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LEADERSHIP
BY STATE’S

By PAUL KYER
ALBANY—A worried but jubilant Ted Wenz! last week detailed the nearly quarter bil-
lion dollar pay and benefits package won by the Civil Service Employees Assn., of which
he is president, that will give state workers generally a 14 percent increase within less than

a year,

All current employees will receive a salary
Increase of at least $1,400, with the pos-~
sibility of more through increments and a
special vacation buy-back benefit.

There was no doubt that Dr. Wenzl felt
his leadership of the organization was vin-
dicated by the state's hefty offer, which now
goes out to the membership for approval.

He said in a press conference last week
that “last year we had to recognize the
state’s fiscal problems and berid our efforts
at that time to save jobs. I Knew from long
experience that this year we had to.save
careers by making state employment worth-
while and, thanks to the hard-nosed efforts,
of a magnificent coalition negotiating team,
we got what we needed.”

For the state agencies and departments
represented by the CSEA—as well as other
state workers—here’s what aides will find
in forthcoming paychecks:

© As of April 1, a 5 percent raise or $500,
whichever is greater.

Another 4 percent increase Oct. 1, or

$400.

© 5 percent more next April 1, or $500,
whichever is greater.

Additional items in the package:

© $5 million fund to maintain current
health benefits. Should there be a surplus
at the end of the year it will be used to im-
prove benefits.

* A $5 million fund for job reallocations.
The positions to be upgraded would be stu-
died and proposed by a joint state-CSEA
committee, This is a long sought goal of the
CSEA.

* Employees for the first time will be
able to be paid for five vacation days should
they choose not to take that much of their
annual earned vacation.

The CSEA agreed to employees using their

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“We had to think of what’s best for majority of
our members,” sald CSEA president Theodore C.
Wena as he reflected on gruelling 15-hour mara-
then session that resulted in state's agreement to
$1,400 minimum raise for each employee.

— In re- increases into the permanent sal-

Disciplined Unity
Gave Muscle To
CSEA's Demands

The effectiveness of disci-
plined calm and determina-
tion under fire in resolving

(Continued on Page 6)

sponse to a letter last week
from Solomon Bendet, presi-
dent of Metropolitan Region
II of the Civil Service Employees
Assn., Theodore Wenzl, CSEA
president, assured Mr. Bendet
that the organization is already
at work to make the state's new
wage offer ® permanent part of
the salary schedule.

Mr. Bendet, who wrote con-
sratulating Dr. Wenal on “your
notable achievement tn winning
this solid pay increase,” pointed
out that not incorporating the

ary schedule would create a two-
tered inequity in pay between

14% Even
HEFTY SALARY INCREASE | Over Ceiling

By KENNETH SCHEPT
ALBANY—“I am at the top of the pay scale for my
grade. Will I still be eligible for the 14 percent salary in-
crease, although it will take me over the salary ceiling?”
This question was asked again and again last week as

the rank and file of the Civil
Service Employees Assn. investi-
gated the details of its settlement
with the state, a settlement gen-
erally praised by the media and
called “generous to a fault,” in
a “Daily News" editorial,

‘The answer to the question is
Yes. The agreement reached with
the state establishes that an in-
cumbent employee is entitled to
a 14 percent increase of his sal-
ary earned as of March 31, the
increase to be paid in three
stages: $500 April 1; $400 Oct.
1, and another $500 April 1, 1977.

‘Yes, even it an employee is at
the top of his pay scale, he is
entitled, according to the settle-
ment, to a 14 percent wage hike.

Another question which arose
as details of the pact became
public was whether or not its
intention was to increase person-
al salary schedules by 14 percent.

“There is no doubt that the
clear intention of the agree-
ment with the state was to ad-
Just salary schedules upward by
14 pereent,” said Jack Carey, ex-
ecutive director of the CSEA,
and a member of the negotiat-
ing team which spent hours clos-
cted with Donald Wollett, of the
Office of Employee Relations,
and other representatives of the
Governor, hammering out the
agreement.

The state is currently inter-
preting this portion of the con-
tract differently, saying, in ef-
fect, that personal salary sched-
ules are not adjusted: if the 14
percent raise increases an em-
ployee's income beyond the level
which would be attained by an
increment, then the salary will

old and new employees.
Dr, Wenz replied saying, “We
do not Intend ever to permit the

Confused Contract Stories Stir

Controversy In

ALBANY—Due to muddled
media reports, various mem-
bers of the Capital Region of
the Civil Service Employees
Assn. were angered by conflicting
reports concerning the tentative
two-year State-CSEA pact.

The uproar began with a story
that inferred various hidden

Capital Region

agreements within the two-year
Pact would be detrimental to the
CSEA membership. Most of the
inaccurate information was com-
ing from management sources
or from members who did not
fully understand the terms of
the tentative agreement, a Cap-

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increase by 14 percent only.
“The 14 percent increase has
impressed other unions,” Mr,
Carey said, “The state knows as
well as we that the intention of
the agreement was to increase
personal salary scales, It may be
politically difficult for the state
to acknowledge that, but it’s true.
We expect that the state will
modify the salary schedule.”
Mr. Carey made the point that

Tally Rockland
Votes April 27

NEW CITY —Ballots were
to be counted April 27 at the
Public Employment Relations
Board office in Albany to de-
termine the winner of the

Service Employees Asan. and
the Service Employees Inter-
national Union, for the right
to represent some 1,800 em-
ployees of Rockland County.

increments are not automatic,
but must be negotiated for in
collective bargaining. According
to currently available figures, 45
percent of the workforce repre-
sented by the CSEA will receive
increments during the coming
year along with their salary in-
creases.

“There are always snags in a
complicated agreement such as
this,” Mr. Carey said. “I am sure
that this situation will be amic-
ably resolved, but I might point

(Continued on Page 9)

CSEA At Work On Scale Permanency

MANHATTAN

state to give unequal pay for
equal work and have already
notified the Carey Administra-
tion that we expect immediate
action in this area.

“We are taking the issue to
the State Legislature as well.
Our most pressing duty has been
to put more money into the
pockets of state workers now.
Rest assured that through your
support and the efforts of all
other strong CSEA leaders the
new benefits will become a per-
manent part of the state salary
schedule in fact,”
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, April 29, 1977

Open Continuous
State Job Calendar

Assistant Clinical an $25,161 20-413
Associate Actuary $18,369 20-520
Supervising Actuary $26,516 20-522
Principal Actuary (Life) . $22,694 = 20-521
Associate Actuary (Casu $18,369 20416
Supervising (Ca “$26516 20418
Senior Actuary ) os $14,142 20-519
Clinical Physician | $27,974 20-414
Clinical Physician I! $31,055 20-415
Compensation Examining Physician | $27,942 20420
Dental Hygienist $ 8,523 20-107
Dietitian $10,714 = 20-124
Supervising Dietitian $12,760 = 20-167
Electroencephalograph Technician $7616 20-308
Food Service Worker $5827 20-352

$11,337 20-211
teow, echnician ec $ 8051 20-170

ital Nursing Services Consultant 16,538 20-112
Industrial Foreman $10,714 2
Institution Pharmacist $12,670 20-129
Legal Careers $11,164 20-113
Licensed Practical Nurse $ 8,05! 20-106
Maintenance Man (Mechanic)

(Except for Albany area) $7,616 Various
Medical Specialist | $27,942 20407
Public Librarians $10,155 & Up 20-339
Medical Specialist Il $33,704 20-408
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee $7,204 20-394

Hygiene Therapy Ai $7,616 20-394
Mate Eaxctrnbet: Mackoode ™

(Statewide except Albany) $ 9,546 varies
Nurse | $10,118 20-584
Nurse Il $11,337 20-585
hsm Py pr i qa 20-586

lurse bilitation) 41,337 20-587
Nutrition Sorvices Gonetont $31,404 20-139
Principal Actuary (Casualty) $22,694 20417
Principal Actuary ) $22,694 20-521
Physical Therapist $11,337 20-177

chiatrist | $27,942 20-390
Psychiatrist II $33,704 20-391
Radiology Technologist ; 632. 20-334
Radiology Technologist (T.B. Service) ....($8,079-$8, 20-334
Senior Actuary (Life) $14,142 20-519
Senior Medical Records Librarian $11,337 20-348
Senior Physical Therapist $12,760 20-138
Senior Sanitary Engineer $17,429 20-123
. ineer $14,142 20-122
jineer $10,714 20-101

in Education ($16,358-$22,694) 20-312

Engineer $9,546 20-100

Assistant Stationary Engineer $7,616 20-303
Stenographer-Typist $ varies vories
Varitype Operator $ $811 20-307

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. VOTE FOR CREDIT UNION

AT MANHATTAN PSYCH CENTER

Although only 200 affirmative votes were needed to establish the employees desire for a credit union at
Manhattan Psychiatric Center, more than 500 employees expressed their interest in a survey earlier this
month. One of the purposes of the credit union, according to Civil Service Employees Assn, Local 413
president Jimmy Fields, is make funds accessible to the employees to further their education, Manhattan
PC participates in a program with the New York Institute of Technology, which awards BA's in Com-
munity Mental Health, Psychology and Sociology Social Work. Happily counting the ballots are, seated
from left: Dorothy Miller, Alma Hayes, Rosalind Edwards and Lillian Goodridge. Standing are Al
Sundmark, Sam Brown, Mr. Fields and MPC personnel director John Franger.

Public Worker Health
Benefits Called Poor

BUFFALO—Victor Marr, president of the Erie County
Local of the Civil Service Employees Assn., charged at a re-
cent public forum here that health benefits provided by the
state to public employees have not kept pace with the private

sector.

Mr. Marr, whose local repre-
sents more than 5,000 public
employees, was the only speaker
during the forum on behalf of
the public-sector worker.

“In the mjd-60s New York
State employees had a policy as
good as any In private industry,”
Mr. Marr told a forum conducted
by Group Health Inc,

“But,” Mr. Marr added, “be-
cause of not keeping up with the
times, they (public employees)
have fallen far behind private
industry, and our employees once
again suffer and become second-
class citizens as fer as health
protection.”

Mr, Marr blamed the problem
on the state's refusal to allow
insurance carriers to increase
doctors’ fees, “The main rea-
son is to keep the state's cost
down and once again the em-
ployees are the ones who suffer,”
Mr. Marr explained.

He said other political sub-
divisions have avoided the state-
wide plan, and their employees
“enjoy a take-home pay that can
be spent on other necessities.
They do not have to worry about
the doctors’ fees like our state
employees have to do.”

Mr. Marr suggested integrat-
ing the statewide plan with an
option plan that would improve
benefits while not costing the

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state money, allowing employees
to obtain “more for their dol-

lars,” and bringing employees
“closer to what the private-
sector employees are getting.”

“Apparently,” he told a forum
headed by former State Indus-
trial Commissioner Abe Levine,
“our state leaders don’t care if
the employees are fully covered
or not.” Each time the CSEA
brings up health benefits at the
negotaiting table, “it is cast
aside,” Mr, Marr added.

Non-Teaching Unit
Pickets Hicksville
Board Of Education

MINEOLA —The Hicksville unit of Nassau Education
Local 865, Civil Service Employees Assn., picketed the Hicks-
ville board meeting at Division Avenue High School recently
to demonstrate the need for a workable contract agreement.

‘The Hicksville non-teaching em-
ployees have been working with-
out a contract for the 1976-77
school year, and negotiations
are at an impasse.

Phillip Alfano, field represen-
tative for the unit, has requested
that a super conciliator from the
Public Employment Relations
Board be assigned to the dispute
in an effort to reach an agree-
ment after both the school board
and the unit negotiating team
turned down fact-finders’ rec-
ommendations.

Unit officers claim that monies
originally allocated to provide
salary increases for the unit
have been diverted into the dis-
triet’s general fund, the reason
yet to be explained.

To further compound the frus-
tration of the non-teaching em-

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ployees, the school board recent-
ly granted additional sabbatical
leaves for teachers of the school
district for the 1977-79 shool year
at an estimated cost of $213,478.-
75 to the district to pay people
who are not working, in addition
to providing substitutes to fill
in during their absence. Then
when the teachers return from
their sabbaticals with accumula-
ted credits, they receive salary
increases commensurate with
their newly acquired credits.

“The same school board is deny-
ing cost-of-living increases to
the non-teaching staff of the
Hicksville Public Schools,” said
Ben Gumin, second vice-president
of the local, “Men and women
who are physically present on the
job and willing to do a day's
work.”

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Wenz!'s
Leadership
Vindicated

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first ten days of sick leave rather
than collecting workman's com-
pensation where it applies, but
won the right for employees to
draw on future sick leave if
needed. The organization also
agreed to drop its request for
meal allowances, in most cases
when overtime work was re-
quired.

Eleventh-Hour Victory

Because the state had seemed
totally unimpressed by CSEA ef-
forts to bargain constructively,
delegates to the organization's
March convention voted to call a
statewide strike on Apri) 18 after
Gov. Hugh Carey not only ig-
nored a blue-ribbon fact-finder’s
recommendation for wage in-
creases, but also actually offered
state workers less. Some leaders
of the state Legislature urged the
association to delay action until
they could get to work on the
problem. But the overtures were
declined. Dr. Wenzl reportedly
replied, in effect, that “Our lead-
ership operates democratically
with the advice and consent of
the entire membership, not at
the whim of union bosses, Our
rank and file felt that the state
had provoked a strike. It was my
duty to lead them out, if that
was what was needed.”

It was not needed. Four days

before the scheduled walkout,
the state called for intense nego-
tations and, in eleventh-hour
action, both sides reached agree-
ment,

Two major factors were said
to have finally influenced the
Carey Administration that it
had to react more positively to
CSEA demands and come up
with a decent pay offer. First,
the Governor reportedly listened
at last to his aides closest to the

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himself as president of the Long Island Region, however.

Mr, Flaumenbaum said he
wanted to devote full time to
developing the potential of the

53,000-member Long Island
Region.
Mr. Fisumenbaum had built

the Nassau Local from an. organ.
ization of a few more than 100
members to its present status as
the largest in the state.

He has also served as a state-
wide vice-president and, since
the regional organization of the

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APRIL

29—Division of Housing and Community Renewal Local spring affair
(disco): 4 p.m., Skydive Restaurant, | World Trade Center, N.Y.

29-31—Southern Region Ill county division educational workshop:
Camelot Inn, Route 9, Poughkeepsie

30—Herkimer County Local 822 installation dinner-dance:
p.m., Chirico’s Restaurant, Herkimer.

30—Brooklyn Developmental Center Local 447 executive committee
meeting: 4 p.m., Brooklyn Developmental Center, 888 Fountain
Ave., Brooklyn

30—Margaret Dittrich retirement party: 6:30 p.m., Sheraton (Round-
towner) Motor Inn, Wolf Rd., Albany

30—Nassau Educational Local 865 workshop for member unit of-
ficers: 9:30 a.m., Local Headquarters.

MAY

6—Capital Region IV Mix and Mingle: 5 p.m,, Polish Community
Center, Washington Ave. Extension, Albany,

6—Capital Region IV Meet the Candidates night

14—Western Region Vi interim meeting: 9:30 a.m., Treadway Inn,
Batavia,

16—Capital Region IV meeting: 5:30 p.m

Albany

17—New York Metropolitan Retirees Local 910 meeting: | p.m., 2
World Trade Center, room 5890, Manhattan,

17—Hudson Psychiatric Center Local 410 meet the candidates night;
7:30 p.m., Cheney Conference Room, Poughkeepsie.

18—Buffalo Local dinner meeting: 5:30 p.m., Statler Hilton Hotel,
Buffalo

19—Hudson River Psychiatric Center Local 410 election of officers:
8 p.m., Cheney Conference Room, Poughkeepsie.

20-22—Mental Hygiene departmental workshop: Friar Tuck, Route
30, between Thruway exists 20 & 21, Catskill,

6:30

. Campus Cafeteria, State

CSEA was established, as the
president of the Long Island Re-
gion

Nicholas Abbatiello, vice-presi-
dent of the Nasgau Local, and
Doris A. Kasner, president of the
Nassau County Medical center
unit, have been placed in nomin-
ation by the nominating com-
mittee for the Local presidency

Also nominated were:

first vice-president: Ralph J
Natale and Rita Wallace.

—second vice-president; Ed-
ward R. Logan, Carlo J. Pugliese
and Thomas F, Gargiulo.

—third vice-president: Pas-
quale D'Alessio and Alex Bozza.

—fourth vice-president: An~-
thony Giannetti and Carmine
Santoll.

—fifth vice-president; Ruth
A, Braverman and David B.
Flaumenbaum.

—recording secretary: Mary
Calfapietra and Esther Phillips,

ly of Central Square, right, Grandma Begley was born in 1866 in Brooklyn, lived in
child and later moved to Syracuse,

Marchers emphasize safety as they picket to bring public’s attention to the Lakeland School District's
attempt to contract out for school bus drivers, Identifiable in photo are CSEA unit president James Larr-
son, far left, Pearl Griffiths and CSEA field representative Joseph O'Connor, far right.

22 Years As Local President
Enough Says Flaumenbaum

MINEOLA—Irving Flaumenbaum, statewide regional vice-president for Long Island
and for 22 years president of the 23,000-member Nassau Local 830, has announced that he
will not seek reelection this year to the chapter presidency. He is in nomination to succeed

—treasurer:; Sam J. Piscitelli
and William P. Keats.

—corresponding secretary:
Sally Sartor and Alice Heaphy.

——financial secretary: William
R. Dixon anid John J. Roberts.

—sergeant-at-arms: Dudley P.
Kinsley and John Aloisio Jr

-county executive committee:
Irving Flaumenbaum, Ralph Na-
tale and Sam Piscitelli, Two pos-
itions are open.

For delegate (20 positions) :
Nicholas Abbatiello, Ruth Bra
erman, Kenneth Cadieux, Mary
Calfapietra, Kenneth C. Darby,
Molly Falk, Irving Flaumenbaum,
Anthony Giannetti, Dudley Kin-
sley, Ralph Natale, Sam Piscitelli,
Thomas Stapleton, Rita Wallace,
Haward 8. Quann, Doris A. Kas-
ner, Edward Ochenkoski, Carlo
J, Pugliese, James F, Mattei,
Carmine Santoli, Trudy Schwind,
Thelma Powell and Nicholas
Dellisanti.

PEEKSKILL — The Civil
Service Employees Assn. is
considering legal action
against the Lakeland School
District over the letting of bids
for the contracting out of bus
drivers’ jobs. The bids will be
opened April 27, 1977.

James Larsson, president of the
CSEA unit representing the work-
ers, said that “the Board of Edu-
cation’s action is a subterfuge and
an obvious attempt to circumvent
civil service rules and regula-
tions.”

‘The buses are currently oper-
ated by career civil service per-
sonnel who stand to lose tenure
and benefits by Civil Service Law
if the board's plan is implemen-
ted.
Mr. Larsson said that the buses
are now manned by drivers of
proven reliability who have trans-
ported children to and from
school, over thousands of miles,
without incident. He stated that
the Board is gambling with the
welfare of the children and plac-
ing lives in jeopardy by commit-
ting them to “an unknown quan-
tity for the sake of a few bucks.”

Joseph O'Connor, CSEA field
representative, noted that the
District by tts own proposal will
lose control over the drivers and
will lose a drivers training pro-
gram that emphasized safety for
“Our drivers are
proud of their record and know
many of the school children per-
sonally,” Mr, O'Connor said.

Any saving anticipated by the
District, he said, would be specu-
lative since District-owned buses
will be utilized, school property
and grounds will be used, and fuel
to operate the buses will be pro-
vided by the District.

Approximately 60 full-time
drivers and 30 part-time drivers
will be affected by the Board of
Education's proposal. Though the
Lakeland unit is currently nego-
tiating a contract effective July
1, 1977, the District has said
nothing to the union about its
plan regarding the bus drivers.

the children.

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by the State Civil Service Dept.

Contracting Out Of Bus Driver Jobs *
Draws Fire Of Lakeland CSEA Unit

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and legisiators.

The pressure became so great, In
fact, that the plan was discontinued
July 1, 1973, supposedly preventing
any more legislators or legislative
staff members from enrolling in It.

‘This was not the end of the bene-
fit. The Legislature voted to reopen
the plan from July 1 through Dec.
31, 1976, to allow Queens Assembly-
woman Rosemary Gunning (R), to
collect a retirement allowance under
the special policy.

During the period of the reopener,
approximately 150 other legislators
and legislative aides also slipped into
the plan (or 80A under the New
York State Retirement System
Laws). Certain eligibility require-
ments were enforced at the time,
leaving about 60 people on the wait-
ing list, and 105 others turned away
who were found to be ineligible.

What is it that has made the plan
so lush? What are the enriched ben-
efits that so angered the public, in-
cluding incidentally, members of the
regular New York State Retirement
System?

The legislative retirement allow-
ance is based on 1/40th of the final
average salary multiplied by the
number of years of service in the
system up to 20 years. This final
figure must not exceed 75 percent of
an individual's final average salary.

This formula for calculating the
pension under 80 A yields a higher
figure than does the formula in the
regular state pension plan.

The pension vests after ten years
of service and is payable at age 55.
The regular state plan also vests
after ten years of creditable service,
but in certain cases, full benefits
are not payable until age 60. An
individual under this plan may re-
tire at age 55, but would have to
take a reduction in his or her re-
tirement allowance,

Members of the legislative plan
are permitted, as are regular plan
members, to buy back credits for
World War II service. This right was
given to members in 1969, and re-
quired a rate of contribution based
on legislators’ salaries during WWII
instead of then-current annual sal-
aries. (The salary of a state legis-
lator during the war was approx-
imately $2,500 per year.) All legis-
laters had been required to con-
tribute to the state pension system
until 1960 when the system was
made non-contributory. (It became
contributory again for those coming
im during 1976.)

It is obvious that the payment for
the credit bought quite a bit in the
way of benefits for a small amount,
The right to buy back was extended
to other state and local employees

this building in Albshy found themselves eligible for a retirement plan with benefits exceeding those in the

regular plan for public employees. It’s a case where Capitol gains.

in 1970, and a total of 7,000 paid
about $8 million for the veteran’
credit. It is estimated that the move
cost New York State about $17 mil-
lion.

In 1971 the Legislature proposed a
bill that called for the formation of
a committee to review public em-
ployee pensions, because of high
costs,

Civil Service Employees Assn. pres-
ident Theodore Wenzl opposed it,
saying, “It is inconceivable that
legislators, who are public employees,
would set the pace in granting them-
selves liberalized retirement benefits
and then criticize other public em-
ployee pension plans which are far
less liberal.”

Another benefit of the legislative
retirement system is that its mem-
bers may remain in the plan even if
they transfer to another position

within the state employ, as long as
they have at least ten years in the
legislative position.

Robert Tilove, author of Public
Employee Pension Funds, writes, by
way of explaining the “lush” pen-
sion benefits of legislators, that
voters originally kept the salaries of
their representatives low. To com-
pensate for this, the legislators had
no choice but to vote increased pen-
sion benefits for themselves. In some
states, legislators still do make low
salaries. In New York State, this is
not true. The current minimum an-
nual salary for an Assemblyman or
Senator is $23,300.

In addition, state representatives
also receive $4,000 a year for office
rental; $15,000 a year to pay staff,
and much more if they head a com-
mittee; round trip air fare to and
from Albany each week, and other
daily expenses,

"They Originally Were High
To Compensate For Low Incomes.”
.-» But Things Are Different Now

This does not include the yearly
lulus which legislators vote them-
selves. Last year they amounted to
$882,500.

A state Retirement System consul-
tant said, “This pension plan was
really developed to provide a good
pension to legislators who generally
have fairly short job spans, unlike
someone who goes to work for the
State Insurance Fund and winds up
staying there 40 years.’

He added, “Unfortunately, it’s the
type of plan that can easily be
abused.”

Perhaps the New York State Leg-
islative plan is not that “lush” when
one considers that a United States
Supreme Court Justice can retire on
full pay at age 70 after 10 years of
service, or at age 65 after 15 years.
But many New Yorkers view 80 A
and its benefits with envy.

The plan is closed now, after the
letting in of those last 150 workers
who either were eligible to join it
before 1973 and didn't, or who drop-
ped out and then wished to rejoin
it, But what about its chances of re-
opening in the future?

Deputy State Comptroller John
Mauhs says, “If it opened in 1976,
I'm sure, if the Legislature is so in-
clined, that it also may be revived
in '77 or "78, There's nothing to pre-
vent it.”

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Detente At Home

JEW YORK STATE'S citizens, as well as its employees,
will benefit from Governor Carey's abandonment of
determined neglect toward the men and the women who
work under him and by his reaction to the reality of state
wages sapped by continued inflation, belated though that
reaction was.

As Theodore C. Wenzi, president of the Civil Service
Employees Assn., so aptly summed it up: “We were forced
to recognize the state fiscal crisis last year; it was the state's
turn to recognize ours.”

The wage*offer, which is expected to receive overwhelm-
ing approval by the vast majority of state employees the
CSEA represents, will provide a 14 percent increase for em-
Ployees in three stages in less than @ year, It makes an
important provision that employees in the lower grades will
receive a minimum boost of $1,400. The 14 percent hike in
the middle and upper grades should serve to retain the re-
mainder of the state’s dedicated corps of ‘efficient and
talented civil servants, without which the state cannot serve
the people.

The CSEA 1s proud of its reputation as a scandal-free
democratic union. It can add “effective and intelligent” to
that reputation. Not in the last 30 years has the news media
generally been so sympathetic to the cause of civil service.
The CSEA wisely recognized its role last year as a saver of
jobs and the requirement this year to settle for nothing less
than a substantial improvement in wage benefits. This
intelligent and responsible approach was recognized by the
media, who rewarded Dr. Wenz] and his negotiating team
with unusual understanding in both news and editorial
columns.

Governor Carey was extremely tardy in recognizing the
merit of the CSEA's position, but recognize it he did and
he is to be congratulated for helping everything to end on
@ positive note. Detente at home ts as important as detente
abroad.

Good News - Finally

EW YORK CITY civil servants got some of the best news

in years last week.

Mayor Beame and the city’s financial wizards announced
that there will be approximately 15,000 city jobs opening
next fiscal year, beginning July 1, and that many of the
employees laid off a year and a half ago will get their jobs
back.

City officials have finally seen the folly of their previous
decisions that resulted in massive layoffs which, in turn,
nearly brought city operations to a dead stop, We trust the
events of the past year and a half have taught us all some-
thing that can be utilized at the next-crisis. (HA.T.)

Happy Birthday, New York

pyre hundred years ago, on April 20, 1977, the New York
Legislature met in Kingston to adopt the state's con-
stitution.

Because of the astute work of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. negotiating team and a just reconsideration by
Gov. Hugh Carey, the state spent its 200th birthday operat-
ing in fine order, its employees possibly never feeling better.

Happy birthday, New York. It's a great celebration when
everyone gets a piece of the cake,

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1977

(Continued from Page 1)

a potentially disastrous labor
dispute was dramatically dem-
onstrated over the last weekend
by Theodore C. Wenzi, president
of the Civil Service Employees
Assn.

A weekend of marathon nego-
tiations produced a major vic-
tory for the CSEA, its officers
and directors, and its members
whose unity and firmness made
it clear to the State Administra-
tion that the CSEA was not
about to surrender its rights and
its responsibilities.

‘The victorious end came after
months of fruitless negotiations,
coupled with pursuing the tor-
tuous and tortured route estab-
lished by the Taylor Law to re-
solve an impasse in collective
bargaining negotiations, What ts
now more clear than ever is
the obvious fact that the Taylor
Law is in urgent need of re-
vision,

Significant Facts

As presently written and ad-
ministered, the Taylor Law sets
up an Alice in Wonderland of
procedures, which can be invoked
by the public employer as a de-
vice for bad-faith bargaining and
for prolonged and endless pro-
cedures whigh lead nowhere,

‘The fact that the State Admin-
istration and the CSEA could
hammer out a reasonable scttle-
ment underscores two significant
facts. One is that the Adminis-
tration had clearly not engaged
in good-faith bargaining. The
other is that the Administration
was totally blind to the unity
and determination of the CSEA
members in thelr demands for
a decent and reasonable settle-
ment based on persistent and con-
tinuing increases in the cost of
living.

By their determination, the
CSEA members showed that they
were not going to be made the
scapegoats for governmental
waste and inefficiency, and that
they would not subsidize this
waste and inefficiency by sacri-
ficing thelr lving standards,

The victory scored by the
CSEA transcends the immediate
benefits won by state employees.
Tt stands as a warning to all pub-
lic employers that bad-faith bar-
gaining will get them nowhere.
If at all, public employers at all
levels of government must now
take heed of the simple fact that
there is unity within CSEA mem-
bership that will hold firm
against all stalling devices, even

(Continued on Page 17)

Civil Service
iA 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.

Few Tenure Rights For Labor

The recent state fiscal crisis necessitated the abolition
of approximately 200 labor class positions in the Depart-
ment of Transportation. After the department determined
which positions were to be abolished, the laid-off employees
brought an action challenging the procedure by which the
department made such determinations. The Supreme Court,
Albany County, dismissed the action and the employees
appealed.

The department submitted two affidavits with their
answer, which detailed the process used by the department
in making its determinations. The affidavits essentially
stated that positions were to be abolished in certain of the
state's 10 Transportation Department Regions to equalize
personnel strength in the highway maintenance program
among the 10 regions. Productivity of individual employees
as well as an employee's status as a provisional or temporary
employee were considered by the different regional person-
nel groups in making their decisions on whether to lay off
a specific employee.

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THE DEPARTMENT ASSERTED that all terminations
were made in strict conformity with the Civil Service Law
and the rules and regulations of the Department of Civil
Service. Their position was that labor class employees have
no preference for retention on the basis of seniority or vet-
eran’s status upon the abolition of their positions. There-
fore, department heads may determine which incumbents
to terminate and are not required to follow a seniority rule.

In deciding whether the department used the proper
method in determining which employees to terminate, the
court stated that, generally, jabor class employees are not
granted tenure rights. However, the court noted that Section
86 of the Civil Service Law provides one exception to this
general rule. Section 86 provides, in pertinent part, that if
a position in the labor class held by any honorably dis-
charged veteran of the armed forces who served in time
of war or any exempt fireman as defined in the General
Municipal Law shall be abolished for economic reasons or
otherwise, the volunteer fireman or veteran holding such
position shall not be discharged but instead shall be trans-
ferred to a similar position if a vacancy exists. The statute
also provides that if the positions of more than one veteran
or volunteer fireman are abolished and a lesser number of
vacancies exist, the terminated employees shall be entitled
to transfer to those vacancies in the order of their original
appointment in service. Finally, Section 86 provides that it
is the duty of those persons clothed with the responsibility
of appointment to effectuate such transfers.

Based on Section 86, the court concluded the depart-
ment erred in not transferring any volunteer firemen and
honorable discharged veterans whose positions were abol-
ished to similar positions if vacancies did in fact exist.
Therefore, if the petitioners could prove they are volunteer
firemen or veterans entitled to Section 86 protection, they
would be reinstated to any existing vacancies in sim#ar
Positions. Jones v. Carey, 389 N.Y.S. 2d 921 (3d Dept. 1976).

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NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS

Social Security And Women

By PAMELA CRAIG

QUESTION
Some unions spend much more than the Civil Service Employees Asan.
for. political action. Do you think the results would be significant if
the CSEA spent more time lobbying legislators and more money for con-
tributions to political campaigns?

THE PLACE The following remarks were made by Tish Sommers,
coordinator, Task Force of Older Women, National Organi-
1s aden ———- zation For Women, at hearings of the Subcommittee on Re-

tirement Income and Employment of the Select Committee

Jerry Bennett, armory maintenance man: “I feel
that we should spend more
money and time lobbying leg-
islators. Right now we need all
the help we can get. We must
make astute Judgments as to
who we politically finance.
Hopefully, our union leaders
will study the record of the
> politicians seeking support, An
error in judgment can mean a
financial waste of union dues.

% Politicians are making promises
today and then never keeping them. Making
political contributions and lobbying are the best
ways of getting the politicians to do what we
need for them to do.”

Joseph Traversaro, armory maintenance man: “I
feel that contributions to poll-
tical campaigns would be bene-
ficial, It would give the union
more clout, assuming the can-
didate the union supported
won, I would hope that the

be in the best interest of the
majority of the union mem-
) bers. I just don’t feel that the
union leadership should spon-
sor support for candidates that would favor only
® part of the union membership, I know the line
is a fine one, but I feel the actual choice before
‘the check is crucial."

James Jackson, armory maintenance man: “I
think it would be beneficial if
they had lobbyists. I feel that
full-time lobbyists would be
able to speak to the different
congressmen and convey the
views of the union and seek
protection and support for our
interests. Lobbyists serve the
purpose of exposing the politi-
cians to the union reality. Big
organizations employ full-time
lobbyists for the purpose of
advancing their interests and causes. We will be
behind the times and out of the picture unless
we play the game.”

Roy Seabrook, superintendent: “I do believe that
the CSEA should spend more
time lobbying the Legislature.
We have no input into the
Legislature unless we let them
know that they are working
for us. We are practically a
forgotten group, especially the
armory employees and, as it is,
we have no representation with
the union, We have about 800
employees who really have no
say in their fiscal life. We

have to depend on the scraps off the table from

the other units. We could hopefully have a real
bargaining unit if the CSEA spent more time
within the political scene.”

Al Wagner, superintendent: “The politicians need
our support as much as we
need theirs, We definitely
should have more lobbyists like
every other group that cares
about its survival. It's essen-
tial to have a constant com-
munication with the govern-
ment when you are part of
the system. Relating to the
government through political
campaigns and lobbying legis-
Jators ts built into the wheels
of our governmental system. Not to contribute
would be rejecting that element of the system.
We must communicate in order to succeed.”

Cassell Brocket, superintendent: “I believe that
we should spend as much mon-
ey on political contributions
and lobbying as everybody else,
We always wind up with less
than nothing. Once you con-
tribute, you usually get what
you pay for. Since it is evident
that the union has not done
enough contributing to political
campaigns, I would think it was
high time for the union to pay
for the protection it needs. If
large corporations pay for the protection of their
interests, then so should the CSEA.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Death Benefits

Editor, The Leader:

Police and fire line-of-duty
widows have not received an in-
crease in death benefits in over
12 years despite the fact that
the cost of living has gone up
95.4 percent. We have 216 mem-
bers receiving $98.68 a week re-
gardiess of how many children
they have. We are now below
poverty level.

Plorence A. Churchill
President, Police and
Fire Line of Duty Wid-
ows of N.Y.C,

Morris Plains, NJ.

Injustice
Editor, The Leader:

My attention has just been
called to the glaring injustice
done to the New York State re-
tired employee.

It is hard to believe that such
@ glaring injustice is being done
to the group.

1 am writing to all my friends
to protest this injustice verbally
and in writing

I hope this situation will be
rectified.

JAMES J. ROCK

St. Petersburg

LETTERS POLICY

Letters to the Editor should
be less than 200 words, The
Leader reserves the right to
extract or condense pertinent
sections of letters that exceed
the maximum length. Meaning
or intent of » letter is never
changed. Lengthy letters that
cannot be edited to a reason-
able length are not used un-
jess their viewpoint is s0
unique that, in The Leader's
Judgment, an exception should
be made, All letters must be
signed and bear the writer's
address and telephone num~-
ber, Names will be withheld
upon request,

bs

Wants Explanation
Editor, The Leader:

On behalf of myself and the
members and officers of my local,
and all my fellow members of
CSEA who worked diligently to
improve conditions for CSEA
members, I demand that your
paper print the full agreement

agreement.”

on Aging, House of Representatives,

If the system is weighted in
favor of women, as the Social Se-
curity Administration claims, why
are we so poor? Let's analyze the
reasons:

1, Bex discrimination in em-
ployment begets sex discrimina-
tion in retirement. The exclusion
from “man-paying” jobs con-
tinues to haunt us into our old
age. In 1971 the median annual
earnings for women were $2,986,
Just 40 percent of the men's me-
dian earnings of $7,388, and it is
on earnings that the benefit for-
mula is based. Since women typ-
feally carn low wages, they also
receive low benefits as retirees or
disabled workers. So after a life-
time of hard work at low paying,
often exploitive jobs, a woman re-
tires at 65 to receive the mini-
mum payment. “That's all there
is—after I've worked all my life?”
she asks. “That's the way the law
is written. It’s an insurance ays-
tem you know.”

2. Women are punished for
motherhood. The long periods
‘women are out of the job market
for child rearing show up later
in reduced benefits. If staying
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HERE’S HOW MEDIA GREETED CONTRACT

Good press.
How long has it been? A new public
employee might answer flippantly, “Too
Jong.” Long-time members of the CSEA
know that “too long” does not quite de-
seribe the situation: “Forever” is possibly
closer to the truth,

Why now?

No one seems to know for sure, Per-
haps It is because people in all levels of
society, in government service and in the
private sector, are all feeling the eco-
nomic pinch, Perhaps the good press {s
somehow generated by a genuine sym-
pathy for the plight of low-salaried state
workers.

But another factor that also can not
be discounted is the respect which the
Civil Service Employees Assn. generated
by its well-organized, high-powered strike
preparation, which threatened the State
of New York with a total shutdown of its
services. The Governor took that prospect

seriously, and so did the state’s news-
Dapers.
The “Daily News,” in a moderately

critical editorial, recognized the power of
the CSEA by saying in the first para-
graph, that the state workers received a
14 percent increase “after brandishing a
strike threat under the noses of Albany
offictals,”

The editorial continued, questioning the
generosity of the settlement, “very likely
to have a ripple effect,” which could
prompt other government workers to
challenge the admintstration for higher
wages.

The

“uffalo Evening News” tn its

editorial called the settlement fair, A
rating of fair, In a paper often critical of
the state's workers, is an excellent testi-
mony to the professionalism and maturity
that went into this contract negotiation
effort.

The editorial read in part

“The Sunday accord reached by the
Carey administration with state workers
is cause for a greatly relieved public to

credit both sides with good sense and re-
sponsibility in settling on an equitable
contract that averts the disruptions of an
Megal strike.”

“The New York Times" quotes Gover-
nor Carey as saying “The morale and
effectiveness of our Civil Service em:
ployees could well be impaired if we did
not find the funds to compensate them.”
Even the Governor, it seems, was im-

Premed by the urgency of the workers’
demands.

Cartoonist Hy Resen in the “Times
Union” of Albany graphically demon-
strated the result of negotiations in terms
of an olympic contest, “Everyone's a Win-
ner,” read the caption in part. But Ted
Wenal, OSEA president, was on the center
award platform in triumph as aumber
one.

Labor Pains Leading Up To Birth Of State Contract

By HARRY BERKOWITZ

Balloting ts under way for
the contract proposal that
averted a strike by 140,000
state workers threatened for
last week, Ballot will be due back
May 7 and counted May 9.

Details were revealed last week
of the marathon negotiating ses-
sion, held in secret, that resulted
in the proposed 14 percent mini-
mum increase over two years for
state workers.

Although the final session
lasted 15 hours, it was not until
the final few hours that the state
and the Civil Service Employees
Assn. began discussing the offer
which would resemble the final
agreement,

Participants in the negotia-
tions, which were led by CSEA
chief counsel James Roemer and
chief state negotiator Donald
Wollett, said that it was the
state that laid an offer on the

bargaining table at about 7:30
am. on Sunday, April 17, that
was drastically different from
earlier offers and that approxim-
ated the final agreement, That
agreement came about three
hours after the offer was made
—20 hours before the strike
deadline.
‘Talks Break Off

Negotiations had broken off
two days before the agreement
was reached. At 5:30 on Priday

afternoon, April 15 the union
walked away from the bargaining
table as CSEA president Theo-
dore C. Wenzl charged there
would “absolutely” be a strike.
Union executives said on that
Friday night that they regarded
a state offer for a 5 percent sal-
ary Increase retroactive to April
1 plus a one-shot bonus of .75
percent on Dec. 1 as even less
attractive than earlier offers.

A fact-finding panel had rec-

SOUTHERN REGION III LEADERS SHOW THEIR UNITY
They may not all have agreed on how to handle the strike situation that faced state employees last week, but these Civil Service Employees
Assn, local presidents in the union's Southern Region MI were unanimous in their resolve to stick together. Region president James Lennon,
far right, Is shown here joining hands with the local leaders at a regional State Division meeting earlier this month, From left are Gary
Nestor, Orange County State Transportation Local 515; Charles Zoffer, representing East Hudson Parkway Authority Local 159; Martin
Langer, Rockland Psychiatric Center Local 421; Reuben Goring, representing Letchworth Village Developmental Center Local 412; Richard
Snyder, Wassaic Developmental Center 426; Solomon Williams, Warwick State Schoo! Local 557; Frank Mann, Annex Training School Local
554; Robert Thompsdn, Harlem Valley Psychiatrie Center Local 409; Mary Whalen, Ossining Correctional Facility Local 161; Ralph Schwartz,

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at Purchase Local 637.

Green Haven Garrectional Facility Local 158; Larry Natoli, Matteawan State Hospital Local 160; Marie Romanelli, SUC at New Paltz Local
Alexander Hogg, Middletown Psychiatri¢ Center Local $15; Sandra Deyo, Transportation District 8 Local 506, and John Olsen, SUC

Public Poll On Pact: ‘More Power
To Them, And Perhaps To Us.

By JANE BERNSTEIN
MANHATTAN—A random polling of New Yorkers on
their opinions concerning the tentative pact which includes
a 14 percent increase for state employees has revealed some

interesting points.

Of the group questioned, which
ineluded private sector workers,
federal, state and city employees,
and retired individuals, approxi-
mately 90 percent said they felt
that state workers deserved at
least that amount in salary
hikes.

“I'm not completely familiar
with state salary ranges,” said a
retired saleswoman, “but I don't
think that 14 percent would be
adequate since, it's the first in-
crease since 1974. Inflation has
crippled so many incomes—even
substantial anes. I think that
state workers should probably
have been given a 25 percent
raise, taking that into considera-
tion.”

A New York City subway car
conductor said, “That's no kind
of raise after three years, Infla-
tion will eat that right up before
the workers even get a chance
to see it.”

Contract Stories

(Continued from Page 1)
ital Region spokesman said.
Capital Region president Jos-
eph McDermott immediately be-
gan @ campaign of factual in-
formational reports on station
WABY, with Dan Campbell sery-

One man, himself a state
worker, said the increase repre-
sents an effective move toward
raising state income to meet the
current cost of living.

“It's appalling when one con-
siders that about 70 percent of
all New York State's public em-
ployees make under $10,000 a
year,” he said. “This has been a
long time overdue.”

‘The majority of those answer-
ing made similar statements
agreeing that the workers justly
deserve raises after all this time.

An issue to consider when ex-
amining the increase is also the
impact it will have on local gov-
ernment negotiations and future
contracts. New York City work-
ers, in particular, reacted strong-
ly to the news of the settlement;
some with renewed hope for
more money of their own, and
others with open hostility.

“I hate state workers for get-

Stir Region IV

ing as regional spokesman. The
reports, carried five times a day,
refuted inaccurate media pres-
entations.
The Capital Region of the
CSEA, however, has been direct-
(Continued om Page 16)

ting this increase,” said one city
police officer. “I don't see where
they are doing any more work
than we are to deserve this
amount, We haven't had in-
creases since 1975. If they can
get more, we should get more,
and I don’t think we should
settle for less.”

But another city worker said
he thinks that 14 percent is a
move in the right direction.

“I say more power to the state
employee for coming through

with this,” he said. "I think this
may be a powerful bargaining
point for city civil servants when
contracts expire, I don't see how
the Control Board could reject
@ pay hike for city workers when
state workers have received one.”

This is a sampling of the way
the general public feels about
the settlement. Now, what re-
mains to be seen, is how state
workers, who will have to live
with it, view the 14 percent in-
crease,

ommended in March a 5 percent
raise starting last April 1 and
another 3% percent starting next
January. That proposal was not
accepted by either party, It would
have cost the state $80 million in
added salary—$25 million more
than the Governor had allotted
in the 1977-78 budget

‘The offer that was finally ac-
cepted had a price tag of $215
million, covering two years rather
than one, but the Governor said
the additional cost was made
possible by the low interest rate
negotiated for spring borrowing
by the state this year.

Election Year

Observers viewed the state's
call for a two-year pact, which
would avoid the problem of nego-
tiating in an election year, as
even more important to Governor
Carey than the dollar figure, But
in the weeks leading up to the
strike deadline, the state did not
alter its previous offers very
much and the union stuck with
its demand for a 12 percent raise
and one-year pact.

Negotiations resumed and then
broke off the Friday before the
threatened strike. Union execu-~
tives say they were wondering
whether the state's intransigence
meant it was willing to accept
the strike rather than give in.
But actually the strike threat
had both sides worried, according
to participants.

Substantial Changes

‘The day after the negotiations
broke off the state Public Em-
ployment Relations Board tried
to get the parties back together
for a noon meeting, The union
refused to return to the table
until the state indicated a will-
ingness to make, substantial
changes in its offer.”

‘The indication came at 6 p.m.
Saturday night and the parties
began the fina) marathon ses-
sion at 8 p.m, in the 12th floor
offices of the state Office of Em-
ployee Relations in the Albany
Twin Towers.

Still the offers were not dras-
tically different. Each side gave
in a little after each of four or
five caucuses, but the strike threat
still loomed without an accept-
able package in sight, At 4 a.m.
copies of the Sunday Daily News
arrived with its headline herald-
ing the strike threat,

After 7 a.m. the state’s drastic~
ally revised offer was presented.
All it took then were a few ad-
Justments requested by the CSEA
and at 10:45 a.m, the package
was in place. A press conference
followed at noon, Both sides
claimed it was a victory.

Wenzl Leadership Vindicated

(Continued from Page 3)
employee scene who convinced
him the strike was no idle threat,
Second, the CSEA was receiving
a surprisingly sympathetic press

Wage Hike Can

(Continued from Page 1)
out that the 14 percent increase
in many cases has the effect of
acceleratnig incremental salary
growth by years."

Not including increments, the
average salary boosts for the
different bargaining Units will be
as follows:

© Professional, Scientific and
Technical; from an average sal-
ary of $16,422 with an increase
of $2,227 to a new average salary
of $17,649.

for its case by newspapers and
other media throughout the state
who felt state workers should be
rewarded for their patience dur-
ing last year's fiseal crisis.

Exceed Ceiling

® Administrative Unit: From
$8,263, with an increase of $1,400,
to @ new average salary of $9,-
663.

Operational Unit: From $9,-
138, with an increase of $1,401,
to a new average salary of $10,~
539

* Institutional Unit; Prom
$9,400 with an increase of $1,415,
(© @ new average salary of $10,-
15.

his is an excellent seitic-
(Continued om Page 46)

The entire offer amounts to
$100 million for the first year
and $125 million for the second.

Job Not Ended

Dr. Wenal said that he would
use the respite provided by the
raise to begin formation of pol-
icies that would protect and im-
prove pension, health and other
benefits. He declared that “while
this substantial victory vindicates
my leadership in this very serious
crisis, it is by no means the end
of the job. The CSEA did not
obtain first rank as the leading
civil service union in the country
by resting on its laurels. I am
looking forward now to working
on significant improvements in
other areas of public employment,
including the political subdivi-
sions.”

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Latest State And County Eligible Lists

Test Held Jan. 15,
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(Continued from Last Week)

Vanbramer C L_Cohoes B34
Cline Joho A Brainard 83.4
Green Richard T Albany 83,2

Ryan Michael J Mineola ...
Kellner Leonard Flushing
Cardwell BE Albany
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Wandel Massie A Staten Is
Palmquist M Clifton Park ....
Cross Christina Schenectady
Rice Edward J Warerviier
Mahar James E Schenectady
Gluck Leslie H Yonkers
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Naylor Candice Latham
Neeb John H Tonawanda
Plumadore Scot Albany
Caloro Carol L Latham ...
Baryiski M K_ Albany
Cotter Wayne BN Babylon
Hellen $ L Forest Hills

RDSECSS SSS UleSeelle

Snyder C K Mechanicvil
‘Wojcicki Peter Schenectady
Gifford Robert Mayfield
Connor Dougias Waterford
Shufon Joha J Warerviiet
Lussier Nancy W_ Altamont
Liedemann Joun Nassau
Behnke Sharon $ Lafayette
Carlos Alan J Schenectady
Lee Ronald Troy

Donselly M L Williamsvit
Citwon Leonard Forest Hills

Harrington Dale Utica
‘Tencaar Ronald Troy
Conners Timothy Albeny ....
Phelan David J Ballston Spa

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Lee Nancy A Duanesba:
Fontana Michael Astoria
Nicol Virginia White Pins ..

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Lange Joseph
‘Wroblewski John Bronx
Hislop Virginia Albany
Ponier Gary A Montgomery
Lynch Jeanne Albany
Olender William Troy
Evans Stafford Watervliet
Rainville Linda Clifton Pk...
Salisbury James E Greenbush

‘Winokur Daniel Flushing
Cilento Anthony NYC

Kehrer Anthony Hudson
Burns James W Albany
McAllister P A Buffalo
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Clark Mary A Perrysborg
Nelson Robert A Jonesville
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Gilbert Peter M Colonie

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MANHATTAN — The New
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Plaza Hotel, Manhattan.

The conference is intended to
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executives, labor union officials,
attorneys, arbitrators, and others
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Lecturers from labor, manage-
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speak on topics including: nego-
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Pending CSEA

iar tye teal eat ew This weekly Legislative update is provided by Civil Service Employees Assn.'s office of legislation and political action.
chapter ol jational l.

of Retired Federal Employees will A~Assembly; S—Senate; *--bills initiated by the CSEA.
hold a regular meeting May 18, ~
1:30 pm, at the MeBumey ee ee = =
YMCA, West 33 St, Manhatten. r This is the Agency Shop bil: it would require all non-members Passed Assembly, sent to FAVOR
Jack Klein, president of the S. Flynn, multi-sponsored revwted Wy d'une ta couutoe tn eapet eoatclen © the me S, Civ. Service Comm,

Queens NARFE chapter, has been to the recognized certified labor organization. NG
invited as guest speaker. A2212, Greco” This bill would provide for final offer evaluation as @ means of resolv. A. Gov. Employees Com. FAVOR
He is expected to discuss a ing disputes in negotiations

wide range of topics relating to S.11, Andérson, multi-sponsored This bill would allow PERB to enforce the terms of a negotiated agree A. Gov. Employees Com. FAVOR
the welfare of retired federal 43322, Calogero, multi-spon- ment. S. 3rd Rdg.

employees. sored

R71, Pipe This would for an increase in the supplemental retirement A. Gov. Employees Com. FAVOR

A.1336, Greco* allowance: June 1, 1977, and would to more retirees. S. Civil Service Com. 2-7-77 reported
Rensselaer County sid to Senate Fnmce Conmiticg et
Filing By M 4 $.1275, Knorr, multi-sponsored This would entitle Veterans of WW Il and Korea Conflict to obtain S. Codes Committee FAVOR

ay 4.1584, De Saivio, multi- Fetirement credit if they were honorary discharged veterans and resi- . A, Gov. Operations Com,
TROY — The Rensselaer Pa ee dents of NY. State at time of entry into service. Ss ae
County Civil Service Com- . merhorn This would allow local governments to negotiate disciplinary procedures S. Civil Service Com. FAVOR
mission has announced two | 42228 Delforo __ WR enpleyee ‘srguniantion, jschedemad
open exams fone none This ‘on employees who in illegal strikes. No Status FAVOR
pe gon malate June. hs WN would eliminate the ‘sutomatle. probation and. Two: on
An exam will be’given May a —

ATBIA, Landes* This bill amends Section 75 of the Civil Service Law, allowing AL 2/14 . FAVOR
we ee are suspended pending a. determination sto elect to S. 2/15 Civ. Service Comm.
Candidates for this $4,905 a
year job must have a high school
diploma or an equivalent com. | jos, Malton soya
bination of education and ex- Sveti Aeatets ESE a bp
periénes. $813, B. Smith FAVOR
Piling will close May 4 for an | 1088, Flanagan
exam for school lunch manager.

Candidates must have been legal iS enero. FAVOR
residents of Rensselaer County oa,
pase bart ' $.1840, Eckert, multi-sponsored This amends the Reti Taw, woditieg_ city in te Rate SCM Savion Comm. FAVOR

5 is the irement A in
pecraageas Bel oe at ment Sytem, clartying definitions and procedures and exablishes,
from the Reneselesr County Civil method of integrating Social Security into the Retirement System under
Service Commision, third floor, CO-ESC Retirement Pian.

CREE emer Seer: He, ie $2985, Garcia ~The Bill would extend representation rights to employees of the Div. S. Civ. Service Comm. FAVOR
= ‘44042, Cochrane _of Military & Naval Affairs. . Emplayees Co se
81 Acres 8.2901, Flynn This FAVOR
1 fii NondFromane ais
A1412, Field FAVOR
Cash $20,000 Price $95,000 $.1131, Nolan
FAVOR
ee FAVOR
This 5 fom Taylor Law coverage, roles desieated as $0, Mnend and recon. to Comm. OPPOSE
supervisory; defines supervisor down to person havi :
the responsiblity to rect’ employees or eflecively recommend ‘A. 3/30 Same as above. A3196-A
the adjustment rievances. 2 iit
This increases to $3,000 the maximum amount a retired person may Signed into law. FAVOR
earn in a public service position without loss of retired allowance. et i .
Eligibility for preferred list reinstatement shall be for a maximum  S. Civ, Serv, Comm. FAVOR
period of 5 years from the date of separation or demotion, bed: =: a 2
This dill provides a retired person may eam in public service S. Olv. Serv. Comm, FAVOR
an amaunt equal to. the. amount stipulated ‘by the Social Seeurily A. 3/31 Rept, and ret, to WBM Comm.
‘Act that can be earned with loss of benefit. 4
This bill allows employees who were on the ll on of before  $. Civ. Serv. Comm, FAVOR
june 30, ‘76 and who for reasons not fo their own A. 3/13 Rept. Ref. to WEM Comm.
Sear, Ot Wt Deeaee seen ot Se eames toe
Se Tt Re aiaes ieee ae Cees Sere
December 31, '77 for membership in the Tier Il :
This bill would amend Section 243 of the Military Law regarding — S. 3/28 amend & recom., 2840-A. FAVOR
crediting of military service tor the purpose of retirement and A 3/28 amend & recom., 3899-A.
for additional credit in competitive examinations, to include in the
definition of Veteran a member of the Armed Forces who served on
active duty for at least 181 consecutive days,
When person with lower on eligible list has been appointed to 2 3/9 passed — A FAVOR
print enol wo wasp vay reson ete S. Civt Serv, Com,
the Appointing Officer, the appropriate reasons.
‘Authorizes probation officer who has reason to believe a warrant exists 2/7 Passed. FAVOR
Declares uc paliy othe Sate io pont the use of profes Whee
a ic use -
sional strike breakers. 1/18 Labor Com. — $
$.1337, Bill Consolidates PERB & SLRB* Changes designation to State Employment  S. Fin. Comm, OPPOSE
(Dinner Savusday Night) :
A.1637, Bil felations board.* Administration of labor practices in both private & A.W & M Comm.
2 Day Valley Forge and public sectors,
Gettysburg, Pa. $57 $.1612, Padavan, multi ‘Any honorably discharged veteran shall be eligible for pension credit for Civ. Service Comm. FAVOR
3 Day Pens. Dutch and A2017, Esposito, multi, time spent in service, ‘A. Gov. Emp. Com,
Hershey, Pa. $79 $.2069, Marchi 1 PERB or a Court finds that acts of extreme were committed — S. Civ. Service Com, FAVOR
(Family Seyle Dinner) by an employer, employees determined to been on strike shail
have status restored and probation terminated with any payroll deduc-
on tie ate trans- tion to be restored.
and double occupancy hotel accommo $.2901, Flynn ‘Survivor's Benefit of $3.000 for retired State shall apply to all. Civ. Service Com, FAVOR
bmg tad ‘tiple occupancy State employees regardiess of date of
for more information cy vomreane
| i, my es chet clin es ct $,3408, Schermerhorn Craekies ar Die contain of petoumant engetitens tar nest que S Civ. Service Com. FAVOR
aE Tours, 8.3409, Schermerhorn {n the event of an impasse, contract provisions shall continue. S. Rept, out Civ, Service Comm, FAVOR
$1331, bills,
Moreno Tours, Ine, | 33: Si i ae Free re ee eee Se ie
0 EK, 42 Street, New York, $.26363-A Rules Comm. le i ‘clas fas So. consents of colioemeal benetite far lena ‘Signed into Law. FAVOR
N.Y, 10017 (; AST37 Me lnerney. Bovernments through June 30, 1978,

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, Apeil 29, 1

Listening intently during meeting are these well-known
CSEA figures, from left: executive vice-president Wil-
lam MeGowan, executive director Joseph Lochner, vice-
president Richard Cleary of Central Region V and
stenotypist Helen Van deWal, who recorded the ward-
by-word proceedings of the session.

CSEA director Ronnie Smith
sion II) was spirited participant in the debate over con-
tract for state employees, This photo of Mr. Smith, who
also serves as president of Willowbrook Developmental
Center Local 429, was taken during State Division
meeting.

CONVENTION REPORTS, PHOTOS

(Mental Hygiene, Re-

(Lender photos by Ted Kaplan)

Special Work Performance Ratings & Examinations Committee Report .

of Rochester Local 012, retired, at the
CSEA spring convention at the Concord
Hotel last month. Other committee mem-

We have met twice with heads of the
Department of Civil Service to discuss
general and specific issues relating to
Work Performance Ratings and Civil
Service examinations..

A major bone of contention is the
comparatively recent ruling in 1974, that
within a department, the promoted em-
ployee must serve a probationary period.
We pointed out that such an employee ts
treated like an entry worker—the Super-
visor need not document the reason for
the Unsatisfactory Rating—and the em-
ployee has limited grounds for an appeal.
Receiving no satisfaction, we decided to go
directly to the Civil Service Commission to
require documentation and the right of
appeal. As a result of our meeting with
the Civil Service Commission, their re-
sponse was as follows:

“The Commission was very sympa-
thetic to the potential problems im-
plied in this issue, Certainly the Com-
mission would be unequivocally opposed
to the use of this, or any other, pro-
bationary period in an arbitrary and
capricious manner. While current pro-
bationary procedures contain specific
guidelines and checks to provide equit-
able administration, the Commission
does recognize that abuses could occur
in specific situations, However, there
has been no specific evidence intro-
duced to suggest that there have been
any specific abuses of this, and cer-
tainly none to suggest widespread
abuse. Under the circumstances, the
Commission does not believe that an
additional appeal step is necessary.
However, they would consider a review
of this issue if there 1s evidence of
abuse or if such a case should occur
Absent of such formalized procedure,
the Civil Service Commission and De-
partment would continue to be avail-
able to investigate and assist in situa-
tions where may appear to be improper
personnel practices.”

We decided to do likewise with our
request for representation on the Rating
Appeals Board and to make it impossible
for an agency head to overrule the Rat-
ings Appeals Board. We have never un-
covered an instance when an agency
head reversed a Rating Board that sus-
tained the unsatisfactory rating. But,
whenever the agency head intervened, it
was always on the side of management
and against the employee. In their letter
the Commission reiterated their state-
ments made at the meeting:

“Although the rules prescribe that,
as the ultimate appointing authority,
the agency head is empowered to make
the final rating of any employee in his

or her agency, this decision can be ap-

pealed to the Civil Service Commisston.

Indeed the Civil Service Commission

and its staff take into consideration,

when processing an appeal, any ac-
tlons or comments by the parties in-
volved (rater, reviewer, performance
rating board, department head, etc.)
which provide a more accurate and
complete picture of the employee's
performance during the rating year.
The Commission's role in this process ts
totally Independent from the agency
head's and in no way could be con-
sidered as a process of affirmation
of agency determinations, This is evid-
enced by the statistics of the past two
years, Of the 84 appeals on unsatis-
factory ratings for 1974, the Commis-

sion granted 17.”

In our 1974 report, we submitted a
boxscore on unsatisfactory ratings cover-
ing the period from 1969 to 1973. We'd
ike to add 1974 and 1975:

Appresis
Rating Ussatistactory No, of Sustained by
oe Sap

1969 137

1973 430

1974 79

1975 693

What raises our hackles is the non-
chalance with which the Department of
Civil Service, though not the Commis-
sion, views the Increase in the number of
unsatisfactory ratings. They view the
figures as small in terms of percentages
whereas we pointed out that these are
flesh-and-blood human beings who are,
in ever-increasing numbers, being de-
prived of certain benefits We conveyed
to the Commission the need for more
specific rating guidelines and for CSEA
representation on Rating Appeals Boards.

What has always appeared to us as
overly harsh was the penalty for a sin-
gle unsatisfactory rating that totally
ignored years of top ratings. Both the

Department of Civil Service and the Com-
mission see nothing wrong in this prac-
tice. They argue that rewards and pun-
ishments should be meted out for each
year, individually, otherwise you have no
merit system. In their letter, the Com-
mission restated what they felt was the
specific clarification provided during the
discussions at the meeting.

“Basic to this issue is the recogni-
tion of the “merit” concept of the
increment. As explained by the Com-
mission, Section 131 of the Civil Service
Law specifically authorizes the grant-
ing or withholding of increments based
on performance “during the year im-
mediately preceding.” The Commission
affirmed that this is as appropriate.”
We also conveyed to the Civil Service

Commission our dissatisfaction with the
lack of response on our repeated re-
quests for changes in examination prac-
tices. A case in point was the procedure
on continuous .recruitment exams’ in
which exams for demand titles are held
every few months. Members have com-
Plained bitterly of a system that pre-
vents their appointment from a list be-
cause candidates from a later list, who
had a higher mark, were interfiled ahead
of them. The Commission seemed favor-
ably impressed with our arguments and
will advise us of their decision. As stated
in thelr letter:

“The Commission was very sympa-
thetic to the types of problems that
were outlined as having occurred in
the past and as being potential diffi-
culties in the continuous recruitment
process. However, they felt that the
proposed change would not be the best
solution and would tend to negate
the basic concept of a continuous re-
cruitment program where it ts appro-
priate. As indicated at the meeting, the
number of titles on continuous recrult-
ment has been significantly reduced
since 1975, from 175 to 77. This was the
result of a thorough review of the
need for continuous recruitment in
these titles, based on the very ques-
tion raised by the Committee. Included
in those titles removed from continu-
ous recruitment were those Labor De-
partment titles in which the specific
problem examples to which Mr, Gross-
field referred had existed. The Com-
mission further directed that a continu-
ing review be made of all titles on con-
tinuous recruitment in order to assess
the question of continuing need and
to avoid the types of problems which
Prompted this issue.”

On the Committee's criticism that the
Department of Civil Service is derelict
in its duty to prepare exams so that
provisionals and others may acquire
permanent status, we were shocked to
hear from the Civil Service Department
Head that (1) they are understaffed and
could not meet the needs of the agen-
cles and (2) their staff is obligated to
spend 80 percent of its time on prepara-
tion of local exams and only 20 percent

crease the staff and to increase the out-

quarters, giving as much information as
possible (i.e. title, department, last time
exam was given, number of openings,
number of people holding provisional
titles, ete.)

‘This Committee will continue to press
for access to exam questions and the
candidate's answers as the only proper
basis for appealing exam questions, How-
ever, the Commission seemed disinclined
to contest the contentions of Civil Sery-
ice heads that this would unduly delay
promulgation of lists. In fact, as stated
in their letter and in their discussion of
this issue:

“Our Department Uses either a pre-
rating review or post-rating review
procedure, depending on the nature of
the examination. As indicated by the
Commission's discussion of the review
process, this includes, in either case,
@ very extensive review of each can-
didate objection. Every test item,
whether or not it ts objected to, is
analyzed as to candidate performance
and a review is performed by Depart-
mental staff, an independent expert
and Civil Service Commission mem-
bers themselves.

“This very thorough process, much
more so than in most other jurisdic-
tions, is designed to enable us to per-
fect the key answers in the examina-
tion, and the final key is not set until
this process is completed. The Commis-
sion, in its review of this issue, con-
firmed that the current procedure is
thorough and adequate.”

There is a possibility that legislation
will be submitted during this current ses-
sion to eliminate the one-of-three rule
when filling positions from a list. Mem-
bers are urged to contact their Assembly-
men and Senators to voice opposition to
such & proposed law.

Another touchy topic broached with
the Commission, specifically Commis-
sioner Scelsi, is the continuing trend of
state agencies, particularly the Depart-
ment of Health, to create middle man-
agement non-competitive titles while not
filling or even abolishing competitive
openings. The consequences of this are
quite serious, Training, experience and
years of dedicated service are being ig-
nored in favor of a spoils system.

‘Time did not permit an exploration of
other subjects with the Commission but
we believe this face-to-face discussion
was of mutual benefit, The Commission
heard, first-hand, how the rank and
file of the employees feel and how
thelr morale ts affected by these frustra-
tions. Equally important, we have opened
the door to future discussions with the
top policy-makers.
Suffolk Jobs FilingOpens

HAUPPAUGE — The Suf-
folk County Civil Service De-
partment has opened filing
until May 11 for ten open
competitive examinations. Most
of the titles are for inspector
Jobs,

Building inspector and housing
inspector (17-207) and plumbing
inspector (17-208) pays about
$8,000 to $10,000.

Sentor zoning inspector (17-
215), senlor building inspector

(17-209), soning Inspector (17-

Flaumenbaum 0.K.,

NORTH AMITYVILLE—Irving
Flaumenbaum, president of the
Long Island Region of the Civil
Service Employees Assn., has ex-
pressed appreciation for hun-
dreds of cards, letters and calls
he received after undergoing eye
surgery recently.

Mr. Flaumenbaum had correc-
tive surgery to complete work
undertaken last fall on his left
eye. The operation was a com-

218), setior plumbing inspector
(17-213, and senior housing
spector (17-211) pay about §)

ministrator (17-217) pays $15,-

000 to $17,000. Communications
systems manager (17-193) pays a
bi-weekly starting salary of $671.

Por further information con-
tact the Suffolk County Civil
Service Department at H. Lee
Dennison Executive Office Bulld-
ing, Veterans Memorial Highway,
Hauppage, N.Y. 1787.

Expresses Thanks

plete success, and Flaumenbaum
has returned to his CSEA, duties.

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Dialysis Nurse

ALBANY—A home dialysis
nurse eligible list, resulting from
open competitive exam 27-608,
was established by the State Civil
Service Department, The list con-
tains 2 names.

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RETIREMENT PRESENTATION
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Michael J. Tully, Jr. presents a
retirement certificate to Town employee Theodore Domurat of Roslyn
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competitive
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Assistant coordinator commun-
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pays $10,500 in Oyster Bay and
other salaries elsewhere. Social
services research analyst I (66-
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Assistant superintendent of
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WHERE TO APPLY
_FOR PUBLIC JOBS_

NEW YORK CITY — Persons
seeking jobs with the City
should file at the Department of
Personnel, 49 Thomas St. New
York 10013, open weekdays be-
tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Special

by mail must include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope, to be
received by the Department at
least five days before the dead-
line, Announcements are avail-
able only during the filing period.

By subway, applicants can
reach the filing office via the
IND (Chambers St.); BMT (City
Hall); Lexington IRT (Brooklyn
Bridge). For information on
titles, call 566-8700,

Soveral City agencies do their
own recruiting and hiring. They

include: Board of Education
(teachers only), 65 Court 8t.,
Brooklyn 11201, phone: 596-
8060.

The Board of Higher Educa-
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filled through the Personnel De-
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STATE — Regional offices of
the State Department of Civil
Service are located at the World
Trade Center, Tower 2 55th
floor, New York 10048 (phone
488-4248; 10 a.m.-3pim.); State
Building Campus, Albany 12239;
Suite 750, 1 W. Genesee 8t.,
Buffalo 14202: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 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 US. Civil
Service Commission, New York
Region, runs a Job Information
Center at 26 Federal Plaza, New
York 10007. Its hours are 8:30
am, to 5 p.m., weekdays only,
Telephone 264-0422.

Federal entrants living upstate

(North of Dutchess County)
should contact the Syracuse Area
Office, 301 Erle Blvd, West,
Syracuse 19202. Toll-free calls

may be made to (800) 522-7407
Federal titles have no deadline
unless otherwise indicated.

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LEADER, Friday, April 29, 1977

CIVIL SERVIC!

Seek OSHA Protection For Public Employees ,

MANHATTAN—The Assembly Standing Labor Commit-
tee, chaired by Bronx Democrat Seymour Posner, held an
open hearing in New York City last month to seek views on
pending legislation that would set occupational safety and

health standards for employees
of political subdivisions and cer-
tain other governmental agen-
cies.

Among those who spoke in favor
of coverage for public employees
at the OSHA hearing were rep-
resentatives of the Civil Service
Employees Assn, The CSEA’s po-
sition was outlined by Bernard
Ryan, director of political and
legislative action. Purther argu-
ments were made by CSEA col-
lective bargaining specialist Pau!
Burch and by William DeMar-
tino, Labor representative on the
CSEA Board of Directors, as well
as second vice-president of the
union's Metropolitan Region II
and president of Metropolitan
Manpower Services Loca] 350.

Two CSEA vice-presidents were
on hand to show top-rank union
support for the OSHA program.
‘They were Metropolitan Region
TI president Solomon Bendet,
who also heads New York City
Local 010 that includes many
Labor Department employees,
and Western Region VI president
Robert Lattimer, who also serves
as a Labor representative on the
CSEA Board.

Text of Mr. Ryan's testimony
follows:

“It is clear and undisputed
that public employees in New
York State need to be protected
by a comprehensive safety and
health standard. In fact, the
New York State Department of
Labor in its planning report,
(report was made by legislative
direction) states: “Thus, without
new provision for coverage of
public employees, these would be
virtually the only workers in the
State for whom neither Federal
nor State law required occupa-
tonal safety and health protec-
tion.’ We could not agree more.
Tt is not mérely a matter of
having a plan for namesake but «
true necessity pointed out by the
recent survey made by the New
York State Department of Labor

“However, CSEA cannot agree
with the conclusions reached by
the Industrial Commissioner and
his staff in the proposed legis-
lation that he should be the sole
authority for the establishment
of safety and health standards.
We think such standards must
be statutory, Only by having a
strong, definitive statute can the
inspectors as well as the state
agency heads and the affected
employees be assured of a reas-
onably constant standard re-
viewable only by this and suc-
ceeding legislatures. In addition
to the statutorily established
standards, there must be statu-
tory sanctions, The form that
these sanctions must take is in
your hands. Suffice it to say,
that CSEA does not envision
monetary fines where money
only goes from one state pocket
to another. Rather, we could en-
dorse statutory penalties where
an employee was injured, killed
or subjected to unhealthy condi-
tions after an inspection reported
@ violation and an agency ne-
glected to correct such condition.
Willful neglect or incompetent
compliance cannot be tolerated.

“We are convinced that only
by developing statutory stand-
ards and sanctions can the public
employee feel secure in his work-
ing environment, Arbitrary
standards or those changed by
whim or political consideration

offer ttle, if any, credibility to
the public employee whom you
are seeking to protect. Also, com~-
pliance based on persuasion
rather than statute are ludicrous
in these days when agencies
and the government itself are
concerned with the ramifica-
tions of ‘fiscal priorities.’ What
agency head would feel compel-
Jed to install needed safety
equipment without the threat of
@ strong, certain sanction?

“The New York State Depart-
ment of Labor claims that they
have 40 inspectors ready to make
‘spot checks.’ The Department
also indicates that there are 8,-
500 political subdivisions to be
inspected and monitored, When
you add this figure to the sev-
eral thousand work sites where
state employees are expected to
work, you get a total of well
over 10,000 work locations to be
inspected and policed. Even a
quick calculation based upon 40
inspectors and 10,000 work loca-
tions gives each inspector ap-
proximately 250 work locations
each year as @ job responsibility.
When you consider 261 work
days per year minus 10 vacation
days, and 11 holidays, you have
an inspector with 250 assign-
ments and 240 days in which to
accomplish those assignments.
This is less than one visit per
year per work site. This condi-
on is totally intolerable from
our point of view and would al-
low no more than token inspec-
tions, and leave the way open
for token compliance, or even
noncompliance. Naturally, this
would leave the inspector no
time at ali for reports, compli-
ance hearings or follow ups.

“If the proposed state pro-
gram is to be 50 percent federally
funded, then the cost for addi-
tional 120 employees that we
seek would be cut in half—there-
fore creating a new cost for only
20 inspectors—hardly a terrible
burden.”

Erie County Local
Nominates Officers

BUFFALO—John Eiss and Eulis Cathey have been nom-
inated as candidates to succeed Victor Marr as president
of the Erie County Local of the Civil Service Employees Assn.

Mr. Marr plans to leave his local office to run for vice-

president of the CSEA's Western
Region VI.

Mr. Eiss heads the local’s
Health Department unit and Mr.
Cathey is chairman’ of the Pro-
bation Department unit of the
3,400-member chapter.

James Brady headed the com-
mittee that nominated the can-
didates as the local faces stern
negotiations with county officials
who claim no money exists for
pay raises for county employees.

The local, which represents
more than 5,000 workers, has a
three-year contract that ex-
pires at the end of this year,

Voting for local officers, who
will serve two year terms, will
be conducted by mail ballots at
still-to-be-determined dates.

Court Workers May Get
Pay Adjustments Result
Of Appeal Court Ruling

By JANE BERNSTEIN
MANHATTAN—Hundreds of New York State court em-
ployees may be getting salary adjustments which could
amount to several hundred thousand dollars, as a result
of a ruling by the state Court of Appeals.

‘The justices of New York's
highest court reversed a lower
court decision that court workers
should not be given credit for
time served in @ position prior to
April 1972.

Tt was during that month that
the Office of Court Administra-
tion implemented the newly
passed Judicial Law 219, which
graded the titles of judiciary em-
ployees for the first time. The
law states that each grade (Le,
G-12) shall be comprised of five
pay steps, one for each year of
service in the title, with a grad-
uated increment scale.

Some employees who had been
working in positions before the
grading were classified without
regard to how many years they
had been there. As @ result, many
were angered over @ loss of
money which they felt they were
due according to thelr service

scale. Some of the titles include
attorney, court clerk and court
stenographer,

After two years of administra-
live battles, initiated and follow-
ed by Civil Service Employees
Assn. Judiciary Representative
Ethel Ross, the case proceeded
to Albany Supreme Court, where
Judge Harold J. Hughes found in
favor of the employees on Aug.
29, 1974.

‘The Office of Court Adminis-
tration then appealed and won
® reversal of that decision.

‘The victory in the Court of
Appeals now means that service
in & position prior to 1972 must
be credited to the employees af-
fected, CSEA attorney James
Roemer said he will be expecting
& determination from OCA on
the ruling as to how and when
the adjustments will be made.

Candidates on Mr. Elss’ slate
include: Salvatore Castro, Mi-
chael McGee, Patricia Delcatto,
Robert Dobstaff, Richard Croad

Bat

Hodgson for sergeant-at-arms,
and George Clark for county
representative.

Running with Mr, Cathey are:
Arthur Tomezak, Jo Anne Lee-
gant, Betsy Piette, Sue Kozak
and Allen Dils for vice-presi-
dents; Robert Petersen for finan-
cial secretary; Sally Radice for
treasurer; Harry Brown for ser-
geant-at-arms, and Dave Stalica
for county representative.

Monroe Sheriff's Unit
Considers Job Action

ROCHESTER—The question of a disruptive job action
was expected to be answered at a membership meeting of
the Monroe County Sheriff's Department unit of the Civil
Service Employees Assn. on March 27.

Cpl. Robert Falzone, unit pres-
ident, said deputies are demand-
ing that the 5 percent pay cut,
mandated for county employees
by the County Legislature, be
restored.

‘The CSEA 1s suing the legisla~
ture, claiming the pay cuts were
illegal.

“Morale is at the lowest point
in the 12 years I've been here,”
Mr. Palzone said.

Sheriff William M. Lombard
said he supports the efforts of
the deputies and other county
employees.

‘The Monroe County CSEA
chapter, of which the deputies
unit is @ part, has declared an
impasse in negotiations for a new
contract. The old contract ex-
pired Dec, 31.

“I'm pulling for the deputies
and all county employees to win
this case,” Mr. Lombard said.
“This (the pay cuts) represents
only nickel-and-dime savings to
the taxpayer. I think the coun-
ty legislature is wrong and I

are among the lowest-paid police-
men in the county. Top pay for
deputies is just over $13,900 o
year, A City of Rochester police-
man makes more than $15,000
annually after three years on
the force,

Sheriff's deputies are talking
about the possibility of a ticket
blite in which they would issue
lckets for any minor infraction
of the law.

‘The CSEA unit has discussed

joint strategy with the Rochest-
er Police Locust Club, which ts
seeking a cost-of-living increase
of between 3 and 8 percent in
each of two contract years. The
club has been negotiating since
May 1976, A fact-finder rec-
ommended no wage hike this
year, a 2 percent hike in July
and another 8 percent hike in
April 1978.

Region IV

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ed by regional field supervisor
Jack Corcoran to stand at ready
alert concerning possible job ac-
tion plans if the tentative pact
is not ratified by the member-
ship

President McDermott agrees
with the CSEA contention that
“we know what we negotiated,”
however, he has expressed anger
over the Office of Employee Re-
lations position that media in-
terpretations are more accurate.

Mr, McDermott claims the
tentative agreement's language
speaks for itself and for the
CSEA position.

Wage Increase

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ment, which assures great bene-
fit to the vast majortiy of the
membership. I urge that it be
studied carefully and ratified,”
Mr. Carey said,