The Public Sector, 1982 October 22

About a week from the time you read this, the voters of
New York State will choose our next governor. The choice is
crystal clear. Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo, the candidate CSEA has
endorsed and worked for since March, or millionaire
businessman Lewis Lehrman, candidate who has never held
any public office and who wants to bring Reaganomics to

New York.

Cuomo up to now. We were his first major supporters. We
worked tirelessly to help him pull off the greatest political
upset in this state in decades by defeating Mayor Koch. We
- have welcomed him into our meetings and into our hearts
and we have proved that this union isn’t afraid to endorse an
underdog. . —

But everything we haye done will be meaningless if we
don’t get to the polls on November 2 and give him the one
last push he needs to reach the governor’s office. This isn’t
the Democratic primary any more. Every CSEA member —
Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative, whatever —
can give Mario Cuomo their personal vote of confidence.

“New York need
+MARIO CUOM

This union can be proud of what we have done for Mario.

That won’t mean much unless we make sure that we all do it
and that our friends and relatives vote as well.

After the Reagan debacie in 1980, | made up my mind
that it was useless for any union to just tell members who
they should vote for. What we learned, unfortunately at the
price of Reaganism, is that we must tell people why we think
they should support a candidate. We have done that with
Mario Cucmo’s candidacy and the results have been
overwhelming. : oe -

Cucmo agrees with our union on many issues that are
vital to public workers. Issues like reform of Tier {ll of the
retirement system that will give public workers poverty level
pensions in exchange for a lifetime of dedicated service. He
agrees with us that the Taylor Law needs some reform to be
fair to both employers and employees, and he knows that
public services are critical to this state and its people.

His opponent is now running around spreading a web of
lies that Mario is “owned by the union bosses.” Well perhaps
Lew Lehrman is for sale, but Mario Cuomo is not. This union

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Official Publication of The Civil
Service. Employees Association
Local; 1000, American
Federation of State, County and’
Municipal Employees AFL-CIO
Vol. 4, No. 27
Friday, October 22, 1982

(ISSN 0164 9949)

Delegates ok organizing
private sector ... page 9

MIDDLE COUNTRY — Bending to
CSEA Local 870 pressure, the Middle
Country School Board has scrapped
plans to contract out custodial work
and instead is hiring eight additional
full-time custodial and six additional
part time custodial positions.

The about face by the Suffolk Coun-
ty school district was hailed as a ma-
jor victory by Walter Weeks, presi-
dent of Local 870, who finally convine-
ed the board — which is trying to cut
expenses because of declining enroll-
ment — that it was “‘better to hire
local residents and taxpayers that to
hire outside contractors.”’

Weeks and a contingent of Local 870
members marched outside Middle
Country School District’s Dawnwood

IN PROTEST — Local 870 members picketed outside the
Middle Country School last month to protest the school
boards plan to contract out for custodial services. Field

Junior high school on Sept. 13 to pro-
test the district’s plan to contract out
custodial services.

Carrying placards with the slogans,
“We Don’t Need Unemployment,”
“Don’t Penalize District Residents —
Stop Contracting Now,” “Give me
Security, I Pay Taxes Here,” ‘‘Con-
tract Out the Superintendent’s Job,
Not ours,” and “Keep Taxpayers
Employed,” CSEA members march-
ed outside the building for more than
an hour before they filled the
auditorium.

“You have a duty to the taxpayers
to employ civil service workers
because they are accountable to you
and to the residents of the district,”
James Walters, field representative
told the school board. “With a subcon-

tional President
demonstration.

tractor, you never know what type of
employee you are getting. But you
can hire qualified public employees
on an individual basis and you can fire
them if they do not do their jobs. I im-

Representative Jim Walters, left, and Suffolk Educa-

Walter Weeks, center, lead the

plore you to reject your plan to use
subcontractors.”

After Walters, spoke the Board
agreed to a labor-management
meeting which was held on Sept. 23.
There, CSEA and the school ad-
ministration worked out an agree-
ment in which the school board would
hold off plans to contract out custodial
work and would instead hire eight
full-time custodians to fill vacant
positions. The administration also
agreed to create six new part-time
custodians — called custodial aides —
for a total of 14 new hires.

“The Board did not say it would
never contract out, but would put its
plan in abeyance to see how this
would work out,’’ said Walters.

“That's all we asked. We’re con-
vinced that we can demonstrate that
our people can do a better job than
subcontractors, that the administra-
tion will have more control over the
cleaning services and that the
residents of the school district will be
getting a shot at employment.’ said
Weeks.

“It’s more humane to keep a person
in a job,” agreed Board President
Bruce Brodsky. ‘‘The board feels that
it has an obligation to the taxpayer to
reduce expenditures whenever possi-
ble especially when there is a declin-
ing enrollment. It’s better to take
away a job that isn’t filled rather than
hurt a family.”

The settlement brings to a close two
years of struggle between Local 870
and the school board in which
members of the Local went on a three
day wild cat strike last March over
growing subcontracting throughout
the district.

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ctober 22, 1982

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Warren, Millie Nendel, and Bernice Stevens.

RYE-—Saying he is “very proud of the
contract,” Unit President Glenn Steele has
outlined the provisions of a two-year pact
recently ratified for 60 employees. here who
make up one of the CSEA units of Westchester
County Local 860.

The agreement, retroactive to Jan. 1,
immediatel} adds a one-time $150 performance
bonus to each step of the salary schedule coupled
with an 8 percent across-the-board wage hike
this year and again in 1983. Field Representative
Larry Sparber explained that when the increases
are compounded, they mean real wage hikes of
between 17.2 percent to 18.2 percent.

Other provisions include:

«one hour travel time for department of
public works employees called to report for
emergency purposes;

* overtime pay for clerical employees who
work Election Day;
extra personal day with provision that time

FIELD REPRESENTATIVE LARRY Sparber, seated left, watches as Unit President Glen Steele
seals the pact by shaking hands with City Manager Frank Culross.: At right is Louis Smith, chief
regional mediator of the Public Employment Relations Board who helped resolve matters. Standing
are, from left, Vito Calo, Jordan Stavarides, Local 860 President Pat Mascioli, Pat Moroney, Gail

Rye employees ok retroactive
contract containing big gains

may be used in two-hour increments with unused
personal leavé to be added to employee’s annual
sick leave accumulation;

* up to two days of vacation time may be used
annually in half day units;

«increase by $50 per employee in city’s
contribution to dental plan insurance;

* $15,000 set aside during term of contract to
replace uniforms for public works employees;

e clerical unit members given option of
choosing either compensatory time or pay at
straight time for first five hours worked in
excess of regular 35-hour week;

e sick leave may be used in two-hour
increments; and

e initiation of the CSEA Employee Benefit
Fund family vision care benefit as of Jan. 1, 1983.

The unit’s negotiating team, besides Steele
and Sparber, included Vito Calo, Jordan
Stavarides, Pat Moroney, Gail Warren, Millie
Nendel and Bernice Stevens.

Improving communications between units

IN ORDER TO IMPROVE communications
between the school units of the Southern Region,
two forums were recently held, one in White Plains
and the other in Fishkill. School employees, shown
above at the White Plains session, included, from
left, Claire Strati (White Plains), Dorothy Noto

(Pelham), Dolores Slazzo, (Bedford), Yvonne
Reznik (White Plains), John Cato (White Plains),
Larry Scanlon, CSEA’s coordinator of school
district affairs; Janice Schaff (Yonkers), and
Barbara Peters (White Plains).

Cyclist owes

life to two
quick-acting
DOT workers

WESTBURY — Quick thinking by two
State Department of Transportation
Region 10 employees on Long Island helped
save an injured motorcyclist’s life.

Richard Lamb, assistant maintenance
foreman, and John Spano, a maintenance
operator, were driving a rack truck on their
way to a work location on the morning of
Oct. 7 when Lamb spotted a motorcyclist’s
helmet lying on the edge of a ramp leading
to the Northern State Parkway near its
intersection with Wantagh Parkway.

The two men parked the truck and
investigated. Lying in a wooded area they
found an overturned motorcycle and Peter
Slater, who had apparently lost control of
his machine which sped off the road into the
woods.

“He was bleeding profusely from his
mouth and forehead. His legs were a
mess,” said Lamb. ‘‘John bent over him
and he said, ‘Help me, help me.’ We
consoled him, and told him help was on the
way.”

.The two. men contacted a DOT
dispatcher, who called police. An
ambulance rushed Slater’ to the hospital,
where his condition was listed as grave
following his discovery by Lamb and
Spano.

“If it weren’t for these two employees,
that man probably would have died,”’ said
Lou Mannellino, DOT Region 10 Local
president. “‘I commend their actions, but it
is not that rare for our mernbers to perform
such services. What is rare, however, is
public recognition for their services.”

Lamb said police told him they
speculated that Slater had been thrown
from his motoreycle two to three-hours
before he was discovered, and that if the
two men had not discovered him he
probably would have died. :

MARIO
Cuomo

*

He deserves
your vote Nov. 2

*

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MY DAD SAYS WE HAVE
TO CHECK OUT ALL THE STUFF
THAT'S HANDED To US To MAKE
SURE THERE'S NOTHING
IN 1T THAT CouLD
REALLY HURT US...

- eae HE'S

THAT'S WHY HE'S GOING

DONE THE SAME THING
WITH THE ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
FOR GOVERNOR—

To VOTE FOR CUOMO.

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CSEA wins bargaining rights for civilian workers

“in military and naval affairs division

is a public employee.”

ALBANY — CSEA has won the war to get
bargaining rights for all civilian employees of
the state Division of Military and Naval Affairs
(DMNA). ; :

In ahistoric decision, the director of the Public
Employment Relations Board, Harvey Milowe,
ruled that the workers are public employees ‘to.
be covered by the Taylor Law for representation

In 1967 when the state initially defined
bargaining units, it excluded all members of the
organized militia, a term which it regarded as

purposes.’’ ; including all DMNA workers. :
The state had argued before PERB that the The PERB director, however rejected various
M employees were in the military service, not the arguments that there was no distinction between
egi on civil service, which prompted Milowe to civilians and uniformed personnel, explaining,
comment that such reasoning “overlooks the  ‘‘While the organized militia is in the DMNA, the
fact that the DMNA is a division within the employees of the DMNA are not necessarily in
en or sements executive department of the state, a public — the organized militia.” He concluded: “I find the
employer. . . and that a person whois appointed _civilian employees to be covered by the Taylor
The following endorsements have been made or employed in the service of a public employer, Law for representation purposes.”
by the Region VI Political Action Committee: Denes
Senate District Candidate Is
4 ie Seeres DOL board seat ballots to be mailed Oct. 28
54 John Perry ALBANY — Three candidates’ names willappear Cheektowaga, a member of Local 352.
5 William Steinfeldt on the Department of Labor Board seat ballots, Replacement ballots may be requested beginning
* Hess Er eeent which will be mailed to eligible members Oct. 28. Nov. 5 from the Office of the Executive Director, 33
of No Endorsement Running to fill the DOL vacancy on the statewide Elk St., Albany, N.Y. 12224.
58 Anthony Mastetlo Board of Directors are: Jeanne Lyons of Troy, a All ballots are due back at CSEA headquarters by
59 Dale Volker member of Local 670; Denis J. Tobin of New York Nov. 23. Election results will be announced the
60 Eugene Cullinan City, a member of Local 350; and Elaine Todd of following day.
61 John Daly u
Assembly District Candidate e °
uo No Endorsement Member seeks Supreme Court judgeship
29 Frank Talomie
130 Louise Slaughter NEW YORK CITY—ACSEA member is seeking _ Lynch, a‘member of New York City CSEA Local
131 Gary Proud a State Supreme Court judgeship in the general 010, is a graduate of New York University Law
132 Audre (pinny) Cooke election on Nov. 2nd. School. He served as an assistant corporation
133 David Gantt Harold J. Lynch, a law secretary to Appellate counsel in New York City for three years, and was a
134 Roger Robach Division, First Department, Presiding Justice law assistant and special referee in Supreme Court
135 James Nagle Frances T. Murphy Jr., is the Republican and the Appellate term of New York City for seven
136 Ronald Foley candidate for the State Supreme Court justice from years. He has served as law secretary to the
138 Joseph Pillettere New York County. presiding justice for the past six years.
139 Matt Murphy
140 Robin Schimminger 5
141 Arthur Eve s a :
142 John Sheffer Statewide Treasurer Barbara Fauser will be in the
143 Dennis Gorski Statewide treasurer Long Island Region I headquarters on Thursday and
144 William Hoyt * Friday, October 28 and 29, to meet with any CSEA unit or
145 Richard Keane Fi ‘auser to visit local Mbensirers who have questions concerning union,
146 (new dist). Francis Pordum financial matters.
M7 No Endorsement Long Island : Fauser will be available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both
148 Vincent Graber Ws days. Treasurers unable to meet with her fen may
149 Dan Walsh H ; contact Fauser by telephone at the regional office at
150 William Parmet r egional office ass e280. 3
Page 4 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, October 22, 1982

(ay walnat SUNT

Al DelBello for Lt. Gov.:
Solid credentials

i WHITE PLAINS — He is usually referred to as
' Mario Cuomo’s running mate, but Alfred Del
* Bello brings with him solid credentials as the
| seeks election to the office of lieutenant
/ governor.
+ The popular 48-year old Democrat, who is in
| his third term as Westchester county executive,
believes his experience there equips him for
state office. He calls Westchester County, with
its mix of cities, suburbs and rural areas, ‘“‘a true
/ microcosm of the state,” and is especially proud
| that under his leadership he cut unemployment
from 7.4 percent to 4.7 percent. He now wants a
chance to do the same statewide.

A nationally-recognized spokesman on behalf
_ of local governments, DelBello has been critical
| of Reaganomics and its impact on working peo-

ple. He sees the position of lieutenant governor

as an opportunity to be “‘an effective advocate of

people who need the strongest possible voice in

Albany,” and offers his record of public service

as evidence. He has established such agencies as

the Office for Women, Consumer Protection
Agency, and Office of Economic Development.
At the same time, his sound fiscal management
has resulted in the county having an even better
credit rating than the state.

CSEA Southern Region President Ray O’Con-
nor praises Del Bello’s accessibility, while Jack
Whalen, president of the 5,000-member
Westchester County unit, says: “‘As county ex-
ecutive, Al has shown himself to be pro-labor. So

unions.”

one vote to support tw

we

McGowan: Why we need MARIO CUOMO:

(Continued from Page 1) x

has exacted only one promise from Mario Cuomo in ex-
change for our support: that he will listen to our side of
issues as he would listen to others and that he will treat us
with respect and fairness, period. 7

In fact, if you look at the record, you can see plainly that
CSEA disagrees with the lieutenant governor on a number of
various issues. If we only endorsed candidates who agreed
with us on every issue, we wouldn't endorse candidates at
all. But there is something that Cuomo and CSEA agree upon
that transcends all issues. We both agree that working peo-
ple deserve fairn dignity, equality and the hope of a bet-
ter future.

Lew Lehrman is lit
heard of Lew Lehrmai

ly a self-made man. Who ever
re pent $8 million to create a
public image the me way business sells soap or
deodorant? What ies him for any public office? Has he’
ever held a ublic office befo
any particu loyalty to this s' before?

answers to all those questions
conclusion that Lew Lehrman doesn’t deserve to be gover-"
nor. He has never held any public office in this state. He
no ex; nce in public administration. He has no political
expe: and would be helpless in deal with the
legislature. And as far as commitment to New York is con-
cerned, he lived in a New York ‘apartment for a long time

Has he ever even shown |

d directly to the

ALFRED DELBELLO

it’s easy to understand why he has such strong
support among both public and private sector

Mario Cuomo and Alfred Del Bello will appear ©
on the ballot together, so you only have to cast ©
0 friends of labor.

~) Mario's opponent:
| A disaster for N.Y.

ALBANY — What kind of governor would Lew
Lehrman make?
| According to one independent budget expert in
| the capital, Lehrman would be a New York version
! of Ronald Reagan — slashing taxes and then worry-
ing about the consequences for public services and
public employees.

Charles deSeve, president of deSeve Economics
Associates, and formerly a top legislative fiscal
' analyst, told reporters last week that Lehrman’s
tax proposal to hack state income taxes, sales taxes
and capital gains taxes would result in either
massive cuts in present levels of public services or
equally massive increases in local property taxes.

Using words like ‘“‘naive”’ ‘‘totally unrealistic’) to
describe the Lehrman plan, deSeve joined an in-
creasing list of Democrat and Republican leaders
who have blasted the Lehrman proposal as fiscally
reckless and politically impossible.

Even Republican legislative leaders like Senate
Finance Committee Chairman John Marchi have
publicly disowned the proposal as unworkable.

In New York City, Felix Rohatyn, chairman of
the Municipal Assistance Corporation or “Big
MAC,” the financial shoring that has held the city’s
financial structure together, called the Lehrman ©
plan “more radical and therefore more frighten-
ing” than Reaganomics.

Lehrman’s plan would cut state income taxes by
one-half of a percentage point per year for eight
years; cut the sales tax by one-quarter of a percent
per year for eight years; and cut the capital gains
tax by one percent per year for eight years.

The result, deSeve reports, would be a 40 percent
cut in state income tax revenues and a halving of
state sales tax revenues, the two major elements of
the state’s revenue program.

The consequences, according to the expert, would
be an annual drop in state revenues of nearly $13

‘Buffalo

hs ciate billion and the possible elimination of 40 percent of

state government jobs by 1991 in order to
compensate.

Democratic candidate Mario Cuomo, meanwhile,
was blasting the Lehrman plan as a disastrous at-
tempt to bring Reaganomics to New York. He pro-
posed a continuation of past state policies of spen-
ding restrain coupled with gradual tax reduction to
bring down government spending without slashing
public services.

CSEA President William L. McGowan said of the
Lehrman plan, “It’s almost funny. that while
everybody is finally recognizing Reaganomics isn’t
working nationally, Lehrman is now trying to get it
started here. It should be proof to all New Yorkers
that Lehrman simply is ignorant of government, in-
different to the concerns of the people who depend
on government services, and eager to put public
employees on the already overcrowded unemploy-
ment lines his hero in the White House helped
create.”

while claiming Pennsylvania as his home.

In fact, Lew Lehrman never paid a dime in New York
until 1977, the deadline for declaring residency to be
to run for governor this year. He never even registered
to vote in his home state of Pennsylvania until he was 33
years old!

This is the man that wants to be the highest elected of-
ficial of our state?

Now Lehrman has rev: id his wonderful tax plan for
New York’s future. About the only thing good that can be said
about it is that it is so absurd that it’s more of a joke than a

lan. Even the state’s top Republic: leaders have disowned
it. independent budget experts call it frightening. For public
employees, it would be lethal.

' No, this is no fuzzy election where you have to hunt to
find difference between the candidates. The differences are
crystal clear. On the one side you have experience, compas-
sion, leadership and proven performance. On the other side
you have Lew Lehrman and his personal fortune.

is this state going to be sold its next governor like it
would be sold a bottle of mouthwash? Have we really come

questions until
at my voting

ject a governor who
cares about you and, at » send a message to
the actor in the White House. Don’t blow your opportunity.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, October 22, 1982 Page 5

Non-teaching school workshop

HAUPPAUGE — A workshop, ‘‘Achieving
your goals through your union,” was conducted
recently for non-teaching school district
employees on Long Island Region I. The well-
attended training program was sponsored by the
Region N jon-Teaching School District Employees

Region I Vice President Carol Craig
moderated the program, which was conducted
by CSEA Education Training Specialist Peg
Wilson from Albany.

Among those participating were, in the above

ok tragic auto-truck
aimed the life of Kimberly
pee Therapy Aide

tric Center.

ne Holo & Mrs. Gordon
Lawton, Pennsylvania. —

: mployees at Binghamton Paveuiatrie

Center, have begun a drive for funds to assist
in the ie pelleted ‘of Ms. Thomas’
daughter, er contributions may be sent to:
Megan Thomas Fund, c/o Mr. and Mrs.
: ‘Goren Weset ox, Laon Pennsylvani

Committee in cooperation with the Region Train- Photo, from left, Trudy Fox, Anne Steinfeld, e
ing, Information and Eiduestion Committee. Gloria Feldhusen and cone Pepe.

STONY BROOK — Dogged efforts by Local 614 to obtain ‘adequate’ com- underpaid by at least three grades, probably more,” said Charles Sclafani,
pensation for the work performed by nursing station attendants in the Univer- Local 614 president. “They had to do something — it was in their best interest.”
sity Hospital at SUNY at Stony Brook, have resulted in a state-wide upgrading The turn-over rate of the nursing station attendants was high, Stony Brook
of approximately 150 of the employees. officials admit, and a survey they conducted showed that hospitals in the area

The three-level upgrading comes after CSEA helped convince the State were playing higher salaries than Stony Brook. As a result, the University
that nursing station attendants were underpaid and that by increasing their Hospital was functioning as a training school for the nursing station attendants ®
salaries the State could cut down the rate of nursing station attendants leaving _ who soon left for more lucrative positions, said Tony LaBate, director of per-
state employment for better paying jobs in private hospital. suet the ay Hospital

' ' ; fata i “The upgrading will provide some incentive for nursing station atten
___ The nursing station attendants, who enter physicians instructions to nurses 4, 1494 for 2 pees tiles teomise it shows them that the sae pet es aap ee
in a central computer system and perform a number of other pala pay equality in their field,” said LaBate.
services, moved up from grade 4 to grade 7, a salary increase of at least 6 per- ete a . ie i
cent. There are approximately 40 nursing station attendants at Stony Brook de ay pe lnahaae Sacuon, he p State De Gana Service
and the rest are employed at either the Upstate or Downstate Medical Centers. aed :

The change in status for the nursing station attendants is an outgrowth of Sclafani said he was “heartened” that the State is “willing to listen to our
labor-management negotiations which continued since the upgrading was first legitimate complaints about inequities. We are planning to try to upgrade other e
suggested by Local 614 more than six-months ago. positions at Stony Brook including library clerks, groundsmen and other

“We proved to management that the nursing station attendants were hospital employees.”

; 5 =
( Notice of ——AFSCME’s rebate procedure
Since 1974, AFSCME’s Constitution has included ed in writing every year the individual wishes a
rebate procedure a rebate procedure to protect the right of dues- rebate.
ene ‘ payers (both members and non-members who pay The International Union will notify the ap-
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The political rebate amounts to $2.60. Each year, by April 1, the International that date.)
Secretary-Treasurer calculates the portion of per Any individual who is dissatisfied with the
CSEA procedures call for rebate capita payment or its service fee equivalent that amount of the rebate may object by filing a written
applications to be submitted during has been used for partisan political or ideological appeal with the Union’s Judicial Panel within 15
October by certified or registered |} purposes during the preceding fiscal year. The days after the rebate check has been received. Ap-
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Treasurer. Due to this late notice, j also by April 1, unless some different date is more Chairman at International headquarters. The
however, the Treasur er has extended | _ appropriate. 4 Judicial Panel will conduct a hearing and issue a
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, October 22, 1982

meeeeennenre ree Beerr

WESTBRENTWOOD — A black-onyx-and-
bronze memorial to the late Nobel laureate the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is being erected
on the grounds of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center by
CSEA Local 418.

The memorial will be in the shape of a pulpit
and adorned with bronze castings with
inscriptions citing Rev. King as “a man with a
dream . . . of universal brotherhood.”

Groundbreaking for the memorial was held
Oct. 8 in front of the Administration Building
flagpole. The shovels were handled by Joy Noya,
president of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center Local
418, and Peggy O’Neill, director of Pilgrim.

Noya had brought the idea of a permanent
memorial to reality after appointing a special
CSEA committee to make plans and raise funds.
The committee was successful beyond its

Dream of Martin Luther King
memorial realized on grounds
of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center

original hopes, and wound up with enough money
to also establish a permanent scholarship fund
for the children of CSEA at Pilgrim Psychiatric
Center. The scholarships were planned because
of the Rev. King’s dream of the future.

“We had a dream of our own, of a permanent
memorial to remind our younger people of Dr.
King’s faith in mankind and remind them that
they are not in a place where there is no
fellowship,” said Noya.

He noted that 51 percent of the staff of Pilgrim
PC are minorities.

And, he observed that as time passes, many
young people seem unaware of the work of Dr.
King, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace after
inspiring the American civil rights movement
with his message of non-violent but determined
protest against inequality.

He also noted that Dr. King’s final sacrifice of
his life came in support of labor when he was
assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., where he had
gone to support a strike by members of the
American Federation of State, County &
Municipal Employees.

The committee which made the memorial a
reality included Clyde Jennings, chairman;
Dave Williams, first vice chairman; Pearl
Gantt, second vice chairman; Sandy Carine,
secretary; Rose Land, treasurer, and Pearl
Cambrant, Marge Noya, Jamie Clark, Gene
Townsend and Clayton Chesson, a retired
member.

The CSEA campaign was funded by proceeds
from a series of sales and drawings plus gifts by
members and friends of CSEA.

The stone and bronze work is to be put in place
on Dr. King’s birthday next April 8.

Buffalo retirees

years.

BUFFALO — More than four centuries of public service was saluted
when SUNY at Buffalo CSEA Local 602 honored 32 retiring members at its
semi-annual membership meeting.

Guest speaker Marie Romanelli, SUNY representative to the CSEA
Board of Directors, was joined by Local President Barbara Christy in
congratulating their fellow members and wishing them well in their golden

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BALANCED BUDGET DEFEATED

a
Labor took strong initiative to
turn back right wing objective

WASHINGTON — The battle lines seem drawn
tighter than every between organized labor and
the Reagan Administration following the defeat

of President Reagan’s badly-flawed balanced.

budget constitutional amendment. The 236-187
House vote earlier this month was 46 votes short
of the two-thirds majority needed to send it to the
states for a ratification vote.

AFL-CIO President Land Kirkland said House
members who voted against its adoption
“earned the thanks of the nation.”’ But President
Reagan was reading from a different political
script when he went hefore television cameras at
the White House just moments after the
amendment’s defeat. His clear goal: to divert
the election campaign spotlight from the issues
of rising unemployment and a deepening
recession.

Reagan called for the defeat of House
members who opposed the amendment, most of
them Democrats.

He called on voters to elect representatives
“who will support the amendment when we
propose it again” next year.

And he shrugged off with evasion questions
from reporters who wanted to know why the
President didn’t simply submit a balanced
budget to Congress instead of lamenting the
rejection of a constitutional amendment that
would compel it.

Reagan’s first budget, which Congress
adopted almost intact, resulted in the largest
deficit in the nation’s history. And the budget he
proposed at the start of this year projected an
even larger deficit — one substantially higher
than the version Congress subsequently enacted.

Labor had waged a nationwide campaign
against the amendment, warning that it would
endanger social security benefits, leave
Congress helpless to deal with recession, and
inject dubious economic theory inte the
Constitution.

The constitutional amendment, which had
been approved by the Republican-controlled
Senate last August, would have required
Congress to adopt a balanced budget each year
except in time of war or when three-fifths of the
full membership of both the House and Senate
agreed to an exception. It would also have
limited government spending and revenue, so

that badget deficits couldn’t be averted by
raising taxes above a specified level.
Its enactment has heen a longstanding goal of

the right wing. But until the election of Reagan, -

it had been pushed primarily at the state level
through resolutions petitioning for a
constitutional convention to enact a balanced
budget amendment. Few took the issue seriously
until the number of state legislatures climbed to

31, three short of the number required. One of the

arguments made for action by Congress was that

it would forestall the untested mechanism of a

constitutional convention and the uncertainties
over such a body’s powers. :

Some senators who voted for the constitutional
amendment in August freely admitted in private
conversations that it would be at best

unworkable and at worst deeply damaging to the

ae But they counted on the House to bottle it

wih AFL-CIO Executive Council, in session Q
anything

pet the Senate acted, was not taking
or

it followed upa resolution apelliay out labor's:
objections to the amendment with the

appointment of a six-member subcommittee required

headed by AFSCME President Gerald W.

McEntee to coordinate a national grass-roots :

campaign.
The first goal was to slow and if possible block”
an attempt to pry the amendment out of the
House Judiciary Committee through a discharge
petition signed by 218 representatives — a
majority of the House. se Judiciar
Committee Chairman bie oni ay
(D—N.J.) has been a
amendment. If it did sh

lobbying goal was to have more than ‘one-third of |
the House firmly committed to voting against it. _
Washington lobbyists targeted some 100 key

congressional districts, and labor’s grassroots
effort was concentrated on the congressional

recess period, from late August through Labor _
Day. It was launched with a 14-state satellite —
- the votes to block the two-thirds needed to adopt

television conference, stressed personal visits b
delegations from unions and allied groups, an

included in many localities radio and newspaper —
advertisements along with postcard mailings
_ new Congress will depend to a large extent on the
election outeome.

from workers in factories, offices, hospitals,
stores and construction sites.

Not until Sept. 29, shortly before Congress was
to adjourn until after the election, did the petition
reach the required 218 names — and then only
after intensive personal lobbying by Vice
President Bush at the White House’s request.

Since House rules provide for a waiting period
before the discharge of a committee takes effect,
the expectation was that Republicans would use
the issue as best they could for political
campaign advantage and the showdown would
take place in the lame-duck session that will
convene on Nov. 29.

But House aimee ave leaders gambled
instead on disposing of the issue immediately and
devised a strategy that would make it easier for

fiscal Dini ted mostly from the South, to

vote against the amendment on the showdown.

The rule adopted for consideration of the
amendment called for a vote first on a substitute
Sponsored | by Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.).

‘The Alexander proposal would have required
the President to submit a balanced budget but
would allow Congress to make an exception by a
simple majority vote, instead of the three-fifths
under the ‘Administration proposal. The
‘Alexander alternatiye was beaten, 346-77. But
most of those who voted for it, having cast a vote

for the concept of a balanced budget, then voted

against the Administration measure.

Apart from the political maneuvering, the
debate was impressive and at the end some
staunch conservatives balked at the radical step
f a drastic amendment of the constitution to

‘ve a momentary political gain. A former
Republican leader of the House, John J. Rhodes
Arizona, who is retiring this year after 30
years in Congress, voted against the

“amendment. So did Rep. Jack Kemp, who broke

with his right-wing colleagues to urge that so
serious a matter as amending the constitution
not be treated as a political tug of war.

For the most part, though, liberal and
moderate Democrats and Republicans provided

the amendment and send it to the states for

-Fatification.

Whether it is revived as a serious issue in the

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Individual copies of
state contracts being
mailed to members in
three bargaining units

ALBANY —- Work is continuing on distribution of some 107,000 copies of
CSEA’s new state contracts to employees in the state’s Institutional,

Operational and Administrative bargaining units.
To date, Institutional Unit agreements have been mailed and should be in
the hands of unit employees shortly. Operational Unit agreements are now in

the mail as well and should be delivered in the immediate future. Work is

shortly.

continuing on the’ Administrative Unit agreements with mailing expected

In each case, contracts were mailed in the order in which they were

delivered from the printers.

Copies of the agreements for CSEA Local Presidents and grievance
representatives have also been sent to the union’s six regional offices to aid

leaders in contract administration. Those copies can be obtained by local

officials directly from the regional offices.
This is the first time that CSEA has mailed individual copies of contracts to
employees in the bargaining units. The effort was ordered by CSEA President

William L. McGowan to ensure that all union members are fully aware of their

rights and benefits under the three year contract.

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oN <2 PRIVATE SECTOR

BUFFALO — After 73 years as a strictly public employee labor union,
the Civil Service Employees Assn. may shortly, and on a limited basis,
begin organizing certain private sector workers.

CSEA delegates last week approved a historic change in the union’s
Constitution which authorizes the enlargement of jurisdictions of union
Locals to include certain private sector workers as members.

Specifically, the union is now constitutionally authorized to organize
employees in the private section in areas where traditionally the work
involved is performed by public employees. The change became effective
immediately, having previously been passed as a “first reading’ at a
special delegates meeting in August.

CSEA is expected to use the expanded organizing jurisdiction to combat
the growing trend toward ‘‘contracting out’’ of public services traditionally
performed by public sector employees to private sector businesses. The
union’s ability to organize those private sector workers should discourage
employers from attempting to “farm out’ work to private firms, which
often provide lower wages and less benefits to unfairly compete for work
usually performed by organized workers.

The union consistently said the intent of the amendment is to be able to

“ organize private sector workers who, in effect, permanently replace public
Gov. Hugh L. Carey tells delegates: employees, but that there would be no attempt to use the authority to

‘The state government works, organize firms which do normal, short-term work with governments that

does not involve the loss of jobs or workload of public workers.

ee. and you make it work.’ Under the amendment, no organizing of private sector workers can
be undertaken without approval of both the statewide president and the

See story, pages 10 and 11 union’s Board of Directors.

SUPPORT FOR CUOMO — Delegates used
many methods to show their support of
Mario Cuomo as governor of New York
State in the November 2nd general election.
Straw hats and large Cuomo buttons are
how delegates Kathy Berchou, left, and
Barbara Christy, both of SUNY Buffalo
Local 602, indicate their preference.

Additional
convention
coverage

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR,

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BUFFALO — Public employees are fighting back
against the disasters of Reaganomics, and CSEA is in the
forefront of that fight.

So said Gerald McEntee, president of the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME) to the delegates gathered here last week for
CSEA’s 72nd annual Delegates Convention. Although he
has addressed several CSEA regional meetings, it was
the first time the AFSCME leader spoke at a delegates
convention.

In an impassioned speech that garnered applause
and cheers at several intervals, McEntee lauded CSEA’s
two major accomplishments of late — its new state
contracts and its role in helping Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo
win the Democratic nomination for governor.

“You have an agreement with the State of New York
that for the first time will give you more money. It’s one
of the best contracts negotiated and we use it as an
example across the country,” he said, adding praise for
CSEA’s recent Nassau County settlement.

“And you're fighting contracting out, and you have
the foresight to be at this convention to organize the
private sector to protect the jobs of workers when they
contract out.”

McEntee said the upset by political underdog Cuomo
over popular New York City Mayor Ed Koch showed
what union solidarity can accomplish.

“This was the first time in our history that AFSCME
in New York — CSEA, Council 37, Council 82 — was
together and united,”’ he said. “It demonstrated that
these magnificent institutions called unions can work
together, that parts of the whole can come together and
indeed, when we do, we can make a difference.”

He said CSEA’s victories have infused “spirit and
hope”’ in other public employees across the country, and
pledged AFSCME’s continuing support in terms of
money and resources.

‘‘Whatever it takes, whatever resources you need, as
long as this national union has them, it belongs to you, the
rank and file.”

Working together, he said, AFSCME affiliates can
help turn around the economic disaster the country has
been plunged into since the election of Ronald Reagan to
the presidency.

He said while it is no secret that nearly half of all
AFSCME members and the majority of working people
voted for Reagan, those same voters are now bitterly
disillusioned by Reagan’s reign.

“I think many of our people voted for Candidate
Reagan and then became stuck with President Reagan,”
he said.

“Candidate Reagan said, ‘Elect me, and I will
reindustrialize America, I will create jobs for America.”

“But President Reagan took care of jobs, all right.
For the first time since 1932, the unemployment rate is
double digit — 10,2 percent. One in ten people are without
a job in America today.”

In addition, he noted, 5.5 million are forced to work

He

4 AFSCME PRESIDENT Gerald McEntee,

part time, while “‘the most tragic figure of all is the 2%
million workers called ‘discouraged’ workers. They’re so
discouraged they don’t even look for jobs anymore and
are not counted in the national figures.”

All together, 17 million are out of work, he said,
including 685,000 in New York State.

While stating that these figures doom any prospects
of economic recovery for the country, McEntee detailed
sacrifices public employees across the country have
been forced to make, such as giving back hard-won
wages, benefits and working conditions. But he also
pointed to a new spirit and determination among public
employees to hold onto what they’ve got.

“Rather than sacrificing, people are now telling
employers to go to hell,’’ said McEntee, among cheers
from the delegates.”” AFSCME is fighting back.”

Returning to the dichotomy between Candidate
Reagan and President Reagan, McEntee said Candidate
Reagan promised tax cuts, but for the public sector
worker earning an average of $12,000a year, President
Reagan’s tax cuts this past July netted them all of 89
cents a week.

He said Candidate Reagan also promised to take
government off the backs of workers, and President
Reagan ‘‘did what he said . . . he took government’s hand
out of your pocket, but substituted another — the rich and
the corporations.” He listed several big corporations in
America today that don’t pay federal taxes.

Meanwhile, federal aid once targeted for the state is
no more, he said.

“In 1982, $1 billion that used to come to the State of
New York doesn’t come here anymore. In 1983, over $1.5
billion that would have gone to the state isn’t going to
come here anymore.”

And, he listed other economic woes stemming from
the policies of the Reagan administration — business
failures, home foreclosures, reduced college aid,
reduced aid to the poor, the elderly and the handicapped,
and a massive budgetary deficit.

The good news, he said, is that the ‘‘boll weevils,”
Democrats who have backed Reagan’s policies, have
been falling in elections across the country as people
express their Outrage over Reaganomics at the voting
booth.

“You have an opportunity on Nov. 2 to really send a
message (to the administration),”’ he told the delegates.
While Cuomo’srace against Republican Lewis Lehrman
promises to be a tough one, he appealed to the union
members to ‘jwork for it, and work to send people to
Congress, youf State Legislature and General Assembly.
“Your alternatives have never been clearer.”’

72nd Annual Méeting

Bill Finnera
endorsed fo
comptroller

corted into the Buffalo Convention
Center by CSEA President William L.
McGowan, leit.

ALBANY — CSEA has endorsed the candidacy of William Finneran in the

BUFFALO — ‘‘This state
government works, and you make
it work,” Gov. Hugh L. Carey told
the more than 1,300 CSEA
delegates gathered here last week
for the union’s 72nd annual
Delegates Convention.

“T will always remember the
vital role the membership and
leadership of CSEA played in
restoring the economy of this state,
maintaining the quality of
government and improving the
quality of life for all New
Yorkers.”

Carey’s remarks about public
employees’ sacrifices came during
a general business session for
delegates at the Buffalo
Convention Center. His brief but
well-received speech also touched
upon the threat of Reaganomics
and his support of Lt. Gov. Mario
Cuomo for governor.

It was the last time Carey, who
has traditionally appeared at the
union’s delegate conventions, will
address the membership before he
leaves office in January.

Praising public workers for
“maintaining your dedication to
service in the face of ever-growing
uncertainty about the future,”
Carey noted that during the depths
of the fiscal crisis which greeted
his administration in its early
years. CSEA members settled for
two consecutive contract years
with no general pay increases,

“Tt was your cooperation which

November election for Comptroller of New York State.

The endorsement of the Westchester Assemblyman was made by the
CSEA’s Statewide Political Action Committee during last week’s CSEA
Convention and was overwhelmingly approved by statewide delegates who

later heard an address by the Liberal Party candidate.

For CSEA, it was the first ‘third-party’ endorsement in an election for
statewide office and it was described by CSEA President William L. McGowan

as, ‘‘an endorsement of principle, not of politics.”

“Bill Finneran has a nearly perfect labor record during his three terms in
the state Assembly,’”” McGowan said. “He has been a steadfast supporter
of the interests of working people throughout his political career and his
position on various issues involved in the office of the Comptroller, clearly
parallel those of our union and its members. We think he will make a great

Comptroller and we’re with him.”

The endorsement followed interviews by the Political Action Committee

with each of the candidates for the office.
Cited as factors in the union’s action were:

—Finneran’s support of CSEA’s position on reform of Tier IIT of the state

retirement system.

—Finneran’s support for adding labor representation to a Board of

enabled us to restore the integrity
of state finances and ultimately
made it possible to improve our
state economy and reduce the tax
burden without forcing a retreat
from our responsibility to the poor
and the underprivileged,” he said.

Such responsibility, he said, is
not recognized by the Reagan
administration, whose policies he
called ‘‘unworkable and
insensitive.’ He added, “We will
not accept those policies in Albany.

“When the choice is money or
people’s care, we choose care, and
insure that care by insisting
qualified public workers be hired.
Services in this state have always
gone to those least able to care for
themselves.”

He said while New York is faring
better than other states in terms of
unemployment — with an 8.6
percent unemployment rate as
opposed to a national rate of 10.6
percent, and a rate of between 11
and 14 percent in states like
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio,
Illinois and Minnesota — the
spectre of Reaganomics still
hovers over us.

“What those states have in
common is they all had a
Republican governor, and every
governor in those states tried to
bring Reaganomics into the state.”

Calling Republican
gubernatorial candidate Lewis
Lehrman an “import” and an
“amateur,” Carey blasted him for
being ‘‘too busy cutting

commercials” to learn about the
people or services of New York by
visiting state institutions, prisons
or residences for the handicapped.

At an informal press conference
before his address to the delegates,
Carey accused Lehrman of running
a ‘‘negative’’ campaign, and
scoffed at his charge that Cuomo
would be controlled by public
employee union leaders because of
the heavy support unions have
given him.

He said Cuomo ‘‘won the
primary on his own and owes
nobody anything, but the people.”
He called the lieutenant governor
“a man of integrity” who “‘has the
truth going for him.”

Carey said the choice between
Lehrman, who is running on a
platform of Reaganomics, and
Cuomo, whose philosophies are
closely aligned with Franklin
Roosevelt, Averell Harriman,
Alfred E. Smith ‘‘and all the great
Democratic governors,” is a clear
one.

“Let's not let this state fall into
the hands of those that let great
states fall into bankruptcy, of those
who put us in misery. Remember
those who made us miserable and
don’t make them happy on election
night,” Carey said.

“Give the governorship of New
York State to one who has a
positive mind and a good, big heart
and a strong hand and a willing
spirit — give it to Mario Cuomo.”

ENDORSED CANDIDATE Wilfm
Finneran addresses CSEA delegtes
during the union’s 72nd Annual Mee

Trustees to invest public employee pension funds now solely administered by
the Comptroller.

—His pledge to adjust pensions automatically to account for inflation.

—His position in support of continuing health insurance discounts for the
surviving spouse of deceased pensioners.

—Finneran’s position that the three percent return on the state’s $17 billion
pension investment is indicative of poor investment management.

—His position that New York pension investments should be emphasized
more and ‘‘sunbelt’’ investments reduced.

“Everyone knows that for Bill Finneran to win this election, something of a
small political miracle would have to take place between now and election
day,”’ President McGowan admitted candidly, ‘‘but we believe that when
someone is an open and outspoken advocate for what we believe is right, that
person deserves our support regardless of what the polls predict the outcome of
the election to be.

“Bill Finneran has been a great Assemblyman and he would be an even
greater Comptroller,” McGowan concluded, “I urge all public employees to
support him.”

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‘RUBY EVERETTE, third vice president of Monroe Development »
Center Local 439, smiles as she enters the Buffalo Convention Center to ~
begin another day of discussions on important union issues,

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, October 22, 1982

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CSEA PRESIDENT William McGowan talks
with Lily Martin of Roswell Park Memorial

Institute Local 303 in between meetings at the|
Buffalo Convention Center.

a 3

BROOKLYN THREESOME — Union delegates,
from left to right, Daisy Evans, Marcia Wills and
Rajeeyah Muwwakil of Brooklyn Developmental

oe 7 e "i

GORDON BLACK defends the use of polls as, “an
arm of professional journalism,” and says that
while they do not affect how people vote, they do
help stir up interest in elections.

J es =
Center Local 447 leave no doubt about where
they’re from.

BUFFALO — The only pollster to predict that
Mario Cuomo would win the Democratic primary,
spoke at a political action workshop here which
proved to be a highlight of the 72nd annual meeting.
Gordon S, Black, of Gordon S. Black Associates,
gave CSEA’s delegates a fascinating look into the
world of public opinion research.

The Rochester-based pollster noted that the 1980
presidential election witnessed a major change in
polling methods. Previously, interviewers went
door-to-door to 300 specially selected “cluster
samples” across the county. In 1980, the same
sampling was done by telephone and that is now the
accepted practice.

When asked why all other polls wrongly called the
primary, Black’s explanation went like this. The
New York Post (Koch winning by at least 16
percent) failed to include new voters in its
sampling. The Marist College poll (Koch up by 10
points) also made a sampling error in that it failed
to recognize that since 65 percent of the time
women answer the phone, it polled too many
women and too few men. The world of the pollster,
then, is a very exacting one.

To get the pulse of New York State, for example,
Black divides it into three regions: the five
boroughs (New York City), the suburbs (Nassau,
Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester counties) and
upstate. He believes upstate is ‘‘far more important
in gubernatorial elections” because while it has 40
percent of the population, it produces 42 percent of

the vote. The five boroughs, on the other hand, with

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, October 22, 1982

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JOHN EISS, president of Erie County Local 815,
makes a point at the general business session.

40 percent of the population, manage only 35
percent of the vote.

Approximately 400 people are polled in each
region, and then the results are adjusted to reflect
their expected share of the vote (upstate, 42
percent; the five boroughs, 35 percent; the suburbs,
22 percent). Black is thus assured ‘each sample is
statistically the same.”

Black is also mindful that his interviewers not
antagonize anyone. He says the best time to call is
weeknights between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Fridays are
out because ‘there is a built in bias in reaching
single men or women,’ and if calls have to be made
on weekends, they should be done between 10:00
a.m. and about 5 p.m. Saturdays, and noon to 4:30
p.m. Sundays.

In assessing the upcoming election, Black has one
statistic disturbing to union members. ‘Thirteen
percent of the voters are less likely to support
Lehrman because of Reaganomics, but 16 percent
are likely not to support Cuomo because of his labor
support,’’ he says. At the same time, he sees a
possible backlash developing because of Lehrman’s
campaign spending and notes that while County
Executive Al DelBello strengthens the Democratic
ticket, his Republican counterpart, James Emery,
“has no effect.’ Voter turnout will also be critical
to Cuomo.

For Gordon Black, the 1982 campaign has been
“fascinating,” and CSEA’s delegates had an
opportunity to share in that fascination here.

3,000
members
rally
with  .

MARIO CUOMO gives “thumbs up” sign to more than 3,000 §
_~ cheering CSEA members who turned out for a reception for

the union-endorsed candidate for governor in Buffalo.
Western Region President Robert Lattimer, who

' ~ 4 introduced Cuomo to the crowd, smiles his approval at left.

_ The reception was held in conjunction with the union’s 72nd
» Annual Convention.

BUFFALO — A cheering, chanting crowd estimated at more than

3,000 people — most of them CSEA members and delegates who paid $20

apiece to attend — jammed the Hotel Statler here last week to give a
rousing reception to Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo.

CSEA sponsored the reception for the Democratic candidate for
governor as a fund-raising event to coincide with the union’s 72nd annual
Delegate Meeting being held across the street at the Buffalo Convention
Center. The highly successful reception raised an estimated $60,000 for
the Cuomo campaign. Upwards of 2,000 CSEA members from the greater
Buffalo area attended the festive reception in addition to hundreds of
union delegates. The crowd, which spilled from the hotel’s main ballroom
into the lobby and a nearby smaller ballroom, was swelled also by many
Buffalo area political and labor people who turned out to hear Cuomo lash
into his Republican opponent, Lew Lehrman, as a man with “no
philosophy” for New York State except to bring Reaganomics here. “I
say, God forbid,” Cuomo stated.

Cuomo, who is heavily backed by labor union endorsements, drew
chants of “Mario! Mario! Mario!” throughout his appearance.

lection day, Noy. 2nd, saying the large amount of money his oppon-

i y Cuomo pleaded for an all-out union effort on his behalf leading-up to
e

CASEY NOWAK, 10-month-old son of Bill Nowak, a CSEA member from
Buffalo, holds his dad’s Cuomo button as his dad holds him during reception for
Lt. Gov. Cuomo.

ent is spending on the campaign makes for “a very tough race.”
He acknowledged numerous times the effort put forth by unions
and their members on his behalf during a tough primary contest
\ in September. Cuomo was literally mobbed by well-wishers
as he worked his way through the huge crowd at the conclu-
sion of his speech.

The highly successful reception for Mario Cuomo was the
culmination of lengthy planning and activity by a large
number of CSEA officials and members, mostly from the
host Western Region VI. CSEA Regional President
Robert Lattimer, union staffers, scores of member
volunteers, and the regional political action committee
all played major roles in organizing the fundraiser.

~¢ MARIO
* CUOMO
GOVERNOR

jober 22,1982 Page 13

ALBANY — Attrition and continuity of employment efforts have helped
reduce the number of layoffs pending at facilities of the Office of Mental
Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD).

“Back in July, the State was targeting more than 300 permanent positions
at six institutions. Now that number is reduced to less than 100, and only three
facilities will be directly affected,’ explained CSEA Associate Director of
Research Bruce Wyngaard.

Targeted now for layoffs are 20 positions at J.N. Adam, three at Craig,
and 73 at Staten Island Developmental Center.

Because of a dispute over how seniority was determined for layoff
purposes, employees targeted for layoff at SIDC received a reprieve late last
month. OMRDD had strickly interpreted the definition of ‘‘continuous service”’
so that removal from the payroll for as little as one day was ruled to constitute
a break in service and consequent loss of seniority protection.

“We identified this problem at SIDC, filed a grievance, and got a ruling
that such breaks in service will not threaten employees’ seniority rights,”
Wyngaard explained. “‘As a result, SIDC essentially has had to go through the

Projected OMRDD layoff numbers reduced

whole process again, rescind layoff notices, correct seniority rosters, identify a
new list of employees to be laid off and send out new notices. This process could
take several more weeks.”

Another major concern to CSEA has been the accurate and timely flow of
information concerning layoffs.

“We have had procedures in place for the past several months for the flow
of layoff information within CSEA, using the Research Department as the focal
point for communications on this subject,’’ Wyngaard explained.

“Also, partly as a response to a CSEA request to set up a clear, uniform
reporting requirement on layoff information, GOER has outlined a reporting
system to State agencies and department heads. Communication such as this is
vital during periods of threatened layoffs when rumors circulate and when
employees are so anxious about their job future.

Although the number of projected OMRDD layoffs has been significantly
reduced, Wyngaard stressed that the struggle isn’t over yet. ““CSEA continues
to resist layoffs and remains committed to avoiding future projected layoffs,”
he declared.

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CAPITAL REGION ENDORSES — Among candidates endorsed in the Nov. 2nd election by the
Capital Region Political Action Committee are Sen. Howard Nolan, seeking re-election, and
Mike McNulty, seeking the 106th Assembly District seat. In photo at left, Sen. Nolan talks with
committee members as Region President Joseph E. McDermott stands next to him. In above
photo, President McDermott, right, shakes hands with McNulty, center, as PAC Chairman
John Francisco, left, smiles his approval.

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Monterville acting president

SENECA FALLS — Jannette Monterville, an
employee of Seneca County, has been appointed acting
president of CSEA Local 850 by Frank Martello and
Bruce Nolan, trustees of the County Local.

Monterville has been active in CSEA affairs for
several years and is currently involved in the selection of
a negotiating team to represent the employees of Seneca
County during upcoming contract talks.

As acting president, Monterville will also be
responsible for arranging a meeting of members to
select election and nominating committees prior to the
formal election of new officers to serve two year terms.

Monterville has been employed by Seneca
County for more than seven years and presently serves
as a caseworker in the Department of Social Services.

foe -

The Civil Service Employees Assn. is seeking a Fiel
Service Assistant in the Buffalo area. The position re-
quires a working knowledge of labor-related issues,
grievance handling, contract negotiations and general.
assistance to members.

Qualification include a bachelor’s degree and/or
three years appropriate work experience. Applicants
must have a New York drivers license and vehicle for
bisiness use.

Submit resume no later than Oct. 29 to Personnel
Director, CSEA, P.O. Box 125, Albany, NY 12224.

"THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, October 22, 1982

BANNER DAY FOR EAP — Claire McGrath, seated center, president of Syracuse City Local 013,
was on hand with other union and state representatives for the signing of the charter which establish-
ed another EAP program for state employees in the Syracuse area. Seated, left to right, are Judge
Stewart DeVall, NYS Workmen’s Compensation Board; Richard Zajac, Dept. of Human Resources;
Claire McGrath; Eugene Pike, Dept. of Tax and Finance; standing left to right, Stan Watson, Region
V EAP Representative; Robert Hunter, EAP coordinator; Dick Redden, representative for Council
82 AFSCME, AFL-CIO.

CHILD’S PLAY —
Three-year-old Ellen |
Juraska and com-./
panion get in some |
rudimentary play |
time at the Kid Kor- |
ral Day Care Center,
which recently open- |
ed on the campus of
Binghamton Psychia-
tric Center. 1
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e Ps

make for giant s
state, facilities this fall

‘We've come a long way’

ALBANY — Going to work will soon be a
| family affair at eight more state workplaces
where on-site child care centers are opening
this fall. The day care center network is a
labor-management project, sponsored in part
by CWEP, the joint CSEA-State Committee
on Work Environment and Productivity.

New day care facilities have already
e celebrated their grand openings at Rockland
Psychiatric Center and at the Elmira
Psychiatric Center, which will also care for
children of Elmira Correctional Facility
employees.

Finishing touches are now being put on
centers at Hutchings and Binghamton
Psychiatric Centers; Letchworth, Rome and
Syracuse Developmental Centers; and
Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Five
additional worksites have received approval
for seed money to cover day care center start-
up costs.

“We've come a long way since we opened
the first pilot day care €enter at the Empire
State Plaza,” CSEA President William L.
McGowan commented. “The realities of today
are that one out of five children now lives with
only one parent and that there are more
families where both parents work. These
| realities have made affordable, quality child
care increasingly important.

“Day care centers such as these let parents
go to work knowing that their children are
well cared for and close by.”
| Under the program, CWEP provides seed
| money to cover initial costs, and the state
provides space for the centers. The facilities
must be self-supporting based upon fees
e charged to parents.

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|

GETTING A TASTE OF DAY CARE — Pam Runge, a head teacher at the Nurturing World ~
Infant-Toddler Center which recently opened at Hutchings. Psychiatric Center, seems to have the
right formula when it comes to satisfying Sarah Bonner, infant daughter of Kathy Bonner, a

senior stenographer at the mental health facility.

At Rockland Psychiatric Center

ORANGEBURG — Once upon a time, ernployees of:
the Rockland Psychiatric Center had a dream that
some day they would have their own day care center. On
August 30, that dream came true when the Kids’ Corner
Day Care Center opened its doors.

Walking through cheerful and brightly painted
rooms, Local 421 President Eva Katz glows with satisfac-
tion as she hears the laughter of children in a building
which not long ago echoed with emptiness and neglect.
She knows the facility represents a triumph of her co-
workers, a milestone in improving the workplace, and a
tribute to what can be accomplished when labor and
management work together. She also knows it was a long
journey to opening day, a journey which began at a CSHA
convention two years ago.

It was at a convention that Local 421 Secretary Glen-
da Davis first learned start-up money for a center was
available. “I came back bubbling over,” Davis recalled.
She and co-worker Willie Trottman then approached
Katz with the idea. ‘‘It’s your baby,” the local president
told them, and so began the team of Davis and Trottman.

Next, they went to see Executive Director Betty
Oliver, who thought the idea was “marvelous ” and
became one of their prime sponsors, often giving them
the support they needed in management circles. “‘So we
started collecting data,” Davis said, ‘‘and we also check-
ed out other day care centers elsewhere.”

Some of their most discouraging moments came in
dealing with the complex paperwork required to legally
incorporate themselves, and to gain the certification re-
quired to open a day care center for youngsters 8 weeks
to 6 years old.

Says Davis: ‘We really felt like throwing in the hat
when our incorporation papers got lost, and I’ll never
forget that day last December when we received about 20
different forms from the state Department of Social Ser-
vices that had to be filled out to begin the process of cer-
tification. But, we learned fast.” State Sen. Linda
Winikow also came to their aid in expediting the process,
and soon the state had the answers to all its questions
from policies and procedures’ to food preparation.

When it came time to hire a director, Roberta Boltin
was chosen, and she soon proved to be the right choice,
quickly orchestrating a whirlwind of activities to prepare
for opening day, when 15 youngsters came through the
doors of the Kids’ Corner. Since then, enrollment has in-
creased to 23 and is still growing. The center is certified
to accomodate 35 children,

Davis estimates it cost approximately $6,000 to start-
up, not counting donations made and time freely given. A
$10,000 grant from the statewide Labor-Management
Day Care Advisory Committee will foot the bill, but the
center must now become self-sustaining.

In the meantime, parents are enthusiastic. Allan
Denbleyker says he and his wife like the convenience,
while Alma Branhan Johnson enjoys the fact that she and
her daughter ‘‘can come here and home together.’’ And
Bonnie Winkle is pleased that “the staff is so well
trained.”

So it was easy to understand why Glenda Davis felt
‘f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c”’ when Sen. Winikow recently cut the rib-
bon formally opening the Kids’ Corner of Rockland, Inc.

PICTURE PER-
FECT — Helen
Reed, left, of the
Rockland Council for
Children, shares a
few moments with
two Kids’ Corner
youngsters, Garauldo
and Eric, as they
draw some pictures
under the watchful
eye of head teacher
Bernadette Piescki.

STOLEN HEARTS — A tender and spontaneous moment during the center’s recent opening

ceremonies came when Executive Director Betty Oliver held 6-months-old Luke, who captured the
hearts of many, including Eva Katz, left, and Glenda Davis.

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SHARING THE SPOTLIGHT — Glenda Davis and
Willie Trottman are credited with being the driving
force behind the Kids’ Corner.

At Hutchings:

Infant-Toddler
Center a ‘tribute
to CSEA
negotiators

with foresight’

SYRACUSE — As though by magic,
the youngster who was adding her
cries to a noisy children’s chorus
suddenly became quiet. The first
spoonful of tasty baby food from a
smiling teacher did the trick.

The scene was one of many in the
short span of a visit to the newly-
opened Nurturing World Infant-
Toddler Center at Hutchings
Psychiatric Center.

The facility, another in the growing
number of day care centers sprouting
in CSEA Region V, now caters to 12
full- and part-time youngsters.

According to Barbara Rahn, the
genial director of Nurturing World,
the center opened Sept. 10 with a
shower that included gifts and cash
donations. It is expected to
accommodate 20 full- and part-time
tots when fully operational.

“As you can see by the furnishings
and equipment, we are off to a good
start,” said Rahn, who has a

bachelor’s degree in education and a
master’s degree in child
development. “As director, I am
fortunate in being able to obtain the
services of some excellent fellow staff
members. Pam Runge and Debra
Burham, our head teachers, have also
earned degrees, as has our assistant
teacher, Terry Rush.

“We think it is important that the
employee/parents who use the center
know we are well-qualified
specialists. It adds to their peace of

mind and on-the-job morale.”’

In commenting about the new
facility, Sharon Conner, president of
CSEA Local 435, said, “I’m sure that
the CSEA members here at Hutchings
Psychiatric Center will make good
use of the center. It’s a fine addition
and certainly a tribute to those CSEA
negotiators with foresight three years
ago.”

The concept of day care centers for
children of state employees resulted
in the opening of The Children’s Place

SLIDE TIME —
Shane Stuckey, son of
Dolores’ Stuckey, a
therapy aide at Hut-
chings Psychiatric
Center, seems to be
getting some gentle
words of encourage-
ment from Barbara
Rahn, director of the
worksite’s new day
care center.

at the Fannie State Plaza in Albany,
and now includes 10 centers recently
opened or scheduled for opening in the
near future.

“They are the perfect answer for
working parents — a truly functional
trend that makes sense in today’s
modern life style,” Conner said.

CSEA couldn’t agree more, and the
union is justly proud of the role it-
played in the fulfillment of the entire
day care concept for state employees’
children.

Two centers sprout in Central Region

The Nurturing Work Infant-Toddler Center at Hutchings: Psychiatric Center i in Syracuse and the Kid

Korral at Binghamton Psychiatric Center are a praise from happy parents in both communities.

At Binghamton:
12 youngsters gather
at the Kid Korral

BINGHAMTON — Coming as a pleasant surprise to many, labor and
management at Binghamton Psychiatric Center have apparently used tiny
feet to take a giant step forward with the recently opened new day care
center on the Southern Tier campus.

The cheerfully decorated facility, dubbed the Kid Korral Day Care
Center Inc., has opened its doors with a minimum of fanfare. But for many
grateful parents who have waited patiently, the big event was the culmina-
tion of a concept negotiated more than three years with New York State,
CSEA, and two other public employee unions—AFSCME Council 82 and the
Public Employees Federation.

According to Laurie A. Henderson, director of the center, countless
surveys have proven that suitable day care centers not only improve the
morale of working parents with young tots, they decrease employee
absenteeism.

“There is less tension when a parent knows his or her child is receiving
quality care only minutes away from the workplace. It’s also convenient
because they can drop off their youngsters and visit on breaks or lunch
periods,’’ Henderson said.

Kid Korral, as is the case with all such state-funded day care centers,
received an initial $10,000 in seed money from the three unions, and is
expected to be self-supporting through nominal fees charged to parents who
use the service.

Etta Nutter, a member of the center’s seven-person board of directors
and a long-time activist with CSEA, is delighted to be a part of the newest
facility in the Southern Tier.

“It’s a real blessing for working parents,’’ Nutter said.

According to Henderson, Kid Korral is licensed to care for up to 39
infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers and is open from 5:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
for all employees of Binghamton Psychiatric Center.

The weekly charge is from $35 to $55 a week, depending on the
employee’s income. Employees interested in enrolling children in the
program are urged to contact Henderson at the center for more information.

HELPING HANDS — Teacher Kim Crumb of the Kid Korral Day Care Center on
the campus of Binghamton Psychiatric Center sits by attentively as inquisitive
two- Gre Lynn Cross counts her fingers.

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BLOOD PRESSURE CLINIC — Registered Nurse Janie Winslow, right, takes blood pressure of Local
690 member Audrey Russo at screening clinic sponsored by the Employee Health Service at recent
State Campus Health and Fitness Fair.

MIKE KAPLAN, Health Fair co-chairman
... “more to life than watching TV.”

State workers get tips on keeping fit at health fair

ALBANY — “‘It’s the only body you have, so you have to use it or you’re
going to lose it.””

That, explains Michael Kaplan, is the reason behind the recent first-of-
its-kind Health and Fitness Fair held at the State Office Campus here.
Kaplan, a member of CSEA Tax and Finance Local 690, was co-chairman of
the event, sponsored by the State Office of General Services and the Campus
Fitness Committee, a labor-management committee formed in March by
CSEA and other public employee groups to help improve state employees’
welfare and job satisfaction.

“People are realizing that there is more to life than just watching TV. So
they are getting out of their chairs and doing something,” Kaplan said.
“This fair gives them a chance to look at a variety of different types of

physical activities and to get some information on the costs, the schedules,
and so on.”

“Even the state is learning that physical fitness is a benefit to both the
employee and the employer,” Diane Urbach, Albany YWCA representative
and an aerobic instructor said. ‘After several months of negotiations we
now have a small area in the DOT building for an aerobic class.
Management knows that the people who participate will be healthier. And
that means a lot to everyone involved.”

A field representative of the American Heart Association, Lee Marshall,
said that awareness of the availability of such different programs as cross
country skiing, road running, aerobics and health clubs “‘helps get people
involved in their own physical well-being. That means they start to take
better care of themselves and that’s what we all want.”

Rensselaer
County
approves
3-year
contract

union at the bargaining table.

TROY — Angered by an attack on the integrity of
their union’s negotiating team, and fed up with the
threats of layoffs as a weapon against a fair and
equitable contract, the membership of the Rensselaer
County Unit of CSEA Local 842 has overwhelmingly
approved a new three-year contract with the county.

By a nearly 5-to-1 margin, the 600-member unit voted
316 to 65 to accept a 21 percent salary increase that will
give the average county employee, earning $11,000 a
year, another $2,310 after three years. The contract will
cover all 1,540 Rensselaer County workers.

Almost immediately after the unit’s bargaining
team, headed by CSEA Field Representative Aaron
Wagner, had signed the tentative agreement with the
county a controversy developed. Rensselaer County
Executive William Murphy told the news media that if
the workers approved the tentative agreement, layoffs of
70 to 100 employees would have to be enacted to pay for
the salary increases. Murphy also told the press that this
situation was previously made ‘‘crystal clear’’ to the

The union reacted swiftly to this attack on the
integrity of the unit’s bargaining team. Field
Representative Wagner drew heavy media attention
when he called Murphy ‘“‘a liar” and informed the press

that ‘no such offer of an exchange of a salary increase
for the layoff of personnel was ever discussed at the
bargaining table.

Wagner also noted that County Executive Murphy
had never participated personally in the negotiations
session and had met with the union for less than 30
seconds to sign the tentative pact. :

“Murphy seems to be suffering from a reverse Midas
touch,’ Wagner alleged. ‘“‘Wherever he goes, money is
missing, and employees get fired or laid off due to his
mismanagement,’’ Wagner concluded, making
reference to Murphy’s involvement in a fiscal brouhaha
involving the National Association of Counties, of which
Murphy is president.

County employees voted in record numbers to accept
the package and at the announcement of the union
ratification, Wagner stated:

“CSEA is hereby putting the Rensselaer County
executive on notice that all discussions of layoffs are to
include the employees’ representative.”

The unit is prepared to fight the county executive’s
decision that layoffs will be necessary in the coming
year. ‘The county administration kept the union in the
dark until the 11th hour on the last round of layoffs. We
will not stand for that type of treatment any more,”
Wagner stated.

Dutchess County endorsements

ALBANY — The roster of CSEA-backed candidates running for various
political offices in the Dutchess county area has been announced by the
political action committee.

Endorsements are as follows:
‘

. State Senate, 41st District

. State Assembly, 97th District

State Assembly, 99th District

State Assembly, 96th District

State Assembly, 90th District

any Dutchess County Court Judge
...Dutchess County Surrogate Judge

. Dutchess County Family Court Judge
County Legislature, 16th District

Jay P. Rolison
Steve Saland
Frank Bauer
Lawrence Bennett...
Vincent Leibell
Bernard Kessler
Robert Ostertag. .
George Berhnhard.
John Ballo. . :

Page 18 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, October 22, 1982

OSU clothing funds distribution being finalized

ALBANY — Distribution of work clothing allowances totaling $1.525
million over three years is being worked out by a labor/management
committee of the Operational Services Unit. The Working Conditions
Committee is now developing procedures for distributing the clothing
allowances negotiated under the 1982-85 OSU collective bargaining
agreement with the state.

“The committee has determined that funds will be distributed at the
agency level through a joint labor/management setting,’ reported
Collective Bargaining Special Nels Carlson.

Carlson explained that distribution procedures for the work-related
clothing allowances should be finalized by Nov. 1, and it is anticipated that
agency-level labor/management committees could begin distributing funds
around the first of the year.

The OSU Working Conditions Committee is also responsible for
distributing funds negotiated under the contract for tool allowances. Studies
are still under way to assure that the appropriate workers receive some
financial relief from the current practice of purchasing their own tools.

—

- Education and training highlighted

BINGHAMTON — Several hundred Central Region delegates
and officers are now giving more thought to the importance of
educational training after being given a preview of the new CSEA
Labor Institute at the recent fall conference held here.

In presenting an overview of the union’s new program, Peg
Wilson, Education and Training Specialist, described some of the
seminars to be offered and strongly encouraged enrollment at every
level of the union.

In other action on the educational front, Jim Moore, Region V
president, introduced Mary Lauzon as the newly-appointed chair-
woman of the region’s Education Committee.

Lauzon, who is also president of SUNY Potsdam Local 613, ask-
e ed delegates for input on the kinds of seminars and workshops they
would like to see, stressing she would like to hear suggestions from
them as soon as possible.

On afternoon session of the conference was devoted to a soun-
ding board format that afforded delegates an opportunity to discuss
such topics as ‘‘Organizing in the Private Sector,” ‘Review of Con-
vention Motions,” ‘‘Unified Policy on United Way,” ‘Political Ac-
tion,” and the recent statewide delegates convention in Buffalo.

e The three-day conference also carried a full schedule of
meetings and training workshops for regional committees, new of-
ficers and representatives from retiree locals.

NEW DIRECTIONS — Regional President Jim Moore discusses some regional goals with

Mary Lauzon, newly-appointed chairwoman for the Education Committee.

PAC NEWS — In photo above, Ralph Young, Region V first
vice president, reviews an official North Country endorsement
with Dorothy Penner, chairwoman of the Region V Political
Action Commmittee, and Richard Reno, president of St.
Lawrence County Local 845 nd spokesman for the political ac-
tion coalition of St. Lawrence County units,

TAKING NOTE — In photo above left, Chenango County
representatives Robert Scheverman, left, president of Local
809, and Francis Lawton, center, Norwich Schools unit presi-
dent, take notes at a Labor Institute presentation.

TREASURERS’ HUDDLE — In photo at left, treasurers look
over the selection of forms and information provided at the
conference. Pictured from left to right are Pat Callahan of
Local 834; Mary Sullivan, Region V treasurer; Linda Brooks,
Local 435; Linda Smithers, Local 428; and Joseph Salvino,
assistant supervisor of general accounts for CSEA.

THE P'

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NEW YORK NEEDS A GOVERNOR
WHO UNDERSTANDS NEW’ YORK

Page 20 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, October 22, 1982