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ALBANY — CSEA President William L. | McGowan said. “It’s a tragedy that every time _ effect, CSEA filed an Improper Practice
McGowan has urged state officials to expedite something like this comes up, invariably all state : Charge under ifs provisions against
action against any state workers who may have employees suffer a stigma for the actions of a ‘Niagara County. The union charged the ~
misused state vehicles and/or credit cards, but few.” county with altering the terms of the
at the same time said action must also be taken CSEA represents some 107,000 state workers in collective bargaining agreement which had
against “incompetent state managers” who blue collar, administrative and institutional _ expired Dec. 31. (See related story page 8).
have allowed the alleged practice to take place. _areas. The majority of CSEA members have no “Niagara County’s action, knowing that
McGowan made his comments in the wake of — access to state vehicles or credit cards, this legislation had been passed and signed,
published reports earlier this month of a state in- © McGowan said, “But anyone, no matter how was clearly outrageous,”’ Wiley
e vestigation into allegations that an unspecified high up they are, who is involved in improper commented. “This wasn’t the first time a
number of individuals allegedly used state conduct should face the music, including the in- public employer had acted in such a high-
vehicles for private purposes and misused state ept managers who allowed this kind of situation handed fashion, but now the new
credit cards. to exist. Triborough law should help put.a curb on
McGowan’s call for action came, he said, “Tf the state is anxious to take action against this End of aera behavior.” a 4
because he is “‘sick and tired of seeing all state the relatively few employees who misused state -
employees tagged for the alleged activities of an vehicles and credit cards, then I say fine,”
unspecified number of unidentified individuals. McGowan continued. ‘‘But while they are in-
“CSEA is no apologist for anyone who commits ‘vestigating, they should also find out the so- as
a crime,” he said, ‘“‘and the overwhelming ma- called ‘managers’ who allowed this situation to L | k =
e jority of state workers are as incensed about the exist, and severe steps should be taken against aw Cc er Ss In
misuse of public funds as any other state tax- them too. =
payers would be. These people don’t deserve to “T’ve had it with people holding press con- > line for CSE A
be painted with the same brush as people who ferences to explain that ‘state employees’ do this
are involved in misconduct simply because they or ‘state employees’ do that, when individuals
happen to work for the State of New York. are never identified, the incompetent managers
“There are about 250,000 people who work for who allow improper conduct are never iden-
the State of New York, and the vast majority of tified, and, to the best of our knowledge, not a
them are decent, honest, hard-working people,” (Continued on Page 14)
representation
ALBANY — Law clerks’ and legal
assistants’ eligibility for CSEA
representation is no longer in question, now
that the deadline for the State to appeal a
court decision has passed.
After several legal exchanges, including
two PERB rulings favorable to CSEA, a
state Supreme Court justice ruled last May
that the Office of Court Administration
(OCA) employees could be part of CSEA.
Although CSEA attorneys had
anticipated an appeal by the State,
expiration of the appeal deadline makes it
unlikely that any further legal action will
take place, according to CSEA attorney
Stephen J. Wiley.
The question of the employees’
representation status was first raised two
years ago when OCA petitioned PERB to
make the positions managerial/confi-
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@ YOUR VOTE SEPTEMBER 23
‘m voting for
Mario Cuomo
President’s you should
Message do likewise
Fraternally,
It’s time for the people who want a better New York to
either put up or shut up. That includes public employees and it
includes you and me.
Just over a month from now, the Democratic party will
choose its candidate for governor in the November election.
You may not know it, you may not even care, but you have a lot
riding on the outcome of that primary. If it doesn’t go your way,
you’ll have no one to blame but yourself, particularly if you
haven’t done anything to have a say in the outcome.
CSEA isn’t about to wait and see what happens in this
primary. For the first time in 72 years we have endorsed a
primary candidate: Mario Cuomo. We need a governor like
Mario Cuomo and right now he needs you if he is to become our
governor.
If you’re a registered Democrat, eligible to vote in the
Sept. 23 primary, you can play a critical role in this election. I
urge you to cast your vote for Mario Cuomo. This race will be
very close and your vote will count.
Even if you’re not a Democrat, you can help by supporting
the Cuomo campaign. A contribution in any amount, a few
hours of your time as a campaign volunteer, or even some
personal lobbying with friends and relatives for support could
be your way of having a voice in the outcome of this election.
And it’s not hard to get involved. Elsewhere in this
newspaper you'll find information on how easy it is to get
involved. How you participate isn’t as important as whether or
not you do participate.
When this campaign started, the experts said Mario Cuomo
had no chance. He was 20 points behind in the polls and facinga
tough campaigner and his high-priced political brain trust. But
the latest poils show Mario Cuomo neck-and-neck with Mayor
Ed Koch. The people of New York have recognized the promise
of Mario Cuomo and they are responding.
But don’t kid yourself, Mario Cuomo needs your help. His
opponent has plenty of campaign contributions from New York
City’s real estate barons and other business interests. Ed Koch
is a talented politician and win or lose, he will remain the mayor
of the City of New York and most of his contributors are well
aware of that.
Koch plans to spend $3 million on this campaign. It’s not
hard to raise that kind of money with his kind of supporters.
Mario Cuomo can spend less than half that amount. He doesn’t
have giant business interests to fund his campaign. He’s
depending on individual New Yorkers, like you and me, to help.
If he is going to win, we have to pitch in and now.
Pease; — sTRPRUBHE FECTOR, Fri8
The choice between Cuomo and Koch is as clear to me as
the difference between the late President Kennedy and the
current President Reagan. On the one hand you have old-
fashioned democratic principles. On the other you have a
political opportunist who feeds on the fear of the middle-class
while enriching the wealthy and ignoring the disadvantaged.
As a public employee, you should remember that it was Ed
Koch who led the fight to stop reform of the ludicrous Tier III
retirement system. It was Ed Koch who introduced 26 bills in
the legislature that would gut civil service protections and
stiffen the Taylor Law. And it was Ed Koch who stood on the
bridges of New York to criticize transit workers after
contributing to the cause of their strike.
Mario Cuomo, in stark contrast, is a true advocate for
public employees. He is an able and gifted lieutenant governor
and was an enlightened secretary of state who treated state
workers with dignity and respect. A New York City resident and
political leader, he is also an articulate and experienced
defender of the needs of the rest of this state.
Mario Cuomo presided over the New York State Senate, the
rban Affairs Council and the Rural Affairs Council. He has
settled explosive neighborhood disputes in Forest Hills and
helped resolve treaty grievances of Mohawk Indians in the
Adirondacks. He is a former law professor, a one-time
professional athlete, and a dedicated family man. And he is
much, much more.
As for his understanding of the needs of working men and
women in New York, suffice to say that Mario Cuomo has won
the wholehearted endorsement of virtually every major labor
organization in this state, public or private.
Bill McGowan can’t tell anybody how to vote on election
day except Bill McGowan. All I can do, and all CSEA can do, is
to tell you how important this election is to you, your family
and your state, and to tell you why Mario Cuomo is the
candidate who deserves your support.
On Sept. 23, Bill McGowan will be voting for Mario Cuomo.
Between now and then, | will be redoubling my efforts to help
his campaign. I urge you to do the same.
You've got a lot riding on the outcome of this primary. If
you don’t do something now to support the candidate who will
support you, you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things
don’t turn out the way you want them to.
The choice is yours. So are the consequences.
MARIO CUOMO
—q friend of labor
GRACE PISANO
77 years young, and winning honors,
CDPC's Employee of the Year
is an ambitious, caring aide
at a Halfway House in Albany
ALBANY — Grace Pisano was recently honored
by the Capital District Psychiatric Center. .
Employee of the Year, selected among 609 enpotees
in nine counties. It is not an unusual honor, but what
makes this award special is that Pisano is 77 years-old
and this is her second career as a public employee.
“T love people,’”’ Pisano said in a strong voice.
“T’ve had a lot of experience in dealing with people
and I’m not afraid to show them love and care.”’
A former mental hygiene aide at the Middletown
Psychiatric Center in Orange County and an employee
of the state Health Department, Pisano finished her
first public employee career by retiring in 1965.
But the loss of her husband and a need to help
others brought Grace back to a second public
employee career at Jansen House in Albany, a
halfway house of the CDPC,
At first Pisano was a volunteer from the Retired
Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), but she kept
extending her hours until she was almost working a
full shift.
Sue Spade, director of the halfway house, asked
CDPC to employ the dedicated individual and Pisano
started her second public service career as a grade 4
ward aide.
“She worked herself right up the ranks,’’ CDPC
Local 692 President Hank Wagoner said. ‘“‘She’s a
grade 12 Halfway House aide who runs the place with
love.”
Wagoner piled praise after praise on the flustered
employee. “Make him stop.” Pisano said, ‘‘He’s
embarrassing me.”
The CDPC Local contributed half of the cost of the
plaque Pisano received, and Wagoner summed up
Pisano’s success.in three works, ‘‘she really cares.”
A CELEBRITY — CDPC’s Grace
Pisano is interviewed by an Albany
television station after being nam-
ed the center’s Employee of the
Year. This is Pisano’s second
career as a public employee.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION —
Local 692 President Hank
Wagoner, presenting Pisano with
flowers, praised the energetic
77-year-old as a worker who “runs
the place with love.”
New salary plan in store for Local 804
BINGHAMTON — Members of
the Broome County Unit of CSEA
Local 804 recently voted to accept
a tentative agreement to imple-
ment a new salary plan that
became effective August 1.
The new plan, which calls for an
additional $1.3 million to be
dispersed according to a new
salary structure, was accepted by
65 percent of the voting
membership.
According to James Corcoran,
CSEA field representative, the new
salary plan was a result of the
union’s request for an improved
salary study to be undertaken in
compliance with a re-opener clause
in the present contract.
Negotiations were reopened in
the spring of 1982.
“To recap the chain of events, we
began with the reopener request
May 5, and we reached the ten-
tative agreement June 17,”’ Cor-
coran said.
“The negot::ting team recom-
mended a plan in May, but it was
rejected by membership vote. We
returned to the negotiating table
May 27, and concluded negotiations
the first week in June. The vote to
accept the plan came two weeks
later (June 17),” Corcoran said.
“The main purpose of the im-
proved salary study, and eventual
working plan, was to make the
salaries of Broome County
employees comparable with other
counties of similar size and struc-
ture,” Corcoran said, adding that
“Management (Broome County)
has known for a long time that its
salary structure was antiquated
and responsible for a high
employee turnover rate and subse-
quent high costs for retraining new
employees. The salary study bore
out what they had suspected, so it
was a case of working out an
equitable new plan with the union
negotiating team, according to the
reopener clause in the present
contract.”
Corcoran further explained that
the new salary plan, which became
effective August 1, will bring
economic incentives for the first
five years, and will increase the
average minimum salary of county
employees by 20 percent.
Corcoran elaborated by saying
all employees will be placed on a
new five-step schedule which pro-
vides an additional $3,000 in salary
for select employees.
Employees in the bargaining unit
who have worked for the county
over 10 years will receive a one-
time longevity stipend as follows:
© 10-15 years-$300
° 15-19 years-$600
‘Management has known for a long time that its salary struc-
fas ees See ee eee re
nover rate ......’
20 years or more — $900
Those employees required to
work the 37% hour week beginning
January 1, 1983, and who are
presently earning more than the
new salary schedule allows, will
receive a minimum of $400 pay
increase.
The 40-hour work week will re-
main the same for employees at
the Broome County Airport,
Security, and two nursing homes.
All other departments will work an
extra half hour per day to reach the
37% hour work week beginning
January 1. The CSEA Broome Unit
represents approximately 1100
employees.
Corcoran praised the diligence
and sacrifice of the county
negotiating team which included:
Jack Haggerty, unit president and
chairman, Alene Beall, Roberta
Bidwell, Bob Shaller, Sharon
Black, Lorraine Zodosky, Del Run-
yon, Tom Campbell, and Dawn
Heath.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
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CSEA coalition schedules political meeting
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WAMPSVILLE — A Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn. coalition,
representing more than 800 state
and county employees in the
greater Madison County area, has
scheduled an open Political Action
Meeting for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
August 31, at Firemen’s Park, in
Wampsville.
According to Carol Riggall,
president of CSEA Local 827 and
spokesperson for the event, the ses-
sion is open to all members of
Madison County Local 827, Local
609 at SUNY Morrisville, and other
CSEA members. who live and vote
in the Madison County area.
Guest speaker at the meeting
will be Ramona Gallagher, CSEA
statewide training specialist, who
will discuss political action struc-
sake and its impact on the local
level.
“The public employees in
Madison County — both county and
state — have decided it was time to
join ranks and let our voices and
‘our. votes be heard regarding
issues of vital concern to our pre-
sent and future job security,” Rig-
gall said.
‘As concerned Madison County
taxpayers, we want to become
more active in the campaigns of
public officials who are aware of
the particular problems of public
employees. By joining ranks with
our brothers and sisters in state
service, we know. we can become
an important work force for
political candidates by offering
campaign manpower and possible
financial aid,” Riggall said.
Speaking for the newly organized
CSEA coalition, Riggall emphasiz-
ed the meeting is open to all state
and county employees represented
by CSEA who live and vote in
Madison County. =
Stabbing prompts Middletown pres.
to challenge staff cutbacks
MIDDLETOWN — Local 415 President Alex Hogg
is mad. He thinks impending staff cutbacks at Mid-
dletown Psychiatric Center are, ‘‘a damned
disgrace.” He fears the state is turning the clock
Local 415 President Alex Hogg
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
back to the time ‘‘where you had two people looking
after 70 to 80 patients.”
Hogg’s anger was recently triggered by the plight
of a 19-year old woman, from a neighboring com-
munity, who was robbed of $3 and stabbed
repeatedly with a 6-inch knife.
The woman was stabbed at least 16 times while in
the restroom of a Manhattan fast-food restaurant.
She was in the city for a job interview.
The assailant, later charged with robbery and at-
tempted murder, had a long record. And, he spent
three weeks in a ‘‘secure ward”’ at the psychiatric
center here before being discharged June 14.
The attempted murder took place three weeks
later.
Hogg is at a loss to understand why someone, who
had to be confined in a locked ward, is suddenly set
free. He believes it may be due to, ‘revolving door
psychiatry,”’ a mentality spawned by the pressure
of cutbacks to keep patient levels at a minimum. He
fears the loss of another 100 jobs here will make
matters worse and vows, “‘to let people know we’re
not sitting back.”
Meanwhile, the woman who was really victimiz-
ed by both an individual and a system is recovering,
but Hogg finds himself wondering if it could have
been avoided, “if we had sufficient staffing.”
Judiciary lag falls
under Administrative
It has been announced that the lag payroll
dates for the State’s judiciary employees
parallel those of the State’s Administrative
payroll. Following is the lag timetable for
judiciary members:
JUDICIARY and
ADMINISTRATIVE PAYROLL
If lag begins with 17th payroll period
which ends on November 17, 1982, pay dates
will be as follows:
No. of
Days Since
Pay Dates Last Payday
(Thurs.) Nov. 18, 1982 15
(Fri.)Dec. 3, 1982 15
(Mon. ) Dec. 20, 1982 17
(Tues.) Jan. 4, 1983 15
(Weds.) Jan. 19, 1983 15
(Thurs.) Feb. 3, 1983 15
(Fri.) Feb. 18, 1983 15
(Mon.)March 7, 1983 17
(Tues.)March 22, 1983 1b
(Weds. ) April 6, 1983 15
PS aac NG sae ge ce een seen eae a ee)
On March Ith of this year, the Civil Service Employees
Association broke a 72-year old silence in gubernatorial
elections by endorsing Mario Cuomo in a primary for
Governor.
Why?
Because never before have public employees had so
much to lose. And seldom before has a candidate with
such a fair and open attitude toward labor appeared on
the gubernatorial slate.
Let's look at his record and public employment.
Mario Cuomo has fought for organized labor throughout
his political career. Every one of his political campaigns
has been backed by labor. As Secretary of State for New
York he developed a trust and respect with his employees,
many of them CSEA members. On taking office, he
directed that a review of all positions and classifications be
undertaken. It resulted in more opportunities and more
promotions than ever before for workers in that depart-
ment.
Cuomo has made a major effort to recruit women to
professional positions. He has been a large supporter of
efforts in OSHA legislation. He was equally active in sup-
port of CSEA’s drive for better pension benefits. And
Mario Cuomo’s concern for the taxpayer dollar and his
performance in many years of public office aligns itself
with the interests of CSEA.
Why support a candidate in a primary?
First, the alternatives are dismal. Ed Koch is not a friend
of labor. His record with New York City employees is proof
enough.
O CUOMO
is a friend of labor.
What can you do?
Give your support when CSEA political activists call on
you to help. Find out more about the election and tell your
friends. And you can help by reaching into your pocket.
It’s not going to be easy to fight off the Koch mega-bucks
campaign, but if everyone gives something, we can defeat
the opposition and send Mario Cuomo to the Governor's
Office.
New York public employees will be able to breathe a lot
easier with an experienced, compassionate man in the
chief executive's office.
We need Mario Cuomo. Now.
Send to: Friends of Mario Cuomo
P.O. Box 7285 Capitol Station
Albany, New York 12224
Yes, | want to help Mario Cuomo.
Contact me to work on the Campaign.
Name
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Charles, the nightmare began on January 29
when the administration at Rockland
Psychiatric Center served her with notice of
discipline and told her, ‘‘You are suspended
without pay.’’ She was accused of physical abuse
of a patient, and the penalty sought was
termination.
But to Rockland Psychiatric Center CSEA
Local 421 President Eva Katz, the whole thing
just didn’t add up right. And because CSEA
came to her aid, Ethelina’s nightmare has a
pleasant ending — a finding of innocent and
reinstatement with full back pay and benefits.
Mrs. Katz explained the whole sequence of
events was bizarre. It began when an anonymous
note was slipped under the door of an
administrator’s office, The note made
accusations against Mrs. Charles and ended with
the perplexing statement, “I will not leave my
name because I am new but I will give my
version when asked.” Then, there were as many
variations of what happened as there were LOCAL 421 PRESIDENT Eva Katz — she came
witnesses. So the union granted legal assistance out fighting to save the job of Therapy Aide
and Attorney Martin Cornell took over. The Ethelina Charles, who was many, accused of
ORANGEBURG — For Therapy Aide Ethelina S
disciplinary charges were grieved and went patient abuse.
FLORIDA STATE
RETIREES MEET —
Florida State CSEA Local
950, comprised of former
CSEA members now living in
Florida, met recently.
Discussing items of mutual
interest are, from left, Lee
Smith, social chairman of
Local 950; Local 950 Presi-
dent Lou Colby; Sal Cassen-
tino, president of the Citrus
County Unit of Local 950, and
Unit First Vice President
Douglas Werkey. In photo
below are many of the
delegates who attended a re-
cent retirees’ conference con-
ducted by Local 950.
Page 6 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
directly to binding arbitration. Hearings were
One fact was undisputed. Patient F.S. did hit
ie Charles on the left side of her face with his
A state witness, in a written statement
prepared for her after the incident, stated, “F’.S.
hit (Mrs. Charles).” But under questioning, she
later admitted that she could not really tell
whether F.S. had actually struck the grievant.
The only thing that the two state witnesses were
consistent about (both had prepared statements)
was with regard to the allegations contained in
the notice of discipline. Three union witnesses
held to the contrary.
TAs Huntley Dwyer and Emmett Mimiasie
testified there was no patient abuse. Mrs.
Charles explained F.S. hit her ‘because she
would not let him have roast beef.” He had to eat
chopped beef instead because the meat was
tough, he had only three teeth, and had choked
on beef on a prior occasion. Moreover,
immediately after the incident a doctor
examined F.S. who complained, ‘‘my ribs hurt,”
but he could find ‘‘no tenderness, marks, bruises
or contusions.” The doctor concluded, “the rib
area he indicated as hurt showed no physical
evidence or injury requiring medical attention.”
On June 22, Arbitrator Fred Denson ruled,
“The grievant i is not guilty of the charges,” and
ordered her reinstated with back pay and
benefits.”
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Union to enforce
standby on-call
roster pay rule
ALBANY — “It’s important that our
Operational Services Unit members understand
that they do not have to standby for return to
duty unless they are listed on standby on-call
assignment rosters and compensated for being
on standby as now provided in the contract,”
stressed collective bargaining specialist Nels
Carlson.
He explained that the matter of standby on-call
rosters was forcefully dealt with in the 1982-85
OSU contract, and that CSEA intends to enforce
the provision.
“The point is that if management deprives you
of the right to go bowling or go to a basketball
game or whatever on your time off, they ought to
pay for the privilege,”’ he said.
Reprints of the exact language of the standby
on-call roster article (Article 26) of the
CSEA/State agreement for OSU are being
circulated throughout the unit, according to
Carlson. The article reads as follows:
§26.1 Employees who are required to be
available for immediate recall and who must be
prepared to return to duty within a limited
period of time shall be listed on standby on-call
assignment rosters. Assignments to such rosters
shall be equitably rotated, insofar as it is
possible to do so, among those employees
qualified and normally required to perform the
duties. The establishment of such rosters at a
facility shall be subject to the approval of the
department or agency involved and the Director
of the Budget.
“ §26.2 An employee who is eligible to earn
overtime shall not be required to remain
available for recall unless the employee’s name
appears on an approved recall roster. In the first
year of this Agreement, an employee shall be
paid an amount equal to 12% percent of the
employee’s daily rate of compensation for each
eight hours or part thereof the employee is
actually scheduled to remain and remains
available for recall pursuant to such roster. In
years two and three of this Agreement, the
amount an employee is paid for remaining
available as described above shall be increased
to 15 percent of the employee’s daily rate of
compensation. An employee who is actually
recalled to work will receive appropriate
overtime or recall compensation as provided by
law. Administration of such payment shall be in
accordance with rates established by the
Director of the Budget. The daily rate of
compensation shall be at the rate of one-tenth of
the bi-weekly rate of compensation and will
include geographic, locational, inconvenience
and shift pay as may be appropriate to the place
or hours normally worked. Only employees
eligible for on-call premium pay will be required
to be on call.
REACHING ACROSS THE BORDER —
CSEA Capital Region President Joseph E. McDermott,
right, an International Vice President. of AFSCME, chats with Dennis McDermott, president of the
Canadian Labour Congress, during a recent meeting of the National Union of Provincial Government
Employees, a Canadian public employee union. CSEA’s Mr. McDermott attended as a fraternal
representative of AFSCME. The CLC’s Mr. McDermott delivered a keynote political address to the con-
vention as the head of the Canadian equivalent of the AFL-CIO. The CSEA vice president noted the
similarities in problems confronting public employees in the two nations. For example, one of the main
topics of discussion at the convention was fighting political attempts to make public employees the
scapegoats for failed economic policies.
Seniority prevails in Suffolk job case
SUFFOLK COUNTY — Edward Collins got the
job promotion he applied for, plus back pay, with
the help of CSHA’s Legal Assistance program.
The CSEA member had applied for the position
of Maintenance Mechanic IlI-Painter in Suffolk
County after having worked in a lower grade for
six years. He lost the job to a fellow employee
with less seniority.
CSEA challenged the appointment, and the ar-
bitrator found that Collins should not have been
passed over for the promotion. While the county
had said that Collins’ competitor was more
qualified, the arbitrator insisted, ‘‘It is clear that
Mr. Collins’ qualifications were at least equal to
those of’’ the man who had first been awarded
the job.
In denying Collins the promotion, the county
also cited an incident involving Collins, for which
it had never filed any charges.
“Nothing was proven against Collins, and
there weren’t any charges. So what the county’s
objections amounted to were basically hearsay,”
said Lester Lipkind, the attorney assigned by the
union’s legal assistance program.
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982 Page 7
IMPOSED CONTRACT ‘SHAMEFUL’
Pitting economic pressure against
Niagara’s ‘stone age’ labor tactics
By Ron Wofford
CSEA Communications Associate
LOCKPORT — The heavy hand of
an imposed contract has been forced
on the 865-member white collar unit of
CSEA Niagara County Local 832,
culminating 14 months of futile
attempts by the unit to reach a
negotiated settlement with Niagara
County.
“Shameful, unconscionable, union-
busting,’ were terms used by union
leaders and members in describing
the Niagara County Legislature’s
actions that meted out a 4 percent pay
increase and ‘‘gutted the contract,” in
the words of Region VI Director Lee
Frank.
“Our negotiating committee
members have been subjected to 14
months of stress — for what,? said
Unit President Teresa McEvoy, who
also served on the negotiating
committee.
“Lincoln signed the emancipation
proclamation in the 1860’s, but the
word obviously hasn’t reached
Niagara County yet,” she continued,
in referring to sections of the imposed
contract that deletes the county
requirement to notify the union of
changes in work hours or the work
week, and eliminates overtime pay
for work on weekends and holidays.
Under the forced contract, holidays
and weekends will be considered
normal work days and department
heads may schedule work weeks and
hours to suit department needs.
Employees scheduled to work
holidays will receive only a
compensatory day off.
Agency shop provisions have been
stripped from the previous contract,
and employees hired after Sept. 1 will
be required to pay half the cost of
Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage.
The county also relieved itself of
providing medical coverage for an
employee who is covered elsewhere,
such as under a spouse’s medical
insurance plan.
“There was no collective
bargaining on the part of Niagara
County right from the start,’’
declared Region VI President Robert
L. Lattimer.
“Our unit’s negotiating team tried
for months to bargain in good faith,
only to be rebuffed at every turn,
from mediation through factfinding,
superconciliation and the legislative
hearing. We even requested an
eleventh-hour mediator from
PERB,”’ Lattimer said, “but Niagara
County was intent on setting back
labor relations with its employees to
CSEA REGION VI PRESIDENT
Robert Lattimer, right, discusses
problems iated with the contract
dispute in iagara County with
members of the white collar unit of
Niagara County Local 832, Members
had rejected what was termed “an
unofficial offer’ prior to the county
legislature imposing a one-year
contract upon the employees
the stone age.’ Other ‘stone-age’
aspects of the forced contract
include:
Addition of the county’s right to
deny a sick leave extension without
being subject to grievance
procedures.
Reduction from five to three the
number of consecutive work days an
employee may be absent on sick leave
before a department head can request
a physician’s statement of illness.
e Addition of a requirement that
employees must submit a written
request for personal leave at least
three days before the day of leave,
and the county’s right to deny leave
requests when the number of requests
falling on one day, ‘endangers the
proper functioning of the depart-
ment.””
Region President Lattimer praised
the efforts of Unit President McEvoy
and her committee which “gave all
that could be asked, and more in
behalf of fellow members.”
Niagara County’s actions bode
“very ill will for negotiations of future
contracts,” said President Lattimer,
who earlier had vowed that CSEA
would withdraw from its planned
October delegates convention in
Niagara Falls if a negotiated
settlement was not reached with the
white collar unit. He was
unanimously supported by the CSEA
Board of Directors and CSEA
President William L. McGowan.
Region Director Lee Frank said an
Improper Practice charge will be
filed with PERB, under provisions of
the recently-enacted Triborough
Doctrine.
The terms of the imposed contract
had been totally rejected by more
than 300 members of Local 832 at an
earlier contract meeting. Unit
members called the then-proposed
offer “‘insulting,” and vowed they
would rather have the terms imposed
rather than vote to accept them.
Said one member, “‘I don’t want the
convention to stay here at my expense
for the next three years.”
* :
FAMILY AFFAIR — Local 832 white collar unit
member Beverly Lawler of the Niagara County health
department is joined by her daughter, Jennifer, at
union meeting to hear county’s last proposal, which
members soundly rejected.
A
paint crew
Stony Brook workers
brush aside hot weather
and understaffing woes
to paint university’s
tall halls and walls
By Hugh O’Haire
CSEA Communications Associate
to illuminate those hard-to-get-at corners.
crew.
students back to the 1,100-acre campus.
campus.
Tax justice
¢ needed, but
flat -rate
schemes not
the answers
STONY BROOK — Anyone who has painted
even just one room in their home or apartment is
acquainted with the difficulties of the work —
dripping paint, fumes and heat from lights used
Imagine then, what it is like to paint up to 2,500
class and dormitory rooms in a sweltering Long
Island summer. That’s the annual task of Phil
Santella and eight to 10 other CSEA Local 614
members of the SUNY at Stony Brook paint shop
The crew members work under strict
deadlines. They must finish the classrooms and
dorms before the second week in August when
special seminars bring visiting scholars and
Santella and other members of the crew,
including Assistant Foreman Nick Scaros,
Norman Eicheinger, Ed O’Rielly, Tom Spector
and Gene Daversa, also paint lecture halls and a
variety of other interiors in the 98 buildings on
Working in two of the hottest and most humid
months on the north shore of Long Island, where
the university is located, the paint shop crew
covers the walls and ceilings of the campus
buildings with 2,500 to 3,000 gallons of mostly
white latex paint, using only brushes and rollers.
rk
by summer visitors — the paint crew is
understaffed.
The normal compliment of the crew is 12, but
one employee is assigned elsewhere and another
has been transferred out of the department and
the job left unfilled. In addition, this year for the
first time, overtime has been eliminated by the
university administration.
“Usually we didn’t take summer vacations
because the work load was so heavy. In past
4] summers, we got a lot of overtime in order to get
the job done on time. Now the overtime has been
cut but the workload is still there. I don’t see how
we can get the job done,” says Santella, who is
chairman of CSEA shop stewards at the facility.
He said he looks forward to a new central
computer system being installed by
Many of the buildings were designed in
modern styles, with soaring walls that
sometimes reach 100 feet in height and run 300
feet in length. Still, it is the standard classrooms
and dormitories which occupy most of the crew’s
time.
“We really work,” Santella says. ‘“The dorms
and classrooms are hot — over 100 degrees
sometimes.”
Besides the normal difficulties of coordinating
the work — Santella says that often the crew will
arrive at a dorm which was to have been cleaned
and prepared for only to find it already occupied
NEW YORK — America needs tax justice, but
1981 tax changes to benefit the wealthy now flirts
with the flat tax as another scheme to further shift
the tax burden to low and middle-income
Americans. The wealthy are saying indirectly that
they might give up a few of their preferences in
exchange for a drastic reduction in the top rate and
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
management that will track maintenance work
orders and follow up on the time it takes to
complete the tasks. ‘‘By the end of the year, I’m
certain that it will show how understaffed we
are.”
Despite the difficulties, the employees take
pride in their work. On a recent tour of the
campus, Phil stood before a 35 by 100-foot blank
wall in the university’s Fine Arts Center.
Dressed in his paint-splattered coveralls, he
eyed the wall like an artist looking at an empty
canvas.
“Hmmm, let’s see. About 25 gallons of flat
latex should do the job,”’ he said, expertly.
the destruction of a progressive tax system,” a
council statement said.
The council cited an analysis by the
ional Joint Committee on Taxation which
compared the effect, of flat tax rates ranging from
12 percent to 18 percent on taxpayers at various
income levels. In every case, the council noted, the
low and middle-income groups would pay more in
taxes while the upper-income groups would enjoy
substantial tax cuts. — :
If Congress were inclined to close existing
loopholes — like foreign tax credits, oil depletion
allowances and the preferential treatment. of
capital gains — it could not do so while maintaining
a progressive tax structure, the council stressed.
Page 9
KAREN BURSTEIN, head of
consumer affairs for the state
and keynote speaker at the
recent families conference
held in Albany, stresses the
need for adequate day care
for families. heard” on the topic of day care.
Families in
MEYER FRUCHER, director of the Governor’s Office of
Employee Relations, says employees should “stand up and be
IN A LIGHT MOMENT, CSEA Capital Region Presi-
dent Joseph McDermott talks with conference
participants.
the workplace:
ALBANY — “When child care is seen as both a men’s and women’s
issue — as a human issue — then the concept will be accepted.”
So said Karen Burstein, executive director of the state Consumer
Protection Board, at a recent forum on ‘Families in the Workplace,”
sponsored by the New York State Council on Children and Families in
conjunction with CSEA’s Committee on the Work Environment and
Productivity (CWEP) and the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations
(GOER.)
“We are in a real revolution which is just gaining the consciousness of
this nation,” Burstein told some 300 labor and management representatives
gathered at the Albany Thruway House last month. ‘‘Only the ostrich-like,
heads planted in the sand, may still think of the ‘typical’ American family as
a working father, a homemaker mother and kids who come home to fresh-
baked goodies every day.””
In painting a portrait of today’s “‘typical’” American family, Burstein, in
a keynote address, said only 7 percent of the working population of this
nation fits into the lifestyle of the working father/stay-at-home mother,
while only 14 percent are in that much-talked-about, the two-income family.
The rest of the population’s families, she noted, is made up of the single
working parent and the single individual.
“Society and its institutions must begin to shift their foundations to meet
the needs of the population,” Burstein stressed. “During World War Il, day
care centers were established in two minutes.
“Qld traditionalists believe that once inflation is under control working
women will return to the traditional roles of housewife and homemaker in
droves. This false belief seems to be holding back significant social change.
Society must realize that women have made a choice not to follow the
traditional role.”
Burstein lauded New York State and its public employee unions for their
leadership role in concept of child care at or near the worksite. She noted,
however, that ‘‘New York State is in the leadership position only because of
the tremendous pressure that the state public employee unions have put on
management for such centers over the years.”
The key to solving the day care needs of working families, she said, is
two-fold.
“Women must realize and use their political power to their own benefit.
No issues that are now viewed as only women’s issues must be viewed as
human issues, too.””
CSEA Capital Region President Joseph E. McDermott foreshadowed
Burstein’s speech in his welcoming remarks. Said he: ‘‘We are here today
not just as public employees, labor and management, but as fathers,
mothers, husbands and wives to talk about the human problems that touch
our employment situations.”
Molly Hardy, executive director of the Empire State Day Care
Corporation, listed some of the positive results that existing day care
Page 10 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
centers have already produced in the public workforce.
“We have numerous reports of more productivity, higher morale, fewer
absences, better job performance and happier workers,” said Hardy. ‘‘And
in one psychiatric center where a day care program exists, the mere
presence of children has caused the despondent elderly residents to become
more open and involved.”
While adequate day care facilities across the country are still sorely
lacking, there are signs of hope that the concept of day care at the worksite
may gain greater acceptance in the future, according to Frances Alston,
assistant director of the Day Care Council of New York, Inc. Alston cited
major national corporations which are now using child care benefits as an
employee incentive.
“Slowly, very slowly, business and industry are realizing that day care
centers at or near the worksites are beneficial to them in both economic and
productivity terms,” she said.
GOER Director Meyer Frucher, who helped establish two private day
care centers before joining the governor’s staff, told forum participants that
day care is something worth fighting for. ‘“‘It’s the squeaky wheel that gets
the most grease. So don’t be afraid to stand up and be heard on this topic,””
he said.
“Beat me up. Beat up my successor in the next administration — I don’t
mean physically, but make sure you work with your unions, your lobbying
organizations and your elected officials to make sure that the message of the
need for child care centers at public worksites gets to the people who control
the budget.”
The families forum, which also featured discussions on ‘‘Wellness in the
Workplace,” was the first of at least two sessions devoted to family issues on
the job. A second forum is scheduled for later this month, and an October
meeting is in the planning stages.
They care.
A A
Labor, left,
e Secretary Irene Carr, center, and Department of Correctional Services Local
Presidj™t Susan Crawford, attended the program.
SEA WOMEN, including Shirley
PARTICIPANTS discuss the topics during a break.
about day care
Arbitration clarifies
pregnancy, maternity leave
SUFFOLK COUNTY — The case that CSEA won for Virginia Wirsing
. aL think it wie a good decision gibt rcesathing consequences,” said
Lester Lipkind, the CSEA attorney for the case. “The college tried to
establish a policy that ai ec e
a related to maternity, including illness leave
pregnancy, was part of the maternity leave, and that just isn't so.”
second opinion to employees —
- Considering elective surgery —
\ Are. you thinking about elective surgery? Would you like a second
opinion? ee ;
The,Second Surgical Opinion Program is a free service designed to help
care was passed and signed into law.”
The final decision regarding elective surgery, however, is always up to
the patient, McCracken pointed out.
“We have tried to make public employees aware of this program in a
variety of ways,” McCracken said. “However, the participation rate is
about that of the national average — 3 to 4 percent of those eligible.”
Consultations arranged through the Second Surgical Consultation
Program are provided at absolutely no cost to the employee. To arrange for
a second opinion on elective surgery, or to obtain more information about
the service, call the following representatives:
Plan enrollees call: ” as, oF
New York City area (including Long Island, Westchester and Rockland
Counties), 1-800-832-4650; other areas of New York State, 1-800-342-3726.
GHI Option enrollees call:
New York City, (212) 760-6543; Albany, (518) 463-6623; Syracuse, (315)
422-0163; Buffalo, (716) 883-57;
HMO enrollees: Sa ya
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982. Page 11
By Melinda Carr
Asst. Director of Communications
Section 5. SECRETARY. The Secretary shall be responsible for the
custody of all official papers of the Association and the record of
its proceedings and shall give notice of meetings as directed by the
President.
ALBANY — CSEA’s Constitution may outline the duties of its statewide
secretary in a ho-hum manner, but there’s nothing ho-hum about the officer
who holds the job.
Instead, there’s a dynamo who states in no uncertain terms that a
Secretary’s place isn’t merely behind a steno pad or a filing cabinet.
“T’m not just the secretary, in the sense of someone who quietly takes
minutes and maintains records,” Irene Carr stresses. ‘‘I’m a statewide of-
ficer of this union and therefore concerned with the business of this union.
I’ve worked hard, taken positions and have opinions. And I’ve encouraged
other secretaries to do the same.”
Her encouragement of Regional, Local and Unit secretaries during her
54 years in statewide office has come at workshops, conferences and infor-
mal gatherings, as well as during the recent series of Secretarial Seminars
she has conducted in five of CSEA’s six Regions.
The seminars provide instructions on how to improve minutes and em-
phasize the importance of record keeping and of knowing proper parliamen-
tary procedure.
To date, more than 300 Local and Unit secretaries have attended the
seminars, pored through the instructional literature provided, and received
certificates of achievement for their efforts.
“But what many of the secretaries have said is most important about
these seminars is that they valued the chance to speak with experienced
secretaries and learn from their experience,” Carr noted. “You might say it
raises their consciousness.””
The statewide secretary puts a lot of store in consciousness raising.
“Secretaries complain to me that they don’t feel like they’re part of their
Locals,” she relates. “I remind them that they’re officers of the executive
boards of their Locals. I’ve encouraged them to use tape recorders so that
they don’t get so tied down with the mechanics of note-taking that they can’t
take part in the meeting.
“T also point out to women that running for secretary is a good way to
get their foot in the door,” she added. ‘‘The job is hard enough and time-
consuming enough that it’s hard to get people to volunteer for the job. And
yet it’s a terrific place to learn how the union works and to prepare yourself
for other leadership roles.”
And her emphasis on consciousness raising extends beyond her role as
the union’s Secretary. Carr was appointed by CSEA President William
L. McGowan to serve as the first chairperson of the union’s statewide
Women’s Committee and currently serves as a member of AFSCME’s
Women’s Advisory Committee.
“T get lots of calls to speak to women’s groups, and I get asked to give
advice to Locals who want to set up their own women’s committees,” she
said. ‘I know setting up our statewide committee was a struggle, because
some of the people in the union said ‘what do we need that for?’ ”
Carr explained that she works to be supportive of women’s interests
and issues within the union “because the majority of our members are
women, and they do have special interests and unique concerns.”
While praising the fact that women are well represented among the
CSEA leadership at all levels, she pointed out, ‘‘We have to reach out to the
younger women coming up and encourage them to be active. We have to let
them know the union’s concerned about them.
“You'll find that a lot of women who are leaders of this union aren’t that
closely identified with women’s issues per se,”’ she explained. ‘‘People like
Mary Sullivan and Pat Crandall have strong positions of leadership and are
doing their own thing. And that’s fine. But I feel they’re also role models for
women in the union even if they don’t think of themselves in that way.”
Although her interests within the union are wide-ranging, Carr
doesn’t for a moment overlook the nitty-gritty details of the secretary’s
duties.
One of her accomplishments was a system to improve the handling of
pre-filed motions at Board and Delegates meetings. ‘‘I used to get motions
written on everything including scraps of toilet paper,” she laughed, adding
that she instituted special forms, which have greatly improved that
situation.
Another project in which she takes pride is the microfilming of CSEA
records now under way. “I pushed hard for microfilming our records,”’ she
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
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She encourages
secretaries to
he leaders also —
hes
said, describing some as yellowed pages dating “‘back to the origins of the
union.” For example, already transferred to nine microfilm cartridges
(each about the size of an eight-track tape) are verbatim transcripts of
Board meetings from 1933 to 1979 — records which formerly occupied eight
file drawers. She cites the microfilming effort as a necessity to improve the
situation of ‘‘a headquarters building that has been bulging at the seams.”
The change to fulltime officer status effective July 1 will enable her to
undertake a number of other plans and projects, including a meeting she is
hoping to hold soon with the Regional Secretaries.
“My availability to local and unit secretaries is perhaps the biggest ad-
vantage of serving fulltime,” she said. “Before, when people needed me
they had to call me at home or at my job at the university, where it got so I
was getting some hassles from my boss.
“T also hope to be able now to provide closer follow-up on the action on
motions made at Board and Delegate meetings. And I plan to get out to the
Regions more and to provide more assistance to Local Secretaries, such as
the new brochure I’ve just completed that outlines the duties of a secretary.
“And in addition, I’m available to assist the President at any time. For
example, last year he appointed me to chair the Committee to Study the
Delegate Registration Procedures, and we instituted a number of registra-
tion improvements.”
Also under way is an effort to get Headquarters’ files on Locals up-to-
date, including the required copies of Local constitutions and by-laws and
names of Local and Unit officers. It’s a job Ms. Carr often finds frustrating.
“For example, according to the Constitution and by-laws, the Delegate
lists had to be in by July 15,” she explained. “But by that date, despite our
reminder memos, we might have had one-third of the names.”
The mother of one son and grandmother of three, she points out still |
other changes in her life brought about by having a fulltime position and an §
office in CSEA’s Albany headquarters.
“T used to go to Board meetings on Thursday, report back to my job Fri-
day, and then work on the minutes Friday night and all weekend while my
husband was doing the chores and cooking,” she said. “It’s a good thing he
learned how to cook, or we’d have starved.
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“But perhaps the biggest personal benefit is that I’ve now regained use |
of a room at home that was a total disaster because of all the files and
papers and working materials I had to store. Now that I’ve moved all the
CSEA papers out of the den, I might even have room to stick in a chair.”
WESTCHESTER COUNTY unit activist Roger Williams, right, takes notes HIG!
while speaking to Assemblyman Jon Fossel (93rd Dist.).
me.
HLAND DIVISION for Youth Local 550 President Anne Spero meets with
State Sen. Jay P. Rolison (39th Dist.).
SM oooono0ooo
Southern Region
legislative
breakfasts
provide settings
to meet politicos
ENJOYING A LIGHT MOMENT, from left, are
regional PAC Chairman Carmine DiBattista,
regional Treasurer Eleanor McDonald, State
Senator Linda Winikow (38th Dist.), Putnam
County Local 840 President Carmine Ricci,
Rockland County PAC Chairman John Mauro
and Westchester County Local 860 President Pat
Mascioli.
It is up to a hearing officer to resolve questions
of credibility in deciding whether a public
employee has engaged in strike activity, a recent
court decision said.
The Appellate Division, Third Department,
reaffirmed this decision in the Matter of Smith y.
Bloom, stating that the hearing officer’s decision
will not be overturned by the courts.
In the case, custodians employed by the Ellen-
ville Central School District began an Article 78
proceeding to review a finding that they had par-
ticipated in a strike in violation of the Taylor
Law.
The custodians were notified that their failure
to report to work on a certain day was considered
a strike. They objected, saying they were unable
to attend work that day because they will ill.
At their hearing, the custodians testified they
suffered from a number of maladies
toothache, nausea and dysentary, and stomach
virus — which made it impossible for them to
work. None had sought medical attention.
Each employee had called the school that day
and, as was the custom, notified whoever
answered the phone that they were sick. Each
denied he was intentionally absent.
The hearing officers found that all of the
employees had failed to meet the burden of proof
in the case, and that they had in fact participated
“Legal Briefs” is a periodic column about
Civil Service Law and legal matters of interest to
public employees. Material is compiled and
edited by the Albany law firm of Roemer and
Featherstonhaugh, counsel to CSEA.
in a strike. The custodians contended the record
was devoid of any evidence to support this.
The Appellate Division held that the burden of
proof rested with the custodial staff; that the
record showed that an unprecedented large
number of employees of the custodial staff was
absent on the day in question; and that their
claims of illness were unsupported by any other
evidence other than their own testimony.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August-13, 1982. Page 13.
- Suffolk Action :
religious and service provider groups to develop tactics _
opposing the County’s use of welfare recipients as forced
be ’
. a
labor.
Reg ion l Officially known as “Community Work Experience
Program” but commonly known as ‘‘Workfare,”’ the Suf-
folk County program is an attempt to reduce rising
welfare costs and public service employment by using
welfare recipients instead of paid labor in public
employment.
Workfare was announced last year by Suffolk County
Executive Peter Cohalan and is expected to go into effect
next month. It is one of the largest proposed programs in
the nation and the Coalition fears that if it is successfully
implimented in Suffolk it could become a’model program
that would be exported to other New York counties as
well as to other states throughout the nation.
“Not only does forcing people to work smack of a
plantation mentality, it is simply non-productive to get.
rid of paid employees and use forced labor,” said Danny
opposes
workfare
proposal
Delegates will
meet August 19 —
on single issue
ALBANY — CSEA delegates will gather at 11
a.m. next Thursday, August 19, at the Empire State
Plaza Convention Center here at a Special
Delegates Meeting to consider an amendment to
the union’s Constitution that would expand the
types of workers eligible to be represented by
CSEA.
The special, one-day statewide Delegates
meeting was called by CSEA President William L.
McGowan to consider the first reading of a
proposed amendment to the union constitution,
Article III, Section 4, which provides qualification
for membership.
The proposed amendment reads as follows:
“Article III Membership Section 4. The Presi-
dent, subject to the approval of the Board of Direc-
tors, may issue local charters or authorize the
enlargement of the jurisdiction of existing local
charters to include other appropriate groups of
workers not specifically enumerated in this Article,
whose employment while not in the public sector, is
of such a type and nature that it is the same or
similar to work traditionally performed by public
sector workers. Workers within such jurisdictions
shall be eligible for the types of membership defin-
ed in the foregoing sections of this Article.”
Abuses alleged
(Continued from Page 1)
single manager is ever disciplined for screwing
up. It's time they stopped smearing ‘state
employees’ and started cleaning up their own
management,’’ McGowan said.
State Comptroller Edward V. Regan, who con-
firmed the existence of the investigation yester-
day, was quoted bythe New York Post as blam-
ing state managers for the alleged credit card
abuse, noting ‘‘. . . if management does nothing,
in essence they encourage people to engage in
this kind of abuse.” McGowan also noted that
Regan said he felt the overwhelming majority of
state workers were honest people.
“No one is saying misconduct in’ public
employment should be ignored,”’ the union presi-
dent concluded. ‘‘But it really is unfair that the
vast majority of state employees must suffer the
stigma of allegations of dishonesty when inept
state officials allowed the situation to exist and
only a relatively small number of individuals are
involved.”
_ “Unemployment has reached high in the
United States because of the currt
administration. The way to reduce unemployment is
through the creation of jobs so workers can earn salaries
to buy goods and products and thus stimulate the
economy.”
Under Workfare guidelines, welfare recipients who
are ordered to take part in the program cannot be
organized, enjoy no benefits and their jobs are not
considered employment by the Social Security
Administration. _
According to Donohue, the use of forced labor by the
county could have the effect of lowering the number of
paid employees doing the same or similar work, would
create a two-tier wage scale, and could undermine the
bargaining ability of CSEA.
The Coalition, with CSEA participation, is currently
drawing up resolutions and developing plans to oppose
the implementation of the program in Suffolk County.
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CSEA LEADERS watch as Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo, left, talks with news media following recent debate
in New York City between CSEA-endorsed Cuomo and his rival for the Democratic nomination for
governor, Edward Koch. Facing the camera, center, is CSEA Metropolitan Region II President George
Caloumeno and at right is CSEA statewide President William L. McGowan, both of whom attended the
Cuomo-Koch debate.
Cuomo visits Region |
LT. GOV. MARIO CUOMO, Center,
chats with “SEA Region I President
Danny Dvaohue, left, and regional
political action chairman Michael msi
Curtin, right, during recent visit to OES v0
fi Island headquarters.
CSEA’s Long Is! ang eadquarters. naa
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
Turning
Westchester
County
into Cuomo
A ; 4 “y le |
MAKING PLANS to get out the vote in Westchester
County for Mario Cuomo are, from left to right, Local
860 President Pat Mascioli, Regional Treasurer
Eleanor McDonald, and Lucy Veteran.
CSEA volunteers work
diligently to get out
e __ the vote on Primary Day
WHITE PLAINS — “Enthusiasm to
elect Mario Cuomo governor is
building among CSEA’s rank and file
here,” reports Westchester County
Local 860 President Pat Mascioli. As
proof, he cites the ever-increasing
number of volunteers who are step-
ping forward. Toby Zuckerman is
one of them. Asked why she supports
Cuomo, the Social Services employee
® is straightforward: ‘Because he’s for DOING THEIR PART in
labor . . . Vote for the man who sup- the campaign are, from
ports you.”” left to right in above
photo, CSEA members
Judi Roberts, Marie
Lewis, Ann DeMarzo and
Louis DiRenzo. At left,
some of the volunteers
who have scoured lists of
voters from 800-plus elec-
tion districts, collecting
the names of potential
voters on Primary Day.
With more than 10,000 CSEA
members, Westchester County is one
of the major battlegrounds of the
gubernatorial primary. Region III
Treasurer Eleanor McDonald, who is
coordinating the union’s campaign ef-
forts in the county, believes a strong
CSEA push can swing the election.
@ Volunteers have responded accor-
dingly: They have looked up the
names and telephone numbers of
36,000 Democrats who voted in past
primaries on the basis that they’ll be
most likely to vote this Primary Day,
Sept. 23.
Since polls show that Cuomo had the
edge among such voters, turnout will
be critical, and CSEA volunteers plan
e to contact them by telephone to make
sure Westchester County becomes
Cuomo Country on Sept. 23.
VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE — Region III
Treasurer Eleanor McDonald, standing, looks on
as CSEA volunteers sign up new voters as part of
® a public service voter registration drive spon-
sored by the region recently at the Galleria Shop-
ping Mall in White Plains. As a result of their ef-
forts, the committee enrolled 102 new voters. A
second voter registration drive was held at the
Irish Heritage Day at Ridge Road Park in
Hartsdale.
i
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982 Page 15
Members turn to power
of media to relay union,
personal views
dispute T.V.
| NEW YORK CITY — Carl
Mathison was all fired up when he
heard an editorial on WPIX-TV,
) Channel 11, which supported exten-
sion of the Tier III Retirement
System, so the senior examiner
ith the Dutchess County Depart-
‘ment of Social Services demanded
equal time to respond. He got it.
| Here is what Mathison, a
member of Dutchess County Local
814, had to say:
| “T’d like to furnish some facts
| WPIX overlooked.
}| “Fact number one: Tier III was
ja temporary emergency measure.
\It has been an administrative
\nightmare in addition to being
‘ blatantly unfair. The cost of collec-
Sting and accounting for the
Femployee ‘contributions’ nearly
equal the value of the contribu-
) tions. Moreover, because Tier III
) reduces pensions by fifty cents for
editorial
each dollar of a retiree’s Social
Security benefits, an employee
may pay into the system for years
yet get little or no return.
“Fact number two: This in-
equitable fraud is perpetrated upon
those least able to afford it. The
median salary for public
employees in New York State is
about $15,000 per year. By contrast,
the median American family in-
come in about $22,500. Small
wonder that public agencies are
losing their best, most experienced
workers. For too long, public
employees have been treated as se-
cond class citizens; denied rights
and protections most workers take
for granted. On one hand, we are
denied the right to strike because
our jobs are too vital. On the other
hand, our suggestion that we be
treated fairly is dismissed as
though we were unimportant.
DUTCHESS
COUNTY LOCAL 814
member Carl Mathison took to the
air waves to speak out against ex-
tension of the Tier III retirement
system.
“Public employees are not ask-
ing for anything more than our
private counterparts. However, we
Ge no longer afford anything
less.”
... and responding to a Binghamton
| newspaper story
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randum 0!
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Congress urged
to break with
jobless trend
WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO
President Lane Kirkland has
pressed Congress to act
independently of the Reagan
Administration to get America
back on the road to full
employment.
Labor sees no sign of a change in
course “from an Administration
still engaged in destroying jobs,”
he told the Joint Economic
Committee of Congress.
Kirkland spoke of the human
misery that accompanies the
economic devastation of the
Reagan recession, of ‘‘the
desperate and fruitless search for
work” in the wake of plant closings
and layoffs.
The Administration’s ‘‘supply-
side’ economics amount to “a
massive transfer of income’’ from
workers and those with moderate
incomes ‘‘into the pockets of the
wealthy,” Kirkland charged. He
termed Reagan’s policies “class
warfare” against workers and the
disadvantaged.
Unemployment
plagued 1 in 5
WASHINGTON — One of every
five American workers was
unemployed at some point during
1981, a total of some 23.4-million
workers, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported.
The 23.4 million workers who
encountered some unemployment
in 1981 represented 19.5 percent of
all persons in the labor force for at
least one week. The level was
higher than the 18.8 percent who
experienced some unemployment
in 1980 but lower than the
20.2 percent peak level in 1975
during another severe recession.
For men and all Blacks,
however, the proportion of
unemployment equaled or
exceeded previous highs. Twenty
percent of all male workers
encountered joblessness in 1981,
the same as in 1975. Among
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20.5 percent.
Tariff cuts would
jeopardize U.S. jobs
WASHINGTON — The AFL-CIO
says Congress should not give the
Administration a new blank check
to negotiate tariff cuts that could
throw additional Americans out of
work.
The President’s authority to
reduce tariffs without seeking the
approval of Congress expired last
January. The Administration is
seeking a two-year revival.
Employment in every
manufacturing industry is down,
the AFL-CIO stressed. “American
industries are suffering from the
4 combined impact of recession and
high imports. Renewal of this
authority will only aggravate the
serious erosion of the nation’s
industrial base.”” a
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Page 16 R, Friday, AUg®
CSEA STATEWIDE PRESIDENT and chairman
of the Employee Benefit Fund William L.
McGowan.
ALBANY — When CSEA first created its
Employee Benefit Fund in 1979, dental benefits
began at the level that they had previously been
under state administration. But almost im-
mediately the dental program was improved, a
prescription drug program was added, then an
optical program was created, and now Benefit
Fund members have their third improvement in
dental benefits in as many years:
Vision Care Plan
@ ‘Best eye examination I ever had.”
e “Doctor and staff were courteous and
professional.”
e “The frame selection and the care are
wonderful.”
These are typical examples of the remarks be-
ing received daily by CSEA’s Employee Benefit
Fund (EBF), administrators of the union’s Vi-
sion Care Benefit, which went into effect last
November.
“The Vision Care Plan is less than a year old,
but it has quickly become one of our most
popular and well-received benefits,” said EBF
Director Thomas P. Collins.
The Vision Plan is available to state employees
in the Administrative, Institutional and Opera-
tional bargaining units, as well as in certain
political subdivisions where it has been
negotiated, and can provide free professional
eye examinations and eye glasses for eligible
employees and their dependents. There is a
150-member panel of approved optometrists
which participants may elect to use.
The EBF recently tabulated the responses of
12,500 CSEA members who have taken advan-
tage of the Vision Care Benefit. Their reactions
were reported in the Patient Satisfaction Ques-
tionnaires which were sent with the vouchers
that must be submitted before scheduling an
exam.
Nearly all of the members who responded said
they were satisfied with the benefit, and rated
the eye exams as “very good” or “good.” In ad-
dition, the overwhelming majority reported they
were treated courteously.
“People are entitled to high quality profes-
sional health services rendered with a caring at-
titude in a courteous atmosphere,” said Dr.
Jesse Rosenthal, the EBF’s optometry
consultant.
\_ “The trustees of the fund wanted to make sure
(Overwhelming majority applaud
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT FUND Director
Thomas P. Collins
CSEA members would get the best vision care
and be treated strictly as first-class citizens.
They deserve a great deal of credit for fashion-
ing a vision care benefit that is second to none in
the nation.”
Dr. Rosenthal, a clinical professor at the State
University of New York’s College of Optometry
and former director of optometry of the New
York City Health Department, said the panel
doctors, the central laboratory and the fund ad-
ministration all share in the program’s success.
‘“‘When you look at the member responses and
the statistics, you can’t help but be impressed,”
he said. ey
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
Dental fee schedule
improvements latest advance
Effective July 1, 1982, a list of items in the
Benefit Fund dental fee schedule has been im-
proved for all participants in the fund (except
the Westchester County plan, which previously
had been upgraded as of 4/1/82.)
The Benefit Fund began in 1979 as the result of
negotiations between CSEA and the State of New
York for contracts in the state’s Administrative,
Institutional and Operational bargaining units.
>, Since then, the Fund has grown steadily, with the
OY additien of 50 local government bargaining units
where the required 100 percent employer con-
tribution has been negotiated.
The latest improvement in the dental fee
schedule is the newest in a rapid series of benefit
enrichments for the majority of Fund par-
ticipants. This comprehensive increase in dental
allowances affects all state employee members of
- the Fund and about 12,000 political subdivisions
members. ‘‘These improvements,”’ says CSEA
President William McGowan, chairman of the
Fund, ‘erase any doubts about the strength of
the Fund.”
“When we negotiated in 1979 to create the
Fund, there were a lot of skeptics,”’ he said, ‘“‘but
since the day we paid our first benefit until now,
we have shown steady and consistent progress in
providing in invaluable benefit to our
members.”
Replacing state-administered insurance pro-
viding only dental benefits, the new Employee
Benefit fund inaugurated prescription drug in-
surance and dropped the previous dental plan’s
$50 deductible requirement. One year later, den-
tal benefits were improved again. Also, the
Benefit Fund unwrapped an entirely new benefit,
the CSEA Vision Care Plan, which provides eye
examinations and prescription glasses for most
members at no cost.
Now, two years later, 15 dental fees are being
improved, an estimated increased benefit of up
to $2,000,000 per year.
Fund participants affected by the improved
benefit are being notified directly of the details,
but the latest achievements have reinforced
CSEA’s determination to continue its aim to
ultimately bring the benefits of CSEA’s
Employee Benefit Fund to all public employees
in the union’s bargaining units.
‘People are entitled to high quality profes-
sional health services rendered with a caring
attitude in a courteous atmosphere .. .’
Page 17
N
MONEY MATTERS — CSEA Statewide
Treasurer Barbara Fauser, center, talks with
four CSEA regional treasurers. From left are
Region III Treasurer Eleanor McDonald;
Region IV Treasurer Gerald Toomey;
Fauser, Region I Treasurer Jean Wichmann,
and Region V Treasurer Mary Sullivan. The
meeting took place at the recent AFSCME In-
ternational convention, to which all were
delegates,
Union wins out: of - title back pay and new title
via arbitration for Harrison school employee
HARRISON — After more than a year of confrontation between the Har-
rison Central School District and CSEA, the district has agreed to a $5,000 back
pay award, a new title and the prospects of a bigger salary for an employee
forced to pick up the duties of a higher paid employee whose job was abolished.
Don Carlin was an account clerk for the district in 1980 when the district
abolished a Purchasing Agent job and arbitrarily pushed some of that work on
COMPETITIVE
PROMOTIONAL EXAMS
(State employees only)
FILING ENDS AUGUST 16, 1982
Landscape Architect G-20.
Senior Landscape Architect
Landscape Architect, Associate G-27
Stenographer, Senior G-9+ ..
Stenographer (Law), Senior G-9
Typist, Senior G-7......
State Accounts Audit
Associate G-23
Nurse Admr. G-19.
Health Program Admr. I
(Health Systems) G-23.
Health Program Admr. I
(Public Health) G-23
Health Program Admr. II (Health ‘Syetema) G-25
Health Program Admr. II (Public Health) G-25..
Health Program Admr. III (Health Systems) G-27
Health Program Admr. III (Public Health) G-27.
Community Client Services Assistant G-11.
Typist (Law), Senior G-7.
.. MENTAL HEALTH
Nurse Admr. I G-19....
Nurse Admr. I G-19. . MENTAL RETARDATION
& DEV. DISABILITIES
System Planner (Gas),
Associate G-27
System Planner (Gas), Senior G-24...
...PUBLIC SERVICE
. PUBLIC SERVICE
AUGUST
es a member of the Harrison School District Unit of CSEA Westchester
Loca
Carlin grieved the unilateral change in his duties and lack of compensation
for the work and after a year of haggling, the district offered him $1,000 in back
pay and a tentative new title.
The dispute moved to arbitration when CSEA said the offer wasn’t enough
and should have been discussed with the union as bargaining agent for Carlin.
The union’s contract clearly required the district to negotiate changes in job
duties and salary, said Arthur Grae, the CSEA attorney handling the case.
After one hearing before arbitrator Herbert L. Marx, the district finally
conceded it had acted improperly and agreed to a $5,000 payment for the out+of-
title work performed by Carlin between November, 1980 and July 16, 1982.
Additionally, the district agreed to seek a reclassification for Carlin to the
position of Account Clerk/Transportation Assistant effective July 16, 1982. The
salary for that position will be negotiated by the district and CSEA.
open competitive
TATE JOB CALENDAR
eg FILING ENDS AUGUST 23, 1982
Artist — Designer I
Artist — Designer II
Artist — Designer III
Artist — Designer IV
Community Client Services Assistant
Landscape Architect
Landscape Arehitect, Associate
Landscape Architect, Senior
Nurse Administrator I
Stenographer, Senior
$11,582
13,742
16,286
20,381
13,805
21,621
32,940
26,640
21,621
12,241 or 12,357*
Stenographer (Law), Senior —
New York City Area
Weights and Measures Specialist I
* Depending Upon Bargaining Unit.
FILING ENDS SEPTEMBER 13, 1982
Natural Disaster/Civil Defense Radiological
Representative
12,441 or 12,517*
15,473
21—Suffolk Local 852 Annual Summer Picnic,
Calendar
of EVENTS
Calendar items should be mailed to The
Public Sector, 1 Columbia Place, Albany,
New York 12207. Items must contain the name
and telephone number of the sender for
verification purposes.
18—Televised debate between Democratic guber-
natorial candidates, CSEA-endorsed Lt. Gov.
Mario Cuomo and New York City Mayor Ed-
ward Koch, on Buffalo station WNED Channel
17 (cable 4), 9-10 p.m.
19—Region V EAP network meeting, 10 a.m., Tup-
per Lake Country Club, Tupper Lake.
19—Region VI Cuomo fundraiser, 5:30 p.m., Central
Terminal, Paderewski Drive, Buffalo.
Deadline for reservations is August 13.
19—Special Delegates Meeting, 11 a.m., Empire
State Plaza Convention Center, Albany.
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
Southaven Park, Yaphank. 11 a.m.-dusk. For
details call Lynn Martins at Local office, (516)
475-8600,
31—Open political action meeting sponsored by
CSEA coalition, 7:30 p.m., Fireman’s Park,
Wampsville,
SEPTEMBER
10—Tax Local 690 and Insurance Local 660, 24th An-
nual Clamsteam, noon-9 P.M., Krause’s Half-
moon Beach, Halfmoon.
Sportsman uses
camera and pen,
rifle and rod to
capture, share
wild game flavor
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WILD GAME COOKBOOK
FOR
BEGINNER & EXPERT
JOSEPH LAMAGNA +
LOCAL 860 PRESIDENT Pat Mascioli, left,
looks over the “Wild Game Cookbook” written
by probation officer and CSEA member Joe
Lamagna. Both men grew up together in the
” same Yonkers neighborhood and have been
i lifelong friends.
From city s streets to nature trails,
he enjoys the best of both worlds
By Stanley P. Hornak
CSEA Communications Associate
YONKERS — When he was growing up in this, the fifth largest city in
Ney Ake: State, the only wild animals he ever saw were in a zoo. So Joe
— freelance outdoor sports w iter and photographer — has come
rome even though his roots still remain here in his hometown.
ere are, it seems, several Joe Lamagnas. One is the 9:00 to 5:00
a aon
: Westchester County probation investigator and member of CSEA Local 860
who freely. admits, “I loye my job.’’ The other Joe, however, dons hunting
jacket instead of shirt and tie, and spends his time on the trail of wild game
and fish with camera, rifle, rod and pen in hand,
Joe remembers his love of the outdoors awakening at age 18 when he
discovered the mysteries of the Catskills ang the Adirondacks. He later
acquired “1 ice”’ in Harperstield (Delaware County) and it became
his refuge from the ay and | the job, Then one day, “back in '69,” an editor
for the SOUTHERN NEW YORK SPORTSMAN asked him, “Can you do an
article for me on fishing?” There was a catch (no pun intended). It had to be
done in 48 hours. Joe produced ‘A Summer of Fishing” and launched a
writing career. (He later learned the 48 hour limit was merely a test to
determine how he handled the pressures of dea dlines.)
Before long, Joe was contributing articles to a wide variety Of
publications, from city to county, as diverse as the YONKERS HOME
News AND TIMES and THE MOUNTAIN EAGLE. ‘The s subject was always
“the outdoors, fishing, hunting, nature studies, ecology, conservation .
He expects never to run out of material. Story ideas come {com readers,
friends, his own thoughts and experiences, and sometimes editors. On
occasion, his 5:00 to 9:00 background helps, such as the time Le wrote the
article ‘Take a Kid Fishing to Keep Him Out of Trouble.”
Another career shortly beckoned. He was often asked to use
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photographs with his articles so he purchased a camera, took some lesso
and before long found himself listed in ‘‘Who’s Who in Photography. “Joe
enjoys telling the story of how his upstate neighbors used to laugh when they
saw him in the woods with camera on one shoulder and rifle on the other,
‘goes hunting he lives off the land. He often
mone " effort ‘outdoorsmen take to catch fish and
aeons ary cooking mi 3?”’ An idea was born.
He and has since pobllebet the “wild Game
Conkbook € ae pai
ert,”
Recipes for everything from fried lunker bass to woodchuck : are Katived
though he frankly. admits he hasn’t gotten around yet to tasting woodchuck.
: e book is dedicated to “‘all the many amateur and experienced cooks
_and chefs who, like myself, struggled to learn and suffered doing so.”’ Credit
for the recipes | ee to family and friends, especially older members who
remembered old world recipes,” and also to “the warm American Indians
from the various tribes of New York State and other tribes across the United
States who so generously gave of their knowledge to assist in furnishing
these flavorsome dishes.”
Copies of the book are available ata special discount to CSEA members
by sending $4.50 plus $1 to: Joe Lamagna, P.O. Box 572, Yonkers, N.Y. 10702.
Tt also includes Joe’s own original “Hunter's Prayer” and “Fisherman’ 8
yer.””
The book has ‘been well received. But perhaps the best compliment of all
came from a co-worker who purchased it explaining, “T neither hunt nor fish
but it’s not very often one knows an author.” ~
Today, Joe finds himself in the best of two worlds. The self -styled
connoisseur of the outdoors is at hore on both the city streets of Yonkers
and the rugged mountains of the Adirondacks.
cPage 19
LEOE TSR AEQON AHOTE SEB FRY 7 999
The Governor
for ALL New Yorkers.
Vote for Mario Cuomo in the September 23 Democratic Primary.
CSEG
Civil Service Employees Association
LOCAL 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, August 13, 1982
