MEST
ALBANY — CSEA’‘s challenge to the
recently instituted $5 fee for open-
competitive Civil Service examinations for
New York State employment will be heard
by the Public Employment Relations Board
dan. 11.
The union claims the fee, instituted last
October, is a blatant violation of the state
Taylor Law, in that it constitutes a un-
ilateral change in the terms and conditions
of employment for incumbents.
In October, CSEA’s 1,200 delegates un-
animously passed a resolution by Local 670
President Shirley Brown that the union of-
ficially go on record as being “‘unalterably
opposed” to the $5 fee.
Attorney Stephen Wiley, of the CSEA law
firm of Roemer and Featherstonhaugh, is
handling the case for the union. ~
“Incumbent state employees have not
had to pay such a fee in at least 30 years,”
he says. “‘Many CSEA members have com-
plained that it is grossly unfair for the state
to just start charging $5 without negotiating
with the union, and they’re absolutely
He noted that the fee also conflicts with
the principle of merit and fitness in public
employment.
“This fee could inhibit many employees
from applying for the job — or job series —
for which they are best suited, and in which
they would be most efficient,’ he warned.
“The state seems to be trying to pad its
treasury once again, at the expense of the
workers.”
The Jan. 11 meeting will be a pre-hearing
conference between CSEA and the Gover-
nor’s Office of Employee Relations.
There is another group of employees in-
terested in the outcome of the hearing, Mr.
Wiley pointed out.
“For provisional employees — and there
are many hundreds of them throughout the
state — these exams must be taken in order
for them to keep their jobs,”’ he said. “Why
should these people have to pay a fee in
order to take such an exam?”
Open-competitive examinations are
those open to all adult residents of the state
— incumbent employees and the general
right.”
Official Publication of The Civil Service Employees Association
(ISSN 0164 9949) Wednesday, January 9, 1980
Vol. 2, No. 13
Health plan improved
ALBANY — Some 450,000 public employees in New York State are now receiving
the fruits of CSEA’s landmark negotiations with the state last spring that has led to
the first major improvement in the so-called ‘‘Statewide Health Plan’ in many
years.
CSEA’s members in the state’s Administrative, Institutional and Operational
bargaining units have been receiving the benefit of improved health insurance
resulting from their contract negotiations for several months, but for the remaining
340,000 participants in the plan, the major changes came on January 1 with receipt of
the first-ever prescription drug card and improved coverage.
The changes in the health plan negotiated for CSEA’s three state bargaining units
were so pervasive that — as it has in the past — the state modified the entire
Statewide Health Plan. The new prescription drug cards and improved coverage are
being provided at no additional cost to contributing employees or sponsors as a result
of improvement in the plan structure and the first bidding on insurance coverage in
decades.
CSEA President William L. McGowan said that the improved coverage for all
employees in the health plan is another example of the mutual benefits enjoyed by
state and local government employees through representation by a single union.
ar REVIEWING COURT WORKERS CONTRACTS — Members of the CSEA coal
f William Johnson, Local 010 President Joseph C.. Johnson Ji
f Represel
formationa
SEA Collective Bargaini
_and Local 333 Pr
E=! Specialist. Patrick Monachino,
mitteeman Samuel Notaro; Loc
Naney Castaldo, and Local ¥:
public alike.
EAA RLES
CSEA PRESIDENT WILLIAM L. McGOWAN, left, greets Vincent L, Tofany, President of the
National Safety Council, in CSEA statewide headquarters in Albany, where union officials and
representatives of the National Safety Council discussed critical safety and health problems
relative to public workers throughout New York State. The next day, President McGowan delivered
hard-line testimony before a Senate Labor Committee in New York City, calling for enactment of
occupational safety and health standards for public workers. For more information on CSEA’s push
for OSHA legislation, see pages 6 and 7 of this issue.
ion negotiating
y committee which negotiated 19 separate multi-year contracts covering 3,800 employees of the Of-
fice of Court Administration review contract language in preparation for sending our contract
ratification ballots to union members in the near future. A series of explanatory meetings for
members will be held prior to the ballots going out. Seated from left are Local 335 President.
, Judiciary Board of Directors
ive Thomas F. Jefferson, Local 694 President Julia Filippone, Also, Mental Health In,
Service (MHIS) Committeeman John Macklin, Local 332 President Patricia Nealon,
Specialist Emanuele Vitale, MHIS Committeewoman Ruth Jo:
ident Kenneth Hoffman, Standing from left are CSEA Collective Bargaining!
MHIS Committeeman Richard Szymanski, Local 335 Co
1 334 Committeeman Jerry Goetz, Local 335 Committeewoman|
Jommitteewoman Joan O'Riley.
Public Employees
Celebrate the
Holidays — 1979
SANTA CLAUS tosses favors to crowd gathered in the Building 3 cafeteria at
the State Campus in Albany on December 17 on the occasion of the first tree
lighting ceremony held at the campus. At Santa’s left is John Egan, executive
deputy commissioner of the State Office of General Services, who officially Te . reas .
turned on the tree lights and address the gathering of several hundred state PATRICIA SULLIVAN uses sign language as members of the Tax and
employees. Finance CSEA Local 690 choir group sings “Silent Night.”
As is customary, the recent
holidays period was cause for
numerous parties and special
events held by and for CSEA
members across the state. As is
also customary, photographs of
some of those events are printed
on this page, and in future
editions we expect to publish ad-
ditional photographs as received
from the various locals.
CIVIL SERVICE DEPARTMENT
HOIR was among several
departmental choirs to perform
] during the tree lighting ceremony
at the State Campus. This group i
under the direction of John locco,
left.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPOR-
TATION CHOIR entertains under
direction of Gordon Lewthwaite,
left.
PARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & MARKETS CHOIR sings a TAX AND FINANCE CHOIR performed two holiday carols under the
holiday song under the direc of Pat Kennedy, right. direction of Terry Fusco, right.
aan
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, Janyary.9,, 1980,
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CSEA REPRESENTATIVES on the statewide Office of Mental Retardation
Center; Bill Kryvanik of Broome Developmental Center; Wanda Lubinski of
and Office of Mental Health labor/management committees engage in lively
discussion recently during preparatory meeting at CSEA headquarters in
Albany. Seated left to right, are: Francis Wilusz of Wilton Developmental
Center; Dan Donohue of Central Islip Psychiatric Center; Ronnie Smith of
Staten Island Developmental Center; Paul Christopher of J.N. Adam
Developmental Center; Robert Thompson of Harlem Valley Psychiatric
the Central Office of the Dept. of Mental Hygiene; Ben Kosiorowski of Pilgrim
Psychiatric Center; Suzy Bucrzinski of Marcy Developmental Center; and Eva
Katz of Rockland Psychiatric Center. Standing left to right are: Mick Stanton
of Buffalo Psychiatric Center; Elaine Mootry of W. Seneca Developmental
Center; CSEA Collective Bargaining Specialist Bob Guild; and CSEA
Research Analyst Walter Leubner.
Pickell is “Woman of Achievement”
BINGHAMTON — The Broome County Status’ of Women Council has
honored Barbara Pickell, president of CSEA’s Broome County Unit, as a
“Woman of Achievement In Our Community’’.
The award was conferred by delegates representing the 17 member
organizations which comprise the Status of Women Council and presented at an
awards dinner in Binghamton.
Ms. Pickell is a member of the CSEA’s Board of Directors, the union’s
representative to the State Comptroller's Advisory Council on State
Retirement Systems, and very active within the Local and the Region. She is
also a member of CSEA’s Statewide Political Action Committee.
Ms. Pickell said she was honored to have received the award and par-
ticularly pleased that it was in recognition of her union activism within the
community.
OFFICERS INSTALLED — Newly
elected officials of the Suffolk County
Consumer Affairs Unit of CSEA Local
852 are installed by Local 852
President Ben Boczkowski, right.
From left are Unit President James
Franklin, Second Vice President
Warren Martin, Treasurer Charles
Kraft and First Vice President Clif-
ford Colman.
Employees working conditions improve somewhat
ALBANY — Conditions have been
improved somewhat for State
Department of Health maintenace
employees at the Empire State Plaza
who work in airtight rooms origin-
ally intended for the use as storage
facilities.
Earlier this year, a CSEA safety
committee headed by Health
Department CSEA Local President
Allen Mead complained to State of-
ficials of hot and dry air in the rooms
and heavy fumes from paint and other
chemicals lingering after their use,
and hanging constantly in the air
because of a lack of storage for them
The result, says the committee, is
that the air is extremely irritating for
the workers to breathe and the
presence of the fumes isa fire hazard.
After an inspection by the Capital
Police Fire and Safety Unit in the fall,
reports Mead, the heating ducts were
fixed to keep the rooms at a comfor-
table temperature and negotiation
was begun on the possibility of install-
ing drop ceilings, a ventiliation
system and proper storage for the
paint and chemicals.
Employees were also instructed not
to use spray paint in the rooms, he
added.
“The adjustment in the heating
system was a drastic improvement,”
said Mead. ‘‘It has helped to cut down
on the odor of the fumes and the
employees feel better in a cooler en-
vironment. Of course, the other
changes are important and the com-
mittee expects to meet to discuss
them later in January.”
Determination
is overturned
ALBANY —- The Public
Employment Relations Board
(PERB) recently notified the Orange
County Unit of CSEA Local 836 of its
decision to reverse the determination
of its hearing officer who had
previously dismissed an Improper
Practice charge by CSEA.
The IP charged that Orange County
had violated Article 209-a 1(d) of the
Taylor Law when it unilaterally in-
stituted a lag payroll of one week for
county unit employees.
In its decision PERB ordered the
County of Orange to: ‘*(1) reinstate
the procedures regarding the time of
payment of wages, in relation to time
worked for those wages, that existed
prior to the unilateral change; and (2)
To negotiate with CSEA as to changes
in the time of payment’ of wages in
relation to time worked.”
CSEA Counsel Pauline F. Rogers
argued that the PERB hearing officer
erred in relying on the maintenance of
past practices clause without af-
fording the parties an opportunity to
submit evidence regarding the
relevance of that clause to the lag
payroll dispute.
In its argument the County
acknowledged that it had altered its
prior payroll practice but it asserted
that it was required to do so by Arti-
cle 369.4 of the County Law, which
provides that a payroll must be cer-
tified ‘‘as to its correctness’ before
employees be paid.
In concluding its reversal decision
PERB also indicated that Orange
County had ‘‘made no specific
negotiation proposal regarding any
kind If lag payroll.
Union fights hospital closings
ALBANY — If CSEA members know of
plans to close any state, municipal, volun-
tary or private hospitals in New York they
can count on support from the union to
keep their hospitals open.
The state's largest public employee un-
ion has a standing policy to oppose any
attempts to close hospitals in New York
City or anywhere else in the state
During the 1979 Statewide Convention,
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, January 9, 1980
the union’s Delegates voted unanimously
to join in support of other labor
organizations by going on record in op-
position to hospital closings.
CSEA has been vocal and effective in its
efforts to oppose threatened closings. of
state mental health and mental retar-
dation facilities and has joined with
AFSCME District Council 37 te oppose
proposed hospital closings in New York
City.
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Administrative, Institutional, and
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the Albany area, and that ex-
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answers
Q. My daughter recently
became entitled to Medicare
because she’s been getting
social security disability pay-
ments for 2 years. Will she al-
ways have Medicare coverage,
or will it stop at a certain age?
A. If a person has Medicare
because of disability, Medicare
hospital and medical insurance
protection will end if the per-
son’s entitlement to disability
benefits ends before age 65. As
long as the person is getting dis-
ability checks, Medicare protec-
tion will continue.
Q. My husband died |ast
month. Can I cash the so ial
security check that arrived
this month, or am I supposed
to return it?
A. No benefits are payable for
the month of death. For exam-
ple, if the beneficiary died in
October, the check dated
November 2, (which is pay-
ment for October) should be
returned unless the check is
made out jointly to a husband
and wife. In that case, the sur-
vivor should ask at a social
security office whether to cash
the check.
Q. When my first child was
born, I quit my job as a book-
keeper. Now that all the
children are in school, I've
decided to return to work. Were
the social security credits I
earned in my former job taken
off my record when I stopped
working?
A. No. Any social security
credits you earn, regardless of
when you earn them, remain
on your social security record.
Of course, if you stop working
before you have enough credits,
no benefits will be payable on
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if you return to work, you can
earn any additional credits you
need to get benefits.
Q. My husband died several
weeks ago. I know I’m sup-
posed to file an application for
social security survivors bene-
fits, but I don’t know what
papers to take with me. Can
you tell me what I'll need?
A. Some of the proofs you
may need to apply for survivors
benefits are your social security
number and the deceased
worker’s number; proof of your
age; proof of marriage, the
children’s birth certificates, if
they are applying for benefits,
and the deceased worker's in-
come tax forms or returns for
the year before death. Don’t
delay applying because you
don’t have all these proofs. The
people at the social security
office can suggest other proofs
that can be used.
Q. My husband and I both
have Medicare coverage. We've
been thinking about joining a
prepayment plan. Can you give
us some information about
how such plans work?
A. Prepayment’ plans make
health services available to
their members in a special way.
Generally, each member pays
regular premiums to the plan.
The member can then receive
health services the plan pro-
vides, whenever he or she
needs them, without additional
charges. In some plans, small
charges are made for certain
services. Many prepayment
plans have made arrangements
with Medicare to receive direct
payments for Medicare-
covered services they furnish to
their members. For more infor-
mation, call any social security
office.
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ABOVE, CSEA FIELD REP TERRY
MOXLEY says assaults against
employees are largely fault of
management. ‘It appears the egos of
some administrators do not allow
them to admit failure. . .” he says.
RIGHT, LAURI BECKER — She was
terminated after suffering a con-
cussion, broken ribs and back
problems caused by a violent attack
upon her by a patient at Syracuse
Developmental Center.
Assaults on employees continue
as major problem at Syracuse
Editor’s note: Two recent editions
of The Public Sector reported how
mental hygiene Therapy Aide Sheri
Ranger had been assaulted five times
in five months at Syracuse
Developmental Center. Ms. Ranger’s
problem appear to be only the tip of
the iceberg.
SYRACUSE — The plight of the
employees of Syracuse Developmen-
tal Center (SDC) appears to be
deteriorating.
Most recently,
a therapy aide
trainee was terminated for tardiness
and absenteeism when those
problems were directly related to on-
the-job injuries, according to CSEA
Field Representative Terry Moxley.
CSEA is continuing to collect af-
fidavits and formal complaints con-
cerning violent attacks on staff by un-
restrained, dangerous patients.
Lauri Becker was terminated Dec.
12 for tardiness and absenteeism after
having suffered a concussion, broken
ribs and back problems from job-
related injuries including being
assaulted by a violent patient, Moxley
said.
He said Ms. Becker's firing will be
appealed through an Article 75 hear-
ing under the Civil Service Law. Ms.
Becker was hired Jan. 25, 1979, and
was still a probationary employee.
Ms. Becker’s problems and injuries
are indicative of a situation at SDC
where the administration fails to
show concern for the safety of the
staff, he said.
Ms. Becker said her notice of dis-
cipline came two days after she hada
confrontation with Elizabeth Carroll,
SDC’s personnel officer.
SDC CSEA Local 424 President
Santo DeVito said on the average
there are about one or two incidents
of serious injury a week caused by
violent patients assaulting staff and
other patients at the facility.
“Employees don’t have much
chance. We do not have the tools to
handle a client when he becomes
violent. Also, our members are afraid
of getting fired.
ONONDAGA COUNTY CSEA LOCAL 834 President Thomas Murphy, sitting on right, joins the executive
board of the local’s City of Syracuse Unit including, standing from left,
board members; Fran Guido, second vice president; Cindy Corona, first vice President; John J. Ciciagelli
and Diane Deapo, board members; standing from left, Jerri Hobson, secretary; David Cusaro, treasurer;
Jo-Anne L. Colverd and Andrew Woloszyn, board members; and Lee R. Fordock, president.
Marie S. De Groot and Mary Susco,
Onondaga local watching potential problems
SYRACUSE — Onondaga County
CSEA Local 834 is keeping a
watchful eye on how the county is
handling personnel adjustments
caused by the consolidation of Van
Duyn Home and Hospital into one
building, Local 834 President
Thomas Murphy notes.
Murphy, who also is president of
the Van Duyn Unit, explained that
prior to the consolidation in the
new facility in August 1979, the
facility was scattered in five
locations, causing patients, food
laundry, etc., to be transported
among the buildings.
Since the consolidation, six
employees involved in that tran-
sportation received layoff notices
effective Jan. 1, 1980, Murphy said.
Layoffs, according to the con-
ri between the county and
, are by job title county wide,
and involved employees retreat to
previously held titles, he said.
“The six Van Duyn employees
will be placed in other positions. If
anyone 1s laid off, they will be on
preferred lists for a year,’’ Murphy
said
“As local president, I have re-
quested a seniority list from the
county for the job titles involved
(driver, messenger, laborer and
custodian), We are going to police
the procedure.
“If anyone is ultimately laid off,
they better be the first ones hired
in that job classification,’’ he said.
emigre anny
The same patient who assaulted
Ms. Becker also injured Therapy Aide
Carolyn Clark to such an extent that
she has been recuperating on comp
time since May, Ms. Becker said.
Moxley believes many of the
problems at SDC can be traced to the
failure of the administration to
restrain violent patients who, it
are allowed to roam free at SDC.
“It appears the egos of some ad-
ministrators do not allow them to ad-
mit failure by restraining a patient,”
Moxley said.
Ms. Becker’s problems come on top
of those of another therapy aide, Sheri
Ranger, who was assaulted by violent
patients five times in five months.
Her injuries included a broken nose
(twice), ruptured blood vessels in the
right eye, a broken finger and burns
from hot coffee being poured on her
head.
In what Moxley called a ‘drastic
step,” criminal assault charges have
been filed against one of the SDC
patients who assaulted Ms. =
Other actions taken and or con-
templated concerning Ms. Ranger’s
problems include:
¢ Filing of grievances on the safety
of SDC personnel and for Ms.
Ranger's disability compensation:
e Contemplation of filing an
Improper Practice regarding
harassment of Ms. Ranger, who is a
union steward.
* Investigation for a possible civil
suit by Ms. Ranger against New York
State for plastic surgery not covered
by Health Insurance.
Moxley said Ms. Ranger’s problems
“appear to me to be related to her
union activities. She had no problems on
the job for the first year of her
employment.
“Then in November, 1978, she
became a steward and filed a
grievance. A short time later she was
transferred involuntarily to another
service where her new supervisor
harassed her and gave her a dis-
ciplinary.
“When Ms. Ranger asked to be
transferred, she was placed on a ser-
vice with a notorious reputation for
violent patients. It was not until she
started working on that service that
the assaults started.”
Also SDC’s personnel officer, Ms.
Carroll, a layman, rejected the
diagnosis of Ms. Ranger’s doctor and
ordered her back to work
prematurely, Moxley says.
While problems at SDC appear to be
peaking, the problems started more
than two years ago and have been
building since, he said. He believes
the problems stem from the com-
bination of the job freeze on State hir-
ing and the addition of more violent
patients to SDC, both of which oc-
cured about two years ago.
Ms. Becker and Ms. Ranger also
pointed out there is a shortage of
male employees, and a number of the
male employees work with elderly
and child patients instead of with the
more violent patients.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday; Januaty 9,'1980
Page’ 5
-double standard
aera Ene
Page 6
The quest to eliminatea —
MANHATTAN — ‘Public ser-
vice is the most dangerous
profession in New York State, and
it is unconscionable to allow
workers to be injured, maimed or
killed in occupational accidents
that are preventable by reasonable
safety standards,’’ William
McGowan told the New York State
Senate Labor Committee at recent
* hearings.
The CSEA president was testify-
ing at December 20 hearings at the
World Trade Center in Manhattan
on occupational safety and health
standards for state and local
government public employees.
“The CSEA demands, not only
that the State adopt OSHA, but that
it enacts a safety standards and en-
forcement program that exceeds
mere compliance with OSHA,”
McGowan said.
The purpose of the hearings, ac-
cording to Labor Committee Chair-
man, Senator Norman J. Levy (R-
Merrick), was to obtain testimony
about public employees’ occu-
pational safety and health stand-
ards for state and local gov-
ernments. New York State has
Above, INTENSITY OF PURPOSE
clearly registers in faces of CSEA
President William L. McGowan, left,
and CSEA safety expert Nels Carlson
as they appear to testify before a
Senate Labor Committee hearing on
December 20 in New York City to push
for occupational safety and health
protection for public workers in New
York State.
Right, SAFETY ON THEIR MINDS
— The day before CSEA witnesses
testified before the Labor Committee
in New York City, top union officials
met in Albany with representatives of
the National Safety Council.
Participating, among others, were,
from left, Jack Suarez of the Council,
CSEA safety expert Nels Carlson,
C President William L, McGowan,
N nal Safety Council President
Vincent L. Tofany, and Arnold Fisher
of the Council.
neither the Federal Occupational
Safety and Health Act (OSHA) nor
safety requirements mandated by
the New York State labor law
protecting public employees
although OSHA has been extended
to workers in private industry.
“It is hypocritical for any
government mandating health and
safety standards in the private sec-
tor to deny its own employees
equal protection. We are tired of
being second-class citizens,’ Mr.
McGowan said.
“The CSEA position is that
public employees have a right to
expect safe places to work and safe
machines and tools to do their jobs,
without fear for their lives and
health,” Mr. McGowan told the
committee which included Senator
John E. Flynn (R-Yonkers) and
Martin Connor (D-Kings).
Accompanying Mr. McGowan to
the hearings were Nels Carlson,
collective bargaining specialist, an
expert on OSHA, Atty. James
Featherstonhaugh, CSEA chief
counsel, CSEA guest Al Weaver,
former safety director of North
Carolina, and Bernie Ryan, CSEA
Political Action Director. Ac-
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, January 9, 1980
cording to Mr. Ry:
OSHA mandato|
employees has bedi
the New York Legis
in’ one house. Asse
sponsored by the forme fan
of the Assembly Labor Committe
Sal Weprin (D-Queens), is in com-
mittee but there is no bill in the
Senate as yet.
“We hope that a bill will come
out of this round of Senate Labor
Committee hearings,’ Mr. Ryan
said.
Atty. Featherstonhaugh testified
after Mr. McGowan and told the
committee that the absence of
OSHA standards is not only in-
humane but expensive.
“In 1977 alone, it cost New York
more than 18 million in compen-
sation. When you use a multiple of
eight — to include the lost time, the
retraining of personnel to replace
injured employees — that amounts
to a half a billion dollars in direct
costs.””
Mr. Weaver testified that North
Carolina reduced accident and
health costs by 50 per cent after
adopting OSHA. “It was a savings
to taxpayers, government, and
employees alike,’’ he said.
— PLAZA
Right, TESTIFYING ON BEHALF OF CSEM@pbor
Committee hearing were, from left, Atf™mes
Featherstonhaugh, CSEA President William LJ@™van,
CSEA safety expert Nels Carlson, and uni Al
Weaver, former safety director of the t
Carolina.
Below, CSEA ATTY. JAMES FEATHERST#§GH
uses a graphic display to show how lack of OSHAgtion
allowed a potentially dangerous condition to exisimpire
State Plaza buildings occupied by thousandamblic
workers in Albany.
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It’s traditional to begin a new year with all kinds
of vague promises about the opportunities of the com-
ing year and the hope of better days ahead. This year,
however, public employees have much to be worried
about. Not the least of these worries is whether the
New York Legislature will finally give more than lip
service to the right of ‘“‘equal protection under the
law’’ and extend to public employees the same oc-
cupational safety and health protection enjoyed by
private sector employees.
It’s symptomatic of the problem that this union has
had to carry the ball to get even this far in the fight to
make the state adopt Occupational Safety and Health
Act (OSHA) protection for public employees. It’s as if
we are sub-human. Everyone agrees that a truck
driver, clerk, construction worker, kitchen aide or
any other worker needs protection in the private sec-
tor, but they conveniently ignore the same needs by
the same kinds of workers in the public sector.
“Equal protection under the law’ means that
laws will be applied equally to all people, but at least
as far as OSHA is concerned, safety laws are anything
but equal. The federal Occupational Safety and Health
Act is a meaningful piece of legislation that has had a
significant impact in making private sector jobs safer
for private sector workers. It does not apply, however,
in the public sector unless voluntarily adopted by the
Legislature and to date the Legislature has ducked the
issue with great success. We have had three separate
studies on the need for public sector OSHA and, despite
agreement by all three studies that there is a pressing
need, there is still no OSHA for public employees.
There is overwhelming evidence of the need for oc-
cupational safety laws that apply in the public sector.
After all, how can a government in a democratic
society founded on the principles of individual
freedom allow its own employees to be massacred in
occupational accidents that are avoidable? Indeed,
how can a government deny such protections in the
face of expert testimony that this denial is costing
state and local government taxpayers tens of millions
of dollars in avoidable compensation and productivity
losses?
Yet there is still not justice for public employees
and there is still no occupational safety law to prevent
public employers from injuring and maiming public
employees in avoidable accidents.
Last year the State Assembly passed a bill that was
a real step forward toward the goal of OSHA
protection for state and local government employees.
Yet the State Senate saw fit not to act in the face of in-
tense lobbying by local governments who were talking
dollars while we were talking lives. This year the bat-
tle lines have been clearly drawn and this union will
not leave a single stone unturned. We have spent a
great deal of time, sweat and money to develop con-
siderable political leverage and we will use every
ounce of that leverage to make OSHA a reality instead
of a promise
President's Message
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Incredible as it may seem, we are entering this
battle armed on the one hand with a compelling
humanitarian argument against carnage in the work
place, and armed on the other hand with the promise
of relief for taxpayers from the ever-increasing
burden of compensation and productivity costs and, yet,
we still face an uphill battle to get for our people what
the private sector has had for seven years.
OSHA must be won this year, or all of the momen-
tum that we have been building over the past several
years will be lost. We have carried our message from
one end of this state to the other and with encouraging
response from the public. They cannot understand why
we are denied the protections that they enjoy anymore
than we can. This is the year that we must act.
Can we win? Frankly, that depends on a number of
factors not the least of which is us, We have justice on
our side because no one can defend the needless injury
of thousands of human beings annually when simple
safety techniques could prevent them. We have
economics on our side, because the record is clear that
the benefits of OSHA through reduced injuries and
reduced losses far outweigh the relatively minor costs
of establishing a safety program. This would not be
the first just issue, however, that went down in smoke
in a legislative session.
The bottom line on OSHA is us. How far are we
willing to go to get it? Your union been from one
end of this state to the other testifying at hearings,
holding press conferences, meeting with various ex-
perts, investigating safety problems and complaints,
we have done everything that we can think of to make
this injustice visible so that you would be aware of the
need.
As this session unfolds, we will be mounting a
campaign to let the legislature know that we will not
accept another delay. We must demonstrate to them
clearly that this is an issue that we cannot, and will
not, let die. OSHA for us is literally a life or death
issue and we must drive that point home.
In the coming weeks, our union will be putting
together the pieces of a legislative lobbying effort on
this issue. Your participation is an essential in-
gredient in our success or failure. We may ask you to
send letters for us to show to your legislators, we may
ask you to write to your legislator directly, we may
even ask you to personally lobby face-to-face for
OSHA. We must convince the legislature that a very
large number of voters take this issue very personally.
When we ask for your personal support to make
OSHA a reality for New York's public employees,
remember that the ultimate factor in this fight is you.
(OO IANY rare Pe! GOP
WILLIAM L, MCGOWAN
President
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CSEA PRESIDENT William L.
McGowan, left, and Southern
Region III President James
Lennon listen attentively to a
question being asked by a local
dent from Region III.
wan visited all six CSEA
regions to meet with local officers
in question-answer sessions. The
Region III meeting was last month
in Fishkill.
BELOW,
FIELD REPRESEN-
FISHKILL — CSEA President William L.
McGowan met with the presidents of the locals in
CSEA Southern Region III recently, one of a
series of question-answer sessions McGowan has
had with local presidents throughout the state.
Questions ranging from the affiliation with
AFSCME to ideas for potential legislation were
discussed.
McGowan meets with
Region Ill local presidents
McGowan met with presidents of state locals
in the afternoon and with presidents of county
locals in the evening. The meetings were held at
Region III headquarters.
In between the two meetings was a session on
the State Employee Evaluations conducted by
Marie Romanelli, a member of the Cumquat
Committee and president of SUNY New Paltz
Local 610.
DUTCHESS COUNTY CSEA LOCAL 814 President
Ellis Adams, center, is flanked by two Region III of-
ficers at the recent meeting with CSEA President
William McGowan. They are Eleanor McDonald,
treasurer; and Raymond J. O’Connor, first vice
president.
TATIVE Flip Amodio, left, and
Region III Director Thomas
Luposello are among the staff @
attending the meeting with CSEA
President William McGowan.
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AMONG THE STATE DIVISION local officers attending the meeting are, from left,
Margaret Zettle, Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center Local 448; and Mary Garrison and
Pat Nealon, Judiciary Local 332, ®
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, January 9, 1980
. CSEA strongly against proposed HESC bill
ALBANY — CSEA has blasted a
proposed bill that would turn the State
Higher Education Services Cor-
poration (HESC) from a state agency
into a public-benefit corporation, and
its director into a ‘‘virtual dictator.”
Ruth E. Smith of Albany, president
of CSEA Higher Education Services
Corp. Local 667, presented the union’s
position in writing to Sen. Kenneth P.
@ i avalle (R-Suffolk), chair of the
Senate Higher Education Committee.
“Under the bill, $5906, the cor-
poration’s executive director would
have total control over all its ac-
tivities,” she noted. ‘‘These would in-
clude the powers to lend money, es-
tablish fees, enter into contracts for
property, goods or services, and uni-
laterally to appoint employees and
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THESE CSEA CAPITAL REGION LOCAL
REPRESENTATIVES were among leaders
who met with statewide CSEA President
William L. McGowan, center, during one of his
recent factfinding series he conducted
throughout the union's six regions. From left
are Shirley Ponkos, Columbia County Local
president; Ruth Bates, Washington County
@ Board of Directors representative; Larry
Riley, Washington County Local president;
Glennen Woodward, Greenwich Unit president;
Jeanne Kelso, Clinton County Local president;
William Sohl, Fulton County Local president;
Mr. MeGowan; Kathryn Saddlemire, Schoharie
County Local president; William Zippiere,
Montgomery County Local president; Edward
Evans, Rensselaer County Educational Local
president; Joseph McDermott, CSEA Capital
Region president; John Miller, Saratoga County
Local president; Richard Canniff, Greene
County Local president; and Alfred Farone,
Schenectady County Local president.
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set their terms and conditions of
employment.’’ She pointed out that
such power in the hands of the ex-
ecutive director would make him a “‘a
virtual dictator.”
The 550 Higher Education Services
employees represented by CSEA, all
in the Albany area, process Tuition
Assistance Program and Regents
scholarships, as well as student loans.
They are in CSEA’s statewide Ad-
ministrative Services bargaining unit.
“The executive director if this bill
passed, would be in a position to hire
and fire employees at will, without
regard to the Civil Service Law,” Ms.
Smith wrote.
Another big problem with the bill is
its lack of employee protections.
“The new corporation would not be
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Grievance was handled properly
ALBANY — A Public Employment
Relations Board hearing officer has
ruled that CSEA correctly handied a
grievance by a member whose job
was abolished in the 1976 state budget
crunch. The man had filed an im-
proper practice charge against the
union, claiming CSEA breached its
fair representation duty when CSEA
lawyers dropped the case because
they felt he would lose his case since
he did not have permanent civil ser-
vice status at the time.
The IP charge filed in April 1979 by
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City, State —_ Steet
Date of Retirement —_
subject to the Civil Service Law,” Ms.
Smith’ warned. ‘‘Present employees
would continue to hold their positions
only at the discretion of the Executive
Director.”
The union leader also warned
against other versions of the same
bill, which she said ‘‘may surface in
some other form like a phoenix aris-
ing from its own ashes.”
She noted that the services per-
formed by HESC are similar in nature
to those performed by other state
agencies, and that turning HESC into
a public-benefit corporation ‘‘would
only result in the removal of HESC
from the beneficial scrutiny of the
legislative and executive branches of
government.””
Ms. Smith added that one current
Saul Kandel, former vocational in-
structor with the State Drug Abuse
Control Commission, alleged that
CSEA violated Article 209-a.2 (a) of
the Public Employees’ Fair
Employment Act by failing to proper-
ly represent him in a grievance filed
against the state of New York.
In reviewing the facts of the case,
PERB indicated Kandel received his
first state appointment in May 1974 as
a vocational instructor with the Drug
Abuse Control Commission and
achieved permanent civil service
status in that title. In June 1976, his
job was abolished and his name was
placed on a preferred eligibility list.
Approximately one year after being
laid off, Kandel was appointed to a
new state position as a Disability
Analyst Trainee with the Department
of Social Seryices. He was not hired
from the preferred list, however, but
as the result of the efforts of a joint
CSEA-State committee.
Kandel started with the Bureau in
September 1977. During his first few
months on the job, he received two
‘probationary period evaluation
reports’ and, as a result, was ter-
public benefit corporation, the Off-
Track Betting Corporation, has been
the target of severe criticism in the
Albany-area press recently for,
among other problems, nepotism and
political favoritism in hiring and
awarding contracts.
“There is no evidence that the
public benefit corporation mode is
either more responsive or more ef-
ficient,’ Ms. Smith concluded. ‘‘In
fact, the evidence is to the contrary.
There is no justification for the
proposed change.”’
CSEA’s Office of Political Action
and Legislation, in full agreement
with Ms. Smith’s position on the
matter, has targeted the bill for
defeat in the 1980 session.
minated January 11, 1978. The same
day Kandel filed a grievance claiming
that the state, by not giving him a
hearing prior to his dismissal. had
violated Article 33 of the State-CSEA
contract.
The state later ruled that Kandel
was not a permanent employee and
was not entitled to an Article 33
hearing, a ruling which CSEA
appealed. Over a period of several
months thereafter, Kandel received
advice and consultation from CSEA
representatives, and union attorneys
in late 1978 dropped the appeal when it
was determined that Kandel was, in
fact, not a permanent employee
Kandel, in April 1979, brought the im-
proper practice charge against the
union.
PERB Hearing Officer Louis J.
Patack, in December 1979, issued a
decision upholding CSEA. “The
record establishes that CSEA, far
from ignoring the merits of the case,
thoroughly investigated both its fac-
tual and legal aspects, and thus fulfill-
ed its statutory obligation,’ Patack
stated.
JANUARY
11 — Region 6 meeting, 8 p.m., Rochester / Marriott Inn, Greece, N.Y
12 — Region 6 meeting, 9:30 a.m., state and county workshop, general business meeting
after lunch, Rochester / Marriott Inn, Greece, N.Y.
19 —CSEA President William L. McGowan informational meeting with Region VI
presidents, Holiday Inn, Batavia. County Division presidents, 9:45 a.m.; State
Division presidents, 1:15 p.m.
19 — Region IV Workshop, grievance procedure, 9:30 a.m,-3:30 p.m.
Latham.
Holiday Inn
26 — Region | workshop, Safety and Health, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Holiday Inn, Hauppauge
Same can LiL Gees oe
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Social Services Disability Specialist ..
Senior Social Services Disability Analyst .
Supervising Bank Examiner . E
Supervising Overseas Branch Bank ‘Examiner .
Principal Clerk.
Principal Clerk (Payroll)
Principal Clerk (Personnel) ..
Principal Clerk (Purchase
Principal File Clerk ....
Principal Mail and Supply Clerk
Principal Statistics Clerk
Principal Stenographer .
Principal Stenographer
Principal Stores Clerk
Coordinator of Volunteer Services
Coordinator of Volunteer Services
(Spanish Speaking)
Institution Food Administrator .
Mental Hygiene Program Evaluation
Specialist IV
Mental Hygiene Program Evaluation
Specialist IIT
Mental Hygiene Program Evaluation
Specialist II
Senior Farm Products Inspector ..
Supervising Farm Products Inspector.
Food Inspector II .
Food Inspector III
Food Inspector IV ....
Food Processing Inspector
Commerce District Administrator I
Commerce District Administrator I
Rehabilitation Interviewer .
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‘fax Technician Trainee I..
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Conservation Biologist (Ecology) .
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Conservation Biologist (Wildlife) .
Coordinator of Volunteer Services
Coordinator of Volunteer Services
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Economic Opportunity Program (Specialist I).
Employment Counselor
Food Inspector I
Food Inspector Trainee
Human Resources Program Analyst
Institution Food Administrator ..
Mental Hygiene Program Evaluation
Specialist IV
Mental Hygiene Program Evaluatio'
Specialist III
Mental Hygiene Program Evaluation
Specialist II
Mental Hygiene Program Evaluation
Specialist I
Rehabilitation Interviewer
Rehabilitation Interviewer (Spanish Speaking).
Supervisor of Volunteer Services .
Tax Technician Trainee [......
Tax Technician Trainee (Spanish Speaking
Transportation Supervisor ................. ;
Salary Exam No.
«+ $22,500
- $15,520
$18,255
$32,475
$36,095
$11,060
$11,060
$11,060
$11,060
$11,060
$11,060
$11,695
$11,695
$11,695
$11,695
$17,320
$17,320
$18,225
$26,390
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$14,680
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. $14,680
. $17,320
- $20,225,
. $13,125,
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$32,475
$ 9,865
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$ 8,950
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. $LL,250
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Pharmacist (salary varies with location) .
Assistant Sanitary Engineer .
Senior Sanitary Engineer
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Assistant Clinical Physician .
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Dental Hygienist ..
Licensed Practical Nurse
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Stationary Engineer .
Senior Stationary Engineer
Occupational Therapy Assistant 1
Occupational Therapy Assistant I
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Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor ..
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Medical Record Technician
Histology Technician ....
Professional Positions in Auditing and Accounting.
Computer Programmer. .
Computer Programmer (Scientific)
Senior Programmer .
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Mobility Instructor .
Instructor of the Blind
Health Services Nurs
.(salary varies with location)
Senibr Heating and Ventilating Engineer .
Senior Sanitary Engineer (Design)...
Senior Building Electrical Engineer
Senior Building Structural Engineer
Senior Mechanical Construction Engi
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Assistant Stationary Engineer
Electroencephalograph Technician .
“Radiologic Technologist .
(salary varies with location)
Medical Record Administrator ..
Food Service Worker I
Mental Hygiene Therapy
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee .
(Spanish Speaking)
Associate Actuary (Casualty) .
Principal Actuary (Casualty)
Supervising Actuary (Casualty) .
Assistant Actuary
Nurse II (Rehabilitation)
Medical Specialist II .
Medical Specialist I
Psychiatrist I.
Psychiatrist IL
Social Services Management Trainee
Social Services Management Specialist .
Social Services Management Trainee
(Spanish Speaking)
Social Services Management Specialist
(Spanish Speaking)
Industrial Training Supervisor
(salary varies depending on specialty)
Physical Therapist .....
Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking)
Senior Physical Therapist ..
Senior Physical Therapist (Spanish peaking
Speech Patholopist .
Stenographer .
Psychiatric Therapy Aide
Principal Clerk (Surrogate) .
Senior Clerk tSurtoeete) fi
Supervising Janitor .
Head Housekeeper . .
Director, Bureau of State Information
Commerce District Administrator I .
Commerce District Administrator II
Salary Exam No.
$10,624
$14, 388- ity Hr
- $16.
‘$18; 1
+ $27,942
$31,055
. $25,161
.. $14,850
20-102
20-129
20-122
20-123
20-118
20-119
20-117
20-113
20-113
20-113
20-109
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Filing Ends January 15, 1980 .
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Chief System Planner (Gas) . ; 29-283
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Problems lead to action at Oyster Bay
OYSTER BAY — A wildcat job
action and a law suit against the Town
of Oyster Bay by Nassau County
CSEA Local 830 highlighted the end-
of-year problems by the Oyster Bay
Unit with the town
The job action, on Nov. 29, 1979, in-
volved approximately 115 employees
of the town Public Works De-
partment, Highway and Sanitation
divisions. Local 830 President
Nicholas Abbatiello reported.
He said the job action, which includ-
ed a demonstration in front of the
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Grievance filed
VALHALLA — Employees of
Westchester County Community
College were forced to use one of their
personal days when the college closed
for the day after Thanksgiving, and a
grievance has been filed, according to
Carmine DiBattista, business agent for
the Westchester County Unit of CSEA
Local 860.
DiBattista said under the contract
between the county and CSEA, the
action by the college administration
constitutes a lockout and is a violation
of the contract. He said the college was
the only county worksite where such a
lockout occurred.
The college was closed on Nov. 23 and
the employees were charged for the day
off, Raymond J. O'Connor, county unit
president, said.
New office opened
HAUPPAUGE — The Civil Service
Employees Assn. opened a new Long
Island Region I satellite office on
January 2 at 350 Vanderbilt Motor
Parkway, Hauppauge. The telephone
number for the new office is (516) 273-
2280.
And effective January 11 the Suffolk
County CSEA Local office will move
to 755 Waverly Avenue, Holtsville.
The new number for the Suffolk
County office will be (516) 475-8600 or
475-8601
Retirement noted
The Board of Directors of Oneida
County CSEA Educational Local 869
recently honored Jacob (Jake) Banek
for his many years of dedicated ser-
vice of the Local and CSEA
Mr. Banek one of the original local
members, also served as its first
president, For the past 6 years he has
served as Treasurer of Local 869. The
retirement dinner in his honor was
held at the American Legion- in
Holland Patent
Highway Division building, was over
a controversial promotion and over
alleged harassment of two unit of-
ficials by the town.
The law suit involves the
harassment of one of those officials,
Unit President Pat D'Alessio.
Abbatiello said a number of senior
employees in the Highway Division
were bypassed by promotion in their
division in favor of the lateral
transfer of a less senior employee
from the Sanitation Division.
He also said the employees were
angry over the alleged harassment of
D'Alessio, a Highway Division
foreman; and John Tortorice, a
Sanitation Division shop steward
The job action was started by the
highway employees who were joined
by the sanitation employees, Ab-
batiello said. The job action ended in
the late morning with the employees
returning to work, he said
He said the sanitation employees
who later completed their routes
avoided any penalties while the
highway workers will be charged for
the time not worked.
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Later that afternoon, CSEA Field *
Representative Rigo Predonzan and
Local 830 Administrative Assistant
Nicholas Delisanti met with Town
Supervisor Joseph Colby. Colby
agreed to stop the harassment of Tor-
torice by allowing him to function as
he had prior to the harassment and to
check into the legality of the lateral
transfer.
The union received word on Dec. 3
that the transfer was legal, Abbatiello
said
Abbatiello said a law suit has been
filed against the town for ordering
D'Alessio from his 100 percent
released-time position as unit
president and taking away a town
truck from his use.
The CSEA-town contract provides
the unit president with 100 percent >
released time and no loss of benefits,
Abbatiello said.
He also noted the harassment of
D’Alessio and Tortorice came after
Colby's re-election. CSEA endorsed
his opponent.
EVALUATION PROGRAM DISCUSSED
— Martin Langer, administrator of the
new performance evaluation and ad-
vancement system for state employees,
gestures to make a point during an infor-
mational meeting for CSEA Long Island
Region I members recently in Hauppauge.
At left is Bill Chacona, President of
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center Local 418, and
at right is CSEA Region I President Irving
Flaumenbaum,
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Right, MANY LEADERS FROM THE SCHOOL UNITS of
Westchester County CSEA Local 860 attend the leadership
conference including, from left, Al Hoard, White Plains
Schools Unit; and Lythie Newsome and Henry
Grabowski, Edgemont School District Unit of Scarsdale.
Develop new way
of communicating,
leaders are told
WHITE PLAINS — ‘‘We need to develop
alternate ways of communicating with the
membership. We need to create an en-
vironment for people to want to participate
in the union,” Dave Williams, AFSCME
International director of education, told
more than 50 persons attending the recent
Westchester County CSEA Local 860
Leadership Conference. é
Williams spoke on the need for a union to
do more than just hold membership
meetings as the means of communicating
with members.
“People do give a damn even if they
don’t attend the meetings . . . Meetings are
to conduct the business of the local,” he
said.
There is poor attendance at most
meetings because few persons actually
speak, which makes meetings a poor
method of communication, Williams said.
Also at the conference, Robert McEnroe,
AFSCME New York State director, spoke
on solving problems. He stressed group in-
volvement in the decision-making process
usually was superior to individual action.
As part of the AFSCME presentation was
the film ‘‘Don’t bend, fold, spindle or
mutilate,”’ which was about internal com-
munication problems of a local.
Coordinating the conference was Local
860 Third Vice President and Education
Chairman Janice Schaff. CSEA Field
Representatives attending the conference
were Joe O’Connor, Don Patrick and Larry
Sparber
Also attending the conference from
AFSCME were staff members Steve
Regenstreif, Jan Radle, Anita Patterson
and Seren Hrachian
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, Januory 9,
Above, AFSCME INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
DIRECTOR Dave Williams, left, speaks to members of
Westchester County CSEA Local 860. Williams emphasiz-
ed the need for improving communication within locals.
Among those in the audience at the leadership training
session are, from left, Jack Yanuzzi, Village of
Mamaroneck Unit; William Harrington, Elmsford
Schools Unit; and Raymond Moniz, Yonkers Schools Unit.
Right, AFSCME NEW YORK STATE DIRECTOR Robert
McEnroe stressed group involvement in the decision-
making process of a local. He said it usually is superior to
individual action.
Below, SOUTHERN REGION [Il PRESIDENT James
Lennon joins Local 860 Third Vice President and
Education Committee Chairman Janice Schaff at the
local’s leadership conference. Ms. Schaff was coordinator
of the event.
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