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CSEA CIVIL SERVICE COMMITT!

Friday, February 17, 1978

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EE MEETS
The Civil Service Employees Association’s civil service committee met in Albany recently to consider
proposed legislation for Civil Service reform and general problems encountered with Civil Service proced-
ure, New members of the committee are, standing, Salvatore Castro, Buffalo Sewer Authority; Joseph
D’Amore, Department of Mental Hygiene, South Beach Psychiatric Center; Ginger Moronski, SUNY at

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partment of Health, Helen Hayes Hospital; John Haponski, Education Department, Rome School for the
Deaf; Francis All, SUNY Oneonta, and Carlo Pugliese, Nassau County Health Department. Ms. Gray
has requested that all employees with comments or problems of general interest contact a member of

this committee.

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35 Newspapers
To Carry CSEA

Ads On Dumping

ALBANY—Phase IT of an advertising campaign was be-
gun last week to bring public attention tothe state’s policy
of “dumping” mentally ill and retarded persons into the

communities.

The Civil Service Employees
Association's public campaign
started with Phase I last month
as four different 60-second spots
were aired across the state. This,
in itself, generated a tremendous
amount of discussion.

Phase II started Feb. 14 with
the first of two quarter-page
newspaper ads in 35 newspapers.
‘The second ad will appear on or
about Feb. 20.

In addition, the overall cam-
paign has been expanded to in-
clude poster saturation of New
York City subways and buses.
This aspect will begin in March,
with 5,000 posters for the sub-

Burch: PST Meet ‘Important Step’

ALBANY —“An important
step, which helped clarify
areas of shared concern,”
is the way the Feb. 4 meeting
of the Most Populous Titles
Committee of the Civil Service
Employees Association's Profes-
sional, Scientific, and Technical
Unit was described by Paul T.
Burch, The meeting was held at
the Thruway House here.

Mr. Burch, CSEA’s veteran ne-

Offer Meyer
Hospital Plan
By Midweek

By KENNETH SCHEPT

BUFFALO — Erie County
Executive Edward V. Regan
said that he hoped to make
a recommendation to the
County Legislature by the middle
of this week on the proposal to
divest county control of Meyer
Hospital,

In a telephone interview with
the Leader, Friday, Mr, Regan
said that he probably would sug-
gest that a private group take
over the facility.

He described the hospital as a
highly technological institution
and said that it could be operated
better, “under private manage-
ment without having to do bat-
tle with the New York State
Civil Service System every step
of the way.”

Robert Lattimer, Region VI
president. of the Civil Service
Employees Association, accused

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gotiator of PS&T contracts and
staff coordinator for the com-
mittee, said the committee met
for over five hours to discuss
problems relating to specific pro-
fessions within the PS&T Unit.
After a welcome from CSEA
president William L. McGowan,
the committee met in its ten
separate groupings by profession
to discuss problems relating to
those specific professions.

Following the meeting, Mr.
Burch said that while the ten
“sub-committees” identified areas
of interest unique to their pro-
fessions, certain interests com-
mon to all of the groups were
recognized, These included: Civil
Service Examination content,
frequency of examinations, use
of oral examinations, qualifica-
tion for promotion and preva-
lence of provisional appoint-
ments.

Beyond the concerns which
crossed over the disciplines, spe-
cific topics of discussion within
the individual disciplines in-
cluded travel and mileage reim-
bursements for field-type em-
ployees, certification of occupa-
tional and recreational thera-
pists, professional engineering
requirements and licensing of en-
gineers and continuing educa-
tion for nurses.

“The March 11 meeting,” Mr.
Burch said, “will allow the sub-
committees and their staff co-

ASSAULTS:
SPECIAL
REPORT p8&

ordinators to go further into de-
tail on problems relating to spe-
cific disciplines. Those discus-
sions will aid the negotiation pro-
cess by adding to negotiation
demand input through specific
professions. While we already
know a great deal, there is a
great deal more we can learn.”

Suggestions which result from
the committee meetings will be
combined with the information
from other sources to serve as a
basis for making decisions about
negotiations, The established
sources for such information now
include suggestions made
through elected officers, regional
offices, local offices, flyers which
are widely distributed at PS&T
locations, postcards and letters
sent by rank and file members
to CSEA headquarters, and a
suggestion form published in the
Civil Service Leader.

Mr. Burch sald the Most Pop-
ulous Titles Committee was not
intended to replace these other
information sources but rather to

broaden the input and empha-
size suggestions from groups of
professionals who have specific
requirements to enhance career
goals and professional objectives.
While the actual PS&T nego-
tiations will not start for some
time, Mr. Burch noted that to
understand needs of 2,600 job
titles takes considerable time
and effort. PS&T has 2,600 sep-
arate job titles with about half
the Unit's 45,000 members be-
longing to the major groupings
of titles represented on the Most
Populous Titles Committee.
Some of the titles represented
on the committee include:
nurses, nurse instructors, nurse
administrators, employment in-
terviewers, employment counsel-
ors, unemployment insurance
claims examiners, engineering
aides, engineering technicians,
junior engineers, civil engineers,
institutional teachers, psychiatric
social worker assistant and psy-
chiatric social workers, psychiat-
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ways and another 3,000 for the
city buses, Both will be displayed
for one month.

Hard on the heels of that, 100
billboards in key locations
throughout the state will carry
the CSEA’s message for one
month starting late in March.

The campaign is designed to
alert the public to unfair prac-
tices of the state as evidenced
by what the CSEA charges is the
improper deinstitutionalization of
thousands of mentally handicap-
ped persons from state psychiat-
ric and developmental centers
into communities where there is
often improper, inadequate or
non-existent aftercare.

This $75,000 campaign was
authorized by the CSEA Board of
Directors at the insistence of the
union's rank-and-file members,
who made their views known
through various Local and re-
gional meetings and at the state-
wide Delegates Convention last
October.

‘The CSEA’s members believe
the dumping practice has threat-
ened the well-being of patients
as well as the job security of

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Don’t Repeat This!

Gov. Hopefuls
To Tread Lightly
In New York City

Gov. Hugh L. Carey’s and
New York City Mayor Ed-
ward I, Koch's agreement for
a $200 million increase in
state aid for the city during the
coming fiscal year may put Sen-

(Continued on Page 6)

CSEA Wins Yonkers Fight

YONKERS.

-—— Despite a challenge by the Service Employees International Union

to represent the non-instructional staff of the Yonkers public schoo] system, the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Association received 70.9 percent of the votes; SEIU received 24.7 percent.
Fully 83 percent of the employees in the bargaining unit returned their mail ballots, which

were counted Feb. 3 at Public
Employment Relations Board
headquarters, in Albany.

Kathleen McDonnell, president
of the unit, and Michael Morvas-
ky, vice-president, were both
present at the vote count.

Ms, McDonnell expressed, her
delight with the results,

“We're very happy to have
won the election by such a large

margin,” she said. “With this
vote of confidence from the
membership, we promise to

double our efforts to work on
their behalf in the future.”
Contract negotiations for the

941-member unit, which includes
cafeteria workers, janitors, sec-
retaries and aides, have been
held up because of the election.
The Yonkers Board of Education
had refused to negotiate until
the election was over,
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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, February 17, 1978

Report From The Capitol

The Kyer Wire

By PAUL KYER

Everything surges to a peak
for the winter season during
February in New York City.
It’s the time for the most
cocktail parties and dinners
in social, business, political
and all other circles.

Last week was typical in
the Big Apple. Those two
gentlemanly contenders for
the GOP gubernatorial nom-
ination, Senate Majority
Leader Warren Anderson and
Assembly Minority Leader
Perry Duryea, were very
much in evidence at several
functions. We spotted Mr.
Duryea at the Roosevelt
Hotel where he received the
New York State Brotherhood
Award; met Mr, Anderson at
a reception given by the New
York State Bankers Assn.;
talked to both of the con-
tenders at the banker's gath-
ering (and they had some
cordial conversation between
themselves) and walked a
bit with Mr. Anderson on the
way to a dinner of the New
York State Sheriffs’ Jury
Association, where he was
making an appearance.

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The Democratg were very
much in evidence, too, with
Senator Pat Moynihan and
Gov. Hugh Carey seen just
about everywhere.

The common goal: image,
money and votes.

eee

The columns of this news-
paper have warned from the
outset that landlords provid-
ing housing for mental pa-
tients being released to com-
munities under the state’s
deinstitutionalization plan
would soon be gouging the
state for more money once
their buildings are occu-
pied,

Well, a recent news story
reported that 10 adult homes
in New York City that care
for 1,800 elderly residents—
most of them ex-mental pa-
tients unable to defend
themselves—were going to
close down unless the state
boosted their reimbursement
rates.

Attorney General Louis
Lefkowitz got a court order
to restrain the closings but
you can bet that you haven’t

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heard the end of trying to
put the screws on the state
for more cash.
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Most bills in the Legisla-
ture are still at the commit-
tee consideration stage but
you can expect things to
start moving onto the floor
of both houses before too
long. We have several re-
quests to report on the
chances of the various re-
tirement measures in the
Senate and the Assembly and
hope to have some kind of
news on any possible action
soon.

Say Snow Crews
Excelled In Storm

(By Leader Staff)
HAUPPAUGE—Artie Blowers drives a snow plow. Last

Monday he left the Melville

yard of the Department of

Transportation to clear a section of the Long Island Express-*
way, where a trailer had jacknifed in the snow, closing off

two lanes during rush hour.
Cars—trying to pass the truck
—skidded and stalled, closing the
road completely. Within two
hours cars were backed up three
miles and scattered six and eight
abreast in all directions, making
them almost unrecognizable in
the blowing powder.

Hundreds were trapped, in- |
cluding Mr. Blowers, who spent
the next 17 hours in the cab of
his truck, turning the motor on
and off regularly to balance the
need to save fuel with the need
to keep warm.

He was in radio contact with

Jack Moran, a senior from Rensselaer, left, with Republican Senator
Joseph Bruno, of the 41st District, which is near Albany.

Youth Movement

Helping CSEA’s
Legislative Effort

ALBANY —The Civil Ser-
vice Employees Association
has launched an internship
program involving four col-
lege students to help its legisla~
tive action efforts during the
1978 year.

‘The four are junior and senior
Political science students at Siena
College in Loudonville, just out-
side Albany. They will receive

Lottery

ALBANY — There is no
weekly lottery for this issue.
State lottery officials post-
poned the drawing because of
last week’s heavy snow storm.
‘The Leader will carry the lot-
tery numbers in upcoming
editions, as usual.

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three credits in their major field
as a result of their part-time
work for CSEA.

Bernard J. Ryan, the union's
legislative and political action
director, said the students will
keep track of bills of importance
to public employees; attend leg-
islative committee meetings on
behalf of the union, and, in con-
junction with CSEA attorneys,
develop memoranda in opposi-
tion to or in support of various
pieces of proposed legislation.
‘They will also work on political
campaigns after CSEA endorse-
ments are made.

Mr. Ryan is also developing
several major long-range pro-
jects for the interns, including:

helping set up an ongoing CSEA
voter-registration drive;
—compiling union membership
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dispatcher Tommy Tighe, who
sent five trucks to rescue the
worker. None of the men were
able to get through. With other
DOT workers, they joined in the
rescue of stranded motorists.

Workers at the Melville yard,
Department of Transportation
Local 508 of the Civil Service
Employees Association, and other
DOT workers throughout the
Long Island Region, the hardest
hit area during last week's storm,
worked 24 hours per day for four
days, napping in their trucks
while a partner was driving.

Mr. Tighe got home on Thurs-
day after working since Monday
with only occasional two-hour
naps. He slept six hours Thurs-
day and returned to work Thurs-
day night.

“We don’t have the manpower
to establish shifts,” during crisis
situations, he said.

He said that the key to the
problem was the stalled cars.
About 10,000 vehicles per hour
use the section of the LIE which
was hit hardest by the storm.

Fifteen snow blowers and per-
sonne] from upstate arrived on
Long Island Wednesday. Mr.
Tighe said that the upstate work-
ers were astounded by the num-
ber of abandoned cars clogging
the highway. They were used to
work on less-traveled roads, he
said.

Washington County was one of

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First Aid Methods

ALBANY—As a result of contract demands from several
far-sighted individuals involved in the Civil Service Em-
ployees Association’s negotiations with the State of New
York in the administrative unit five years ago, today more

than 1,500 state employees in
that unit have been trained to
administer first aid in emergency
situations.

Each year since its inception in
the 1973-1976 contract between
the State and the CSEA, funds
have been provided for Adminis-
trative Unit employees who are
interested in receiving first ald
instruction at no personal cost
and with time off allotted during
working hours to pursue the op-
portunity,

The basic first aid course,
which is not designed to replace
medical personnel but rather to
assist In cases of emergency until]
qualified medical assistance is

Meyer Hospital
Recommendation
Due This Week

(Continued from Page 1)
Mr, Regan of “copping out.”

“He and his people keep mak-
ing statements that they can cut
costs by going private. Nobody
can get it through their heads
that they'll still have a union to
deal with, They think they can
Just go back to sweat-shop days,”
Mr. Lattimer said.

A CSEA sponsored audit of
Meyer Hospital showed that the
county had little to gain and, in
fact, could lose by divesting it-
self of the facility.

CSEA statewide president Wil-
liam McGowan blamed “unusual

and unacceptable accounting
procedures” for the hospital's
problems,

The union suggested the es-
tablishment of an authority,
which Mr, Regan dismissed say~
ing, “the experience of New York
State with authorities has not
been good,”

Mr. Lattimer responded, “I
think his mind was made up.
We'll do everything we can to
get the best possible deal for the
membership and for the needs
of the community, which we be-
Neve Regan is ignoring.”

available, includes instructional
material, equipment, first-aid
kits, bandages and other sup-
plies, Classes which have already
been offered throughout the state
and in every agency are taught
by Red Cross instructors or state
nurses qualified in Red Cross in-
struction. All supplies and per+
sonnel are paid for by the CSEA
out of the monies appropriated
for the course pursuant to the
terms of the CSEA agreement
with the State.

Although each course is usu-
ally limited to 12 people, it has
been offered numerous times
over the years in large metropol-
itan areas and in populous work
locations where the most benefit
ean be derived from the training.
The course is now being reoffered
to administrative employees in
outlying areas and to those em-
Ployees who are interested in
being qualified to administer first
aid but were not trained previ-
ously.

“The dramatic success of this
program is an indication of what
can be accomplished when labor
and management cooperate to
work toward a common goal,”
said John A, Conoby, CSEA col-
lective bargaining specialist in
charge of this educational train-
ing program, “Although this 1s
a CSEA program designed especi-
ally for Administrative Unit em-
Ployees, credit for its smooth op-
eration must be given to Herb
Kuhn and Ronald Marcsisin,
training supervisor with the State
Department of Civil Service,”
Mr. Conoby said.

‘The first aid course is being
reoffered on a “first come, first
served” basis. Training announce-
ments which include information
on time and location of the
course offering will be posted in
agency buildings. Administrative
employees interested in taking
the course should notify the
president of their CSEA local of
their intent to join the training
program.

Information for the Calend
It should include the date,
The address
Attn.: CSEA Calendar,

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may be submitted directly to THE LEADER.
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FEBRUARY
19—-SUNY at Albany Local 691 Valentine party to honor retirees: 3
pam. cocktails, 4:30 dinner, 5:30-9:30 dancing, Century House,

Route 9, Latham,

21—New York Metrapolten Retirees Local 910 meeting: | p.m.,

2 World Trade

enter, room 5890, Manhattan.

21—Livingston County unit of Rochester Area Retirees Local 912
meeting: 2 p.m., Youth Center, Main St, Mt. Morris.

23—Long Island Region | executive committee meeting: 7 p.m. Re-
gion office, 740 Broadway, No, Amityville, L.1.

24—Capital District Armories Local meeting and dinner: 10 a.m.,
Glens Falls Armory, Glens Falls.

25—Jefferson Local 823 grievance workshop and officers training
seminar: 9:30 a.m., Holiday Inn, Watertown.

28—Buffalo Department of Labor Local 352 general membership
meeting: 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn, 620 Delaware Ave., Buffalo,

MARCH
3-4—Western Region Vi delegates meeting: Charter House, Transit

Rd., Route 78, Williamsville.

Barbara D. Pickell, president of the Civil Service Employees Associa-
tion Broome County unit of Local 804, and Roger Kane, CSEA col-
lective bargaining specialist, pause to discuss the program agenda
prior to the recent membership meeting and ratification vote, The
members voted overwhelmingly to approve the recommendation of
the negotiating team to accept the contract proposal. The two-year

pact will be retroactive to J:

1, 1978,

Broome Legislators
Approve Contract

BINGHAMTON—Members of the Broome County unit of
the Civil Service Employees Association are expected to sign
their recently ratified contract with the county this week.
The agreement was approved by the County Legislators in

a vote of 16 to 1, last Tuesday,
Feb. 7.

In a last-minute move, three
legislators accused the union of
not getting the best deal for all
its members. The union saw this
as an attempt to weaken the
strong morale that resulted
from its winning 13 percent over
two years, plus certain benefits.
The Binghamton Sun-Bulletin

called the legislator's actions,
“Nonsense, of course.”
Members of the Broome Coun-
ty unit negotiating team were:
Kathryn Baran, Joan Brower,
Mary Eggleston, John Fedorko,
Jack Herrick, Ellen Hrustich,
William McMann, Auseklis Kru-
mins, Walter Parmelee, Mary
Ann Wilson and Barbara Pickell,

Ad Campaign
In Print

(Continued from Page 1)

thousands of state workers who
have traditionally provided the
care for these patients.

Contracting out for the care

, of patients is being attacked in

the campaign as a frivolous waste
of taxpayers’ money, with the
end result of putting patients’
and employees’ welfare in jeop-
ardy.

The radio campaign was de-
signed to alert the public to the
problem. The newspaper adver-
tising that began last week re-
fines the CSEA position on the
issue, It points out that the
state can do the job right if it
wants to and that it must follow
through with the care of the
mentally handicapped in order to
live up to its public trust,

The first newspaper ad em-
phasizes the problem and points
out that there are state-run com-
munity-based facilities that
should be used as a model for
solving the deinstitutionalization
problem. It urges readers to write
the Governor and their legislat-
ors to demand an end to dump-
ing and to ask expansion of
proper state-run services for the
mentally handicapped.

The second ad is oriented pos-
itively and notes that state em-
ployees have unique qualifica-
tions to provide the needed care.

The overall focus of the cam-
paign is to urge action on the
parallel interests of the mentally
handicapped and the state work-
evs who are being victimized by
the dumping plan. It points out
that proper care and best service
for the taxpayers’ dollars could
be better:served through follow-
ing the example of established
state-run community-based pro-
grams.

CSEA Wins Yonkers Fight

(Continued from Page 1)

Even though the group's con-
tract expired June 30, 1976, they
have continued to work under
the contract's terms and condi~
tions, in accordance with a con-
tinuation clause negotiated by
CSEA,

The actual vote tally was
CSEA — 586, SEIU — 194, no
union — 13, void — 7.

“The careful groundwork laid
over the years by members of
the unit and their area field rep-
resentative, Joseph O'Connor, has

PS&T Meet

(Continued from Page 1)
rists, psychologists, occupational
therapy trainees and assistants,
occupational therapists, tax ex-
aminers, recreational therapists,
rehabilitation assistants and
counselors and parole officers,

‘The next Most Populous Titles
Committee meeting will be held
on March 11 at the Thruway
House in Albany.

Labor Meeting

CHEEKTOWAGA— The Buf-
falo Department of Labor Local
352 of the Civil Service Employ-
ees Association will hold a gen-
eral membership meeting on
Feb, 28, 5:30 p.m., at the Holiday
Inn, 620 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.

paid off again,” Thomas Lupo-
sello, regional field supervisor,
pointed out.

Regional president James Len-
hon attributed much credit for
the victory to the close coopera-
tion between the Yonkers unit
and Westchester County Local
860.

“Communications among the

membership of both groups and
the Local 860 office staff,” he
said, “have been very close. That
closeness proved invaluable when
the time came to conduct a vig-
orous campaign.”

“This is a great way to start
@ new year," commented Ray
Cassidy, president of the West-
chester County Local.

Reports Of Ordered Snow
Closings Probed By CSEA

NEW YORK—The Civil Service Employees Association
says it is investigating reports that a few scattered state
office work locations in the metropolitan New York City
area were ordered closed during last week's snow storm and

that employees affected have
been told to charge the time off
to personal leave credits.

“The State did not officially
close any state offices last week,
but apparently some work loca-
tions were ordered closed by in-
dividual management personnel.
It is our contention that if any
such closing were made it was
done without proper authority
and those employees ordered
home as a result should not be
forced to charge personal leave
credits to cover the time off,”
said John M. Carey, CSEA’s di-
rector of member services.

He said the situation is unre-
lated to and different from a
snow emergency situation on
Jan. 20 in which all state offices

in the metropolitan area were
ordered closed by Gov. Hugh L.
Carey. In that instance, the
CSEA has requested a meeting
with Governor Carey to seek a
waiver of civil service attendance
rules for that day, but no meet-
ing has yet been scheduled by the
Governor’s Office.

‘The union spokesman said last
week's situation is being evalu-
ated from the point of view that
any individual management per-
son who may have closed a work
location and sent people home
did not have authority to do so
and violated the attendance rules
provisions governing absences
due to extraordinary circum-
stances.

SLOT ‘21 Saenaqag “Seprny “Y

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, February 17, 1978

Uphold Vets’ Preference For Some Reservists

A Manhattan Supreme
Court judge has refused to
revoke veterans’ preference
credits awarded to policemen
on a civil service exam for ser-

geant based upon their call- to
active duty with the National
Guard during the nationwide
postal strike nearly eight years
ago,

Workers Participate
In CS Reform Survey

By DEBORAH CASSIDY

ALBANY—State employees participating in a one-year,
state-sponsored public administration training program will
be distributing a questionnaire to approximately 1,500 state
workers throughout New York State seeking opinions on the

current
issue,

In addition to obtaining the
views of the average employee,
the group will conduct taped in-
terviews with management and
personnel directors.

Civil Service reform

With Civil Service reform cur-
rently a “hot issue” in the news,
J. Patrick Connolly, head of the
project and first vice-president of
the Department of State Local of

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The judge, Oliver Sutton, issued
his ruling in response to a law-
suit by a policeman who was a
member of the National Guard,
but was not called to active duty
during the four-day period in
March 1970, The policeman, John
Stendrini, is on the eligibility
list for promotion to sergeant as
based upon the results of a Nov-
ember 1973, exam.

‘The heart of his lawsuit, which
was directed against the city De-
partment of Personnel and the
Civil Service Commission was
that veterans’ preference credit
was not intended for active duty
to assist in the delivery of mail.
The policeman also maintained
that the credit was designed for
extended periods of active duty
that might include some assign-

The Federal Employee

By PETER ALISON

Salary Catch-Up

The salary “Catch-Up” which
has been running about 6 percent
@ year during the 1970s for fed-
eral and military personnel, re-
quired by law to counteract
inflation, will be less this year
and will probably continue drop-
ping for years to come.

These October adjustments are
being carefully scrutinized as
part of the President's voluntary
wage increase moderation pro-
gram. Each 1 percent increase
represents $500 million in the
budget. The law now requires
adjustments making government
salaries equal wages in private
industry. The decision on how
high government wages are to
rise will be made by the Presi-
dent himself, it 1s believed. Usu-
ally, Bureau of Labor statistics
issued in July is the criterion, The
budget proposals suggest a maxi-
mum weekly pay raise of $23 for
the typical Washington-based
civil servant, and $18 a week for
employees outside Washington.
It envisions a 6 percent raise, but
appropriates a total of $3.3 billion
to pay for it. Congress must also
approve.

eee

Bonuses for top government
executives are being considered
by the Carter staff. They would
run from! 3 percent to 20 percent,
This would all be part of the
reform package applicable in
grades 16 through 18 with some
executives converted to exempt
status, with salaries determined
by their agencies,

A similar reward system for
150,000 middle management em-
Ployees is also under considera-
tion but has @ lower priority.
President Carter has expressed
interest in a greater incentive pay
for top management in general,

Bank Features
State U. Aide’s
Handweavings

BINGHAMTON—An exhibit of
handweavings by SUNY-Bing-
hamton staff member Karen L.
Berlant, of Binghamton, will be
on display during February at the
Marine Midland Bank, 1 Marine
Midland Plaza. It is the first
time handweavings have been ex-
hibited at the bank.

‘The exhibit, called “Patterns,”
features original works and col-
oniad American traditional Eur-
opean designs executed on a
four-harness floor loom,

Ms, Berlant, a self-taught
weaver, is a member of the New
York State Craftsmen's Associa-
tion and the Handweaver's Guild
of America, She is a senior sten-
ographer in the Office of Uni-
versity Relations.

Federal employees who want
to appeal adverse disciplinary
action may soon have to pay a
filing fee equal to one week's
salary. The proposal has been
submitted by the President's
Personnel Management Task
Force on Civil Service Reform.
‘The Task Force is seeking to cut
back on appeals.

The Task Force is made up
principally of Office of Manage-
ment and Budget Personnel and
Civil Service Commission offic-
jals.

‘The new measure is apparently
part of a campaign to make it
easier to discipline civil service
employees. Civil Service Com-
mission Chairman Alan Campbell
claims a major roadblock to civil
service reform is the inability to
fire federal employees considered
incompetent.

New proposed procedures would
give employees slated for dismis-
sal 90 days to improve. After 90
days they may be fired without
the right of appeal on the merits.
But they could appeal procedural
defects.

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Meanwhile, the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
has stopped providing hearings
before taking adverse action
against workers in disciplinary
cases.

“Since the Civil Service Com-
mission extends to employees the
right to post-decision hearing by
appeal,” there appears to be no
need to allow a hearing before the
decision 1s made, says HEW.

ments more “hazardous than de-
livering the mail.”

Judge Sutton ruled that under
state law there were no specifics
as to the length of the call-up
or the type of duty performed.

The National Guard had been
“federalized” after a presidential
proclamation had been issued
declaring a state of national
emergency making all reservists
members of the “armed forces of
the United States,” the judge ex-
plained,

Consequently, Judge Sutton
ruled, there was “no mandatory
period of service under federal-
ization before the National Guard
shall be considered on ‘active
duty.’ Nor is there any require-
ment on the statute that the duty
be hazardous." Therefore, he said
the policemen who were called
up are entitled to veterans’ pref-
erence credits for promotion to
sergeant.

Pick New
U.S. Equal
Opp Head

Andrea Diane Graham has
been named director of Federal
Equal Employment Opportunity,
Alan K, Campbell, U.S. Civil Ser-
vice Commission Chairman, has
announced,

Ms, Graham, associate direc-
tor, program planning and pol-
icy of the Labor Department's
office of federal contract com-
pliance programs, is expected to
assume her new duties on Feb,
21. She will be one of CSC's top
executives responsible for im~-
plementing equal employment op-
portunity throughout the federal
Personnel system,

She has served with the De-
partment of Labor's contract
compliance office since 1974. Be-
fore that, she was with the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights and
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.

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(5 percent salary increase anticipated April 1, 1978
FILING ENDS FEB. 21

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Env, Anal. Asst. $ 9,029 24.625
Senior Env. Anal. $13,404 24.627
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Principal Env. Anal. $21,545 24.629
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Clerical Positions Outside NYC
(Account, Audit, Statistics Clerk) $ 6450 24-607
Assoc. & Princ, Budget Examiners $21,545 & $26,516
General) 27-700, 27-704
Management) 27-701, 27-705

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Drafting Technician (Architectural), Principal $11,537 24-633
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Unemployment Insurance Investigator $11,337 24-639
Public Health Representative | $10,118 24-636
Public Health Representative II $11,938 24-637

Chief, Gas & Petroleum Safety $26,516
FILING ENDS MARCH 13
Hearing Reporter j $11,557 27-692

ond from right, was honored
with Benjamin Potoker Award given to elected or appointed official. Presentation was
made by Samuel Emmett, right, chairman of the New York State Employees Brother-
hood Committee, Inc., and a member of Civil Service Employees Association New
York City Local 010. At left, CSEA Metropolitan Region II first vice-president William
DeMartino and president Solomon Bendet are on hand to congratulate award recipient.

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Among the many top-ranking
officials of the state’s largest
public employees union, the Civil
Service Employees Association,
at the annual Brotherhood rec-
ognition observance last week in
New York City were, seated from
left, president William L. Me-
Gowan, secretary Irene Carr,
Capital Region IV president Jos-
eph McDermott and Central Re-
gion V president and Mental Hy-
giene Presidents Council presi-
dent James Moore. Standing are
Metropolitan Region II super-
visor George Bispham, collective
bargaining and field services di-
rector Joseph Dolan, Long Is-
land Region I president Irving
Flaumenbaum, Region I second
vice-president and Nassau Local
830 president Nicholas Abbatiello
and Southern Region II presi-
dent James Lennon. The regional
presidents are also statewide
CSEA vice-presidents,

Anesthetist List

ALBANY—The state Civil Ser-
vice Department established an
eligible list for Nurse Anesthetist
on Dec. 8, 1977 as the result of
a December 1977 open competi-
tive exam. The list contains 3
names.

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Eugene Vizzini, second from left, an unemployment referee, accepts the Brotherhood
Award for a careér service employee from New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo.
Award is made for deeds and actions that have exemplified brotherhood in all fields
of endeavor. At left is Brotherhood Committee co-chairman Bert Harris, of the
International Association of Personnel in Employment Services, and at far right is
Brotherhood chairman Samuel Emmett.

Reform CETA Or Face

Disaster, Says Union

MINEOLA—The way the Com-
prehensive Employment Training
Act is structured, with county
government taking the bulk of
employees, the potential for ha-
voc exists if government funding
for CETA is cut, Civil Service

Employees Union leaders toid
Nassau County officials last
week,

Nicholas Abbatiello, president
of CSEA Local 830, and Irving
Flaumenbaum, CSEA Region I
president, told the County Board
of Supervisors meeting that
CETA should be modified so
more CETA people are placed in
Private industry jobs.

“The county has become de-
pendent on CETA workers to the
extent that many of county ser-
vices rely on funding from the
federal government for their
continued existence. It is also
impacting the hiring and pro-
moting of civil service employ-

ees,” Mr. Abbatiello said. “We are
also concerned about what hap-
pens after the 36-month training
period is over. Will the federal

government demand that local
government take these people
on?”

“Our members are being frus-
trated because they are being
passed over for promotion,” said
Mr. Flaumenbaum.

Mr. Abbatiello and Mr. Flau-
menbaum urged the county to
place more CETA workers in
the private sector where there is
a prospect of permanent jobs.
Of the 4,000 persons in Nassau’s
CETA program, only a small fac-
tion are employed by private in-
dustry.

County Executive Francis Pur-
cell agreed with the CSEA
chiefs.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1978 Ke ferotes

Wishful Thinking

W: have said again and again in these columns that the
reliance on the borrowing of public employee funds to
help bail out New York City from its unending financial
crisis was a fiscal ploy whose time had come and gone. At the
same time we have urged that new and imaginative resolu~
tions be created instead of the deadly format of pension
fund borrowing and continued heavy cuts in the city’s work
forces.

It was therefore encouraging to find that two major
publications, the Wall Street Journal and the New York
Times, have begun to strike the same theme and are urging
Mayor Koch to comprehend that a further reduction in the
work force is now at the point of being detrimental to the
well-being of the city's residents; that pension-fund borrow-
ing is no answer to proper financing, and that the city’s
problems are going to worsen rather than be alleviated if
some new approaches aren’t realized.

These warnings now also apply to the thinking of New
York State and the Carey Administration, It was learned last
week that interest rates for short-term notes needed by the
state this spring will be higher because of the uncertain
fiscal condition of both the city and the state. An immedi-
ate proposal from Governor Carey’s people was that the rate
could be kept somewhat lower if state pension funds could
be borrowed.

Both the City and the State seem to ignore the fact
that the most important figures dominating these funds—
State Comptroller Arthur Levitt and the public employee
unions representing the fund holders—are thoroughly hostile
to such usage of what are, after all, trust holdings for which
these parties feel an enormous responsibility.

Perhaps the Mayor and the Governor feel the bond
market will react more favorably on interest rates by read-
ing press releases that take for granted that pension funds
will be readily available for the uses they propose. That's
substituting wishful thinking for reality.

All of this leads us to pose the following question: When
did public employee pension funds become a substitute for
taxes in financing government?

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(Continued from Page 1)
ate Majority Leader Warren M.
Anderson and Assembly Minority
Leader Perry B. Duryea, Jr., in
a bind.

Both Anderson and Duryea are
aspirants for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination, and
one of them will certainly face
Carey in the a this No-
vember.

Avoid Being Unfriendly

Anderson and Duryea agree
that a bankrupt New York City
would be ruinous for the state.
Each would also like to get as
large a vote as possible in the
city. Realistically, they know
they can’t expect to carry the
city. To get a good vote in New
York City, Republican aspirants
must avoid any charge of being
unfriendly to the city.

Neither would like a headline
reminiscent to the one that
hit former President Gerald
Ford, “Drop dead New York
City.” Moreover, some increase in
state ald to the city has been
made a condition to any further
federal aid by the Carter Admin-
istration.

The merits of the Carey-Koch
plan and political expediency
make it imperative that Repub-
lican legislative leaders support
the proposal, at least in general.
‘The problem Anderson and Dur-
yea face is how to make the
plan palatable to their Senate
and Assembly colleagues.

Palatability under the circum-
stances will no doubt call for in-
creased state aid to counties,
towns, villages and school boards
outside the city to assure legis-
lators from those areas that they
are receiving fair and equitable
treatment for their constituen-
cies, Such a demand will neces-
sarily require a relatively sub-
stantial reshaping of the Gov-
ernor's proposed budget.

The Governor is in the same
bind as Anderson and Duryea.
While he cannot realistically
hope to carry upstate areas, he
must garner as many votes as
possible in traditionally Repub-
lican districts. This urgency is
due to the Governor’s need to
avoid a situation that might sug-
gest he is sacrificing the interests
of the state to benefit the city.

Issues Are Critical

Carey has already come under
some criticism, unfair in many
respects, that he devoted too
much time and energies to New
York City problems, particularly
in his role as chairman of the
Emergency - Financial Control
Board for the City of New York.
The Governor and the Legisla-
ture must also come up with a
balanced budget that will satisfy
the banking community, since
the state will have to float about
$4 billion in bonds for temporary
financing at the beginning of
next year. The bankers’ impres-
sion of the state budget will in
large measure determine the in-
terest rate the state must pay
on those bonds.

The issues are critical from
both a governmental and polit-
ical point of view. It is inevitable,
therefore, that the parties con-
cerned come up with some com-
promise everyone can live with.

Civil Service
Law & You

By RICHARD GABA

Mr. Gaba is-a member of the New York Bar and Chairman
of the Nassau County Bar Association Labor Law Committee.

Employer Rights
A special Article 78 proceeding was initiated by the
petitioner, International Association of Firefighters of New-
burgh, Local 589, challenging a Public Employment Rela-
tions Board (PERB) decision.

It held that the association committed an improper
practice by demanding negotiation on “the minimum num-
ber of men that must be on duty at all times per piece of
firefighting equipment.” PERB held that the issue of rig
manning was not a mandatory subject of bargaining, but
rather, one of management’s prerogatives.

The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Depart-
ment, held that the issue related to the number of men “on
duty, not to the safety of those men, and thus was not a
mandatory subject of bargaining.” The court reasoned that
petitioner is seeking a voice in determining the number of
employees Newburgh will hire for its fire department, and
that determination is a basic policy decision to be made
solely by the employer.

The court did not mean to indicate that effects upon
the employees’ working conditions arising from the city’s
original decision as to total manpower are necessarily non-
negotiable. That is, any safety impact upon the firemen
arising from a manpower decision would be a proper subject
for bargaining between employer and union. For example;
if it is determined that a certain number of employees is
necessary for the safe operation of equipment, employees
could properly insist upon negotiating a rule which states
that the equipment be operated only when sufficient man-
power is available. International Association of Firefighters
of the City of Newburgh v. Helsby, 399 N.Y.S. 2d 334.

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IN A DISCIPLINARY case recently, the City Manager
of Elmira found a Fire Department officer guilty of mis-
conduct, demoted him from captain to lieutenant and sus-
pended him without pay for 30 days.

The hearing officer found that the former captain. was
insubordinate because he refused to carry out a reasonable
order of his superior to undergo a physical examination and
was, therefore, guilty of misconduct.

The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, held that there
was substantial evidence of misconduct. The firefighter also
contested the penalty as an abuse of discretion. The court
held that “it cannot be said that the penalty here imposed
is so disproportionate to the offense, in the light of all the
circumstances, as to be shocking to one’s sense of fairness.”
The court noted that in a previous case involving the same
matter, a determination of misconduct was arrived at and
the same penalty was imposed as in this hearing. Peck v.
Sartori, 399 N.¥.S. 2d 291.

| WHAT’S YOUR OPINION

THE PLACE:

By DEBORAH CASSIDY -
Rensselaer County Department of Social Services \

QUESTION: The New York State Legislature has recently convened
for the 1978 session. What bills or amendments would you like to see

_,_ this year?

Carol Larpenteur, social welfare examiner, “Like
. -many others in the Civil Service
Employees Association, I think
that the CSEA’s top priority in
the Legislature this year should
be the amendment of the Tay-
Jor Law. Although I don’t be-
lieve in going on strike unless
it’s absolutely necessary, I don’t
* think that there should be such
harsh penalties for it. The pub-
lic employee should have the
same rights as the private em-
employee when it comes to the laws. Amending
the Taylor Law would give the union much
more power at the bargaining table because the
administration would have to take the threat of
@ strike more seriously, knowing that the em-
Ployees would not be afraid of facing penalties if.
they felt that a strike was the only way to have
their demands met.”

Al Rickman, supervisor of food stamps: “The sin-
gle most important issue for
the CSEA to pursue this year
should be the Last Offer Bind-
ing Arbitration bill. Now, at a
time when few contracts are
being negotiated, there should
be some effort to change the
negotiating process. With LOBA,
the employees have a far bet-
ter chance of getting a good
contract from an impartial ar-
bitrator rather than declaring
impasse and leaving it up to another level of the
government they work for. I am also somewhat
concerned with bills for improving the retire-
ment system. Local governments should offer
‘as good a system as the state government does.”

Florence Sullivan, social welfare examiner: “I am
_, concerned about two areas of
» legislation. One is the area of
, retiree bills and the other ts
the area of the Taylor Law. It's
hard for some people to get
along on a fixed income and
the union should do all it can
to help past members to at-
tain more retirement benefits
and to assure present members
that when they retire they too
will have decent benefits, I
don’t believe in going on strike for small matters,
but when there is no other choice, I don’t think
that the employees should have to face harsh
penalties for their actions, so the CSEA should
push for changes, here, too.”

Margaret Wigman, social welfare examiner: “The
CSEA should concentrate on
three major bills, amendments
to the Taylor Law, Agency
Shop and improved retirement
benefits. When the workérs feel
that they must go on strike
they should be able to do so
without fear of unfair reprisals
and it is up to the CSEA to see
that the Legislature is at least
made aware of the obstacles
public employees face in this

area. Next, I think that the Agency Shop bill

should be made permanent and should be en-
forced in local governments as well as in the
state. Finally, I think that retirees should receive

@ greater allowance. If the CSEA pushed these

three bills they would be benefitting a wide ex-

panse of members."

Ruth Wolfers, welfare investigator: “First of all
I would like to see some bills
in favor of retirees passed. Most
important, I think that the re-
tirement system offered by local
governments lags far behind
that offered by the state govern-
ment and the two should be
made equal. I think the CSEA
has the power to push such bills
and more or less owes it to the
¥ retirees to gain something for

them after years of membership.
I also think that the CSEA should concern itself
with civil service reform. They should stay on
top of whatever changes are being made and be
sure that they can counteract with legislation of
their own as needed.”

os

Phyllis Whitman, social welfare examiner: “I read
in a recent edition of the ‘Civil
Service Leader’ that the CSEA
has plans to push several bills
on behalf of retirees. I couldn't
agree more. I know a lot of
public employees who are re-
tired and will be retiring some-
day myself, so naturally I'm
most concerned about such bills.
y The most important of those
i * bills should be the provision
“** of supplemental allowances and
the extension of all temporary benefits. I also
would like to see changes nmade in the Taylor
Law—most important the reduction of penalties
for going on strike.”

RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS

A Solution?

A retirement gimmick that
may solve some of the city’s
problems Has been suggested
by an astute city worker.

Permit retirees to take some or
all of their pension in New York
City bonds, he suggests.

Obvious advantages; It would
free the unions from the pres-
sure of approving purchases of
city bonds for the pension fund,
It would also provide a new mar-
ket for city bonds. It would
also provide the pensioner with
a tax-free income—almost as
much as he would be getting in
@ pension; and it would not raise
the outstanding city debt.

Although many pensions are
not large enough to be funded
this way, there are sufficient
pensioners with large reserves to
make a big dent in the city bond
selling program, In a sense, it
would allow the federal govern-
ment to help solve some of the
city’s problems by a tax abate-
ment.

eee

As people begin to digest the
new Social Security law, they see
gimmicks in it not evident on
first reading.

Some provisions were designed
to relieve the Social Security
system from an “intolerable
strain on its resources,”

One example is the gradual
elimination of widows benefits
for those who receive pensions
from other government jurisdic-
tions. Another, revealed last
week in an actuarial study, indi-
cates that benefits for 25-year
olds who earn $10,000 will be cut
in half. There will be a reduc-
tion in benefits equal to 83 per-
cent of the orignal five years’
pay to 46.7 percent of the final
five years’ pay. There will also
be a drop in pensions for other
age groups and higher income
brackets, but the change will not
be quite so dramatic.

Most authorities believe the
average employee needs about
15 percent of his pre-retirement
earnings to live, without changing

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Special Report Partd

LINICAL WAYS T¢
CONTROL ASSAULT

By Kenneth Schept

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, February 17, 1978

“Basically the patient can hit somebody and then say
he’s crazy; and then what do you do? The patients, in a
sense, get away with it because they’re not held accountable.”

The remark was made by Peter Crain, a psychiatrist, in
charge of the secure ward at Bronx Psychiatric Center. He
consults throughout the hospital on issues involving assaul-
tive patients.

Dr. Crain noted that if the reverse happens, if a staff
member is accused of striking a patient, he may be brought
up on charges, dismissed, and prosecuted.

What can be done so that patients do not “get away
with it?” After an assault by a client against staff, the cen-
ter’s director considers how best to respond to the situa-
tion; whether seclusion, increased medication, restraint, or
perhaps criminal charges are called for, in the best interests
of the other patients, the staff, and the assaultive client.

An overriding consideration in making that decision
should be how to best teach the assaultive client that such
behavior will not be tolerated. That lesson is important for
the smooth functioning of the center, for the rehabilitation
of the assaultive client, and for the success of the state’s
plan to move patients and residents back to the community.
A basic notion for clients to learn, if they are going to sur-
vive outside the institutions, is that assaultive behavior
will lead to institutional confinement of a different sort.

“My attitude is that patients should be held accountable
for their behavior like anybody else,” Dr. Crain said. “But
the way our system operates right now, if someone says
they hear voices, that means they're not responsible. . . The
great majority know what they’re doing when they com-
mit an assault. They may say that a voice told them to do

. . but I have found that when patients have something
to lose, they do control themselves.”

Russell Barton, director of Rochester Psychiatric Center,
said “The mere fact of being in this hospital doesn’t relieve
them [the patients] of responsibility. . . They know what
they're doing, and they know the consequences of their acts.”

In cases where criminal charges were justified, he would
propose them, although there are many reasons why such
action might not result in anything more than a few months
detour before the patient was remanded back to the same
ward from which he came.

When criminal charges are brought against a patient,
they must first be sustained by the district attorney. If that
happens, the patient is given a psychiatric review which
could result in his being sent back to the hospital or to Mid-
Hudson, the state’s facility for the criminally insane. Ac-
cording to Dr. Crain, once at Mid-Hudson, “if he’s manage-
able, meaning two or three months of no incidents, no prob-
lems, he’s sent back here again. And he: goes back to the
original ward again. So it means rerouting him maybe about
three or four months.”

In the view of William L. Werner, director of Creedmoor
Psychiatric Center, a repeated assaulter might be sent to

“My attitude is that patients
should be held accountable
for their behavior like
anybody else. But the way our
system operates now, if

someone says they hear
voices, that means they're

WAX rot responsible.”

DR. PETER CRAIN, psychiatrist,
Bronx Psychiatric Center

Mid-Hudson, not as punishment, but because the client
needs a more structured situation. “I don’t think we ought
to build a reward-punishment system into assaults,” he said.

In developmental centers the question of consequences
after a resident assaults a staff member is approached dif-
ferently than in psychiatric centers because, in the case of
severely retarded individuals, an assault is not usually pre-
meditated.

Chuck Soper, deputy director of Syracuse Developmental
Center, said that “the assault problem . . . has really built
up because of the severity of our approach in the past.
With the new freedoms, we have not yet added in a full
program for using these freedoms beneficially.”

After an assault against a staff member at Syracuse
Developmental, the therapy team reviews the resident's
case and determines, “whether freedoms need to be limited,
whether medication needs to be increased, whether different
program attempts need to be instituted, if a move from one
unit to another is warranted.” The assaulted staff member
might be encouraged to file criminal charges.

Limiting freedom could mean restricting the client to
the unit, preventing him from participating in trips to the
community, for example. Syracuse director George Buchholtz
elaborated that the plan would have to be tailored to the
individual client.

Pressing charges, he said, would not be appropriate in
the case of a severely retarded resident. “On the other hand,
@ moderately retarded resident, who might not know that
he should file an income tax return, for example, but knows
that it’s wrong to hit or choke somebody else, if he does this,
then I would favor the employee pressing charges,”

“We've had a case where such a resident spent a few
weeks down in the local jail. And I think that his stay there
was beneficial for him. . . If our residents do something
which they know is wrong, they shouldn't be excused be-
cause they happen to be mentally retarded or handicapped,”
he said.

Workers at Brooklyn Developmental Center complained
about a resident who repeatedly injured members of the
staff. Last August he punched therapy aide Pearl Blake in
the eye. Her head struck a door knob as she fell, and she was
knocked unconscious.

The same resident picked up a television and threatened
to throw it at another aide. The antenna broke, which made
the resident furious, and he attacked the aide, biting him
in the leg.

Workers complained that the resident, a 15-year old
boy, was not held accountable, but rather indulged to keep
him quiet. Brooklyn Developmental director Thomas Shirtz,
said that the facility was not really built to handle the
acting-out retarded, who might belong in a psychiatric
center.

Craig Developmental Center director, Nadine Hunter,
thought “It is perhaps a valuable lesson for a resident to
learn that he is subject to the same rules that everybody
else is .. . If he’s mildly retarded and knows right from
wrong, I see no reason why he shouldn’t be brought up on
charges.”

Dr. Hunter said that for many of the residents the im-
mediacy of losing a privilege, like having cookies in the
afternoon, would have more impact than facing a court of
law, with all the usual delays, When and if sentenced, the
resident may have forgotten the reason for which he is
being punished.

Also, Dr. Crain, sees as a problem the court’s practice
of putting insanity and responsibility “into the same bag.”
He suggests an initial hearing to determine guilt or inno-
cence, with the question of sanity following only after .cul-
pability has been established.

“It says tu iue patient, look, you may have a mental
problem, but you still did what you did, and you are re-
sponsible.”

In October, 1976, South Beach opened a secure unit

which accepts patients from one segment of the center’s
catchment area.

A second secure unit is being considered. It is expected
to have a deterrent effect on assaults against staff and
other patients. When the first secure unit was opened, the
impact of the units from which clients were drawn was
“major,” according to deputy director Patricia Oulton. Part
of the impact was because the secure unit took over admis-
sions. New arrivals went there first, for observation and
diagnosis.

“What it comes down to is it’s worked in cutting down
the violence and agitation on the other two units,” Ms.
Oulton said. .

“The reward and punishment is a big issue, a realistic
issue. Patients have said, ‘I can hit staff member, they
can't hit back; if I hit another patient he’ll hit me.’”

Ms, Oulton called the secure unit, partially punishment,
partially a way of reducing stimulation for the patient.
The unit is not effective for all patients. The decision on
whether to use it must be made on an individual patient
basis.

Thomas Bucaro, CSEA South Beach president, said,
“really what you're doing is setting limits. If you set a
limit for a child, you're not really punishing, you're just
pointing out what reality is. It’s a reality-oriented treatment:
listen, if you do lose control, you’re going to have to go toa
different kind of setting.”

James Siniscalchi, four years a therapy aide at South
Beach, said that the facility needed a locked ward.

“The problem of assaults against staff is constant,” he
said, noting that on the ward where he works were several
homicidal patients, including a man who went after his
father-in-law and wife with a meat cleaver, and claimed
that the Virgin Mary ordered him to kill a postman.

Thomas Lee, also a therapy aide at South Beach, was
hit in the eye by a patient, while standing at the nurses
station writing a report. As a result he suffered a lacerated
cornea and a chipped nose bone.

“You read the charts of some of the patients, and you get
a little nervous,” he said.

There is no secure ward, no admission ward, and re-
straints are not used at Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Syra-
cuse, where James Prevost was director before becoming
Mental Hygiene Commissioner, Like South Beach, Hutch-
ings is a newer facility which looks more like a garden
apartment complex than a hospital.

Jane Miller, a registered nurse at Hutchings, had her
knee dislocated by an assaultive patient last July. Her hus-
band, David, was a therapy aide there until 14 months ago
when a patient shattered his knee cap with an aluminum
pool cue.

Dr. Prevost assigned one of his administrators, Donna
LeFlore, to discuss these matters. She said that an incident
review committee had been established, that staff should
be wary when working on wards, and that the charge by
workers that some of the problems came down to under-
staffing was wrong. “Most of the workers are college grad-
uates,” she said. “They have no idea what short staffing —
means.”

According to Ms. Miller, the atmosphere at Hutchings is
such that, “People can tear the place apart.” Mr. Miller
called Hutchings Psychiatric, “Disneyland.”

At Craig Developmental Center there are “time-out
areas,” unlocked secluded rooms, where clients may be sent
when they are overactive or seem about to become so.

Sending a resident to these areas requires written con-
sent from the next of kin and possibly the resident.

“We treat it in the same way we would a surgical pro-
cedure,” Craig director, Hunter said. “The time-out room
can only be used for specific behaviors that we're trying to
extinguish. It can only be used for a certain number of
minutes. It can only be used if an employee is standing right
there beside the door . . . We have found that it works very
well in helping to modify behavior.”

Roger Heath, director of Utica and Marcy Psychiatric
Centers, said that those facilities share a locked unit that
is secure and well staffed, where there are only 12 patients
and always a minimum of three employees.

“We don’t really know how we could cope without it,”
he said.

The most often repeated problem with setting up a
secure ward is that it has a tendency to become a dumping
ground where uncontrollable patients are seen, and forgot-
ten about.

Manhattan Psychiatric Center director, Gabriel Koz,
said that this was a concern of his as he and his staff con-
sidered the reestablishment of a secure ward at Manhattan.
The last time a secure ward operated there, it was disbanded
after its patients rioted, Dr. Koz said.

The possibility of a secure ward being misused should
not prevent its establishment. Controls have been developed
at some centers to monitor the secure wards and prevent
them from deteriorating into “dumping grounds.”

For example, Dr. Crain, in charge of the secure unit
at Bronx Psychiatric, said that the following system has
been effective:

wards
have been ef-
fective in
many facilit-
es.

“If our residents do something
which they know is wrong,
they shouldn't be excused
because they happen to be
mentally retarded or
handicapped.”

DR. GEORGE J. BUCHHOLTZ, director,
Syracuse Developmental Center

After it is suggested that a certain patient belongs in
the secure ward, he is not accepted until Dr. Crain and his
colleagues consult with staff from that patient’s ward to
determine if there are ways in which the client could be
better managed there.

“Those people who definitely can’t be managed, despite
everything that’s been tried,” are accepted into the secure
unit,” Dr. Crain said.

“The majority of patients can be handled on their
wards,” he said. The secure unit is for the most risky cases.

Once assigned to the secure ward, the patient is eval-
uated and assigned to one of five treatment steps depend-
ing on the level of risk. The patient goes up from step to
step as he improves; each step involves greater freedom,
until, having succeeded in step 5, the patient is ready to
return to his regular ward.

“Patients do get better and they reach the point where
they're at the higher steps and they really are in control
of themselves,” Dr. Crain said.

“The great majority of patients we've done this with
don’t come back to us. They do fine on their ward and we
don’t see them again,” he said.

For the minority who return to their wards unsuccess-
fully, there is another program in the secure ward designed
for long-term therapy.

At Rochester Psychiatric Center, director Russell Bar-
ton, has set up a different system for preventing the secure
ward there from deteriorating into a place for disposing of
difficult patients.

The professional staff must visit each patient on the
secure ward twice a week. The patient who has been trans-
ferred to the secure ward remains the responsibility of the
unit chief of the ward from which he was sent. If more than
five patients from a particular ward are transferred to the
secure ward, that unit chief must also assign one of his
staff to the secure ward.

That measure, which could result in less staff on the
regular ward, is a moderating influence on the number of
patients that populate the secure ward.

One problem with using a secure ward, or a quiet area
is that such isolation, really privacy, may be misinterpreted
by the client as reward rather than punishment.

Mr. Soper described a situation which existed when he
worked at Wassaic Developmental Center. The area where
a resident went after being assaultive was more richly staff-
ed and more private than the regular units. Consequently,
residents were acting out to go there.

“You could go into a room and be by yourself, nobody

bothered you. You didn’t have to go to a program. You:

didn’t have to go to school, or a workshop .. .,” he said.

“One thing that we found out was that during the
wintertime it was very appropriate to act out, because when
you lived in the dormitory-dayroom complex, you had to go
outside the building, walk through the snow to the dining-
room in order to eat; but if you acted out and went into a
nightgown, somebody else had to go over to the dining
room and get your food and you could stay and watch tele-
vision. And that was your punishment for having hit an
employee,” Mr. Soper said.

At Wassaic, another unanticipated condition which re-
sulted from the establishment of this special ward, was that
women assigned there were able to test the devotion of
their boy friends, by the boy’s willingness to trod through
snow to come over for a visit.

The lesson was one reiterated by many of the directors:
There are many reasons for assaultive behavior; if a re-
sponse is going to limit such behavior in the future, it must
be appropriate to the individual client.

John McCoy, a therapy aide at Bronx Psychiatric was
assaulted last August and required a five-hour operation
to repair eye damage. A patient attacked a crippled client,
and started a fire. The ward of 34 patients and one aide, was
evacuated. As Mr. McCoy moved a deaf client to safety, the
patient who started the fire hit him.

The patient acted out in order to be sent to the secure
ward, Mr. McCoy said, because it is quiet and less crowded
there.

Mr, McCoy filed charges and the patient was indicted
for assault. A court date has not yet been set. Last Thurs-
day, Feb. 9, Mr. McCoy returned to work at Bronx Psychiatric
for the first time since being hurt, six months ago.

(Next Week: More Clinical Views)

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Gensinger D F Babylon

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Erechette R J Mechanicyil
(To Be Continued)

SHORT TAKES

ADL OPPOSES CIVIL SERVICE CHANGES

Political patronage, coupled

with race and sex discrimination,

is making a comeback to destroy the concept of merit in federal
civil service, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has charged.

According to ADL, the Carter

Administration is proposing five

changes in the civil service system that will establish quotas based
solely on race and sex, and revive abuses of political allegiances

which subvert fair ‘competition.

One plan for preferential treat-

ment is to take effect as early as June, says ADL.

NO MEANINGFUL SCHOOL

Despite Gov. Hugh Carey's
publicly declared commitment to
increased school funding, prelim-
inary reports of his actual state
budget proposal promise “mean-
ingless political handouts instead
of meaningful school tax reform
and funding proposals,” says the
25,000-member New York Edu-
cators Association, “While the

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TAX REFORM
Carter Administration,” said
NYEA president Ed Robisch, “ts
proposing—in this non-election
year—the largest increase in fed-
eral aid in the last eight years,
Governor Carey, who is facing
re-election, is proposing an in-
crease that doesn’t even come
close to keeping up with infla-
tion.”

WORKERS HELP GOVT. SAVE MONEY

Federal employees’
million during 1977—an amount

suggestions saved the government $319.4

equal to the average income taxes

of 172,000 Americans—according to U.S. Civil Service Commission
statistics. More than 56,000 employee suggestions were implemented
and more than 150,000 employees received honorary or cash awards.
Their achievements have meant increased productivity, advancements
in science and medicine, and enhancement of the nation’s security.
and improved service to the public, say commission officials.

The American Dream.

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Service Employees Association and currently the Local's delegate,
runs annual golf tournament and donates proceeds to charity. Looking
on is Parkway Authority executive director Ray Radzivila.

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the areas that sent crews to Long
Island. Fred Wager, residént en-
gineer there, said, “They did a
great job here, then went on to
Long Island. I think they de-
serve a pat on the back.”

Another example of one area
helping the other during the
storm is Montgomery County,
west of Albany, which sent 50
men and equipment to the neigh-
boring City of Amsterdam.

Cleaning up after the storm
involved problems upstate also.
Mike Kalica, from the Albany
area said, “This is the biggest
snow storm I've seen in 16 years
of working for the state.” Ac-
cording to John Petrecki “Thirty
to 40 mile winds made visibility
poor. At times it was impossible
to continue,”

Once the upstate clean-up was
well under way, the following
counties were among those send-
ing men and equipment to Long
Island: Albany, Essex, Greene,
Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenec-
tady, Warren. A total of 20 men
and 27 pieces of equipment were
assigned from the Albany area.

Henry Epstein, a DOT worker
from the Katonah yard, said that
everyone worked around the
clock, “but nobody was complain-
ing.”

DOT Commissioner William
Hennessy toured Long Island on
Thursday and praised the job

Reform Survey

(Continued from Page 4)
the Civil Service Employees
Association, commented that it
seemed a most appropriate sub-
Ject to pursue. “It will be a
measure of how the people who
are going to be most affected
feel. As state employees and
CSEA members (some of us) were
concerned about the reforms and
are anxious to play a part in
it,” he added.

‘The completed survey, offering
@ comparative study of the diff-
ering views among clerical, pro-
fessional and institutional em-
ployees, will include a written
report which will be submitted to
the Civil Service Commission
Council on Productivity where,
according to Mr. Connolly, “it is
hoped it will have some effect.”
The group expects to complete
the survey by June.

Some of the questions to be
asked concern the need for re-
form, the relevance of exams,
the methods of promotion and
feelings toward the various re-
form issues. In an effort to keep
the report confidential no names
of titles will be requested on the
questionnaire.

Employees with good perform-
ance records are selected to par-
ticipate in the annual training
programs in which normal work
duties are suspended to allow
participants to work full time on
various learning projects.

Other employees involved in
the project are: E. Yvonne Harris,
State University of New York at
Brockport; Gladys Haugabook,

partment of Labor in Jamaica;

Pociluk, Public Employment
Relations Board in Albany; Carol
E, Reff, Thousands Islands State
Park Commission in Alexandria
Bay; Truman Wallace, Depart-
ment of Labor in Mineola, and
Marion Wimbush, State Univer-
sity of New York at Albany Cen-
tral Administration.

Say Snow Crews Excelled

up operation was Lennie Clemen-
te, from the Central Islip DOT
yard. He had been injured dur-
ing the storm two weeks earlier,
but worked for five days, includ-
ing an emergency assignment to
New York City, before going to
a hospital to learn his foot had
been fractured in two places.

the men had done. He compared
the progress there to that in
Massachusetts, which had suf-
fered about equally in the storm,
but, according to the Commis-
sioner, had not done an equally
effective digging out job.

One of the men working in
Long Island's rescue and clean

GO TO HEALTH

By WILLIAM R. WILLIFORD

Alcohol And Gasoline

If you have a teen-ager or two, I do not have to spend much
time giving you examples of stressful situations.

Stress is junior taking his or your car to a “dynamite” party,
assuring you that he will not drink and drive. Stress {s having
your phone ring that same evening at midnight
while your son is still out.

You can't keep junior in his room until he
is 21 or old enough to drink and drive respon-
sibly. Besides, some of us are never old enough,
as indicated by the fact that drunk drivers (those
with a blood alcohol concentration of 10 percent
or higher) cause 50 percent of fatal single-
car accidents,

So what can parents and teen-agers do? The
Alcoholism Council of South Bend, Ind., suggests
that parents and teens enter into a drinking
driver contract. They point out that many teens feel they have no
alternative to driving home after they've been drinking if they
want to avoid a hassle with their parents. Many parents feel the
answer is laying down an absolute rule of no drinking, which most
teen-agers do not obey.

An alternative is for parents and teens to work out together,
in advance, a contract about drinking and driving. Both agree to
take certain actions, for example:

Teen-ager: “I agree to call for transportation at any hour,
from any place, if I am ever in a situation where I've had too
much to drink or a friend or date who's driving me had too much
to drink.”

Parent: “I agree to come and get you at any hour, any place,
no questions asked and no argument then or the next day. Or
I will pay for a taxi to bring you home.”

One arm, eye or life saved is what it is all about. I hope some
families will give the contract a chance and I wish them well.

Federal Job Calendar

These jobs are open in New York City or surrounding counties
until further notice. Applicants should contact U.S. Civil Service
(Cofnpatesion's| NeW:York. Cily/Area’ office | Requirements|vary.

GENERAL SCHEDULE POSITIONS
Written Test Required At Some Grade Levels

*Salary Grade

Title

Communications Technician

Data Transcriber

Dental Hygienist

Electronic Accounting Machine Operator
Electronics Technician

Engineering Draftsman

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Examiner intermittent)
Fiscal and Accounting Support Positions
Medical Aid (Sterile Supplies)
Nuclear Medicine Technician
Park Aide
Power Folder Operator $8.31 per hour
Reporting Stenographer
Sales Store Checker
Shorthand Reporter
Travel Clerk (Typing)

TRADES AND CRAFTS
No Written Test
Title

Refrigeration and A/C Equipment
Operator

Ship Surveyor

Welder

NonaaZuaetna

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Title

Boiler Plant Operator

Chief Engineer (Ferryboat)
Electrician

Master (Ferryboat}

Ordinance Equipment Mechanic

For further information, contact a federal job information center
at either 26 Federal Plaza, New York, 10007 (telephone (212) 264-
0422); 590 Grand Concourse, Bronx, 10451 (212) 292-4666); 271
Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, 11201 (212)330-7671).

*The salary grades pay as follows: grade 2 pays $7,035; gra
$7,930; grade 4, $8,902; grade 5, $9.959; grade 6, $11,101; grade
$12,336; grade 8, 13,662; grade 9, $15,090.

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Buffalo 14202: 9 a.m.-4 pm. Ap-
Plicants may obtain announce-
ments by writing (the Albany of-
fice only) or by applying in per-
son at any of the three,

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

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

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

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADE

Southern Region Moves To Fill V-P Vacancy

Lennon Hails
Professionalism
In Rockland

By HERBERT GELLER

NEWBURGH — Steps to
fill the vacancy among Civil
Service Employees Associa-
tion Southern Region III of-
ficers caused by the recent death
of first vice-president John Clark
were taken at a meeting of the
Southern Region held at the
Holiday Inn here Jan. 25.

Second vice-president Marie
Romanelli, of New Paltz SUNY
Local 610, was advanced by ad-
ministrative action to the post
of first vice-president and third
vice-president Rose Marcinkow-
ski, of Wallkill Correctional Fa-
cllity Local 163, became second
vice-president. The action, which
was ratified by the Southern
Region executive committee,
leaves a vacancy for the post of
third vice-president, which will
be filled at a special election to
be held in the spring.

‘The regional nominating com-
mittee, at the March 15 meet-
ing, will announce candidates to
run in the election.

In other action at the Jan, 25
meeting, Southern Region DI
president James J. Lennon com-
mended the professional staff
“for the excellent job they per-
formed” in helping to win the
10-day Rockland County job
action, which ended Jan. 7 with
@ three-year contract providing
substantial salary increases,

Region secretary Trisha Graf, rignt, takes time, during break in Presidents of neighboring Rockland and West- Hudson River Psychiatric Center Local 410’s Pe;
chester County CSEA Locals exchange views of Connors gestures emphatically to stress her
Eva Katz and Westchester Local 860's Janice Schaff, meeting, From left are Rockland Local 844’s point during discussion as Local president Madeline

meeting, to huddle with Rockland Psychiatric Center Local 421’s

Mr. Lennon noted that the
strike was conducted in the cold-
est weather of the year, and
Pointed out that many women
and old people had to walk the
picket lines on freezing cold,
rainy or snowy days. “This strike
typifies the courage, fortitude
and sheer determination of peb-
ple of all ages that helped
CSEA to win despite all of the
obstacles against us," he said.

Praise for those who helped
win the Rockland strike was
also given by John Mauro,
Rockland Local 844, president,
who thanked everyone who help-
ed in the successful effort.

President Lennon also an-
nounced the appointment of a
new regional political action com~
mittee, with Donald Pullam, of
Dutchess County Department of
‘Transportation Local, as chair-
man, Other members are: James
Winslow, Ulster County; Nellie
Davis, retirees chapters; Earl
Bivens, Sullivan County, Milli-
cent De Rosa, Putnam County; OgpA vice-president
Eva Katz, Rockland Psychiatric
Center; Marsha] Garner, Orange
County; Eleanor McDonald,
Carmine De Battista and Len
Gerardi, Westchester County.
Members are allotted on the basis
of one PAC member for each
three assemblymen in the county.

Discussions at the meeting also
included the recent letter that
was sent to Gov. Hugh Carey
regarding pay for snow days, the
threatened PST challenge against
the CSEA by another union and
the forthcoming delegates meet-
ing planned in April.

heads, Other officers in photo are treasurer Rose Mary K. Smith, left, and secretary Trisha Graf, both
of Rockland Psychiatric Center Local 421. Southern Region occupies the seven-county Hudson Valley
and Catskill Mountain area between metropolitan New York City and the Albany Capital District.

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Southern Region first vice-president Marie Ro- Dutchess Local 814 secretary Helen MoCullum
manelli receives congratulations from Westchester takes notes to report back to Local members on

Local 860's Carmine Lamagna, center, and Carmine action taken at regional meeting as Local 814

DiBattista on her new position as Region's ranking president Ellis Adams contributes to debate.

vice-president,

John Mauro and Westchester Local 860's Ray- Mackey listens intently for delegate response.

mond Cassidy,

eo Se i

Charles Zoffer listens with interest to opinions being
expressed by Goshen Annex Training School Local 554
president Frank Mann as they chat prior to start of
business session.

j o é :
East Hudson Parkway Authority Local 051 president Rose Marcinkowski, newly elevated Region second vice-

president, is attentive to Matteawan State Hospital

Local 160 president Larry Natoli, right, and Green Haven
Correctional Facility Local 158 president Ralph Schwartz,

Mid Hudson Local 009’s Cy Kats speaks out during
delegate debate as Local president Dan Greller looks
pensive during regional executive council meeting last
month at Holiday Inn in Newburgh.

(Leader photos by Ted Kaplan)

Republican Assemblyman George A. Murphy, from district 12, Nas-

sau, with David Reilly, a junior from Levittown.

Senator Cesar Trunro, left, a Republican from Suffolk’s third dis-
trict, with John D'Alessandro, a junior from Ronkonkoma.

LEGAL NOTICE

in
New York County Clerk's Office Dec.
28, 1977. Business: Own and operate
real property. General Partners: Stanley
Fuchs, 97 Bayberry La., New Rochelle,
NY; David. Sokol, 14 Allison Dr., En-
lewood Cliffs, NJ, Limited Partners:
Robin M. Fuchs, 97 Bayberry La., New
Rochelle, NY; Steven J. Fuchs, 97 Bay-
berry La, New Rochelle, NY; Stanley
Fuchs as’ custodian f/bjo Charles S.
Fuchs, 97 Bayberry La., New Rochelle,
NY; Donnas J, Conrad, '17-85 215th St.,
Bayside, NY; Lynn S. Sokol, 14 Allison
Dr., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.’ Parmership
to continue until death of both general
partners unless sooner terminated. Each
limited partner
divided interest
38 St, NYC having an agreed value of
$6,000 representing a 49% interest in
the partnership. No additional conrribu-
tions to be made, Contributions to be
returned upon consent of general part-
‘ners or upon termination. Limited part-
ners shall not assign their interest wit!
‘out consent of general partners. Ad
tional limited partners may be admitted.
No priority among limited partners as
to contributions oF as to compensation
by way of income, Limited partners
shall not demand property other than
cash in return for their contribution,

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mailing lists by legislative dis-
trict;

—developing questionnaires for
polling the CSEA membership on
important issues;

—assisting in the structuring
of political-action and lobbying
seminars;

—investigating the use of
phone banks and telephone vol-
unteers as a political campaign
technique for the union;

—and compiling detailed in-
formation on the political make-
up of each election district in
the state and its incumbent and
challengers, so that a clear pic-
ture may be drawn of the role
CSEA members could play in
each district.

Each intern has been assigned
to several legislative committees
whose meetings he will attend.
In addition, each will check in
Periodically with other specific
committees so that the union
will be able to keep an eye on
all important legislation this
year.

The students and the commit-
tees to which Mr. Ryan has as-
signed them are: John D’Alessan-
dro, a junior from Ronkonkoma
—Senate and Assembly educa-
tion. Mr. D'Alessandro worked on
Political campaigns in his home
town, and hopes to go to law
school.

—David Reilly, a junior from
Levittown—Assembly mental hy-
giene and labor, and Senate civil
service and pension. Mr. Reilly
also hopes to attend law school.

—Steve Jerome, a senior from
Cortland—Senate labor and As-
sembly ways and means and gov-
ernmental employees. Mr. Jer-
ome, another law school aspirant,
is a veteran of .several political

U.S. Wants Women,
Minority Managers

The US. Civil Service Com-
mission says it is trying to en-
sure that women and minority
candidates are considered for 40
federal career managers jobs in
the fourth Federab Executive De-
velopment Program (FEDP-IV).

LEGAL NOTICE

ANCHOR REALTY COMPANY, 663

Fifth Ave., N.¥.C. Substance of Limited
Partnership. Certificate filed in New
York County Clerk's Office November
15, 1977. Business: own and operate
real property. General Partner: Michael
J, Robinson, 200 East 50 Street, N,¥.C.

Janice C. Griffich,
N.Y.C, $15,000, Partnership to coorinue
until Dec. 31, 1978 and shall cootiaue
thereafter from year to year until ter-
minated as provided, No additional coa-
tributions to be made. Limited partner
shall share in net profit as provided in
agreement. Contribution of limited part-
ner to be returned upon termination or
dissolution, Limited partoer may assiga
her interest subject to restrictions in
agreement. No additional limited part-
ners except on consent of original lim-
ited and general partner. If termination
or dissolution limited partner may re-
ceive property other than cash in return
for her contribution at the value at
which such property is then held as
shown on the partnership books.

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SEPARATION
WILLS
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of New York
242-2840

A two-year, part-time program
beginning Aug. 7, FEDP-IV will
include formal training at the
Federal Executive Institute in
Charlottesville, Va., a series of
developmental executive assign-
ments, and special seminars or
follow-up sessions. It is for car-
eer managers who have demon-
strated high promise for assum-
ing executive responsibilities, say
officials.

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Highway Reps

ALBANY—The state Civil Ser
vice Department established an
eligible list for highway safety
Program rep on Oct. 24, 1977,
as the result of a June 4, 1977,
open competitive exam. The list
contains 36 names.

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Tel 962-2390

CSEA’s Youth Movement

campaigns on the local, state and
national levels.

—Jack Moran, a senior from
Rensselaer—Senate finance and
mental hygiene and Assembly
and Senate health. Mr, Moran,
who has worked on state and
local political campaigns, hopes
to become a legislator himself.

“These interns will be a great .
help to us,” Mr. Ryan said. “This
year will be the real test of the
strength of our political action

program, with all the statewide
legislative seats being contested.
We want to have as great an
effect as possible on those elec-
tions and on the passage or de-
feat of public-employee-related
legislation, and the interns will
help us move toward that goal.”
Mr. Ryan noted that the four
students were chosen in consul-
tation with Michael Rubertt,
chairman of the political science
department at Siena College.

Assemblyman Lloyd Riford, Jr., Republican from the 125th District in
the central part of the state, with Cortland senior Steve Jerome.

Open Continuous

State Job

Calendar

Title
Actuary (Casualty), Associate
Actuary (Life), Associate
Actuary (Casualty), Principal
Actuary (Life), Principal
‘Actuary (Life), Senior
Actuary (Casualty), Supervising
Actuary (Life), Supervising
Dental Hygienist
Dietetic Trainee
Dieti
Dietitian, Supervising
Electroencephalograph Technician
Engineer, Assistant Sanitary
Engineer, Junior
Engiéer,~Senior Sanitary
Food Service Worker
Histology Technician
Legal Careers
Medical Record Administrator

Mental Hygiene Therapy Aid Trainee

(Reg & Spanish Speaking)

Motor Carrier Transportation Specialist

Nurse |

Nurse Il

Nurse II. (Psychiatric)

Nurse Il (Rehabilitation)

Nurse, Licensed Practical

Nutrition Services Consultant

Physical Therapist

Physical Therapist, Senior

Physical Therapy Assistant | & Il
(Spanish Speaking)

Radiologic Technologist, Therapy

Stationary Engineer

Stationary Engineer, Assistant

Stationary Engineer, Senior

Varitype Operator

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Trainee

Salary Exam No.
$18,369 20416
$18,369 20-520
$22,694 20417
$22,694 20-521
$14,142 20-519
$26,516 20418
$26,516 20-522
$ 8,523 20-107
$10,118 20-888
$10,714 20-887
$12,670 20-886
$ 7,616 20-308
$14,142 20-122

$11,337—$12,275 20-109
$17,429 20-123
$ 5,827 20-352
$ 8,051 20-170

$11,164—$14,142 20-113
$11,337 20-348
$ 7,204 20-394
$13,404 20-889
$10,118 20-584
$11,337 20-585
$11,337 20-586
$11,337 20-587
$ 8,051 20-106
$14,880 20-139

- 20-177
$12,760 20-138
$ 9,029 20-175
$ 9,546 20-100
$14,142 20-303
$10,714 20-101
$ 6811 20-307
$14,142 20-140
$11,983 20-140

You may contact the following offices of the New York State

Department of Civil Service for

announcements, applications, an

other details concerning examinations for the positions listed above,
as well as examination for Stenographer and Typist.
State Office Building Campus, First Floor, Building 1, Albany,

New York 12239 (518) 457-6216,
2 World Trade Center, 55th
488.4248.

Floor, New York City 10047 (212)

Suite 750, Genesee Building, West Genesee Street, Buffalo.

New York 14202 (716) 842-4260.

Details concerning the following titles can be obtained from
the Personnel ‘Offices of the agencies shown:

Public Health Physician—NYS Department of Health, Tower
Building, Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12237.

Specialist In Education—NYS Education Department, State Edu-
cation Building, Albany, New York 12234.

Maintenance Assistants (Mechanic) Motor Equipment Mechan-
ics-NYS Department of Transportation, State Office Building, Al-

bany, New York 12232.

You can also contact your jocal Manpower Services Office for

examination information.

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, February 17, 1978

Tioga CSEA Local
Signs 3-Year Pact

OWEGO—A spokesman for the Civil Service Employees
Association has announced a 3-year contract is now in effect
between Tioga County and the CSEA, which represents more
than 180 Tioga County employees.

Both sides arrived at a tenta-
tive agreement Oct. 21, after six
months of negotiationss and
three mediation sessions. CSEA
members formerly ratified the
contract Nov. 9. Representatives
for Tioga County voted accept-
ance on Dec. 30.

James Corcoran, CSEA field
representative, and George So-
biek, president of Tioga County
Local 854, negotiated the 3-year
pact that includes 0.45 percent
increase on the first $11,000 the
first year. In addition, employ-
ees will have a salary schedule
allowing for 12 pay grades rather
than the present 8. Highway de-
partment employees will earn an
additional 30 cents per hour. In
return, employees, other than
those in the Highway Depart-
ment, will give up summer hours,
and public health employees will
not be required to wear uni-
forms.

‘The second contract year will
include a percentage increase in
salary and minimums and maxi-
mums on the salary schedule re-
Mlected by the National Consu-
mer Price Index for the period
between June 30, 1977, and June
30, 1978, on the first $11,000 of
salary. Highway Department em-
Ployees shall receive a cost-of-
living increase on hourly rates,
Plus an increase of 5 cents per
hour. The mileage reimburse-
ment rate will be 14 cents per
mile. Another significant addi-
tion to the second contract year
will be the introduction of a
limited agency shop clause. The
employer will make automatic
deductions from the salaries of
employees hired on or after Jan.
1, 1979, the amount to be equiva-
lent to dues paid by CSEA mem-
bers. Second-year terms also
call for an ‘on call’ pay increase
to $12 per day.

In the third year, employees
can expect a percentage CPI in-
crease based on the period be-

tween June 30, 1978, and June
30, 1979, on the first $11,000,
with minimums and maximums
on salary schedules raised ac-
cordingly. Highway Department
employees will receive an actual
cost-of-living adjustment on the
hourly rate, plus an increase of
5 cents of the hourly rate. Mile-
age reimbursement rates will in-
crease to 15 cents per mile and
‘on call’ pay will increase to
$13.50 per day. New dental bene-
fits now include full coverage for

the individual employee, plus a
50 percent contribution by the
employer for dependent cover-
age.

Commenting after the mem-
bership ratification vote, Mr.
Corcoran said, “We (CSEA and
the Tioga membership) are grat-
ified the agreement has been
reached, These new salary in-
creases have narrowed—but not
closed—the wide gap between
Tioga County employees and
public employees in similar coun-
ties. The increases were long
overdue to just meet the high
cost of living. After all, a loaf of
bread in Owego is priced the
same as the loaf in Ithaca or
Binghamton, but there's a world
of difference in the county sal-
ary structure.

We fought to raise the salary
standard and, after six tough
months of negotiating, our people
won some well-deserved bene-
fits," Mr. Corcoran concluded.

Map Communications
For ‘Scattered’ Local

By DEBORAH CASSIDY
ALBANY—Car! Hienstra, recently elected president of
the Capital Region IV Executive Local of the Civil Service
Employees Association, and William Lochner, Region IV field
representative, have undertaken the task of strengthening

and forming @ more cohesive Lo-
cal through improved commu-
nications.

“Effective communications are
important in any area of the
CSEA,” said Mr. Hienstra, “but
f@re even more essential for this
Local, which is comprised of 15
state bureaus and agencies scat-
tered throughout the City of
Albany.”

According to Mr. Lochner,
problems have resulted, in the
past, because there 1s no massive
concentration of employees in any
one spot. “No single agency has
enough members to be a Local
in and of itself. So they must
be pulled together as one so
that we don’t have any members
at large. Such a setup is unique
within the CSEA.”

Measures are being taken to
insure that each unit has at least
one representative and an alter-
nate to attend Local board of

directors meetings and to report
back to the members. Other
measures to keep members in-
formed include the increased use
of mailings and bulletin board
announcements.

The bureaus and agencies
making up the Executive Local
are: Aging, Crime Victims Com-
pensation, Energy, Cable Televi-
sion, Military and Naval Affairs,
Banking, State Board of Equali-
zation and Assessment, Housing,
Human Rights, Economic Devel-
opment Board, State Consumer
Protection Board, Veterans Af-
fairs, Racing and Wagering,
Elections, New York State Ur-
ban Development and Parks and
Recreation for employees out-
side a 10-mile radius from the
City of Albany.

‘The various units have re-
acted favorably to our efforts,
and we hope to continue in the
same manner,” said Mr. Heinstra.

Win Reinstatements
On Charge Layoffs
Followed Unionizing

HOOSICK FALLS—As the result of an improper practice
suit filed with the Public Employment Relations Board, two
Village of Hoosick Falls workers, represented by the Civil
Service Employees Association, have been reinstated to their

positions after being laid off since

said that the Village has been
ordered to pay the employees for
half the cost of medical insur-
ance premiums that they paid
themselves during the lay-off
period.

In filing the suit, Mr. Lochner
charged that Thomas Bass, pres-
ident of the unit, and John
Mahar, a union officer, were laid
off for their involvement in the
union, which had only been in-
stituted in the Village since Jan-
uary 1977.

With layoffs being unprece-
dented in the Village employment
history, according to Mr. Bass,
the employees were suddenly let
go for what the Village Board
termed fiscal reasons.

Commenting on the CSEA vic-
tory, Mr. Lochner said, “This
demonstrates perserverance on
the part of the employees and
the union. The CSEA was instru-
mental in the rehiring and com-
pensating of the two employees.”

He added that the CSEA ex-

pects a speedy settlement of cur-
rent contract talks, which had
been going on with the Village
Board at the time of the layoffs.

Otsego Local
Honors King

COOPERSTOWN — Civil Ser-
vice Employees Association field
representative Ronald King was
honored by Otsego County Local
839 at a holiday gala recently.

Mr. King, whose mother, Dor-
othy King, is a member of the
CSEA Board of Directors and
second vice-president of Metro-
politan Region II, includes Otse-
go within the CBEA Locals that
he serves. i

Local president Mabel Wanna-
maker praised Mr. King for “his
untiring efforts on behalf of the
members.”

Included among the large
turnout of members and their
guests were Central Region V
president James Moore and his
wife, Kathy, who were guests of
honor at the event.

Erie Local Wins Victory
In Securing Job Titles

CHEEKTOWAGA — Erie
Education Local 868 presi-
dent Jack Schlenker said
that a major victory had
been won when the County
agreed not to place recipients of
federally-funded youth jobs into
titles already in existence.

The County originally planned
to fill regular job titles, Mr.
Schlenker said. The union ob-
jected to that plan. About 100
federally-funded jobs for peo-

ple 16 to 21 are to be created.

The County agreed to the un-
jon's demands on Jan, 19, dur-
ing @ meeting between county
officials and Mr. Schlenker, Local
first vice-president Dolores Ton-
cheff, Lackawanna unit presi-
dent Bob Tasseff, and Western
Region VI president Robert Lat-
timer.

“Now we want input into the
CETA program,” Mr. Schlenker
said.

Continuity Of Employment Committee: Part III

ALBANY —The Civil Ser-
vice Employees Association-
New York State Continuity
of Employment Committee
has just released a study called,
“The Warwick Experience,” on
the 1976 transfer of the Warwick
Training School in Orange Coun-
ty from the state's Division of
Youth to the Department of Cor-
rectional Services.

‘The number of eliminated po-
sitions and lost days is the sub-
ject of this study.

‘The Warwick experience began
with the formation of a task
force consisting of representa-
tives of the Division of the Bud-
get, the Civil Service Depart-
ment, the Division for Youth,
the Department of Correctional
Services and the Governor's Of-
fice of Employee Relations, with
@ representative of the Gover-
nor’s office as chairman. Yvonne
M. Perret, who wrote the article,
noted that the ‘membership of
such high-ranking officials gave
the task force a special ‘clout.’”

CSEA received a six-month

ROBERT McKERSIE
. +» “plan ahead”

notice of the impending transfer,
‘as was mandated by a now de-
funct 1976 law. Also, well before
the transfer, the Correctional
Services Department established
@ Citizens Advisory Council con-

sisting of citizens organizations,
local officials and citizens.

The task force divided the
permanent staff at Warwick into
three groups, each with different
needs for the ensuing transfer.
These groups were paraprofes-
sionals, those workers easily
transferable to the Correctional
Services facility, and those work-
ers not easily transferable to the
new department.

For paraprofessionals who
worked as Child Care Workers
and Youth Division Aides, there
were no comparable jobs in the
Correction Department. The sol-
ution for these employees was
to establish the title of Correc-
tion Program Aide, a solution
that was only possible with the
approval of the Division of the
Budget. “As a result of this co-
operative effort,” Ms. Perret
states, 19 paraprofessionals be-
came aides at six Department of
Correctional Services facilities
within 33 miles of Warwick, thus
avoiding the need for them to
relocate.”

Another effort in the experi-
ment saw the Civil Service hold

a special Correction Officer
exam at Warwick one month
before the facility closed. “A
number of Warwick employees
Passed this test and became
Correction Officers,” according
to Ms. Perret.

“One special aspect of the
Warwick experience was the
ability of the agencies involved
to look beyond their own needs
and the scope of their own pro-
grams. The usual agency paro-
chialism was non-existent.”

While many employees, mainly
support staff and clerical and
administrative workers could
transfer to similar positions with
the correctional facilities, the
Correction Department could not
afford to add these workers to
their budget until the new year,
beginning April 1. That left one
payless month.

The solution was to employ
the workers at the correctional
facility beginning in March, to
furlough them back to the Divi-

sion for Youth for a month
without pay, and to have the
Division for Youth pay them for
that month.

‘The final tally looked like this:

“Of the 142 employees affected
by the changeover, only one was
not offered an option for place-
ment. Eighty-nine workers (63
Percent) were transitioned to the
Department of Correctional Ser-
vices; of these, 63 remained at
the Warwick site. 26 individuals
(18 percent) -were absorbed by
the Division for Youth facilities,
Five persons chose to retire and
four resigned, Only 15 workers
(11 percent) were laid off or
terminated because of the
changeover, primarily as a re-
sult of thelr own choice not to
travel.”

Robert B. McKersie, chairman
of the Continuity of Employment
Committee, noted, ‘The extent to
which we can get state employers
to plan ahead will be a measure
of our success,” The Warwick
experience was a good example
of that.