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Delegates rally at State Capitol
score legislators’ budget cuts

ALBANY — CSEA leaders from around the
state blasted state legislators’ proposed budget
cuts at a rally at the State Capitol here March 11.

More than 1,200 union members braved bitter
winds and freezing temperatures at the hour-
long rally, to demonstrate to lawmakers their
outrage over legislators’ suggested cuts of $55
million in the already bare-bones State Purposes
Fund of the governor’s proposed 1980-81 budget.

CSEA Executive Vice President Thomas Mc-
Donough recessed the union’s spring Delegates
Meeting at the Empire State Plaza to allow
delegates to attend the rally, which included
addresses by CSEA Vice Presidents Bob Lat-
timer of Region VI, Jimmy Gripper of Region II,
Irving Flaumenbaum of Region I, James Moore
of Region V and Joseph McDermott of Region
IV; local presidents Marie Romanelli of SUNY
New Paltz, Felton King of Staten Island
Developmental Center and Danny Donohue of

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Wednesday, March 19, 1980

CENSUS’80

Future public funding, jobs
depending on new counts

ALBANY — The Civil Service Employees
Assn. has issued a strong request to its entire
membership to “answer the census” by com-
pleting and returning the 1980 census question-
naire which every household should receive this
month.

CSEA President William L. McGowan urged
every member to fulfill the obligation of par-
ticipating in the 1980 census, pointing out that the
results of the census will have a direct bearing
upon public service jobs and funding, and
therefore a direct bearing upon not only the
general public but the individual CSEA member
as well.

“It is vital that every single resident in the
state is counted during this census. Fully one
quarter of all funds spent by state and local
governments are allocated to those governments
in the form of Federal funds, and those crucial

allocations are determined on the basis of pop-
ulations as reported by the official census,”
McGowan stated.

“To put it another way,” McGowan said,
“every person actually counted will have the
effect of bringing into the community annually
more than $200 in Federal funds plus additional
state aid funding. That funding is translated into
public service programs and public service jobs.
Millions upon millions of dollars in Federal aid
programs to provide services and create jobs is
dependent upon population figures for dis-
tribution. Every person not counted results in
less Federal or -state aid funding, and conse-
quently less adequate public service programs
and fewer public service positions. An accurate
count is crucial, and I strongly urge the
wholehearted participation by every member’s
family to insure that a complete count is
achieved,” McGowan stated.

1, Ballots for the election of delegates to the
1980 AFSCME Convention will be mailed to
all members of CSEA as of March 1, 1980 on
April 10, 1980.

2. Ballots will be picked up at the return post
office box on the morning of May 1, 1980.
Tabulation will commence on May 2, 1980
and continue until complete.

3. Members who have not receive a ballot by

NOTICE.
ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO THE
1980 AFSCME CONVENTION

April 21, 1980 should call their CSEA
Regional Office between April 22, 1980 and
April 25, 1980 for the purpose of obtaining a
replacement ballot. The CSEA Regional Of-
fices may be contacted at the following
numbers:

Region 1 516/691-1170 Region 4 518/489-5424

Region 2 212/962-3090 Region 5 315/451-6330

Region 3 914/896-8180. Region 6 716/634-3540

Central Islip Psychiatric Center; and by CSEA’s
Political Action Committee chairman, Joe
Conway.

Gripper noted that New York City has been
hard-hit by the dumping of mental patients from
state-run institutions into the streets without
proper care — a situation that would be
aggravated if proposed budget cuts are carried
out. He stressed that such cuts would hurt
patients and employees alike — a point
reiterated by King and Donohue, whose in-
stitution has already lost millions of federal
dollars because of a too-low staff-to-patient
ratio. Patient care and rehabilitation would be
non-existent in this state if not for the extraor-
dinary integrity and caring attitude of current
employees, the speakers agreed.

The proposed cuts would hurt not only the
state’s mental institutions, but also the once-
great SUNY system and many other state
departments, notably the Departments of Trans-
portation and Corrections.

Hollis Chase, head of the AFSCME corrections
officers’ union in New York State, said voters
should throw out all legislators who allowed
current reductions in the prisons’ workforce,
where overcrowding today matches conditions at
the time of the tragic Attica riot several years
ago. The department has recently begun allow-
ing prisoners to do the jobs of prison employees,
in an attempt to alleviate the understaffing
problem.

Referring to proposed DOT cutbacks, Lat-
timer said, ‘‘They say they want us to love New
York. How can you love New York when you
can’t even see it, because you've fallen into a
pothole?”’

Ms Romanelli lamented the demise of once-
great SUNY system, formerly the envy of all the
other states, and even of the world. ‘““Now
they’re doing their best to turn SUNY into
PUNY,’

students is suffering.”

The only legislator to address the crowd was
Sen. Dale Volker of Buffalo. He called the en-
dangering of lives by cutting back on Mental
Hygiene and Corrections budgets ‘‘obscene”’ and
“barbaric.”

The union’s response to the proposed disman-
tling of state services did not end with the rally.
CSEA has begun a massive ad campaign in news-
papers and radio stations throughout the state,
aimed at legislators and bearing the theme,
“The ONCE-Great State of New York.” It points
out the tragic consequences, in both human and
economic terms, if state services are further
reduced. (See page 5.)

After the rally, some 130 CSEA statewide and
regional Political Action Committee members
and lobbyists met with lawmakers to find out
exactly how each of them stand on the proposed
cuts,

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’ she said. ‘‘The sad thing is, in addition - |
to the loss of jobs, the quality of education of our’
Labor/management meetings A concept of preventing

grievances that’s catching on across the state

ing held on a regular basis throughout the Civil
Service Employees Assn., are proving to be a
major force not only in improving general work-
ing conditions but in preventing grievances
which can be costly and time consuming for both
sides.

Butch Knox, president of the State University
of New York at Albany CSEA Local, first
became involved in meetings there when he
assumed office a year and a half ago. In that
time, Knox says, he has seen the number of
grievances drop from five a week to one, two and
some weeks, zero.

At Wilton Developmental Center, a single
| meeting resulted in the resolution of three issues
| which could have been grievances, reports Fran
| Wilucz, vice-president of that local of CSEA.

Wilucz, Local President Lloyd Welch and other

union representatives meet monthly with
management.

Though these are just two areas where labor
| management meetings are working, CSEA staff
| and representatives expect it will become
accepted procedure in all locals to bring matters

to such meetings before filing a grievance.
William Lochner, a Capital Region CSEA field
representative who is finding that many of the
locals he covers are joining this matty com-

'
By Deborah Cassidy
Staff Reporter
_ Labor management meetings, increasingly be-

mented, ‘‘We’re realizing more and more that
this is an effective way to cut down on un-
necessary grievances. Some matters must go the
grievance route, but many cases, those affecting
large groups of employees in particular, can be
held up until discussion in the more relaxed at-
mosphere of these meetings can take place.”

Questions over the university’s right to
reclassify an employee’s job title to fill a
vacancy elsewhere, were brought up and
answered to the union’s satisfaction at a recent
meeting, according to Knox. ‘‘We recognized
management’s rights to do this, but we were con-
cerned that no one was put out of a job. And we
wanted to be sure promotions were made ac-
cording to seniority and in keeping with civil ser-
vice lists,”’ he explained. ‘Knowing what the uni-
versity’s intentions and goals were ahead of
time prepared the union to deal with the
matter,”’ he added. ‘‘Had we not gotten our
questions answered, problems could have arisen
and the next thing we know we'd have a
grievance on our hands.”’

A temporary hold up in reimbursement checks
for overtime meals allowances, a situation
which had serious implications, was also a sub-
ject of that meeting. It was especially important
for the hold up to be discussed, both parties
agreed, because rumors concerning the reasons
behind it were beginning to develop and could
have created undue worry.

REPRESENTING SUNYA MANAGEMENT at monthly labor management meetings, from left to
right, are Director of Personnel Leon J. Calhoun, Sr., Assistant Vice President of Finance and
Business Robert Stierer, Assistant Vice-President of University Affairs Dr. Sorrell E. Chesin and

Director of Physical Plant Dennis Stevens.

ALBANY — Dues for CSEA
members will increase April 1 as

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UNION OFFICIALS, from left to right, SUNYA CSEA Local President Butch Knox, Administrative
Unit Vice-President John Lasky, Operational Unit Vice-President William T. Tetterling, In-
stitutional Vice-President Gerald Lindeman, Executive Secretary Katherine Van Hoesen and Ex-
ecutive Vice-President Charles Bennett, attend monthly sessions with SUNY management.

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The unofficial results, pending the

At Wilton recently, a dispute, which could have
erupted into a major grievance, arose over
management's practice of assigning earned time
off to coincide with the weekends some
employees had to go on military duty. The
matter was calmly resolved during a routine
meeting.

Most caseworkers at Wilton, Wilucz explained,
work 24 hour a day, seven day a week shifts, with
two weekends off per month. To allow for flex-
ibility, these off weekends vary for each
employee from one month to the next, as assign-
ed by management. To avoid giving employees
in the armed forces reserves time off for
training, management was scheduling the off
weekends at these times.

Knox and Wilucz agree that a majority of the
otherwise grievable issues settled through dis-

cussion concern health and safety hazards in the
workplace. “Safety is the kind of situation where
we must let management tell their side and ex-
plain what they intend to do,’’ commented Knox.
“The union recognizes that such matters can’t be
taken care of overnight, so it’s only logical to
meet, present our demands and set a deadline to
work within.”

Other matters which are definitely not
grievance material, but which may adversely
affect working conditions are often a subject of
the meetings. Included in this category are work
schedules, requests for new equipment and
supplies and interpretation of employee
benefits.

Both union officers noted that it may take
more than one meeting to fully resolve a matter
— additional research, consultation: and dis-
cussion are often needed — but some progress is
usually made at each meeting.

“The fact that we are meeting,-voicing our:
concerns and getting questions out it the open is
encouraging,’ Knox said.

The success of the meeting oie on two key
factors, the officers feel.

The first is having the right attitude. “You
have to go in with an open mind and the intention
that you are going to work things out,”
emphasized Wilucz. ‘‘You can’t go in playing the
roles of adversaries, but must realize you're
there for the good of all.”

This attitude, he added, may take some time to
develop. Initial meetings may be awkward and
non-productive, even hampered by hard feelings
on both sides, but given time to work itself out,
this situation will change.

It’s essential to meet on a regular basis, ideal-
ly once a month. “Meeting monthly gives
everyone just enough time to think about the
previous discussion and to consider new areas,”’
Knox pointed out. ‘And it keeps you in the habit
of meeting. If you skip a month or so, you easily
lose ‘Sight of the issues and the importance of dis-
cussion.””

The actual conduct of the meetings vary from
one local to another, but a standard rule calls for
the union to provide a copy of its agenda to
management at least a week in advance. This
list should include a synopsis of each problem to
allow management to research the areas they
are unfamiliar with.

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O'Connor re-elected Westchester Unit President
WHITE PLAINS — Raymond J.

Third Vice President: Ted Gior-

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dues rate of ble ;

O'Connor has been overwhelmingly
re-elected president of the almost-
6,000-member Westchester County
Unit of CSEA Local 860. The ballots
were counted March 5.

O'Connor led a slate of six others
into office which included all unit of-
ficers except third vice president
where the slate did not have a can-

_ didate on the ballot.

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, March 19, 1980

10-day challenge period and a recount
for first vice president, are:

President: Raymond O’Connor,
1088; Marlene High, 446; Ellen
Cleveland, 435.

First Vice President: William
Smith, 658; Rick Paradiso, 638; Cindy
Wholey, 473; Edward Carafa, 235.

Second Vice President; Jerry Bar-
bour, 1050; Ann Reale, 881.

dano, 1229; Walter Lippman, 520.
Fourth Vice President: Roger
Williams, 901; Jim Abbatiello, 649;
Stanley Getz, 447.
Sergeant-at-Arms: Tony Colarusso,
1059; Susanne Treulieb, 849.
Secretary: Kenneth Fischer (unop-

posed), 1784.
Treasurer: James Marino (unop-
posed), 1826.

DOT Poughkeepsie gives employees

a real chilling indoor experience

By Jack Murphy
Staff Writer

POUGHKEEPSIE — Balmy spring
weather can’t come fast enough for
the men who work in the Department
of Transportation’s Region 8
maintenance facility in Poughkeep-
sie.

It's not the snow and ice that’s got
the work force looking ahead — there
hasn’t been that much this year — but

‘rather the cold temperatures that
have on some days made working in-
doors seem almost like working out-
doors.

Why?

Because a new heating system in-
stalled in the barn-like building only
works part of the time and even when
it does work it rarely keeps the
building at a healthy, not to mention
comfortable, level of warmth.

Jack Cassidy, president of CSEA
Local 507, says there have been at
least a half dozen times this winter
when the facility has been literally
too cold to work in. “Those heating
units have been down two or three
times a week,” he said, ‘‘and you
have to remember that those men are
working on cold steel and are down on
concrete. Even if it’s 50 or 55 degrees
in the building, and a lot of times it’s
not that warm, it’s a lot colder on the
floor.”

The three-unit, forced hot-air
heating system replaced an obsolete
hot-water system last year, but has
never functioned properly. According

* to Cassidy, the:Office of General Ser-
vices blames the system’s installer
for the malfunctions, but the installer
says the system is not the proper in-
stallation and there is little if any
chance of it ever working correctly
without modifications.

Pat Roberts, Maintenance

Superintendant for DOT’s Region 8,

Yonkers school employee shot in parking

YONKERS — A Yonkers school
cafeteria worker was shot twice while
waiting outside for her school to open
on February 25. The victim, Marie
Miccoli, was in intensive care for 10
days following the attack, and, as of
March 6, remained in St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Yonkers, according to
Yonkers School CSEA Unit President
Janice Schaff. Reportedly, doctors
say a bullet is lodged near Ms. Mic-
coli’s heart and that it is too
dangerous to operate to remove the
bullet.

Westchester County CSEA Local
President Pat Mascioli said Ms. Mic-
coli and another employee were

tends to agree with that assessment.
“We predicted before it was installed
that it wouldn't work,” he said. ‘‘The
system is just not adequate.”

He said he has been “‘robbing Peter
to pay Paul’’ to keep the heat on this
winter, using maintenance repair
funds, some $2,000 to $3,000 since the
winter heating season began, to pay
for repairs on*the heating system.

He pointed out that had this been a
severe winter with a lot of repairs
needed for sanders and plows, he
would have been hard pressed to find
the funds to keep the heating system
working at even an inadequate level.

Roberts has-a fat sheaf of cor-
respondence about the heating
problem, but fears little will be done
on a major scale because Region 8 is,
someday, due for a new facility,
“We've been promised new shops
three different times,” he said, ‘‘and
we've lost them all. They usually
don’t put a lot of money into an old
building.”

And while Roberts’ primary con-
cern right now is keeping a parade of
repairmen engaged with keeping the
heat on, he has serious reservations
about the system in general.

“This is a 12-cone system, but all
three thermostats are out on the shop
floor, so even if the system worked
the heat wouldn’t always be where it’s
needed,”’ he said. ‘‘For example, here
in the office we can be either freezing
or roasting. Sometimes the morning
sun will warm up the shop enough to.
keep the heat off, but the office will be
freezing. At other times, like if they
have the doors open a lot, the heat will
stay on and we'll roast in here while
the system works overtime to keep up
the heat on the shop floor.”’

Roberts also said “I don’t think the
shop should have a forced air heating
system. To the best of my knowledge

sitting in a car outside Public School
13 at about 6:30 a.m. on Feb. 25.

For no known reason, a man
reportedly approached the car and
shot her in the mouth, and when she
fell over, he shot her in the back, and
then fled, Mascioli said.

Mascioli said CSEA is extremely
concerned about the security of its
employees. This was the second
recent incident in the early morning
outside School 13 involving an attack
on a CSEA member.

He said the employees were
reporting to work one hour before the
7:30 a.m. starting time as specified in

this is the only hot-air heated shop in
the state.”

He bases his objection to hot-air as
opposed to hot-water on health and
safety considerations. ‘If a man is
working on brake shoes in the back of
the shop,”’ he said, ‘‘asbestoes can be
sucked into the system and trans-
mitted throughout the building. The

CSEA Safety Specialist Nels Carlson
charges that the inadequate and un-
healthy heating system at DOT’s
Region 8 maintenance facility is not
only affecting the employees there, but
taxpayers across the state as well.

“It should be obvious to management
that conditions at that facility are
dangerously unhealthy to employees
who work there, and that fact
translates into management cheating
taxpayers because such working con-
ditions result in lower productivity,’
Carlson stated.

“DOT got lucky this winter. Often
working conditions at the Poughkeepsie
facility were nearly impossible as it
was, and the health of the workers was
in jeopardy many times. But what if
this had been even a normal winter?
Management owes it to everyone, the
employees and the taxpayers, to up-
grade this facility to insure a
reasonably safe and comfortable work
place.””

same thing with when they’re
painting — those paint fumes go all
over the building.”

Roberts said that major corrections
in the heating system will be at the
top of his priority list when he goes
after rehab funds later this spring,
but he adds that only time will tell
how successful he is in getting
changes made.

_Meanwhile Cassidy says he doesn’t
want his men working in the building
when it is too cold to work.

“When the temperature drops
below 60 degrees in there, I’d like to

the contract in order for the school
breakfast program to operate.

“At no time did management
approach the union about their intent
to have employees come in early. The
contract is between the union and the
school board,’’ he said.

Mascioli said CSEA wants to work
with management to solve any
problems, but not at the expense of
employee safety. In a letter to the
Yonkers School Superintendent, he
said in part:

“The lack of any kind of security or
protection for our members in some
of these situations has caused great

LOCAL

507 PRESIDENT Jack
Cassidy says heating problems are
causing a severe hardship on the
employees at the DOT’s maintenance
facility in Poughkeepsie.

see the men transferred to other work
locations and the state should provide
for the transportation.

“T think they should be ready now,
immediately. If the heat isn’t there, I
want the men relocated. Yesterday it
was so cold the men were ready to
walk out of the building. We don’t
want that, but we do want those men
relocated when it’s that cold.”

John Deyo, CSEA Region 3 field
representative and a former
president of Local 507, said the
problem is a long standing one. ‘‘I’ve
been told,’ said Deyo, ‘‘thatsthere
were supposed to be five units
motinted onthe roof, bubafor some
reason they changed it to three — and
three, even when they're working
aren't enough to keep the building
warm. :

“Yesterday,’’ he added, ‘‘the
women in the office were wearing
gloves and trying to type. That’s
ridiculous.”

ATTENDING THE TOWN OF
BABYLON CSEA UNIT dinner
dance on March 1 in Melville are,
from left, Danny Donohue, Central
Islip Psychiatric Center Local 404;
Cathy Green, Babylon Unit; Ben
Boczkowski, Suffolk County Local
852; John Madlon, Hauppauge
State Local 016; Dorothy Goetz,
Local 852; Louis Mannellino, DOT
Local 508; and Aileen Ronayne,
Babylon Unit. The Babylon Unit is
part of Local 852.

lot incident

concern. I have instructed Mrs.
Schaff to notify her membership that
they are not to deviate from the terms
of their contract in regards to hours
worked unless such matter is
specifically negotiated with the union
and adequate security is provided to
protect the membership. . . .

“If our membership's compliance
with such instructions is apt to disrupt
necessary programs, I strongly
suggest that a meeting be arranged
between the union and the ad-
ministration as quickly as possible to
see if some means can be worked out
to resolve the problem to the
satisfaction of all parties.”’

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, March 19, 1980

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Appellate Court rules:

No Taylor Law violation

FISHKILL—In a precedent-setting
decision, the Appellate Division has
unanimously agreed with CSEA that
failure to accept out-of-title
assignments because of fear of injury
and/or future reprisals is not a
violation of the Taylor Law.

Fishkill Correctional Facility CSEA
Local 160 won the landmark decision

Insurance files
to remain open

on TB lab staff

ALBANY — After hearing
testimony from Civil Service
Employees Assn. representatives and
State Department of Laboratories
and Research management per-
sonnel, the State Insurance Fund has
agreed not to permanently. close its
files, for 18 years, on 18 Labs and
research employees who were shown
to possess tuberculosis antibodies in
tests conducted in the fall of 1978.

The employees who work in the
media section of the labs and
research department came in contact
with the disease while cleaning con-
taminated glassware and utensils.

None of the employees were deter-
mined to have an active case of TB,
reports Labs and Research CSEA
Local President Dorris Rabinowitz,
but because of the ‘‘slight possibility’”
of the disease developing in later
years as the result of this exposure,
both the union and management felt
the cases stiduld*remiain open to per-
mit the employees to file worker’s
compensation claims against the
state.

The 18 year deadline was decided
upon, said Ms. Rabinowitz, because if
the disease does become activated it
will most likely be within that time
span according to medical officials.

Ms. Rabinowitz praised Dr. Robert
Huffaker, acting director of Labs and
Research, for his strong support in
the matter.

for 89 maintenance workers and
teachers who had earlier been found
guilty by a Corrections Department
hearing officer of violating Section
210 of the State Civil Service Law. The
men, with the strong backing of Local
160 President Larry Natoli and the
local CSEA membership, refused to
accept emergency out-of-title
assignments as replacements for
striking corrections officers.

Paul Eckelman, of the CSEA
Region III law firm of Mangold and
Mahar, argued before the Second
Department of the Appellate Division
that during the strike, there were
three fears in the minds of the CSEA-
represented workers: violence from
the picketing corrections officers;
future reprisals by corrections of-

ficers; and lack of protection from in-
mate violence once inside the prison.
The four justices hearing the case
unanimously agreed with the union.

“I hope all correctional facilities
throughout the state take notice of
this decision,’’ Natoli commented. ‘It
says that before an institution can
order you into a place, they must be
able to guarantee you that it’s a safe
place to work.”

The original hearing officer ordered
Taylor Law fines of two days pay for
every day out of work for the
employees involved. The March 3
Appellate Division ruling will restore
those fines to the employees im-
mediately.

Natoli credited union solidarity, as
well as the CSEA attorneys, for the
important victory.

CSEA Safety Hotline
800-342-4824

Women’s career program

CSEA women are being urged to
attend a free career planning
program in Farmingdale L.I., March
26-28. The seminar, ‘“‘Going Places: A
Workshop on Women and Work,”’ has
openings for 45 participants at the
State University Agricultural and
Technical College, Farmingdale.

And, if you miss that one, the
seminar will be repeated May 7-9 at
the State University of New York at
Purchase

Co-sponsored by the Center for
Women in Government and the State
University of New York Ad-
ministration Office of Alternative and
Continuing Education, the program is
directed to women in State
government who are considering
career changes and further education.

Workshop set March 31 in Kingston

KINGSTON — Southern Region III will hold the first in a series of
education workshops March 31 at the Kingston Holiday Inn.

The workshop, which is from 7 to 10 p.m., will cover grievances and
negotiations and will be conducted by regional staff,

While the workshop is intended for

CSEA members in Ulster County, any

members in the region may attend, she said. Regional Education Committee
Chairman Janice Schaff said her committee plans to hold similar workshops in

The program was conducted last
year in Buffalo and Albany.

The seminar offers an in-depth ex-
ploration of career planning, in-
cluding identification of skills, career
aspirations and values, as well as an
opportunity to develop strategies to
achieve career goals.

For more information, call Ellen
Cospito at the Center for Women in
Government at (518) 455-6211.

Blood drive
by Tax Local

ALBANY — As the result of a two-
month donor recruitment drive con-
ducted by Civil Service Employees
Assn. officers and shop stewards in
the State Department of Taxation and
Finance Local 690, nearly 250
employees have signed up to donate

~ blood on March 14 and 21 when the

Red Cross Bloodmobile visits their
worksite.

Some 60 of these employees will be
donating for the first time, said Helen
Butrym, coordinator for the
Northeastern Red Cross blood drives
in her Local.

CSEA worked in conjunction with
Tax and Finance management per-
sonnel to set up dates, schedule donor
appointments and to explain the
program to employees.

According to Ms. Butrym, four
bloodmobile visits are arranged each
year in the department. She had High
praise for the Tax and Finance
employees who, she pointed out, have
donated 1300 units of blood over the
past year.

Among them is George Cundiff,
who was featured in the ‘Public Sec-
tor’’ last year and has donated a total
of 18 gallons of blood in the past 25
years.

During the recent holiday season,
Ms. Butrym said, the Red Cross put
out an appeal for blood for an open
heart surgery patient who happened
to be an employee of Tax and
Finance, and, immediately 20
employees went ‘down to the center to
donate.

12,848 units of blood were collected

- from all the state departments last

year.

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18—Pilgram Psychiatric Center Local 418 membership meeting, 8 p.m., Assembly Hall,
Pilgram Psychiatric Center, West Brentwood.

19 — Hudson Valley Armory Employees Local 252 general meeting, 1 p.m., Peekskill Armory,
955 Washington Street, Peekskill.

19 —Buffalo Local 003, general membership meeting, 5:30 p.m., Buffalo Aud Club,
Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo. Topic: Political Action Involvement.

22 — CSEA Retirees Florida Area Club, Inc., second annual statewide conference, New Port
Richey Holiday Inn, New Port Richey, Fla., noon,

29 —Oyster Bay Unit, annual dinner dance, installation of officers, 7:30 p.m., Antun’s
Restaurant, Hicksville.

31 — Southern Region Ill education workshop, 7 p.m., Holiday Inn, Kingston,

APRIL

2 — Westchester Local 860 executive committee meeting, 8 p.m., 196 Maple Avenue, White
«Plains.

7-9 — Long Island Region | spring conference, Gurneys Inn, Montauk.

11 — Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local 402 disco pre-Easter dance, 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., St.
Joseph's Golden Hall, 856 Pacitic St., Brooklyn.

17—CSEA Board of Directors meeting, 9 a.m., Thruway House, Albany.

26 — Yonkers School District Unit dinner- dance, 7:30 p.m., Chateau Reaciran Yonkers.

MAY
1-3—Tax Local 690 labor/management seminar, Ramada Inn, Lake George.
8—CSEA Board of Directors meeting, 9 a.m. Quality Inn, Albany.
9—White Plains School District Unit dinner-dance for retirees, 7 p.m., Purchase County
Club, Purchase.
21-23—State Division Workshop, Kutcher’s Club, Monticello.

JUNE
4-6 — County Division Workshop, Kutcher's Country Club, Monticello.
9-13 — AFSCME Convention, Anaheim, Calif.

Re OS nS

PP OU IOS TE

THI

Rally for
responsibility

Proposed state budget cuts that would reduce
public service programs and eliminate
thousands of state job positions was the focal
point of a ‘Rally for responsibility’ protest
March 11 in Albany by CSEA members.

The ad below is part of a massive advertising
campaign being launched by CSEA around the
state, using newspapers and radio stations. The
campaign is aimed at alerting the general public
and state legislators to the tragic consequences,
in both human and economic terms, resulting for
any additional reduction of state services.

The photographs on this page show some of the
rally speakers as well as some of the more than
1,200 CSEA members who participated.

0

A

¢ New York once was a leader in public service
to its citizens. Then it cut 10,000 state
government jobs. Public services were also
cut. Now the Governor and Legislature want
to cut 10,000 more state jobs.

New York once had a model mental health
system. Now it has human warehouses where
the goal of “treatment” is nothing but a hoax.
Hospitals are losing accreditation due to
understaffing and inadequate funding.

ie

GREAT STATE

¢ New York promised its citizens it would stop
the scandal of “dumping” mentally-
handicapped people out of institutions and
into communities where nobody cared. Now
some Legislators want to close state hospitals
and abolish community care programs.

New York once took pride in its public
education system, its transportation network,
its environmental concern and its concern for
the less fortunate. Now we are faced with a
state budget that could impair all of these
services and more.

° Cutting back on understaffed programs may be good politics but
it's reckless government. New York's people need public services
that only New York State can provide. Providing less than two
percent funding for thirteen percent inflation won't do it.

New York's future is everyone's responsibility. Write your
Legislator and let him/her know that you want responsible
government, not reckless leadership. New York can be a great

state again.

Local 1000 AFSCME
AFL-CIO

WHOLL
CARE

4

THE PUBLIC, SECTOR, Wednesday, March 19, 1980.

Page 5.

[ ‘2

AFSCME INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT Jerry Wurf, center, was a keynote speaker during the
delegates meeting. Here Wurf is being greeted by Region I safety committee chairman Art
Loving, right. At left is Region I President Irving Flaumenbaum, who along with CSEA President -

William L. McGowan, is an AFSCME International vice president.

customary, met on opening day of delegates
meeting. Statewide Secretary Irene Carr is

Executive Vice President Thomas McDonough
checks some notes. McDonough presided over
entire delegates meeting in absence of President

area due to the serious illness of a relative.

COUNTY DIVISION
CHAIRMAN Mary
Sullivan of Herkimer
County presided over
meeting of county
delegates on opening
night of convention.

EDUCATIONAL LO-
CAL 870 delegation
included, from leit,
Carol Craig, Local
President Walter J.
Weeks, and Mike Cur-
tin.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS members, as is |

delivering her report at the microphone, while |

William L. McGowan, who was called to Buffalo H

ALBANY — CSEA delegates took
action on a number of important
amendments or _ proposed
amendments to the union's
constitution and by-laws during the
Special Delegates Meeting March 9-11
in Albany.

The delegates approved an
amendment to the CSEA constitution
which gives the union’s delegate body
the final authority in determining
whether CSEA affiliates or merges
with any other organization. The new
amendment reads:

“Any affiliation or merger of The
Civil Service Employees Association,
Inc. with another organization after
approval by the Board of Directors
must be ratified by a majority vote of
the delegate body in order to be
effective.”

In a first reading of a proposed
constitutional amendment (two
readings are required to amend the
constitution) the delegates passed an
amendment which would prevent
members of the CSEA from holding
two seats on the Board of Directors.

The proposed amendment does
permit members to run for more than
one board seat in the 1981 election
only, but if victorious in both
elections, the member must choose
between the seats.

The delegates amended the by-laws
concerning honorariums as follows:

“The establishment of any
honorarium or the increase in any

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, March 19, 1980

Delegates act on several
constitution, by-law amendments

existing honorarium must be
approved by the appropriate body
prior to the beginning of the election
procedure for the next term of office
for the position or positions affected.
All newly created honorariums or any
changes in honorariums shall be
published in the official paper of the
CSEA within thirty (30) days of the
change.”

The by-laws also were amended to
give the 10 statewide CSEA officers
status as voting delegates as follows:

“The officers of the Association,
President, Executive Vice President,
six Vice Presidents who are Region
Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer,
who are not otherwise elected as
voting delegates from their locals,
Shall, by virtue of their office, be
designated as voting delegates at all
meetings of the Association.”

In another by-laws change, retiree
dues were set at $9.00 a year.

‘The delegates rejected a proposed
amendment to the constitution to
reorganize the County Executive
Committee.

Under the statewide Insurance
Committee report, the delegates
voted to establish the distribution of
anticipated dividends declared by the
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York as follows:

Under age 40 — 30 percent; ages 40
to 44 — 25 percent; ages 45 to 49 —
12.5 percent; ages 50 and older — 10
percent.

MAKING A STRONG POINT during meeting is Lord
Gran from Downstate Medical Center Local 646. e

CATTARAUGU

delegates includeq

Bruno and Ted Wel

me

May 21-23,

New York State were distributed to CSEA

PATRICIA CR@NI oCortland SUNY
Local 605, chairmarfe state division, dis-
cusses the upcominge division workshop

NTY Local 805
ie Williams, Tom

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|

RENSSELAER COUNTY Local’s Joseph
Lazarony addresses an issue during county
delegates meeting on March 9 in Albany.

No primary endorsements

PILGRIM PSYCHIATRIC CENTER Local 418 delegates included, from left, Jean
Frazier, Helen Regis and Sylvia Weinstock.

from delegates at meeting

ALBANY — AFSCME
International President Jerry Wurf
praised CSEA as a labor union that
“brought something to AFSCME”’
during an address before
approximately 1,000 CSEA
delegates attending to the union’s
Special Delegates Meeting here.

Wurf was among a list of several
speakers to address the delegate
body, including a trio of speakers
appearing on behalf of leading
presidential candidates for the
major national political parties.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray
Marshall addressed the group as a
spokesperson for President Jimmy
Carter, former Michigan
Congressman James O’Hara spoke
on behalf of Senator Edward
Kennedy and Michael Roth, a past
Republican candidate for
statewide office, spoke on behalf of
George Bush. There had been some
speculation that delegates might
endorse candidates for New York’s
upcoming presidential primary
election, but no endorsements were
considered during the delegates
meeting.

Also during the meeting, State
Senator Fred Warder was
presented an award by the union.
Sen Warder is retiring at the end of
this year. State Senate Majority
Leader Warren Anderson spoke in

BUMPER STICKERS supporting enactmesin OSHA protection bill for public workers in
lates along with large pins carrying the same

meeting.

WADE WILLIS, President of
Palisades Interstate Park Com-
mission Local 105, speaks from
the floor during state division,

praise of Warder’s pro-labor
record at the union delegates
meeting.

Notables not attending the
delegates meeting were CSEA
President William L. McGowan,
who was called to the Buffalo area
due to a relative’s serious illness;
and Southern Region III President
James Lennon, who is recovering
from illness.

Wurf praised the CSEA
Legislative and Political Action
Program. ‘‘CSEA brought
something to AFSCME, to a union
which ‘‘thought we knew
everything,” Wurf said.

Wurf was highly critical of
statements made by
representatives of the New York
State governor who maligned
public employees as ‘‘over paid,
under worked with fringe benefits
out of line.”

He also attacked the use of the
word “productivity” by those
attacking public employees.
Productivity requires appropriate
tools, a reasonable and decent
work place and qualified
management, he said.

“Otherwise, productivity is
bologna,” Wurf said.

Wurf reminded the delegates
that locality and state financial
problems are tied to the federal
budget-revenue sharing.

a (aa

MANHATTAN DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER
Local 443 delegates included Keith Edwards and
Verdell Whitehead.

Piedigrossi, left, was a delegate from SUNY
Cortland Local 605, while Peg Coombs, right,
was representing Cortland County Local 812.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, March 19, 1980

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“5 RTARTA

No official list, but

Will J. N. Adam

By Dawn LePore

PERRYSBURG — The story has
been changing for so long at the
J.N. Adam Developmental Center
that, at first, everyone believed it
was just a rumor.

But last month, at an agency-
level labor-management meeting,
the rumors were made official. The
facility, employing more than 500
CSEA members, is scheduled to
close in 1982.

“Nobody really knew,’’ said
Local 400 President Paul
Christopher. ‘‘There had been
rumors, But there are always
Trumors.”’

J.N. Adam has been targeted to
close before — in 1970, 1972, 1977
and 1981, but efforts by CSEA and
state legislators kept the center
open. Now its happening again.

“Just as the meeting was ending,
J asked Commissioner Introne if he
had any plans to close any
facilities,’ Christopher said. ‘‘He
said ‘No.’ Then I asked him if J.N.
Adam was going to close in 1982
and he said “‘Yes.”’

. “One week later, Introne tours
the place and tells the ad-
ministration that he’s concerned
with the quality of care and the
continuity of employment issue.”

James Introne, who heads the
state Office of Mental Retardation
affd “Developmental ‘Disabilities,
has been quoted in a Buffalo area
newspaper as saying J.N. Adam
must close because of violations of
federal fire, health and safety
standards. In the same article,
Frederick Zazycki, deputy director
of the center, said that the state
plans to move the 400 residents into
several small community-based
facilities throughout the Southern
Tier, shifting J.N. Adam’s
employees at the same time.

Christopher says the cost would

be astronomical. According to one
source at the facility, it would cost
under $500,000 to bring J.N. Adam
up to standards. Work required
would include installing a sprinkler
system and widening doors in one
out building, replacing a few floors,
repairing a stack in the power plant
and the steps and front column of
the main building.

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LOCAL 400 PRESIDENT Paul Christopher, foreground, discusses the

be shut

think, give better than anybody.

“State policy in mental hygiene
has always been you don’t make
changes unless you can prove the
care will not be the same, but
better. But patient care is equal to
the number of staff available, not
the size of the building.

“I doubt if these homes would
have the number of nurses needed

problems associated with the apparent closing of J.N. Adam
Developmental Center during last month’s Region VI meeting. At right,
background, is Dave Polisoto, also a member of Local 400.

“That’s peanuts compared to
what it would cost to run a dozen
community homes,” Christopher
said. ‘Say you had nine 30-bed
homes, you’re increasing your ad-
ministrative costs nine times. If
they don’t have the money in the
budget to bring us up to standards,
how are they going to find the
money for them?”

“Between 250 and 275 of our
residents are total care patients,”
he said.

“They will have to be in-
stitutionalized their whole lives.
They're not toilet trained. They
can’t walk or even sit up for the
most part. They need exactly the
type of care we give here and, I

or have doctors on call 24 hours a
day. I see no money for support
services, special programs,
grounds crew, whatever. They
would have to contract out, and
that’s illegal according to our
agreement.”

Three years ago, J.N. Adam was
the most energy-efficient facility
operating in the state, according to
Christopher, who said the center
relies on access to free natural gas
supplies for most of its energy.

“There was a big push to save
money and we lopped another 15
percent off of that,’’ he said.

A former tuberculosis asylum,
many of the patient’s rooms at the
center have porches leading direct-

down?

ly off them, allowing bed-ridden
residents to spend time in the fresh
alr.

“In the summer, we can wheel
them out and even feed them out-
side,” Christopher explained. ‘Try
building those on a new facility.
The only way those patients would

get any sunShine would be through
a window.”’

Most community homes current-
ly established for less severely
retarded individuals require
thousands of dollars to convert
them for use. Such homes for total
care patients would require
significantly higher costs.

“Tf you ask Introne where these
facilities are going to be or how
he’s going to improve care, he
doesn’t know,” Christopher said.

During a recent Parents and
Friends meeting at the facility,
Introne was quoted as saying that
even if no new facilities were built,
the residents would still be
transferred out of J.N. Adam.

“He said he would do everything
in his power to close the center,”
Christopher said. ‘‘But in a
meeting he had with me, he said he
had nothing to do with the plan at
all. He said the decision was made
in 1976.

“I do fully believe if this place
closes, it would be an economic dis-
aster to the peoplé of Perrysburg.
There are no jobshete,nosmajir
industry. Who’s going to hire a 45-
year-old lady in their factory
anyway? Most of these people are
farm families, who rely on that
second income to make ends meet.
They'll be on the welfare rolls.

“The closest facility is in West
Seneca — a 75-mile commute each
way, if a few employees could
transfer,’’ he said.

‘“‘We have to fight this
somehow.”

Region II MH dispute over staffing ratios

NEW YORK CITY — What
employees do you count when
determining a mental health
facility's patient / staff ratio?

The answers to this question
appear to be roots of a difference of
opinion between CSEA
Metropolitan Region II and the Of-
fice of Mental Health (OMH) New
York City Region.

OMH NYC Region Director
Sarah Connell reported patient /
staff ratios at the five psychiatric
centers in the region as at or near
the 1/1 ratio of the Morgado
Memorandum. Connell provided
that information at a regional Men-
tal Health Labor-Management
meeting on Feb. 6, 1980.

The five adult facilities involved
are Bronx, Creedmoor, Kingsboro,
Manhattan and South Beach
Psychiatric centers (PC).

CSEA Field Representative Bart
Brier took exception to Connell’s
patient: staff ratios at the meeting

and asked for the actual numbers
of patients and staff at the
facilities. Connell said that data
would be provided to the union.

At the meeting, Brier said:
“Those ratios are not reality for
direct care staff. The amount of
overtime at the facilities refutes
the rosie ratios.

“This problem goes to the heart
of tensions in the region.”

After the meeting, Brier said the
information he had on patient: staff
ratios at Manhattan PC differed
greatly from the better than 1/0.8
ratio Connell claimed.

He said information he had in-
dicated the ratio at Manhattan PC
for direct care staff (Grades 7, 9,
11 and 13) was approximately 1/0.5
in December 1979. When nurses
(PS&T) are added, the ratio is
1/0.6, he said

“Tf OMH is going to count doc-
tors, clerks, cooks, electricians
and other non-direct care staff,

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, March. 19, 1980

their ratios are meaningless,”
Brier said.

At the meeting, Brier alluded to
considerable forced overtime at
Manhattan PC and Kingsboro PC,
calling the patient:staff ratios
“dangerously low.”’

He identified consequences of the
low ratios as walkaway: saulted
staff and financial losses in comp
time.

Other subjects discussed at the
meeting included:

¢ The proposed budget calls for
OMH to operate community
residences, which, if passed, will
be located in all boroughs except
Manhattan.

Brier cautioned management
that the subject “is important to
the union. It should be done proper-
ly and carefully.”

* Connell would not discuss dis-
cussions between OMH and other
agencies regarding shared staffing.
She said it was a prerogative of

management.

Brier warned her that unilateral
changes in terms and conditions of
employment are violations of the
Taylor Law. ‘‘This is a most
sensitive issue,’’ he said.

Connell and CSEA appear to have
different concepts of the functions
of the labor management
meetings. She does not agree with
CSEA that problems not resolved
at the facility level should be
addressed at the regional labor-
management meetings.

CSEA Collective Bargaining
Specialist Robert Guild said:
“There is a need for com-
munication at the regional level.
Facility problems should not be
brought to Albany.

“Issues which cannot be resolved
at the facility should be brought to
the region. If the issue cannot be
solved at the region, only then br-
ing it to Albany.

“Facility problems have to be
addressed here.”’

NEE TTAI
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5

By Jack Murphy
Staff Writer

FISHKILL — Talk by mental
health department officials about
further cutbacks in resident
facilities and the possible closing of
two or more psychiatric centers
has caused a good case of nerves
among department employees in
the lower Hudson Valley.

CSEA’s Region 3 is the locale of
the heaviest concentration of psy-
chiatric facilities in the state and

several communities rely heavily _

on the state facilities as major
employer and economic backbone.

But interviews with a number of
CSEA officials show the human toll
is already being felt in many of the
institutions, especially those
rumored to be on the state’s “hit
list."

“The uncertainty of the situation
hits hard,” said Flip Amodio, a
long time employee of the
Middletown Psychiatric Center
and now a CSEA field represen-
tative. “It has to affect morale —
everybody walking around wonder-
ing ‘Am I going tu be here next
month.’ ””

The uncertainty he refers to
affects many of the state’s
facilities ‘since there has been no
announced decision yet as to which
institutions are fo be shuttered.

«fkreenof those:most frequently
mentioned as candidates for clos-
ing are the centers in Middletown,
Poughkeepsie and Wingdale.

“T don’t think the impact of a

possible closing has registered on
most of our people — at least not
yet,’ said Harold McKinney, vice
president of the CSEA unit at the
Hudson River Psychiatric Center
in Poughkeepsie.

“There is some concern, but
nowhere nearly as great as in other
places,’ he said. But he added,
“The county has mentioned the
possibility of using some of our
buildings as a new Dutchess County
Jail — and that ought to raise some
real questions.”’

At Middletown, where most of
the employees remember the ax
falling in 1971 on half the
employees and half the patients,
there is real worry.

CSEA unit president Alex Hogg
says his people ‘‘are really
worried.’

“We're vulnerable,’’ he said.
_ ‘We lost our accreditation and
we're operating on a one year tem-
porary certificate. There are 250 to
300 vacant items that have to be
taken care of to be reaccredited.

“We are very, very vulnerable,”
he said. ‘‘The average years of ser-
vice for our people is about 20
years — and there’s nothing in
Middletown that could provide
comparable employment for these
people.”

Amodio echoed that concern.

“Many employees at these ‘hit
list’ hospitals have put in 15 to 20 or
more years of loyal service and
now they have to be asking
themselves ‘where do I go from
here?’

Lennon: These people have
families with kids in school

FISHKILL — James Lennon worries about the people who are
wondering if and how long they'll have their jobs.

“You can’t just think about big numbers and big dollars — you have
to think of the individuals and their families,’’ said the president of CS9EA
Region III in discussing rumors of possible closings of one or more

psychiatric facilities in his region.

“It’s hard not knowing what your employer has planned,” he said.

“These people have families with kids in school, homes with
mortgage payments due and ties to their communities in many, many
ways.

MHow can they buy a new house or even a new car or make any kind
of long range commitments?” Lennon asked. “In some, of the places
these centers are located, there just aren’t any other jobs.

“Up to now most of these employees could live normal, productive
lives. Now with all this wondering about the future they also have to be
wondering about what to do about their homes, and other things. It’s not
very pleasant for the people involved,’’ he concluded.

MH rumors of closings, proposed cutbacks
causing morale problems in Southern Region

‘‘Everything becomes an
element of indecision and that not
only affects the employee’s per-
sonal life, but it can have an affect
on his work. The indecision inserts
a tremendous element of fear and
that can’t help but lower morale.

“Let's face it,” he said, ‘‘this
puts a short fuse on all elements of
a person’s life.”’

At Wingdale, Bob Thompson,
local president and a veteran of
more than 25 years at the Harlem
Valley facility, said ‘‘We’ve been in
the limelight on this thing for a lot
longer than anybody else. It seems
like they’re always talking about
shutting down this place. We're the
star actors.”

He indicated that this long term
uncertainty has caused some
numbness among the employees. .
“We've been apprehensive so
long,”’ he said, “the attitude seems
to be ‘Just tell me what’s going to
happen. I can’t stand the suspense
any longer.’ "’

Thompson pointed out that
Harlem Valley is in an isolated
area, shut off from the rest of
Dutchess County by a mountain
range.

“We're the only industry in this
valley,” he said. ‘‘The hospital sup-
ports the whole valley from Pawl-
ing to Millerton. There’s no public
transportation over the mountains
to Poughkeepsie or Fishkill except
by car so if these jobs go...”

There are about 850 CSEA
employees on the Wingdale campus
with an average length of service
of about 20 years.
soactenaese ree

FLIP AMODIO, a union field
representative with years of ex-
perience working in a psychiatric
center, says “the uncertainty of
the situation hits hard . . . it has to
affect morale. . .””

“One of the criteria reportedly
being used to determine which
facilities are closed is community
impact,” said Thompson. “‘If they
close Harlem Valley the com-
munity will-most definitely.be im-
pacted.”” , jiged ee

For employees in any number of
mental health facilities the wait
goes on, wondering and waiting and
listening for the shoe to drop and
hoping it drops somewhere else.

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UNCERTAINTY OF SITUATION is reflected in these headlines from the
March 5, 1980 Albany Times Union. State Mental Health Commissioner
James Prevost testified that the number of possible facilities to be closed

has been narrowed to four, but he still
being considered.

es

refused to say which ones are still

Training set for Manhattan PC provisional stenos

NEW YORK CITY — Forty typist /
stenographers on provisional status —
some for as long as 15 years — at
Manhattan Psychiatric Center (MPC)
will be attending a secretarial school
at State expense, MPC Local 413
Grievance Chairman Mohamed
Hussein has reported.

Hussein said management met with
him and Local 413 President Ismael
Lope on Feb. 28, and agreed to finance

CSEA
Safety Hotline
800-342-4824

the training. Hussein said CSEA
Education Director Thomas Quimby
and others at the union’s head-
quarters had made telephone calls to
the State Department of Mental
Health to push for support of the
program.

The whole series of events, which
culminated in management agreeing
to send the 40 employees for training,
started when a management memo
indicated that a number of the

provisional employees would be term-
inated if they were unable to pass
an examination.

“It is a bit strange that for all these
years, the employees provided
satisfactory service to the State. With
all the provisional employees in State
service, why did Manhattan
Psychiatric Center have to pick on a
few Grade 3’s and 5's? This selective
enforcement smells of harassment,”’
Hussein said.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, March 19, 1980

Page 9

OPEN CONTINUOUS
STATE JOB CALENDAR

Senior Medical Records Technician - $10,624

Pharmacist (salary varies with location) ‘ 4 ee 562

Assistant Sanitary Engineer . : . $16,040 -

Senior Sanitary Engineer .. $18,301

Clinical Physician 1 « $27,942

Clinical Physician II i . $31,055

Assistant Clinical Evan $25,161

Attorney i $14,850

Assistant Attorney $12,397

Attorney Trainee « $11,723

Junior Engineer. . $12,890
(Bachelor's

Junior Engineer oo
(Master’s Degree)

Dental Hygienist ease Svea dtavealabenit ventas gO OOO!

Licensed Practical Nurse...... ' see ueedecee ss SO;OOL

Nutrition Services Consultant. « $13,404

Stationary Engineer ig $10,042

Senior Stationary Engineer .... Ponrren, JOU LG)

Occupational Therapy Assistant I ego . . $9,029

Occupational Therapy Assistant I ... AG $9,029
(Spanish Speaking) *

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor . $14,142

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Trainee . $11,983

Medical Record Technician . 4 ie . $9,481

Histology Technician i .. $8,051

Professional Positions in Auditing and Accounting. . Saba $11,250

Computer Programmer . $11,250

Computer Programmer (Scientific) $11,250

Senior Programmer . $14,075

Senior Computer Eroerannet (Scientific) . . $14,075

Mobility Instructor . $11,904

Instructor of the Blind $11,250

Health Services Nurse... ‘$11; 250-812, 025

(salary varies with location)

Senior Heating and Ventilating Engineer Mebaeete ++» $18,301

Senior Sanitary Engineer (Design) : 5 - $18,301

Senior Building Electrical Engineer $ , $18,301

Senior Building Structural Engineer Bug tecaneda , $18,301

Senior Mechanical Construction Engineer ............ ceeeees $18,301

Senior Plumbing Engineer .. cael - $18,301

AéSistant Stationary Engineer $7.616

Electroencephalograph Technician . : covets $7,616

“Radiologic Technologist - $8,454-$10,369

(salary varies with location)

Medical Record Administrator +» $11,904

Food Service Worker I

Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee ..

Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee ....
(Spanish Speaking)

Associate Actuary (Casualty) .

Principal Actuary (Casualty) ..

Supervising poy (Casualty) «

Assistant ASHE

Nurse I. :

Nurse II .

Nurse II (Psychiatric)

Nurse II (Rehabilitation)

Medical Specialist II ...

Medical Specialist I ....

Psychiatrist I.. Sane

Psychiatrist II.

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 special y)

Physical Therapist

Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking

Senior Physical Therapist

Senior Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking)

Speech Pathologist

Audiologist

Assistant Speech Pathologist

Assistant Audiologist

Dietician Trainee .

Dietician ...... » $11,250

Supervising Dietician ................0065 5 0 x $13,304

Stenographer (NYC only) ...........0:5:005666 ‘i +. $6,650

Typist (NYC only).. , ? i m «. $6,071

Senior Occupational Therapist p nani, ci!

Senior Occupational Therapist . $12,670
(Spanish Speaking)

Oceunailonal Therapist .... ++ $11,337

Occupational Therapist (Spanish Speaking) . » $11,337

You may contact the following offices of the New York State paparteet of Civil Service tor an:
ing examinations for the positions listed above,
Office Building Campus, First Floor, Building |, Albany, New York 12239 (518) 457-6216.
2 World Trade Center, 53th Floor, New York City 10047 (212) 488-4248,
Suite 750, Genesee Building, West Genesee Street, Buffalo, New York 14202 (716) 842-4260.

$13,876

. . $18,369
$22,364
$26,516

. $10,714
$10,624
$11,904
$11,904
$11,904

++ $33,705

. $27,942
$27,942

+» $33,705
$10,824
$11,450.

. $10,824

« .$10,624-$12,583

$11,337
$11,337

. $12,670
++» $12,670
. $12,670

. $12,670

- $11,337
$11,337

+» $10,624

Page 10 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, March 19, 1980

FULTON COUNTY LOCAL 818 held its annual dinner-dance recently in Johnstown.
Local 818 President Bill Sohl is shown in animated conversation with board member
Bertha McLain during the program.

PIERE ALRICH, left, legislative assistant to State Assemblyman Glenn Harris, was a
guest at the affair. He is discussing an item of interest with Local 818 President Bill
Sohl, center, and Second Vice President Ken Morris.

LOCAL 818 OFFICERS include, from left, Secretary Ruth Gregoria, First Vice
President Helen Maraszkiewicz, President Bill Sohl, Treasurer Grace Bevington, and
Second Vice President Ken Morris.

STATE OPEN COMPETITIVE
JOB CALENDAR

Filing Ends March 17, 1980

Air Quality Policy Analyst 29-286
Chief of Mental Hygiene Telecommunications
28-026
Health Manpower Counselor . j 25-185
Health Manpower Counselor, Associate 28-055
Health Manpower Counselor, Senior.. 25-186.
Supervisor of Rehabilitation Hospital Fiscal
Administration Assistant
Evaluation of Training or perience andor
Oral Test
Filing Ends March 24, 1980
Food Service Training Coordinator

Evaluation of Training or wWiperikate and/or
Oral Test
Filing Ends March 31, 1980
Librarian (Reference), Principal . ‘|
State Law Librarian

$21,545 28-028

$14,700 28-009

$25,000 27-986
$23,755 28-054

3 stenos get
test go-ahead:

PURCHASE — Three Senior
Stenographers at SUNY Purchase —
Pierina Cappiali, Gwen G. McClain

sss

i
yTwe Years &
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DEMONSTRATING FOR A NEW CONTRACT ARE

MEMBERS of the Yonkers Parking Authority Unit of
Westchester County CSEA Local 860 on Feb. 19.
Among those at the demonstration are, from left,
Richie Greco, Dom DiCarmine, John Dee, Local 860
President Pat Mascioli, Frank Trepanowski and Philip
Castillo.

Yonkers Parking
in fact finding

YONKERS — The 11 members of the Yonkers
Parking Authority Unit of Westchester County
CSEA Local 860 entered their 15th month of
working without a contract in March 1980 as the
Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)
prepared to enter fact finding.

CSEA Field Representative Joseph O’Connor
said the fact finding hearing was set for March
12 following negotiations and mediation which
O'Connor said have reached ‘‘a stalemate.”

“In all our months of negotiations, the Parking
Authority has never made an official pay offer,”
he. said.

The 11 memberss operate the municipal

arking lots and empty and repair parking
meters.

and Lois D. Saunders — were able to
take the Principal Stenographer
examination on Feb. 23, 1980, thanks
in part to the attention of CSEA.

State Civil Service Commissioner
Victor S. Bahou overruled his staff in
granting permission for the three
members of SUNY Purchase Local
637 to have their applications for the
examination backdated, CSEA Field
Representative Larry Sparber notes.

Bahou’s decision came after
Sparber interceded on behalf of the
three stenographers. Sparber’s letter
to Bahou, in part, read: a

“The employees originally took the
Senior Stenographer exam G-9 in
November 1978. Because of statewide
complaints of tutorial inequities, the
shorthand portion of the exam was
rescheduled for March 1979.

“This delay caused by negligence of
Civil Service, resulted in the eligible
list not being released until Spring
1979. The final results of the test are
quite extraordinary. Ms. Saunders
placed 3rd, Ms. McClain placed 7th
and Ms. Cappiali placed 11th.

“The Personnel Office at (SUNY)
Purchase, in April 1979, requested the
Senior Steno list at the earliest possi-
ble date. They were advised by Civil
Service that the list would be delayed
pending a pre-canvass by
geographical location.

“Despite the efforts of (SUNY)
Purchase to obtain the list, it,;.»was
not received until Decembér
(1979). . 91

“The upcoming Principal Steno
exam requires permanent Senior

Steno Status by November 29 (1979).
As (SUNY) Purchase could not issue
a canvass letter until December, and
did not appoint them permanently

THE YONKERS PARKING AUTHORITY UNIT
demonstration on Feb. 19 brings out a daily newspaper
reporter, right, who is speaking with Unit President
John Dee, center, and Local 860 President Pat

Mascioli.

CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES
ASSOCIATION Local 611 of SUNY
Oswego discusses 1980 CSEA
Scholarship Award, which will be
given to a member or family member
at SUNY Oswego Spring Honors Con-
vocation March 26, Scholarship com-
mittee members in discussion above
include, from left, Loretta Beckwith,
Cosi Masuicca, Dale Dusharm, Local
611 president; and Patricia C.
Ruppert, acting alumni director.

until January 1980, the employees are
therefore technically barred from
taking an exam which is not only
seldom given but very important as
far as the career ladder is con-
cerned.”

Building repaired

GLENS FALLS — The Civil Service
Employees Assn. says that it is
satisfied with renovations and repairs
made in a Glens Falls office building
into which State Department of |
Health employees were moved in
mid-January.

According to Allen Mead, president
of the Department of Health CSEA
Local, during an inspection of the
building just prior to the move, CSEA

$5 officials discovered some pipes which
Lennon Presents Merit Award x were coated with asbestos, a fire

A certificate of merit was presented by CSEA retardant substance which, when in-
Region III President James J. Lennon recently to haled, can cause cancer and other
Raymond Radzivila, retiring former executive lung diseases. CSEA brought this to
director of the East Hudson Parkway Authority. __ the attention of the State Department

@ Radzivila was honored for more than 30 years of of Agency Manpower and
service in the Department of Transportation Region 8 Management, which promptly had the
and the East Hudson Parkway Authority during a pipes removed. ; p
luncheon attended by more than 200 people. After an earlier inspection, made in

He was appointed executive director of the East December, the union expressed con-
Hudson Parkway Authority in 1968 and retained that cern about a lack of on-site parking
position until the takeover of the Authority by the spaces for the employees, insufficient
State DOT on November 1, 1979. electrical wiring, unsafe stairways

and poorly functioning elevators,
RAYMOND RADZIVILA, center, accepts a cer- heating and cooling systems.
tificate from CSEA Region III President James All of these matters were corrected ~
e Lennon, left. Standing at right is Region III Field before the employees moved in, Mead
Representative John Deyo.

reported.

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ee

As safety and safety legislation (OSHA) become one of CSEA’s
highest priorities, one facet of that growth is the need to educate :
CSEA members in the subject. Recently Long Island Region I ne
hosted the first CSEA regional safety and health workshop. ;
Representatives of CSEA, AFSCME and the National Safety Coun-
cil provided the instruction and information.

HAUPPAUGE — More than 200
CSEA members of Long Island
Region I attended the first CSEA
regional safety and health
workshop here recently.

Instruction and information on
safety and health were provided by
CSEA Collective Bargaining
Specialist Nels Carlson, coor-
dinator of the CSEA Safety
Hotline; CSEA statewide Safety
Committee Chairman Frank Fale-
jezyk, Buffalo Psychiatric Center
Local 403; Steve Fantauzzo,
AFSCME safety and health
specialist; and Jack Suarez,
National Safety council labor
liaison.

Carlson recommended per-
sonalizing safety to union
members. Cold statistics do not
move people. But if they know the
victim, it is a different story, he ex-
plained.

Falejczyk emphasized the
availability of the CSEA toll-free
Safety Hotline — 1-800-342-4824 —
to those employees who require
confidentiality in reporting a
safety problem.

Calling the hotline ‘‘will protect
an employee from harassment,”’ he
said.

He also recommended never
assuming a person knows the
proper way to complete a physical
task, operate a piece of equipment,
etc., as a way to reduce accidents.

Fantauzzo identified and discuss-
ed job-site related health hazards
including:

© Injuries in the public sector are
three times that of private industry
in comparable jobs and twice as

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Nels Carlson advises the
more than 200 CSEA members attending
the first regional safety and health
workshop to ‘‘personalize safety to
members.”

severe. Refuse collectors have five
times the injury rate as coal
miners. Waste treatment workers
have twice the injury rate as coal
miners.

¢ The most dangerous work en-
vironment is the hospital with
radiation, anesthetic gasses and
other hazards.

¢ Two or three months exposure
to asbestos can cause death 20
years later.

“Workers should have the right
to know what are the hazards of
their workplace,” Fantauzzo said.

He and Carlson both emphasized
that safety and enactment of OSHA
legislation would save money by
reducing accidents and its
associated expenses.

Coordinators of the workshop CSEA’ Safety Hotline mphasized
were the chairman and co- the ‘catety. ey Hone was emp of fn
chairman of the regional education ‘of Buffalo

committee, Greg Szurnicki and
James Forsythe, respectively.

Left, ANSWERING QUESTIONS on
safety are Jack Suarez, left, of the
National Safety Council and Arthur
Loving of Long Island State Parks
Local 102 and co-chairman of the
regional safety committee.

DISCUSSING THE FIRST RE-
GIONAL SAFETY WORK-
SHOP are, from left, Jim For-
sythe, co-chairman of the Region I
education committee; Region I
President Irving Flaumenbaum,
and Region I education committee
chairman Greg Szurnicki, chief
organizer of the workshop.

HIGHLY INTERESTED and motivated CSEA members attend the Region I safety and health workshop in- AFSCME’s Steve Fantauzzo speaks on the
cluding, from left, Raymond Magliulo and Kathy Golio, both of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center Local 418; and Cathy relationship of the work environment to causes of
Green and Aileen Ronayne, Town of Babylon Unit of Suffolk County Local 852. death and disease.

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