Civil Service Leader, 1977 September 2

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Vol. XXXVIII, No. 22

Friday, September 2, 1977

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— See Page 14

Members of the Monroe County Local

of the Civil Service Employees

Assn, demonstrate their support

for a strike during a meeting held at the Auditorium Theater, Rochester. Several days later, they re-
turned, victoriously, to the same location to ratify the new settlement with the county. (More photo
coverage of the strike effort on page 16)

Protest UCP'’s Headquarters
On Willowbrook Takeover

MANHATTAN—Chanting “UCP out of Willowbrook” more than 250 Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. members demonstrated last week before the Manhattan headquarters of
United Cerebral Palsy to protest UCP takeover of seven buildings at Willowbrook Develop-

mental Center this month.
Standing on top of a police
barricade, back resting against
a streetlight post on the corner
of Second Avenue and 45th
Street in front of UCP Head-
quarters, Felton King, CSEA
Local 429 president, told a crowd

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of mental hygiene employees
“We are not going to stand by
and let Gov. Hugh Carey
take away our jobs. United Cer-
ebral Palsy is going to get $26,-
000 per patient while the state
only gives us a budget of $10,000

Grievances

Against Manhattan Psych.

WARD'S ISLAND — Larry
Colson, president of the
Manhattan Psychiatric Cen-
ter Local of the CSEA, an-
nounced the filing of a series of
facility-wide contract grievances
demanding that the Department
of Mental Hygiene hire addi-
tional staff, end out-of-title
work and correct the serious fire
code and other health and safety
violations.

‘The Local has worked closely
with community groups to ex-
pose the poor quality of care

ASSAULTS

‘The Leader is developing a
story about Mental Hygiene
workers whe have been as-
saulted by patients of the
state's hospitals. Any informa-
tion regarding incidents of
this nature should be sent
to the editer, Civil Service
Leader, 233 Broadway, New
York, N.¥, 10007,

provided to residents at the fa-
cility. Following a series of news-
paper articles and television in-
terviews, Congressman Ed Koch
asked the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare to inves-
tigate conditions at Manhattan
Psychiatric Center.

HEW recently issued what Al
Sundmark, chairman of the
grievance committee at MPC,
feels is & “scathing indictment of
the Department of Mental Hy-
giene’s operation of the center.”
Among the conditions cited in
the HEW report were @ short-
age of professional nurses, Men-
tal Hygiene therapy aides per-
forming nursing and pharma-
ceutical duties, poor medical
recordkeeping, insufficient num-
ber of pharmacists, social work-
ers and professional theraplats,

The HEW report also men-
tioned various violations of
building and fire safety codes
such as overcrowding of resi-
dents on wards, deficient smoke

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per year per patient. No wonder
Willowbrook is a mess.” Mr.
King spoke through a bullhorn,
his voice carrying for blocks in
the crisp New York morning.

As more pedestrians stopped to
listen, Mr. King continued. “Next
week we are going to have a
mass demonstration in front of
the Governor's mansion in Al-
bany and on Sept. 8 we're plan-
ning a lock out at Willowbrook.
‘To United Cerebral Palsy we say
stay the hell out of Willowbrook
because if you come in you'll
have trouble on your hands,” he
said to the cheers of his audi-
ence

‘The event was covered by ra-
dio and television as well as the
daily print media because of the
steadily mounting campaign
against the UCP takeover being
waged by the Willowbrook CSEA
Local 429 and CSEA New York
City Region I.

Earlier in the morning, Solo-
mon Bendet, Region II president,
told a reporter for WABC-TV,
“Governor Carey is using @ char-
ity organization to perform the
functions of government. After
UCP experiments and finds out
it can’t do the job, the people
who will suffer will be the chil-
dren and the employees. The
Governor is trying to reduce his
budget at the patient's expense.”

‘The demonstrators, who car-
ried informational picket signs
that read, "UCP Stay out of

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Settle Monroe Strike
Pronto;Workers Win
Pay Hike, Benefits

ROCHESTER—A two-day strike of workers against Mon-
roe County has resulted in restoration of pay cuts, an 11 per-
cent pay increase and strengthening of job security.

Martin Koenig, president of the Civil Service Employees

Assn.’s Monroe Local said, “The
county never thought we would
walk. He said, “We had been
pushed for months, and it finally
came time to stand up for our
rights.”

Only about 10 of the 1,000 Lo-
cal members who attended a
ratification meeting Wednesday
night opposed the settlement of
the new three-year contract. The
Local represents 3,500 of the
county's 4,300 workers.

County legislator J. Richard
Wilson, D-Brighton, the minority
leader, said Democrats will sup-
port the CSEA contract when
the legislature votes on it this
week. And he said they will push
to extend its provisions to the
other unions representing county
employees.

He said the strike could have
been avoided if Republican legis-
lators had heeded a proposal ad-
vanced by Democrats earlier this
year to restore the pay cuts.

Vincent Puria, president of the
county firefighters union, said
firefighters want to renegotiate
their contract because “the
CSEA got more than we did. Our
contract provides for pay to be
restored for half the year, but I
think most of us would like to
wet the restoration for the whole
year—what the CSEA got.”

Charge That

Here are the key terms agreed
upon in marathon state media-
tion sessions held during the
strike:

© Wages A 3 percent in-
crease beginning Jan. 1, 1978,
with an additional 2 percent be-
ginning July 1, 1978, and a 6
percent increase beginning Jan.
1, 1979. The average county
worker earns about $12,400 a
fear. Increments worth another
percent of wages also will
be paid both years.

© Pay restoration — Pull res-
toration of wages and merit in-
creases cut this year by county
legislators, retroactive to Jan. 1.
Pive percent pay cuts had been
imposed on all employees mak-
ing more than $12,000 a year
and a 10 percent pay cut on
those making more than $20,000
@ year. This means the average
worker earning more than $12,-
000 will receive a retroactive
check for about $400; an em-
ployee making $25,000 before the
pay cuts would receive a check
for about $800. Increment checks
also will be mailed.

* Job security — More protec-
tion than ever is provided under
the new contract. The county
wanted to implement temporary

(Continued on Page 16)

Firing Result

Of Employee Court Action

SARATOGA SPRINGS —
The Upstate Transportation
Consortium has fired Al
Skellie, a former employee of
the Saratoga Springs City School
District Transportation Depart-
ment, after Mr, Skellie refused
to withdraw his name from the
civil court suit brought by the
Civil Service Employees Assn.
against the school district for
illegally contracting out the dis-
trict's transportation program to
the Consortium, The CSEA be-
lieves this action to be a blatant,
strong arm attempt to violate
Mr. Skellie’s constitutional rights.

In order to defend Mr. Skellie,
the CSEA is filing an action be-
fore the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, which governs pri-
vate labor situations, to regain
Mr. Skellie’s present job position
and the CSEA is also prepared
to go through the federa) court
system to the United States Su-
preme Court to defend his con-
stitutional right to freedom of
speech, freedom of association

and right to legal protest.
Jack Corcoran, CSEA Capital
Region field supervisor, reviewed
the actions leading up to this
situation: “First, the school dis-
trict refused to negotiate the
transportation situation with the
CSEA, the certified bargaining
agent. Second, the school board
broke the general municipal law
in the contract bidding process

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Don’t Repeat This!

Will New Primary
Date Effect Vote?
Politicos Worried

It is in the nature of the
profession for campaign
managers to be nervous.
Those who are experienced

(Continued on Page 6)

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, September 2, 1977

Female, Minority U.S. S. Job Chances Improving

State and local govern-
ments are improving job op-
portunities for minorities
and women with the help of
Intergovernmental Personnel Act
(IPA) grants made by the U.S.
Civil Service Commission, say

commission members,

Some of the innovative person-
nel improvements that state and
local governments have devel-
oped with IPA funds are de-
seribed in “Fair Treatment,” a
new publication isssued by the

“If government {s truly for ‘all
the people,’ then the government
work force, at all levels, must
also be comprised of ‘all the
people,” said Civil Service Com-
missioner Ersa Poston. “Improv-

Lefkowitz OKs Teacher
Race Track Moonlighting

ALBANY—Public school teach-

Jess than $18,000 a year as teach-

ers in New York State may also ers, says State Attorney General
hold down jobs at pari-mutual Louis Lefkowitz.

race tracks but only if they earn

Quoting from several sections

Open Continuous

Stete Job

Calendar

Actuary (Casualty), Associate $18,369 20-416
Actuary (Life), Associate $18,369 20-520
—— sual), Principal $22,694 20-417
ooomell incipal $22,694 20.521
fey (el }. Senior $14,142 20-519
Casualty), Supervising $26,516 20-418
Achar ), Supervising $26,516 20-522
ist $ 8,523 20-107
Detre rainee $10,118 20-116
Dietitian $10,714 20-124
Dietitian, Supervising $12,760 20-167
Esctrooncephalograph Technician $ 7.616 20-308
Engineer, As itary $14,142 20-122
Engineer, Junior $11,337—$12,275 20-109
Senior Sanitary $17,429 20-123
Food Service Worker $ 5,827 20-352
Medical Record Administrator $11,337 20-348
Hearing Reporter $11,337 20-211
Histology Technician $ 8,051 20-170
Legal Careers $11,164—$14,142 20-113
Librarian, Public $10,155 and w
Medical Specialist | $27,942 2040;
Medical Specialist Il $33,704 20-408
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aid Trainee
(Reg ” Spanish Speaking) $ 7,204
Nurse | $10,118
Nurse if $11,337
Nurse Il (Psychiatric) $11,337
Nurse Il [aretesten $11,337
Nurse, Services $10,714—$11,489
Nurse, Licensed Practical $ 8,051
Nutrition Services Consultant $14,880
: st pu
, Senior $12,760
Physical Therapy Assistant | & Il
(Spanish Speaking) $ 9,029
Physician, Assistant Clinical $25,161
Physician |, : $27,974
Physician it, Clinical $31,055
Physician I, Compensation Examining $27,942
rs i le ene
Listed A }33,704
Radiologic Technologist, Radiologic
Technologist (Therapy| $8,051-$10,274
Stationary Engineer $9,546 20-100
Stationary Engineer, Assistant $14,142 20-303
Stationary Engineer, Senior $10,714 = 20-101
Varitype Operator $ 6811 20-307
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor $14,142 20-140
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Trainee $11,983 20-140

You may contact the following offices of the New York State
Department of Civil Service for announcements, applications, and

other details concerning examinations for the
as well as examination for pial and
State Office Building Campus, First

New York 12239 (518 ae742ie
2 World Trade

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Fleer beldiog |, Adbarp,

inter, 55th Floor, New York City 10047 (212)

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

New York 14202 (716) 842-4261.

Details concerning the following fities eae be obtained from

the Parssnnel Otsave of Se

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Public Health Physici
Building, Empire Shee Pa Plaze, yo sr ‘oan

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

to ene Assistants

(Mechanic) Motor
leolttS Dapecinant of nsportation, St
bany, New York 12232, 7 ~

Building, Al

You can alto contact local Services Office for
your Manpower

of state law, some of them ap-
parently conflicting, Mr. Lefko-
witz responded to a request for
® ruling from William Barry,
chairman of the State Racing
and Wagering Board, and John
Van Lindt, the racing board's at-
torney.

He wrote he could find no
support in state law barring
teachers from such extra work,
providing the teacher does not
earn more than $18,000.

“Accordingly,” wrote the at-
torney general,” in my view, a
public school teacher is not
barred by reason of such em-
ployment from being leensed as
& participant in pari-mutual
racing. It is equally clear, how-
ever, that a public school teacher
is eligible for employment in a
pari-mutual facility only if he
earns less than $18,000 per an-
num in his public employment,
and not otherwise.”

Mr. Lefkowitz based his ruling
on parts of Section 8052 of the
stete's Unconsolidated Laws. He
said the law says that public
employees are barred from such
work, but another portion of the
law, according to the attorney
general, says public employees
earning less than $18,000 a year
are not covered by the law.

Labor Post

With State
Is Opening

ing job opportunities for women
‘and minorities will continue to
be an important goal of the IPA
grant program.”

‘The 28-page report, titled in
full “Pair Treatment: Grant Pro-
jects in Equal Employment Op-
portunity,” describes IPA grant
projects in affirmative action,
improving recruitment and selec-
tion, equal employment oppor-
tunity (EEO) training and tech-
nical assistance, and career de-
velopment for women. The pro-
jects help meet the IPA’s con-
gressional mandate to improve
job opportunities for “handicap-

ped persons, women, and mem-
bers of disadvantaged groups
whose capacities are not being
utilized fully.”

State and local governments
can use the booklet to get ideas
for their own equal employment

mation: A catalog of 84 EEO
grants, along with the addresses
and phone numbers to contact
for further information; a list of
other U.S. Civil Service Commis-
ston publications on EEO; and a
rundown of organizations which
can help on EEO matters.

Rensselaer Jobs
To Open Shortly

TROY—Rensselaer County
Civil Service officials hope to
fill four senior sewage treat-
ment plant operator posts
soon.

They have opened up the $9,-
338-a-year promotional job to
county sewer district type A sew-
age treatment plant operators
with at least a year's experience.
The filing deadline for the Oct.
15 test is Sept. 14.

‘The eligible list resulting from
the test will also be used to fill
other sewer district job vacancies
when they occur.

Officials also listed three open
competitive job openings. These
jobs also have Sept. 14 filing

Clerk, Sewage
Post Testing Set
For Suffolk Co.

HAUPPAUGE — The Suffolk
County Civil Service Department
has scheduled promotional and
open competitive exams for four
posts with county agencies.

‘The filing date for all eight
tests 1s Sept. 14. The tests will
be held Oct. 15,

County employees already
working in the departments with
the vacancies are eligible to take
the promotional tests if they
meet minimum experience and
education requirements. Open
competititve candidates must
meet similar requirements.

Senior sewage treatment plant
operator — Type 30, principal
account clerk, senior sewage
treatment plant operator-2A and
senior sewage treatment plant
operator — type 3B are up for
grabs,

Applicants for all sewage jobs
must have at least three years’
sewage treatment plant operating
experience, a high school diploma
or its equivalent and either a
type 3C, 2A or 3B sewage treat-
ment plant operator certificate,

There are no residence re-
quirements for the jobs but Suf-
folk County residents will be

deadlines and Oct. 15 test dates.
‘The job openings are supervis-
ing sewage treatment plant oper-
ators, senior sewage treatment
plant operator (type A plant)
and principal sewage treatment
plant operator (type A plant).

Supervising sewage treatment
plant operators earn $14,306 a
year. Senior sewage treatment
Plant operators earn $9,388 and

For supervising plant operator,
candidates need a B.S. or en-
gineering degree and one year’s
type A plant supervisory experi-
ence or an associate degree and
three years’ experience or a com-
bination of both.

experience or four years’ experi-
ence or a combination of both.

Principal plant operators must
be high school graduates with
two years’ experience.

Candidates must also be li-
censed for the work they seek.

Job applications should be sent
to Rensselaer County Civil Ser-
vice Commission, Court House,
‘Troy.

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CSEA Protests UCP Willowbrook Takeover

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Willowbrook,” “Carey made a

ing to handic patients. . .
has no experience with the men-
tally retarded and it will take
them years to reach our level of
knowledge. This is a shameful
situation,” he said to @ reporter
for the Spanish language WXTV
Channel 41.

Also, several parents of pa-
tients in Willowbrook demon-
strated in support for the em-
ployees. Patricia Nelson of Staten
Island, who has a child in Wil-
lowbrook, said, “I have found
nothing wrong with state care of
my daughter who has been at
Willowbrook for 13 years.”

“The press has crucified Wil-
lowbrook and it’s unfair,” added
Charles Rose of Manhatatan who
has a son in Willowbrook. “The
state is capitalizing on the mis-
takes of a few employees so it

can dump the patients,” he said.

Attempts by reporters to talk
with Robert Schonhorn, execu-
tive director of United Cerebral
Palsy Assn. of New York State,
Inc., at the demonstration site
were frustrated by the building’s
management who told them that
the Cerebral Palsy offices were
closed and empty.

However, a phone call to the
UCP offices reached Mr. Schon-
horn’s secretary who confirmed
that the UCP executive was at
his office. When asked to com-
ment on a memorandum of
agreement between the State
Mental Hygiene Department and
the UCP in which UCP agreed to
absorb all state employees dis-
placed by the UCP takeover or
risk termination of the agree-
ment, Mr. Schonhorn’s secretary
replied that the executive direc-
tor had “no comment.”

According to Mr. King, the
CSEA has developed information
that as many as 1,300 employees
will be terminated because the

Department of Mental Hygiene -

has slashed its budget for Wil-
lowbrook after promising the
CSEA and parents’ groups that
no employee layoffs would result
because of the UCP takeover.
Some UCP employees will earn
greater salaries than CSEA work-
ers doing the same jobs, Mr.
King said.

Under an agreement signed on
March 10, the State Department
of Mental Hygiene said it would
reimburse the private non-profit

Cerebral Palsy organization to
operate seven buildings at Wil-
lowbrook, which contain more
than 700 retarded patients be-
tween the ages of 10 and 17.
‘United Cerebral Palsy will com-
pletely staff four buildings and
will share staff with the CSEA

ployees that the Department of
Mental Hygiene informed her
that “no layoffs will result from
the UCP takeover and that 700
workers will be trained and reas-
signed to the remaining 20
buildings." The remaining 20
buildings house a population of
approximately 1,800 patients.

According to William Mc-
Gowan, CSEA president, the sub-
contracting of patient care re-
sulted from the state’s failing to
meet a timetable set up in the
consent agreement of April 1975
which mandated the reduction
of the Willowbrook population
gradually to 250 by 1981. Parents
and lawyers for the residents
moved recently to have state of-
ficials cited for contempt. Mr.
McGowan explained that by
placing patients with a private
non-governmental agency like
UCP the Department of Mental
Hygiene is able to use federal
funds—Medicaid and Medicare—
and other subsidy money, to pay
UCP $26,000 for the care of each
Patient housed in the Willow-
brook facilities that UCP will

Charge Strong Arm Tactics

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in failure to advertise correctly
and failure to accept the lowest
responsible bid. Third, the board
violated Civil Service Law when
it fired its own public employees
and replaced them with private
contractor employees in order to
provide similar services at a
higher cost to the taxpayer.
Fourth, the CSEA filed an im-
proper practice charge before
the Public Employment Relations
Board and also instituted a civil
court suit against the School
District for these illegal actions,

“Now, only a few short weeks
before the civil court case ts to
be heard the Consortium fires a

participant in the civil court
suit when he refused to cave in
to pressure from the transpor-
tation company to drop his par-
ticipation in the legal action.
“CSEA is not going to allow
the Consortium nor the district
to use such tactics to squash a
legal action. Our counsel will
file an unfair labor practice
charge against the Consortium
before the National Labor Rela-
tions Board today, CSEA will
also file with the NLRB to be
recognized as the collective bar-
gaining agent for all Consortium
employees involved in servicing
public sector agencies or paid
by public funds," Mr. Corcoran

© CSEA calendar

Information for the Calendar may be submitted directly to THE LEADER.

tt should include the date, time, pla

The address is: Civil Service Lew
Attn: CSEA Calendar.

.ddress and city for the function.
Broadway, New York, N. ¥. 10007,

SEPTEMBER

5-7—Metropolitan Region || Workshop: Falls View Hotel, Ellenville.

te Fibic tanvice Commuion, Albany Local 675 steak roast: | p.m.,
Mosall's Grove, McKownville.

9-Reception for Nick Abbatiello, president of Nassau Local 830,
6 p.m., Savini’s Crystalbrook Restaurant, East Meadow.

11—Onondaga County Local 834 clambake: | p.m., Hinerwadel’s
Grove, North Syracuse.

11—Hornell Local 007 family picnic: | p.m., Almond Dam Rec-
reation Area, Kanakadea Park, Hornell.

13--CSEA Region V presidents’ meeting: 6:30 p.m., Midtown Plaza
Auditorium, Syracuse.

14-Ithaca Area Retirees Local regular meeting: 2 p.m., Salvation
Army Building, 150 N. Albany St., Ithaca.

17—SUNY at Cortland Local 605/DOT Local 520/Cortland County
Local 812 combined clambake: | p.m., Homer Water Works,

Homer.
17—Suffolk Local 852 annual Olde Fashioned Picnic:
dusk, Southaven County Park, Yaphank,
20—New York Metropolitan Retirees Local 910 membership meet-
ing: | p.m., 2 World Trade Center, Room 5890, Manhattan,

i] #2400 bee too der

11:30 a.m.—

gi CSEA takes this contro-
versial action in order to protect
all public employees and former
public workers from such strong
arm tactics as developed by the
Saratoga City School Board and
the Upstate Transportation Con-
sortium,

Criticize Care
At Manhattan
Psych Center

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barriers and electrical systems,
improper lighting and poorly
functioning emergency gener-
ators,

‘The CSEA local has held nu-
merous labor-management meet-
ings with the MPC administra-
tion in an attempt to correct
many of the above-cited de-
ficiencies. The answer has always
been the same; no money, In
fact, the facility has lost over
170 items since February 1977
through attrition.

“It seems that the state and
the Department of Mental Hy-
giene are deliberately attempting
to sabotage decent patient care,”
charged Bart Brier, CSEA iield
representative. “They want to
make conditions so notorious at
state Mental Hygiene facilities
in order to dump more easily
helpless patients into unprepared
communities.”

Noting that many of the MPC
residents on Ward's Island are
poor and from minority groups,
Mr. Colson and Mr, Sundmark
have vowed to organize @ sus-
tained effort to gain additional

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oetbdt wi nea

—all the tools we can muster—
to fight back at Gov. Carey. This
is an election year and the Gov-
emor will hear from us,” he said.

Commissioner of Mental Hy-
giene for Ohio on Sept. 25.

Dutchess County Worker
Wins Increment Back Pay

POUGHKEEPSIE—A Dutchess County employee, repre-
sented by the Civil Service Employees Assn., won a year-long
battle when an arbitrator's decision based on her grievance
awarded her retroactive pay for increments originally denied

her by the county in January
1976 and January 1977.

The county had contended
that Patricia Gabel, employed 20
hours per week as a typist by
Dutchess Community College,
was not entitled to increments
because she is an hourly em-
ployee and does not work the
maximum 35-hour week of coun-
ty office personnel.

Thomas D. Mahar Jr., an at-
torney for the CSEA and the
grievant, maintained that since
Ms. Gabel is a permanent em-
ployee who works in excess of
50 percent of the time prescribed
for a normal workweek and is
in the competitive class, she
should receive increments as set
forth in the 1975-1977 CSEA
contract with the county.

While the county had argued
that no hourly employee had
ever been granted an increment,
CSEA contended that, regardless
of the method of computing sal-
ary, Ms. Gabel ts holding a per-
manent appointment and works
more than half the workweek
and is therefore entitled to all
the increments and benefits of
full-time employees.

In his decision, arbitrator Dale
8. Beach upheld the CSEA's po-
sition and awarded Ms, Gabel
the back payment of the missed
increments to be included in her
salary based on her hourly rate,

Bernard Veit, former president
of CSEA's Dutchess County lo-
cal, Ann Boehm, executive vice-
president of the Dutchess Coun-
ty unit; Martha W. Johnson,
chairman of the local’s grievance
committee, and Emanuel] Vitale,
CSEA collective bargaining spe-
cialist, testified on behalf of Ms.
Gabel, who is a member of the
Dutchess County unit of Dut-
chess County Local 814.

CSEA Negoftiates
In Rensselaer,

Despite SEIU

TROY—What will perhaps
be the hardest fought nego-
tiations in the history of the
Rensselaer County unit of
the Civil Service Employees
Assn, were almost canceled the
day before they were scheduled
to begin, as the result of actions
by the Service Employees Inter-
national Union.

Joseph Bakerian, CSEA Region
IV field representative assigned
to Rensselaer County, explained
the situation: “SEIU lied. It's

ment Relations Board when it
filed its original petition when
it knowingly failed to inform the
PERB that the CSEA ts the cer-
tified bargaining agent which
Tm sure that the SEIU represen-
tatives were well aware.”

‘Sue Ernst, unit president, com-
mented, “county officials were
not going to negotiate with the
CSEA county unit team when
they first learned of the SEIU's
action. But after the PERB pre-
conference hearing in which the
SEIU showed its true intent, just
to block negotiations for the
CSEA members who rejected
SEIU two years ago by @ near
2-to-1 margin, the county admin-
istration agreed to a negotiations
session.”

The PERB does, however,
have several topics it wants clar-
iMfied by the CSEA and the SEIU
attorney.

Wenzl Court Action Asks
For Manual Ballot Count

ALBANY—The former president of the Civil Service
Employees Assn,, Thedore C. Wenzl, has instituted a court
action seeking to have all ballots cast for the union presi-
dency and originally tabulated on June 28 recounted man-

ually, In that mail ballot election,
William L. McGowan was de-
clared the winner of the office
of president of CSEA over Dr.
Wenz! by a margin of 38 votes
out of nearly 60,000 ballots cast.

Through his lawyer, Edward
L. Bookstein of Albany, Dr,
Wenzl obtained a show cause
order in State Supreme Court
here, directing the Civil Service
Employees Assn. and Amsterdam
Data Processing Corp, the firm
which conducted by election, to

appear at @ special term of the
court on Sept, 8 in Albany to
show cause why the ballots
should not be recounted man-
ually, The original counting was
primarly done by computer using
TBM card ballots, with several
thousands also counted manually.

Mr, McGowan was sworn into
office as CSEA president on July
1 and has served in that capacity
since

LL6L ‘Z 22quendes ‘hep ‘YAGVAT JOAUAS THAD
CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, September 2, 1977

New Vet Hiring Plan Under Study

DENVER—Alan K. Camp-
bell, U.S. Civil Service Com-
mission chairman, last week
outlined to American Legion
members major reforms in civil
service practices, including
changes in the law that gives
preference to veterans.

Addressing the National Eco-
nomic Commission on the eve of
the legion’s national convention,
Mr. Campbell said:

“The changes being considered
will not only serve the interests
of those young veterans who are
in greatest need of employment

assistance; they will help to meet
the equally pressing employment
needs of women and minorities.”

He continued: “The funda-
mental accommodation between
principles of merit in employ-
ment and the needs of special
Groups such as veterans lies in
the fullest implementation of af-
firmative action — and veterans’
preference is one form of affir-
mative action.”

He maintained that among
People qualified for any job, it is
“entirely permissible” to estab-
sh priorities for preferential
treatment. What is not permis-

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sible, he emphasized, is “a dilu-
tion of the competency of the
work force through preferential
treatment of less qualified work-
ers, “My recommendations derive
from two fair propositions. Pirst,
that our society demands a re-
dress of the unfair treatment of
women and minorities by insti-
tutional procedures that have ex-
cluded them from opportunity;
and second, that any such re-
dress should not alter the reason-
able and legitimate obligations
we have to those who have served
thelr country under arms.”

Veterans comprise 50 percent
of the federal work force, com-
pared to 22 percent of the total
national work force, he said.

Under the Professional and Ad-
ministrative Careers Examina-
tion ((PACE), he observed, vet-
erans comprise 19 percent of
those rated eligibles and 29 per-
cent of those selected. Women
account for 41 percent of the
eligibles and 31 percent of the
selections.

Veterans also account for a
larger percentage of selections
for higher level jobs, he said.
‘They represent 60 percent of the
selection for senior level (grades
GS-13 through GS-15) and mid-
level (grades GS-9 through GS-
12) positions, he added.

He asked the Legion and other
veterans’ organizations to con-
sider proposals for change now
being considered by the Federal
Personnel Management Project
as part of a major review of the
federal personnel system. They
are:
© That veterans entitled to
five-point preference be limited
either in the time frame within
which they can use veterans’
preference, or in their ability to
benefit from existing law which
provides that @ manager must
select from the top three names
on a list of eligibles but may not
select a non-veteran over a vet-
eran.

© That veterans entitled to
10-point preference on the basis

of disability, while maintaining
their preference, would either
compete as equals once the 10-
point advantage is given, or they
could be hired under a special
appointing authority which
could be designed to deal with
their specia) needs,

© That veterans’ preference as
it pertains to retention in a re-
duction-in-force should be lim-
ited.

© That no preference benefits
should be extended to retired
military personnel seeking fur-
ther federal employment.

Trip To N.Y.
By Campbell
Is Scheduled

US. Civil Service Commission
Chairman Alan K. Campbell has
scheduled a visit to New York
City Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, to
solicit views and recommenda-
tions for changes in federal per-
sonnel policies and practices. Mr.
Campbell's scheduled visit in
July was cancelled because of
the New York City power failure.

OMB Associate Director Wayne
Granquist and Federal Person-
nel Management Project Execu-
tive Director Dwight Ink ac-
companied him,

The fact-finding visit is part
of a major study to make the
government more responsive to
People’s needs. Changes in per-
sonnel policies and practices are
expected to have @ major impact
in the overall reorganization of
the government.

Mr. Campbell met with the
commission's regional staff,
agency managers, operating per-
sonnel officers, federal employee
union officials, and others in-
terested in federal civil service.

Buch field visits are consid-
ered critical because more than
87 percent of all federal em-

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Who Will Win ‘Son Of Sam’ Rewards? -

By HARCOURT TYNES
MINEOLA — It may be
many weeks before Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn. offi-
clals decide who will receive
its $1,000 reward for the Son
of Sam capture.

‘That's because there has not

been a conviction in the cele-
brated case and some observers
close to the investigation say
the case may never go to trial
Another reason is that CESA
officials plan on going along
with the decision of other or-
ganizations who posted rewards

GO TO HEALTH

By WILLIAM BR. WILLIFORD

More and more evidence indicates that drinking during preg-
nancy is risky.

Studies have confirmed that women who take more than two
alcoholic drinks daily increase their chances of giving birth to men-
tally retarded and physically deformed babies.

Many physicians such as Dr. Eileen Oulette
of Harvard Medica] School advise against women
drinking at all during pregnancy. Results of a
recent study (Medical Tribune, March 16, 1977),
indicate that perhaps 12 percent of babies born
to mothers who average only a couple of drinks
& day may be abnormally small, dysmorphic, jit-
tery and tremulous — with effects later in life
as yet not understood. For pregnant women who
# drink very heavily, the risk of delivering an
abnormal baby may be as high as 74 percent,
according to findings at the Boston City Hospital:

Ernest P. Noble, director of the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism, reported in a recent news conference that
the most dangerous perlod for the unborn child of a heavy drinker
is from three to four-and-a-half months after conception and during
the final three months of pregnancy. He also stated that periodic
binge drinking is more dangerous than drinking in moderation
throughout pregnancy.

‘The breakthrough linking alcohol intake and birth abnormalities
came in 1973 when researchers in Seattle identified a pattern of
defects in the children of chronic alcoholic mothers. Further studies
have identified about 20 symptoms that occur in the bables of
women who had more than two drinks a day who went on occasional
binges during pregnancy. Some of the symptoms include babies with
severe retardation; hyperactivity; heart murmurs and other cardiac
‘abnormalities; a small head, low set ears, and poorly developed limbs.

Dr. Noble reported that women who drink as much as six cans
of beer, glasses of wine or mixed drinks daily during pregnancy may
deliver babies with many of the above-mentioned symptoms that
are indications of the “fetal alcohol syndrome.”

Abstinence or very light occasional drinking appears to be the
best policy to follow during the entire pregnancy.

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Persons, most of them women
with long, dark-brown hair, were
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SHORT TAKES

By HELEN WEISMAN

HE NEEDS DISABILITY INSURANCE?

Federal civil service disability pensions can be obtained merely
by showing medical inability to perform one or more his
Job. The definition of disability is so broad and vague
any ailment can be considered grounds for a pension.
percent of those who apply for disability retirement get it. One for-
mer federal civil servant earned $117,560 in a new job in 1974 and
1975 while collecting a disability retirement pension.
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WITH LESS EXPERIENCE, AIDE GETS MORE MONEY

An 18-year-old Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
(CETA) worker was chosen over five experienced community aides
for an $8,700-a-year administrative post, about $1,000 more than the
others were paid for the same work. State Senator James Griffin,
Buffalo mayor candidate, is demanding justification for the hiring.

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FIVE-YEAR BACKLOG

The Equal Employment Op-
portunity Commission has
backlog of 130,000 job-discrimin-
ation complaints. The backlog,
five years old, has caused the
commission to be a frequent tar-
get of criticism. To change this,
the Equal Employment =

MURDER AT ATTICA Drives away WORKERS

As a result of the slaying of a prison cook, allegedly by an Attica
inmate, the facility is losing personnel, say state penal officers.
About nine persons so far have declined further duties there, re-
portedly because of fear for their safety.

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Examination By Taxation

E thought that governments had learned a basic lesson

in American democracy when the Supreme Court, a
few years ago, struck down poll tax laws that had served
to limit who could vote in elections of certain states, es-
pecially in the South,

New York City has now come up with a plan to tax job-
seekers, We consider this to be every bit as incidious and
un-American as the poll tax.

To us, the right to seek government employment is as
much a right as is the obligation/privilege to vote. It is in-
herent within our system, whether or not it is spelled out
in the Constitution or merely taken for granted because it
is considered to be The American Way.

Under the city’s new regulation, a sliding scale from 5
dollars to 10 dollars will be charged for the right to take a
civil service exam.

We found it objectionable when a straight 5-dollar fee
was imposed a year ago. That the fee will now be increased
for higher-paying jobs does not disturb us so much as the
essential fact that the fee is being levied,

Although the city reputedly collected $300,000 in fees
since the test tax was instituted last Ocober, a spokesman
said the new increase is necessary because of the rising
cost of administering tests. Supposedly the cost of giving
a test hasegone from $90 a person several years ago to ap-
proximately $145 this year.

We say such paper-shuffling figures are beside the
point. Nor is ability to pay the real issue.

What is important is that another move is being made
against the Merit System: by setting up additional qualifi-
cation standards other than Merit.

We can see no difference between the graft of a spoils
system where prospective employees get their jobs by paying
off corrupt officials and the New York City system where
applicants are being told to put a little something in the
kitty for the opportunity to take a civil service exam—and
it doesn't even guarantee that they will pass the exam,
much less get the job,

Most people agree that the Merit System could stand
@ little shaping up. Like in most venerable institutions, there
are those who know their way around the system better
than others and, consequently, abuse it, The basic structure
of the Merit System is sound, though. It needs to be better
enforced as intended, with the nooks and crannies cleaned up.

Once you start chipping away at the foundation of any
structure, however, you are hastening the day of its eventual
collapse. The day you allow the first chip to be hacked away,
it may not seem like much, but the precedent is then set
for future destruction,

We regard the government’s primary responsibility in
attaining employees to be the hiring of its best citizens to
serve the public,

It is not in the business of selling tests, even if the
collected fees supposedly go to defray the cost of the tests.
The next step is to charge the full cost of the tests; this
year it’s $145, next year who knows?

But it is not the money that we find objectionable, It
is the morality of the Merit System that we defend,

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service. jobs ,., sare KY »

Primary

voting. What is troubling cam-
paign strategists is whether this
change in the voting day will
produce any change in voting
patterns, With primaries all over
the state being hotly contested
and voter turnout in primaries
being traditionally low, any
change in the normal scheme of
things hits polticians’ sensitive
nerves.

There was nothing diabolical
in the selection of a Thursday
for primary day, Once the Gov-
ernor and the Legislature de-
cided to shift primary day to
September from June for a wide
variety of political reasons, they
had to cope with the inflexibil-
ity of the calendar. Tuesday,
Sept. 6, might have been an ap-
priate date, but it comes a day
after Labor Day and that seemed
‘an inappropriate day for holding
elections.

The following Tuesday had to

be discarded because it conflicted
with the Jewish Rosh Hashana
holiday. Holding it any later
would have created problems in
New York City, where there is
& runoff provision in the Elec-
tion Law that requires a second
primary if no candidate for city-
wide office recelves more than
40 percent of the vote. So Thurs-
day, Sept. 8, seemed like a sen-
sible compromise. If a run-off
primary is required in New York
City, as seems highly likely, it
will be held on a Monday, Sept.
19. This allows for a final seven-
week campaign.

As the day of decision ap-
proaches, the poll takers, par-
ticularly in New York City, are
having a field day. Some polls
have been commissioned by can-
didates and others by independ-
ent organizations. While they
vary in minor details, they in-
dicate, as a group, that Bella
Abzug, Abraham D. Beame,
Mario Cuomo and Edward Koch,
to list them in alphabetical or-
der, are leading the pack.

However, they are separated
by no more than 5 percent, an
acceptable margin of error in all
scientific polling. The polls also
indicate that Herman Badillo
and Percy Sutton are not so far
behind that they can be counted
out of the running, By and large,
the poll results correspond rather
generally with the instinctive
Judgments of political leaders,

Voters Divided

What all this means is that
after months of campaigning,
the candidates remain bunched
while the voters remains sharply
divided. This is enough to make
any campaign manager reach
for his bottle of aspirins.

To the extent that polls ac-
curately reflect voter sentiment,
it ts clear that anything can
happen primary day, Any un-
usual event affecting the people
of the city during the next few
critical days may have a radical
impact on voter sentiment. Even
the weather on primary day
could have a subtle impact on
the result, depending on which
voters prefer to remain dry

Ts than vote,
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BLACKOUT

COMPOUNDING THE MISHAP

Civil Service
Law & You

By RICHARD GABA

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

Tantamount To Dismissal

An Appellate Division, Third Department, decision dated
May 12, involved an Article 78 proceeding brought by a
parole officer seeking reinstatement.

In June 1975, petitioner suffered a heart attack. A dia-
betic condition was also discovered and he was hospitalized.
Upon petitioner's request, he was granted a leave of absence
from his duties with pay at that time. Shortly thereafter,
petitioner was notified that he would be required to undergo
an employee health service medical examination pursuant
to Section 21.3(e) of the rules and regulations of the De-
partment of Civil Service, before he could be permitted to
return to work, This examination was conducted and the
Department of Correctional Services was advised by a phy-
sicilan with the Employee Health Service that petitioner was
physically incapable of performing the duties of his position.
Thereupon, petitioner was notified that he would not be
permitted to return to work. Petitioner then submitted
statements from three physicians of his choosing which
stated that he could return to work and perform the duties
of his position without limitation. Petitioner requested re-
instatement, which was refused.

The Supreme Court, Special Term, granted petitioner's
application for reinstatement, reasoning that failure to rein-
state him to his position was tantamount to dismissal. The
court held that while an employee absent on leave due to
illness may properly be required to undergo a physical exam-
ination before resuming the duties of his position, the phy-
sical examination alone cannot be determinative of the
termination of employment of a permanent employee with-
out affording him the procedural safeguards and hearings
mandated by Section 75 of the Civil Service Law.

On this appeal of the Special Term decision, the com-
missioner of the Department of Correctional Services took
the position that Section 21.3(e) contains the only procedure
required to be followed in the case. The commissioner also
contended that the refusal to reinstate petitioner to his
position did not constitute a denial of due process, as claimed
by petitioner, since appellant’s determination was reviewable
under CPLR, Article 78.

The Appellate Division, Third Department, did not find
the commissioner’s arguments persuasive and affirmed the
Special Term decision directing reinstatement. The court
found that Section 21.3(e) permits an appointing authority
to require an employee who has been absent due to illness
to submit to an examination as a condition of his return to
duty, In the above cited regulation, no provision is made
for any hearing to determine a disputed question of dis-
ability as in the case, nor for appealing or otherwise chal-
lenging the determination of the examining physician. In
affirming the Special Term) decision, the court said that
petitioner's rights in continued employment are safeguarded
by procedural due process and cannot be extinguished except
upon cause following an opportunity for a hearing.

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By PAMELA CRAIG

WHAT’S YOUR OPINION |

QUESTION: What action do you think the union should take to save the jobs of

the public that
employees from UCP. The union
state to keep the employees at their present

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are more capable than
should force

be laid off because of meetings, we've
union must buildings, we've
state “finds we've talked to
permanent we've talked to
nearby in- we've contacted
should not we've contacted other
be allowed to find jobs which and everyone is will-
because that outside of Wil-
the same as laying lowbrook but Willowbrook em-
echelon em- Ployees have got to unite themselves. I guess the
made obtain work = employees have suffered from the past union
from other institutions, The union must let the administration and resist the present effort to
Public know this pitiful situation.” unify.”

Joanne Maviglia, teacher: “I think the union Gerald MeCarthy, occupational therapist: “I feel
” should take every possible ac- we should investigate UCP and
tion to insure the employment see how they are functioning
of its members. If they must and see if they are complying

take the parties to court, then with the court decree.
they should do so immediately. ~ should be monitored to find if
‘They should organize strikes they are superior or inferior.
because in this institution, our We should follow up on family
backs are against the wall. Even care. Who will be held account-
though it has not been in our able if the care is inferior? How
History to strike, I feel that it can people who are untrained

and

by UCP.”

make sure that Carey doesn't keep his job or any
of the other politicians who favor this takeover

RETIREMENT
NEWS & FACTS

By A. L. PETERS

process to fight requested reim-
bursements by the U.S. Civil Ser-
vice Commission for alleged ex-
cess pension payments is avail-
able to 115 million federal gov-

their checks. These usually in-
volve withholdings for life or
health insurance payments.

Until recently, retirees were
simply notified that reimburse-
meyts would be withheld from
their next check. There was no
appeal. The court decision, how-

-ever, provides three chances, But

retirees must act within two
benefit periods after the deduc-
tion is made.

‘The three alternatives are (1)
statement to the Civil Service
Commission itself, including full
name, address, the name of the

@ recommendation to the Com-

Health which must reconsider
the decision; and (3) if both
steps fail, an appeal is possible
to the commission's appeals’ re-
view board. The court decision
does not affect matters settled
before February. In May, notices
were sent to 6,000 retirees, but
several thousand of them with
claims dating back to March or
April were not notified,

Retirees who feel overpayments
(deduction) have been made

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

It Hurts

Editor, The Leader,

The enclosed piece, “How To
Hurt An Organization” could
certainly apply to CSEA mem-
bers, Maybe you'd like to reprint
it in some future Leader issue.
If you do, please give @ special
thanks to Prank Rafferty, board
chairman, American Legion Post
#89, Vestal, for transcribing the
piece.

tell them how things really
should be done.

7. Do no work if you can help
it, When the old reliables pitch
in, accuse them of being in the

10. Read mail only when you
feel like it, answer when you get
damn good and ready.

CHARLES McGEARY

CSEA Public Relations Associate

Syracuse

Women's Movement

areas now being affected by the
Woman's Movement which are
not considered often enough,
‘The Woman's Movement for
equality—or equa] opportunities
—has often moved along with
considerable enthusiasm but
without much wisdom,

As I always saw the matter,
women are often born with, or
often acquire, certain talents
and/or skills with which they
may earn @ living. They need
not necessarily be arbitrarily

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As a public service, The Leader
continues to publish the names
of individuals who are benefici-
aries of unclaimed checks from
the New York State Employees’
Retirement System and the State
Policemen’s and Firemen’s Pund.
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for information as to how to
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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, September 2, 1977

State's Plan Central Topic At MHEA Meeting

By KENNETH SCHEPT

ORISKANY—The reorganization of the state’s Mental Hygiene program and problems
of expanding membership were the main topics of discussion at the annual meeting of the
Mental Hygiene Employees Assn. held earlier this summer at the Trinkhaus Manor here.

MHEA ‘president Irene Hillis, of Willowbrook Developmental Center, conducted the

business meetings which were
highlighted with the distribution
of the Mental Hygene White
Paper of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. The MHEA con-
tributed about $5,000 to the
publication of that report, a
critical evaluation of planned
changes in the state’s Mental
Hygiene program.

Eileen Cole, MHEA second
vice-president, from Craig De-
velopmental Center, suggested

that the membership actively

Maye Bull, of Gowanda Psychi-
atric, spoke forcefully about the
problems of expanding the
MHEA membership. The organi-
sation’s president, Irene Hillis,
suggested that members publii-
cize the group's financial port

of the CSEA White Paper on
Mental Hygiene.

Several members of the MHEA met over lunch to discuss plans for improving the
organization's newsletter. From left are MHEA public relations head Audrey Snyder,
from Hutchings Psychiatric; second vice-president Elleen Cole, from Craig Develop-
mental, who distributed copies of a statement opposing Mental Hygiene reorganization
which had been distributed at Craig, and Barney Pendola, from Kings Park.

publicize what were seen as the
negative consequences of the
Governor's Mental Hygiene plan.
She cited statements published
by members of the Craig CSEA
Local.

One statement read in part:
“If a resident can function and
take care of himself in the com-
munity . we are totally in
favor of such a placement .. .
but, on the other hand, if a
resident is placed into a com-
munity setting that he or she
can't cope with’... this is un-
just and inhumane treatment.”

CSEA collective bargaining
specialist Robert Guild discussed
the possibility of slowing down
the transfer of patients from
the institutions to the commu-
nity. He, too, expressed concern
that patients might not receive
proper care.

Mr, Guild answered questions
about the $5 million reallocation
fund contained in the union con-
fact. He suggested that mem-
bers make known what adjust-
ments are deemed necessary.
Nursing service in New York City
was specifically mentioned as a
Possible recipient of money to
upgrade salaries.

Among other questions dis-
cussed was the accountability of
working time for professional as
well as non-professional staff.
Some professionals, it was
charged; abuse their flexible
lunch periods and starting times,
while non-professionals are pe-
nalized for minor tardiness.

Manhattan PC

(Continued from Page 3)
funds for the facility. The local
is meeting with parents organi-
zations, political figures, the
American Civil Liberties Union,
and other concerned community
groups to forge an effective al-
Nance.

“We'll see how the state re-
sponds to our contract griev-
ances,” Mr, Colson remarked.
“If we don't get what we con-
sider adequate relief quickly, we
have other alternative measures.
We mean business.”

Nicholas Puzziferri, of Rockland Psychiatric, and Joseph Umstetter,
of Utica Psychiatric, listen to CSEA collective bargaining specialist
Robert Guild discussing the effects of the Governor's Mental Hygiene
reorganization plan. “We may lose jobs,” Mr. Guild said. “But worse,
patients will not receive the care to which they're entitled.”

Conducting the meeting of the Mental Hygiene Employees Assn. are
four of the officers, from left: second vice-president Eileen Cole, from
Craig Developmental; first vice-president Richard Snyder, from
Wassalc Developmental, and secretary-treasurer Edna Aponte, also
from Willowbrook. Other officers are third vice-president Sal Butero,
from Psychiatric Institute, and fourth vice-president Carl Garrand,
from Wassaic.

Conferring during meeting are, from left, Josephine Pfeifer, Hudson River Psychiatric;
Marie Donaldson, retired from Newark Developmental; Dorris Pierrepont, retired
from Marcy Psychiatric, and Rebella Eufemio, Rockland Psychiatric, who suggested
that the members contact legislators and discuss the recommendations of the CSEA
Mental Hygiene White Paper.

Offer Hypertension Control Program

MANHATTAN — Workers in the state's De-
partment of Mental Hygiene have been invited
to participate in a Hypertension Control Pro-
gram being conducted by Leslie Baer, an asso-
ciate professor of medicine at Columbia Univer-
sity.

Free hypertension detection centers will be
set up at many work locations throughout the
state, Dr. Baer said. He urged participation,
calling hypertension a major risk factor for
stroke, heart and kidney disease, “a silent killer
with few or no symptoms.”

According to, Dr. Baer, the condition can. be

easily detected by repeated blood pressure de-
terminations and effective treatment is avall-
able, ’

Civil Service Employees Assn. president Wil-
Mam McGowan called the program an important
preventive health care tool and urged members
to participate. Commissioner of Mental Hygiene
Lawrence C. Kolb also announced his support.

Dr. Baer cited the following as the program's
goals:

—to evaluate resources within a large New

York State agency for onsite detection, fol-

low-up and
employees
—to educate medical and paramedical per-
sonnel at New York State Mental Hygiene
facilities in techniques of hypertension
detection and follow-up of employees with-
in their institutions
—to establish an onsite nurse-practitioner
and physician-supervised hypertension
treatment program.
A schedule of times and places where the de-
tection service will be available will be pub-
lished in a future issue of the Leader.

treatment of hypertensive

WILLIAM DECK
. . . State Division Chairman

By MARVIN BAXLEY

ALBANY—At the first meeting of the Civil Service
Employees Assn.'s State and County Executive Com-
mittees following the statewide elections, new chair-
men were elected.

Heading the State Executive Committee is William
Deck, of Marcy Psychiatric Center Local 414, with
Patricia Crandall, of SUC-Cortland Local 605, as vice-
chairman.

Chairing the County Executive Committee is Joseph
Lazarony, of Rensselaer Local 842, with Mary Sullivan,
of Herkimer Local 822, as vice-chairman,

‘These positions rank just below the 10 statewide

PATRICIA CRANDALL
.»» State Vice-Chairman

New Leaders
Of CSEA’s
State, County
Divisions

officers in importance since they are, in effect, the
chairmanships of the two major legislative bodies of
the statewide Association.

The State Executive Committee and the County
Executive, in combination with the 10 statewide offi-
cers and the 11 appointed standing committee chair-
men, comprise the Board of Directors,

‘The chairmen preside at meetings of the Executive
Committees as well as State and County Division dele-
gates meetings and general workshops sponsored for
general membership of the respective Divisions.

Although the four chairmen are not elected by the
general membership, they are elected to their respec-
tive executive committees: as departmental repre-

JOSEPH LAZARONY
. .« County Division Chairman

MARY SULLIVAN
. «+ County Vice-Chairman

sentatives for the State Executive Committee and as
local county or regionwide education chapter repre-
sentatives for the County Executive Committee

Mr. Deck ts serving his third term as a Mental Hy-
giene representative for Central Region V, and Ms.
Crandall is beginning her second term as a University
representative,

Mr. Lazarony has made a dramatic comeback as
County Executive Committee chairman, a position
he held three years ago until he lost his local election,
and, consequently, the chairmanship, Ms. Sullivan, on
the other hand, is a relative newcomer to the union's
top ranks, having recently been re-elected to the
County Executive Committee.

Too Many Management Cars
In Empire Plaza Lot: CSEA

ALBANY—The Civil Service Employees Assn. and the
Office of General Services for the State aré currently in-
volved in talks stemming from the CSEA’s allegation that
management is taking more parking spaces than it is en-

titled to in the Empire State
Plaza.
According to Ernst Stroebel,

CSEAer’s Daughter
Earns Scholarship

WATERTOWN — Donna Saur
is winner of the Fannie Smith
Scholarship award given an-
nually by Jefferson Local 823 of
the Civil Service Employees
Assn. It is valued at $150 for each
of two years,

A June graduate of South Jef-
ferson Central School, she plans
to enter Jefferson Community
College in September, The award
is given to the son or daughter of
a CSEA member. Her parents are
Donald and Phyllis Saur, the
latter being a CSEA member of
‘the South Jefferson Central
School unit.

There were nine eligible can-
didates, the winner selected by a
panel comprising the Rev. John
Demos, St. Vasilious Greek Or-
thodox Church; former Water-
town Mayor Theodore Rand and
Mrs, Harold Walker. The schol-
arship committee was comprised
of Grace Londraville, chairman;
Eleanor Howland; Angeline Dus-
ckas, and Jean Butterfield.

Interviewers

ALBANY — The State Civil
Service Department established
an eligible list for Employment
Interviewer on Aug. 9 as the
result of a Sept, 16, 1976, open
competitive exam. The list con-
tains 154 names,

president of the Laboratories and
Research Local, a meeting was
held early in June, at which sev-
eral questions were raised by the
CSEA concerning a 1973 Letter
of Agreement, which set up a
ratio to determine the number
of parking spaces to be allotted
to employees and management.

At the June meeting, the OGS
agreed to supply a list detailing
the number of employees in each
agency, the number of available
spaces and their location, the
ratio of employees to manage-
ment, the number of permits
sold each month and the names
presently on a waiting list for
spaces.

‘The ratio set forth in the Let-
ter of Agreement designates a
total of 6,000 spaces to the em-
ployees and 2,000 to management.
Of the 2,000 allowed for man-
agement, some are to be held for
visitors and the handicapped.

Speaking for his agency, Mr.
Stroebel said, “I know who
should have spots and how
many we are currently using
This number is not in keeping
with the ratio. Aad many em-
ployee spots are being given to
visitors and the handicapped.”
He added that since the con-
struction workers have left the
mall, there should be even more
spaces available.

Joseph Reedy, collective bar-
gaining specialist, aiding Mr.
Stroebel at the meeting, com-
mented, “Parking is a very spe-
ela) situation; maintaining con-
stant surveillance is difficult for
both the CSEA and OGS.”" The
OGS5, he added, has complained
of employees who transfer and
do not cancel out spaces or who
falsify applications to obtain
spaces for those who do rot

Rensselaer

Aides Lose
Bonus Fight

TROY—The Appellate Division
of State Supreme Court recently
overturned a Rensselaer County
supreme Court ruling in favor
of the Rensselaer unit of the
Civil Service EmPloyees Assn.,
ordering the county to acknowl-
edge a grievance filed by CSEA
requesting back payment of the
$250 bonus to employees who re-
signed as of July 1

According to Sue Ernst, unit

president, the county ts refusing
to pay these employees, although
they were employed at the time
the Rensselaer County Legisla-
ture imposed the one-year con-
tract containing the bonus.

‘The unit is scheduled to begin
negotiations this month for a
1978-80 contract.

Act To Settle
Four Disputes

ALBANY — The state Public
Employment Relations Board
(PERB) has appointed a media-
tor and three fact-finders to

settle disputes between the Civil
Service Employees Assn. and sev-
eral municipalities.

Mediator Eric Lawson Jr. of
Buffalo was named to the dis-
pute between Alleghany Central
School District and non-teaching
workers represented by CSEA.

‘The fact-finders are William
Curtis of Yonkers who is as-
signed to the dispute with the
Town of Greenburgh and town
employees, Thomas Helfrich of
Schenectady, assigned to the dis-
pute between the Niskayuna
Public Schools and school em-
ployees, and Susan Mackenzie of
New York City, assigned to the
Village of Sea Cliff—village em-
ployees dispute.

LITTLE THINGS ARE IMPORTANT, TOO
Salary increases, pension benefits and grievance procedures are all vitally important matters to be re-
solved in contract negotiations, but sometimes incidentals can have a big effect on employees’ morale,
too, This group here seems pleased about the new coffee urn and other items they now have as the result
of an allocation for improvement in working conditions as part of Article 22.6 of the Institutional Ser-
vices Unit contract, Smiling garage workers at St. Lawrence Puychiatric Center, represented by Civil
Service Employees Assn. Local 432, are, from left, Pete McLaughlin, William Hersog, Howard Richards,
William Kroeger and £¢ Bush, with assistant business officer Mary Riccobono, business officer Thomas
Murphy and maintenance supervisor Irving Robinson.

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, September 2, 1977

EXAM 36025
BRIDGE REPAIR SUPVR 2

Son Of Sam

(Continued from Page 5)

County Hospital, Brooklyn.

Nicholas Abbatiello, president
of the CSEA Nassau County Lo-
cal, announced his union's re-
ward before Berkowitz was ar-
rested. He noted that civil
service workers, along with other
citizens, should do everything
“possible to stop the killer.

Janitor Listing

ALBANY — The State Civil
Service Department established
an eligible list for Spvg. Janitor
on Aug. 11, 1977, as the result
of a March 19, 1977, open com-
petitive exam. The list contains
136 names.

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Civil Service Employees Assn, members meet their state senator at recent political meeting at Rainbow
@ Grill in New York City. He's State Senator Joseph Pisani of New Rochelle, second from right. The
meeting was arranged :to ‘help him raise funds for race for statewide office next year. He may run

for attorney general of

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CSEA Southern Region president James Lennon; Eleanor McDonald and Pug Lanza, of CSEA'’s West-
chester Local 860, and Pat Mascioli, the union's Southern Region political action chairman.

Judge Rules

Union Must Represent Both Sides

@ ‘the case was one fever
before brought into a state
court and it went right to the
heart of a public employee
union's obligations to its mem-
bership.

Simply put, must a union pro-
vide a lawyer to a member facing
Joss of a job in a lawsuit brought
by a fellow member who 1s al-
ready being represented by the

e union's official counsel?

The delicate question was an-
swered in Nassau Supreme Court
this month when a judge or-
dered the East Meadow Teachers
Association to either provide an
“independent” lawyer to repre-
sent the challenged teacher or
else pay his legal fees if he re-
tains his own lawyer.

If the union did neither, Judge
Douglas F. Young ruled, then the
union lawyer already represent~

ing the teacher would have to
be removed from the case.

The dispute between the two
teachers involved a tenure issue.
Sharon Jacobs brought a lawsuit
after her job was abolished last
year by the East Meadow Board
of Education, claiming she had
more seniority than Paul Dreska,
who was kept on the payroll,
Since Ms. Jacobs belonged to
both the East Meadow Teachers
Association and the New York
State United Teachers, she got
as her lawyer the general counsel
for NYSUT.

Mr. Dreska, who automatically
became involved in the case be-
cause his job was at stake,
brought his own lawsuit to dis-
qualify Ms. Jacobs’ lawyer or
have the union provide him with
his own lawyer. As he told Judge
Young, “A labor organization to
which he pays dues should not
champion the cause of a fellow
teacher who seeks to be rein-
stated to her position at his ex-
pense.”

Judge Young summed up Mr.
Dreska’s argument this way,
“NYSUT should not favor one
member over another.”

‘The judge, in ruling that the
issues had never before been
raised in court, rejected the
NYSUT lawyer's claim that the
union was under no “contrac-
tural obligation” to provide Mr.
Dreska with legal assistance.

“It seems incongruous,” he
said, “for a union to sponsor or
to support the attack of one
member against the job security
of another member in what can
be termed a ‘one-on-one’ dis-
pute. I believe this issue involves
considerations of public policy.
If this conduct is permissible and
becomes a regular practice, it
holds the possibility of « prolif-
eration of lawsuits sponsored by
the union on behalf of some of
its members against the other
members. This could ‘lead to

_#rious intra-union’ dissension
and fragmentation of the union.”

unlon member not only finding
himself out in the cold as far
as legal assistance goes, but
seeing “the power of the union”
supMicting. af oRponanty “Wn. &
crualal, aantest {¢2 Gob. survival."

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Name Group To Review Retiree Complaints

NEWBURGH — A better
deal for the retirees, the
people who faithfully serve
the Civil Service Employees
Assn., was asked for by George
Celentano, Westchester-Rockland
Retirees president at a special
meeting of the Southern Region
III executive committee at the
Holiday Inn recently.

“We don’t get enough recogni-
tion on the Board of Directors;
we don't get any part at the
state convention; we don't have
the right to vote for state offi-
cers; we don't get any publicity
from CSEA and we are not even
mentioned in the Bylaws,” was
the complaint voiced by Mr. Ce-
Jentano.

Southern Region president
James Lennon said the com-
plaints should be looked into. He
appointed Mr. Celentano, John
VanDuzer, Orange-Ulster-Sulli-
van Retirees Local 917 president,
and Tris Schwarts, Dutchess-
Putnam Retirees Local 909 pres-
ident, as a committee to meet
before the October convention
with Nellie Davis, statewide re-

morning at the October conven-
tion. He also urges that letters be
sent out to the Governor and
the Legislature on the high cost
of lving and that negotlations
be undertaken to continue health
insurance for the spouses of re-
tired public employees. Retirees
average about $4,500 a year on
their pensions and if a retiree
dies, his or her spouse is given
31 days to get costly private in-
surance.

Retirees pay $4.80 a year in

DOROTHY KOTHEN RETIRES

A retirement dinner in honor of Civil Service Employees Assn. mem-
ber Dorothy Kothen was held recently at the Cavalier Restaurant,
Amherst. Ms, Kothen, a veteran employee of 36 years with the
Ubraries, has served an unprecedented five terms as president of
the Library unit, which she helped organize in 1968 with the assist-
ance of Robert Dobstaff and Eulis Cathey, Ms. Kothen also held the
position of fifth vice-president of CSEA Local 815 since 1970, serving
for seven years under the administrations of George Clark and
Victor Marr. Maggie McNeela, vice-president of the Library unit,
will now become president of this unit. From left are Mr. Marr, Local
815 past president; John P. Eiss, current president; Ms, Kothen, and
Mr. Clark, County representative to CSEA Board of Directors,

dues and can’t vote in CSEA
elections. Mr. Celentano pays the
full $58.50 in dues even though
he is retired. He believes that all
retirees should have the right to
vote in the elections without pay-
ing the full dues.

He also claimed that only
11 people in the state CSEA get
the right to select the statewide
retiree chairman and vice-chair-
man and he believes this priv-
flege should be given to all the
retirees.

‘The Westchester-Rockland Re-
tiree Local has encouraged Rep.
Benjamin Gilman (R-26th Dis-
trict) to introduce a bill in Con-
gress to set a $5,000 income tax
exemption for all people receiv-
ing pensions, “The retirees wield
‘® lot of political clout and can
do a lot for-CSEA,” he said.

In other action, Region presi-
dent Lennon said he and Long
Island Region president Irving
Flamenbaum are going to be
honored by the Federation of
Ttalian-American Democratic Or-
ganizations in New York City on
August 31.

A tenative calendar for 1977-78
for the Southern Region was an-
nounced at the meeting. It in-
cludes the following dates: Sept.
28, a delegates meeting: a work-
shop at the end of October; Nov.
16, @ regional officers meeting;
Dec. 16, a Christmas party; Jan.
11, officers meeting in Fishkill;
Jan. 25, Regional officers meet-

Hold Fed. Retiree
Meeting Sept. 21

MANHATTAN—The next reg-
ular meeting of Manhattan Local
23, National Assn. of Retired
Federal Employees will be held
on Sept. 21, at 1:30 p.m. at the
McBurney YMCA, West 23 St.
between Seventh and Eighth
Avenues.

Feature of the meeting, as an-
nounced by President Charles
Sullo, will be a talk by Debbie
Carter, field representative of
Social Security, who will speak
and answer questions regarding
retired federal employees.

Members and other retired
federal employees are invited to
attend.

PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE HONORS RETIREES
The New York State Psychiatric Institute Local of the Civil Service Employees Assn. recently honored
two of its members who retired after many years of service, From the left are: Donald Dillon, who pre-
sented the retirees with gifts; H. Donald Dunton, who retired after 19 years; his wife, Bunny Dunten;
Vivienne Cole, with 36 years of service, and Arthur Cole, her husband. At right is Salvatore Butero, Lo-

cal pecqident. The presentations were made during

(hhew Ad eet

ing; March 15, regional meeting,
April 12, 19, regional meetings.
‘The regional meetings will be
held in different counties, ac-
cording to which Locals want to
act as hosts, Mr. Lennon said.
Mr, VanDuzer introduced a
letter from Congressman Gilman
into the minutes in which the
Congressman condemned Gov.
Hugh Carey's plan to drastically
change the State Mental Hygiene
Department, “I share your con-

corn over Gov. Carey's plan and®
1 am writing him to express my
opposition. This seems to me to
be yet another hasty decision
which will inevitably harm both
patients and doctors and at a
time when the health field can-
not sustain further tampering
and major shifts of emphasis.
I believe the Governor's decision
is poorly thought out and ill-
planned,” Congressman Gilman
said. a

HONOR SUNY PLATTSBURGH RETIREES
Retirees of Local 612 SUNY Plattsburgh of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. were recently honored at a banquet. From left are
Ernie Wood, Bill Campbell, Roma Noel and Maynard Beauvais.

FUTSCHER RETIRES
A retirement party was held re-
cently to honor Dorothy M.
served over 43
years as an employee of New

York State, She was with the
Department of State Liquor
Authority when she retired on
July 20, 1977. Ms, Futscher has
served as an officer of the Civil
Service Employees Assn. in the
Albany office of the State Liquor
Authority,

Fewer Jobless

ALBANY—Industrial Commis-
sioner Philip Ross, head of the
State Department of Labor, says
469,214 persons claimed unem-
ployment benefits under four
Separate programs in the State
the week ending August 12,
There were 471,165 claims the
previous week. The decline was
caused mainly by claimants re-
turning to work in the New York

Catskill Retirees®
Meeting Sept. 14

MIDDLETOWN — There will
be a meeting of the Orange, Ul-
ster, and Sullivan Counties Re-
tirees Local 917 of the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn. at 2 p.m.,
on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at the
Kiner Building, Middletown, Lo-
cal president John M. Van Duzer
announced recently.

He expressed his appreciation
to those who supported the 14
percent pension increase recently
won for retirees who left state
service before April 1, 1969.

“It ts the kind of accomplish-
ment which should encourage re-
tirees to join the CSEA if they
are not members already,” Mr,
Van Duzer said.

Honor Morrisville®
Retiree, Noble

MORRISVILLE — Doris Noble,
vice-president of the Morrisville
Local of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. was recently hon-
ored by friends, co-workers, and
officers at a retirement luncheon
celebrating her nine years work-
ing at SUNY Morrisville and
actively participating in union
activities.

Nassau Retirees

MINEOLA — There will be @
meeting of the Nassau County
Retirees Local of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. on Aug. 31 at
11 a.m, in the American Savings
Bank, Modell's Shopping Center,
Hempstead Turnpike, East Mead-
ow

Meetings are held the last
Wednesday of oy? month.
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commission regional

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Sterio Lorraine Syracuse
Valenta Linda E Vestal
Massar Frances Dannemora
Hoke Jeannette Garnerville
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Berliner Ellen Brooklyn

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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 8t., New
York 10013, open weekdays be-
tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m, Special
hours for Thursdays are 8:30
am. to 4 p.m,

Those requesting applications
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.

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

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own recruiting and hiring. They
include: Board of Education

(teachers only), 65 Court St.
Brooklyn 11201, phone: 596-
8060.

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plicants to contact the individ-
ual schools; non-faculty jobs are
filled through the Personnel De-
partment directly

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 am.-3pic.); State

Building Campus, Albany 12239;
Suite 750, 1 W. Genesee St.,
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.

Por 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 6:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays only.
Telephone 264-0422.

Federal entrants living upstate
(North of Dutchess County)
should contact the Syracuse Area
Office, 301 Erie Blvd. West,

Syracuse 13202, Toll-free calls
may be made to (800) 522-1407,
Federal titles have no deadline
unless otherwise indicated,

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RVICE LEADER, Friday, September 2, 1977

CIVIL SE

Monroe Strike Over Quickly, Successfully

(Continued from Page 1)
layoffs but agreed that there will
be none in 1977 or 1978. The
CSEA conceded that if it's shown
county expenses must be reduced,
jobs can be cut by abolition of
job titles. But layoffs must be
based on seniority and anyone
laid off will be eligible for un-
employment insurance. The
county cannot select specific em-
ployees to be “furloughed” for a
day or two. Under those condi-
tions, laid-off employees would
be ineligible for jobless pay. Mr.
Koenig said he feels no layoffs
or furloughs can be ordered for
the length of the contract.

® Agency shop — CSEA and
county will reopen negotiations
within 30 days after new con-
tract is signed. CSEA wants the
right to collect a dues equivalent
from employees who have not
joined CSEA but benefit from
the union's activities.

* Union business — The Local
president is permitted to spend
three hours a day on CSEA busi-
ness and still receive full pay
from the county, Other CSEA
leaders are permitted to spend
& combined total of 1,950 hours
@ year on union business and
still receive full county pay.
Starting next Jan. 1, CSEA will
repay the county for any salary
the Local president receives for
union work exceeding three
hours daily. The county agreed
to drop disciplinary action
against Mr. Koenig, who was
charged with refusing to do any
work for the county for the past
two years as a senior probation
officer. Mr. Koenig agreed to
drop improper practices and
other charges against the coun-
ty.

* Mileage — County employ-
ees using their own cars on
county business will receive 16
instead of 15 cents per mile in
1978. In 1979 the rate will be-
come 17 cents a mile.

© Health insurance — If Blue
Cross and Blue Shield premiums
increase in 1978 and 1979, the

county will pay for all of the in-
creased costs.

© Time-and-a-half pay — This
will continue tq be paid, although
the county wanted to eliminate

Né
CSEA vice-president Robert Lat-
timer met with top county offi-
cials to help arrange quick settle-
ment of local strike,

® Work hours — Although
county wanted power to change
work hours during the workweek,
it will be unable to do so.

Negotiations began last Octo-
ber and about 15 mediation ses-
sions were held after the con-
tract expired Dec. 31.

The biggest factor precipitat-
ing the strike was the county's
rejection of the fact-finder’s re-
port, which CSEA members had

A secret ballot determined that the members of the Monroe County
CSEA Local would strike. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of
Job action.

Monroe County workers demonstrated at sites around the county during

voted unanimously to accept at
& meeting attended by 1,500 Lo-
cal members.

‘The fact-finder recommended
restoration of pay cuts, a 6 per-
cent pay increase over two years,
an agency shop, maternity leave
and other benefits.

CSEA members voted Aug. 17
to strike on Monday, Aug. 22.
Marathon negotiating sessions
lasted 14 hours from Sunday to
Monday and 27 hours from Tues-
day to Wednesday.

Robert Lattimer, a statewide
vice-president of the union and
the ranking officer in CSEA’s
Western Region VI, had hurried
to the scene when it was realized
that nearly 75 percent of the
Local membership had joined the
strike on Monday and Tuesday.
Mr. Lattimer joined the talks to
help bring an early settlement to
the dispute, and to restore ser-
vices that had disrupted services
throughout the county.

The settlement announcement
was made about 10 am. Wed-
nesday and pickets were pulled
off the lines immediately. Mr.
Koenig said he was attempting
to remove Wednesday from con-
sideration as a strike day because
most workers returned to work
most of that day.

“Members showed tremendous
courage, solidarity and cohesive-
ness in pulling this thing through
successfully,” Mr. Koenig said.
“They showed the county a
ministration and county legisla-
ture that we are a united group
and that we will stand up for
our rights should anything like
this reoccur.”

‘There were no serious inci-
dents or injuries during the
strike

Sign Johnson City
Schools Contract

JOHNSON CITY—A contract
between the Johnson City School
District and the Civil Service
Employees Assn., which repre-
sents 150 non-instructional em-
ployees, has been ratified, it was
announced by Jim Corcoran,
CSEA field representative and
negotiator for the employees.

The two-year contract, accept-
ed by the employees last month
and ratified by the School Board,
includes @ 7 percent pay raise
for the 1977-78 school year, with
@ 6% percent raise for the 1978-
79 school year. Dates for paid
holidays were changed, but no
new holidays were added or any
deleted.

the strike
leaders attributed the short duration the action, in part, to excellent participation
I this photo, picketers carry signs at the local alr port.

CSEA collective bargaining specialist Gary Johnson and Monroe
County Local president Martin Koenig address the membership re-
garding the issues separating the county and the union, at a meeting
held prior to the strike at the Auditorium Theater, Rochester.

Cortland’s Crandall
Wins 2 Grievances

CORTLAND—Ask Pat Crandall, executive vice-president
of Central Region V, SUNY-Cortland Local 605 president,
and a State University representative of the Civil Service

Employees Assn,’s Board of Di-
rectors, what good news CSEA
delivered lately, and you will
quickly get a smile and the tra-
ditional victory sign. It is her
way of saying she was recently
notified of two favorable Step
Three grievance decisions from
SUNY officials in Albany. Ms.
Crandall’s grievances included a
charge of management harass-
ment and another involving ad-
ditional pay for out-of-title work

Regarding the harassment
grievance, Ms. Crandall conten-
ded her many CSEA responsi-
bilities required absences from
her work station as an DMT,
8G-4 in an office where she was
the only secretary. Written and
verbal harassment by faculty
members and others prompted
the grievance action. In the de-
cision the reviewer stated .. .
“when possible, grievant should
be transferred to a multiple-
person office. Meanwhile, the of-
fice supervisor should inform all
affected employees that grievant's
absences on CSEA business is
both appropriate and necessary.”

The second favorable decision
involved Ms. Crandall's tempor-
ary assignment to senior stenog-
rapher Jan. 10, 1977. Man-

agement contended that the De-
partment of Civil Service would
only allow payment for 60 days
in that position. The grievant
contended she should be paid for
the full period of time worked
since January. In part, the deci-
sion declared . “The Admin-
istration acknowledges that the
grievant is doing the work of
the incumbent of the position,
who is on leave. To the best of
this reviewer's knowledge, there
is no civil service law or rule
preventing the payment for out-
of-title work for more than 60
days, The college is hereby in-
structed to pay the grievant at
the senior stenographer rate for
the entire time she has filled the
duties of that position.”

“Naturally, I'm delighted with
the decisions,” Ms. Crandall said,
“the grievances were justified
and the decisions bear out the
charges, Once again we proved
the effectiveness of CSEA sup-
Port to its members,” she con-
cluded.

SUNY-Cortland employees are
represented by Terry Moxley,
CSEA Central Region V field
representative.

2-day strike,

SHERIFF'S DEPUTY DONATES $3,000
TO STRIKERS

‘The first donor to a Monroe County striking workers wel-
fare fund came forward on the very first day of the successful

Herman F. Hartman, « sheriff's deputy assigned to the
courts, reached into the savings account he started three years
ago for a trip to Australia and New Zealand and handed a
$3,000 cashier's check to picket captain Robert Trimmer of
the county probation department, “He handed
left, Mr, Trimmer said, “I looked at it and saw the dollar
amount—I was shocked. By the time I looked uw

Word of the unsolicited donation from Mr, Hartman spread
throughout the more than 30 picket sites and served to harden
the strikers determination, “I've been a strong union man since
before World War Il,” explained Mr. Hartman, and that was
his way of showing “solidarity” with the strikers even though
his department was not involved, he said.

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