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CSEA fighting local office closings
ALBANY — CSEA has filed an
Improper Practice charge with the
New York State Public Employment
Relations Board (PERB) against the
Governor’s Office of Employee
Relations for OER’s attempt to deny
the union office space at State
facilities.
In an Improper Labor Practice
share filed by CSEA rae with
PERB on July 15, the union demanded
that PERB order the State to “cease
and desist” from threats to close of-
fices at State facilities that have been
provided to CSEA locals so
membership problems can be dealt
with quickly and efficiently at work
locations.
“The deprivation of the right to
representation by CSEA, by
deprivation of space necessary for the
conduct of such representation, con-
stitutes a unilateral change in terms
and conditions of employment, in
violation of Section 209 of the Civil
Service Law,”’ the union said.
CSEA President William L.
McGowan ordered the filing of the
Improper Practice as the result of the
issuance of a memorandum by the
Governor’s Office of Employee
Relations to State agencies and
departments directing the agencies to
deny ‘office space to CSEA’ locals
which have used extra space at State.
facilitiés for membership com-
munication for more than 10 years.
“The CSEA local offices at State
facilities have allowed us to effective-
ly work on problems confronting the
membership at the work site.
“After. more then 10 years of
successful experience with this
system, the State suddenly decides
that they want to deny us this con-
dition of employment and they cannot
simply decide that on their own.
“This is a negotiable item and their
attempt to remove it is an Improper
‘Practice within the meaning of the
Taylor Law,’’ McGowan said.
CSEA asked the Governor's Office
Retro advancements
* to occur this week
ALBANY — Eligible CSEA-represented State employees who have not
already received their first annual performance advancements will receive
them this week retroactive to either April 1 or to the anniversary of their date
of hire or promotion, whichever is appropriate.
Some 13,000 employees in CSEA’s statewide Operational, Institutional and
Administrative bargaining units are currently receiving the payments under
the performance evaluation system in the 1979-82 CSEA contracts for the three
units, according to CSEA President William L. McGowan.
@ About half of these employees received the payments in the July 16 payroll.
The others will get it in the payroll of July 24.
The monies are retroactive to April 1, 1980, for employees below the top of
their salary scale, except for those hired or promoted on or after April 1, 1979.
The latter group’s payments will be retroactive to the date of their hire or
promotion, unless they already received an expedited advancement during the
first round of evaluations, which began last fall.
Evaluations were suspended in January until the State and CSEA could
work out the numerous bugs in the system. Had the system not been suspended,
the current payments would have come in the payroll nearest April 1.
Meanwhile, a revised performance evaluation system has been worked out
@ (as reported in the July 16 Public Sector). Evaluations will begin oath in the
fall.
of Employee Relations to maintain
the status quo pending resolution of
the Improper Practice charge. The
request was agreed to by OER Direc-
tor Meyer S. Frucher, the author of
the memo which is being challenged
by the union.
“The ability to represent our
CSEA PRESIDENT William L. MeGowan orders the fi
employment.”
members in large State facilities re-
quires space at the facilities for our
leadership to work with the members
in representation matters.
“We will not accept any unilateral
attempts to interfere in this
relationship,’’ McGowan said.
of an Improper Practice
charge against the State for its attempt to deny CSEA locals office space. McGowan
called the move by the State ‘‘a unilateral change in terms and conditions of
fr
ALBANY — Gov. Hugh L. Carey
has signed into law two CSEA-
backed bills giving court
employees long-overdue pay hikes
and job security.
One bill implemented CSEA con-
tracts for about 4,000 court
employees statewide — contracts
Pat Monachino
Court job security,
pay raise bills signed
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that had been ratified months ago
— and are retroactive to April 1,
1979.
The other was the so-called
“grandfather” bill, that gives per-
manent, competitive Civil Service
status to those court employees
who have held their jobs
provisionally for more than a year.
More than two-thirds of CSEA-
represented court employees fall
into that category because the
State failed to administer Civil Ser-
vice examinations for many court
positions for up to 20 years.
“When a person has held a job
provisionally for more than a
decade but, through no fault of his
own, has never had the chance to
take the Civil Service exam for
that job, then job security for that
employee is long overdue,” said
CSEA Collective Bargaining
specialist Pat Monachino.
“We're glad the passage and
signing of this bill gives thousands
of court employees that security at
last.”
Monachino estimated that the
retroactive checks for the court
employees affected by the pay-bill
signing will be paid beginning in
September. /
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State OMH blocking use of training funds .
ALBANY — For the past three
months, the State has been blocking
access of some 35,000 Mental Health
employees to $250,000 of
Thomas Quimby
contractually-guaranteed
funds.
That's the accusation of Thomas
Quimby, CSEA director of training
and education, who charged the
elimination of three positions in the
Office of Mental Health's (OMH)
Training Department in May has had
that effect.
In a letter to OMH Commissioner
James Prevost, Quimby charged the
layoffs resulted in ‘drastic reduction
in the number of Agency
Experimental grants being processed;
failure by OMH to process
applications for Employee Benefits
Training courses; and inaction on the
forwarding of training an-
nouncements and application forms to
mental hygiene facilities.”
The funds being blocked are part of
the $1.8 million per year guaranteed
for training and education purposes to
members of CSEA's statewide
Operational, Institutional and Ad-
ministrative bargaining units.
Quimby warned Prevost that ‘‘the
State of New York is obligated to
deliver these benefits to CSEA-
represented employees, yet it is not
training
doing so. CSEA would like to know
what you plan to do about it.”
The union has received many com-
plaints and inquiries about the lack of
OMH involvement in training
programs lately, Quimby said.
“There are usually dozens of
applications for grants, programs
and training courses each month, but
recently there have been virtually
none in Mental Health. Our in-
vestigation shows this can be traced
to the layoffs in OMH's Training
Department.
‘But CSEA will not permit that to
be used as an excuse to deny
contractually-guaranteed benefits to
thousands of workers,”’ he said.
The three laid-off employees
evaluated Agency Experimental grant
applications, processed applications
for Employee Benefit Training
courses and coordinated training
programs at the agency level.
Agency Experimental grants are
proposals by joint labor/management
teams at the facilities for training
designed to meet the unique needs of
that facility's employees.
The purpose of the Employee
CSEA continuing exam fee battle
ALBANY — Despite the governor’s
veto of a bill eliminating the $5 fee
recently im osed on public employees
who take o en-competitive Civil Ser-
vie@-exams, CSEA plans to continue
its fight,to abolish this charge.
The bill, a top union priority this
session, passed both houses of the
legislature.
However, the governor vetoed the
measure, saying it discriminated
against non-public employees, whom
the bill did not exempt from the
charge.
“If he feels it’s not fair to charge
newcomers the fee when incumbents
don’t have to pay it, then the governor
should order the Civil Service
Department to waive the fee for one
and all,"’ CSEA President William L.
McGowan said.
The optional fee, which the Civil
Service Department had waived since
1963, was re-instituted in late 1979.
The union drew up a bill permanent-
ly eliminating the charge for all in-
cumbent employees of the State and
its political subdivisions.
“Thousands of public employees
must take open-competitive exams in
order to keep their jobs, and many
other incumbents use the exams as a
means of getting into a job series
where they would be more suitable
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16—Rensselaer County Local 842 annual steakroast, 1 p.m., Krause’s Halfmoon Beach, |
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23—Saratoga County Local 846 general membership meeting, 7 p.m., Solor Building,
23—Capital District Retirees Local 999 clam steam and steak roast, 1-8 p.m., Krause’s
Halfmoon Beach and Grove, Crescent.
23—Capital Region Employee Assistance Program pre-implementation program, Empire
24—Rockland Psychiatric Center Local 421 retirement dinner for Ruverna Ward, 7:30
25—DOT Local 505 annual clambake, Roselawn Restaurant, New York Mills.
26—Rockland Psychiatric Center Local 421 family picnic, 11 a.m., Anderson Field,
26 — Southern Region Ill workshop, “women in the labor movement: issues and
problems,” 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Holiday Ina, Newburgh.
26— Franklin County Local 817 annual picnic, 10 a.m., Malone Recreation Park,
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20—Nossav County Local 830 Executive Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m., Salisbury Inn,
23 — Brooklyn Developmental Center Local 447 disco and fashion show in honor of
James Gripper, 10 p.m.-3 a.m., Midwood Terrace, 1143 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, July 23, 1980
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and more efficient. Why should these
people have to pay to take such an ex-
am?” McGowan asked.
The governor stated in his veto
message that the union’s bill was
motivated by its desire to circumvent
a recent Public Employment
Relations Board hearing officer's
decision denying that the fee for in-
cumbents was an Improper Labor
Practice under State law.
The governor was wrong on two
counts: CSEA drew up the bill and
published it as one of its top priorities
last winter. The hearing officer's
decision was handed down on June 5.
Also, the Improper Practice charge
affected only employees of the State.
The ‘bill affected State and local
employees.
In addition to asking the governor to
remedy the situation ad-
ministratively, CSEA has also appeal-
ed the hearing officer’s decision. At-
torney Setphen Wiley of the law firm
of Roemer and Featherstonhaugh has
filed a brief in the case and he expects
PERB to review the matter in the
early fall.
“We're not giving up on getting this
unfair charge eliminated,” McGowan
said. ‘‘The Civil Service Department
thought the fee would stop people
from filing for the exams, and then
not showing up to take them.
“But our members are not the no-
shows. Incumbent public employees
know the system, and they know that
these exams are their ‘ticket to
greater financial security.”
The union’s position has been
adopted by newspaper editorialists
from Long Island to Watertown who
have pointed out that the fee is bad for
employee morale, undermines the
principle of merit and fitness in public
employment and discriminates
“against the poor who are less able to
pay to take the exams.
Benefits Training Program, first
negotiated by CSEA in the 1980 con-
tracts, is to develop and fund expand-
ed promotional opportunities; im-
prove morale; produce educational,
development and training programs;
and increase productivity for
employees in the three bargaining un-
its.
SYRACUSE — Following an
alert by members of the CSEA
Syracuse area Political Action
Coalition, representatives of four
State legislators recently met with
the chief administrator at Syracuse
Developmental Center (SDC) to in-
vestigate a case of alleged patient
sexual abuse there.
The case, according to Syracuse
Police records, involved a 32-year-
old male patient at the facility who
allegedly sexually assaulted a
female patient.
The male patient was arraigned
in Syracuse City Court on charges
of first degree sexual abuse and
was released on his own
recognizance.
Officials of SDC CSEA Local 422
were concerned the patient might
return to the facility and were
critical of the administration for
the lack of action in transferring
the accused to either a more
restrictive or more highly staffed.
setting sooner.
Ina matter of hours following the
meeting of legislators with the SDC
administration, the Political
‘Action Coalition members were
notified the charged resident ‘‘is to
be transferred to a more
appropriate setting.’’
At the same time it was also
made public that the hiring freeze
was lifted, effective immediately.
Apparently, the ‘decision’ to
transfer the charged patient to
another facility and the lifting of
the hiring freeze was aided by the
CSEA Political Action Coalition,
the immediate investigation of
legislative representatives and the
accurate reporting by both
Syracuse newspapers.
Mediator joins
Oswego talks
OSWEGO — After failing to reach
an agreement after five months of
negotiations, CSEA and the Oswego
City School District have submitted
their proposals to a mediator.
Ron Smith, CSEA field represen-
tative and chief negotiator for the
more than 300 non-instructional
employees in the Oswego Schools Unit
of Oswego County Local 638, said
“We are not overly optimistic about
a quick settlement. We have been
negotiating since late February and,
at this point, our main problems still
concern wages, fringe benefits for
hourly employees and job security
provisions. *-
At NYC DFY
Discipline out of control
NEW YORK CITY — The ad-
ministration of discipline against
employees of the State Division for
Youth in CSEA Metropolitan
Region II ‘has gotten completely
out of control without any reason,
logic or justice existing in recent
actions,"" CSEA Field Represen-
tative Al Sundmark reported.
Sundmark said the division's Of-
fice of Employee Relations,
facility directors and supervisors
“are totally out of touch with both
the letter and the spirit of the Arti-
cle 33 disciplinary process, with
progressive discipline and with
knowing the difference between
right and wrong. The penalties
don’t even fit the alleged crimes.””
Division for Youth (DFY) CSEA
members in Region II are part of
New York City Local 010.
He called DFY Office of
Employee Relations represen-
tative Robert Kennedy “an in-
competent amateur who doesn’t
even know the contract he is
employed to enforce.
““At a recent third step hearing,
Kennedy claimed an arbitrator
could impose a penalty greater
NEW YORK CITY LOCAL 010 President Joseph C. Johnson
goes over the agenda of the leadership conference with Local
010 Education Committee Chairman Fabia Calderon.
NYC local 010
holds conference
NEW YORK CITY — Approximately 80 members of
New York City Local 010 recently attended a two-day
leadership conference.
The conference was conducted by Marsha Anderson
of the AFSCME Education Department in Washington,
D.C.; and by Anita Patterson of the AFSCME New York |
City office.
Subjects discussed at the conference included con- ©
sensus problem solving, the role of the steward on the job
and grievance filing.
Coordinating the agenda for the conference were .
Local 010 President Joseph C. Johnson and Local 101
Education Committee Chairman Fabia Calderon. Also
attending the conference was Metropolitan Region II
President James Gripper.
Local 010 is the largest CSEA State Division local
with almost 5,000 members.
than the penalty sought by
management.
“‘Doesn’t he know that that prac-
tice came to an end with the sign-
ing of the CSEA-State contracts in
1979? y
“I wish the: State: Executive:
Department would assign a com-
petent and experienced person to
represent management with its
labor relations in the Division for
Youth with CSEA.
“The State is needlessly
squandering thousands of taxpayer
dollars in costly arbitrations
because one man in an extremely
sensitive position is totally in-
competent.”
Sundmark said Kennedy has no
concept of progressive discipline
and makes ‘‘no meaningful
attempts to settle disciplinaries at
the third step.
“In one case his idea of a
settlement was reducing a $100 fine
to $90.”
Two recent disciplinaries which
will be going to arbitration were
explained by Sundmark as follows:
DFY is attempting to terminate
seven-year employee Victor A.
.,
AFSCME REPRESENTATIVE Anita Patterson,
ATTENDING THE LOCAL 010 leadership conf
Reid of the DFY Bushwick
(Brooklyn) facility on six
“charges” which Sundmark called
“absolutely without merit.”
In this case, Kennedy refused to
entertain any settlement, Sund-
mark said.
Among the charges against Reid
are that one day he forgot to log
himself off the unit and that he fail-
ed to record the AWOL status of a
resident when he came on duty
when Reid had not been informed
of the AWOL of the resident.
“Can you believe that Division
for Youth wants to terminate Reid
for forgetting once to log out? If I
worked for management, I’d be
embarrassed to go before an ar-
bitrator with such a charge,” Sund-
mark said.
DFY also is attempting to ter-
minate employee Luis Marcano of
the DFY Bronx Secure Facility.
Marcano is facing two charges
involving his duty watching an
empty building at Pilgrim
Psychiatric Center in West
Brentwood on Jan. 27, 1980.
DFY claims Marcano was not at
his assigned post between 7 p.m.
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and 11 p.m. and that he falsified his
daily attendance record to indicate
he had been on duty during that
time.
Kennedy offered to reduce the
termination to a one-month
suspension and a one-year
probation.
While DFY claims Marcano left
four hours early, Marcano did not.
His only ‘‘crime’’ was that his
lunch break lasted for approx-
imately two hours because he had
to wait for a taxi to return him to
Pilgrim from Brentwood.
Sundmark said: ‘‘Since when is
taking too long a lunch a charge
punishable by termination?
“Also, isn’t it ridiculous that
when DFY drew up its charges
against Marcano they included his
lunch break in the time he was
allegedly illegally missing from his
post?"’
Local 010 President Joseph
Johnson said his local ‘‘would not
sit back while management is
abusing and harassing our
members. The full weight of CSEA
will be used to protect the
membership from these tactics.”
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010 members attending the conference are, from left,
right, leads a discussion at the recently held New York Frances Manner, Mental Health Information Service;
City Local 010 leadership conference. Among the Local and Rose Feuerman, first vice president.
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erence. Department; Joseph Dec, Judiciary Department; and
are, from left, Francois Frazier, Motor Vehicles Mel Sheppard, Education Department.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, July 23, 1980
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MEMBERS OF THE NEWLY ELECTED Parks and
Recreation Department Unit of Nassau County Local
830 are joined by Local 830 President Nicholas Ab-
batiello, top left, at the unit installation, including,
from left top, President William Keanna,
Corresponding Secretary Helen Pappas, Director
vie 2 igs .
ATTENDING THE INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS
of the Town of Smithtown Unit of Suffolk County
Local 852 are from left standing, Town Supervisor
Pat Vecchio, Past President Al Stein, First Vice
President John Stein, Second Vice President Doug
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John Walker, Treasurer Bart Piccininni, Recording
Secretary Evelyn Palumbo, Director James Barnett
and Second Vice President Raymond Shelton. Not
attending the installation were First Vice President
Nicholas Dellisanti and Director Kenneth Badger.
Hallack, CSEA Field Representative John Cuneo and
Third Vice President John Salerno; sitting, Coun-
cilman Ira Block, Unit President James Carthy,
Local 852 President Ben Boczkowski, Secretary Joan
DiBernardo and Treasurer Karin Tonnessen.
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, July 23, 1980.
Labor Studies offerings
BINGHAMTON — The New York State School of In-
dustrial and Labor Relations — Cornell University is
holding two labor studies courses at Broome County Com-
munity College.
The courses, Collective Bargaining I] and Labor
History, are offered as part of the Binghamton Labor
Studies Program and each course completed earns 1.5
credit hours.
The courses start Sept. 10 and end Dec. 3. They meet 9}
Wednesday evenings except Nov. 26. =
The Collective Bargaining course meets 7 to 8:30 p.m.
This Labor History course meets 8:45-10:15 p.m. Each
course costs $45 plus books.
For additional information, call Debi King at (607) 256-
2125 or write her at NYSSILR-Cornell, Conference Center,
Ithaca, N.Y. 14853.
Collective Bargaining II will emphasize preparation for
collective bargaining and contract language. Students do
not have to have taken Collective Bargaining I to take
Collective Bargaining II.
Broome labor exhibit
BINGHAMTON — ‘Working Lives: Broome County,
1800-1930,”’ an exhibition on the social history of Broome
County from the point of view of its working people, opens
June 28, 1980, and continues through Oct. 26, 1980.
The exhibit is at Dickinson Galleries, Robertson
Center, 30 Front Street, Binghamton.
The exhibit will be open Tuesday through Friday from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and on Saturday and Sunday from noon to
5 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibit, two films: “In White
Collar America," a look at the world of office workers; and
“Temiscaming, Quebec,’’ one community's response to a
plant closing; will be shown 8 p.m. on Aug. 1 and at 3 p.m.
on Aug. 3.
The opening of the exhibit at 5 p.m. on June 28 will in-
clude a concert by the Broome County Pops followed by a
fire works display. Rain date is June 29.
information on Tier Ill
Members of Tier III of the New York State Employees
Retirement System can receive retirement credit for
previous service as follows:
Paragraph 8, Section 513, of the Retirement and Social
Security Laws of the State of New York, states that a
member shall be eligible to obtain retirement credit for
previous service with a public employer if retirement credit
had previously been granted for such service, and the
member has rendered a minimum of five years of credited
service after July 1, 1976, or after last rejoining the
retirement system.
The credited service may be added to the service
rendered after July 1, 1976 to add to the ten-year total ser-
vice required to qualify for retirement.
In St. Lawrence County
Workday extension averted
CANTON — Some 650 employees
of St. Lawrence County, members of
CSEA Local 845, appear to have won a
limited victory from the St. Lawrence
County Legislature, which reportedly
will not add an extra half hour to the
work day when it imposes a
settlement for the 1980 contract year.
However, CSEA Field Represen-
tative Thomas Dupee was un-
successful in an attempt to get the
County Legislature to publicly drop
its demand for a longer work day, so
that the two sides could negotiate an
agreement.
Until June 21, County Ad-
ministrative Assistant William P.
Collins handled the bargaining chores
as chief negotiator for the county,
while Dupee led the CSEA delegation
at the bargaining table.
Union members blame Collins’
steadfast refusal to yield on the
proposal for a longer work day with
no extra compensation as the prime
reason for the impasse.
But Collins left for an extended
vacation June 21, dropping the con-
tract stalemate in the hands of County
Legislature Chairman Donald
Livingston who wasted no time toss-
ing the political hot potato to Finance
Committee Chairman Ralph Greco.
Thomas Dupee
It also became clear during the
hearing that few of the 22 members of
the legislature had detailed
knowledge of the bargaining session,
offers and counter-offers which
preceded the hearing.
None were aware of CSEA’s
attempts to reach an amicable
settlement, and only two members of
the board — Greco and Livingston —
were aware of the last offer which
Dupee made in a meeting with them
just hours before the hearing.
The key part of that offer was a
union pledge to shelve a dental plan in
return for the county’s agreement to
back away from its insistence that the
work day be lengthened by 30 minutes
without a corresponding increase in
pay.
Dupee said Livingston, Greco and
County attorney Charles Palm left
that 11th hour negotiating session
after promising to canvass other
board members to see if the union’s
offer was acceptable.
But at the hearing, which got un-
derway six hours later, Dupee forced
CANTON — As‘expected, the
St. Lawrence County.
Legislature imposed a one-year.
contract on its CSEA-
represented employees retroac-
tive to Jan. 1, 1980. The im-
position included a seven
percent pay increase with no in-
crease in the work day. The vote
came on July 14, 1980.
Greco to admit the legislators had
never been canvassed, and indeed had
not even been informed of the offer
before they were asked to sit in
judgment.
“We, in good faith, took back every
offer to our membership that we were
supposed to, and I sit here tonight and
I didn’t even have the courtesy of a
yes or no on the proposal that we
made this morning,’’ Dupee said.
After some not-too-subtle pressure
from a former legislator, Ernest
LaBaff, international vice-president
+of the Aluminum Workers Inter-
national Union who was speaking on
behalf of the AFL-CIO Central Trades
Council, the legislature withdrew to a
50-minute closed-door executive
session, supposedly to consider the
offer made by CSEA that morning.
But when they reconvened the
hearing, Greco announced it was “‘the
consensus of a large majority of the
board . . . that we may be able to
finalize a contract with one more
meeting of the parties.”
“Are you going to drop the half
hour?’ Dupee demanded repeatedly.
Greco would only say: ‘‘We certain-
ly are going to consider that if we
meet one more time.”
“I'm sorry, that’s not specific
enough,” Dupee replied. ‘‘I'm not go-
ing to deviate from my position.
Either we agree to the CSEA proposal
or legislate a settlement.”
That's the way it ended, with Greco
calling a sudden halt to the hearing,
and the legislators filing out of the
packed County Courthouse.
Later that night, the seven-member
Finance Committee and four other
legislators huddled behind ciosed
doors and decided on terms of a
settlement .
An estimated 450 CSEA members
and supporters turned out for the
hearing, making the largest atten-
dance at a county legislature meeting
in history.
School Unit pact in Broome
BINGHAMTON — A spokesman for
the Civil Service Employees
Association recently announced a new
two-year contract has been ratified by
the Binghamton City School Unit of
Broome Education Local 866 and
Binghamton School District represen-
tatives.
The new contract, effecting more
than 200 non-instructional school
employees, began July 1, 1980.
According to James Corcoran,
‘New contract
in Ogdensburg
OGDENSBURG — A, spokesman
for the' Civil Service Employees
Association (CSEA) recently an-
nounced that non-instructional
employees of the Ogdensburg City
School District have voted to accept a
new 3-year contract.
Roger Kane, CSEA collective
bargaining specialist and chief
negotiator for the school unit which is
part of St. Lawrence County Local
845, said the new agreement became
effective July 1, 1980, for the more
than 60 employees in the bargaining
unit.
The new pact includes across the
board salary increases of 9.5 percent
the first year; nine percent in the
second year; and nine percent the
third year.
Other employee benefits include an
Agency Shop clause; an improvement
in holiday pay to double time and one
half; 15 cents per hour pay differen-
tial for employees working in the
dome arena; and one additional
holiday. t
In a comment following the con-
tract announcement, Kane
acknowledged the six months of effort
by Unit President Larry Bouchey and
the members of his negotiating team,
“We worked hard to hammer out a
good contract, one of the employees
can live with in face of inflated
costs,”’ Kane said.
CSEA field representative and chief
negotiator for the employees, the new
pact includes an increase of 9.5
percent plus increments where due
for salaried employees.
Second and third shift employees
will also receive $150 and $200 shift
differential pay.
Hourly employees will receive an
hourly increase of 50 cents the first
year and 20 cents per hour the second
year.
Hourly employees will also get an
increase of 10 cents per hour after 10,
15 and 20 years of service.
New contract language for cook
managers calls for an increase of 10.1
percent the first year and 9.5 percent
the second year.
Other benefits include: Improved
Dental Plan; one additional personal
day; all unused personal days can be
accumulated and added to sick days;
overtime distribution to be based
upon a rotating seniority list;
minimum of five percent increase for
promoted employees; new lay off
procedure for non-competitive
employees; and seven calendar days
notice of Involuntary transfer. a.
The new agreement also spe
that in thé ‘event the school distriet
hires employees above the hiring
rate, no employee in the effected title
will receive less money.
In addition to Corcoran, members
of the CSEA negotiating team in-
cluded: Unit President and team
chairman Michael Igo, Carlo Guardi,
John Pasquale, Virginia Malinowski,
Carol Fancher, Donna Yudin and Jen-
nie Herrick.
Sick leave grievance won
SYRACUSE — A spokesman for Syracuse City Local 013 announced a
settlement has been reached between the Governors’ Office of
Employee Relations and CSEA in regard to a grievance filed on behalf of
Florence Kulik, an employee of NYS DOT, who was involved in a job-
related accident in December 1977.
Claire McGrath, president of Local 013, recently received officia! con-
firmation of the settlement that restored 18'% days of vacation accruals
to Ms. Kulik.
The settlement also stated she would receive the difference in pay
received by reason of being on sick leave at ¥% pay for the period Dec. 28,
1977, to Feb. 23, 1978, and the pay she would have received if compensated
on a full-time basis.
It was also agreed that Ms. Kulik did not utilize any sick leave at 42
pay as set forth in the Rules and Regulations of the New York State
Department of Civil Service.
McGrath said CSEA filed the grievance after the State had denied
Ms. Kulik had been injured on the job. The CSEA legal department
argued Ms. Kulik had, in fact, sustained injury while in the State parking
lot,assigned to employees and was entitled to full benefits under the con-
tract.
arbitration.
Following the favorable settlement, CSEA withdrew its demand for
‘Naturally we are pleased with the settlement,’’ Mrs. McGrath said.
“It not only means a considerable financial return for Florence Kulik, but
serves as another reminder to the members of Local 013 that CSEA goes
all out to correct an employee problem.”
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, July 23, 1980
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- Region IV workshop
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|
i] COOPERSTOWN — Nearly 200 delegates from county and
| state locals throughout CSEA Capital Region IV gathered at the O-
Ht te-sa-ga Hotel, June 20-22, to explore the subject of com-
| munications at a workshop organized by the Region IV Education
' Committee, ike
i Topics included. dealing with the news media and preparing
| news releases which were addressed separately by CSEA Assistant
| Director of Communications Melinda Manning Carr and CSEA
Region IV Communications Associate Daniel X. Campbell. Mary
Altpeter of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor
Relations — Cornell University provided delegates with a
background for effective public speaking.
Sie is: , ait
the Capital Region Political Action Committee; ex- balloting.
OTSEGO COUNTY CSEA LOCAL 839 President and Representative to the CSEA
Board of Directors Mabel Wannamaker, left, joins CSEA statewide Secretary Irene
Carr and Capital Region IV President Joseph McDermott at the regional workshop in
Cooperstown. Cooperstown is in Otsego County.
i dome SED
somes — ies
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, July 23, 1980
Page 6
CANDIDATES TO BE EXCHANGE VIEWS — Prior change views on weekend activities. Both vied with
to the Region IV banquet, Carmen Bagnoli, our Tax other regional leaders for the Regional third vice
Local 690 president; and John Vallee, vice chairman of president position Sunday morning. Vallee won the
WORKSH(
groups of
HOT SEAT EXPERIENCE — Karen Messier, Rensselaer Count: president
and a member of the Capital Region IV Education Committee leat
interviewed by the electronic media as CSEA Communications
Campbell attempts to grill the local leader on a recent arbitr
Workshop participants reviewed video tapes and critiqued errg
avoiding them when the news cameras show up unexpectedly.
Establish positive -
relations with press
COOPERSTOWN — Establish ‘‘an
ongoing, positive relationship with the
press,’’ is the advice of Melinda
Manning Carr, CSEA assistant direc-
tor of communications gave to CSEA
delegates learning skills for dealing
with the media at the Capital Region
IV workshop.
“*You should act first. Get to know
your local reporters,’ Ms. Carr told
the delegates. Leave your name and
work and home phone numbers for
Vallee new VP
COOPERSTOWN — John Vallee of
Rensselaer County Local 842 was
elected third vice president of Capital
Region IV by delegates to the region's
annual summer workshop in Cooper-
stown, June 20-22.
Vallee fills a vacancy left when
Third Vice President Joan Tobin took
over the position of second vice
president following the death of
Gerald Purcell.
: fits a = 3
PRESIDENT PRESENTS AWARD WINNER — Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Collins
troduced to the Region II banquet audience as the winner of the 1979-1980
President's Award for outstanding service and dedication to the CSEA Capital
Region. Region IV President Joseph McDermott is the presenter.
s various
ms of 2
‘looper
Agreement reached
in Troy negotiations
TROY — The City of Troy Unit of
Rensselaer County Local 842 and city
officials have come to agreement on
the terms of a two year contract
proposed by a Public Employment
Relations Board fact finder, after the
two sides declared an Impasse in
negotiations in February of this year.
The contract calls for an immediate
seven percent salary increase,
retroactive to Jan. 1, 1980, as wellasa
cost of living adjustment payable in
October 1980 and added to salary
schedules for January 1981.
The adjustment, according to
Joseph Cassidy, chief negotiator for
the Unit, will equal one cent per hour
for each half percent rise in inflation
between seven and 12 percent for
1980.
Salaries for the nearly 400 city
employees will be increased by eight
percent in January 1981 and another
cost of living adjustment of two cents
per hour for each half percent rise in
inflation between 8.5 and 12 percent in
1986 will be paid in October 1981 and
then added to salary schedules.
Cassidy said all existing benefits
will be retained. In addition,
employees on Tiers I and II of the
New York State Retirement System
will be eligible for the 751 retirement
plan as of June 1981, and longevity
payments for 10 year employees will
be increased by $100 in July 1981.
The collective bargaining specialist
for the Unit negotiations was Joseph
Reedy. Other members of the Unit
negotiating team were Sam Ciraulo
and Jim Hayes.
¥
COOPERSTOWN — “If you
think of your everyday conver-
sations with co-workers, family
and friends as a form of public
speaking, you will realize just how
easy it is, with the proper training,
to speak effectively in public,”
Mary Altpeter, of the New York
State School of Industrial and
Labor Relations — Cornell Univer-
sity told delegates to a CSEA
Capital Region IV communications
workshop.
Ms. Altpeter listened while the
audience listed for her some of the
10 most common problems they en-
counter when speaking. She then
proceeded to tell them how to han-
dle the difficulties.
Concerns about getting the
attention of the entire audience,
avoiding the use of jargon,
equipment failure and having a
poor voice, were some of the major
ones mentioned.
The four basic elements of
e speechmaking, Ms. Altpeter
pointed out, are: content
preparation, self confidence,
sincerity and controlling ner-
vousness,
not to be
late Dan
decision.
hopes of
them and get theirs. Then contact the
reporter whenever you feel an item is
newsworthy.
She also advised the union members
not to ‘“‘be afraid of the media.
“They're human too.’’
Ms. Carr cautioned her listeners to®
always know all the facts and details
of a story. “You only have one shot.
You can’t take back what you've
said.”’
If you don’t have an answer for a
question, she said: ‘‘Say, I don’t
know,’ but I'll get back to you, and do
it.’ This helps to establish the
credibility which the relationship
must be built on.
It is important to provide reporters@
with a written press release so you're
sure they are getting the facts
straight.
She urged the local representatives
to utilize their regional public
relations offices as consultants or
their contact with the media. ‘Use it
in whatever way you feel is
necessary,’’ she said.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION A
RELAXATION — Greene County Local
gates to the workshop include Elizabeth
Peterson, Bi
Public speaking easy
with proper training
All speeches should have an in-
troduction, body and conclusion,
she said. The introduction should
give the listener something to think
about. The body should tell what
you are promoting and what
direction you want listeners to
take. The conclusion should sum-
marize what you've already said.
She said a good speaker respects
what he will say and does not read
the speech. To avoid ‘‘put down’’
phrases, such as ‘I'd like to say a
few’ words,” the speaker should
state in the beginning what he will
be talking about.
One effective way to overcome
nerves is to wear good comfortable
clothing that you feel attractive in,
she said.
Another is to keep an object in
your pocket to squeeze. This trick
focuses your energy and ner-
vousness into one area, thereby
controlling it, she said.
She instructed those who are ab-
solutely terrified of speaking
publicly to practice by getting into
the middle of conversations at all
sort of gatherings.
a i
joard of Directors Representative
Henry Wyszynski, and Kay Stanzione.
CSEA DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION Thomas Quimby leads a discussion at the recently
held Capital Region IV staff day-long training session at SUNY Albany. Also par-
ticipating in the training session, which demonstrated new ways to generate
membership participating, was Josephine Musicius of the New York State School of In- :
dustrial and Labor Relations — Cornell University.
CAPITAL REGION IV FIELD REPRESENTATIVE Donald McCarthy, right, makes a
point at the recently held regional staff training session while Collective Bargaining
Specialist Joseph Reedy listens.
CSEA staffers, from left, William Lochner, Charles Scott and John Cummings.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, July 23, 1980 Page 7
Westchester Unit
heading to Impasse
WHITE PLAINS — CSEA’s 5,000-
member Westchester County Unit is in
the process of declaring Impasse in
negotiations for a new contract with
Westchester County.
The present contract expires at the
end of 1980.
County Unit President Raymond J.
O'Connor said the situation was reached
six months before the expiration of the
contract because the county refused “‘to
seriously discuss financial issues.”’
O'Connor and John Whalen chair the
negotiating team. CSEA Collective
Bargaining Specialist Ronald Mazzola is
the chief negotiator.
In a statement issued to the press on
June 30, O'Connor said:
“The Westchester County Unit of the
Civil Service Employees Association is
in the process of declaring an Impasse in
its current contract negotiations with
the county. .
“Several negotiating sessions ago, the
county asked us to review our demands,
and in a spirit of cooperation we did so,
CSEA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBER
training workshop at WDC.
Richard Snyder and Ruth Gordon,
both of Wassaic Developmental Center (WDC) Local 426, attend the recently held
and put on the table a revised package
which we believe realistically addresses
the economic needs of our members and
their families.
“Unfortunately, the county has refuse
ed even to respond to our, revised
package, so we are requesting that the:
Public Employment Relations Board in- -
tervene and appoint a mediator.
“Jt should be noted that the current
three-year contract reflects a total pay
raise of only 10 per cent, while during the
last 29 months of the contract inflation
has risen by 23.6 per cent.
“When you take into consideration the
rate of inflation, along with the fact that
Westchester County has one of the
highest ‘standards of living in the
country, you can fully understand why
we want the services of a mediator in
order to get simple justice for our
membership.
“The decision to declare an Impasse
was taken unanimously by the union's 21-
member negotiating team. Stonewalling
is not negotiating!”
A,
Wassaic MHTA winner
of out-of-title grievance
WASSAIC — An employee at the Wassaic Developmental
Center (WDC) who claimed she was assigned to out-of-title work
over a long period of time has won her grievance and will be partial-
ly reimbursed for her out-of-title work.
CSEA Local 426 member Shirley Adrian, a Mental Hygiene
Therapy Aide, said she had been functioning as a night shift building
charge for about six years except for a brief period when the
Wassaic facility assigned a Mental Hygiene Therapy Assistant to
replace her as building charge.
Ms. Adrian filed her grievance on Dec. 10, 1979 asking the
facility either assign a Grade 11 Mental Hygiene Therapy Assistant
as building charge or to appoint her as a provisional Mental Hygiene
Therapy Assistant.
Thomas M. Hines, assistant director of the Governor's Office of
Employee Relations, handled the case for OER. He sought the
opinion and recommendations of the Director of Classifications and
Compensation.
He then recommended to OER Director Meyer S. Frucher that
Ms. Adrian's grievance be upheld and that WDC be ordered to cease
the practice of assigning a Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide to perform
the work of a Mental Hygiene Therapy Assistant over a long period
of time.
_ OER also recommended Ms. Adrian be compensated for the
difference between Grade 9 and Grade 11 for a total of 40 days
between Dec. 2, 1979 and Feb. 6, 1980.
It was pointed out that although Ms. Adrian had performed out-
of-title work prior to Dec. 2, 1979, her grievance was not filed until
Dec. 10.
eee RE
SOUTHERN REGION III PRESIDENT James Lennon, right, chats with Wassaic
Developmental Center Local 426 member Chris Pelky at a recently held training
workshop,
Training workshop
for Locals
QASSAIC — Members of Wassaic
Developmental Center Local 426
and Westchester Developmental
Center Local 432 attended a train-
ing workshop recently at Wassaic
Developmental Center.
Speaking at the workshop were
Southern, Region Ili Director
Thomas sello; CSEA Field
Representatives Thomas Brann
lip’ Amodio, both of the
Region lif staff, and Ronald Coder
of AFSCME.
Region III President James Len-
non, who moderated the workshop,
spoke on the value of belonging to a
union,
Luposello said the workshop was
part of the steward training
program in the region, which is
conducted through workshops at
ToS SS, SoS
aa SOI
AMONG THOSE FROM WESTCHESTER DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER Local
432 attending the training workshop at Wassaic Developmental Center are Joa
Breyer and Robert Fiero,
‘.. re
Page 8° THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Weddeésdal; July 23/'1980 °
426, 432
the work locations and at the
regional level.
“Stewards guard the rights of
persons given a notice of discipline.
Stewards have a responsibility to
those persons,’’ Luposello said.
Brann said: It is the job of the
steward to find the truth.
He stressed the importance of
the investigative function of the
steward, finding out what really
happened in a grievance or a dis-
ciplinary. He emphasized getting
signed statements from witnesses.
Amodio stressed the importance
of responding to disciplinaries
within the contractually agreed
upon time limits. He told of actual
cases where members waited too
long to bring a notice of discipline
to the attention of the union.
ALBANY. — The’ widow of
Gerald L. Purcell, Second Vice
President of CSEA Region IV, has
extended thanks to those CSEA
members throughout the state
who have sent her and her son,
Michael, many expressions of
sympathy during their recent
bereavement.
Alicia Purcell said in a letter to
the members of Local 660, Mr.
Purcell's own CSEA local: ‘In
this day and age, when it seems
that everyone is just looking out
for himself, the knowledge that
there are caring, loving people in
the world makes it a little easier
Grants procedures improved _
ALBANY — Approval procedures
for Agency Experimental grants have
been improved and streamlined, ac-
cording to CSEA Education Director
Tom Quimby.
The Agency Experimental program
is part of the Employee Benefits
Training Program negotiated in the
ASU, OSU and ISU contracts. The
other three elements of the program
are High School Equivalency, Tuition
Support and Employee Benefit Train-
CSEAP seminars conducted
ALBANY — Seminars have now
been held in every region of the state,
explaining the new Clerical and
Secretarial Employees Advancement
Program for CSEA’s statewide Ad-
ministrative Services bargaining un-
it
mt
\\
The program was negotiated for the
unit in its current (1979-82) CSEA
contract. It provides innovative
training, development and ad-
vancement opportunities for women,
minorities and the disadvantaged in
that unit, which has about 38,000
members.
CSEA’s Jack Conoby, Collective
Bargaining Specialist for the Ad-
ministrative unit, has been con-
ducting the seminars in the union’s
six geographic regions, along with
negotiating unit chair Elaine Todd of
Buffalo and members of the
negotiating team. Management
representatives have also par-
ticipated in the explanatory sessions.
The most recent seminars were
held in New York City, Hauppauge
and New Paltz, where Conoby
reported attendance and enthusiasm
were both excellent. Previous
seminars, similarly well-attended,
were held in Albany, Batavia and
Syracuse.
JACK CONOBY, Collective Bargaining Specialist, has conducted a series of
seminars throughout the state recently.
Bronx PC Local 601 hosts
ing courses.
“AE courses are designed to meet
the unique needs of employees of a
particular agency or facility,” Quim-
by explained. For example, the
courses can facilitate retraining
. necessitated by technological change
or perhaps help employees prepare
themselves. for promotional oppor-
tunities within the agency.
Under the AE approach, agencies
work closely with leadership of CSEA
locals, with labor and management
jointly developing programs and fil-
ing grant applications.
Quimby explained that under the
new streamlined procedures, a
statewide labor/management com-
mittee will review all local grant
appl ions.
oD ll enable us to determine it
patterns are developing. either for
good or bad.” Quimby commented.
“For example, we might be able to
pinpoint problems developing within a
certain agency.
Members of the joint State/CSEA
Committee on Employee
Development and Training are:
Institutional — John Weidman
(chairperson), Felton King, and
Genevieve Clark:
Operational — Larry Natoli
(chairperson), William Fetterling
and Mitchell Dudley;
Administrative — Loretta Rodwell
(chairperson), Dolores Farrell, and
Mary Doyle. ° A
The Agency Experimental program
is funded at approximately $300,000
legislative meeting
CSEA LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL ACTION DIRECTOR Bernard
Ryan, left, and Metropolitan Region Ii Legislative and Political Action
Committee Chairman Ronnie Smith, right, speak with Assemblyman G.
Joseph Galiber.
John Calandra; sit
Oliver Koppell at a recent Bronx Psychiatric Center CSEA Local 401
legislative meeting. Koppell is chairman of the Assembly Corporations,
Authorities and Commissions Committee.
(Below left) AT THE RECENT Bronx Psychiatric Center Local 49)
legislative meeting, George Austin of CSEA, left, greets State Senator
(Below) AMONG THOSE ATTENDING the recent legislative mecting
of Local 401 were, from left, standing, Doris Fields and William Ander-
son, both Local 401; Councilman Joseph Savino; Assemblyman George
Friedman; Dr. Pedro Ruiz and Ira Shulman, director and deputy direc-
tor, respectively, of Bronx Psychiatric Center (BPC); State Senator
iting, J. Arrendale and Harriet Windman, both Local
401; Dennis Harris, BPC deputy director; and Soudra Edwards, Local
401.
THE PUBLIC, SECTOR, Wednesday, July 23, 1980
Page 9
STATE OPEN COMPETITIVE
JOB CALENDAR
$13,265
. $17,570
EVALUATIONS OF TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
AND ORAL TEST
Cytotechmologist me
Cytotechnologist . Senior iis
Salary
.. $11,695
$13,125
Director of Mental Health Rehabilitation Services,
Assistant.
Director of Mental Rehabilitation Servic Ss
Photogrammetric Technician ...
$26,344
$36,019
-$ 9,655
COMPETITIVE
PROMOTIONAL EXAMS
umplovees Only
Princi iI Bic: tat At :
Assistant Director of Plant Industry ..
Senior Food Bacteriologist i
Weights: amd Measures Specialist ie
ates St es Aceounts Auditor.
Prite essed
capil Auditor........ 5
Employees Insurance Reviewing Clerk II . i
Motor Equipment Mechanic (No Filing Deadline) .
Mental Hygiene Therapy Assistant I
Director of Mental Health Rehabilitation Services
Mentail Hygiene Therapy Assistant I
Chief Withholding Tax Accounts...
Principal Clerk (Estate Tax Appraisal)
| Senior Clerk (Estate Tax Appraisal).
Orange County Unit
wins lag payroll case
ALBANY The State Court of
Appeals has ruled that Orange County
cannot unilaterally institute a lag
payroll.
Om Now. 24, 1978, CSEA, on behalf of
the Oramge County Unit of CSEA
Local 86 members, filed an Improper
Practice charge maintaining that in-
stitwting a lag payroll would be ‘‘a
change im the terms and conditions of
employment, and, therefore, subject
ri pial
A Public Empleyment Relations
Board (PERB) hearing officer initial-
ly upheld the county’s action, but that
decisiom was later reversed by the full
PERB Board.
The county next went to the courts
to appeal the decision, and last month
the appeal was dismissed as,
“academic.”
In its decision, the court maintained
that PERB’s action to uphold the
CSEA was founded on substantive
evidence, including the county’s con-
cession of its obligation to negotiate
the extent and impact of the payroll
laj
Grange County Unit President
Katherine Cayton hailed the decision
as ‘“‘quite a victory’’ and said it
“upholds the principle of collective
bargaining.””
Mrs. Cayton also said approximate-
ly one-third of all county employees
would have been affected and “are
OPEN CONTINUOUS
STATE JOB CALENDAR
Senior Medical Records Technician ...
Pharmacist (salary varies with location)
Assistant Sanitary Engineer .
Senior Sanitary Engineer
Clinical Physician Il.
Assistant Clinical Ph
Attorney ..
Assistant Attorney .
Attorney Trainee
Junior Engineer.
(Bachelor’s Degree)
Junior Engineer .. ave.
(Master’s Degree)
Dental Hygienist
Licensed Practical Nurse.
Nutrition Services Consultant...
Stationary Engineer ‘
Senior Stationary Engineer ....
Occupational Therapy Assistant I
Occupational Therapy Assistant I ......
(Spanish Speaking)
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor ..
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Trainee
Medical Record Technician
Histology Technician .
Professional Positions it
Computer Programmer...
Computer Programmer (Scientific ve
Senior Programmer .
Senior Computer Programmer (Scientific)
Mobility Instructor .
Instructor of the Blind
Health Services Nurse .
.(salary varies wil
Senior Heating and Ventilating Engineer .
Senior Sanitary Engineer (Design) .....
Senior Building Electrical Engineer
Senior Building Structural Engineer
Senior Mechanical Construction Engineer
Senior Plumbing Engineer ..
Assistant Stationary Engineer .
Electroencephalograph Techni
Radiologic Technologist
(salary varies with iocation)
Medical Record Administrator
Food Service Worker I |... .
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee .
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee .
(Spanish Speaking)
Associate Actuary (Casualty) .....
Principal Actuary (Casualty) ..
Supervising Actuary (Casualty)
Assistant Actuary
Nurse I.
Nurse II.
Nurse IE (Psychiatric)
Nurse Il (Rehabilitation) .
Medical Specialist II ...
Medical Specialist I
Psychiatrist I
Psychiatrist II
Social Services Management Trainee ne
Social Services Management Specialist
Social Services Management Trainee ..
(Spanish Speaking)
Social Services Management Specialist ........................
(Spanish Speaking)
Industrial Training Supervisor
(salary varies depending on specialty)
Physical Therapist
Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking).
Senior Physical Therapist
Senior Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking) .
Speech Pathologist .
Audiologist
Assistant Speech Pathologist
Assistant Audiologist .
Dietician Trainee .
Dietician .... ‘
Supervising Dietician ...
Stenographer (NYC only
Typist (NYC only)
Senior Occupational Therapist .
Senior Occupational Therapist ....
(Spanish Speaking)
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapist (Spanish Speaking)
‘You may contact the following offices of the New York State Department of Civil Service for on-
$13,876
$8,950
«$8,051
$13,404
- $10,042
- $14,142
- $11,983
$9,481
“$11,250-§12,025
-. $18,301
. $18,301
- $18,301
- $18,301
. $18,301
. $18,301
$7.616 2
. $7,616
« -$8,454-$10,369
1 $10,824
$11,450
$10,624-$12,583
.. $11,337
$11,337
-» $12,670
-. $12,670
$12,670
$12,670
$11,337
$11,337
$10,624
$11,250
$13,304 2
$6,650
. $6,071
$12,670
$12,670
$11,337
+ $11,337
Safety Hotline
800-342-4824
now spared from the economic
hardship that would have resulted.”
CSEA had previously won a court
injunction~ staying the county from
implementing the lag payroll.
its, applications, and other details concerning examinations for the positions listed above.
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~ THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, July 23, 1980
Brookhaven layoff attacked;
” $1.5 million found in budget
BELLPORT — A plan to merge
three departments that will result in
the layoff of 13 employees in the Town
of Brookhaven was attacked as a
“pork barrel’ by Suffolk County
Local 852 President Ben Boczkowski.
CSEA represents approximately 800
@ Towns of Brookhaven employees
divided into three units: white collar,
blue collar and highway.
The plan was approved at a July 8
Town Board meeting in Bellport that
was attended by more than 200 CSEA
members and Town employees.
Under that plan, the Environmental
Protection Department and the
Department of Traffic and Safety will
be merged into the Planning
e Department with the resulting loss of
13 jobs.
The terminations will take place in
the next 60 days.
If it goes through, other
departments, including the buildings,
commercial and industrial
development, airport and zoning
board of appeals would be placed un-
der the new “‘superagency”’ which
will be called the Department of Plan-
e ning, Housing and Development.
Nine other “‘superagencies’’ will be
created according to the Town
proposal which was drafted by Coun-
cilman Eugene Dooley. Joel
Lefkowitz, Town supervisor, cast the
deciding vote.
Boczkowski, who was only allowed
to speak after the vote, lashed into the
board:
“This consolidation is nothing more
than the first step in setting up
another level of government and
patronage. It is exactly the kind of
government that ruined the financial
health of New York City.
“Brookhaven is planning to create
25 management jobs that will have
salary levels of $30,000 and above.
This is raw political greed.”
Using a budget analysis prepared
by the AFSCME Department of
Research and Collective Bargaining
Services, Boczkowski was able to
challenge the Town’s assertion that
the job cuts were a savings by show-
ing the Town’s current budget had
“excess’’ appropriations of $1.5
million and the elimination of jobs-
would bring the savings of only
$110,000.
The Town had claimed a savings of
$303,000 in salary and fringe benefits.
Also addressing the Board were
CSEA White Collar Unit President
Ruth Kempf and Highway Unit
President Charles Novo.
He said CSEA attorneys were look-
ing at the legality of the town’s
setting up a new department before a
local law authorizing them to do was
passed.
said.
hazards, he said.
New program
for diabetics
UTICA — A unique program design-
ed to improve the quality of life of
diabetics and to help cut their
medical care costs is available at St.
Luke's Memorial Hospital Center in
Utica according to a CSEA represen-
tative who was recently invited to
tour the facility.
Program participants attend
classes Monday through Friday from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and may be accom-
panied by one or two family
members.
Costs of the program are covered in
full or in part by third party insurers.
The comprehensive. 5-day
educational program has been
approved by the American Diabetes
Association, CNY Chapter, Inc.
For complete information
regarding the Diabetes Out-Patient
Education Program enrollment,
without obligation, write:
Mrs. Nancy E. Fay, RN
St. Luke’s Memorial’ Hospital
Center
Community Health Services
Building
P.O. Box 479
Utica, N.Y. 13503
Or phone (315) 798-6220 (Monday
through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4
p.m.).
Safety training set for
Parks Local members
BABYLON — Members of Long Island State Parks CSEA
Local 102 will receive safety training in the fall, Local 1
President Arthur Loving reported.
Loving said the Long Island State Parks management
agreed to the training at the first meeting of the Local 102
Safety Committee with management. The meeting was
recently held at Long Island State Parks headquarters in
Belmont Lake State Park.
Representing CSEA at the meeting were Loving, First
Vice President Alex Kosiczky, Second Vice President Stanley
Meadows, committee member Mickey Walsh and CSEA Field
Representative Nat Zummo.
Leading management at the meeting was Daniel Lynch,
assistant parks supervisor who is in charge of safety, Loving
Also as a result of the meeting, both management and the
union will monitor work locations on the correction of safety
5 SA ET RS RL
eR
RECENT RETIREES OF SUNY Farmingdale
Local 606 were honored recently at a picnic where
Long Island Region I President Irving Flaumen-
baum presented awards. At the awards ceremony
MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF THE Atlantic
Beach Bridge Authority Unit of Nassau County
Local 830 is attended by, from left, Harry Veltri,
Unit vice president; Nicholas Abbatiello, Local
president; John O'Sullivan, CSEA field represen-
are, from left, Lucille Kreck, CSEA Field
Representative Nicholas Pollicino, Leona Canda,
Flaumenbaum, LaVerne Vost and Joan Ciofulo.
tative; Danny Gagliardo, Unit president; and
Martin Boyle, Unit secretary and treasurer, At the
meeting, two recent retirees, Salvatore Gaglio and
Rocco LaSalle, were awarded watches by the unit.
‘
:
MOUNT SINAI — The Mount Sinai School District,
after a meeting with Suffolk Educational Local 870, has i
agreed to unify salaries for all positions in the CSEA con-
tract and to hire new personnel in strick accordance with
the terms of the contract in the future, according to
Midge Blasko, president of the Mount Sinai CSEA Unit.
In January, when the bargaining unit was
represented by an independent union, the School District
created two senior custodial positions at salary levels
other than those prescribed for the position by the con-
tract. z
Shortly after CSEA won representation rights to. the
unit, CSEA Field Representative James Walters, acting
on order of Ms. Blasko and Local 870 President Walter |
Weeks, filed an Improper Practice charge with PERB |
claiming the school district had violated the terms and
conditions of the contract.
Ata June meeting, the school district agreed to place
the two new positions as separate job titles and to list
their salaries in the contract. The district also agreed to
raise all starting salaries to meet the requirements of the
contract, Weeks said.
> SUSSITURT NEB e
CSEA wins dispute
over Mount Sinai pact
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