ALBANY — A hearing will be held in
Albany on Friday, Feb. 15, 1980 on CSEA’s
challenge to the recently instituted $5 fee for
open-competitive Civil Service examinations.
At a pre-hearing conference on the matter
Jan. 11, Pauline Rogers, an attorney with the
+ CSEA law firm of Roemer and Feather-
stonhaugh, represented the union’s position
and agreed to the Feb. 15 hearing date.
“This fee is an Improper Practice under the
state’s Taylor Law,” Ms. Rogers says. ‘It
Hearing set on challenge
by union to *5 exam fee
constitutes a unilateral change in the terms
and conditions of employment for the in-
eumbent state employees who want to take
such exams. Any imposition of a fee like this
must be negotiated with the union.”’
‘The hearing on Feb. 15 will be called off if
both sides can stipulate to the facts in the
matter before then. Public Employment
Relations Board Hearing Officer Robert
Miller is scheduled to hear the case, and
CSEA attorney Stephen Wiley will represent
the union:
The Improper Practice charge was filed
after CSEA’s 1,200 delegates unanimously
passed a‘ resolution by Local 670 President
Shirley Brown at the October, 1979 delegates
meeting, that the union go on record as being
“unalterably opposed” to the institution of
such a fee. Open competitive exams are often
taken by incumbent state employees, and they
must be taken by provisional employees in
order for such employees to keep their jobs.
SSECTOR
Official Publication of
The Civil Service Employee Association
Vol. 2, No. 15 (ISSN 0164 9949)
Wednesday, January 23, 1980
AFL-CIO PRESIDENT EMERITUS George
Meany is shown as he addressed a leadership
conference sponsored by AFSCME in 1977. Mr.
Meany died January 10 at the age of 85. A tribute
‘CSEA put up a great fight,’
foreman reinstated to job
CORTLAND — A Cortland County building and grounds foreman has been
ordered reinstated to his job and is in line to receive several thousands of
dollars in back pay as the result of an arbitrator’s decision.
“It was a long battle and the CSEA put up a great fight for me,” Robert
Stoker said immediately after learning that Arbitrator James R. Markowitz
had dismissed all charges filed against him by the County, and had ordered
Stoker reinstated to his job with back pay. Stoker will receive $11,410 less any
money he earned at other employment while suspended without pay.
2 In dismissing all charges, Arbitrator Markowitz further absolved Stoker of
any wrongdoing, saying that ‘‘Robert Stoker acted in good faith in salvaging
for the county all material in the school that could economically be salvaged.’’
He had been charged with taking materials from a former school building be-
ing gutted prior to its renovation into a county office building, and of per-
mitting other workers under his supervision to take such materials. Stoker had
been cleared by a county trial jury of essentially the same charges just before
the county fired him and filed its charges.
Markowitz noted that where material was taken, ‘‘that material either
needed processing before it was valuable or was essentially valueless.”’
All materials were determined to be worthless and were scheduled to be
discarded at the county land fill. F
The arbitration was pushed by Cortland County Unit President Earl
Conger and Stoker was represented by CSEA Regional Attorney Earle Boyle.
The Cortland County legislature authorized Stoker’s reinstatement follow-
ing the arbitrator’s determination, and he was fully reinstated effective
he Employee Evaluation Program—_
botched, on hold, but salvageable
to Mr. Meany and his career is contained on page
12.
REINSTATED WITH BACK PAY — Cortland County Building and Grounds
Foreman Roger Stoker, right, looks over a check with Cortland County CSEA
Unit President Earl Conger, left. The check symbolizes one Stoker will receive
for several thousands of dollars in back pay following his reinstatement
oer’ by an.arbitrator. “. . . the CSEA put up a great fight for me,” Stoker
Said.
More strike force
WASHINGTON — The Labor
Dept. is expanding its Wage-Hour
Division strike force program to
crack down on employers who
shortchange illegal alien workers
on minimum wages and overtime
pay.
New strike force teams,
operating out of Miami, Atlanta,
Los Angeles and San Francisco,
will also be on the lookout for
“‘sweatshop”’ working conditions,
child labor violations and under-
payment of prevailing wages on
federally funded construction.
Assistant Labor Sec. Donald
Elisburg, head of the Employment
Standards Administration (ESA),
said the so-called undocumented
workers are easy targets for ex-
ploitation by unscrupulous
employers because of their fear of
being deported.
In addition to the payment of sub-
standard wages, Elisburg said, the
illegal aliens are subjected to ex-
cessive hours and intolerable living
and working conditions.
“Often times, the conditions un-
der which they are forced to work
are no better than the sweatshops
which existed at the turn of the
century,’” he said.
Disability may not be terminated
WASHINGTON — A divided
National Labor Relations Board
has ruled that employers may not
terminate disability benefits for
workers who are on sick leave
when a strike begins.
Such a practice violates the
National Labor Relations Act, the
board concluded in abandoning, its
former policy permitting the ter-
mination of benefits without any
showing that the sick employees
actively supported the strike.
NLRB Chairman John H. Fann-
ing and Members John C.
Truesdale and Howard Jenkins, Jr.
Worldwide industrial action urged
WASHINGTON — American and
Canadian officers of the Inter-
national Transport Workers
Federation are pressing for
“worldwide industrial action’
against Iran in the labor
movement’s effort to gain release
of the 50 U.S. hostages held captive
NEED HELP?.
The Em He ee Assistance Program (EAP) is
NFIDENTIAL counseling: service
Steinke by CSEA under a special finan-
tant from the New York State Division
of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. It is be-
ing made available to any employee who
needs help with a personal, family, medical,
emotional, alcohol or drug related problem.
For further information and the name of a
Call
EA
cm ee SS ae “
A $$22,000 CHECK is Ed Favre’s share of the largest back-pay settlement
in U.S. labor history. Favre and some 400 other members of the Oil,
Chemical & Atomic Workers received a total of $12 million in net back
pay after the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the American
Cyanamid Co. had illegally locked them out following a 1975 strike in sub-
urban New Orleans.
Tentative range
WASHINGTON — President
Carter’s Pay Advisory Committee,
comprising representatives of
labor, business and the general
public, tentatively agreed to adopt
a range of 7.5. to 9.5 percent as the
voluntary pay increase standard
for the second year of the Ad-
declared that employees have a
right under the law to refrain from
declaring their position on a strike
while they are medically excused
from work.
The board ordered the E.L.
Wiegand division of the Emerson
Electric Co. to pay disability
benefits to 23 employees who were
on sick leave when a strike began
at the company’s Pittsburgh plant
on Nov. 1, 1977. The strike, involv-
ing some 1,100 members of the
Auto Workers, lasted until Feb. 28,
1978.
by terrorists for more than two
months.
The five U.S. and Canadian of-
ficers of the ITF have called for an
emergency meeting of the trade
secretariat’s executive board or its
management committee to reach
an. immediate consensus on the
a free
cial
set on pay hikes
anti-inflation
ministration’s
program.
The tripartite committee’s
decision must be worked out
further at a Jan. 22 meeting before
being formally recommended to
the Council on Wage & Price
Stability, which monitors the
overall anti-inflation program.
The present wage guideline
provides for 7 percent annual in-
creases, with an extra 1 percent
boost allowed for contracts that do
not provide for automatic cost-of-
living increases.
The proposal for a new pay stand-
ard came at a Jan. 8 meeting of
the pay panel, and was outlined by
its chairman, John Dunlop, a Har-
vard economist and former
Secretary of Labor. Dunlop
cautioned that “it would be in-
appropriate for employers and
employees to regard the range as
now established,”’ pending the out-
come of the committee’s Jan. 22
meeting and subsequent review by
COWPS.
against lran
Iran situation.
A similar appeal for ITF action
has been made by the Railway
Labor Executives Association,
which is represented on the IFT
board by RLEA Chairman Joh F.
Peterpaul, a vice president of the
Machinists.
342-3565.
program coordinator to contact, call the
toll-free “800” number. All calls and inter-
views are strictly CONFIDENTIAL.
William L. McGowan
President, CSEA
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Director, EAP
1-800-342-3565 _ __
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, January 23,1980. _
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FARM WORKERS’ BOYCOTT of the
largest California lettuce grower yet
to settle with the UFW reaches the’
streets of Cleveland, Ohio, where!
Patricio Rodriguez bundles up to!
spread the word. The union is working || e
closely with the Cleveland AFL-CIO!
and other central bodies on the)
boycott as it seeks to negotiate a con-
tract with the giant Bruce Church Co.
which markets iceberg lettuce under
the Red Coach label. The grower)
employs about 1,200 farm workers. ©
The Employee Assistance Program has a)
new address, new office phone number, and a
new toll-free
employees to call if they have alcohol, drug or
family-related problems that is hampering)
their work performance. The EAP’s new office’
is located at 1215 Western Avenue, Albany,
N.Y. 12203; the new office phone number i
(518) 438-6821, and the new hotline is 1-800-
“800 hot line” for public}
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Niagara Falls
e has new pact
NIAGARA FALLS — Employees of
Niagara County represented by CSEA
Local 832 will receive raises of 6.47%
plus increments effective January 1,
1980 and another 7% and increments
on January 1, 1981 under a new con-
tract recently negotiated.
Major medical coverage has been
added to Blue Cross / Blue Shield and
coverage is extended for family
members to age 23 under the new
agreement, and sick leave accruals
may be used for caring for family
members residing in the same
household.
Also, drug abuse aides have been
upgraded from grade 1 to grade 3 and
typists from grade 2 to 3. Several
other less populous titles have also
been upgraded.
With CSEA Collective Bargaining
Specialist Danny Jinks, chief
negotiator, on the negotiating team
were Unit President James Gibbons,
Gordon Kenyon, Maury Vaughn,
Kathy Kershaw, Lois Sawma,
William Patterson, Michael Brady,
Carolyn Hann and Elizabeth
Bateman.
OFFICERS OF the Nassau County Department of Parks
and Recreation CSEA Unit are shown during their recent
holiday party. From left are First Vice President
Attack management raises
BALLSTON SPA — The recent
granting of large pay increases to
managerial personnel of Saratoga
County prompted John Miller,
president of Saratoga County CSEA
Local 846 to write the following letter
which appeared in the Dec. 26, 1979,
issue of The Saratogian, the area’s
local daily newspaper.
“After reading recent news articles
concerning the dozens of hefty pay in-
creases given to Saratoga County
government administrators, the
average county taxpayer might easily
draw the conclusion that county
employees in general did well by this
latest round of salary adjustments.
No so; and to set the record straight, I
offer the following comments.
“Nearly all of the 50 or more ad-
ministrative pay increases exceed the
five percent increase granted to all .
county employees within the CSEA
bargaining unit. Our bargaining unit
consists of approximately 70 percent
of all county employees.
The Civil Service Employees As-
sociation and the county employees,
in general, were most reasonable dur-
ing the last round of negotiations by
CSEA COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Gary Fryer, standing left, makes a
point during seminar on the use of advertising in labor relations. The seminar
was just one of a series of subjects covered during a recent Communications
Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by AFSCME for communications
and public affairs specialists from across the country. Fryer and Michael
Dowling, right background, AFSCME’s Director of Public Affairs, conducted
the seminar on the use of advertising to improve public employee image, spur
collective bargaining, and deal with political referendums.
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Nicholas Delisanti, Secretary Patti Cappola,
Corresponding Secretary Dorothy McLaughlin, and
President Thomas Gargiulo.
settling for a contract agreement
calling for a five percent pay increase
during a time when inflation is
crushing the average county
employee.
“Doling out administrative pay in-
creases to the tune of 10 to 25 percent
represents little comfort to the rank
and file county em and their
union, who are annually expected to
carry the financial cross of fiscal
responsibility in their negotiated
wage increases.
“Of course, the county is quick to
point out that these increases
represent salary up-grading designed
to bring job titles more in line with
one another.
“T sincerely hope that this sudden
sense of responsibility toward salary
rate
policy for members only
spouses
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Union protests
halt form filing
SCHOHARIE — In the wake of
strong opposition from the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn., the Schoharie
County Board of Supervisors agreed,
in mid-December, not to require
county employees to fill out com-
puterized medical forms, which were
part of a new employee health survey.
And last week it scrapped the entire
health plan which called for the
employees to meet ‘‘recognized
physical standards” considered by
the union to be ambiguous.
The controversy began early in
December when several employees
who drive county vehicles refused to
fill out the medical forms, claiming
the questions asked on them had
nothing to do with their ability to
drive, and that computerizing the in-
formation was an invasion of their
privacy.
Capital Region CSEA Field
Representative John Cummings met
with county officials several times in
December, until they voted to discon-
tinue use of the forms. ©
The union subsequently filed im-
proper practice charges stating that
the standards were not clearly defin-
ed and should be a matter of
negotiation between the CSEA and the
County.
Under the threat of the union’s
latest action, the board voted to do
away with the health plan altogether,
and to appoint a county committee
which would meet with Schoharie
* County CSEA Local President
Kathryn Saddlemire and other CSEA
members to work out a health plan.
That committee must present the
plan to the board by March 14.
After hearing of the board’s recent
concessions, Cummings dropped the
improper practice charges, saying
the union recognized the county’s
right to require physical exams by its
own doctor, but would not tolerate
“unreasonable demands for stand-
ards to be met or for disclosure of in-
formation employees consider to be
private.”
Board of Supervisors will continue in
this spirit of giving when it comes to
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a temporary reflection of the holiday 1
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providing for all other county
employees at next year’s contract
negotiations.”’
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, January 23, 1980
Olympic demonstration a possibility
ALBANY — In protest of the
New York State Department of En-
vironmental Conservation’s con-
tinual mistreatment of ski center
employees, the Capital Region
Civil Service Employees Assn. is
planning a public demonstration to
take place during the 1980 Winter
Olympics at Lake Placid.
Jack Corcoran, CSEA Regional
Director for the Capital Region
CSEA, could not release any
details of the demonstration, which
he indicated was still in the plan-
ning stages, but said he has con-
tacted ABC narrator James
McKay, asking for television time,
to air the union’s differences.
“We feel we have a legitimate
gripe,” Corcoran said, pointing out
that ski center employees will play
a vital role in running the games,
but receive “little recognition and
shoddy treatment’’ from
management.
Most recently the department
has made a radical change in the
employee’s pay schedule, without protection to seasonal employees
consulting the union. The and has held up grievances filed by
department has also denied union the union, Corcoran noted.
Ski workers protest change
of pay schedule,
ALBANY — Unfair labor prac-
tice charges have been filed by the
Capital Region of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. against the New
York State Department of En-
vironmental Conservation for
changing the pay schedule of
employees at Bellayre and Gore
Mountain Ski Centers.
Similar charges were filed early
in December against the
department on:behalf of Whiteface
Ski Center employees. ~
Seasonal employees returning to
work at the ski centers, from Oc-
tober through December, were
made to wait five, rather than four,
DAMUW LIN —— MCHIVETS UF Ule Hew~
ly organized clerical unit of the
Baldwin School District have ratified
their first contract, 70-3.
Must Report Events If Payments Affected
People getting social security
checks should keep in mind
their responsibility to report
certain events that could affect
their payments, a social security
representative said recently.
These events include:
@ Change of mailing address.
© Expected earnings in 1980
over the exempt amount—
$5,000 for people 65 and over
and $3,720 for people under 65.
questions
answers
Q. According to a news re-
port I heard, workers will pay
social security taxes on earn-
ings up to $25,900 in 1980. Is
the social security tax rate
ing up, too?
A. No. The social security tax
tate for 1980 remains at 6.13
percent each for employees and
employers. The tax rates are
scheduled to increase in future
years to ensure the financial
soundness of social security.
Q. My wife entered the
horpital in-mid-December and
may be there until the end of
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@ Child nearing 18 who will
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January. | remember reading
somewhere that the Medicare
hospital insurance deductible
was increased for 1980. Does
she have to pay the new
A. No. The 1980 hospital in-
surance deductible, $180 ap-
plies to benefit periods which
start in or after January 1980.
Since your wife started a benefit
period—entered the hospital—
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mean that you will n
should also report:
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were going to be reduced. I
don’t agree with this notice
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another person of your choice,
resentative. But if you wish to
be represented, the social
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The contract provides seven @
percent increases and longevity or in-
crements in the first year, seven
percent and longevity or increments in
the second year, plus a number of
benefit improvements.
Leading the negotiations was Unit
President Pat Redman, assisted by
CSEA Field Representative John
O'Sullivan.
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charges filed Special notice to e
weeks for their first paycheck, and State f y es fit Fund i
all other employees on the payroll A ladle I tl i Nee
A . ri notifying all employees in the state’s
at the time of this alteration had to Administrative, Institutional, and
wait for two weeks with no Operational bargaining units that
paycheck. Dental Insurance Forms are now
To ‘simplify ite awn fp | rolete by tal une comoete
bookkeeping, the Encon the following information coupon
department set our members back and send to: ioe
a week in their pay. schedule,” ex- Wace
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vices director for the Capital Se ee aie onan dear)
Region CSEA. ‘Such changes, if
they are made at all, must be made
through collective bargaining, not eres
at the whim of management.”
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three cases to held in February.
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednestay; ‘January °23,° 1980
FACES in
the crowd:
Delisanti were hard for mampbers
MINEOLA — While Nicholas Ab-
batiello provides leadership as
president of CSEA’s largest local,
Nassau County Local 830, there is
another Nicholas who also works
hard on behalf of that local.
Nicholas Delisanti, one of Ab-
batiello’s two administrative
assistants, is one of the key CSEA
persons regarding grievances by
Nassau County employees as well
as many other CSHA-related ac-
tivities.
Delisanti was appointed by Ab-
batiello as administrative assistant
in July 1978 in what he calls a 24-
hour-a-day, seven day-a-week job.
He said he has received CSEA-
related telephone calls as late as
1:30 a.m. and as early as 5:30 a.m.
In the Nassau County:Local, all
grievances not settled on the first
two steps (supervisor and
department head) are submitted to
Delisanti, Abbatiello and Ad-
ministrative Assistant Frank Brat-
by for review.
If the decision is made to con-
tinue to pursue the grievance,
Delisanti and CSEA Field
Representative Rigo Predonzan
become the principal union
representatives on the grievance.
Delisanti'said he and Predonzan
win approximately 75 percent of
the grievances in spite of not hav-
ing the advantage of binding ar-
bitration in the contract.
Delisanti joined CSEA in 1972
when he was hired by Nassau
County as an assistant park direc-
tor for the Recreation and Parks
Department. He was promoted to
Park Director in 1973.
He was elected first vice
president of the Recreation and
Parks Unit in 1974 and was re-
elected in 1976 and in 1978.
After the 1974 election, his unit
president, Thomas Gargiulo, ap-
pointed him unit grievance chair-
man. Approximately one-third of
Delisanti’s work day was taken up
with union grievance work.
In 1977, Delisanti was elected a
- delegate of the local to the CSEA
delegates meetings and was re-
elected in 1979.
In addition to his work for the
unit, Delisanti took part in many
union activities including
demonstrations in Albany, Orange
County and Suffolk County.
Delisanti believes he was asked
to be one of Abbatiello’s ad-
ministrative assistants because of
his grievance experience and his
administrative experience as a
park director.
Among the many other CSEA
positions held by Delisanti are:
Chairman, Region I CETA Com-
mittee; member, CSEA Con-
stitution and By-Laws Committee;
member, CSEA CETA Committee;
chairman, Local 830 CETA Com-
mittee; and member, CSE'A
Methods. and Procedures Com-
mittee.
“We have a very good union
when we all work together. We
have to remember the union is not
the enemy. The Taylor Law
sometimes ties the hands of the
union.
“Some of us work 24-hours a day
on our members’ behalf,’’
Delisanti said.
Delisanti, 30, and his wife, Julie,
have two children: Kristen, 7; and
Nicholas Jr., 3. i
He is a graduate of West Virginia
University and SUNY Farmingdale
and has done graduate work at
Adelphi University.
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NICHOLAS DELISANTI, right,
discusses a CETA problem with
Ralph Spagnolo, president of the
Department of Public Works Unit
of Nassau County CSEA Local 830
at the local’s headquarters in
Mineola, Secretary Mary Abbey is
on the left. Delisanti is chairman of
both the Local 830 and Long Island
Region I CETA committees.
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS
OF NASSAU COUNTY LOCAL 830
Nicholas Delisanti, left, and Frank
Bratby discuss an upcoming
grievance between CSEA and
Nassau County. Both ad-
ministrative assistants, appointed
by Local 830 President Nicholas
Abbatiello, work in the Mineola
headquarters of the local.
In 1980 all CSEA members and their
families will be going to the polls to
elect a new President of the United
States. With the increasing financial
role of the federal government in state
and local government finances,
Presidential politics has become an
ever increasing focus of attention for
public employee unions.
In an effort to monitor the attitudes
of its members in this vital election
year, CSEA is conducting a straw poll
to get an indication of the Presidential
preferences of its members at the out-
eth of the campaign. Your participation
will help CSEA assess the attitudes of
our membership to’ the candidates to
’ Tei tes wRstooilioe far olataes
attitude of our members, if any, during
Sena en
would vote for if the election were held
today. Mail your straw poll ballot to:
SEA Straw Poll, 33 Elk Street,
Prong N.Y., 12207, You'll be helping —
union deal with the demands of
poiaegal polities and you'll be help-
ing reflect the true voter strength of
ii canitiale that you would like to see
become ‘the next President of the
Ualted States.
Aheeh GOP
EMPLOYEE EVALUATION PROGRAM
— Botched but salvageable
President’s Mess
Some time ago a story appeared in the Public
Sector in which an expert on mental hygiene was
quoted as saying, “If we ran corporations like we
run state hospitals, this country would be
bankrupt.’ Well I would suggest to this expert a
new quote, ‘‘If we ran this country like the state ran
the first round of the Employee Evaluation
Program, this country would not only be bankrupt,
it would also be at war.”
Last spring during our state negotiations, we
created a concept that would allow all increment
eligible employees to move through increment
steps at an accelerated pace and, for the first time,
provide ‘‘new money” for employees who were not
increment eligible. All of this would be done
through an open and fair evaluation program. Out-
standing employees at the top of their salary steps
would receive ‘‘performance awards” and in-
crement eligible employees would move through in-
crements at varying rates depending on how well
they were rated. \
Attached to this concept was a $9 million
appropriation above and beyond our negotiated
seven percent salary increase. The logic of the
system was beautiful. Employees could move
through increments faster than ever before. For
the average employee, in three years as opposed to
the previous four year minimum. Highly rated
employees, however, could move even faster up to
a minimum of 18 months. Even employees rated as
“Needs Substantial Improvement’ would move
through the increments in the four years that had
previously been the fastest that anyone could move.
The $300 performance bonuses were guaranteed for
at least 16,000 employees. There was, in short,
something for everyone.
Let’s face it, there was also something in it for
the state. They wanted to have the capacity to
motivate employees to produce more. Surveys that
we did indicated the membership was not opposed
to such a reward system as long as there was
money attached to it and this system, as previously
mentioned, had $9 million attached to it,
Yet here we are not one year later with absolute
chaos everywhere. Supervisors in some cases rated
employees as ‘outstanding or highly effeetive’’ one
day and then changed their ratings to ‘‘satisfactory
or needs substantial improvement” the next. Some
union activitists were told they couldn’t be rated or
they were rated lower than they deserved because
they were active. Some supervisors even told their
people directly that they wanted to rate them
higher but that people in high places had imposed
“quotas” and they had to rate their people lower
regardless of what they deserved.
Instead of improving morale, this fiasco
destroyed it. Instead of boosting productivity, we
must assume that this mess cut productivity.
Instead of becoming a meaningful, new approach to
rewarding employees, the system was becoming a
virtual guarantee of mediocrity from employees
“Yet here we are
not one year
later with
absolute chaos
everywhere.”
CJ besnn LMCAT oudase
WILLIAM L. McGQWAN
age ;
convinced that they would be rated arbitrarily no
matter how they performed their jobs.
A sound concept that offered something for
everyone was magically turned into a bureaucratic
maze that offered nothing to anyone. There was
plenty of blame to be thrown around. We could
point to sloppy and inadequate training of raters.
We could point to vague and threatening
memoranda about ‘‘guidelines.”” We could even
point to clearly unilateral steps taken by the st
without our knowledge or consent, in violation "df
our agreement. Pointing a finger, however,. won’t
make the state any more efficient and it certainly
won’t get our people the $9 million that they are
owed under the contract.
The concept of this program is still sound. Its ex-
ecution in the first round of evaluations was a dis-
aster, but the concept is sound. What we have to do
is rebuild the program into what it was originally
supposed to be, an open and fair evaluation system
based solely upon the performance of each
employee and not on any arbitrary standards
guidelines.
It is in our. members’ interests to make this
program work because there is over $27 million
_ available in benefits from it over the life of our
agreements. The easy — and stupid — thing to do
would be to walk away from this program. We are
not about to do that.
It is also in the state’s interests to make this
program work. If it doesn’t, then the state will
literally be spending $9 million each year not to jn-
crease productivity through improved morale, Mit
rather to cut productivity by creating anger and
suspicion in the workplace.
We have declared a moratorium to stop any
further abuses of our people under this system.
Those due to receive increments or bonuses as a
result of the first round of evaluations will receive
them and any appeals resulting from those
evaluations will be processed, but there will be no
new evaluations until the problems are cleared up
and the abuses end.
A CSEA Presidential Task Force will meet@o
convey to me personally the concerns of our
members from across the state and to recommend
improvements to our evaluations committee. We
will meet with the state and we will make changes.
This program will work right or we will take
whatever action we have to take to force the state
to abide by its agreements.
The evaluation program is a new and unique
approach to rewarding employees based on perfor-
mance, It can be beneficial to the state, but it can
also be very beneficial to every state employ@e.
There can be little doubt that the state botched its
implementation, but there is also little doubt that it
can be salvaged. That is precisely what we intend
to-do, but only in a way that is fair to every state
employee. x
“We will
meet with
the state
and we will
make
changes.”
President
, a ems
——
"WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY HE IS US
ye
: a
OER agrees to make changes
ALBANY — The Governor's Of-
fice of Employee Relations has
agreed to make changes in the con-
troversial state Employee
Evaluation Procedure in the wake
of a CSEA-declared moratorium on
future evaluations.
Meyer Frucher, Director of
OER, told reporters that the state
has committed itself to improving
employee productivity through the
system which is obviously not
possible if the employees are in-
furiated by its use.
The developments came in rapid
sequence following action by CSEA
President William L. McGowan to
impose a moratorium on any new
” round of negotiations, appoint a
Presidential Task Force to gather
member complaints, and threaten
the state with improper practice
charges if instances of
management abuses are not quick-
ly and completely rectified.
The effect of the union
president’s action was to stop the
next scheduled round of
evaluations until the union and the
state can agree on meaningful
changes to eliminate the abuses
that caused a furor during the first
a. serena
round of evaluations. Increments
due employees as a result of those
first evaluations were to be paid
this- month. and performance
bonuses due from those evaluations
were also slated to be paid in the
near future. ~
“We have a commitment ‘to this
program because there is at least
$9 million worth of benefits in it
each year for our people,”
President McGowan said. ‘‘We
believe it can work if it is done
right but the problem is that in this
Task force will
ALBANY — CSEA President
William L. McGowan has com-
pleted appointment of a Presiden-
tial Task Force on the state’s
Employee Evaluation Program.
Based on recommendations from
the union’s six Regional
Presidents, some 40 CSEA
members from across the state
were sent appointment letters and
called tothe Task Force’s first
meeting scheduled for mid-week in
Albany.
In his appointment letters, the
case, as in so many others involv-
ing management, nothing was done
right.”
The union leader moved quickly
to appoint the Task Force which
will be meeting in the very near
future to review the program and
comment on its faults. The union
has already compiled voluminous
reports of abuses and complaints
from the first round evaluations,
but it was felt the Task Force could
provide an invaluable role in
providing rank and file input.
probe program
union president, wrote, ‘‘the objec-
tive of your existence as a com-
mittee will be to ascertain infor-
mation regarding problems with
the system in the hope of cor-
recting them as quickly as possible
and, once familiar with both the
design and deficiencies in the
current system, you will help mold
a new system which will represent
a major improvement over that
which presently exists.”
Names of Task Force members
will appear in the next edition of
The Public Sector.
SRE IN RAST IE PR A TEC RTA
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, January 23, 1980
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Amendments approved
ALBANY — In an effort to avoid
problems arising from the use of an
outdated Model Local or Regional
CSEA Constitution, it has been
recommended by the CSEA Board of
Directors Charter Committee that
amendments to the Constitution be
printed more frequently in The Public
Sector.
Recently (November 29, 1979), the
Board of Directors of CSEA approved
the following amendments to the
Model Local Constitution:
1. Approved an amendment to Arti-
cle III, Section 1 to delete the words
“or retired.” Said section now reads
as follows:
ey active civil service employee
(agency’s name) who is a member
in good standing of the CSEA shall
be eligible for membership in this
Local.”
2, Approved an amendment to Arti-
cle VI, Section 1 of the Model Local
Constitution to provide that represen-
tatives to the State Executive Com-
mittee be members of the Local Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Locals of
which they are members. Said section
now reads as follows:
“There shall exist in each local a
Local Executive Committee which
shall consist of the officers, im-
mediate past president, unit
presidents, local representative to
the County Executive Committee
of the State Association, represen-
tatives to the State Executive Com-
mittee of the State Association
(where applicable) and any other
person as provided insthe bylaws of
the Local.”
3. Approved amendments to Article
VII, Sections 1 and 2 of the Model
Local Constitution to delete ‘‘Political
Action Committee’ and ‘Education
Committee” from Section 2 and in-
clude them in Section 1. Section 1 now
reads as follows:
“(1) Auditing Committee
(2) Membership Committee
(3) Grievance Committee
(4) Budget Committee
(5) Political Action Committee
(6) Education Committee”
REGION 1 — Long Island
(516) 691-1170
REGION 2 — Metro Region
(212) 962-3090
(914) 896-8180
REGION 4 — Capital Region
(518) 489-5424
(315) 451-6330 —
(716) 634-3540
REGION 3 — Southern Region
REGION 5 — Central Region
REGION 6 — Western Region
4. An amendment to Article VII,
Section 4 of the Model Local Con-
stitution changing from September
ist to January ist the date by which
the Local Auditing Committee must
complete their audit and report to the
Local President, Local Executive
Committee and CSEA. Said
amendment is to be effective begin-
ning fiscal year 1980. Said section now
reads as follows:
“There shall be an auditing com-
mittee consisting of not less than
three members, none of whom may
be officers of the local, who shall
have the responsibility of auditing
the books of the local and reporting
its findings in writing on forms
prescribed by headquarters to the”
local president and Executive
Committee and to the State
Association headquarters in
Albany by January 1, for the
preceding fiscal year. ...”
of EVENTS
JANUARY
23 — Long Island R
Musicaros, Ms
| Legislative and Political Action Committee meeting, 5 p.m.,
23 — Ossining Correctional Facility Local 161 installation, noon.
25 —Binghamton Local 002, general membership meeting, 7:30 p.m., First Ward
American Legion, Clinton and Grace St., Binghamton.
26—Region | workshop, Safety and Health, 9 o.m.-5 p.m., Holiday Inn,
Hauppauge.
26 — Staten Island Developmental Center Local 429 installation, 8:30 p.m., Le Cordon
Bleu, 96-01 Jamaica Avenue, Queens.
27 — New York City Local 010 installation, 3 p.m., Theresa's Catering House, Massope-
qua.
30 — Metropolitan Region Il Mental Hygiene labor-management meeting, 10 a.m.,
World Trade Center, New York City.
FEBRUARY .
2 — CSEA Legislative Seminar,-Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Albany, 9 a.m.
6 — Westchester County Local 860 Executive Board Meeting, /:30 p.m., 196 Maple
Avenue, White Plains.
6 — legislative breakfast, 8 a.m., Quality Inn, Albany.
7 — New York State Employees Brotherhood Committee annual observance, 8:30 a.m.,
Roosevelt Hotel, New York City.
16 — Binghamton 002 Valentine Dinner-Dance, 6:30 p.m., Banquet Master's Restaurant,
Endicott.
29-March 2— Region V Conference, Hotel Syracuse, Syracuse.
Openings for field service assistants
ALBANY — Applications are now
being accepted for field service
assistant positions in CSEA’s
Southern Region III. f
Incumbents in these positions are
responsible for serving the smaller
locals and units, handling problems
and programs of a less complex
nature for CSEA members within the
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region and performing related duties
as required.
Minimum requirements are a high
school diploma or equivalency cer-
tificate and two years of satisfactory
business or investigative experience
involving extensive public contact as
an adjuster, seller, customer
representative, investigator, inspec-
tor, or complaint supervisor. Labor
relations experience is especially
desirable. Equally acceptable
minimum requirements would be
graduation from a recognized college
or university in a four-year course in
which a Bachelor’s Degree is granted,
or from a recognized school of labor
relations. A satisfactory combination
of the foregoing training and ex-
perience may also satisfy minimum
requirements for these positions.
Resumes must be submitted to T.S.
Whitney, Director of Personnel,
CSEA, P.O. Box 125, Capitol Station,
Albany, N.Y. 12224 before Feb. 1,
1980.
SMITHTOWN LIBRARY SIGNS CONTRACT —
Miles Borden, left, president of Smithtown
Library Board of Trustees, and Jan Sibilia,
center, president of Smithtown Library CSEA
unit, sign a two-year contract giving employees
a six percent raise and increment in both years,
binding arbitration, and longevity schedule.
John Cuneo, CSEA field representative who
negotiated the agreement looks on, right.
Standing are Peter Gilard, Library Director,
and Nancy Barclay, CSEA vice president and a
member of the negotiating team.
Nine get awards
Nine State employees received a
total of $415 in cash awards in
December for money-saving ideas
submitted to the New York State
Employee Suggestion Program. This
program is administered by the New
York State Department of Civil Ser-
vice. Estimated first-year savings
from these suggestions total more
than $3,900.
Award Recipients were:
$100 — Stephen Lyons Colfer,
Assistant Worker’s Compensation
Claims Examiner, Worker’s Compen-
sation Board, Albany, and a Joint
award shared by Hazel Ratcliffe and
Maria F. Fantauzzi, Senior Clerks,
Education Department, Albany.
$65 — Sophie Rofofsky, Department
of Labor, New York City.
$25 — Sandra Kelsch, Office of
Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Ser-
vices, Albany (two $25 awards);
James Johnson, Department of
Transportation, Buffalo; Madeline
Bradt, Department of Motor Vehicles,
Albany, and Elizabeth Lake and James
Coles, Division of Criminal Justice
Services, Albany.
Many benefit from insurance improvements
ALBANY — As a result of CSEA
negotiations, many improvements
have been made in the health in-
surance coverage not only of CSEA
members, but of some 450,000
employees of the state and its
political subdivisions, who are enroll-
ed in the State Health Insurance Plan.
This is because, historically, those
health insurance improvements that
CSEA wins in negotiations for the
people in its bargaining units, are ex-
tended to other public employees
throughout the state.
The State Health Insurance Plan is
comprised of three options: the
Statewide, the Group Health, Inc.
(‘GHI’'), and the Health
Maintenance Organization (‘‘HMO’’)
options. The HMO option actually
consists of a myriad of plans offered
by individual health maintenance
organizations in localities across the
state, and the benefits of each vary in
some way from those of all the others.
Therefore, it is impossible to detail
HMO benefits here. However, it
should be noted. that HMO benefits
have been improved through CSEA
negotiations, just as the other two op-
tions have. For example, HMO
maternity benefits improved through
their Blue Cross coverage, which is a
component of all three options: -
In comparing current benefits of
the GHI and Statewide options, keep
in mind that the maternity benefits
took effect April 1, 1979, the other
benefits, Jan. 1, 1980.
HOSPITALIZATION costs that are
paid in full by Blue Cross under both
the GHI and the Statewide options in-
clude out-patient surgery, diagnostic
services and emergency accident
care within 72 hours of the accident;
pre-admission testing preliminary to
admission as a bed-patient for sur-
gery; out-patient radiation therapy;
and out-patient physical therapy.
Under the Statewide option, Blue
Cross covers the first 365 days of con-
finements for surgical or medical
care, including room, board, general
nursing care and use of special
facilities, in semi-private rooms only.
Additional coverage is provided
through the Metropolitan Life In-
surance Co. Medical / Surgical plan.
Under the GHI option, Blue Cross
pays the costs of 365 days of such con-
finement, with no additional
coverage.
Under the Statewide option, Blue
Cross covers the first 120 days of con-
finements for psychiatric care of
Leave credits
SYRACUSE — Ms. Agnes
Niezabytowski, an employee at the
Syracuse Developmental Center, and
a member of CSEA Local 424, was
recently notified by the Director of
Employee Relations for the
Department of Mental Retardation,
that all leave credits utilized in con-
nection with a 1977 work-related in-
jury should be restored.
The notice followed a third step
hearing on a non-contract grievance
filed by CSEA on behalf of Ms.
Niezabytowskil
CSEA Field Representative Terry
Moxley argued on Ms.
Niezabytowski’s behalf that since the
State Insurance Fund credited the
State for wages paid, accruals should
pulmonary tuberculosis, including
room, board, general nursing care
and use of special facilities, in semi-
private rooms only. Additional
coverage is provided through the
Metropolitan Medical / Surgical plan.
Under the GHI option, Blue Cross
covers 120 days of such confinement,
with no additional coverage.
Under both the Statewide and GHI
Options the costs of the use of
extended-care facilities are paid in
full by Blue Cross for the first 20 days.
For the next 80 days, costs are paid by
Blue Cross, except for a daily deduc-
tible.
Under the Statewide option,
Metropolitan Medical / Surgical
coverage pays for PHYSICIAN SER-
VICES for home or office medical
care for illness or injury. Under the
GHI option, such services are paid by
GHI according to the Schedule of
Allowances. Current allowance: $15.
Under the Statewide option, doctor
charges for surgery or hospital care
are paid by Metropolitan Medical /
Surgical coverage, which reimburses
80% of doctors’ charges after a $75
deductible per person per year has
been paid. Maximum family deduc-
tible: $225 per year. Maximum
benefits payable per year: $25,000.
Maximum benefits payable per
lifetime: $250,000. Under the GHI op-
tion, such doctors’ charges are paid
by GHI according to a schedule of
allowances. No payments are made
beyond that schedule.
Under the Statewide option, doc-
tors’ charges for preventive care in-
cluding an annual physical exam, are
paid up to $50 (no deductible) by
Metropolitan Medical / Surgical for
active employees 50 years of age and
older. Under the GHI option, such
care is paid for according to the GHI
Schedule of Allowances.
MATERNITY care involving
hospital charges for a normal or
medically complicated delivery are
paid in full by Blue Cross under BOTH
the Statewide and the GHI options, up
to 365 days. Doctors’ charges for
maternity care under the Statewide
option are covered by Metropolitan
Medical / Surgical. Sach charges un-
der the GHI option are covered by the
GHI allowance, up to $200.
Pediatrician visits for the newborn
under the Statewide option are paid
by Metropolitan Medical / Surgical,
up to $50 per newborn. Fees for such
visits under the GHI option are paid
by GHI.
are restored
be restored. Syracuse Developmental
Center’s management contended that
there was no clear evidence that the
injury was work related. However, at
the third step hearing, CSEA in-
troduced a doctor’s statement in- °
dicating the grievant’s disability and
dated February 1, 1977, the date of the
claimed injury.
Following the admission of the
physician’s statement, the state
removed the original reason for deny-
ing occupational injury leave.
In his written decision, the Director
of Employee Relations also indicated
there was no medical evidence
produced by Syracuse Developmental
Center which showed that the injury
was other than work related.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, under
the Statewide option, are paid for by
the Blue Cross prescription drug card
plan. Full cost of prescription drugs
are paid, except for $1 per prescrip-
tion. Under the GHI option, GHI pays
80% of the cost of such drugs after a
$50 family deductible is met. NOTE:
for employees in CSEA’s statewide
Operational, Institutional and Ad-
ministrative bargaining units, all but
$1 of the cost of each. prescription
drug is paid through the CSEA
Employee Benefit Fund, regardless
of which health insurance option you
choose.
Under the Statewide option, the cost
of private-duty nursing is covered by
Metropolitan Medical / Surgical
coverage after the first 48 hours of
nursing care. Under the GHI option,
such costs are paid by GHI extended
benefits coverage.
Ambulance services in connection
with hospitalization are paid by Blue
Cross under BOTH the Statewide and
GHI options, up to $50 per trip to and /
or from a hospital when medically
necessary. Under the Statewide op-
tion, Metropolitan Medical / Surgical
coverage pays additional charges; un-
der the GHI option, GHI pays any ad-
ditional charges. Under the Statewide
option, ambulance services to a
hospital for OUT-PATIENT care are
covered by Metropolitan Medical /
Surgical coverage; under the GHI op-
tion, such services are covered by
GHI extended benefits coverage.
The cost of renting or buying
wheelchairs, crutches and other
Cortland finally
CORTLAND — If CSEA issued
special awards for determination,
patience and tenacity, the
negotiating team for the Cortland
County Unit of CSEA Local 812
would certainly rate among the
highest qualifiers.”
After 22 months of negotiations
that included mediation, fact-
finding, an Improper Practice
charge, followed by the IP pre-
hearing and the actual hearing, the
2-year. contract was finally signed
December 19, 1979.
Terry Moxley, CSEA Field
Representative and chief
negotiator for the unit employees,
expressed the highest praise for
the members of the negotiating
team.
equipment, under the Statewide op-
tion, is covered by Metropolitan
Medical / Surgical. Under the GHI op-
tion, this cost is paid for by GHI ex-
tended benefits coverage.
Under both the Statewide and
GHI options, ALCOHOLISM
TREATMENT is covered by Blue
Cross, for detoxification in a public or
general hospital. Under the Statewide
option, additional coverage is provid-
ed by Metropolitan Medical /
Surgical, up to six weeks of in-patient
treatment a year and up to 20 out-
patient treatments a year, in an
approved hospital or rehabilitation
facility.
Out-patient treatments for mental
and nervous disorders are covered
under the Statewide option by
Metropolitan Medical / Surgical, with
a maximum of $40 per visit and $1,500
per year. Under the GHI option, such
care is covered by GHI extended
benefits coverage.
There is no provision under the GHI
option for any OUT-OF-POCKET
MAXIMUM. Under the Statewide op-
tion, Metropolitan Medical / Surgical
coverage reimburses 100% of covered
expenses in any calendar year in
which a covered employee and / or his
covered dependents have already in-
curred $2,000 of covered medical /
surgical expenses after the
appropriate deductible.
Under both the Statewide and GHI
options, a SECOND SURGICAL
OPINION is free, if arranged in ad-
vance through the Program.
has a contract
“In spite of the months and
months of hard bargaining and
frustrating delays, the total
dedication of the negotiating team
was outstanding,’’ Moxley said.
“I'm also certain we arrived at a
good and fair contract because the
rank and file unit membership fully
supported the team through those -
grueling 22 months of tough
negotiations,’’ Moxley said.
In a comment following the for-
mal signing of the contract, Earl
Conger, Unit President, indicated
the majority of unit employees
were satisfied with the agreement
and were hopeful it would lead to
more productive and peaceful
labor relations in Cortland County
in the future.
CORTLAND UNIT SIGNS — Earl Conger, President of the Cortland County Unit, CSEA
Local 812, prepares to sign the contract while members of the unit negotiating team add
their smiles of approval. Standing, left to right, are: Patrick J. Mooney, Chairman of
negotiating committee, Joseph A, Prezioso, Peg Coombs, negotiating team Secretary, Bob
Bays, Chairman of the Cortland County Legislature, and Linda Conte. The pact signing
culminated 22 months of bargaining.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, Janvary, 23,1980
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COMPETITIVE
PROMOTIONAL EXAMS
(State Employees: Only)
FILING ENDS FEBRUARY 4, 1980
SALARY EXAM NO.
36-931
36-954
36-955
36-970
TITLE
Chief Account Clerk .....
Assistant Purchasing Agen'
Purchasing Agent ........
Engineering Technician (Environmental Quality)
Employees’ Retirement System Information
Representative II
Employees’ Retirement Sy:
Representative II .........
Associate Business Consultant.
Assistant Right of Way Agent.
Senior Right of Way Agent..
Associate Right of Way Agent M2 (62).
Senior Forestry Technician ....
Principal Forestry Technician
Assistant Building Electrical Engineer .
Assistant Mechanical Construction Engineer
Assistant Heating and Ventilating Engineer
Assistant Plumbing Engineer.
Principal Forestry Technician
Chief Health Insurance Bureau
Chief Clerk (Purchase)...
Senior Unemployment Insurance Tax Auditor.
Associate Unemployment Insurance Tax Auditor
Senior Employment Counselor
Substance Abuse Contract Manager
Substance Abuse Contract Manager III..
Substance Abuse Contract Manager IV.
Assistant Director of Substance Abuse
Coastal Resources Specialist III
Administrative Services Manager
Administrative Services Manager II
CSEA TREASURER Jack Gallagher,
left, greets Seneca County Local 850
President Rino Piagentini at the
recent Christmas party attended by
176 members at the Boatyard
Restaurant, Waterloo.
BILL AND SARA RYAN were Mr.
and Mrs. Santa Claus at recent
Seneca County Local 850 Christmas
Party. Florence Miller, a Seneca
County Health Department worker
chaired the committee. Ruth LaBelle,
also of the Health Department co-
chaired and together with her
husband, Terry, made the sign.
New York City local opens office
NEW YORK CITY —: New York
City Local 010 opened a new four-
room office. at 16 Court Street,
Brooklyn, 11241, on Jan. 2, 1980, Local
President Joe Johnson reported.
The office had been at 80 Centre
Street, Manhattan, for 45 years, he
noted.
Johnson said the new office, in ad-
dition to the old telephone number of
(212) 732-4534, will have telephone
numbers 625-2257 and 625-2008, the
latter number with 24-hour, seven day
a week, answering.
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OPEN CONTINUOUS
STATE JOB CALENDAR
Title Salary Exam No.
seven ees ee 10,624
$14,388-$15,562
- $16,040
. $18,301
« $27,942
Senior Medical Records Technician ..
Pharmacist (salary varies with location)
Assistant Sanitary Engineer
Senior Sanitary Engineer .
Clinical Physician I .
Clinical Physician If.
Assistant Clinical Physician
Attorney .
Assistant y.
Attorney Trainee
Junior Engineer.
(Bachelor’s Degree)
Junior Engineer .........
(Master’s Degree’
Dental Hygienist
Licensed Practical Nurse
Nutrition Services Consultant.
Stationary Engineer ...
Senior Stationary Engineer .
Occupational Therapy Assistant I
Occupational Therapy Assistant I
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Senior Programmer ...
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Mobility Instructor ..
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Health Services Nurse.
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Senior Heating and Ventilating Engineer
Senior Sanitary Engineer (Design)
Senior Building Electrical Engineer
Senior Building Structural Enginee:
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Assistant Stationary Engineer
Electroencephalograph Techni
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Medical Record Administrator .
Food Service Worker I .
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Principal Actuary (Casualty)
Supervising Actuary (Casualty)
Assistant Actuary
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Social Services Management Trainee .
Social Services Management Specialis'
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Social Services Management Specialist
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Industrial Training Supervisor .
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Physical Therapist .
Physical Therapist (
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Senior Physical Therapist (Spanis!
Speech Pathologist .
Stenographer ..
Psychiatric Therapy Aide .
Principal Clerk (Surrogate) .
Senior Clerk (Surrogate)
Supervising Janitor .
Head Housekeeper
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Chief Transportation Project Manager .
Chief System Planner (Gas).
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A look at Region Ill as 1980 begins
Rumors continue to be a big
concern but other things
get attention also
WHITE PLAINS -
Unsubstantiated rumors
concerning the possible closing of
some state facilities in his region is
causing considerable concern,
CSEA Southern Region III
President James J. Lennon
disclosed recently. Those rumors
were just one of a number of
subjects which Lennon touched on
during an interview a few days
after the start of the year.
Unsubstantiated rumors about
the closings of Harlem Valley,
Middletown and Hudson River
psychiatric centers with almost
3,000 CSEA members employed at
the facilities is causing
considerable concern by the
potentially effected employees,
CSEA President William L.
McGowan and himself, Lennon
said.
“If those facilities were to close,
there is little industry in those
areas which could cause
tremendous economic hardship in
those areas,” Lennon said.
He also called for CSEA
members ‘‘to join ranks behind the
leadership of the union from the
unit level to President McGowan.
“We should do our fighting
during the election campaigns.
Once the election is over, we
should give our full support to the
winners.”
Lennon also is in favor of
changing the name of CSEA. “‘We
are no longer an association. We
are a labor union. I hope the
delegates eventually will drop
READY TO RETIRE?
‘Association’ from the name. I plan
to discuss this with the union’s
officers in the future.’
Appointments to Region III
committees have been made, and
he identified the committee
chairmen as:
Audit and Budget — Eva Katz,
Rockland Psychiatric Center Local
421
Constitution and By-Laws —
Raymond as O’Connor,
Westchester County Unit of Local
860.
School Employees — Hugh
Crapser, Dutchess Education
Local 867.
Membership — Doris Milkus,
Byrom School District Unit of
Local 860.
Women’s ei Barbara
Schwartzmiller, Ulster County
Local 856.
5 JAMES J. LENNON
SOUTHERN REGION 3 PRESIDENT
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(914)
WESTCHESTER SATELLITE
voice a
A Pre-Retiree Counseling Service for C,S,E.A, members
in the Southern Region has been established through
the cooperation Region #3 and Ter Bush & Powell.
James J. Lennon announced that Mr.
“John Savage, has
been assigned by Ter Bush & Powell to assist Unlén
members to help plan their future as Retirees.
For information and appointments, complete the coupon
and return to address listed below,
RETIREMENT COUNSELING SERVICE
SOUTHERN REGION, C.S,E.A
222 MAMARONECK AVENUE
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK
10604
Please send information to:
NAME.
STREET_-
ZIP.
CITY, STATE
PHONE.
DATE OF RETIREMENT
CSEA
statewide.
Education and Training — Janice
Schaff, Yonkers School District
Unit of Local 860.
Special Mental Health and
Retardation — Bob Thompson,
Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center
Local 609.
Special Corrections — Bill
Kenneweg, Greenhaven
Correctional Facility Local 158.
Special Social Services — Helen
M. Adams, Dutchess County Local
814.
Special Probation — John
Whalen, Westchester County Unit
of Local 860.
Special Nurses — Dawn
Gambino, Orange County Local
836.
Special Performance Evaluation
— Robert Comeau, Eastern New
York Correctional Facility Local
159.
Special Retirees — Nellie Davis,
Local 908; and Nick Puzziffari,
Rockland Westchester Retirees
Local 918.
Legislative and Political Action
— Carmine DiBattista,
Westchester County Unit of Local
860.
Lennon said the Legislative and
Political Action Committee will be
expanding in membership to more
than 20 and he is in the process of
selecting the additional members.
He also announced the
establishment of the Pre-
Retirement Counseling Service for
CSEA members of Region III in
cooperation with Ter Bush &
Powell.
Those who would like to avail
themselves of this service are
asked to fill out the accompanying
coupon.
Lennon is concerned with the
attacks on public employee
pensions and on the social security
system by the business community
and the news media.
“Many years of hard negotiating,
including the giving up of other
benefits have given us the pension
plans we have today. They don’t
realize that the average retirement
pension is under $4,000,’’ he said.
He also called on Gov. Hugh
REGION
PRESIDENT James J. Lennon,
in a wide-ranging discu:
said closing of state facilities
would -create a tremendous
hardship; suggested CSEA
officially change its name; and
talked about a wide variety of
topics of current interest to
public workers regionally and
,meeded to move Congress in this
Ill
‘ion,
Carey to exert pressure on the
State Legislature to pass an OSHA
Law which would give public
employees some measure of
protection as are given private
sector employees.
“Politicians are ignoring the
health and safety of public
employees,’’ Lennon said.
Lennon also believes that action
by AFSCME and the AFL-CIO are
area.
Tmproventenitst in the Taylor Law
are needed to improve the climate
for collective bargaining, including
the fining of management if it does
not bargain in good faith, Lennon
said.
He praised the CSEA members
of Dutchess County who banded
together to help re-elect Lucille
Patterson as county executive,
“forgetting the parochialism of
state and county. It’s one union.”
The Employee Assistance
Program (EAP) drew praise from |
Lennon. “EAP started in Region |
Tl four years ago. Now it is a |
statewide program. In fact, some |
of those who were most vocally |
against it are now its supporters ~
and are working for the program,’
he said.
He called Field Representative
Flip Amodio the ‘Godfather of the
program.”
He said a regional workshop is
being planned for sometime in
April and Regional First Vice
President Raymond J, O’Connor
and Treasurer Eleanor McDonald
are working on that project.
Lennon mentioned a shop
steward seminar for Rockland
Psychiatric Center CSEA Local 421
on Dec. 12, 1979, at the Orangeburg
Holiday Inn.
The seminar, organized by Local
421 President Eva Katz, was led by
CSEA Field Representative Tom
Brann. Lennon and Region III
Director Thomas Luposello also
took part.
Among the 40 persons at the
seminar were officers of
Letchworth Local 412, including
President Vincent Covati.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, Jonyory, 23, 1980
Page}
“His legacy
is the a
‘His death great
loss to all of us’
“All workers in this country should
feel a sense of loss at the passing of
George Meany. There has never been
any American more dedicated to the
causes of working people than this
man. His death was a great loss to us
all.
“Our union has been fighting to im-
,prove the standard of living of our
members for the past seven decades
and while our affiliation with the AFL-
CIO is a recent development, we have
always recognized and respected the
role of this great federation in improv-
ing the quality of life of all Americans.
Mr. Meany’s role as the leader of this
movement for so many years cannot be
overestimated.
the loss of this great leader of the
American labor movement.”
William L. McGowan
President, CSEA
“CSEA and its members will mourn.
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He left us more than memories
George Meany, our leader and our
friend, has been taken from us. But what
he did, what he said, what he meant shall
always be with us.
He left us with much more than
memories of a strong, warm, com-
passionate man. His legacy is the AFL-
CIO itself.
George Meany constructed this house of
labor out of the same granite that his
Maker used in creating him. He forged
the strongest, most independent, most
democratic labor movement in the world.
American workers, whether they
carried a union card or not, considered
George Meany their spokesman. In forum
after forum, his voice was their voice; ex-
pressing their hopes, fears, needs and
aspirations with clarity and wisdom.
But George Meany was much more than,
an American trade ‘union leader.
Throughout the world, workers in other
countries have established their own free,
democratic movements with the help,
guidance and inspiration of George
Meany.
Behind the Iron Curtain and in all
countries ruled by dictators, George
Meany was hated by the oppressors
because he was a beacon of hope for the
oppressed. He was their spokesman, too
— sounding a message of freedom, of free
men and women living their lives as they
wished.
We thank God for giving us George
Meany. We thank his family for sharing
him with us and with all who love liberty.
But, most of all, we thank him and
pledge to carry out his final adminition to
us: ‘Yours is a good labor movement.
Now go out and make it better.”
Lane Kirkland
President, AFL-CIO
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, January 23, 1980
