was being referred to
the board of commissioners for “further deliberation and
determination.” However, charges were never made.

TOM MCGREGOR, center, a village of Potsdam employee, offered a smile of
approval when Grievance Chairman Bill Smith, left, and Unit President Bob
Meashsaw visited his worksite with the good news he had won his recent
arbitration over wages.

Meanwhile, Field Representative Larry Sparber wrote to Patrick’s
supervisor telling him that there had been no resolution of Patrick’s
request that he be returned to work. Sparber demanded an immediate
response.

When the housing authority did not reply, a grievance was initiated
claiming that, as a non-competitive class employee, Patrick had a
contractual right to a Section 75 hearing. The grievance also demanded
retroactive payment of all monies and benefits from October 1982 to the
present.

Still, the housing authority refused to reinstate Patrick or to give him
a hearing. The matter then was referred to arbitration.

Because of delays and attempts by the housing authority to stay the
arbitration, the case was not heard until January 1984. At that time, the
housing authority claimed that disciplinary action had not been taken
because Patrick could not be located.

CSEA Attorney Arthur Grae refuted that claim and the American
Arbitration Association decided to award Patrick his job as well as back
pay and accruals.

Pay raises won for Potsdam
worker by CSEA legal program

POTSDAM — With union help, a CSEA member in the Village of
Potsdam Unit recently won two increases in his pay check — first in a
grievance settlement and then through arbitration.

The village worker, Tom McGregor approached CSEA’s Legal
Assistance Program in February 1983 when he was reassigned from a
position as a motor equipment operator (MEO) to the Potsdam Water and
Sewage Treatment Plant and continued to be paid at his MEO rate of $6.42
per hour. A grievance was filed that resulted in McGregor being reclassified
as a water and sewage treatment mechanic. The settlement also provided
retroactive pay at the rate of $7.25.

But McG regor’s problems continued when his first full pay check in June
did not include a 5 percent increase given to all employees June 1, 1983, as
the contract specified.

McGregor again turned to CSEA and requested arbitration.

Spokesmen for CSEA called attention to the specific contract language
calling for a 5 percent salary increase effective June 1 for all employees
covered by the current agreement.

More than four months after arbitration was begun, PERB issued a
decision that the village of Potsdam had violated the contract and McGregor
was entitled to the 5 percent salary increase retroactive to June 1.

The preliminary grievance work was handled by Bill Smith, unit
grievance chairman; Bob Meashaw, unit president; and Steve Ragan,
CSEA field representative. CSEA Regional Attorney William Maginn, Jr.
represented McGregor during the arbitration.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 23, 1984 Rage 19

ee ce Se sO OT OPW or) PEENG HA a ROIME GPRASIEST OL SANSA Neeson DEIN IC IM) SoePORMS Ne Ost ce Pp ly! ESE AE ced Pl a8 VEE CRN ea PN Mn Par WT)

WALTER F.
MONDALE

NEW YORK PRIMARY °APRIL 3rd

‘THE BEST CANDIDATE

FOR THE FUTURE OF
WORKING PEOPLE’

The voters of New York may decide the Democratic Mondale would balance the federal budget by
candidate for president of the United States when we cutting the wild defense spending of the Reagan
cast our ballots on Tuesday, April 3, 1984. administration and eliminating tax cuts that only benefit

CSEA is endorsing Walter F. Mondale because he the wealthy.
has the best record for working Americans, in general HUMAN SERVICES: Only Mondale has a program
and public employees in particular. to protect the needs of retirees and working families

PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: At CSEA’s 1983 Delegates that need a little help from the government.
Convention Mondale expressed his suport for public “America was not meant to be a jungle where just
employees, “While you struggled to serve more people the fittest or richest survive. | want to be the president
with less money, they (the Reagan administration) have who makes us a community again,” said Mondale.

1 heaped ridicule on public employees. They've implied Support for Social Security, Medicare, school lunch
PRESIDENT’S you are lazy and don't care about the people you serve. and childhood nutrition programs are all part of the
They are absolutely wrong.” Mondale supports adequate — Mondale platform.

MESSAGE federal aid to state and local governments. Mondale also Walteniitandalachoer worked fort thes interests-of

opposes the contracting out of public service jobs. working people throughout his career. Now he is being

HAG ara ais Working people have suttered tne attacked by the candidates of the rich special interests
most through this recession, Even so it is the bankers for that record.

AUT CEC TIS nd corporate executives that are gaining from the s0: Qn April G, 1984, | urge you to vote for Walter

CSEA President called recovery. Walter Mondale wants to change that. fF, Mondale in the Democratic primary. The future is at

“Mr. Reagan believes that prosperty trickles down from stake and clearly Walter Mondale is the best candidate
above. | believe it percolates up from the people,” said for the future of working people.

Mondale.

ELECT THOSE DELEGATE
CANDIDATES COMMITTED TO
WALTER F. MONDALE IN
NEW YORK'S PRIMARY APRIL 3rd 2.4

(See pages 10 and 11)

“WALTER F. MONDALE was warmly
received by CSEA’s 1,500 delegates
when the candidate addressed them at
‘the union’s annual delegates meeting. At
lower left is CSEA President William L.
McGowan.

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