Civil Service Leader, 1975 September 30

America's Largest Newspaper for Public Employees

Vol. XXXVI, No. 27

Tuesday, September 30, 1975

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THE PUBLIC
EMPLOYEE

By DR. THEODORE WENZL

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President,
Civil Service Employees Association
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HE MESSAGES from your elected leaders in this most

timely and important Convention Issue of The Leader
contain valuable information on New York State’s biggest
and strongest public employees union, the Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn. The messages relate, region by region, the
problems facing CSEA today, as well as our accomplishments,
victories, priorities, philosophy and goals, both long-range
and immediate.

My own report will discuss the overall statewide situa-
tion of CSEA.

Some of our highest priorities right now include: exten-
sive revisions in the Taylor Law; new approaches and greater
funding in the area of political action; unalterable opposi-
tion to the investment of retirement funds in bailing out
bankrupt political entities; infusion of new ideas and per-
sonnel in state negotiations, and solid salesmanship in
meeting all rival union challenges by spreading the truth
that CSEA is, far and away, the best union for the job
of representing all governmental employees.

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CSEA WILL PRESS for extensive revisions to the Taylor
Law in the next legislative session. We will ask for changes
in the following items: the strike provision; agency shop;
last-offer binding arbitration; balance of penalties between
employer and employees; effective bilateral participation In
all procedures related to splintering of present bargaining
units; open verification of challenges made by rival unions;
a changing role for PERB, and separation of PERB from the
executive branch of state government.

Political action activities must be more clearly defined
and better coordinated. We will accomplish this through the
efforts of the top leadership and through revitalization of
the state and local legislative and political action commit-
tees.
CSEA has been using every possible pressure in our
legal and public relations departments to stop retirement
funds from being forced into insolvent political entities such
as New York City.

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AS FOR THE UPCOMING state negotiations, our first
goal is to right the wrong that has been done to us by the
Governor and the Legislature. The Governor did not keep
his campaign promises, and the Legislators gave first pri-
ority to themselves at the expense of the state worker. For
us, the only acceptable contract is one that would correct the
wrongs of the past and counter the devastating effects of
rampant inflation upon the state worker's salary.

A hastily put-together hodgepodge with very question-
able legal validity called PEF has set out to challenge CSEA’s
right to represent the state Professional, Scientific and
Technical Bargaining Unit this fall. Our goal here is to
make sure the PS&T Unit members get all the facts, because
it's the facts and the truth that will convince them, without
a doubt, of the wisdom of staying with New York State's
Number One public employees union—CSEA.

INSIDE THE LEADER

News of Long Island Region I See Page 14 |
News ef New York City Region II See Page 16 |
News of Southern Region HI See Page 17
News of Albany Region IV See Page 19

News of Syracuse Region V
News of Western Region VI.

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BULLETIN
MANHATTAN — Special

Sessions Court Chief Judge
Charles Breltel reserved de-~
cision last week on a suit
brought here by the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn. to block
the purchase of Municipal As-
sistance Corp. bonds with pen-
sion furds of state and city em-
ployees

CSEA alleges that such 3 pur-
chase {s illegal

CSEA is also fighting the pro-
posed pension fund purchase of
the securities In the State Court
of Appeals, Albany, It is antici-
pated that this appeal will be
decided on or before Sept. 30.
The action states that the pur-
chases of the MAC funds is in
violation of the New York State
Constitution.

DOT Worker Case
Will Resume Oct. 7

ALBANY—The next round
of arditration hearings in
the case brought by the Civil
Service Employees Assn.
against the State Department of
Transportation, In which the
union seeks to obtain full back
pay for 369 DOT workers laid
off July 1, 5 set for Oct, 1-10
here.

Additional hearings will also
be held in November and De-
cember, according to CSEA at-

(Continued on Page 17)

Wenzi Blasts Plan
Requiring Pension
Plan Contribution

ALBANY—"“Gentlemen, you are now trying to take away

negotiated benefits!”

That was the core of the message delivered last week
by Theodore C. Wenzl, president of the Civil Service Em-

ployees Assn,, in his remarks to
the Assembly Standing Commit-
tee on Government Employees.
The commitiee is now studying
reintroduction of a contributory
pension plan for state employees.

Assemblyman Stephen R.
Greco (D-C, Erie), the commit-
tee chairman, sponsored three
bills during this year’s legisla~
tive session which had to do
with mandating employee contri-
butions to pension plans, Dr,
Wenzl pointed out. Assembly
Bill 8015 requires an employee
who joined or rejoined a public
retirement system after July 1,
1973, to contribute, starting on
July 1, 1976, 8 percent of his or
her gross annual earnings to-
ward the cost of his or her
membership in the system; As-
sembly 8016 requires prospective
members of the State Retirement
System to contribute in the same
manner as Assembly 8015, and

Assembly 8017 requires legisla-

tors who joined or rejoined a
retirement plan after April 1,
1973, to contribute at the same
rate.

“I would like to comment
about Assembly 8015,” Dr. Wenzl
told the committee. “CSEA's
counsel has some question as to
whether or not this type of ac-
tion would be in viokution of
Article 5, Section 7, of the New
York State Constitution.

“As you know, that Section
of the Constitution prohibits the
diminishing or impairing of ben-
efits heretofore provided on a
permanent basis. This bill
amends Article 11 of the Retire-
ment and Social Security Law
by merely adding a new Section.
Article 11 did not create a dif-
ferent system mandating em-
ployee contributions but merely
set Limitations which are applic-
able to new entrants. Therefore,

(Continued on Page 3)

New Discipline Rules Are Termed
More Advantageous To Workers

ALBANY—Several major improvements in disciplinary procedures for New York State
employees resulted from the 1975 contract-reopener negotiations between the state and
the Civil Service Employees Assn.

Article 33 of the contract now guarantees an employee that he can have union rep-

resentation during his interroga~
tion and prior to his being re-
quested to sign any statement.
In the previous article, the word-
ing on this matter allowed dif-
ferent interpretations, while the
new }anguage constitutes an
“tron-clad guarantee” of an em-
ployee’s right to such union rep-
resentation throughout each step
of the disciplinary procedurs,
according to Bernard J. Ryan,
CSEA’s State Programs Admin-
istrator.

Another benefit of the new
procedure is that now, in cases
where a department head or his
Tepresentative fails to answer an
employe2's grievance within a
specified time limit, the em-
ployee has the right to proceed
directly to binding arbitration,
resulting in a speedup of the dis-
ciplinary process.

A major change in the dis-
ciplinary procedure involves em-
ployees who have been suspended.
‘Under the previous wording of
Article 23, employees often had

to remain suspended, without
pay, for long periods of time,
while lengthy departmental
hearings dragged on. Under the
new wording, a suspended em-
ployee can waive th: depart-
mental hearing and go directly
to arbitration The American
Arbitration Assn. is then directed
to give the case priority and
must hear the cas? within 14
days, This change yets the em-
ployee back on the job and on
the payroll weeks earlier than
was previously possible.

Also, in cases where the ar-
bitrator of a suspension can
reasonably assume the hearing
will last more than one day, the
union now has the right, jointly
with the state, to authorize the
arbitrator to issue an interim
decision on whether or not there
was probable cause for the sus-

This situation is likely to arise
(Continwed on Page 20)

Can Legislature
Legally Mandate
Use Of Pension $

IHE State Court of Ap-

peals held an unusual
session in New York City on
Friday to hear arguments in
a law suit challenging the valid-
ity of the law that mandates in-
vestments of state employee
pension funds in bonds issued by
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Name New DMH Deputy Chief Not Too Late

ALBANY—Thomas Cough-
lin, 37-year-old executive di-
rector of the Jefferson Coun-
ty Assn. for Retarded Chil-
dren and a former state trooper,
has been appointed by Gov.
Hugh L. Carey as the new De-
partment of Mental Hygtene's
deputy commissioner for mental
retardation

Mr. Coughlin succeeds Robert
W. Hayes as deputy commisston-
er. The new appointee had
served as chairman of the De-
partment's advisory committee
on retardation. Mr. Coughlin ts
a 1962 graduate of the State

Police Academy and was a troop-
er for 10 years, He also attended
Jefferson Community College
and Goddard College, Plainfield,
Vt. The post pays an annual
salary of $45,071

SUSSKIND TO MVB

ALBANY—Arthur Susskind Jr.
has been named assistant to Ed-
ward O'Neill, recently appointed
public relations officer for the
New York State Department of
Motor Vehicles. Mr. Susskind was
appointed by DMV Commissioner
James P. Melton.

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Veterans Outreach and Down-
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Beame has appointed two busi-
ness executives to serve as non-
salaried consultants on the staff
of Kenneth Axelson, the new
deputy mayor for finance.

‘The new appointees are Joseph
W. Bower, 60, a certified public
accountant who recently retired
from the firm of Coopers and
Lybrand, and Kevin J. Collins,
36, a vice-president with First
Boston Corp. an investment
banking concern.

Mr. Axelson was sworn in
two weeks ago as the city’s top
fiscal officer.

Motor Vehicle Tax

ALBANY—State Comptrol-
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the distribution of $5,073,-
135,03 as the third 1975-76
installment of motor vehicle tax
receipts to the counties of the
State and to the City of New
York for the counties comprising
the City. New York City’s share
of this total is $1,283,535,06.

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State-collected motor vehicle fees

for the three months ending June
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A Videotape On Retirement
Screened By DOT Region 3

SYRACUSE—Richard E. Cleary, president of Syracuse Region V, Civil Service Em-
ployees Assn., informed Region members that State Department of Transportation Region
3 will screen a special pre-retirement videotape series.

Ward Bury, DOT Region 3 personne! officer, is coordinating the viewing schedule.

The videotapes are available for
screening by state employees
over 53 years of age.

“So far, we've been pleased
with employee response to the
tapes,” Mr. Bury said. “The turn-
outs for sessions have been good
and the overall comments made
by the viewers indicate that the
tapes are quite informative.”

The DOT Region 3 videotape

series will be held in the seventh
floor training center of the John
Hughes State Office Building,
Syracuse. Mr. Bury said that
other state departments can
make arrangements for viewing
the tapes through his office. The
telephone number there is (315)
473-8153. They are one to two
hours in length and cover such

Win Back Broome Holiday

BINGHAMTON Main-
tenance, athletic department
and laboratory assistant em-
ployees of the Broome Com-
munity College unit, Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn. are entitled
to the day after Thanksgiving
as a paid day off according to an
arbitrator's favorable decision
based on a class grievance argued
in their behalf by CSEA Region
V attorney John Rittinger.

The unit employees involved
had, in the past, received pay
for the day after Thanksgiving
without being required to work,
The week before the 1974
Thanksgiving holiday, employees
learned of the county's decision
to charge the day off after
‘Thanksgiving to each employee's
accumulated vacation or person-
al leave.

‘The County, in its argument,
clted inequities “among county
employees regarding compensa-
tion for the disputed holiday
while claiming that, according
to strict interpretation of the
CSEA contract, the employees
should be working that day.

In his report, Public Employ-
ment Relations Board arbitrator
Philip Ross wrote that, “unit
employees have enjoyed the ben-
efit of the use of the day after
Thanksgiving as a paid holiday
for many years” and, to ignore
the contract's provision regurd-
ing “previous rights, privileges
and benefits” would itself "vio-
late the contract,” He concluded
his report by “sustaining” the
employees” grievance and credit-
ing them with a paid day off
after the Thanksgiving holiday

Wenzl Blasts Plan

(Continued from Page 1)
T feel, gentlemen, that this legis-
lation may be unconstitutional,”

Dr, Wenzl pointed out that
prior to the inception of the
Taylor Law, which governs con-
duct by public sector employees,
CSEA was responsible for nego-
ating many benefits for state
employees, many of them in the
area of retirement improvements

"In 1957, CSEA was responsi-
ble for gaining Social Security
coverage for state and local gov-
ernment employees on a permis~
sive basis,” the CSEA chief said.
“In 1960, CSEA won a reduction
of 5 percent in the employee
contribution to the State Retire-
ment System. This benefit was
negotiated in lieu of a salary
increase, In 1964, we further
reduced the employee contribu-
tion rate by an additional 3 per-
cent, The salary increase se-
cured in that year was minimal
In 1965, we negotiated a noncon-
tributory retirement system for
wil state employees and, let me
add, in leu of any salary in-
crease,

“Gentlemen, you are now try-
ing to take away negotiated ben-
efits!"

Dr. Wenz) avowed that critics
of the noncontributery aspect of
the retirement system forget that
the benefit was won at the ne-
gotiating table and that pay
raises were sacrificed in favor of
gains in the retirement plan
area,

“When we negotiated these
benefits during pre-Taylor Law
years, it was our expectation
that these benefits would con-

Branch by the
the right to bilater-

This
action is abhorred by CSEA."
The statement has been made,

type of unilateral

Dr, Wenzl noted, that given the
spiraling inflation rate of the
1970's, public employees should
develop a more responsible atti-
tude so as to ease the fiscal crisis
facing government

‘Let me assure you, the mem~-
bership of CSEA was made well
aware of the inflationary prob-
lems of the 70's and the fiscal
crisis facing government,” Dr.
Wenal commented, “Last month,
we received a so-called bonus
check which amounted to a
measly $175. This was our total
wage settlement for the same
12-month period that showed the
cost of living rising at a rate of
10,2 percent

"My membership is a respon-
sible group, and we realize that
times have changed in public
service and that the public de-
mands that the cost of govern-
ment be kept at a responsible
level, What you are now pro-
posing is asking the ordinary
worker to suffer w further redue-
tion in his take-home pay by
contributing to a retirement
plan.

“The three bills that have
come before your committee pro-
pose & projected contribution
rate of 8 percent of gross an-
nual earnings,” Dr, Wensl wld
the committee. “Had this deduc-
Hon been in effect in 1975, a
state employee earning $9,000
who received the bonus would
have received a decrease in his
annual net earnings of $541.28,
“The erosion in

topics as Social Security, em-
ployee health insurance, survi-
vors’ benefits, budgeting income
and other retirement topics.

DOT sections, viewing times
and dates are:

Oct. 14, Section 6, 9 am.,
Wayne County, 1 p.m.

Oct. 22, Equipment Manage-
ment, 9 a.m.; Onondaga East,
1 pm.

Oct. 29, Onondaga West, 9
am.; Cayuga County, 1 p.m.

Nov. 5, Tompkins County, 9
a.m.; Seneca County, | p.m.

Nov. 12, Section 5, 9 am.;
Cortland County, 1 p.m.

Nov. 19, Oswego County, 9
a.m.; Floating Plant Section 5,
1 p.m.

Dec. 3, Oswego County, 9 a.m.;
Cayuga County, 1 p.m,

Dec. 17, Section 5, 9 a.m.; See-
tion 6, 1 p.m,

Palega And Saleski
Win Fourth Term
With Central Barge

SYRACUSE Chester P.
Palega was elected president
and first delegate and F.
Ronald Saleski was named
secretary and second delegate,
each for their fourth terms, by
the Central Barge Canal chiap-
ter, Civil Service Employees Assn

Albert G. Albro was named to
his third term as treasurer by
the chapter members, Following
& tle vote for first vice-president,
& run-off election was held. In
this election, Donald M. McKin-
non was named to the post, The
second vice-president slot was
taken by Frank Cinelli while
Richard Greer and Clarence
Bullock were elected alternate
delegates,

Marcy PC Future
Will Be Discussed

YORKVILLE — A general
meeting of the Marcy Psychi-
atric Center chapter, Civil
Service Employees Assn., will
be held at the Monarch Restau-
rant here Friday, Oct. 24, The
meeting will begin at 7 p.m,

Attendees will hear. remarks
from Keith Hoffman, MPC dep-
uty director for administration,
on the future of the institution,
especially on the proposed merg-
er of Utica PC and Marey PC, A
Question and answer period will
follow Mr. Hoffman's talk,

SeJan Returns

VESTAL—Peter SeJan, prest-
dent of the Vestal unit, Civil
Service Employees Assn. has re~
turned to work on & half-day
basis following a heart attack
suffered July 4. Mr. SeJan is
also & member of the executive
board of the Broome County Ed-
ueational chapter, CSEA.

by inflation has imposed # great
enough hardship on government
employees without adding, the
additional burden of a contribu-
tory pension plan.

“We feel this legisiation ls to-

SYRACUSE
REGION 5

Regional Office:
Midtown Plaza (Room 118)

700 East Water St.
Syracuse, N.Y. 13210
Phone: (315) 422-2319

By RICHARD CLEARY
CSEA Vice-President/Region 5 President

M: thanks to the membership of the Syracuse Region
‘for their support in returning me to office as the Re-
gion 5 President.

I consider it a distinct honor to represent them. My in-
tention is to serve you and promote the growth and ideals
of CSEA.

We are again in a difficult challenge period both at
the State and the local levels. Rival unions have their eye
on the financial gains they can make by taking us over
and are willing to spend huge sums, hoping for a fast return
on their investment.

CSEA stands on its record! We do not make grandiose
promises that cannot be met. Our purpose is to truly repre-
sent the membership, This is being done now, and we do
not have to send our tribute to Washington to determine
our mission and purpose in the negotiation area,

It certainly will be to our interest to have lobbying
done at the Federal level but the cost of the rival union
lobbying is prohibitive, with no guarantees that money ex-
pended will go to our programs. ,

CSEA lost a skirmish this year, but our strength is
great and we will go on to greater benefits and greater
battles,

The disgruntled number of members ts small in com-
parison to the large segment that knows CSEA’s history.

We have our record of achievement and the determina-
tion of the membership can only improve and expand this
record.

POLITICAL ACTION |s paramount in the region. Each
member ts asked to contribute individually to the program
and I am also asking each chapter to send 20 cents per
member to our treasurer to be used for Political Action.

This will be discussed at the region meeting to be held
at the convention. Notices will be posted as to time and
location,

Time is short to gear up for the local elections, but
we must plan and gain experience for next year's state
legislative election. Effort expended now will help us in our
negotiations at all levels of government. We must show the
elected legislatures that CSEA is to be reckoned with and
that our support will be withheld from those who oppose
our aims.

The Political Action committees at the state and region
levels have a decisive responsibility ahead of them. We
must back their recommendations with contributions, paid
ads on radio, TV and the newspapers. We can also help
them by our direct labor. I will ask the retirees’ chapters
to help in this matter by working in candidates’ offices to
gain support from our members. Many of our members are
restricted by the Hatch Act, but this does not apply to
retirees. Our lobbying has to extend to the grass roots to
build a firm foundation for our programs.

. .

AN EDUCATION PROGRAM is being advanced by the
regional committee for presentation this October, Its purpose
is to train the chapter officers in their duties. The program
will be explained more fully at the convention region
meeting.

The petitions and signed cards obtained by the chal-
lenging union in the PS&T sector are being vigorously chal-
lenged by CSEA. Many cards were signed by non-members,
unemployed persons, employees in other bargaining units
and others not eligible, We have demanded that PERB vali-
date and prove conclusively that the proper number of
challenge cards exist.

There are 3,882 PS&T members in Region 5 and 1,299
non-members. Each chapter president will be asked to set
up a challenge committee to combat this intrusion, There
is no doubt in my mind that we will win, but I want to
win big to demonstrate to our rivals that future efforts
will be futile.

You will be hearing more from the Region and 33 Elk
St. on this matter,

Best wishes for a successful Annual Meeting and a

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CSEA Diversity

ELEGATES representing the 230,000 members of the

Civil Service Employees Assn, in 305 chapters through-

out the state converge this week in Niagara Falls to chart
a course for the next year,

CSEA is composed of public employees who are grouped
into 222 chapters for state employees, 55 chapters for county
and local government employees, 8 chapters for non-teach-
ing employees of school districts, 10 chapters for Authorities
employees and 10 chapters for retirees.

Most of the state chapters are organized along depart-
mental lines, although some, such as the New York City
chapter, third largest of CSEA's chapters, combine mem-
bership from various departments within a geographic area.

Because of the immense size of some of the county
Gpapters, they are broken down further into units. For ex-
ample, Nassau County chapter, whose 23,000 members ac-
count for 10 percent of the total CSEA membership, has
nearly a hundred units, some of which are larger than many
chapters. In Westchester County chapter, second largest in
the state, units are broken down even further into sections
for greater rank-and-file participation.

The educational chapters, composed of non-| coaching
personnel, are relatively new on the CSEA scene, Previously,
school employees had been included within the county
chapters. Now, if there are more than a thousand school
employees in a county, they have the option of forming
their own chapter. Thus, Suffolk County chapter, which had
been the second largest in the state, dropped to fourth with
the creation of Suffolk Educational chapter, which ranks
12th In size,

Represented on the CSEA State Executive Committee
are the Authorities. These are not really state departments,
but special commissions set up to oversee operations on the
Thruway, East Hudson Parkway, New York Harbor and State
Bridges. The Authorities conduct separate contract nego-
tiations with the State apart from those of other state
workers.

The retiree chapters are composed of former employees
in all the above-mentioned categories. These are organized
along geographic lines.

It is not an easy task to administer these diverse groups,
and so the Association has been divided into six regions,
with roughly the same membership, but vastly different
geographic sizes, These range from the compact New York
City Region II to the sprawling Syracuse Region V, which
covers a 20-county area, Western Region VI, with its twin
population centers of Buffalo and Rochester, includes 14
counties, as does Albany Region IV.

Within the regions, though, there may be major dif-
ferences in the type of employees who are represented. Most
obvious examples here are New York City Region II, where
there are no local government employees, and Long Island
Region I, where local government employees far outnumber
state employees.

Yet, it is the Southern Region III, middle-sized in both
size and number, where much of the greatest activity within
the past year has taken place. It is here that CSEA turned
back challenges in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster Counties,
conducted a successful strike in Dutchess County (first
major strike by a county in the state’s history) and reached
a contract settlement in Putnam County after members
there voted to strike,

Yet, this week, all these diverse people will come to-
gether and somehow manage to hammer out a program that

TUESDAY, $

(Continued from Page 1)
the Municipal Assistance Cor-
oration. 5

‘The suit was instituted by the
Civil Service Employees Assn.
and by the State Conference of
Police Officers, The law in-
volved was enacted at the recent
special session of the State Leg-
istature and was designed to as-
sist New York City out of its
financial crisis, when it appeared
that the bonds of the Municipal
Assistance Corporation would
not be marketable through nor-
mal investment channels,

Mandate By Law

The state law mandates the
making of such investments.
State Comptroller Arthur Levitt,
who Initially refused to make
such investments on the general
theory that investments of that
character were improvident, is
mandated under the law to buy
those securities, In addition the
Jaw exculpates the comptroller,
as sole trustee of the state pen-
sion funds. and the trustees of
pension systems operated by the
City of New York, from any la-
billty that may accrue in the
event that the investments turn
sour.

‘The precise issue before the
Court was whether such man-
dated investments violate the
State Constitution, which pro-
vides that pension systems are a
contract and that rights under
the systems may not be dimin-
ished or impaired. At Leader
presstime, thé Court had not
yet handed down its decision.
There had been 4s Supreme Court
fecision which upheld the valid-
ity of the law, on the general
theory that the dollar volume of
mandated investment was rela-
tively small in comparison to
the total value of pension fund
assets,

On the other hand, the State
Jaw Involved nvay be an entering
wedge into further legislation to
increase the amounts that the
pension funds will be required to
invest in Municipal Assistance
Corporation bonds, There are
already rumors that such legis-
lation may be sought, since MAC
is still faced with difficulties in
marketing its bonds.

Actually the proportion of in-
vestment to total pension funds
assets, as a guide to judicial de-
cision, seems to be an irrelevant
one. The real issue is that at
least In this respect the Legis-
Jature has substituted itself for
the State Comptroller as the
trustee of the pension funds, at
least to the extent of this invest-
ment, Having done so once with
respect to this amount of invest-
ment, the Legislature would seem
to have the power to Increase
the dollar volume of the man-
date

Thus the real question before
the Court 1s whether the State
Legisiature can willy nilly be-
come the trustee of the pension
funds and use assets of the pen-
sion systems for purposes that
have nothing to do with the wel-
fare of members of the pension
system and the rights of those
who are beneficiaries of the sya~
tem. Viewed from that vantage
point, it Is hard to see how such
legislation does not impair the
rights of those entitled to pen-
alons.

Reaction Of Lawyers

A curious sidelight to all of
this is the reaction of lawyers
who drafted that legislation to
a proposal advanced by Manhat-

“y Law & You

By RICHARD GABA

Mr. Gaba is a member of the firm of White, Walsh and Gaba,
P.C,, and chairman of the Nassau County Bar Association Labor
Law Committee.

Broader PERB Powers

The New York State Public Employment Relations
Board, in a two-to-one decision, h&s opted to increase its
jurisdiction, PERB has decided that where an employer en-
gages in conduct which constitutes a violation of a collec-
tive agreement, it will almost invariably take jurisdiction
under C.S.L., (Section 209-a.ld) on the theory that there
has been a unilateral change in terms and conditions of
employment, PERB will take jurisdiction, perhaps decide in
favor of the employees, and then mournfully relate that it
has no power to order the employer to do anything except
negotiate regarding the matter.

« . *

THE DISSENTING OPINION points up a typical situa~
tion. A collective agreement calls for premium pay for work
on a holiday. The public employer refuses to make the pay-
ment called for by the contract. This would constitute prima
facie an improper practice—which PERB is powerless to
remedy, Assuming that there is no procedure in the con-
tract for binding arbitration, the employees may be without
a remedy. If the employee organization (charging party)
knew that PERB would not exercise jurisdiction over such
a case, It could immediately proceed to a lawsuit in the
state courts for breach of contract. Nowhere in the Taylor
Law is PERB given the authority to litigate contract dis-
putes where the parties to the agreement have a difference
as to the meaning of certain language.

ae ee

‘THIS IS FAR different from a situation where the em-
ployer unilaterally withdraws a benefit not provided for in
the contract without negotiating it or where the employer
unilaterally institutes a term or condition of employment
not provided for in the agreement. Clearly, in these latter
two cases, PERB has jurisdiction under Section 209-a.1(d).
“However,” says the dissent, “in a situation where the em-
ployer refuses to implement an express provision of the
contract, or does so in a manner which the employee or-
ganization feels is not in accordance with the provision in
the contract, what would be involved is a pure contractual
question and the enforcement of the contract as such, and
thus outside the jurisdiction of this Board.” The dissent
goes on to say that Legislature should address the problem
either by giving PERB jurisdiction in breach of contract
cases, or requiring a grievance and arbitration procedure for
the resoltujon of such disputes. (Town of Orangetown, Case
Nos. U-1052 and U-1130, July 1, 1975, 8 PERB 3069.)

IN ANOTHER two-to-one decision issued on the same
date, PERB held, reversing the hearing officer, that the
grievance procedure in a prior contract remained viable
during negotiations for a successor agreement. In the Spring
of 1974,-the parties commenced negotiations for a new
contract to commence July 1, 1974, Both sides had agreed
that all items in the current contract would remain the
same unless one party requested a change in a particular
item, The demands by the employee organization did not
seek a modification of the grievance-arbitration procedure,
The public employer did not offer any modifications of the
grievance procedure and the subject was not even discussed
during negotiations, The Board did not address itself in this
(Continued from Page 6)
tan Borough President Percy
Sutton and City Council Presi-
dent Paul O'Dwyer. Their pro-

posal calls for the establishment
of a Municipal Bond Investment
Fund, and all banks, insurance
companies, and other financial
institutions, including public em-
ployee pension funds, would be
required to invest a portion of
their portfolios in securities of
that fund, which would become,
in effect, the marketing agent
for bonds of all municipalities in

the state, not just those affect-
ing New York City.

‘The lawyers who drafted the
legislation to compel public pen-
sion funds in MAC bonds argue
that the Sutton-O’Dwyer pro-
posal is unconstitutional in that
it ts virtually confiscatory with
respect to the assets of the
banks, insurance companies and
other financial institutions, It
is, of course, difficult to see why
the legislation is any less con-
fiseatory when it applies only to
public employee pension funds.

etna enamine ou hot imei

Questions & Answers |

Q. While I was in the hospital
last month, I received radiology
services from a doctor. I thought
the charges for these services
would count toward my medical
insurance deductible, but the
doctor said they don’t. Is this
true?

A. Yes, While you are an in-

patient in a hospital, medical in-
surance pays 100 percent of the
reasonable charges for services by
doctors in the fields of radiology
and pathology, Because the full
reasonable charges are paid, they
do not count toward the $60
annual medical insurance deduc-
tible.

Two Are Appointed
To Prisons Board

ALBANY — The last two
vacancies on the State Com-
mission of Correction have
been filled by appointments
made last week by Gov, Hugh
L. Carey,

Named to the Commission
were Eugene S. LeFevre, super-
intendent of the Adirondack
Treatment and Evaluation Cen-
ter, Dannemora, and Dorothy
Wadsworth, a member of the
McKay Commission which stud-
fed the 1971 prison uprising at
Attica. The positions pay $36,100

annually,
The Commission, which was
overhauled earlier this year,

monitors the state's correctional
facilities.

BONACUM APPOINTED

ALBANY—William T. Bona-
cum, former New York City Po-
lice Department assistant chief,
has been named deputy commis-
sioner of the State Division of
Criminal Justice Services. The
Post pays $37,500. Mr. Bonacum,
52, will head the Division's Iden-
tiffeation and Information
Services.

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case to the arbitrability of the merits of the dispute—
but only to the effectiveness of the grievance-arbitration
procedure. Thus, the Board concluded that “the respondent
has violated Section 209-a.1(d) of the Act by refusing to

negotiate in good faith .

.” The employer unilaterally

withdrew a previously enjoyed benefit of binding arbitra-
tion of grievances while the parties were negotiating a
successor agreement to the one which expired June 30, 1974.
(Board of Ed., Malone CSD, Case No. U-1319, July 1, 1975,

8 PERB 3073).

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Editor, The Leader:

The Committee to Maintain
Fire Protection, an mdependent
group of citizens who have con-
ducted extensive research into
the present New York City fire
situation, find the recent head-
line on a story In The Leader
that “Pire Service High Despite
Cuts,” dealing with assertions by
fire commissioner John T. O’-
Hagan, hard to swallow.

During the 10 years that
O'Hagan has been a prime force
motivating the Fire Department
policies as chief of department
and more recently as both chief
and fire commissioner, fire deaths
im New York City have risen 60
percent and insured fire losses
100 percent. In the face of such

tuted and backed policy changes
which have in effect reduced to
& pre-1939 level the lifesaving

things into thelr proper perspec-
tive, A 30-year study (1030-69)
conducted by the Uniformed Fire
Officers Assn. revealed a 9.5-1
line of duty death ratio between
city firemen and persons doing
police work im this city and a
12-1 ratio in heart ailments, In
addition, New York City fire-
fighters die nine years sooner
than the national mortality rate.
Since 1969, manpower has been
reduced from approximately 14,-
000 to less than 9,500, while
alarms have tnereased from
240,000 to a projected 400,000-
plus this year,

Tt seems conceivable enough
that with considerably fewer fire-
snen fighting so many more fires,
the likelihood that the rate of

The Editor |

ticeably increased, The commis-
sioner, however, attributes the
rise in injuries to a change in
attitude and a failure to “hang
in there” on the part of fire-
fighters who presumably are
claiming bogus injuries. Consid-
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cently brought by firemen who,
although seriously injured, were
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that they acted under pres-
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bona-fide injuries are included
in these figures, Moreover, «
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RVICE LEADER, Tuesday,

CIVIL §

Former presidents of Western Region (or its predecessor Western Conference) offer congratulations
to Robert Lattimer, right, the current title holder, The former presidents and their current position
in CSEA are, from left, Celeste Rosenkranz, statewide education committee chairman; Melba Binn,
retiree; John Adamski, board member of Roswell Park Memorial Institute chapter; Samuel Grossfield,

president of Rochester chapter, and William McGowan, statewide executive vice-president,

Named chairmen of key regional committees were Rochester chapter's
John Garvey and SUNY at Buffalo chapter's Jerry Frieday. He will
head regional CETA committee, and she will coordinate regional
mertings.

New presidents, from left, Lyle Slocum, of Steuben Coun-
ty, and Ruth Robinson, of Yates County, go over materi-
al with Phil Logan, president of Hornell chapter. These
three, from the southeastern section of the region,
Probably traveled the farthest to attend meeting

Cattaraugus County delegation included, frem left,
chapter secretary Maxine Tanner and past president
Phyllis Felton. Seated behind them are Industry leaders
Edward Gilbert and Paul Blanchard, chapter president
and child care representative, respectively. Seated next
to Mr, Gilbert is his wife, Jerry.

Members of regional field staff were on hand to ob-
serve deliberations and to provide service to delegates.
Shown here are Pat Phelan, left, and Ray Ducharme,
both assist field representatives,

(Leader photos by Hugo Unger)

Regional attorney Charles Sandler, left, receives plaque from former
Western Region president William McGowan, who ts now CSEA
executive vice-president. Mr. McGowan cited Mr, Sandler for his
services to the region and his success in helping the membership.

Long-time CSEA activist Maye Bull, president of Gowanda Psychia-
tric Center chapter, expresses her appreciation after she had been
presented plaque by William MeGowan, Ms, Bull, now retired, said,
“I might fight with you all, but I'm with CSEA.”

Lee Andrews, first vice-president
of the Buffalo Labor chapter, ex-
horts members to have “faith in
negotiating teams.”

Ronald Stanton, new president
of Buffulo Psychiatric Center

discussion Central Schools,

OSEA president Theodore ©, Wenal, right, drove from Albany to
Buffalo to attend Western meetin;
chapter, was active participant in Erie Educational unit presidents.

Here he shown with two
wman Lemke, of West Seneca
Walker, of Lancaster School District.

Western Thruway Authority chapter
dents and their wives shared table at Saturday evening dinner. At
left are the chapter's new president Frank Bumpus and his wife,
Mary. Seated scross from them are Abbe:

outgoing and incoming presi-

Officers of CSEA Western Region VI are installed by statewide president Theodore C. Wenzl at the

regional meeting earlier this month. Left from Dr. Wenal are secretary Judith Burgess, Ontario
County; third vice-president Romona Gallagher, Labor, Buffalo District; first vice-president Gene-
vieve Clark, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, and president Robert Lattimer, Labor, Buffalo District,
Unable to attend the meeting were second vice-president Robert Smith, SUNY at Buffalo, and
treasurer Barbara Fauser, Health Research.

Western Delegates Warned
About Outside Contractors

(From Leader Correspondent)

CHEEKTOWAGA — An
alarm was sounded at a Civil
Service Employees Assn.
Western Region VI meeting
jast week about state efforts to
supplant CSEA workers with out-
side contractors im the Mental
Hygiene Department.

Ronald Stanton, president of
the CSEA chapter at Buffalo Psy-
chiatric Center, warned delegates
to the meeting in the Holiday
Inn here that state officials have
organized ® “corporate system
to compete with state workers in
‘the field.”

The system, Mr, Stanton said,
was manned by out-of-work col-
lege professors willing to accept
low-wages during the economic
crisis,

He said the “takeover of Men-
tal Hygiene services results in
the lessening of civil service
status and civil service person-
nel.”

‘The professors, he added, were
assuming civil service “job func-
tions at cheaper wages . . . scab-
bing against us.

"This is something that can
spread,” he warned delegates
from chapters in other state de-
partments.

The meeting was the first
presided over by Robert Lattimer,
recently elected Region VI presi-
dent.

He and other officers—Gene-
vieve Clark, first vice-president;
Robert Smith, second vice-presi-
dem; Romona Gallagher, third
vice-president; Barbara M. Paus-
er, treasurer, and Judy Burgess,
secretary — were installed at a
dinner following the afternoon
business session.

Mr, Lattimer pledged during
the meeting to “work with any-
one and everyone in this organt-
zation to further the best inter-
ests of this organization. I'm not
the type of person who is very
good at participating in a popu-
jarity contest,” he added in
promising to make “an objective
analysis of each problem” and
“not always say ‘Yes.’

“This ts the only way I know
how to operate,” he added,

“I would hope,” he continued,
“thet during the next two years
we are going to pull together and
work for the ane common goal

elected officers: @ responsibility
to work for the membership and
CSEA.”

He asked delegates in dealing
with him to “put all the cards
on the table" during discussions
of problems, “Everyone has the
right and obligation to hold me
acountable for everything that

happens in this Region,” he add-
ed. “I accept the- responsibility
with no qualms” and “I think
we can provide leadership and
examples for the rest of the or-
ganization.”

William McGowan, CSEA ex-

James Bourkney, president of the
host West Seneca Developmental
Center chapter, acted as master
of ceremonies at the Saturday
evening dinner,

ecutive vice-president and out-
going Region VI president who
was presented an attache case
during the dinner, made @ pitch
at the meeting for CSEA to pay
the state salaries of region presi-
dents for the entire two years
of their office, Currently, CSEA
has been paying the regional
presidents’ salaries under an
agreement that ends next month.
Mr. McGowan said he owed the
state 396 hours of work when he
was elected to the statewide post,
“In order to do the job you've
got to have the time,” Mr. Me-
Gowan said, “You've got to get
out to the rank and file.”

Problems, he sald, are created
when CSEA leaders have no
time to explain CSEA rules and
procedures to members and giude
them through crises.

Mr, Lattimer agreed with the
MeGowan proposal. “I myself am
finding there is plenty for me
to do,” he said, adding, “I'm not
making any money on tt.”

Mr, Lattimer also asked the
delegates to keep watch for vio-
Jations of the Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act.
“Most of us have had bad situa-
tons with CETA,” he sadd.
“We're not against the act in
theory, we're against the act in
implementation.”

(Continued on Page 20)

Erie County's George Clark, second from left, accepts congratulations
from Vie Marr, his predecessor as chairman of the Western Counties
Workshop. At left is Niagara County's Dorothy Hy, re-elected as
secretary-treasurer, and between the two men is Cattaraugus County's
Jean Freeman, outgoing vice-chairman, Niagara County's Neil

WESTERN
REGION 6

Regional Headquarters Office:
4122 Union Read
Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14226
Phone: (716) 634-3540

By ROBERT LATTIMER
CSEA Vice-President/Region 6 President

‘HILE there may be a great temptation in beginning
a new term to launch new projects, and perhaps aban-
don those started by predecessors, in Western Region 6 we
plan to expand and refine the programs of my predecessor,
CSEA executive vice-president Bill McGowan.
These plans include Improvements in our communica-
tions and education facilities, activities and capabilities.
First comes communication. For a democratic organi-
zation to function, communications must be free, fluid, and
flowing in both directions. There must be information from
the leadership to the membership and feedback from the
membership to the leadership. With information there is
greater participation, and with greater participation, there
is more accomplishment and satisfaction of the functions

of our union.

It will be my job to keep officers and committees func-
tioning, and I hope the membership will take this oppor-
tunity to provide them with the information to steer them
in the direction the membership wants them to take, to
nurture them with ideas and nourish them with cooperation
and involvement by everyone on the following regional
committees; Budget, Audit, Constitution and By-Laws, Edu-
cation, Finance, Legislative and Political Action, Member-
ship, Public Relations, Resolutions, Citations, and County

Affairs.

TO MAKE THE PARTICIPATION more meaningful and
productive, I hope to expand and multiply our education
programs. This will include, hopefully, greater participation
by officers and members in the continuing and revolving

(to permit new entrants at any time)

two-year Labor

Studies courses conducted by Cornell University, offering
college credits. The region will continue half-scholarships,
and I hope to encourage all chapters to pick up the tab for
the other half—thus offering our members another free
benefit, and an invaluable benefit to CSEA.

While plans are in the works for training seminars for
various officers, stewards and others, to be held at various
locations, there are still openings for additional requests

and suggestions.

And while these requests and suggestions can be made
at any of the regional meetings which will be held at various
locations throughout the region, they can also be made
directly to regional headquarters at 4122 Union Rd,, Cheek-
towaga, N.Y. 14226, phone (716) 634-3540, (Invitations to
host meetings should be made to Gerri Frieday at 424 Esther

St., North Tonawanda, N.Y

14120, phone (716) 831-2835,

WHILE ON THE SUBJECT of invitations, everyone ts
invited to the grand opening of the Rochester Office located
in the Win-Jeff Plaza at Winston and Jefferson roads on

Saturday, Oct. 25.

AT BOTH LOCATIONS are various publications with
factual CSEA materials which will rebuff anything put out

by PEF or any other group.

And that's all I ask our members to consider on this
PEF challenge in PS&T—the facts. On facts, CSEA will

win every time.

To illustrate, PEF’s latest publication makes a big to-do
about a contract demand form printed therein, as if it were
invented by them. CSEA members, however, know that con-
tract demand forms have been part and parcel of CSEA
for so long that we don't even claim the invention anymore.
But it is time for state workers to fill them out and feed
them to the negotiating team. This is the necessary feed-

back,

As to when negotiations will begin, that will depend
on when the PEF challenge |s resolved, At the moment,
there is uncertainty about whether there are sufficient PEF
cards for an election and court or other proceedings could
postpone things, as they do in all challenges. Nevertheless,
now is the time for membership participation in the nego-

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In the closing days of the regular 1975 Legislative Ses-
sion, special allowances, above and beyond salaries and
expenses, were allocated for 167 leadership positions In the
State Senate and the Assembly

Distribution of the nearly
$1,000,000 for allowances, inctud-
ed in the supplemental budget
that also provided a $250 non-
recurring bonus for state civil
service employees. was by title
and not by name.

Therefore. The Leader is
printing the names of those
senators and assemblymen who
share in the “Lulus.” ranging
from $1,000 to $21,000. Also listed
are their titles and the amounts
they receive.

Although 167 titles are reward-
ed—103 in the Assembly and 64
in the Senate, several of the lee-
{slators hold more than one po-
sition.

THE ASSEMBLY

Stanley Steingut, DeNew York City
speaker, $21,000

Albert H. Blumenthal, D-New York
City, majority leadee, $14,500,

Perry B. Duryea, R-Montauk. minority
leader, $18,500.

Louis DeSalvio,

D.New York City,

wi
City, majority coordinator standing com
mintees and chairman joint conference
committee, $14,000,
Charles D. Henderson, R-Hornell, mi
nority chairman joint conference com:
000.

“L Burns, R-Amityvitie,
nority coordinator manding
‘$7,900,

my
ommittees,

Francis J. Griffis, D-Buffalo, deputy
majority leader, $10,000,

Dominick L. DiCarlo, ReBrookiyn, depu:
fy minority leader, $10,000,

Arthur QO. Bi juffalo, wsiscant
majority leader, $10,000.

James L. Emery, R-Geneveo, assistant
minority feader, $10,000

Guy R. Brewer, D-Jammica, majority
whim, $9,000.

Gleno H. Harris, RCanada Lake, mi
nority whip, $9,000,

Thomar W, Brown, D-Albany, chair
mun majority conference committee
$8,000.

Louis Nine, D-Bronx,

vice chairman.
majority conference committee. $4,000
also, vice chairman social services com:
mittee, $1,000.

Peter G. Mirto, D-Brooklyn, secretary
majority conference committee, $4,000,
also, vice chairman insurance committee
$1,000

Don W. Cook, R-Henriees, chairman
minority conference commirtee, $8,000.

John A. Esposito, R-Queens Village.
vice chairman minority conference com
mittee, $4,000.

Giarence D. Rappleyea, R-Norwich.
secretary minority conference committee.
$4,000,

Neil W. Kelleher, R-Troy, minority
coordinator legislative operations, $5,000.

Oliver G Koppell, D-Broax, chairman
smalority program commit

wie of committee on

corporations,

ye P. Roora, R-Beacon, shale
minority program committee,

1 Haley, D-Wadding
coordinator federal and state relations,
$1,000; also chairman subcommittee on
energy of committer on environmental
conservation, $4,000,

Constance E. Cook, R-lthaca, minority
coordinator federal and state relations,
31,000.

Burton G. Hecht, D-New York Ciey,
chaicman ways and means committee,
$14,000.

Arthur J. Kremer, DsLong Beach, vice
chairman ways and means committee,
$2,000; alo, chairman corporations av:
thorities and commissions commixtee,

Willis H. Stephens, R-Brewster, rank

ny
Sad seesns enmuahiiee 63,9801 she ina
ing minority member education commis
tee, $4,000,

Joho $. Thorp, Rockville Centre, chair

'W. Burrows, R-Yookers, rank
ing minority member of judiciary com:
miter, $5,000,

Richard E Mannix, R-Mamarooeck,
minority

jority member commicter on cities,
$4,000,

Joho B Daly, Re
tant ranking: mi
commintee, $1,000.

Herbert J, Miller, D-Kew Gardens,
chaieman health committee, $7,000

mee! S. Botros, R-Poughkeepsic. rank:

ity member health committee,

para Falls, assis
rity member education

Raymond J. Lill
pian local governmes

commit

Aivin M. Suchin, ReDobbr Ferry,

ing migority member local governments
©, $4,000)

Walsh,

comm
Desiet ie
ona

minority member ageic
83,500; alo, awintane  f

nber_eaviroamental conservation com
jase, $1,500,

Arhur J. Coopermaa, — D-Jamaica,
chairman commerce industry and eennam
fe developmental committee, $5,000,

Philip B Healey, R-Masapequa, rank
ing minority member commerce, indus
try and economic development commit:
two, $4,500.

Herbert A. Posner, D-Far Rockaway,
chairman environmental — conservation
committee, $5,000

Clarence D. Lane. R-Windham, rank
ing minority member environmental coo:
servation ‘committte, $3,500; assistant
tanking minority member rules commit:
tee, $3,500.

‘Thomas J, Murphy, R-Syricuse, eank
minority member corporations, authori
ties and commissions committee, $3,500.
‘chairman
ethics aod guidance committee and chair
maa subcommittee on Mitchell-Lama of
housing committee, $5,500,

George A. Murphy, R-Long
ranking minority member thi
guidance committee. $3,500,

Stephen R Greco, D-Buffato, ch
man governmental employees committee,
38.00; vice chairman rules committer
$2,000,
wrmoay Posner, Drew. vice. chair

omental emplorees commit
also, chairman labor committee,

land
emt

man
31:00:
$6,000.
S. Riford, R-Auburn,
mumber governmental
ioe, $3,500,
Joveph F. Lisa, D Flushing, chairman
xoverameotl — operations committee,
$5,000,

Lawrence Herbst, R-Newburgh, sink
ing minority member governmental op:
erations committee, $3,500

Armando Montano, D-Broas, chairman
housing committee, $5,000,

Rosemary R. Guaning, C-Ridgewood,
ranking minority member housing com:
mittee. $3,500.

Leonard Silverman, D-Brooklyn, chair
tran inwrance cammitiee, $5,000,

William R. Sears, RWoodgare, rank
ing minority member ingurance commuir
tee, $3,500,
cholas J. Calogero, R-Utica, assistant
tanking minority member iavwrance com:
mittee, $1,000

Joseph M. Reilly, R-Glen Cove. rank
ing minority member labor commirtee.
55,800,

George W. Miller, D-New York
chairman social services commit
$5,500.

Clark © Wemple, R-Schenectady, rank
ing minority member social services com
mintee, $3,500

Thomas R. Frey, D-Rochester, chair-
$5,1100
ranking

king imi
employers

Koaald H. Till, ReHamt
minority tentber teanspor
00.

commit

»

rel G. Fisld, RNewionvile. ranking
minority member committee on agi
$4,500,

James W. McCabe, DiJohason City,
chairman — mer health — committee
$5,000.

Robert C Werrs, R-Smithtown, rank
ing minority member mental health com
mittee, $3.00; also, ranking minority
member subcommittee on insitutional care
‘or committee on health, $2,500,

Irwin J. Landes, D-Great Neck, chair-
man higher education committee, $5,000.

Hyman Miller, R-Fayetteville, ranking
minority member higher education com
mittee, $3,500,

Brian Sharoff, D-Brooklyn, chairman
real property taxation committer, $5,000.

Andrew W. Ryan, RoPlatisburgh. rank
ing minority member real property tax
Hon committee, $3,500.

Melvin H, Miller, D-Brooklya. chair
man election law committee, $3,000.

Joho G. Lotreso, R-Anoria, ranking
munacity member sateen law committer,

Ate 4, Dallierl, S-Richesoad Mill
tanking minority member child care com
imine $3,300,

Harvey L. Streizin, D-New York City,
chairman consumer protection committee,

ranking minority member subcommittee
on energy committee on cariroamentat
conservation, $2,400,

1. William Bianchi, D:Parchogue, chair
man subcommittee of towne and villages
of committee on local governments,
4.000,

John J. Flanagan, R-Geeeniown, rank.
ise minority member subcommittee on
towns and villiges of committee on local
woweramedtt, $2,500.

Alan G: Hevesi, D-Forett Hills, chair
man subcommittee on institutional ete
of committee om health, $4,000,

Saul Weprtn, D-Jamaica, chairman
subcommitee on corrections of committee
‘on codes, $4,000,

Jamey F. Hurley, ReLyoms, ranking
minority member subcommittee on cor
rections of committee on codes, $2,500

Guy J, Veletla, R-Bronx, | minority
member subcommittee on Mitebell-Lama
of committee on housing, $2,500

Frederick D Schmidt, ‘D-48th Dissciet
majority coordinator legislative operations
$4,000,

THE SENATE

Warren M. Anderson, R-Binghamton,
temporary president, $21,000.
‘William Conklin, R-Brooklyn, deputy
major feader, $18,000,
Manfred Ohrenstein, DiNew York City.
8,000.

minority leader,

Flas, ma
chairman of the Senate Conference.
53,000; alo chairman of the Social Ser
vices committee, $5,000,

Vander L Beary, DeBrooklya, chair
man of the minority police committee,
$3.000; also ranking minority member
‘of Senate housing and urban develop:

John D. Caemmerer, R-Williston Park,
majority secretary of the Senate confer.
ence. $2,000; also chaifman of transpor
rarion committee, $5,000.

James D. Griffin, D-Buftalo, sceretary
of the minority policy committee, $1,500;
aho ranking minority member of health
committee, $4,000.

John Marchi, R-Staten Island, chair
man of the finance committee, $14,000.
Jeremiah B. Bloom, DiNew York City,
tanking minority member of finance com.
mittee, $9,500,

Bernard Gordon, Pockskill, chairman
of the judiciary committer. $9,000,

Jack E- Bronston, D-New York City.
ranking mipority mimber of judiciary
comimittee, $5,000.

H. Douglas Barclay. Sbelageh: tele
man of codes committee, $9,01

Abrabany Reromeins Didtew Vouk City
ranking minority member of codes com.
mittee, $3,000,

Jay P. Rolison, R-Poughkeepsie, chaie:
man of banks committee, $7,

Joseph L. Guliber, D-Bronx, ranking
minority members of banks committee.
$4,000,

Leon Giuffreda, ReLong Island, choir
man of education committee, $7,000.

Fred J. Eckert, R-Rochester, vice chal
man of education committee, $5,500,

Albert B, Lewis, DeNew York, rank
minority member of education committer,

‘Tarky Lombardi, R-Syracuse, chairman
of hewlth committee, $7,000.

Jes Present, RJamestown. chairman
of local government committee. $5,000.

Cassar Tew Brentwood, | vice
chairman of local government committee.
$5,500,

Linda Winikow, D-3Bth District, nank-
ing minority member of local govern.
ment committee, $3,500:

Norman Levy, R-Merrick, chairman ot
labor commitiee, $54

Frederick L Warder, 8-G
chaitman of labor committee, $3.500

‘A. Frederick Meyerson, —D-Brooklyn.
ranking minority member of labor com.
mittee, $3,500,

James Donovan, R-Chadwick, chairman

of meatal Nppicns and mbdietion,comtiol
committer, $5,000,

Dale Volker, chairman of yubcommit
tee on alcoholinm of the mental hygiene
and addiction control committee, $8,1

Vred Isabella, O-Sehenectady,” ta
minority member of Senate mental hy
iene and addiction control committee
53,500.

John R. Dunne, R-Garden City.
emia of Senate | Tosutunce committee,
$5,000,

israel Rule, D-Stse Senate District,
tanking minority member of insurance
committee, $3,500.

Major Owens, D-l7th Senate District,
ranking minority member of social
views committee, $3,500.

Dougtns Hodvon, Ricaetoe, cts
man of 12x committer, $5,000.

Martin Aver, Race chaste ot
subcommittee on federat aid cutbacks of
the tax committee, $3,500.

John D Perry, D-Sird Senate District,
ranking minority member of Senare tax
committer, $3,400,

James T." Mackartand, — R-Buffalo,
chititman of corporations, authorities and
public utilities committee, $3,000.

Chester J. Straub, D-Rrooklyn, ranking
minority member of corporations, author-
ities. and pablic utilities committee,
$5,500,

Frank Padavan, R-Queens Village, view
chairman of transportation committee
$4,500,

Joweph A, Tauriello, D-Buffalo, rank
fon minority member of transportation
committee, $3,500,

Fdwyn Mason, ReHobart, chairman ot
agriculture committee, $3,000,

Howard Nolan, D-Lovdonvilie, rank.
jee minority member of agriculture com.
mittee, $3,500.

Joho Flynn, R-Yonkers, chairman of
tities committee, $7,000.

John Santucel, D-Richmond, ranking
minority member of cities commintce.
$4,000.

ichaed ScKeemerhorn. R-Newburgh
chairman of civil service and pensions
comimittee, $5,000.

Franz Leichter, D-29th Senate District,
tanking minority member of civil service
and. pensions committee, $3,500.

Martin Kaore, R-Ridgewood, chairman
‘of commerce and economic development
committee, $5,000.

Joha Moore, D-Jackson Height, rank.
ing minority member of commerce and
economic development committee, $3,500.

BC. Smith, R-North Port, chairman
of conservation und recreation committer,
$4,000.

Lloyd Paterson, R-Niagara Falls, vice
chateman of conservation and recreation
committee, $3,500.

Carol Bellamy, D-Brooklyn, ranking
minority menther of conservation and
recreation committee, $3,500

Joreph Pisani, ReNew Rochelle, eh
man of consumer protection committee
$5,000.

Karen Burstein, D-Woodmere, ranking
minority member of consumer protection
committee, $3,500.

Ralph Marino, R-Oyster Bay, chairman
of crime and correction —commiriee.
$5,000.

Emanuel Gold, D-New York City, rank
ing minority member of crime and cor
rection commictee, $3,500.

John Calandra, R-Broox, chairman of
$5,

Cart ;
ranking minority member of elections
committee, $3,500.

Ronald Statford. Peru,
higher efincation, comasltee, $5

chairman of

Owe: : District,
ice chairman of higher education com
mittee. $3,500,

Donald Halperin, D-Brooklya, rank
minority member of higher education
commitiee, $3,500.

Roy M. Goodman, RiNew York City.
chairman of houting aod urban develop:
ment committee, $5,000,

$31.4 Million
Is Distributed
By Comptroller

ALBANY —State Comptrol-
ler Arthur Levitt announced
the distribution of $31,487,-
912 in per capita assistance
to counties. towns, villages and
town-outside village munieipal-
ities.

Included in the payment are
all 57 counties of the State, ex-
eluding the five which comprise
the City of New York, 556 vil-
lages and 930 towns,

Unilke other types of state aid.
which are granted for a specific
purpose, such as education,
highways and health, the per
capita aid can be used for any
general municipal purpose,

This payment is allocated to
the local units of government on
& per capita basis, The payment
formula for all units of govern-
ment except counties has two
parts, a basic minimum, tind an
adjustment factor to compensate
for deficiencies in local property
taxes. The formula for the fol-
Jowing minimum annual pay-
ments per municipal resident is:
town-wide—$3.55, village—$3.60,
and town-outside village—$2.05.
With the exception of town-
wide, these minimums are in-
creased Ry five cents per capita
for rach $100 by which a muni-
cipality’s per capita full valua-
tion is less than $8,000.

The county formula is an
amount equal to the population
of the county multiplied by 65
cents plus an increase of five
cents for each $100 or part
thereef in which the county
average of full value and per-
sonal income per capita is less
than $8,000.

In addition, all localities share
on @ pro-rata basis the differ-
ence between 9 percent of the
New York State Personal In-
come Tax Collections for the
State fiscal year ended March
31 and the total paid under the
above formula

BRANCHE APPOINTED

ALBANY—Harvey P. Branche,
of Watertown, has been sp-
pointed by Gov. Hugh L. Carey
to the Thousand Islands State
Park and Recreation Commis~-
sion, Mr, Branche, a retired
master sergeant in the U.S, Air
Force, succeeds Ray M. Reeves,
of Sackets Harbor, whose term
expired.

Public Interest Group Claims
Lefkowitz Stalls ‘Lulu’ Case

MANHATTAN—The New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc., a non-profit
research organization supported and directed by New York State college and university
students, last week accused Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz of stalling tactics in deter-
mining the constitutionality of the Legislature's “lulus.”

“The Attorney General has ve~
fused to allow legislators to turn
over documents to show what
services they performed for thelr
“lulus,” said NYPIRG director
Donald Ross, who |s also a plain-
Uff in a case brought by the
advocacy group.

A NYPIRG attorney recently
asked the legislators to turn over
such documents to the group.
Most legislators ignored the re-
quest, "presumably on the advice
of the Attorney General,’ who
criticized the group for making
it, “The Attorney General has
left us no choice but to subpoena
the evidence,” eid NYPIRG at-
torney Martin Garbus.

The “lulu case” is currently
before the Supreme Court in Al-
bany County as a result of suits
filed by NYPIRG and others.
NYPIRG contends that the bonus
payments made to 163 out of
210 members of the Legislature
on the next to the last day of
the legislative session violate Ar-
ticle 3, Section 6 of the New
York State Constitution which
prohibits legislators from in-
creasing their own salaries dur-
ing their terms of office,

“Instead of dealing with the

ceeding and dodge the real ts-
sue,” Mr, Ross said. “The Attor-
ney General is the lawyer for all
of the people of New York State.
The people deserve to have this
case heard as rapidly as possi~
ble,”

MS, WOLFE NAMED
ALBANY—Norma Sue Wolfe,
@ former staffer for ex-Manhat-

Division of Criminal Justice Ser-
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WAMPSVILLE — Applica-
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til Nov, 14 for supervising
psychologist in the Madison
County Mental Health Depart-
ment. At present there is one
vacancy for the $21.140 a year
position

All candidates must be legal
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at least four months prior to the
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limited permit to practice psy-
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year's experience in the practice
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There will be no written or
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For complete information and
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Corrected Comment

A story appearing Sept. 23
in The Leader concerning
testimony delivered by Solo-
mon Bendet, president of
New York City Region I, Civil
Service Employees Assn., before
the State Assembly's Government
Employees Committee, incorrect-
ly quoted Mr. Bendet as stating
that state pension systems in
1930 were non-contributory. At
the time, employees were rm~-
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Assistant Actuary $10,714 20-556 99 Miller Joe! R Schenectady AL
Assistant Clinical Physician weer man eee Lee ttn A
Associate Actuary (ite $18,369 20-520 102 Fsosbarg C R Hornell ;
Supervising Actuary (Life! $26,516 20-522 pha td Hepon
Principal Actuary (Life) $22,694 20.521 . . -
je Actuary (Casualty) $18389 20418 © Firefighters ING AND SLICKLY
Superv ng ee | (Casualty) $26,516 20-418 d T SS DONE.”
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Clinical Physician | $27,942 20-414 En raining ~ Dougias Watt, Daily News
Clinical Physician II $31,056 20-415 Six members of the New York fabiecseithoneaihy
Compensation Examining Physician | $27,942 20420 City Fire Department have suc- ec ea visemes tite
ntal Hygienist $ 8,523 20-107 full pleted a course in ue a
Dietitian $10,714 20-124 tne care and operation of ladder MAJESTIC THEATRE 247 west 44in si - 246-0730!
Supervising Dietitian $12,760 20-167 trucks and have been designated
Electroencephalograph Technician $7,616 20-308 = chauffeurs and tillermen. The
Food Service Worker $ 5,827 20-352 men can be used by either de-
Hearing Reporter $11,337 = 20-21! partment ladder companies or

Histology Technician $8051 20-170 fescue companies throughout the a Ss
Hespital Administration Intern $10,118 20555 city ( SWE VERDON CHITA RIVERA
Assistent Hydraulic Engineer $14,142 20-135 :

‘The six are Killiam J. O'Keefe,

Senior Hydraulic Engineer $17,429 20-136 Ladder 4: James F. Noonan,
Industrial Foreman $10,714 — 20-558 Ladder 44; Lawrence W. Brenan, JERRY ORDACH

ici $ 8,05! 20-121 Ladder 120; Robert J. Ferriola,

Public ites ns $10,155 & Up 20-339 Ladder 137; Wiliam G. Lee, Lad-

Licensed Practical Nurse $8,051 = 20-106 der 148; and Carl R. Bayer, Lad-

Maintenance Man der 172, Mr. Brennan achieved

Mechanic—Statewide except Albany) $ 7,616 varies the highest rating in his class.

$27,942 24-407
$33,704 20-408
$35373 2040 Two Rensselaer

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Nurse Il (Psychiatric) $11,337 20-586 ‘ions as (gossisorsngahlaerd
Nurse II (Rehabilitation) $11337 20-587 arux abuse counselors, nie
Offset Printing Machine Operator $ 6,450 20-402 dates for both positions must 46th STREET THEA.
Pharmacist $12,670 20-194 lewal residents of Rensselaer 226 W. 48 St.—246-4271
Senior Pharmacist $14,880 20-194 County for at least four months
Principal Actuary (Casualty) $22,694 20.417 Prior to the Noy, 22 written test
Psychiatrist | $27,942 20-390 Application forms and detailed
Psychiatrist Il (Board Eligible) $35,373 20-391: announcements may be obtained
Psychiatrist Il (Board Certified) $35,373 20-391 from the Rensselaer County Civil
Radiology Technologist ($7,632-$9,004) 20-334 Service Commission, Third Floor,
Radiology Technologist (T.B. Service) ($8,079-$8,79 20-334 Court House, Troy.
Senior Medical Records Librarian $11,337 20-348
Asst. Sanitary Engineer $14,142 20-122
Senior Sanitary Engineer $17,429 20-123 Diploma TestSet
Specialists in Education ($16,358-$22,694) 20-312 : “
Stationary Engineer $9,546 20-100 Individuals, at least 19 years
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Steam Fireman $ 7.616 20-303 State residents for at least 30
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application forms may be obtained by mail or in person at the State in New York City

Department of Civil Service: State Office Building Campus, Albany persons under 19 years old are
12226, Applicants can file in person only at Two World Trade Center, iso eligible if they meet special
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Specify the examination by its number and tit Mail your No fee is charged. Applications
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R, Tuesday, September 30, 1975 . “4

CIVIL SERVICE LEADE

LONG ISLAND
REGION 1

Regional Headquarters Office:
740 Broadway (Route 110)
Amityville, L.1., N.Y, 11701

Phone: (516) 691-1170

By IRVING FLAUMENBAUM
CSEA Vice-President/Region 1 President

N Long Island Region 1, we like to say “we're number
one!" I think our 50,000 members are backing it up by
being tops in CSEA-consciousness.

Never before has there been such intensity of identi-
fication with the Civil Service Employees Assn—and with
each other—among employees in state hospitals, two great
counties, more than 100 school districts, and so on. Regard-
less of the identity of the employer, our members are cons-
cious as never before that what affects one group of civil
service employees will affect the welfare of others.

I say we're tops because I am proud of our membership,
but, of course, it is true throughout the state.

And, it’s a good thing, too. Because, be it upstate or
downstate, municipal, county or state, we are faced with
a fashion among politicians to make civil service the scape-
goat,

The rank-and-file membership realizes that their personal
security depends on their commitment to a massive, unified
CSEA,

The leadership of our chapters and the Region have
responded to the times with a demonstration of coopera-
tion and unity.

THE REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL staff has been greatly
strengthened with the addition of a full-time public rela-
tions spokesman, a research analyst and clerical staff, They
supplement the first-rate services of our 12-man corps of
field representatives under the direction of Edwin J. Cleary,
and they, incidentally, consistently lead the state in re-
cruiting new members.

The Region has also opened a satellite office in Haup-
pauge, supplementing our free-standing CSEA regional
headquarters building in North Amityville

CSEA is poised with the best spirit, organization and
tools that we have ever had.

Region 1 has come through a lot in the last year. The
Long Island State Parks chapter had to go to picket lines
before excessive cutbacks were rescinded.

The State Department of Transportation Region 10
chapter required all the resources of CSEA in the Region
and state to overcome a renewed threat of a parking fee
at the State Office Building in Hauppauge. The mental
hospitals, Pilgrim, Central Islip, Kings Park and Suffolk
Developmental Center, required long and dedicated work
by elected representatives of the employees and the pro-
fessional staff to weather through the threats to close one
of them,

Hundreds of municipal subdivisions represented in the
Nassau and Suffolk chapters waged hundreds of skirmishes
adding up to a massive battle for fair contracts,

WE ALSO INSURED completely democratic elections,
notably in the Central Islip chapter, where the state elec-
tions committee finally decided on a run-off, With the
cooperation of all, that chapter is past a difficult period
and firmly on the road to serving its membership.

These and many things were made possible by the spirit
of mutual assistance among the chapters.

I'd like to commend all the chapter presidents, and
the regional officers: Ralph Natale, Nick Abbatiello, Bob
Conlon, Ruth Braverman, Sam Piscitelli and Dorothy Goetz.

While we have had a great deal of success, we are all
intensely aware that the deck is stacked against the em-
ployees by the antiquated Taylor Law.

The Region has taken a lead in agitation and lobbying
for reform or repeal of the Taylor Law, as well as maintain-
ing pressure on legislators to relieve the impact of inflation
and to protect our pension funds from Governor Carey's
fiscal raids.

The Region is able to speak with the voice of 50,000
members in two counties, and we expect our elected rep-
resentatives to take notice of our needs,

Ernest Signorelli, standing, sadeeeees a seacting of the Suffolk County Educational chapter, Civil Service
Employees Assn. Mr, Signorelli, a candidate for Suffolk County surrogate judge, was onc of several
candidates who spoke to the CSEA chapter at a recent meeting. The meeting also saw the formation
of a political action committee. At the dais with Mr. Signorelli, are, from left, Walter Weeks, chapter

president; Robert Conlon, second vice-president; John Reilly, first vice-president;

fourth vice-president, and Frances Bates, treasurer.

Suffolk’s Educational Chapter
Forms A Political Action Group

MIDDLE ISLAND—A five-member political action committee has been formed by
the Suffolk County Educational chapter, Civil Service Employees Assn.

The role of the new committee was described by chapter second vice-president
to the chapter exhorting them to support pro-CSEA legis-

Robert Conlon in an address
lators and to vote against those
whose actions hurt the union.

“We plan to find out who the
legislators were who voted against
us," Mr, Conlon promised the
chapter members, “and we will
vote them out of office.”

The Suffolk Educational chap-
ter members also heard addresses
by area political candidates at
the meeting, which was held at
the Island Squire Inn here last
week. These included Judge Ern-
est Signorelli, candidate for
county surrogate judge; John
Wehrenberg, Suffolk Eighth Dis-
trict tmeumbent legislator, and
Ellen Davis, incumbent Town of
Brookhaven council member and
a former Suffolk Educational
chapter member. All the candi-
dates asked the support of the
chapter in the coming fall elec-
tions

‘The members of the new poli-
tical action committee ane John
Reilly, first vice-president, chair-
man; Thomas Corridan, Deer
Park School District; William
Connors, Smithtown School Dis-

trict; Nicholas Avella, Elwood
School District, and Augie Gal-
braith, Lindenhurst School Dis-
triet

On the dais with chapter pres-
ident Walter Weeks were Mr.
Reilly and Mr. Conlon; Rudy
Scala, third vice-president; Vin-
cent Di Brienza, fourth viee-pres-
ident; Frances Bates, treasurer,

Adopts A Schedule

FARMINGDALE Em-
ployees at the State Univer-
sity of New York at Farm-
ingdale campus are testing a
new work schedule negotiated by
the Civil Service Employees
Assn. intended to eliminate rush-
hour automobile traffic jams
near the campus.

The schedule, secured by
chapter president Arthur Hen-
nessy and a labor-management
committee, provides a staggered
schedule of quitting times. These

Vincent DiBriensza,

and Joseph Quinn, sergeant~at-
arms. Also attending the meeting
were Warren Smith, Region I at-
torney; Ed Perrott, president of
the Nassau Educational chapter,
and Hugh O’Haire, Region I pub-
ic relations associate.

CSEA field representaitves
John Cuneo and Irwin Scharfelg@®
also attended.

To Fight H’wy Jams

run from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Un-
der the old schedule, employees
left the campus only to be
trapped in heavy 5 p.m, traffic
generated by offices, stores and
factories clustered along Route
110,

The new staggered end-of-
work schedule agreed on by the
labor - management committee
was published by Charles W@
Laffin Jr. president of the
SUNY Agricultural and Tech-
nical College, at the start of the
fall semester.

Kings Park Shop Stewards
Taught Grievance Tactics

KINGS PARK—A seminar on the techniques of handling grievances for shop stew-
ards was held here last week by the Civil Service Employees Assn.’s Kings Park State

Hospital chapter.

The 90-minute session was the first of a year-long series of twice-monthly in-ser-

vice training seminars planned
by the chapter,

Gregory Szurnicki, president
of the Kings Park chapter, dis-
cussed “PAR ‘problem, apprais-
al and resolution) value of a
srievance” before an audience of
more than 30 stewards, Execu-
tive board members, fieldmen
and resional staffers also at-
tended the meeting at the Com-
munity Store on the Kings Park
grounds.

“The grievance process is the
most important and difficult
service the union provides for its
members,” Mr. Ssurnickl said.
"No steward can call himself
competent until he has mastered
the art of

ances."

The seminars will be divided
into two-month courses, During
the first half-year, stewards will
learn how to research and pre-
pare the necessary paper work
for grievances, They will be edu-
eated also on regulatory’ law
past practices and the CSEA re-
sources at their disposal. In the
second six-month period, stew-
ards will be taught county, state
und federal laws and regulations
that affect their members. Stew-
ards will also receive a review of
the Taylor and Civil Service Law.

For stewards of exceptional
ability, the chapter has available

scholarships to the Cornell Uni-
versity State School of Indus-
trial and Labor Relations.

At the close of the meeting,
Mr. Szurnicki told the stewards,
“We will give you all the edu-
cation, the resources and the
backup of the CSEA so that you
will be a unit unto yourself, The
CSEA steward is the man on the
line; the link to the rank and
file membership. You are the
person members will come to.
when they need help from their ®
union.”

The next stewards seminar
will take place in the third week
of October and # date and phe
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Regional Headquarters Office:
11 Park Place (Room 1210)
New York City, N.Y 10007

Phone: (212) 962-3090

By SOLOMON BENDET
CSEA Vice-President/Region 2 President

HAT 1s past is prologue. The 65 years of growth and

progress by the Civil Service Employees Assn. has been
an enviable record of accomplishment for New York’s public
employees, but we must constantly face the problems of
the present and anticipate those of the future.

The newly elected officers of New York City Region II
are prepared to tackle those problems, It is encouraging to
note that of the six regional officers, two are newcomers
to regional office. This is a healthy sign that new opinions
will continue to be blended with those of the experienced
leadership.

Tt 1s also a good sign that each of the six officers has
a different home base. No single chapter has more than one
person represented among the officers, thereby creating a
wide basis for input into top-level regional matters.

HEADING THE LIST of priority {tems is negotiations
with the state for a new contract for state employees. The
Region II executive council, meeting earlier this month,
selected those persons to be considered as regional represen-
tatives on the statewide negotiating teams. Negotiations are
due to begin soon, and a wide range of opinions is important
in order to determine the course of action that will best
unify the total membership, Strong united effort will be
especially vital during the next year as we face a State
Administration that has already threatened to continue its
anti-employee stance of this year. As we all know, that
stance resulted in a before-taxes insult bonus of $250 and
three-quarter increment for eligible state employees,

We also face a new threat to our hard-earned pension
rights. Not only is our pension security undermined by the
state's promise to purchase bonds from the Municipal As-
sistance Corporation in order to bail out New York City,
but new attacks are being made on the non-contributory
aspect of the pension plans. Earlier this month, I appeared
before the State Assembly's Government Employees Com-
mittee to protest efforts to take away pension rights that
were negotiated through long-standing contracts with the
State, I reminded the legislatofs that through the years,
CSEA members had accepted reductions in their personal
pension deductions in lieu of salary increases. As a result,
pensions since 1965 have been non-contributory—and we
intend to keep it that way,

ee: 3

THE CONTINUING EFFORTS by AFL-CIO unions to
destroy CSEA's independent status have been an irritating
but expected side effect of the Taylor Law. Ever since pub-
lic employees in New York State were granted the right to
negotiate for their contracts, outside unions in one disguise
or another have tried to lure away segments of CSEA's
membership. So far, the members have realized that these
efforts to splinter CSEA would only result in several weak,
puppet organizations controlled out of state.

LOCALLY, safety conditions in the World Trade Center
continue to be a major issue. Perhaps this should be at the
top of the list; whereas the previously noted items deal with
our day-to-day livelihood, our future retirement security
and the unity of strength we need to achieve our goals, the
World Trade Center safety issue deals with our very lives.

Some improvements have been made to improve condi-
tions at WTC, but rest assured that we will continue our
efforts of the last three years to force the responsible gov-
ernmental bodies to eliminate all safety hazards. Perhaps
our proudest achievement as a union is the attention we
have focused on the inherent dangers of the World Trade
Center, and the improvements that we have forced to be
made to safeguard the lives of our members and other citi-
zens-at-large who conduct business there,

T am grateful to be able to devote full time to my duties
as president of New York City Region IJ. There are many
tasks to be accomplished in the region; the members have
my word that I, the other officers and members of the staff
will do their utmost to provide the services they need from
their union.

Taylor Law Revision, Credibility,

NEW YORK CITY Layoffs Among Major Problems °
REGION 2 Concerning Region I! Officers

MANHATTAN—The Civil Service Employees Assn., whose delegates meet this week
in Buffalo, will be entering a year of crises when it expects to do battle on several fronts
to maintain its ‘unity and to preserve and improve the hard-won gains of its members, New
York City Region II officers feel.

Responses elicited from them
predict @ difficult year ahead in
several areas when they were
asked the question, “What are
the pressing concerns faced by
CSEA, which in your opinion
should have priority at the up-
coming Convention?”

However, the officers were firm
in their belief that the Associa-
tion will emerge stronger than
ever as the leading public em-
ployees union in the state.

Solomon Bendet, president of
Region I and first vice-president
Vincent Rubano saw revision of
the Taylor Law, the challenge of
a rival union, and the possible
modifying of the Retirement Law
as main @reas of concern.

On the other hand, William

credibility on the part of the
union officers and staff, whereas

‘The Region IT officers hoped
that the problem areas indicated
would be in the forefront of the
thinking of the delegates and
‘that positive action would be
taken at the Annual Meeting to
give the members-at-large a feel-
ing of strong leadership and uni-
fied purpose.

SOL BENDET

“The delegates at this meet-
ing will have to face squarely
and deal with several areas of
concern for CSEA to continue as
a viable, and effective labor un-

Region Il Selects
Oct. 25 Installation

MANHATTAN—New York
City Region II, Civil Service
Employees Assn., will hold
its installation meeting Sat-
urday, Oct. 25, at the New Hyde
Park Inn, 214 Jericho Turnpike,
New Hyde Park, The event is
scheduled for noon.

Officers to be installed are
Solomon Bendet, president; Vin-
cent Rubano, first vice-president;
William DeMartino, second vice-
president; William Cunningham,
third vice-president; John Byers-
ley, treasurer; Gloria Kanfer, re-
cording secretary, and Salvatore

Wenz! is expected to be the in-
stalling officer,

Metropolitan PSC
Installs Its Leaders

MANHATTAN — Officers
of the Metropolitan Public
Service Commission chapter,
Civil Service Employees
Assn., were installed Sept. 24,
at a luncheon meeting held at
Joe's Chinatown, New York City,

Those installed were Cynthia
Doyle, president; William Bren-
nan, vice-president; Paul Gas-
pard, treasurer, and Mae Green-
berg. secretary,

Vincent Rubano, first vice-
president of CBEA'’s New York
City Region II, was the install-
ing officer.

RUBANO

jon, We can all take pride in
our many accomplishments of
the past bui to rest on our laurels
would be a tragic error, Our
members are being threatened
daily and look to CSBA for strong
leadership and counter-action.

“First, a militant CSEA should
in the year ahead seek to rectify
the shortcomings in the Taylor
Law so that it may be more re-
sponsive to the rights of the pub-
ic employee.

“Second, we should secure such
salary increases as will compen-
sate for the loss of purchasing
power infficted on our members
by inflation; and we should en-
sure the restoration of manda-
tory increments which were in
effect up to 1973.

“Third, the constitutional right
of employees to a court hearing
in disciplinary actions should
not be abrogated.

“Pourth, never should we per-
mit budget-consctous officials to
take away hard-won benefits in
order to balance the budget. The
state must be prevented from
eroding salary grades, pensions
and fringe benefits; and any at-
tempt to do this should be con-
sidered @ provocative act,

“Pifth, we should strive to ob-
tain for the public employee a
pension equivalent to the half
pay after 20 years service that
the Legislature voted itself. In
addition, pensions should be tied
to salary grade at retirement so
that the pension is increased
whenever the salary grade ts
increased,

“The mternal operations of our
union should be tightened to
“uard against inside enemies who
in one guise or another seek to
infiltrate and destroy CSEA, I
also strongly endorse paid shop
stewards who will supplement the
work of the field staff in prop-
erly servicing our members and
in fighting rival organizations
who seek to supplant us,""

VINCENT RUBANO
“Abead of us in the coming
year CSEA will encounter several

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CUNNINGHAM

on guard to prevent any erosion
of our present level and still
fight to get enough to compen-
sate for any losses. The pension
system now emerges from a
three-year hiatus and is on ceng@®
ter stage, as evidenced by the
Governor's actions in using pen-
sion funds for MAC, and the
Legislative body's current attack
on the Retirement System.

“I support, then, a strong
CSEA legislative and political ac-
tion program efimed at changing
the Taylor Law so that from the
crucible of crisis, a stronger un-
jon will emerge.”

WILLIAM DeMARTINO

“First and foremost, in my
opinion, is the restoration of our
credibility as an effective, bona
fide labor organization. This carl®
only be achieved through devel-
oping better delivery of our ser-
vice systems to the members.
Further, in light of our recent
experience with the Governor and
the Legislature, we should launch
and engage in a massive political
action campaign stressing,
through public relations, our
power and intent to reward our
friends and punish our enemies.

“There is a definite need to
encourage and train new leaders
from our ranks, and to provide
our professional staff with thee
tools needed to improve perfor-
mance,

“Attaining these goals will in-
still confidence in our members
and place CSEA in a favorable
position to fight off the PEF
challenge and the expected con-
flict next April.”

WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM
“The recurring and immediate
problem facing CSBA members
today is that of layoffs, We have
lost hundreds of state employees
and members through cutbacks

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REGION 3

Regional Headquarters Office:
Old Route 9, North (RD 1)
Fishkill, N.Y. 12524
Phone: (914) 896-8180

By JAMES LENNON
e CSEA Vice-President/Region 3 President
SOUTHERN REGION III of CSBA is entering this, the
Bicentennial year of the United States, with a very deep
aWareness that this is going to be a year of challenge al-
most as great as our country had in 1776.
>) Swe are very much aware that the American people and
especially our public employees here in New York State are
being hit harder and harder by a constant inflation, which
is eroding their purchasing power and threatening their
hard-won standard of living.

We are also aware that some politicians and other
misguided people are trying to make public employees, and
the labor organizations that represent them, the scapegoat
@r the troubles this country and many of its governmental
units are going through.

We have seen this attitude cause mass layoffs of needed
and capable public employees who thought they had job
security. We have also seen attempts to welsh out on ne-
gotiated contracts on the grounds that “these are tough
times” and we see a stiff-backed reluctance to grant any-
thing like the necessary salary increases needed to keep
wages in line with the sky-rocketing rise in the costs of
everything.

This attitude has even worked itself down to individual
public employees where many are given the impression that
“you better not step out of line or you know what you will
get.” This is certainly no way to get creative and whole-
ee cooperation to get the job done.

. . .

TO COUNTER all of these bad things we see around,
we find that CSEA, and I am proud to say Southern Region,
has developed especially during the last few years, a new
unity and a better and tighter organization to help win
battles for public employees.

This new unity and hard-driving organization was very
evident last summer in the Dutchess County strike, which
I call Southern Region's “finest hour.” The sight of all these
men and women on the picket lines during those hot, humid
days and their unalterable determination to win will always
be with me,

One thing we learned during that largest and most
effective county employees strike in the history of New

@ork State, is that there are no differences between state
employees, county employees, town employees, clerical staff,
highway department workers, or medical technicians or
others. We are all public employees and we have to stick
together and help each other in order to defend our rights.
This unity was made “perfectly clear" when help and con-

Pp tributions to our strike fund poured in from all sections of

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CSEA,

THERE CONTINUES to be a need to improve services
for our members. As I said last year we are working for
quality service in Southern Region and not just for quantity
service. To provide quality service I have asked for additional
clerical and field staff for Southern Region. We have begun

increase our regional staff and on Sept. 24, Frank A.
tarano joined us as Regional Research Assistant.

We have also expanded our Regional Office in Fishkill,
and plans are pending to expand our White Plains Satellite
Office and to create an additional Satellite Office west of
the Hudson River to serve members in Orange, Sullivan and
Ulster Counties,

I also see a need for a change in our bargaining units
particularly when it comes to bargaining for employees at
@ large state institution. Why should there be bargaining
for one big chapter representing clerks, medical personnel,
truck drivers, attendants, etc.? A better way would be to
have the parent chapter consist of smaller bargaining units
with each representing different categories of employees.

Political action is another field where I believe more

@nould be done and more is being done now by political
action committees in each of the seven counties of Southern
Region, We are now getting down to the true grassroots of
Political action with our county committees discussing who
they should endorse for local office.

Back

Is Won Through CSEA

Suit For 7 Region Ill Schoolers

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON—Seven cafeteria employees of the Hastings-on-Hudson
School District have been awarded 20 days’ back pay each as a result of a grievance won
by their union, the Civil Service Employees Assn.

CSEA's Hastings-on-Hudson non-teaching school unit

school district unilaterally re-
duced the working year for the
seven employees from 200 days
© 180 days, thereby depriving
them of 20 days’ pay.

Mr. Nespola immediately
brought the problem to the at-
tention of CSEA field represen-
tative Donald Patrick and CSEA
Southern Region TI attorney
Arthur Grae. The union pointed
out in its grievance that the
workers’ contract reads: "A 200-
working day schedule shall be
established for cafeteria person-
nel.”

Tt was on the basis of this
wording in the contract, which
runs from July 1, 1974, through
June 30, 1976, that the CSEA
filed the grievance. The union's
case was backed up by the evid-
ence of a letter written to Mr.
Nespola by the district's assistant
superintendant, Gino Gualandl,
which said in part, “It is recog-
nized that by contract the daily
rate and annual salary are based
on @ 200-day work year.”

Nevertheless, the district tried
to substantiate its position on
the basis that it had no funds
and had to reduce the work year

teria employees for any loss suf-
fered by them as a result of
the Employer's unilateral change
of the length of their work year.”

Mr. Nespola said of the recent
decision, “Our CSEA members
got what they wanted, and what
they deserved Our contract
clearly called for a 200-day year,
and the board of education ob-
viously wanted to cut ft to 180
days’ pay.”

Arbitrator Kupsinel in his de-
cision stated, “It is clear and
undisputed that the Board of
Education approved the current
collective bargaining agreement
which continues the 200 working
day schedule for cafeteria per-

president, Sal Nespola, said

sonnel . . . It is also clear and
undisputed that the employer
sent notices to the individual
employees, basing the salaries on
4 nine-month employment period,
rather than on a 10-month em-
ployment period. It is also un-
disputed that this change was
unilaterally determined by the
employer because of a budget re-
duction . . . I find thet the Em-
ployer unilaterally reduced the
work year of the full-time cafe-
teria employees from 200 days to
180 days. I conclude that the
Employer thus violated the cur-
rent collective bargaining agree-
ment... The Education Law
provides no basis for excusing the
contract violation”

Region Ill Will Screen,

Then Endorse, Candidates

FISHKILL—Southern Region III of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. is reaching down into the grassroots in
its political action program to screen and then endorse
candidates for local office in each of the seven counties
of the Region.

for the cafeteria employees. The
district discontinued its hot-
lunch program and in its place
has set up a few vending ma-
chines, according to Mr. Nespola.
The cases went to arbitration
and arbitrator Bertram T. Kup-
sinel ordered the district to
“make whole the full-time cafe-

Putnam and Ulster County
chapters are the latest to get
into the swing of deciding on

Putnam County's chapter has
organized six political action
committees, one for each of the

CSEA CAN WIELD a big stick in this political action
game, particularly in a county like Dutchess where there are
nearly 10,000 public employees.

We also have to do more towards providing for the safety
of public employees on the job. I am thinking about prisons
and state institutions where criminal inmates or mentally
ill patients through loosened and more permissive proce-
dures can often get a chance to assault or even kill em-
ployees doing their job, We have to get after the state on
this one and ove that the maximum protection possible is
afforded to the men and women who undertake this type
of often hazardous work.

The pressure has been on our County Division during
the past year, and I can say they came through with flying
colors—not only in the Dutchess County strike but in turn-
ing back the challenges of SEIU in Sullivan, Orange, Rock-
land and Ulster Counties. We should continue to strengthen
our County Division, while at the same time doing as much
as possible to help our state chapters and units.

Our retirees have also organized chapters in every one
of our counties with special commendation to Nellie Davis,
Mary Bianchini and John Van Dusen. The retirees came out
and helped during the Dutchess strike and during the SEIU
challenges. They may be enjoying rest and quiet after a
lifetime of work, but when they hear the trumpet of alarm
sound, they are ready again to jump into the battle to
defend CSEA,

ot ee ge

A WORD SHOULD also be said about the Southern
Region staff which provides the machinery that keeps this
outfit running, The staff headed by regional field supervisor
Thomas J, Luposello continues to do a truly magnificent
job—not only in such crises as the Dutchess strike and the
SEIU challenges, but in the day-to-day operation of working
on grievances, helping employees with problems and nego-
tating contracts, Special praise should go to John Deyo,
Flip Amodio, Thomas Brann, Joe O'Connor and Ron Mazzola,
our field staff members, and also to Tom Mahar our regional
attorney and Judy Morrison, the regional! office secretary
and Alice Dittmar, dictating machine transcriber.

Southern Region will continue to go forward during
the coming year and in the years to come, We've got the
people, the leadership and the incentive, and I believe that
there will be no stopping us.

towns in the county and has
held several work sessions prior
to screen candidates for endorse-
ment. Marie O'Dell, chairman of

voter registration drive to insure
all public employees in the coun-
ty are registered to vote.

Ms, O'Dell ts also soliciting
contributions for the Putnam po-
tical action fund and suggested
that public employees contribute
to it from their recently ne-
gotiated salary increase,

The Ulster County chapter
held @ “Meet the Candidates”
night on Sept, 17, Pifteen Re-
publican, Democratic, Liberal and
Conservative party candidates at-
vended.

Nina Yeager, chairman of the
program and vice-president of
the Ulster chapter, said it would
launch @ political action pro-
gram, “because as residents of
Ulster County, CSEA members
need good government; as em-
ployees, we need a good employ-
er."

3-County Retirees
Set Oct. 8 Meeting

MIDDLETOWN The
Orange, Ulster and Sullivan
Counties Retirees chapter,
Civil Service Employees
Assn, will hold a meeting
Wednesday, Oct, 8, at the Mid-
dletown Psychiatric Center here.
The meeting, which will begin at
2 p.m,, will conaider the state's
action in using pension funds to
purchase Municipal Assistance
Corp. bonds.

DOT Worker Case

(Continued from Page 1)
torney James Roemer, Six ses-
sions have already been held.

The union contends that the
DOT workers were illegally laid
off as the CSEA-State contract
forbids layoffs of permanent
employees when it contracts out
for services,

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CIVIL SERVICE I

Newly elected members of Region IV Executive Council
pose for group photo. From left are Jimmy Gamble,
Environmental Conservation; Margaret Dittrich, Motor
Services; Ernst

Vehicles; Earl Kilmartin, General

Motor Vehicles’ Eileen Salisbury was elected by delegates to be
regional third vice-president, succeeding John Vallee, who
moved up one position, Here Ms. Salisbury is installed by re-
sional president Joseph McDermott,

Three members of CSEA Board of Directors discuss plans for
Convention. From left are Tax and Finance's Jack Dougherty,
Motor Vehicles’ Thomas McDonough and Health's Ernst
Stroebel. Mr. McDonough is also chairman of State Executive
Committee.

Stroebel, Laboratories and Research;
Division of Employment;

vated
from third vice-president,
left by resignation of Boyd Campbell, Here
Mr. Vallee keeps tab on vole for regional

Rennselaer County's John Vallee was ele-
vice-president
filling vacancy

to regional second

executive council candidates,

Kaye Yuschak,
Nick Fiscarelll, Education;
Howard Cropsey, Albany County, and Timothy McIn-
erney, Transportation Region 1, These at-large repre-

P|

sentatives serve with the regional officers and »
ate past president of region as the interim policy- ‘<
body for the region.

Jean C. Gray, left, candidate for re-election as regional first
vice-president in special election currently being held in Re-
sion IV, confers with Insurance chapter delegate Virginia
Kiddie, standing, and State departmental representative Loretta
Moreili,

Delegates from Racing and Wagering chapter, newest memb@
of Albany Region IV, caucus before casting ballot for regional
executive council candidates, Shown here are Barbara Miller }
and Robert Cole.

chapter presidents sample the buffet luncheon provided between
morning and afternoon sessions of the regional meeting at Latham
Holiday Inn, Shown here are Margaret Douglas, of Adirondack
Correctional Treatment and Evaluation Center, and Evelyn Hayes,
of Empire State College.

Labor representatives to CSEA
Board, A. Victor Costa, explains
recommendations that restruc-
turing committees will bring to
Convention this week.

Regional secretary Julia Braden, left, of Moter Vehicles chapter,
gets some pointers from statewide secretary Dorothy MacTavish as@
regional president Joseph MeDermott listens during break in business
session.
~ Election, Challenge, Conventio,

rey

* Discussed At Region IV Meeting

By ALAN BERNSTEIN

LATHAM—Eiections, challenges to the representation rights of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. and the upcoming delegates convention in Niagara Falls highlighted the
Albany Region IV meeting held here Sept. 20.

Joseph McDermott, Region IV president, in opening the first Region meeting since

recent statewide and chapter
elections, stressed organization
as the main factor in keeping
CSEA and the Region powerful.

“Over the past two years,
chapters have been very well
represented at region meetings,”
said Mr. McDermott. “That was
our main goal when we started,
and we have to continue to have
training sessions to inform dele-
gates on how CSEA, up and down
the line, works, Without organi-
zations nothing gets accom-
plished.”

Mr. McDermott also said that
‘a challenge by the Public Em-
ployees Federation (PEF) to
gain bargaining rights of work-
ers in the Professional, Scien-
tifle and Technical Unit will be
a “squeaker.”

“The challenge is important
because 40,000 potential mem-
bers are gone if we lose,” said
the Region president. “It’s an
awful big share of CSEA,"

Mr, McDermott said he be-
leves the state would take ad-
vantage of CSEA if PEF wins
because it would have two large
bargaining groups opposing each
other, thus causing a whipsaw
effect.

Albany Region IV and state-
wide CSEA officials are making
direct mailings to PS&&T work-
ers to inform them what {Is going
on, he noted, und CSEA is ready
to have chapter presidents con-
tact workers personally to in-
form them of the facts.

An important item of business
at the meeting was the election
of a Region second vice-presi-
dent. Former second vice-presi-
dent Boyd Campbell resigned be-
cause of ill health. Mr, Campbell
had informed CSEA that he
would not be able to handle the
duties of office right before re-
gional elections in June. As it
was then too late to replace him
on the ballot, the results of the
election, which Mr, Campbell
won, were voided.

Mr. McDermott recommended
John Vallee, currently the third
vice-president, for the vacant
post, With almost total approval
of delegates attending the meet-
ing, Mr. Vallee was elevated to
the higher post, leaving a va-

cancy in the third vice-president
spot.

The race for third vice-presi-
dent wes run between Eileen
Salisbury, Motor Vehicles; Pat
Martinez, Health; Al Mead,
Health; and Gerry Dickson, Edu-
cation, Out-polling her nearest
opponent by more than 4-1, Ms.
Salisbury, took her seat with
other region officials.

The election of the nine-
member executive committee
triggered a disagreement be-
tween Mr. MeDermott and A
Vietor Costa over the eligibility
of candidates and voters. Mr.
McDermott said that, to be eli-
gible, candidates must be perma-
nent delegates to region meet-
ings. But Mr, Costa said some
proxies always attended meetings
representing their delegates un-
able to attend and, therefore,
should be allowed to vote. After
minimal discussion, the issue was
settled through a vote, with per-
manent delegates being the only
ones nilowed to run.

CSEA Milestone’

The delegates convention at
Niagara Palls (Sept. 28-Oct. 3)
was extensively discussed at the
meeting. In his restructuring
committee report, chairman A.
Victor Costa said the new pro-
posals would be a “milestone to
get CSEA on the move.”

He said he believes the most
significant proposal made by his
committee, in relation to Region.
IV chapters, is the establishment
of a coordinator of training. Two
coordinators would cover three
regions: one for Regions I, II
and IM and the other for Re-
gions IV, V and VI. They would
circulate through the field es-
tablishing a better relationship
between the coordinator and
chapters.

“Tt is a necessity, it's life and
death to have highly educated
officers in the region,” sald Mr.
Costa. The programs would ben-
efit everyone with CSEA mem-
bers being able to learn all
about thelr rights.”

Another important proposal
conceived by his committee, said
Mr. Costa, is revamping of the
Board of Directors from 150

members to about 60. The Board
would be split into two sections,
one handling county problems,
the other state problems, but
would keep the same autonomy
and voting rights as the present
Board. Both boards would con-
sider problems dealing with gen-
eral problems,

The convention might also
present an opportunity to other
unions to try to entice CSEA
members to sign pledge cards
for new bargaining unit elections
while the delegates are away,
said Ernst Stroebel. However,
Mr, McDermott assured members
that the Region office will have
field men covering chapters and
work sites to defend CSEA in-
teresis. He stressed that chap-
ter presidents should let region
headquarters know where they
will be during the convention if
such challenges arise.

Delegates to the meeting also
agreed to investigate starting a
buying program that would en-
able CSEA members in the Al-
bany Region to purchase grocery
items at 10 percent above whole-
sale prices, The program pre-
sented by Chet Sadowski of the
Uptown Committee, would re-
quire $50,000 to begin; delegates
appeared enthusiastic about the
program. The stores would be
run on a non-profit basis with
the 10 percent used to pay sala-
ries, for advertising and over-
head.

Jean C. Gray of the Thruway
Authority, sald the ald would
help beat today’s high prices and
$2 from each member, which
would be returned after one
year, “is not much to ask.”

Mr. Sadowski said he is also
looking into other areas where
members could set up union
stores; such things as gas sta-
tions are being considered,

“There is no reason why CSEA
members should not be able to
buy gas at under 50 cents,” he
pointed out.

A regional workshop will be
held the weekend of Noy. 14 at

the Queensbury in Glens Falls.
The complete package is $80 for
a single and $68 for an individual
in a double room.

Uptown committee chairman Chester Sadowski, of Criminal Justice Services chapter, counts vote on
plan to institute discount grocery stores for CSEA members, Delegates enthusiastically endorsed the
idea to be discussed within their chapters before further action is taken. In foreground are regional

weoretary Julia Braden and regional president

eph McDermott.

ALBANY
REGION 4

Regional Headquarters Office:
10 Colvin Avenue
Albany, N.Y. 12206

Phone: (518) 459-5595

By JOSEPH McDERMOTT
CSEA Vice-President/Region 4 President

PVE need to participate is what makes our Region go!
r Most of our functioning—socially, administratively and
educationally, within our union structure, is the result of a
deep desire within individuals to be part of the ozone or
glue which molds our organization together. As the mem-
bers or bricks are added, the need for more cement to build
the wall of unionism higher is constantly required.

The Albany Region CSEA got off to an auspicious start
by recognizing the need for this participatory cement. The
involvement of the regional delegates has been a credit
to their respective chapters as well as to the individuals
themselves, Of course, the region would and should claim
some credit for recognizing the need for more participatory
action and our committees have led the way by pressing
their programs in a manner which allows for multifarious
thinking and action

Our social and activities program has been geared to
the across-the-board desires and age groups of our mem~-
bership. It has been addressed to both individual members
and union activities. Our education program has been broad
in scope; the material has been innovative and digestable,
It has been aimed at all levels of the organization: units,
chapters, CSEA officials, ordinary members, delegates and
the general public. In some respects we have combined
education and public relations.

OUR UNION ORGANIZING effort within our 14-county
area has taken on a meaningful ideal both at the staff
and elective level.

Our constantly ongoing local regional negotiations have
developed new devices at the regional level for assurance
of a job well done, and acceptable to the local membership,
Indeed our unitized record reference library is, I believe, a
first within our CSEA regions. It is a credit to our regional
office staff and a tool which will pay dividends for all in
the future,

Progress has been steadily gained. It appears at times
that we have produced the best ever, yet, each time a ven-
ture is undertaken, new gains are recognized,

A MAJOR AREA of immediate regional concern in the
participatory category is the potential representation
challenge.

We in CSEA do not have answers to all the desires and
needs of our membership, yet, over the long history of our
organization we have made gains in an extremely large
number of these two items—members’ needs and desires,

My own thinking as to the necessity of continuancy of
our CSEA brand of unionism is simply that we in CSEA
know what we, the unique public sector membership, are
all about. Not discounting our faults, errors and omissions
in the areas of labor relations, we see the need to represent
ourselves in gaining for the public employee his place in
the sun. To insure our union building reaching out of the
shadows of the other challenging union buildings, our
members must also recognize that our aims are truly theirs
and are not selfish and money-motivated. The members
must be participants by using their ballot voice if an outside
union challenge arises.

FOR THE FIRST TIME within the Corporate structure,
our vice-presidents have an active policy-making role, Fre-
quent meetings of your statewide officers have already had
@ positive effect upon the day-to-day CSEA operation.

This methodology should also be utilized at the regional
levels, Frequent and productive meetings of our Albany
Region officers can only benefit our 86 Region IV chapters.

Performance at all levels, however, can only be con-
sidered within the realm of time allowed to do a good —
necessary — adequate — or lousy job!

A region, chapter—yes, even CSEA itself—is only prop-
erly measured by the time that the members can address
themselves to setting policy or solving problems,

Pull-time officerships are a good first step toward
making Your Union more attuned to you and your problems.

Have a good convention, CSEA!

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STATEWIDE
PERSPECTIVE

By WILLIAM McGOWAN
CSEA Executive Vice-President

HIS has certainly been a most challenging year for

CSEA, The union has been under constant attack from
nearly every side, and we have been tested as never before
in our long history. The last chapter has not been written
to this story yet, and it remains to be seen what overall
effect the events of this year will have upon CSEA. I, for
one, believe we will weather this trying period in our his-
tory and emerge even stronger and more effective than ever.

One thing is certain. The days of a cooperative, some-
times friendly, governor and legislature are over. Given
the ‘reality of that fact, presidents, officers, and members
of the Board of Directors must determine the future course
this union will take. And with the help of the delegates
and the strength and determination of the membership,
we must resolve to firmly set sail on that chartered course.

Negotiations at the state level will begin shortly. I
cannot emphasize enough the importance of having our
Priorities in order when those negotiations start. And we
must keep in mind at all times that negotiations at the
state level have a direct effect upon negotiations in the
Political subdivisions. We must succeed at the one level
in order to win improvements in salary and working con-
ditions for our members at the other level

TO THE MEMBERS we represent, I say to you—it Is
no longer enough to just pay your dues and sit back. You
must become active and involved. Your negotiating teams
must go to the table with the knowledge that the full po-
tential strength of the membership is behind them. And you
must join in a forceful political action program under your
union’s guidance and leadership to achieve what is needed
legislatively, at both the statewide and local levels. And it
js up to us to put together a strong political action commit-
tee that can communicate with the membership, and that
will keep the membership abreast of the union's legislative
program.

I know, from personal experience, that CSEA has the
strength, knowledge, ability and staff to do the job that
must be done, and has been done, for our members. We
do have a number of immediate concerns, including nego-
fiations, and it is up to all of us to pull together as a team
to achieve our goals.

By now everyone knows that other labor unions are
desperately trying to merge with us. Stop and think a mo-
ment—why now? What will it do for our members? Will
it be any help at all to accomplishing the needs of the
CSEA membership? And, what have they accomplished for
their members this year? We need positive answers to these
and a host of other important questions, but the other
unions seem unwilling to provide those answers.

I HAVE BEEN an active union member for more years
than I care to count, in both the private sector and with
CSEA, I know, personally, that CSEA represents our mem-
bers better on an individual basis than do unions in the
private sector, and I believe that we perform our duties and
responsibilities far better than private sector unions, I hope
everyone remembers that fact when they compare CSEA
versus private section labor organizations.

If there is a distinguishable quality to my term as your
executive vice-president, I hope it is that I am known for
being active and available. I am always available to officers
and members alike, and if any of you desire my attendance
at any meeting, please drop me a line or give me a call and,
if my schedule permits, I will be there.

Elizabeth Costa Meeting In Buffalo

TROY—Elizabeth M. Costa  BUPFALO—The Buffalo chap-
died Sept. 20 following an €X- ter, Civil Service Employees Assn,.
‘tended illness. wil hold a dinner meeting here

Mrs, Costa is the mother of A. Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Hotel

Victor Costa, former second vice-
p t of the Civil Statler. The meeting will begin

Employees Asm. and long-time ®t § Pam.
chairman of the union's restruc-
turing committee.

Buy American!

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Mr. Lattimer said CETA state
workers enrolled through county
employee lists were paid the $250
negotiated for only state
ees by CSEA. He said
CETA problems were "like fight-
ing brush fires—put one out and
10 erupt someplace else." Mr.
Lattimer reported that he ap-
pointed John Garvey, of the
Rochester Department of Labor,
as the region's CETA watchdog.
Also anmounced at the meeting
was the appointment of Jerry
Frieday, of the SUNY at Buffalo
chapter, to co-ordinate scheduled
Region-wide functions,

Special thanks for their efforts
in CSEA work were given at the
meeting in the form of plaques
to Charles Sandler, regional at-
torney for the past 26 years, and
Maye Bull, long-time president
of the Gowanda Psychiatric Cen-
ter's chapter. Mr. McGowan
made the presentations.

Celeste Rosenkranz, head of
the Region's education efforts,
also was singled out for praise
by Mr Lattimer for her labor
studies programs, She received a
standing ovation from the dele-
gates for compiling a chapter
president's manual, Ms. Rosen-
irarmz disclosed plans at the
meeting for the second year of
the labor studies program con-
ducted by Cornell University et
the State University College of
New York at Buffalo, She said
increased fees and the additional
expense of books have raised
the per-pupil cost of a semester
from $60 to $95. The delegates
approved a resolution by Salva-
tore Mogavero to have the re-
gion’s budget committee investi-
gate the possibility of the region
picking up the tab for the added

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in any case where the union or
the state, or both, have many
witnesses to present, Mr. Ryan
said,

CSEA has also established de-
tailed operating procedures for
the departmental meeting that
must be held in a disciplinary
case, Previously, Mr. Ryan sald.
the meeting was often used by
the employer to make vague
charges against the employee in
an attempt to intimidate him
Now, the union has written into
Article 33 actual operating pro-
cedure which says that the em-
ployer must disclose all the evi-
dence that will be used against
the accused employee. In addi-
tion, the employee now has the
right to remain silent at the de-
partmental meeting. Under the
old Article 33, an accused em-
ployee's silence was often inter-
preted as an admission of guilt,
according to Mr, Ryan. The new
language guarantees the em-
ployee's right to remain silent,
and ensures that such silence
will not be ineriminating.

The new Article 33 also allows
the employee's union representa-
tive time off for attending hear-
ings and investigating charges
against the employee.

'
Further, in the case of a sus-

pension, the arbitrator now has
jurisdiction to hear the em-
ployee’s defense that the state
failed to follow the proper pro-
cedure for suspending him. The
wrbitrator also has the power,
for the first time, to decide al-
legations that the time limits
have not been met.

costs. Last year, the region re-
imbursed cach chapter half of
each student's tuition. Ms. Ros-
enkranz has scheduled a training
session Nov, 1 # Batavia for all
chapter officers in the region.

Samuel Grossfield, president of
the Rochester chapter, an-
nounced at the meeting that the
defense fund for Doneld Anti-
nore, a CSEA member dismissed
from the State School of Indus-
try, is depleted. Mr. Grossfield
said $1,200 was needed to fight
the Antinore dismissal in the
state’s highest court,

Theodore C. Wenzl, CSEA
president and principsl speaker
@t the installation dimmer, was
introduced during the business
session, He referred to a remark
by Sandler regarding “rocky
roads” in CSEA history and said:

“T wish we had those “Rocky"@ 4
roads again."

During the moming county

workshop session, George Clark,
president of the Erle CSEA chap-
. was elected Sts president.
Netl Gruppo, of Niagara chapter,
was elected vice-president and
Dorothy Hy, also of Niagara
chapter, was re-eleoted secretary-
treasurer.

The region's financial report
was submitted by Genevieve
Clark, who filed in for Barbara
Fauser, Ms, Fauser was injured
in an automobile accident the
evening before the session. Her®
car was heavily damaged, but she
was reported not seriously hurt,

‘The West Sentea Developmen-
tal Center chapter, headed by
James Bourkney, was host for
the meeting

Outspoken leaders of two local government chapters confer on busi-
ness during Western regional meeting. William Doyle, left, presi-
dent of Niagara County chapter, looks over notes being taken by @
Sam Mogavero, president of Erie Education chapter. Mr. Mogavero

is also chairman of CSEA’s County Executive Committee,

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