The Public Sector, 1982 December 31

MARIO CUOMO was being inaugurated as the new governor of New
York State as this issue of The Public Sector was going to press. In

the next issue, we’ll review his inaugural address comments as they
pertained to CSEA’s membership in their dual roles of public
employees and private citizens.

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ALBANY — CSEA is embarking on the
mew year with a completely new
program to help union members improve
their performance on civil service
examinations critical to career
advancement in the public sector.

The comprehensive program involves
a multi-media approach to educational
services for all union members who
participate in civil service tests.

The first phase of the program moves
into place this month as booklets
designed in cooperation with the New
York State School of Industrial and
Labor Relations (NYSSILR), Cornell
University, become available in time for
the thousands of public employees

Official Publication of The Civil )
Service Employees Association

Local 1000, American
_ Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees AFl-ClO

Vol. 5, No. 6

Friday, December 31, 1982

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(ISSN 0164 9949),

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expected to be taking the Public \
Administration Transition Traineeship
(PATT) exam on February 26. (use
ordering coupon on page 19 to obtain
booklets).

While the five booklets in the series
are useful for all civil service exams,
CSEA Education Director Thomas
Quimby is expecting an initial demand
for the booklets from CSEA members
interested in preparing for the PATT
exam which can lead to career ladder
opportunities within state service.

Phase Two of the program moves into
place in the very near future when a
comprehensive, four-part video tape
program on civil service exam
preparation becomes available. CSEA’s
Communications Department is
exploring the possibility of airing the two
hours of exam programming over
educational television stations
throughout New York State.

Even if broadcasting of the programs
isn’t possible, the material will soon be
available through the union’s Education -
Department for large group instruction.

“CSEA members. depend upon civil

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By Tim Massie
CSEA Communications Associate

WHITE PLAINS — Employees of
Westchester County ended the old
year by reaching a tentative contract
which received the unanimous
backing of the CSEA unit’s
21-member negotiating committee.

If ratified by the rank and file, the
pact will give the 5,000-plus county
employees a 6.5 percent raise this
year, with a $800 minimum
guarantee, and another 6.5 percent in
1984. Moreover, eligible employees
would receive increments, too, and
longevity payments would go up $25 in
each step this year, and $50 in each
step next year.

Annual uniform allowances are also
improved, with deputy-sheriff-court
officers scheduled to receive $300,
while special attendants and nurses
aides at the Ruth Taylor Institute, and
nurses aides at the County Medical
Center, will be allocated $135,

“For the first time,’’ says
Collective Bargaining Specialist Ron
Mazzola, ‘‘the union has been able to
get funds into the tuition
reimbursement program.” It would
be maintained at a minimum level of
$50,000.

The tentative accord also provides
that employees hired before Jan. 1,
1981, will continue to receive health
insurance without making any
monetary contributions. Employees
hired after that date, who have since
contributed $25 monthly for family
coverage and $15 for individual
coverage, will get a reduction to $15
monthly for family, and $10 monthly

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rank and file

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TENTATIVE PACT — Westchester County’s negotiating committee reached a ten-

tative agreement which would provide a 6.5 percent salary increase, a tuition reim-
bursement program and several new benefits. Seated from left to right are CSEA

Douglas Mullen and Roni Mandel Schulman.

6.5% raise, $800 minimum guarantee -

for individual protection, beginning
Jan. 1, 1984.

Says Mazzola, ‘This is a strong
effort by the CSEA to get the county to
roll back a payment for new
employees. That’s a difficult thing to
accomplish today.” In a related
matter, there would be two increases
in the Employee Benefit Fund in 1984.
The current contribution of $210 would
go up to $245 on Jan. 1, and to $275 on
July 1.

The new agreement permits the
county to offer CSEA employees
payroll deductions for Individual
Retirement Accounts (IRA’s) and tax
sheltered annuities, once government
employees are allowed to do so by
law.

All personnel records would be
purged of any adverse and derogatory
material that has been in a file for
over three years. Also, failure to
notify employees of such material

FRANK DISCUSSION — Region III President Ray O’Connor, left, talks
over the tentative accord with Westchester County Unit President Jack

Whalen.

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31.1982...

CHECKING FACTS —
From left, members Ber-
nice Burton, Mary
Williams, Ellen Cleveland
and Mary Naylor Boyd
study the proposed con-
tract which is now await-
ing approval of the rank-
and-file membership.

Collective Bargaining Specialist Ron Mazzola, Jerry Barbour, Roger Williams,

being placed in a file would be
immediate cause for its removal,
once found by the employee to be in
his or her file.

There is also protection for the take-
over of county facilities by any
employers. Under the proposed
contract, unit employees would be
offered substitute employment
primarily by the new employer in the
same or similar capacity. Mazzola
says this would ‘ensure the county
will undertake its best efforts to seek
employment in the county for
qualified employees affected by such
a take-over. If none is found, those
employees would be placed on a
preferential hiring list.”

Layoffs would be in the inverse
order of seniority in the
noncompetitive and labor classes.
For the first time, lifeguards in
Westchester would also receive this
protection.

The year 1984 would also start a
trial period for a new disciplinary
procedure which will allow CSEA
employees to go to arbitration for
penalties other than termination.
Says Mazzola, ‘This will be an
expedited procedure to speed up a
process that used to take up to two
years. That time period will be cut
down to a few months.”’ Terminations
will continue to be dealt with under
Sectjon 75 of the Civil Service Law.

Westchester County Unit President
Jack Whalen calls the agreement ‘‘an
outstanding contract that achieves

many non-economic benefits as well °

as economic advances. “It’s a well-
balanced document.”

Whalen credits the work of the
unit’s 2l-member negotiating team,
chaired by Mary Naylor-Boyd. He
adds the team unanimously
recommends a yes vote by the
membership. Whalen says Collective
Bargaining Specialist Mazzola
“deserves to be commended for an
outstanding job.” He also says the
final agreement was worked out
thanks to the mediation efforts of
Martin Scheinman.

A summary fact sheet of the
memorandum of agreement will be
mailed out with the ballots to the unit
membership with a business reply
envelope. All ballots must be received
at P.O. Box 2005, Elmsford, New
York; 10523 by 6'\p.ri. Friday, January
21, 1983. Counting of ballots will begin
Monday, January 24.

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LOCKPORT HOSPITAL CONTRACT SIGNED — Lockport Memorial Hospital CSEA Unit President
Frank LaSpada, right, signs new 3-year agreement as Hospital Personnel Director Gerard Sivta, left,
awaits his turn. Standing are union negotiating committee member Cathy Winters and CSEA Field

Representative Thomas Christy.

Lockport unit pens 3-year pact;

unique health option included

LOCKPORT — The Lockport Memorial
Hospital Unit of CSEA Niagara County Local 832
has reached agreement on a three-year contract
that boosts wages by 8 percent in each year.

Two medical insurance plans will be available, -

with employees able to choose between a $1 co-
pay prescription plan or a vision care plan, in
addition to Blue Cross-Blue Shield 50-51, dental
insurance and $100 deductible Major Medical
coverage. :

A unique element of the pact will allow
employees who are covered under a better
health insurance plan, to withdraw from the
hospital’s health insurance plan and be
compensated in additional hourly wages.

Maximum additional compensation will
increase from 30 cents per hour in the first year

to 39 cents per hour in the second year, peaking
at 45 cents per hour in the third year of the
agreement.

Employees not covered by the group
presecription plan may purchase prescription
drugs through the hospital pharmacy at
considerable savings.

Other benefits gained for the 150-member unit
include improvements in contract language
regarding sick leave, retirement, grievance
procedures, holiday and vacation leave.

Thomas B. Christy, CSEA field representative,
was joined in negotiations by committee
members Cathy Winters, Mary Porth, Denise
Biles, Marion Clute and Frank LaSpada, unit
president.

department.

| in place of overtime pay.

| The decision means Timothy Smith, Robert Werth, William Frear,
Norman Simons and Richard Schutt will receive back pay equal to time-
and-one-half for each Saturday, and double time for each Sunday worked |

since the villages’s unilateral action in May.

Arbitrator Robert Stevens, in supporting the CSEA members’ |
argument, said the village did not have the right to vary the basic work
week, nor was an amendment to that effect agreed to by the parties.

The village is bound to maintain the basic work week of 40 hours |
Monday through Friday unless a change is negotiated and agreed upon in

subsequent contract talks.

The arbitrator’s decision further stated that though ‘‘the village's
motivation in changing the work schedule was based on economics, this
does not relieve it of the obligation to negotiate changes in the terms and }

conditions of employment with the union.”

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reinstate the normal work week and make restitution for lost overtime to
five CSEA members employed in the village’s Water and Sewer

A Rochester arbitrator found the village in violation of its collective
bargaining agreement with the unit of Livingston County Local 826 when

DANSVILLE — The Village of Dansville has been directed to
it eliminated scheduled overtime and substituted compensatory time off
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‘members to elect
new board rep.

ALBANY — CSEA members working for the
New York State Department of Health will be
electing a new representative to the union’s
statewide Board of Directors to complete the
term of Board Representative Genevieve Clark
Hi recently retired. The term expires June 30,
1 S

CSEA’s Statewide Elections Procedures Com-
mittee will administer the election process which
begins with nominations by the Statewide
Nominating Committee. Any State Health
Department employee who has been a CSHA
member in good standing for one year may apply
for nomination by submitting an application for
nomination to the committee by no later than the
close of business on January 5, 1983.

Nomination applications may be obtained by
calling CSEA Headquarters, 518-434-0191, Exten-
sion 452 or Health Dept. Local presidents.

The Nominating Committee will meet on
January 6 to consider the applications and an-
nounce its nominees. In view of the limited time
available to conduct the election, those
nominated by the committee will be contacted by
telephone and mailgram by January 8. Any
members interested in running for this office
who are not nominated by the committee, may
still be placed on the official ballot by qualifying
through submitting 316 signatures of members in
good standing eligible to vote in the election no
ee than the close of business on January 24,

Signatures must be on an official nominating
petition form obtainable from any Health
Department Local President, or from CSEA
Pearess at the telephone number listed
above.

The Statework Elections Procedure Commit-
tee will draw for ballot placement in the

presence of the candidates or their represen-
tatives on January 26, 1983.

Official ballots will be mailed to eligible
members on January 29, 1983. An announcement
of the full list of candidates will be published in
the January 28 edition of The Public Sector.

Members who have not received their ballots
by February 7 may obtain a replacement ballot
by calling CSEA Headquarters (518-434-0191,
Ext. 452) on February 7.

To be counted, all ballots must be received by
CSEA no later than the close of business on
February 22, 1983. Ballots will be counted the
following day by the Election Procedures Com-
mittee in the presence of candidates or their
observers. Results will’ be announced in the
February 25 edition of The Public Sector.

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LABOR SIGNS EAP PACT — Jeanne Lyons, Labor Department Local 670
president, left, signs an Employee Assistance Program contract wi
Roberts, Labor Commissioner, right.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982

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Home energy audits,
loans now available

The New York State Public Service Commission has
announced if you’re a homeowner or renter in a one to
four family home, you are eligible for a free home energy
audit. A special low-interest home energy improvement
loan is also available regardless of your income.

Under the Public Service Commission-sponsored
“SAVINGPOWER”’ program, PSC officials say it is
possible for eligible homeowners and renters to save up
to 30 percent on their energy costs.

PSC officials note that the low-interest loans range
from $200 to $2,500 for a one-family home and up to $4,500
for a four-family home, depending on the projects involv-
ed. Energy improvement projects are also eligible for a
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Edison Company of New York, Inc., Long Island
Lighting Company, National Fuel Gas Distribution Cor-
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Corporation.

To get your free home energy audit, fill out the form
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At
Suffolk
Local 852:

STONY BROOK — Local 852 held a mini-
convention last month, not in its office in
Holtsville, but at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook.

The reason — the large agenda and conve-
nience for the local’s 7,000 members.

The convention, held on Nov. 20 at the SUNY
at Stony Brook Student Union auditorium, in-
cluded workshops on CSEA resources, civil
service law, workers’ compensation, pre-
retirement planning, grievance procedures
for counties and towns, how to run an effective
union meeting and election procedures.

In addition to Suffolk Local President
Charles Novo and Shirley Germain, Local 852
executive vice president, speakers included
Kris Paschon, assistant to the personnel of-
ficer of Suffolk County, who spoke on civil ser-

A multi-workshop mini-convention

WORKSHOP SPEAKERS at
, Local 852’s mini-convention held
last month included Kris
Paschon, left, and Evan Wilson,
above.

vice law, Al Court, a retirement counselor,
who discussed planning for retirement; Irwin
Scharfeld and James Walters, Region I field
representatives, who spoke on grievance pro-
cedures; Greg Szurnicki, chairman of the
Election Procedures Committee, who discuss-
ed election procedures; and Celeste
Rosenkrantz, the CSEA parliamentarian, who
talked about how to run an effective union
meeting.

Also attending the meeting were Peg
Wilson, of the CSEA Headquarters’ training
staff, and Attorney Daniel Levidow, who
discussed workers’ compensation, as well as
representatives of insurance firms and Blue
Cross and Blue Shield.

Novo said the local plans to hold more mini-
conventions in the future during weekday
evenings.

McDonough back
on the job

ALBANY — CSEA statewide Executive Vice
President Thomas H. McDonough, who was
hospitalized for an extensive period of time
earlier this year and who spent much of the past
few months recuperating at home, has returned
to his office on a part-time basis and expects to
resume full-time work in the near future.

McDonough, shown at left in his office last
week, said he is feeling very good and looks for-
ward to resumption of his full-time activities on
behalf of the membership.

Region Vi conference slated for Jan. 21, 22

BUFFALO — The Region VI Winter Con-
ference will be held in Rochester at the Mar-
riott Hotel on W. Henrietta Rd., on Friday and
Saturday, Jan. 21 and 22.

Region President Robert L. ee said

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surance presentation for state and county
workshops on Friday evening.

Region attorney Ron Jaros and staff will
present a seminar on civil service law on
Saturday morning, with the conference con-
cluding following the ger i

Local 845's
fight to
avert
layoffs
starting to
pay off

CSEA RESOLUTION PROPOSED TO ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY — Richard Reno, center, president of
St. Lawrence County CSEA Local 845, discussed several options in a job-saving proposal with Donald 0.
Bixby, right, county legislator, while Steve Ragan, CSEA field representative, listens. Reno and other

Local 845 officers lead a large group of CS9EA members who attended a recent legislative session that ended
with a county plan to restore some positions slated to be cut in the 1983 county budget.

CANTON — An eleventh hour vote by the St. Lawrence County Legislature
has apparently restored a number of positions previously cut from the 1983
budget.

The job-saving decision followed the reading of approximately 15 resolu-
tions at the December legislative session attended by nearly 200 members of
CSEA Local 845 and their families.

The original 1983 budget proposed the elimination of 22 positions, including
two deputy sheriffs not represented by CSEA.

Ina calculated move to avert as many layoffs as possible, Richard Reno,
president of CSEA Local 845 St. Lawrence County, called several emergency
meetings of his Board of Directors and members of the Local. Reno, with the
approval of his officers and Board, directed a resolution be drafted and
presented to the County Legislature. the proposal suggested several ways to
save jobs by the reallocation of funds until the respective Legislative Commit-
tees could issue a department by department report at the regular meeting in
February.

WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO President Lane

the subcommittee ‘“‘reconfirms” that support. He

Although the final decision was not made regarding some positions, by an
overwhelming margin the county legislators did vote to restore seven jobs. It is
also expected that six other employees will be transferred to another county
department.

To add further impact to the mass turnout of. CSEA members at the
legislative session, Local 845 officials had planned an informational picketing
of the meeting. However, it was postponed when members of the legislature in-
dicated they would consider a reallocation of funds to prevent some layoffs.

In an open letter to county employees represented by CSEA, Local 845 of-
ficers pledged to continue the fight to save as many jobs as possible before the
Legislature meets in February.

According to Richard Reno, county employees can expect a progress
report on the effort to save other proposed layoffs.

“We hope to update the members with another newsletter, or general
meeting, or perhaps both,” Reno said.

AFL-CIO chief urges stiff corruption laws=—_—__

individual who has over the years been a colleague

_ Kirkland reiterated the federation’s support for a
Senate-passed bill that would toughen penalties
against corrupt union officials and urged House
approval before Congress adjourns.

Kirkland’s statement to the House Labor-
Management subcommittee endorsed the
legislation as advancing “‘both the public interest
and the best interests of the trade union
movement.”’

A union official who takes an employer payoff or
pilfers from a pension fund or union treasury
betrays the workers he represents and dishonors
the labor movement, Kirkland said.

In a letter to Subcommittee Chairman Phillip
Burton (D-Calif.), Kirkland noted that the AFL-CIO
has repeatedly sought House action on the bill the
Senate passed last summer, and its statement to

urged quick subcommittee and committee
approval so that the measure could be brought to
the House floor before adjournment.

The Senate bill would upgrade employer payoffs
to a union representative from a misdemeanor to a
felony on the part of both parties if the sum involved
is $1,000 or more, and would enlarge the list of
offenses that result in disqualification from union
or benefit fund positions.

It would also make disqualification from office
effective on conviction, rather than only after
appeals have been denied, the period of
disqualification would be lengthened from the
present five years to at least five and up to 10 years.

Kirkland said the provision for removal from
office before an appeal has been decided is cause
for concern. “It is not a small matter for an

in arms and who continues to maintain his
innocence to be turned out of his position,”
Kirkland noted.

Yet the reality is that a court verdict after trial
that the defendant is guilty of a crime involving a
breach of trust “tilts the balance against the
presumption of innocence.”

He welcomed the provision of the bill requiring
that a convicted defendant’s salary be put in escrow
and paid if the appeal succeeds.

The disqualification from office, Kirkland
acknowledged, imposed heavier burdens on union
officials than on offenders in other types of work.

The AFL-CIO does not object to that, Kirkland
said. ‘Union office is a calling, not a business. The
morals of the marketplace will not suffice,” he
stressed.

the Supreme Court has ruled.

set up by a corporation.

Committee, may solicit only members.

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WASHINGTON — The National Right to Work Committee violated
federal election law by the manner in which it solicited funds to help elect
congressional or presidential candidates who want to outlaw the union shop,

The court’s unanimous decision backed the position taken by the
Federal Election Commission and supported by the AFL-CIO in a brief.

At issue was whether everyone on the Right to Work Committee’s
mailing list was a “‘member’’ of the organization who, under the Federal
Election Campaign Act, could be solicited for a political action committee

Corporations and unions can’t make contributions to federal political
campaigns. But business corporations may solicit stockholders and
executive or administrative employees, and unions may solicit members,
for a separately administered political action committee.

Non-stock corporations, a vategory which includes the Right to Work

The Supreme Court said the membership cards the National Right to
Work Committee sent to anyone who contributed to the organization or even
expressed a sympathetic view did not make them members in the sense _
intended by Congress. The supposed members; ‘play no,pant in the. i

Supreme Court downs campaign scheme

or administration” of the National Right to Work Committee, the Supreme

Court noted. ie te:

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‘Those “members” elect no officials, ‘‘and indeed there are apparently
no membership meetings.” Nor do they ‘exercise any control over the
eir contributions,” Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote in
‘t's decision.

The Supreme Court action overturned a 1981 decision by the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which held that a flexible
interpretation of the term ‘‘member” was needed to meet constitutional
tests on protected political expression. oo

If the appellate court’s view had prevailed, the AFL-CIO noted in its
brief, non-stock incorporated organizations would be able to use their funds
to solicit political contributions beyond the boundaries set by Congress for
unions and business firms covered by the law.

A federal district court, acting on the complaint brought by the Federal
Election Commission, had levied a $10,000 civil fine for the Right to Work

Commenting on the case, AFL-CIO Special Counsel Laurence Gold
noted the frequency with which the National Right to Work Committee has
filed charges, “usually groundless,” against other organizations for federal
violations. Now it has been found to be the Jawbreaker, he said.

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982

Suffolk contract hailed
as ‘one of the best ever’

Members’ refusal to give
in to pressure tactics
cited as key factor in

lucrative settlement

HAUPPAUGE — Local 852’s record breaking $49
million tentative settlement in mid-December
came about as the result of the determined backing
of their union by CSEA members, according to
Charles Novo, Local 852 president.

Novo said that the strategy of the Suffolk County
negotiator, Jack Farneti, was “to wear us down by
deliberately delaying negotiations and throwing up
road blocks to productive talks. He figured that our
membership would become frustrated and buckle
to pressure to accept a low offer.”

Another supposed result of the strategy was that
members would become unhappy with their union
and would become disspirited and easy to handle,
Novo said.

“Their strategy backfired,” Novo said. “Our
members were incensed by such arrogant
treatment and closed ranks as never before.”’

Novo said CSEA had been prepared to go to
legislative hearing and had made plans to lobby the
individual members of the Suffolk Legislature.
When the county realized that CEA wouldn’t
buckle, they settled quickly, Novo said.

“To his credit, County Executive Peter Cohalan
realized that we have been hurt by inflation in the
past years and were suffering from inequities
contained in past contracts. His settlement offer to
us is fair and equitable,”’ Novo said.

CSEA leaders held little hope for a negotiated
settlement as they went into what was expected to
be a final attempt to settle the contract on the
afternoon of Dec. 15. Both sides believed that the
fact-finder’s report, which was expected to be

NEGOTIATING TEAM — Pictured at a negotiating session in Suffolk County are, from left to right,
CSEA Chief Negotiator George Peak; Suffolk Local President Charles Novo; Field Representative Ir-
win Scharfeld; Suffolk County Local Executive Vice President Shirley Germain; Region I President
Danny Donohue; CSEA President William McGowan; CSEA Attorney James Roemer; and Region I

Director William Griffin.

issued imminently, would be rejected by one side or
the other and that the negotiations would wind up in
the Suffolk Legislature.

At the request of Novo, the final session was set
up by CSEA attorney, James Roemer, CSEA
President William McGowan’s personal envoy to
the talks, and Region I President Danny Donohue.
The Dec. 15 meeting was seen as an attempt to
bring both sides together for one last try to settle
the contract through negotiations. This time, in
addition to the CSEA contingent, John Gallagher,
chief deputy county executive, and Deputy County
Executive Frank Jones joined Farneti and his team
at the negotiations,

While chief CSEA negotiator, George Peak, a

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said.

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Ser We got what we wanted’

“We got essentially what we told the county we wanted six
months ago,” said George. Peak, collective bargaining
specialist, who headed the Local 852 negotiating team.

“In July, the county asked us for our final bargaining posi-
tion. I warned the county negotiator, Jack Farneti, that if we
gave him our final position, we wouldn’t move off it,’ Peak.

“The negotiating team and Charlie Novo caucused and
decided the CSFA demands. What they decided that

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day turned out to be the final settlement,’’ Peak
said,
“The negotiating team was great. They sup-
plied us with invaluable information,
and stuck together when the pres-
sure on them to crumble was in-
tense. They deserve all the
praise we can give them,”
Peak said.

GEORGE
PEAK

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982

collective bargaining specialist, CSEA Field
Representative Irwin Scharfeld, Novo and Local
852 Executive Vice President Shirley Germain and
Farneti began the now familiar routine of proposal
and counter-proposal, it soon became clear to
everyone that the county had a new attitude.
Donohue and Roemer attribute the change in the
county position to John Gallagher and Frank Jones,
who had been sent in to the talks by Cohalan to see if
they could reach agreement without a “third-party
settlement.” Cohalan is reportedly proud of his
record of always being able to negotiate union
settlements, and CSEA threatened-to upset that
record, :

The proposed contract calls for a 7 percent lump
sum payment for 1982; a 14 percent salary increase
fo 1983, and salary increases of 8 percent for 1984
and 1985.

In addition, the incremental step system has been
consolidated from 12 to eight steps, and the
approximately 47 percent of employees who are
eligible will receive step increases — which are
worth approximately 4.5 percent of annual salary
— on April and October of 1983, 1984. and 1985.

When increments are added to salaries, eligible
employees will receive raises of 23 percent in 1983,
17 percent in 1984 and 17 percent in 1985.

CSEA leaders hailed the contract as one of the
best ever negotiated in Suffolk County. The Daily
News led its story with, “Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry
Christmas Employees of Suffolk County.”

The tentative agreement was accepted by the
negotiating team, which includes: from the white
collar bargaining unit, John Bredemeyer, Roberta
Crater, Mark Dawkins, Bernice DeGennaro,
William Gardner and James Piersanti: from the
blue collar bargaining unit, Donald Gallerani,
Joseph Grispino, Robert Maletta and Dolores
Rossiter.

The agreement was also approved by the unit
presidents. On Dec. 27, copies of the memorandum
of agreement and ratification ballot were mailed to
all members. Ballots will be returned and counted
on Jan. 10 and the contract, if ratified, will be
presented to the Suffolk Legislature in January,

SEA leaders said.

Hearings scheduled on Staten Island DC
contracting-out grievance against OMRDD

NEW YORK CITY — The American Arbitration Association has scheduled
three hearings on the contracting-out grievance filed by Staten Island
Developmental Center (SIDC) Local 429 against the Office of Mental Retarda-
tion and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD).

The grievance seeks to regain with full back pay and benefits the jobs of
employees recently reduced in pay and grade or laid off from OMRDD and Of-
fice of Mental Health facilities and to allow employees who exercised their
bumping rights to return to their original job locations. The arbitration hear-
ings are set for Jan. 19, Feb. 2 and March 8.

The grievance, filed by SIDC Local 429 President John Jackson, notes
“QMRDD has allowed, aided and encouraged private agencies to create
parallel institutions” for the care of mentally retarded patients formerly hous-
ed at SIDC. The grievance cites Article 22 of collective bargaining agreements

Irish workers support

Nassau Local 830 leaders met recently with Gerard McKiernan, left, an officer
of the Association of Technical and Managerial Staffs Union in Dublin to
discuss the plight of “oppressed nationalistic workers of Northern Ireland.”
With McKiernan were, Local 830 First Vice President Rita Wallace, Local 830
President Jerry Donahue and Nassau County Comptroller Peter King. McKier-
nan was one of a group of Irish trade unionists who visited American unions to
inform them about the labor situation in Ireland.

between CSEA and the state which protects permanent employees from losing
their jobs or suffering reductions in pay as a result of the state’s contracting
out for goods and services.

“Tf the state hadn’t shifted patients to private agencies,” Jackson charges,
“there would have been no need to lay off any employees and there would not
have been the disruption in staffing, and as a result disruption in patient care,
that’s going on in developmental and psychiatric centers.”

While confident that CSEA’s case will fare well in arbitration, Jackson
recognizes the frustration felt by those CSEA members laid off, reduced in
grade and pay or forced to change job locations.

“We're fighting as hard as we can to set things right,” he says. “Unfor-
tunately, it will take several more months.”

Brotherhood Committee
launches scholarship
for handicapped children
of public employees

The Brotherhood Committee of the State of New York has announced
it is sponsoring a yearly scholarship of $500 to the handicapped child of
any permanent New York State public employee.

Called the Esperanza Manger Scholarship Award, it will be
presented to a qualified student who has been accepted to the freshman
class of any college or university for fall 1983.

The applicant must fall under the federal guidelines for the definition
of handicapped, must have a good scholastic record and must
demonstrate a regard for brotherhood.

Applications are available on request from Mae Duncan, Department
of Labor, 238 W. 35th St., New York, N.Y. 10001; or Edith Weingarten,
Department of Labor, Employment Unit, 73rd Floor, 2 World Trade
Center, New York, N.Y. 10047.

CSEA REGIONAL OFFICES

LONG ISLAND REGION |
Hauppauge Atrium Building

300 Vanderbilt Motor Pkwy.
Hauppauge, N.Y. 11788

(516) 273-2280

(516) 435-0962

CAPITAL REGION IV
1215 Western Avenue
Albany, N.Y. 12203

(518) 489-5424

METROPOLITAN

REGION Il

100 Church St.

Room 1620

New York, N.Y. 10007
(212) 587-8200

SOUTHERN REGION Il
Rural Route 1

Box 34

Old Route 9

Fishkill, N.Y. 12524

(914) 896-8180

CENTRAL REGION V
Suite 308

290 Elwood David Road
Liverpool, N.Y. 13088

(315) 451-6330

WESTERN REGION VI
Cambridge Square

4245 Union Road
Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14225
(716) 634-3540

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timer, right.

John Eiss new 3rd VP

JOHN EISS, above, newly elected Western
Region third vice president, is administered
oath of office by Region President Robert Lat-

BUFFALO — John Eiss, president
of Erie County CSEA Local 815, has
been elected third vice president of
Region VI, filling a vacancy created
by promotions due to the recent
retirement of the region’s former first
vice president, Genevieve Clark.

The six-year local president
continues to serve on the CSEA
Statewide Special Audit Committee
and the Special Task Force on Local
Government Contracts. He has also
served on the Region VI Political
Action Committee.

Eiss was elected by the region’s
local presidents. Robert L. Smith of
SUNY Local 602 was elevated to
region first vice president, while
Gerald Prince, also of Local 815,
assumes the region’s second vice
presidency.

On assuming region office, Eiss
expressed a hope to serve ‘‘by helping
to facilitate regional inter-local
communications.”

NEWS ITEM: AFSCME
unveils details of a $23
billion jobs creation pro-
gram it says will put 1.5
million people back to
9 | work. “We have massive
unemployment and its
cause is a massive
mismanagement of the
economy by the nation’s
political leadership,”
says AFSCME President
Gerald W. McEntee in
asking federal adoption
of the union program to
combat double digit
unemployment.

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STATE
OF THE
UNION

TAT

McGowan hails

Provides 32% salary hike over 3 years;
new agreement ‘best ever’

A frank

discussion
Coy CSEA

President

Bill McGowan
(see page $)

Fur

it began with a new Inter-
national president at the
helm of AFSCME and ended
with a new, union-backed,

governor ready to take over
the leadership of New York
State. In between, 1982 went

oughs? NE

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into the history book as one
of the most active, exciting,
successful and controversial
years in the long history of
CSEA.

The new year began with
Gerald McEntee from Penn-
sylvania as the new AFSCME
International president, suc-
ceeding the late Jerry Wurf,
who died the previous
December 10th. By the time
February rolled around,
CSEA had reached agree-
ment on new contracts
covering nearly 110,000
state employees. And in
March the union made its
first-ever endorsement of a
candidate for governor,
becoming the first major
labor union to endorse Mar!
Cuomo. A battle over Tier
raged throughout the sum-
mer months, and in August
the character of the union
changed with a decision to
organize certain types of
private sector employees for
the first time. The union cam-
paign to elect Mario Cuomo
as governor of New York
State occupied a great deal
of time, energy and person-
nel for several months in
1982, resulting in victory in
November at the polls. As
1982 wound down, a pro-
posal that would have
severely altered the struc-
ture of the statewide Board
of Directors was rejected,
and the year ended with the
union working feverishly to
protect its positions from
harm during a special ses-
sion of the state legislature
called to deal with serious
state financial problems.

On the following pages we
review these and other
events of 1982 that affected
CSEA, its members, and the
general public to varying

degrees.
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@ Tough-talking Gerald W. McEntee,
executive director of AFSCME Council
13 of Pennsylvania state employees,
takes over the leadership of AFSCME
International, succeeding the late Jerry
Wurt. In his first major policy statement,
McEntee pledges to continue the fight
for the same goals as before, and
promised effective bargaining and
aggressive organizing will be a hallmark
of his administration.

@® The Department of Labor
announced a new wave of layoffs
resulting from federal budget cuts, and
officials responded with a series

igh-level meetings with government
officials in an effort to head off the
proposal.

@ The huge 14,000-member Nassau
County Local 830 approved a new 3-year
contract. Q

@ Union efforts through legislativ
action saved 53 jobs originally slated to
be eliminated in Saratoga County.

@ CSEA Local 690 member Kristin L.
Bliven, a senior data entry machine
operator in Taxation and Finance, wins a
state employee suggestion award of
$7,360.

@ CSEA President Bill McGowan
pledged a total war against a proposal in
the state legislature to furlough state
employees due to financial problems.

@ CSEA depicted as one of the top
powers that determines how New York
State government is run in a Gannett
News Service in-depth series of articles
\ concerning the Empire State.

@ Gov. Hugh L. Carey announces he
will not seek re-election, and CSEA says
that won’t affect the on-going contract
talks on behalf of 107,000 state workers
then in progress.

@ Nearly 200 CSEA-represented
workers at three correctional facil Ss
cleared following union action in
hearings relative to a 1979 job action by
correction officers.

@ Joseph Conway named chairman
of an ad hoc Committee on the Federal
Budget by CSEA President Bill McGowan
to work with congressional
representatives on federal budget
problems affecting New York State.

@ Agreement reached on new state-
CSEA contract providing 32% salary
hike over 3 years to 107,000 state
workers; hailed as “best ever” contract.

@ An overwhelming 98 percent of
state employees responding to a CSEA
poll rejected the concept of furloughs as
a way to fight state budget problems.

@ Wayne County deputies, CSEA
members, cited for outstanding action
during nuclear spill emergency at Ginna

\ nuclear Power Plant.

@ CSEA endorses Lt.

Gov. Mario
Cuomo for governor. Union breaks
tradition to become first major labor
union to back the Cuomo campaign.

@ Otsego County highway employee
Stephen Page called hero after he
swerved his truck to avoid a head on
collision with an oncoming car, then
treated the injured driver.

@ CSEA and AFSCME jointly
sponsoring statewide television
commercials, using CSEA members as
examples, to promote importance of
public employees.

@® Union fires up political action
program to fight state legislature over
severe budget issues.

@ CSEA members in Malone lauded
for helping prevent potential disaster
after fuel tank leak.

@ Union opens campaign on behalf of
Mario Cuomo as democratic candidate
for governor with series of ads.

@ CSEA wins class action lawsuit
holding the state cannot deduct wage
penalties for job actions after time
outlined in Civil Service Law.

@ Right of probational employees to
due process upheld by State Supreme
Court in CSEA lawsuit at Kingsboro

\ Psychiatric Center.

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982

Contracting, out i
; -Out is
out in Poughkeepsie

‘Lt. Governor primary Pick

Cuomo endorsed

@ Union dumps 43,000 postcard
survey responses from members on
desks of State legislators to show
staunch opposition to proposal to
furlough state workers due to budget
crunch.

@ Seniority as a basis for promotions
upheld by PERB after CSEA files
grievance on behalf of East Hampton
employees discriminated against over@
promotions.

e@ Thirty-two state Correctional
Department employees promoted into
transitional jobs as a result of inroads
made in the Clerical and Secretarial
Employees Advancement Program
(CSEAIP).

@ CSEA opens battle to put an end to
controversial Tier Ill retirement system.

@ CSEA President McGowan calls
proposed Federal Budget “fiscally
foolish” during Governor’s Task Force@
hearings on the Federal Budget in
Albany.

@ CSEA President McGowan joins
with other members of President's
Committee on Mental Retardation,
appointed by former President Jimmy
Carter, with public denouncement of
President Ronald Reagan for abolishing
the committee.

@ State employees ratify new three-
year contract by whopping 19-1 margin:
agreements hailed as best eve
(negotiated in the state.

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@ CSEA employees lead huge rally at
Stony Brook SUNY to protest proposed
cuts in federal aid to higher education.

@ CSEA unveils an innovative Labor
Institute, first of its kind in New York
State. A series of professional seminars
and electives under the program are
designed to develop union activists.

® State Delegates Workshop at

wacuse draws over 500 concerned,

dicated members to discuss, debate
and determine key issues affecting the
membership.

@ CSEA opens another campaign to
support the Special Olympics. Labor
Department Local 670 in Albany alone
raises $2,700 for cause with a run-a-
thon program.

@ List of 223 delegates, elected by
members, named to represent CSEA at
AFSCME Biennial Convention in June.

@ CSEA wins important PERB

ecision to halt contracting out by City
of Poughkeepsie.

@ Union launches a major fight to
prevent the state from moving the
offices of Workers’ Compensation Board
from Manhattan to Queens.

@ Suffolk County Department of
Social Services security guards get
special upgraded training, thanks to
union negotiations, after security
problems cause alarm.

@ State Legislature finally passes
pay bills which allow retro raises for
107,000 CSEA-represented workers.

@® Poughkeepsie employees unity
after city imposed a flat fee in lieu of pay
raise credited with getting talks
reopened and a much larger raise
agreed to.

® Union members pour into Albany to
lobby legislators to repeal the state’s
controversial Tier Ill retirement system.

@® Mario Cuomo opens upstate
campaign headquarters next door to
CSEA’s statewide headquarters, and
many key volunteers manning the new
@peration are CSEA members and staff.

®@ Eighteen college-bound children of
CSEA members named to receive CSEA
Scholarship Awards.

@ Union rejects governor’s plan to
turn portions of several mental hygiene
facilities into prisons; lawsuits promised
by union to halt conversions.

@ Bill McGowan re-elected president
of CSEA. Tom McDonough re-elected
executive vice president; Irene Carr re-
elected statewide secretary; and

@ One of hardest fights ever fought
by union falls short as legislators vote to
extend Tier Ill pension program again.
CSEA President Bill McGowan charged
legi tors were “more concerned with
expediency than . . . with justice,” and
said individual legislators can expect
reaction from members in November
election.

@ CSEA’s Betty Kurtik elected as a
member of National Executive Board of
the Coalition of Labor Union Women
({CLUW).

@ CSEA members join thousands of
other unionists for large rally in Albany
seeking more jobs for unemployed.

@ While various local and unit
contracts continue to be settled around
the state, talks for Niagara County
employees have reached the legislative
hearing stages, and members have
conducted large public rallies to protest
county’s position.

@ Likelihood of a payroll “lag” system
for state workers announced as state’s
fiscal picture worsens.

@ Mental Hygiene employees rally at
several locations across state in
opposition to prison conversion plans.

@ CSEA wins important court ruling
to correct an inequity affecting public
workers absent from work because of

\on-the-job injuries.

@ Nine-member Local Government
Contract Task Force appointed to
devise statewide program to apply “the
same maximum effort to negotiations in
local government that we have to
negotiations with the State of New
York.”

_ @ Declaring that “the focus for equal
rights for women is shifting from the
legislative arena to the worksite,”
AFSCME President Gerald McEntee
pledged that his union will step up
efforts to pressure public sector
employers into examining the relative
wages of women workers based on
comparable worth and pay equity. He
noted that CSEA obtained an agreement
with New York State to provide funds for
a study on wage discrimination.

@ Voter registration drives spring
into action all across the state under
direction of CSEA Locals and regions.

@ Niagara County imposes contract
upon CSEA Local 832 after 14 months of
tough bargaining fails. Imposed pact
labeled “shameful”, unconscionable and
union-busting”.

Public
SeeCror
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@ CSEA announces it has withdrawn
a major October convention from
Niagara Falls and rescheduled it for
Buffalo, in response to an imposed
settlement Niagara County forced on
union members.

@ CSEA and AFSCME combine to
conduct statewide campaign to
convince New York Congressmen to
oppose President Reagan’s balanced
budget amendment. CSEA President
McGowan says the proposal would cost
the state billions in federal aid and “gut
ices in this state.”
ing rainstorm failed to
dampen spirits of member of CSEA
Rome Developmental Center members
protesting plans to layoff employees
there.

@® CSEA, meanwhile, announced it
had managed to get an agreement that
no jobs would be lost in the transfer of
some units of Central Islip Psychiatric
Center to nearby Kings Park and Pilgrim
Psychiatric Centers.

@-Mario Cuomo wins Democratic
primary for governor, and CSEA, along
with certain other large labor
organizations takes credit for delivering
the volunteers, resources and votes to
pull off the major upset victory.

@ CSEA reaches agreement with the
State Office of General Services on a
five-point program to help increase
public and employee security at the
massive Empire State Plaza complex in
Albany.

@ Deputy Director of Manhattan
Psychiatric Center resigns under

extreme pressure from CSEA members

@arbara Fauser elected new lca,

treasurer. uD”, \ angered by administrative attitudes. ay,

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982 Page 11

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© Suffolk County members stage
massive protest rally to demonstrate
unrest and dissatisfaction over
negotiations delays.

@® Union charges Westchester
Medical Center can definitely be
hazardous to your health if you work
there; demands that corrective
actions be taken to repair unhealthy
working conditions.

@ CSEA’s unique Labor Institute
hosts an open house to familiarize
union leaders with program’s
potential.

@® The 1980 “cover-in” legislation
for employees in the Unified Court
System is upheld as constitutional by
the New York Supreme Court in
Queens.

@ City of Auburn workers turn out

in large numbers to protest the city
rejecting a tentative agreement that
the membership had already
approved.
' @® CSEA Atty. Marjorie Karowe
delivers testimony on behalf of CSEA
President William L. McGowan on the
merits of comparable worth before a
joint hearing of U.S. House of
Representatives subcommittees in
Washington.

@ Middle Country School Board
scrapes plans to contract out
custodial work and agrees to hire
additional employees after union
leadership and members apply
pressure.

@ CSEA wins bargaining rights for
civilian workers in military and naval
affairs division.

@ More than 3,000 members and
CSEA delegates, paying $20 apiece,
turn out for huge rally for
gubernatorial candidate Mario Cuomo
in Buffalo.

@ “Dogged efforts’ by CSEA
credited with winning statewide
upgrading for nursing station
Ncatlendants:

y, December 31

@ CSEA’s first venture into
gubernatorial politics turned to
success as Lt. Gov. Mario M. Cuomo
set the p ical experts on their ear
by comp ing an uphill fight to
become the next governor of New
York State.

® Union toughens stance in
opposition to state plans to convert
some mental hygiene facilities into
prisons. Union leadership calls for
coordinated political action by union,
community and civic opposition.

@ The Cattaraugus County
Department of Social Services office
was indeed a dangerous place to work
as a large section of ceiling crashed to
the floor. Fortunately, no one was
injured, but union had complained for
some time about unsafe and
unhealthy working conditions there.

@ Automatic payroll deductions for
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA)
now an option for state di
members.

@ CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene
Carr honored for her union activism by
the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

@ Continuing problems with the
United Way positions on labor leads
CSEA to warn the situation could
cause labor to withdraw support in
certain instances.

@ Agreement reached between
State and several labor unions, under
which employees will be required to
pay a portion of premiums for
statewide health insurance plans.

@ CSEA recorded an amazing 92%
success record in electing its
endorsed candidates for the State
Legislature.

@ A special CSEA task force
mounts stiff opposition to an Oneida
County plan that would slash 40

ion

} NG Social Services jobs.

1982

S

A MAGNIFICENT
YEAR IN REVIEW

@ CSEA Delegates, meeting in
special session in Albany, reject a
controversial proposal that would
have restructured the union’s
statewide Board of Directors.

@ As a result of negotiations with
CSEA, the state Department of Labor
agrees to undertake a reclassificati
study of all clerical po
throughout the department.

e@ CSEA files an improper practice
charge against Albany County,
claiming unilateral termination of the
county employees’ health insurance
coverage without prior negotiations
with the union.

@ A renewed proposal by lame
duck Governor Hugh Carey to furlough
some state workers due to state
budget problems draws fire from
CSEA and a rejection from state
legislators.

@ Employee Benefits Training
Program undergoes major change;
major portion of funding will now be
administered directly by CSEA.

® CSEA President McGowan tells
the State Assembly’s Education
Committee that continued reliance on
property taxes to fund school districts
simply continues the disparity
between rich and poor districts.

@ Suffolk County Local 852
reaches tentative accord on four-year
agreement after months of bitter
bargaining.

@ CSEA announces plan to lease
cars for staff rather than pay mileage
in effort to reduce costs.

@ Union files grievance against
state Health Department over failure
to pay long overdue salary increment

bonuses due in December.

Ne aotaceatd thereby affecting 1 percent

¢ | Employees honor
y . 5 JACCI REED, left, vice president of Department
¢ f Labor CSEA Local 352, was among thos
Labor Commissioner fs ie : Honerhi Cecimseécer Roberts, Serie
Lillian Rob = |
illian Roberts

BUFFALO — Lillian Roberts, New York State
commissioner of labor, has been honored by
e labor department employees in the Buffalo area
for her “untiring efforts to promote the job
services available to employers and job-
seekers,”’ according to Elaine Todd, president of

CSEA Labor Department Local 352.

“She’s been the most visible and effective
commissioner I’ve seen in my 18 years in the
department,” declared Todd, after a joint
plaque of appreciation was presented to
Commissioner Roberts by CSEA, PEF,
Management-Confidential and 1.A.P.E.S.

e members.

“She started a much-needed ‘Jobs Crusade,’

which informed private employers of the highly-
trained professional staff in the labor
department that can match employees to their
needs, while at the same time letting job-seekers
know about our free-job agency abilities,” Todd
continued.

Todd said the labor commissioner’s fight
e against federal budget cuts in job service ranks
“has given our fellow workers more pride in
what they do, because she’s gained more respect ‘She’s been
for our abilities in the eyes of chambers of the most
commerce across the state, as well as private visible and

employers. And there is a definite need for our ROBERT LATTIMER,

services, especially in hard-hit western New effective / Region VI president, and
York.” commissioner ...’ . “ Remona Gallagher,
. : ° litical action training
As a result, usage of the department’s many poeclalist: are pictured at
free services are up considerably and still 4 t mer the dinner, above.
climbing, Todd said. j
® A life-long unionist, the former associate

director of the 110,000 member AFSCME District
Council 37 was sworn in as New York State’s
22nd industrial commissioner in July 1981. The
title was changed to commissioner of labor in "tm, P

1982. She is the first black and third woman to catia een
head the department. LILLIAN ROBERTS, Labor Commissioner.

. GQ) cHAvtaLaUn PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: as ae, Credit union expanded

FEDERAL CREDIT UNION “zoey Ss
ill in Chautauqua County

MAYVILLE — A federal credit union, Kurtz described a credit union as a
started four years ago by CSEA cooperative association owned and
Chautauqua Local 807, has been controlled by its members, organized to
expanded to include other public promote thrift and make loans to
employee union and association members for “provident and productive
members in Chautauqua County. purposes.”

The action, according to Local Other credit union officers are Mary
President and credit union treasurer- Dreihaup, president, Rita Raynor,
manager Jim Kurtz, will mean an secretary and Louise Siragusa, vice
increase from about 1,000 accounts and _ president. -
$400,000 in assets to more than 2,000
accounts and close to $1 million in
assets.

“This means members of more than 15
other associations will be able to save
and make loans under our expanded
charter,” said Kurtz. “Our office at 2
North Erie St. across from the county
office buildings will be a convenient
location for most employees.”

The opening of the credit union offices
was marked by an open house and a
Village of Mayville resolution declaring
an International Credit Union Day — ‘‘a
time of recognition of the efforts of
credit union leaders and members for
the improvement of the quality of life for
credit union, stands in front of the credit union office. others.”

a ve a _ * :
IN APPRECIATION — Local 427’s Kathy Nailor admires a plaque presented to
her for recruiting Cuomo campaign volunteers. Region VI President Robert
Lattimer, standing, and Local 427’s Davita Lewis, seated left, look on.

THE METROPOLITAN REGION II Grievance Commit-
ntly held its first meeting to review the status of

s filed in the Region and to discuss common

e problems in agencies and institutions. Left to
epartment of Labor Local 350 Grievance
ph Rivera, Region II Grievance Commit-

Chairman
tee Chairman and Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local

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Region VI campaign volunteers

Turning a ‘mission-impossible’ ¢

into a ‘mission-accomplished'

BUFFALO — The effort put forth in
the highly successful CSEA political
action campaign of 1982 by Region V1
members was recognized at a recent
gathering, where volunteer campaign
workers ,were congratulated by
Region President Robert L. Lattimer.

Several hundred region members
will also be receiving certificates of
appreciation from CSEA’s Political
Action Committee, according to
Ramona Gallagher, CSEA political
action training specialist. She
presented the awards to those in
attendance.

Recalling the long road to eventual
victory in the election of Mario Cuomo
as governor, as well as the high
percentage of other CSEA-endorsed
candidates who were elected,
Lattimer likened the task to a
“mission impossible.”

The Lattimer scenario, beginning in
March of 1982, went something like
this: ... “Your assignment (should

you choose to accept it) is to win the

highest elected office in New York
State. ... First you must get your
candidate on the primary ballot with
little or no party support. ... You
must then run in the primary against
the party’s endorsee, a tough, well-
known campaigner.

“Your primary opponent will just
happen to be the highest elected
official from the area with the
greatest number of registered party
members .. .

“Tf you can accomplish this, you will
then have six (yes, six) weeks to bring
all the factions together, heal wounds
and take on an opponent who will have
unlimited funds. . . . He will saturate
the media with attractive, hard-
hitting, never-ending advertising. . . .
- “During this period, you may be
able to acquire five or six million
dollars for your campaign expenses
. .. Your opposition will have and use
about three times that amount . . .

“You must also recruit volunteers
and motivate them to assist you in
this formidable task by working hard,
long hours for months upon end,” said
Lattimer, ‘‘as well as try not to chew
off your fingernails as the vote counts
grind down to a nerve-wrecking, gut-
wrenching, razor-thin victory

margin.
“First, our candidate was
believable, articulate, intelligent,

compassionate and in a word,
outstanding,” Lattimer declared.

“And we had the dedicated, hard-
working volunteers necessary to turn
a ‘mission-impossible’ into a ‘mission-
accomplished’.”’

JOB WELL DONE — Certificates of
appreciation were awarded during
the Region VI political action gather-
ing. From left to right are Local 602’s
Tom Warzel and Bill Thomson, CSEA
Training Specialist Ramona
Gallagher, Local 437’s Barb Bienicki
and Local 427’s Kathy Nailor, the
region’s PAC chairwoman.

402 Ist Vice President Louis Smith, Region II President
George Caloumeno, Brooklyn Developmental Center
Local 447 First Vice President Rajeeyah Mulwwakil,
State Insurance Fund Local 351 Grievance Chairman
Richard Beckett and Metropolitan Armories Local 254
Grievance Chairman Roy Seabrook,

Quick actions
of Hempstead
sweeper clean}

street of
3 suspected
burglars

Abbreniticashig

ee ewe
training specialist

ene
position open

ALBANY — The Statewide Joint Appren-
ticeship Committee, which is charged with ex-
ploring, developing and instituting appren-

@ ticeship training programs for exmployees of the
State/CSEA Operational Services Unit, is seek-
ing applicants for the position of Apprenticeship
Training Program Specialist.

Minimum qualifications are: a bachelor’s
degree, preferably in public administration,
business administration, labor relations or social
sciences; two years of professional experience in
education and training program administration;
and a valid driver’s license and own auto. Ex-

) perience may be substituted for education.

Applications may be submitted to: Program
Specialist position, Suite 2008, Twin Towers, 99
Washington Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12210.

e
Health insurance
open enrollment
e
: period extended
SHOP STEWARDS in Long Island Region I gathered recently to receive certificates after completing
the necessary training. Region I President Danny Donohue, seated center, presented the certificates. ALBANY — The open enrollment period to
Among those completing the program and/or assisting in the training were, from left front, Gus change health insurance carriers has been ex-
Neilsen, Nick Dellisanti, Donohue, Eddie Ochenkoski and John Stein. Standing from left are Grace tended to Jan. 31. Public employees now have ex-
Castelli, Carol Craig, Gloria Mason, Jean Frazier, Laura Hess, Millie Vassallo and Aileen Ronayne. tra time to decide which health insurance best
serves their needs.
open competitive
° TATE JOB CALENDAR
AN APPLICATION FEE OF $5 MUST ACCOMPANY Land Surveyor (Transportation), Senior $28,772 25-758
YOUR APPLICATION FOR EACH EXAMINATION Land Surveyor II, Assistant $14,515 25-790
Applicants MUST Be Postmarked No Later Than JANUARY 24, 1983 Land Surveyor Trainee I $11,582 25-789
Exam, Medical Laboratory Technician I $12,852 25-823
Title Beginning Salary No. Medical Laboratory Technician IT $15,239 25-824
Conservation Biologist (Ecology) $17,694 Public Health Representative II $24,569 25-804
Conservation Biologist (Ecology) Trainee $16,711 2770 — public Lands Surveyor Examiner $28,772-$33,740 25-809
Conservation Biologist (Ecology) $17,694 (Range)
@ Conservation Biologist (Ecology) Trainee $16,711 Director, Bureau of Recreation Services $34,537 28-478
Conservation Biologist (Extension) $17,694 F Curriculum Content Coordinator
Conservation Biologist (Extension) Trainee $16,711 (English as a Second Language)+ $27,306 80-064
Conservation Biologist (Wildlife) $17,694 Curriculum Content Coordinator (Mathematics) + $27,306 80-065
Conservation Biologist (Wildlife) Trainee $16,711 ‘a Curriculum Content Coordinator (Reading)t 27,306 80-066
Curator (History), Senior $18,323 5 Emergency Health Services Communications
Health Planner $17,694 2 Assistant $22,132 28-444
Health Planner (Trainee) $16,711 Federal Funding & Contract Management
Health Planner, Senior $22,132 2 Specialist IT $28,785 28-447
Historian, Senior $27,306 Supervisor of Federal Funds and Contract
Laboratory Technician $12,852 2 Management $31,104 28-448
e Land Surveyor $23,351 t Obtain applications from the New York State Department of

Land Surveyor (Transportation) 4 $23,351 Correctional Services. :

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982 Page 15

ALBANY — ayer if tay can’t be cammplehes Saped, can te

ring the loss of 375 positions in the state Office of
Fog Disabilities (OMR/DD).
re ee, next month.

urposes layoffs, Centers, en
rae fl, and Substance Abuse are counted as
be abolished are exclusively in

i Stenters
one agency. Even though positions

Special CWEP program
offers hope
during layoff periods

ALBANY — As devastating as threatened layoffs can be
there is some comfort for those affected: there is someone
to help keep displaced workers on the state payroll.

That someone is the State Employment Continuity
Center, which has been created by CSEA and the State of
New York and funded, in party through the CSEA/State Com-

WHAT IS THE STATE EMPLOYMENT CONTINUITY CENTER?

The SECC is a special unit set up to assist both agencies and
employees who may be affected by reductions in force. Located in the
Department of Civil Service, it has offices in Albany and New York. Sup-
port for the SECC is provided by CSEA, AFSCME Council 82 (in propor-
tion to the number of employees they represent) and PEF through Con-
tinuity of Employment Committees from funds obtained during collec-
tive bargaining proceedings.

WHAT DOES THE SECC DO FOR EMPLOYEES?

The SECC can assist employees in layoff situations in several ways.
First of all, the staff of the SECC can provide employees with factual in-
formation about how layoffs work, and what rights employees may
have. Usually this is done at meetings held with employees who will be
affected by reductions in force, but staff also is available to answer in-
dividual’s questions by phone or in person. Also, the center provides
information booklets and guides to interviewing and resume prepara-
tion. Lastly, the center staff works with agencies, various units of the
Department of Civil Service and employees on developing alternative
employment possibilities which can supplement those provided by
preferred lists.

WHY IS THIS NECESSARY? AREN’T STATE EMPLOYEES
GUARANTEED ANOTHER JOB BY LAW?

The preferred list process provides preference in reinstatement for
permanent employees whose jobs are abolished. In many cases, this
results in employees being rehired. However, the preferred list does
not help everyone, nor does it always provide re-employment right
away. Furthermore, it works best when there are vacancies in other very
similiar positions. Where employees are in titles which do not exist
elsewhere, the preferred list options may be limited or almost nonexis-
tent. Also, the preferred list does not guarantee anyone a job. Many
employers resist the use of preferred lists since it allows no choice in
who they can hire and no probationary periods during which the
employees can be evaluated for their ability to perform. Agencies can
— and do — leave jobs vacant rather than usea preferred list.

“THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982

Page 16

itored to protect everyone’s rights. In that spirit, CSEA is -
Mental

‘OMD/DD facilities; the real impact will be more widespread, with
seniority (determined from date of original appointment on a permanent
basis in the classified service) as the controlling factor.

Bruce Wyngaard, CSEA’s associate director of research, says that
right now employees who have received the “Preferred List Eligible
Reemployment Location Sheet” should make certain that seniority date,
veteran status, and eel bbe Siete information is accurate. If not, cor-
rected information should be given by Jan. 6 to the employee’: 's personnel
office. tees ee Innenanee oe peeety oneecont wel be

local
Cnet foto ib epost ss.

. Em pl Ce # ay
The people to contact are:
New York City only Luther Winter (212) 488-5636
Butler (212) 488-5825
Other areas Mee jatthews (518) 457-2973

Helping state workers
stay on the payroll

mittee on Work Environment and Productivity, better known
as CWEP.

The Center works with state employees before, during
and after layoffs take pla advising them of civil service
laws and rights, and possibilities of alternative employment.

Here are some frequently asked questions about the
Center and its role during reductions in force.

WHAT KIND OF ALTERNATIVES DOES THE SECC DEVELOP?

While the preferred list process deals only with permanent
employees and provides preference only according to their title of
layoff, the SECC tries to help all employees affected by reductions
before the layoff occurs. Furthermore, the alternatives they try to
develop are based on each individual’s training, experience employ-
ment and examination history. The center collects this information
through a form called a Skills Inventory. After analyzing this informa-
tion, the center contacts state agencies which are ng people for
various jobs. By matching the people with the qualifications for these
jobs, transfers to another agency can be accomplished prior to the date
of layoff.

HOW SUCCESSFUL HAVE THEY BEEN?

The success in finding alternatives varies in each layoff situation
depending on the training and experience of the employees, the loca-
tions they are in and whether they are willing to move, the level of
cooperation and commitment of unions and management and the
numbers and types of jobs available elsewhere. However, generally the
SECC has been successful in offering most employees at least one
alternative possibility. One of the major reasons for this success is that
these alternative employment possibilities provide both agencies and
employees with more choices, and that agencies facing reduction in
force situations are becoming more committed to working with unions
and other agencies in developing alternatives to layoffs.

Employees who may be affected by the Department of Labor
layoffs will probably receive a questionnaire about employment alter-
natives prior to actually receiving a layoff notice. This starts the Con-
tinuity of Employment process. Employees who do not receive such a
notice should contact their personnel office for information on bump-
ing rights, the State Employment Continuity Center for assistance in
finding alternate state employment, and their CSEA local to ensure that
their rights are protected.

Western region election seminar

ceo. violated
’ seniority rights,
arbitrator rules

SYRACUSE — Seniority rights have been
upheld through a binding arbitration decision
for an Onondaga County employee who
belongs to CSEA Local 834.

The story begins with the transfer of Donald
Zimmerman, a sewage plant operator, from
the Metropolitan Treatment Plant to the Oak
Orchard Treatment Plant, even though four
junior employees in the same job title remain-
ed at the Metropolitan facility.

Zimmerman grieved the transfer as a
violation of his seniority rights.as guaranteed
by the CSEA contract and, with help from
CSEA’s Legal Assistance Program as well as
Field Representative Terry Moxley, took the
ease to binding arbitration.

The story took on an added twist because
during the time Zimmerman réported to work
at the Oak Orchard facility job'titles were
changed, The county, then, argued before Ar-
bitrator Dana E. Eischen that,since job titles
were changed, the grievance was irrelevant.

Eischen, however, disagreed and rejected
the theory that simply by changing job titles
the county could escape liability. He likened
the argument to someone who after killing his
parents, ‘‘asks mercy from the court because
he is now an orphan.’ So the arbitrator
ordered Zimmerman returned to work at the
Metropolitan Plant. S

XY
AFL-CIO director testifies before House subcommittee

Extended unemployment aid needed

PARTICIPANTS in a recent election procedure seminar for CSEA members in Western Region VI in-
cluded, from left, Pearlina Gibson, Mary Dennis and Ruth Ford, all from Monroe Developmental
Center CSEA Local 439.

program that would provide an

WASHINGTON — The duration and
severity of the Reagan Recession has
made further extension of jobless
benefits for the long-term
unemployed a matter of utmost
urgency, the AFL-CIO has testified at
House hearings.

Cutbacks in the extended
unemployment compensation
program that Congress imposed last
year have pushed America’s jobless
“to the brink of economic disaster,”
AFL-CIO Social Security Director
Bert Seidman told a House Ways &
Means subcommittee.

Seidman, joined by Associate
Legislative Director Robert
McGlotten, welcomed a bill
introduced by Subcommittee
Chairman Harold E. Ford (D-Tenn.)
as “a considerable step’ toward
easing the hardships of some 2 million
persons who have been jobless more
than six months.

The legislation would build on the
temporary program of federal
supplemental benefits that Congress
set up to run from last September to
March 31, 1983. That program
provided 10 weeks of additional
payments in states with the highest

unemployment rates, and either six
or eight weeks in other states.

The Ford bill would allow everyone
who had exhausted the benefits of that
program an additional five weeks.
For those who had not, the six, eight
and 10-week entitlements would be
increased to a flat 13 weeks in every
state.

Labor Sec. Raymond J. Donovan
wrote Ford asking that consideration
of the legislation be put off until the
new Congress convenes.

Seidman reiterated the AFL-CIO’s
preference for a more comprehensive
and permanent supplemental benefit

additional 26 weeks of payments
funded by general revenues rather
than the payroll tax.

“Since recession-induced
unemployment is attributed to
government policies and national
economic conditions, the federal
government should bear the cost of
additional benefits,” he suggested.

But if a comprehensive reform
can’t be achieved immediately,
“prompt enactment” of the Ford bill
is needed to deal with a growing
emergency.

COMPETITIVE PROMOTIONAL EXAMS ‘state employees only)

FILING ENDS JANUARY 17, 1983

TITLE

EXAM.
NO.

DEPT.

Specialist II G-18

Valuation Research and Development

—Equalization/

Assessment 37-779

IDP 37-764
37-811

00-150

Assistant Land Surveyor II G-12. . :
Medical Laboratory Technician IT G-12
Public Administration Traineeship

Specialist III G-23 Ai 37-780
Valuation Research and Development

Specialist IV G-27 39-682
Supervising Bank Examiner M-4 -BANKING..
Supervising Overseas Branch Bank

Examiner
Land Surveyor (Transportation) G-19 DOL:
Senior Land Surveyor (Transportation) G-23

Public Lands Surveyor Examiner

G-23 + —OGS 37-805

37-812
37-841
37-784

Laboratory Technician G-9. te HEALTH

Medical Laboratory Technician I G-9

Public Health Representative III G-20

Archivist II G-18 EDUCATION

Senior Resources and Reimbursement
Agent G-21 ME

Land Surveyor G-19 y
HEALTH

ENCON
Senior Land Surveyor G-23. ,

EXECUTIVE PUBLIC

SERVICE

Chief of Public Service Audits M-5
Valuation Research and Development

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982

BUFFALO — A gleaming, well- doctorate in child development.” more CSEA members at the lower

planned and quality-staffed day Jayes noted that the structured end of the pay scale from taking
care center at Roswell Park and unstructured activities are advantage of the center’s services.
Memorial Institute is being under- carefully planned to foster positive To assist with the problem, the
utilized, and CSEA members are growth and development of the center’s board is working on
At Roswell hard at work trying to inform their —_ child. “We're not just letting them developing a sliding pay scale
fellow employees with day care- take up space, he said, pointing out geared to the parents’ income,
5 age children of its availability. a detailed program description for _ under a county or state assistance
“We've got one of the best infant, toddler and pre-school plan, Cousineau said.
Pa rk facilities in Erie County,” declared groups provided for at the center. “We also want to inform state
Jim Jayes, president of Health Jayes and Art Cousineau, employees at other facilities in the

Research Local 315, and chairman president of Roswell Park Local area that the center is open to
of the day care center’s board of 303, feel a lack of publicity hasbeen them,” Cousineau said. ‘“‘We’re

day care directors. § one cause of the center’s under- hopeful we can increase our
ct “We've got all a working parent utilization. More importantly, they enrollment from the present 21
: could want in a day care center,” say, the $55 weekly fee is keeping children to the full capacity of 58 by

Jayes said. ‘‘We have an extremely

center: well-qualified staff, headed by

Secail Se acca
enroliment

spurs
plans for |
more
publicity,
sliding
pay scale

February.”

Jayes and Cousineau invited
state employees from the area to
“come in and take a look.
Comparably-staffed day care
centers are charging $75 or more
per day for what we provide,” they
said.

The day care center is open
Monday through Friday, from 6:30
a.m. to 6 p.m. Part-time rates are
available, and like regular fees,
are payable in advance on weekly,
bi-weekly or monthly basis.

Children must be between the
ages of 8 weeks and 6 years, and
priority is given to full-time
enrollees over part-timers.
Arrangements for handicapped
children may also be made.

Kathy Jackson, a Local 305
member whose son, Andre, is
enrolled in the center, is ‘very
happy with the center. It’s a good
program, but I and the other
working mothers will be looking
forward to a sliding pay scale that
will help with the financial
burden.”

CHILD’S CONTENTMENT — Little
Andre Jackson, son of Local 315
member Kathy Jackson, spends a few
contented moments in the arms of
Kay Tucker, a teacher at the Roswell
day care center.

’ \
‘i es POINSETTIA SALE FOR CENTER — Roswell Park Local Presi-

AFTERNOON RECREATION — Carol Grosstephan, a teacher at the center, dent Jim Jayes helped sell poinsettias to benefit Roswell’s day care
engages @ group of preschoolers in a clapping game. center. The sale netted $200.for the center. i

Page 18 ‘THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, December 31, 1982
Pi Payotiirl FOC 52 Oi tiiyd

Harrington twins reported well
after bone marrow transplant

The Christmas spirit of giving, caring and help-
ing those in need really hit home this year for CSEA
member Gary Harrington and his family.

The Harringtons, of the tiny town of Edmeston,
Otsego County, spent their Christmas in a cancer
research center in Seattle, Wash., where their
4-year-old twin daughter Jenny received a bone
marrow transplant from sister Jody. It is hoped the
transplant will help Jenny’s body fight leukemia, a
form of cancer in which white blood cells increase
rapidly, killing the victim unless the growth is
arrested.

Although it will be some time before it is known
whether the procedure has succeeded in arresting
the leukemia, hospital spokespersons have said the
little girl’s prognosis right now is very good.

For Jenny’s parents, Gary and Debbie, one bright
spot during their plight has been the outpouring of
donations and letters of concern from hundreds of
CSEA members around the state, as well as from
other individuals across the country.

Jenny has been receiving chemotherapy and
radiation treatments since 1981, but only recently
was it learned she would need the transplant from
her twin. The operation was originally scheduled in
Boston, but when a bed unexpectedly, became
available in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research

CSEA members’ donations
help defray staggering
costs, make Christmas
warmer for Otsego County
member Gary Harrington
and his family

Center in Seattle, the family quickly made ar-
rangements for the cross-country trip.

According to the institute, the average cost in
cases similar to Jenny’s is $60,000, which includes
treatment, transplant, hospitalization and the
family’s boarding — a considerable hardship for
Harrington, an orderly at the Meadows County In-
firmary for the past 10 years.

Realizing this hardship, Harrington’s fellow
CSEA members and workers at the infirmary
quickly put together a fund to help defray some of
the costs.

More than $20,000 has been donated to the fund so
far, and contributions are still welcome, said Mabel
Wannamaker, president of CSEA Otsego County
Local 839.

“Our members responded very well,’ she said,

Otsego County local starts fund to help
fellow member and family in time of need

A copy of

the Public Sector
article

which spurred
an outpouring

of donations.

Twin daughter, 4, requires
delicate bone marrow transplant

‘Among. the things first-time visitors to Otsego

‘quaininess ofthe area and the sincere, friendly manner of the people who live
‘and work the
‘That wecareabout-you attitude was never more evident than
‘when recently expressed by Otsego County employes for one of thei fllow
(SEA members.
jary Harrington, an orderly at The Meadows County {nfirmary, and his
wife, Deborah, had learned that one oftheir identical twin daughters would
require a delicate bone marrow transplant to help the child's body tight

adding that a story which appeared in the Noy. 5
issue of the Public Sector “really helped.

“We got $600 right away just from the story in the
Sector. People from different locals from all over
the state sent in their five- and 10-dollar-bills. One
member’s little girl added $5 of her own to her
mother’s $20 check, and wrote a note that she hoped
it would help little Jenny.

“It’s just been tremendous,” Wannamaker con-
tinued, citing CSEA members’ generosity. “I think
it helped Gary a lot to know that all these people
really cared.”

The twins’ transplant took place Dec. 27, and both
girls were reported in good condition following the
surgery, a day-long procedure. Jody reportedly
was to be discharged a day or two later.

According to reports in the Associated Press, the
transplant began with a pint of donated marrow
and blood collected from Jody’s hip bone, which
was transferred to her sister in a procedure
resembling a blood transfusion. The material was
drained and then dipped via a tube into the right
atrium of Jody’s heart, and was then expected to
begin to find its way to the bone cavity. If suc-
cessful, the transplanted marrow will replace
Jenny’s diseased marrow.

According to the AP, Jenny must be disease-free
for two years before she can be considered cured.
Her case is considered unusual because her donor is
a twin and because she suffered a relapse after the
family arrived in Seattle earlier this month, caus-
ing a delay in the transplant.

Jenny was in the Hutchinson Institute during the
transplant, while Jody was in the Swedish Hospital
next door. One parent stayed with each child during
the procedure.

Since Jenny checked into the institute, the family
has lived in an apartment provided by the hospital.
They celebrated Christmas at the institute with a
dinner, a party, a visit from Santa, and the ex-
changing of presents.

Those CSEA members wishing to help the Harringtons
may send a check to the Gary Harrin 7 Fund, c/o
Mabel Wannamaker, CSEA Local 839, The Meadows,
Cooperstown, N.Y. 13326

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service examinations to a great degree
for advancement,” commented CSEA
President William L. McGowan. “While
several educational institutions have
offered assistance in this area in the
past, CSEA felt that this would be an
excellent new service to its members
and we have been working with the
experts in this area from Cornell's
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
to make this program possible.”

Funding for development of the audio-
visual component of the program was
made possible through a grant from the
Committee on Work Environment and
Productivity or CWEP, a labor-
management committee created in
CSEA negotiations with the State of New
York.

The five booklets in the written
segment of the exam preparation
project contain information helpful for
many different types of exams. These
include:

—Booklet One, Basic Math: a review
of mathematical operations needed to
perform well on promotional exams
including a review of fractions,
decimals, percents and ratios.

—Booklet Two, Arithmetic Reasoning:
provides 40 mathematical word
problems similar to those used on
exams. A self-study ‘guide’ with full
explanations of the answers is.included.

—Booklet Three, Understanding and

New union program to help improve examination scores

Interpreting Tabular Material: provides °
30 reading comprehension questions,
and a self-study guide with full
explanations.

—Booklet Four, Understanding and
Interpreting Written Material: provides
30 reading comprehension questions
and a study guide with full explanations.

—Booklet Five, Preparing Written
Material: provides 25 questions
involving sentence re-arrangement and
sentence and paragraph recognition
similar to those used on exams. A study-
guide with full explanations is included.

The booklets, averaging 32 pages in
length, are av: le to CSEA members
at $1.50 each, including postage, from
CSEA’s Education Department. The
booklets will not be available until after
January 17 and may be ordered by
completing the coupon on page 1 of The
Public Sector and mailing the coupon
with a check or money order to the
address printed on the coupon.

Quimby notes that members
interested in preparing for the PATT
exam will find useful review material in
all of the booklets with the exception of
Arithmetic Reasoning, a subject not
expected to be included in the PATT
exams this year.

Non-CSEA members can obtain the
same material directly from Cornell at

«the same price by contacting: Cornell,,..

ILR, 112 State. Street,
Albany, New York 12207.

Suite...1200,

at

“CSEA has made a dramatic increase

in the educational services it provides to
its members during the past few years,”
President McGowan said. “We think this
latest program will be another major
advancement.”

CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES
ASSOCIATION Date
ATTN: CSEA EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
33 ELK STREET,

ALBANY, NEW YORK 12207

Please send me the booklet(s) indicated. | under-
stand the price is $1.50 (includes postage) for
EACH booklet ordered, and | have enclosed a
check or money order for $. to cover the
cost of this order.

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UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETING
TABULAR MATERIAL

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Who would have thought
that an lialian kid
from Queens
and a labor union
could break
all the political rules
in the book...

POLITICAL RULE #4...

states that a candidate running for high
political office should graciously accept labor
union backing, be respectful of the fund-raising
potential of said organizations, but never, ever
publicly state that he or she believes in the labor
movement.

Mario Cuomo broke that rule and won,
UNION RULE #4...

simply states that a large labor union should
stay conspicuously non-committal in any large
election until all the candidates have been
clearly defined and the pressure is on the
candidates to voice some union views.

The Civil Service Employees Association, for the
first time in its history, broke tradition and
endorsed Mario Cuomo in March of 1982, six
months before the Democratic primary.

LABOR IS CHANGING.

The 80's will be remembered in the minds and
hearts of all New Yorkers as the decade of job
security. Never before has it been so important
for labor and management to work together
foward productivity and efficiency that will
keep people working and create new jobs.
We have the same goals: to make New York
State a better place fo live and work.

CONGRATULATIONS, GOVERNOR CUOMO!

In a time when there are so many economic
uncertainties, the membership of CSEA wishes
you the best of luck.

As it was before, we're behind you. Even if it
takes a little tradition breaking, together we
can all win.

William L, McGowan, President

The Civil Service Employees Association, -Inc
Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, C