Official Publication of The Civil
Service Employees Association
Local 1000, American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees
__ Vol. 4, No. 13
Friday, March 26, 1982
(ISSN 0164 9949)
CSEA PRESIDENT William L. McGowan, left,
and Mario Cuomo field questions from news
media at a major press conference recently in
| Albany, called to announce CSEA’s endorsement
of Cuomo.
NOTICE: Election of delegates to the 1982 AFSCME convention
1. Ballots for the election of delegates to the
1982 AFSCME Convention will be mailed to all 3. Members who have not received a ballot by
members of CSHA as of March 6, 1982 on April 1, April 12, 1982 should call their CSEA Regional Of-
1982. fice between April 12, 1982 and April 15, 1982 for
2. Ballots will be picked up at the return post the purpose of obtaining a replacement ballot.
office on the morning of April 23, 1982. Tabula- The CSHA Regional offices may be contacted at
tion will commence on April 26, 1982 and continue the following numbers:
until complete.
Region 3
(914) 896-8180
Region 4
(518) 489-5424
Region 5
(315) 451-6330
Region 6
(716) 634-3540
Region 1
(516) 435-0962
e Region 2
(212) 962-3090
Union fires up
political action
| budget effort
ALBANY — CSEA President William L.
McGowan has telegramed union leaders across the
state to focus CSEA’s political action program on
the state legislature where state budget negotia-
tions have created confusion, the threat of mass
layoffs of state workers and the potential, at least,
of a major confrontation with CSEA.
The annual tug of war over enactment of a state
budget is nothing new to state employees, but there
are a few wrinkles in this year’s fight.
First, the incumbent governor has publicly an-
nounced he isn’t running for reelection. Second, vir-
tually the entire legislature is running for reelec-
tion and their appropriation priorities are aimed at
politically rewarding targets.
Adding more fuel to the budget fire is the state-
ment by. state Comptroller Edward Regan, who
recently dropped out of the gubernatorial contest,
that he will not issue ‘“‘scrip’” (a form of promissory
note) if the state budget lapses and there is no
authority to pay state workers.
That last possibility drew instant fire from Presi-
dent McGowan who publicly warned legislators and
the governor that the first payday the state misses
(Continued on Page 18)
EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP
— Ed Draves, standing,
AFSCME legislative coor-
dinator, emphasizes a key point
at an educational workshop
covering such issues as union
busting and the Moral Majority.
Looking on is Region V Presi:
dent Jim Moore.
Q’s AND A’s — Region V Director
Frank Martello replies to a question
at the state workshop portion of the
conference. Shown with him are com-
mittee members Doris Pratz, left, of
Willard Psychiatric Center Local 428,
“7 and Claire McGrath, Syracuse City
“« Local 013 member.
Winter conference ‘best ever’
UTICA — More than 300 Region V
officers, delegates and other
members turned out for the winter
conference at the Utica Sheraton Inn
earlier this month, making it the
largest conference ever held in the
region.
Regional President Jim Moore
praised the efforts of all who par-
ticipated by declaring the 3-day event
the ‘‘best ever.”
The weekend gathering featured a
NOTEWORTHY SESSION — State
employees Beth McCarty, left, of
Elmira Correctional Facility Local
full schedule of activities including and strong political action.
workshops covering available ser-
vices for state, county and school
employees; a political action commit-
tee meeting; retirees session;
business meeting; and special
meeting to nominate delegates to the
upcoming AFSCME convention.
One session highlighted the dangers
Delegates were challenged to
sharpen their thinking skills by Pro-
fessor Charles Galle, whose unique
seminar using clever visual aids and
techniques left most delegates wan-
ting more than the two hours allotted.
At the dinner meeting for all
delegates, Karen Burstein, director of
of union busting and the Moral Ma-
jority, stressing the union can fight
these through unity, determination
PERSONAL SKILLS — Chester
Galle, with microphone, draws
some eager response from CSEA
156, and Clara Lewis, of Elmira Ci-
ty Local 005 gather information for
their fellow members,
New York State consumer affairs,
delivered a stirring address, directing
all union members to unite to over-
come current economic burdens.
“The person who looks out for
himself only is of no value,” Burstein
said. “Unless we stand together, you
can be assured of suffering ahead for
all.”
Statewide Secretary Irene Carr at
a personal skills development
workshop.
COUNTY DELEGATES — Typical of the attendance for all meetings at the conference
was this excellent turnout of county officers and other delegates.
STATE UPDATE — Ed Lavin, left, president of Ft. Schuyler
Local 014, and Bud Mulchy, president of Marcy Psychiatric
Center, listen intently to a CWEP progress report during the
state employees educational workshop.
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Right of probationary employee to due process
upheld by state supreme court in kingsboro case
NEW YORK CITY — The right of a probationary employee to a due
process hearing when the grounds for discharge are ‘‘stigmatizing’’ has
been affirmed by the New York State Supreme Court.
The ruling came in the case of Kingsboro Psychiatrie Center member
Lorna Hinkson, a probationary mental hygiene therapy aide accused of
patient abuse and terminated 11 days before she was scheduled to become a
permanent employee.
Following a court-ordered hearing before a Kingsboro administrator,
Ms. Hinkson was cleared of verbally abusing a patient and was reinstated
with full back pay and benefits. She has'since passed her probation and is
now a permanent state employee.
The charges against Ms. Hinkson were based solely on the statement of
a co-worker. Despite the fact that three other co-workers and Ms. Hinkson
disputed the charges, Ms. Hinkson was terminated without a hearing or
opportunity to respond to the charges that she abused a patient.
“We knew that she was innocent,” said Local 402 President Robert
Aue “But the only way we could defend Ms. Hinkson was by going to
court. 7 :
‘The New York State Supreme Court found that Kingsboro had violated
Ms. Hinkson’s rights by terminating her without a due process hearing and
ordered Kingsboro to hold a hearing within 60 days of the decision. The
judge further ordered that Ms. Hinkson receive advance notice of the
specifics of the allegations against her, that she have an opportunity to be
heard and present arguments and evidence and confront and cross-examine
witnesses, and that she is entitled to a written decision ‘‘based solely on the
facts of the case,”’ In his decision the judge noted that Ms. Hinkson has the
right to be represented by legal counsel or a CSEA representative at the
hearing.
ding to Theodore Ruthizer of the CSEA regional law firm of
- Mailman & Ruthizer that represented Ms. Hinkson in court and at her
hearing, the decision has significant implications for other probationary
employees. * :
Ruthizer said, ‘‘The decision essentially destroys the rule that
probationary employees can be fired without any recourse when the
grounds for discharge are stigmatizing or improper and, therefore, make it
impossible for the employee to find other employment.”
._ Ruthizer cautioned that the decision in the Hinkson case does not affect
the state’s right to terminate probationary employees for reasons related to
their work performance. : ee a
Hearings clear scores more of *79 charges
CLINTON — One hundred and eighty-five CSEA-
represented workers at Clinton Correctional Facil-
ity have been cleared of charges they violated the
Taylor Law.
The charges came about after a job action in the
spring of 1979 by prison guards that prevented
about 700 CSEA members in correctional facilities
around the state from going to work. The hearings
mainly involved CSEA members who did not ap-
pear at their jobs between April 18 and May 3, 1979.
The Clinton facility had the largest number of
hearings of any facility in the state.
In addition to the decisions at Clinton, three deci-
sions on cases from the Mid-Hudson Correctional
Facility brought the tally of cases cleared to 375 out
of 399 cases at Clinton, Mid-Hudson, Camp Adiron-
dack, Elmira and Auburn Facilities.
While the Clinton cases proved to be the single
greatest success for the union, “‘it was justified bas-
ed on the nature of the record,” said Michael Smith,
a CSEA attorney. ‘‘We spent four days at Clinton
just talking to potential witnesses,” he added.
Smith and other attorneys showed “the enormity of
the effect of the strike at Clinton was that it just
closed the place down.”
In all, the case was a strong one and CSEA was
able to “‘successfully assert the defense of fear for
personal safety to the State assertion that
employees violated the Taylor Law,” Smith said.
Wayne Co. sheriff
unit oks contract
LYONS — The Wayne County Sheriff’s Unit of
CSEA Wayne County Local 859 has réached agree-
ment on a two-year contract that boosts the pay of
each member by more than $1000 in both years.
The first year of the pact calls for a pay increase
of $1080 for each employee in addition to any step in-
creases due, while the second year boost is $1035
plus step increases.
The 60-member unit also negotiated continuation
of a superannuated step program and a $1000 major
medical program.
Clothing allowance for non-uniformed deputies
will be increased to $400 annually and differential
shift pay has increased to 25 cents per hour for the
second shift and 35 cents per hour for the third shift.
Payment for unused vacation upon employee
death was also gained and contract language im-
provements allow payroll deductions for insurance
and credit union payments.
Collective bargaining specialist Danny Jinks
headed a committee that included Robert
Houghtaling, D. Jay Denosky, Donald Fletcher,
Lorraine Knight and Unit President Edward
CSEA STATEWIDE SECRETARY IRENE
Dorothy Goetz, left, Long Island Region secretary; and Carol Craig, center, of the region’s education
committee. Ms. Carr conducted a recent workshop for Long Island Region local and unit secretaries,
part of a series of such program she is conducting statewide.
AMONG LOCAL AND UNIT secretaries atte:
munity College Unit Secretary Joseph Wamsganz; Probation Unit Secretary Roberta Crater; Town
of Babylon Unit Secretary Eleanor Lebolt, and Suffolk Executive Vice President Shirley Germ:
— a
CARR, right, discusses secretaries training with
ing workshop were, from left, Suffolk County Com-
S
Williams.
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SOMEHOW
I KEEP
MISSING!
RON E. COYOTE
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RUNAWAY INFLATION
(Econimus Va aris)
A further extension of the child care leave policy for
sent to all State agency heads.
Commission President Joseph A. F. Valenti said in the
they are on leave without pay.
entire leave, or the parents may choose to divide the le
Extend child care leave
has been announced by the Department of Civil Service in a formal notice
“Consistent with our recently announced child care leave policy for
biological parents we are extending similar eligibility for child care leave
upon the adoption of a child by State employees,” State Civil Service
Under this policy all State employees are entitled to leave without pay
for a period of up to seven months. The leave may begin anytime between
the date the adoptive child is placed with the family and the date of the
adoption. During this time, employees are allowed, but are no longer
required, to charge absences against accrued leave credits (i.e., annual
leave, personal leave and overtime credits) to shorten the period of time
If both parents are State employees, one parent may elect to take the
State employees
BUFFALO — The chief Public
Employment Relations Board
mediator for the Western New York
office will be the guest speaker at the
April 2 and 3 Region VI meeting.
Louis Patack, who also is director
of PERB’s Buffalo regional office,
will speak Friday at 8 p.m. at the
Sheraton Inn, Buffalo-East.
Prior to his recent appointment,
Patack was a PERB hearing officer
for representation and improper
practice matters in the Albany office.
notice.
ave time.
CSEA-state pilot day care center
featured in upcoming documentary
ALBANY — CSEA’s active support of on-site day
care for public employees’ children will receive national
recognition on public television next month.
“Who’s Taking Care of Our Kids,” a 30-minute
television documentary examining day care options
nationwide, was filmed in part at the Children’s Place at
the Plaza, the Albany day care center established as a
cooperative effort of CSEA and the Governor’s Office of
Employee Relations.
Among those featured in the documentary are CSEA
statewide President William L. McGowan, GOER,
Director Meyer Frucher, and Children’s Place staff
members.
The documentary is scheduled to air on many public
television stations — including WNET in New York City
and WMHT in Schenectady — at 10:30 p.m., Tuesday,
April 13, immediately following the broadcast of Studs
Terkel’s ‘‘Working.” Check your local listings for the
schedule in your area.
The program questions employers and parents about
their attitudes toward child care, their thoughts
concerning employer and/or public responsibility for
providing child care, and the implications of child care at
the workplace.
President McGowan, who serves on the Board of
Directors of the Children’s Place, commented: ‘The
Children’s Place was a prototype for us, a place where
we could all work together to develop a workable
program that could be applied at other work locations
where our members need this kind of service. We’ve
been extremely proud of our union’s role in the
Children’s Place, but even more proud that the idea is
growing and that day care centers are now being set up
at nearly a dozen state facilities throughout New York.
“Perhaps through this television documentary other
labor/management groups will be able to follow this lead
and provide this kind of vital child care service for
employees.”
Treasurer holds seminars in Regions I, IV
ALBANY — Local and unit The sessions have been set as Continuing his itinerary of
treasurers in Regions I and IV will. follows: visits around the state to answer
have opportunities next month to *Region I — 6:30 p.m., members’ questions and hear
attend educational seminars
Monday, April 19 at the region
complaints, Gallagher will be
conducted by statewide Treasurer —_ office in Hauppauge available all day Tuesday, March
Jack Gallagher and CSEA Finance : ete —6p.m., Tuesday, 30 at the Region IV Satellite Office
staff A at the
members.
Page 4 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982
Holiday Inn in in Plattsburgh.
Region VI meeting set;
PERB mediator to speak
He is a graduate of Hobart College
and the Albany Law School.
The Saturday agenda of the region
meeting calls for state and county
workshops beginning at 9:30 a.m.,
and a general business meeting at
1:30 p.m.
Hotel reservations may be made
directly with the Sheraton Inn, which
is located at 2040 Walden Avenue at
Exit 52 of Route I-90. The zip code is
14225 and the phone number is (716)
681-2400.
Scholarship deadline
April 30
ALBANY — The deadline for filing
applications for the CSEA Irving
Flaumenbaum Memorial Scholarship
Fund for the 1982-83 school year is
April 30, 1982.
Completed forms must be mailed to
CSEA Headquarters, c/o the Special
Scholarship Fund Committee, 33 Elk
St., Albany, N.Y. 12207.
Under the program, grants of $500
each will be awarded to three
students in each of the six regions, for
a total of $9,000 in award money
statewide. All CSEA members’
children who are graduating high
school seniors are eligible to apply.
The scholarships will be granted on
the basis of a number of factors
including high school, rank and
average, test scores, community and
school service, career goals,
recommendations and financial need.
They will be awarded in June.
All information obtained from the
applications will be kept confidential.
Forms are available through local
and regional offices.
All applicants must send in three
letters of recommendation with their
applications.
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Arlene Bergman assumes ‘hopeless task’ of running ABC office alone
And then there was one.....
By Hugh O’Haire
CSEA Communications Associate
MINEOLA — As in the story of the 10 little
Indians, the clerical staff of the State Division of
Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) office in Nassau
County had dwindled down to one employee.
Morever, in an exquisite bit of bureaucratic logic,
members, claiming it may consolidate ABC offices
sometime in the future.
So Arlene Bergman, senior and only
stenographer in the Nassau ABC Board office, does
the best she can answering the constantly ringing
telephones, taking dictation from the executive
officer in charge and the four investigators,
keeping the filing up to date, processing renewal
applications and helping the 50 or more visitors to
the office each day fill out the complicated 20-page
license application forms.
Obviously, it’s a hopeless task. Yet, Bergman
carries on alone. The situation gets absurd at times.
When she leaves the office for lunch, phones go
unanswered and visitors must help themselves to
applications or drop completed ones into a large
cardboard carton left on the reception counter.
A long-time employee, Bergman has not used her
the state has no intention of replacing staff
ARLENE BERGMAN has the hopeless task of try-
ing to keep even with the work load at the Nassau
County Alcoholic Beverage Control office. bisa on ona full-time basis.
“ALBANY — A higitlevel state sug tie rua the g state cannot deduct
wage penalties for a job action after the time limit outlined i in the | Civil |
Service Law.
The ruling is the first to enforce the time limit given in the law, and in_
this case, it means that 100 CSEA members are entitled to a refund from the
state.
‘The class action lawsuit began after several CSEA thembers were foun
in violation of the Taylor Law in 1979. Payroll deductions were made in July
of 1979 and the matter should have been closed. _
However, the state comptroller ordered an audit in 180 which showed —
that certain additional deductions would have to take place eer;
spore meaty 0 employees represented by CSEA. to CSEA
re - state then deducted additional wages fi
spring of 1980.
CSEA took the case fo court arguing thatthe Cv |
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box informs public that staff shortage and budget
restrictions make it impossible to service counter
accumulated leave time because of her sense of
duty. If she went on vacation for a length of time,
the office would be unable to function.
Originally the staff of the ABC Board office
consisted of two stenographers and a typist. In 1975,
one stenographer position was abolished and the
typist position was vacated in 1981.
Nick Pollicino, CSEA field representative, has
contacted the Division of Alcoholic Beverage
Control and the Division of Budget on Bergman’s
behalf but has encountered this run around: the
budget division will not fund or restore positions
because of plans by the ABC board to consolidate.
The ABC board cannot say when or even if it will
consolidate local offices.
In the meantime, Bergman has been trying to do
all the office’s work since September 1981, when the
typist retired. She maintains 3,000 active files,
processes the 500 license renewal forms annually,
replies to the 50 to 100 telephone calls on the office’s
three phones and tries to help the people who walk
into the office daily with anything from a simple
inquiry to how they can get their suspended licenses
back.
Bergman, who has worked at the Nassau office
since 1950, will be eligible to retire in three years. If
she does, then there will be none.
entitled to. refund.
time limit for deductions. If public employees are judged in violation of the
Taylor Law, the deductions are to be made “not earlier than thirty nor later
fay ninety days following the date of such determination,” according to the
Ww. ‘
‘The legal question was whether that time period was a strict time limit
that “bars a public employer from making strike ae at a period
other than as provided in the statute.””
The courts, both at the Supreme Court and the Appellate Division levels,
‘ruled in favor of the unions. The judges declared that all payroll deductions
_ frem CSEA members Teen, the Jan. 10, 1980 deadline allowed by the courts
sees evide that the 30 to
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ASSEMBLYMAN, UNION OFFICIALS
GIVEN SPECIAL TOUR — At the invitation
of Dr. Lee Hanes, Director of St. Lawrence
Psychiatric Center, a group representing all
three state employee unions, and a state
assemblyman, recently toured the new
304-bed hospital, and the Flower Building, site
of the proposed prison on the grounds of the
center. Shown in front row, left to right, are
Jack Fisher, vice president of CSEA Local
423; George McCarthy, president of Local
423; Maggie Budd, administrative assistant to
Assemblyman O’Neil and Dr. Hanes. Second
row, left to right, Robert Wright, John Burke,
both PEF representatives; Everett Stephen-
son, Deputy Director St. Lawrence P.C.;
Joseph Cosentino, Local 423 PAC chairper-
son; John O’Neil, Assemblyman from 112th
District; Rita Boyer, Chief of Nursing Ser-
vice, St. Lawrence P.C.; Norman Jones,
AFSCME Council 82 representative.
—(photo courtesy Ogdensburg Journal
THE PURLIG SECTOR, Friday, March 26,1982. Page.5.
Toll-taker Jackie Doonan likes the idea of being
herself while on the job...
Jackie Doonan’s job
is taking a toll —
and she enjoys it
By Stanley P. Hornak
CSEA Communications Associate
BEAR MOUNTAIN — Jackie Doonan says she
took her job as a toll collector on the Bear
Mountain Bridge because she ‘thought it would
be fun’’. . and she hasn’t been disappointed.
There was the time, for instance, the naked
coupled stopped to pay the toll before crossing
the bridge. ‘‘I told them I wasn’t impressed and
collected the 50 cents,” related Jackie, who
came to her job a year ago after doing similar
work as a part-timer with the state Thruway
Authority.
One of some 90 workers employed by the Mid-
Hudson Bridge Authority and a member of CSEA
Local 050, Jackie said she was drawn to her work
site because of its scenic beauty, but was
apprehensive about being only the second
woman to work there.
She quickly learned there was nothing to worry
about with her co-workers — ‘‘the guys always
respected me’’ — though occasionally she has
trouble with patrons — ‘‘dirty old men who slip
me notes when paying their tolls.””
The dark-haired 25-year-old, who radiates
personality, believes her job is one of the few
where ‘“‘you’re allowed to be yourself.”’ This
helps her cope with the variety of people she
meets. Each month more than 200,000 drivers
cross the span, one of five operated by the Mid-
Hudson Bridge Authority.
The best patrons, Jackie finds, are the truck
drivers, who “never make a wise remark.” She
also enjoys seeing many of the same commuters
daily and always has a word or two for them.
THE MID-HUDSON BRIDGE AUTHORITY:
...0n the Bear Mountain Bridge . . .
“T’m friendly and they’re friendly,” she said
citing her secret for preventing boredom. She
does admit that sometimes the midnight shift
can get tedious, without the steady stream of
traffic to keep her busy.
Collectors work rotation shifts and have every
fifth weekend off. “In the beginning, it took some
adjustment, but I did get used to it,” said Jackie.
She is never bothered by weather, since the
booths are heated and air-conditioned and there
is a special overhead heater which keeps the toll
collecting arm warm.
If she has one big complaint, it is the people
who get mad at her for rules she didn’t make but
must follow. She says she never buys the old
ruse, ‘I took the wrong turn,” from those trying
to avoid paying the toll. Patrons who can’t come
up with the money must surrender half of their
driver’s license, which will be returned only
when the fee is paid.
.-. where she usually has a smile for many of the
200,000 drivers who take the crossing each
month.
There is, however, more to a toll collector’s job
than taking tolls. These employees must be able
to identify different types of trucks which pay
fees depending on the number of axles they have.
At the end of a shift, receipts must be counted
and later totals will be double-checked. Records
are also kept of revenue and non-revenue
(police, National Guard, etc.) crossings.
Bridge Manager Chauncey Gaudienier says
toll collectors must always be “‘polite, courteous
and efficient,’ while Assistant Bridge Manager
Frank McDermott points out they must also be
knowledgeable because people are always
asking directions. A
Jackie Doonan is a good example of everything
a toll collector should be.
CSEA charges
Tompkins County
with improper
practice
ITHACA — The Tompkins County unit of CSEA Local
855 recently filed an improper practice charge against
the county after it unilaterally allocated a newly-created
position to a particular salary grade without negotiating
with the union.
According to James Hennerty, CSEA field represen-
tative, the IP charge alleges Tompkins County violated
New York State Civil Service Law (Section 209-a) by uni-
laterally allocating the newly-created position of Data
Entry Machine Operator to a particular salary grade
without the benefit of negotiations or discussion with
CSEA.
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982
CSEA, as requested, has submitted a legal brief to the
Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).
Michael Smith, CSEA counsel in Albany, indicated the
forthcoming decision could be far more important than
its impact on one particular title. ‘
“This proceeding will require PERB to analyze the im-
pact, if any, of the Court of Appeals decisions in the Mat-
ter of Evans v. Newman, which held that salary alloca-
tion is not a mandatory subject of negotiation for
employees of the State of New York,” Smith said. ‘“‘We
(CSEA) are seeking to avoid this principle being applied
to employees of municipal subdivisions.”
The PERB decision is expected in the near future.
e
2year pact for Housing Authority Unit
SYRACUSE — After more than four months of solid negotiations, CSEA
has reached a new and improved two-year contract for 110 employees
represented by the Syracuse Housing Authority Unit of CSEA Onondaga Coun-
ty Local 834.
According to Roger Kane, collective bargaining specialist and chief
negotiator for the unit, the new agreement calls for a salary increase of 7.5 per-
cent, plus increment, each year.
@ Other contract terms include:
« All longevity steps increased by $50 retroactive to Jan. 1, 1982.
« A compression of salary schedules, retroactive to July 1, 1981, which
translates into an increase of 2.5 percent.
* An additional uniform allowance of $35 to cover safety shoes and
jackets.
» Payment of hospitalization for retirees and dependents to be the same as
active employees (an improvement of 35 percent).
« Improved dental coverage.
In announcing agreement terms, Kane expressed his appreciation to the
five other members of the negotiating committee. The team included Don
ussell, unit president and chairman; Ken Stewart, Phyllis Gunn, Inez Mack,
and Diane Scott.
Agreements reached in Syracuse, Oneonta—
New benefits for city employees
ONEONTA — A new two-year agreement calling for a 7 percent
salary increase each year plus other improved benefits was recently ratified
by members of the Oneonta City Unit of CSEA Local 839 Otsego County.
Jerry Phelan, CSEA field representative and chief negotiator for the unit,
outlined the terms of the new pact, which are retroactive to Jan. 1, 1982.
In addition to increased wages, employees will benefit from a new
overtime policy and an improved longevity clause.
Other new items include:
A new dental plan offering 50 percent paid coverage.
« A cash payment of $500 to any city employee who drops out of the health
insurance plan.
« An increase of one vacation day for any employee after 20 years of
service (up to 25 years).
“We are pleased about the salary increases and other benefits,” said
Phelan, ‘but it is also worth noting that the city proposed a number of contract
‘take backs’ and the only trade was Election Day for half days Christmas Eve
and New Year’s Eve.”
Phelan also praised the efforts of Bruce Amadon, unit president and
chairman; Claudia Naragon and Timothy Johnston, members of the
negotiating team.
CSEA, AFSCME to launch statewide
TV ad campaign next week
@ ALBANY — CSEA and AFSCME are taking a message directly into the
homes of state taxpayers starting next week and the message is that the
union’s 200,000 members are providing thousands of valuable public services
every day to make the lives of all New Yorkers better.
Starting Monday, the two giant public employee unions will join hands for
a statewide television advertising campaign to sing the praise of public
employees and remind taxpayers that there is value received from the public
services they support.
“For far too many years we have allowed the public to believe all the
political garbage about lazy public employees sitting around waiting for fat
government pensions. We know it isn’t true, but the public doesn’t and every
political opportunist from Albany to Washington is taking advantage of this
myth to use us as the scapegoats for the problems of the economy,” said CSEA
President William L. McGowan in announcing the campaign.
Starting Monday, television stations in New York City, Albany, Utica,
Syracuse, Plattsburgh, Binghamton, Rochester, Buffalo and Watertown will
begin airing commercials produced for CSEA by the Albany advertising firm
of Van De Car, DePorte and Johnson. The program, jointly supported by CSEA
and AFSCME International, is designed to improve public opinion of public
employees and to educate the public on the valuable role public services play in
their lives.
e CSEA Communications Director Gary Fryer said before the campaign has
Local to file grievance
over promotional raise
dispute in Suffolk County
HOLTSVILLE — Suffolk County CSEA Local 852 will file a grievance
against Suffolk County claiming the county is misinterpreting the 198} contract
in saying that the minimum raise upon promotion is 4 percent rather than the
4.5 percent CSEA insists is accurate.
The move stems from a recent decision by a PERB hearing officer who said
PERB had no jurisdiction in the dispute and that it should be decided by pro-
cedures in the contract.
The argument over the amount of the promotional raise has been raging
@ between the county and the union for almost a year. It delayed the signing of
the contract until last month. both sides, however, finally agreed to sign the
contract and abide by the ruling of the PERB officer on this matter.
On Feb. 19, PERB Hearing Officer Kenneth Toomey ruled PERB had no
jurisdiction to interpret a contract. “I indicated that the resolution of the
dispute was best left to the procedures spelled out within the contract,”
Toomey said.
Jack Farneti, the county’s director of labor relations, said the PERB deci-
sion was a victory for the county and that the issue was closed. But Charles
Novo, Local 852 president, said that ‘since PERB didn’t hear the merits of the
case, there was no decision. We plan on pursuing the matter through arbitra-
tion as the PERB hearing officer suggested.”
ended in a few months, more than 90 percent of the taxpayers will have seen
and heard our message more than a dozen times.
“An ad campaign on this scale is no panacea,” Fryer said, “‘and it
certainly isn’t going to reverse all of the damage that has been done to the
reputation of public employees over the years. But it will be a significant step
in the right direction and it should foster respect for public services and,
hopefully, some pride among public employees that they are providing
valuable services to society despite the hardships they must endure as
government workers.”’
The CSEA spokesmen praised the dozens of union members and leaders
who cooperated in the production of the commercials which were filmed in and
around the Capital District to minimize costs.
“Our union represents so many types of workers who perform valuable
public services that the hardest part of our job was in limiting the services we
could portray, rather than in selecting enough services,” he said. ‘“‘I only wish
that everyone who cooperated in this effort could appear in the final
commercial because they have provided a valuable service to their union.”
The campaign will include most television stations in the major cities of
the state and will also be distributed on cablevision systems carrying those
stations into other areas.
Election ballots for AFSCME
convention to be mailed April 1
ALBANY — Ballots for the election of CSEA’s delegates to the 25th
Biennial Convention of the American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO, will be on the way to all
CSEA members next week.
The ballots, samples of which appear throughout the pages of this
edition of The Public Sector, are to be mailed on April 1. To vote in the
election, members must read their ballot instructions, cast their votes
and mail back their ballot so that it is received in Albany by no later than
the morning of April 23.
CSEA is an affiliate of AFSCME, and under the AFSCME
Constitution, the union elects delegates to attend the International’s
biennial conventions and vote on policy and constitutional matters
decided at those conventions.
The delegates: are elected by CSEA region and, the number of
delegates from each region is proportional to the number of union
members from that region. Candidates were nominated in regional
nominating meetings on March 6.
Candidates who are elected will be representing CSEA at the 25th
Biennial AFSCME Convention scheduled to begin June 21 in Atlantic
City, N.J.
The election notice printed on page one of this edition of The Public
Sector contains the procedures to be followed in the event that a member
does not receive an election ballot in the mail by April 12. Replacement
ballots will be available in those instances through the member’s CSEA
regional office.
Ballots will be counted in Albany beginning on April 26, and will
continue until completed. Winners of the election will be notified
immediately and the results of the election will be published in a future
edition of The Public Sector.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26,1982 Page 7.
CSEA STATEWIDE TREASURER Jack
Gallagher, left, is conducting a series of visits to
regional and satellite offices to discuss financial
matters. Gallagher is shown at one of those visits
discussing financial procedures with Westchester
Development Center Local 432 Treasurer Richard
Colson.
NEW YORK CITY — More than two years
after he was suspended and placed on leave
without pay, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
Local 406 member Louis Moore has been
reinstated with full back pay and benefits and
cleared of patient abuse charges.
The charges against Moore were dropped as a
result of a settlement on Moore’s behalf between
CSEA and the state before an arbitrator.
Based on the statements of adolescent
patients, Moore was charged with patient abuse
and suspended without pay in 1979. His case was
immediately sent to arbitration, where a battle
took place over the right of Moore’s legal counsel
to gain access to the records of patient witnesses
to the alleged incident of patient abuse.
According to Arthur Helton of the CSEA
regional law firm of Mailman & Ruthizer, who
represented Moore, the state’s case against
Moore was based solely on the statements of
adoloscent psychiatric patients. The state had no
medical evidence that the patient in question
was abused.
To prove Moore’s innocence, Helton had to
establish that the witnesses to the alleged
incident could not be relied on to give accurate
testimony. To do this, he needed to review their
medical records.
Claiming that the right of patients to
confidentiality of their records was at issue, the
state refused to grant Helton access to the
records of the patients who were scheduled to
testify against Moore. In response, CSEA went to
court to gain access to the records.
The New York State Supreme Court ruled that
Alden pact provides 15% wage hike
ALDEN — A two-year collective bargaining
All employees will be included under New York
Creedmoor PC employee
reinstated with back pay
Moore’s legal counsel had the right to inspect the
records of patients who were scheduled to testify
at the arbitration hearing and ordered the state
to deliver the records to the arbitrator.
The state sought to reverse the Supreme Court
decision in two appeals through the Appellate
Division of the New York State Court of Appeals,
but the original Supreme Court decision was
upheld.
Finally, after three hearings before an
arbitrator, CSEA and the state settled the case
on Moore’s behalf, establishing his innocence
and granting him his back pay, benefits and a
transfer so that he could arrange his schedule to
attend school and complete his college
education.
Helton, pleased with the settlement, noted that
other CSEA members stand to benefit by
Moore’s victory and other court cases regarding
access to patients’ records.
“Moore’s case and other cases won by CSEA
clearly establish the right of legal counsel to
review patients’ records when the state’s case
against an employee is based in any way on
patients’ testimony,” Helton said. “The courts
have also established the procedures to be
followed to protect the confidentiality of
patients’ records while assuring employees
brought up on charges of a fair hearing in
arbitration.”
Helton reported that as a result of the court
decision in the Moore case and other similar
cases, the state is no longer disputing CSEA’s
right to review patients’ records in arbitration
hearings.
over two years
modification of the discipline procedure to include
agreement has been reached in behalf of members State Disability coverage, and a zero co-pay all disciplines.
of the Alden Cafeteria School Unit of CSEA Erie prescription plan for all eligible employees will go
County Educational Local 868.
Wage increases for the 25-member unit will be 8
percent in the first year, retroactive to July of 1981,
and 7 percent in the second year.
into effect in September.
Contract language improvements include addi-
tion of a recall provision to the layoff articles and
Malone schools
reach agreement
— finally
MALONE — After more than 12 months of
negotiations hampered by an impasse, a new two-
year contract has been reached between the
Malone Central Schools Unit of CSEA Local 817
Franklin County and the Malone School District.
Don Brouse, CSEA field representative and chief
negotiator for the 155 non-instructional employees
represented by the unit, reported the new pact con-
tains some minor language changes, but deals
primarily with significant salary increases of 11
percent the first year, and 8 percent the second
year, retroactive to July 1, 1981.
“It took us more than one year to reach an agree-
ment, but we feel the salary increase justifies the
time and effort,” Brouse said.
Brouse also paid a special tribute to the
negotiating committee members for their
“unselfish sacrifice’ during the many months of
bargaining talks.
The negotiating team included Mary Hanna, unit
president; Jean Kelly, chairwoman; and Leona
Gagnier, Joan Marshall, Sue Coryea, Dave Brooks,
Bruce Benware, Martin Coolidge and Pat Wilson.
TRUSTEES of the newly established Emergency
Sick Leave Bank report that 600 Westchester
County unit employees have donated two days
each’to the “bank,” which can be tapped by co-
workers who have exhausted accumulated leave
time and are suffering long-term illnesses.
Sick bank established
CSEA collective bargaining specialist Danny
Jinks was chief negotiator, heading a committee
that included Irene Sivecz, Audrey Grant, Helen
Stephan and Unit President June Beyers.
Meeting recently were, from left, Chairman Bill
Pratley, Trustee Mare Pruzan, Collective
Bargaining Specialist Ron Mazzola, Grievance
Chairman Jack Whalen and Trustee Mary Naylor-
Boyd.
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THE PUBLIC SFCTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982
- |Why CSEA
endorsed
By Joseph Conway, Chairman
Statewide Political Action Committee
EXPLAINING CUOMO’S ENDORSEMENT to a
combined meeting of CSEA’s local presidents
and statewide Board of Directors, Joseph Con-
way, right, Chairman of the Statewide Political
Action Committee, gestures in emphasizing the
clear cut choice of candidates seeking the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
isi,
Two weeks ago this union shook off one of the last vestiges of the
reputation it once had as a “social club.” After five years of increasingly
effective activity in politics, CSEA took the big step and ended its tradition
of neutrality in gubernatorial politics. By unanimous vote, your Political
Action Committee endorses Lt. Gov. Mario M. Cuomo’s campaign to win the
Democratic gubernatorial primary.
For a lot of CSEA members, and a lot of elected public officials around
the state, this endorsement was a surprise. Not so much because the largest
public employee union in the state had endorsed a candidate with a proven
record of support for labor and as a defender of public services, but because
instead of jumping on the bandwagon after it got rolling, we jumped on
Mario Cuomo’s wagon before it even started moving. When we endorsed
Mario Cuomo, he hadn’t even formally announced his candidacy, although
he made it no secret he would.
Why Mario Cuomo?
You can start with his record as a public employer. As Secretary of
State for New York, Mario Cuomo established a relationship of trust and
respect with his employees, many of whom were CSEA members. He
created upward reclassifications for many positions, fought for and
implemented a career ladder program, started in-service programs to spur
upward career mobility and actively recruited women in professional
positions. More people were promoted during his tenure than at any other
time in the history of the Department of State.
Than, of course, there are the positions that Lt. Gov. Cuomo has taken in
support of public employee goals. He was an active supporter of CSEA’s
efforts to win legislative mandates granting all New York public employees
the same occupational safety and health act protections (OSHA) as ur
brothers and sisters in private industry. He was equally active in support of
our efforts to win supplementation of pension benefits for public employees
in the Employment Retirement System.
Mario Cuomo also believes that it’s not fair for public employee union
members to have to pay to support the benefits of unionism alone, while non-
members receive the same benefits of representation but refuse to pay their
fair share of the cost. He, therefore, supports agency shop legislation that
keeps the free-loaders off the backs of union members and helps to keep
union dues down.
The lieutenant governor also publicly supports continued care for the
mentally handicapped in this state. He has embraced the tenets of the
“Morgado Memorandum” and the minimum staffing levels and state
operation of community care facilities that it provides.
ss
And that’s not all. Mario Cuomo is an active proponent of equal rights
for minorities and women, he wants better care for the elderly and he led the
clean-up of corrupt nursing homes in New York. He believes in increased
federal assistance to state and local government, help for the deteriorating
inner cities and reform of campaign financing.
As far as his position on Reaganomics and the thousands of public
employees layoffs it has caused, it suffices to say tha Mario Cuomo was
chairman of the New York Carter Re-Election Committee in 1980.
Now that you know why Cuomo is the kind of candidate that our union
can support, it probably won’t come as any surprise to you that Mario
Cuomo has had labor support in every political campaign in which he has
been involved.
So why do we have to endorse him now, so long before the primary
election is even held?
Unfortunately, the best reason for an immediate endorsement of Mario
Cuomo is his opponent, Edward Irving Koch, the mayor of the City of New
York.
You’ve probably read that Ed Koch is something of a media sweetheart.
You certainly heard about his decision to ignore his pledge to New York City
voters and seek the Democratic nomination for governor.
Well if you have the impression he is a front runner for that nomination,
you are not alone. A lot of people have that impression. And despite the fact
that Koch’s support will undoubtedly dwindle the more he campaigns and
makes comments — like the one about suburban and rural life being
“sterile” — there is a dangerous false impression that he is the man to beat.
Without early and substantial support for the Cuomo campaign now, the
Cuomo campaign might get steamrolled by a Koch bandwagon effect. An
endorsement later might simply be too little, too late.
So what’s in this for you?
Well, a very difficult fight, for one thing. It isn’t going to be easy to raise
the necessary funding to offset the Koch media advantage. Ultimately,
working together and with our brothers and sisters in labor who will join the
Cuomo-CSEA bandwagon, we can and will defeat Ed Koch and win the
democratic primary election.
And should the voters of this state send Mario Cuomo to the Governor’s
mansion, public employees like you will be able to breathe a lot easier with
an experienced, compassionate man as the chief executive of this state
instead of a politician who changes his view depending upon how the
political winds are blowing.
In the coming weeks, your union will be asking you to help us help you by
joining with us in working to make Mario Cuomo the Democratic Party’s
candidate for Governor of the State of New York.
ACCEPTING CSEA’S ENDORSE-
MENT, Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo,
center, listens as CSEA President
Bill McGowan explains to a March
11 Albany press conference that the
state’s largest public employee
union has ended 72 years of isola-
tion in gubernatorial politics and
made its first ever endorsement in
a gubernatorial primary election.
CSEA Executive Vice President
Thomas McDonough, left, and the
union’s other statewide officers
were present at the press con-
ference along with the union’s
Board of Directors and the
Statewide Political Action Commit-
tee which made the endorsement.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982 Page 9
Contract countdown
Deadline April 1 for ratification ballots
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Western meetings draw
big turnout of members
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982
BUFFALO — The recently-negotiated tentative contract
hammered out by CSEA in behalf of its 108,000 state employee
members was discussed by and explained to large numbers of
members in Region VI who attended four contract informational
meetings held throughout the region.
Questions about the lag pay feature, make-up money from
the expiring contract and when members would receive their
promised pay boosts dominated the sessions held for western
New York members.
CSEA President William L. McGowan attended the Buffalo
meeting and, along with CSEA Collective Bargaining
Specialists Jack Carey and Nels Carlson and CSEA Researcher
Bruce Wyngaard, answered questions and explained details of
the proposed contract.
If the sentiments of those in attendance reflect the mood of
the entire voting membership, the pact will be ratified
overwhelmingly, according to Region VI President Robert L.
Lattimer, who led the membership in applauding the efforts of
the CSEA negotiating team.
The contract was explained in great detail by the CSEA
staffers and the negotiating team members from the respective
bargaining units. The Institutional Unit was represented by Liz
Watts of Roswell Park Memorial Institute and Debbie Lee of
West Seneca Developmental Center.
Mary Ann Bentham of SUNY/Fredonia and Elaine Todd of
the Department of Labor represented the Administrative
Services Unit and Tom Warzel of SUNY/Buffalo and John
Wallenbeck of Department of Transportation, Hornell, detailed
the Operational Unit contract.
President McGowan urged those in attendance to pass the
word to their fellow workers to ‘make their feelings known one
way or the other about the pact by marking your ratification
ballot and sending it back to Albany in time for it to count.”
Sat * :
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Jack Carey,
bargaining sefices, listens.
ALBANY — CSEA members in the state’s Administrative,
Institutional and Operational bargaining units have only a few days
left:to make their vote count in the ongoing ratification balloting for
CSEA’s tentative agreements with the State of New York.
The union and the state reached agreement on February 27
following months of tough bargaining. The three-year pact would
Increase state salary schedules by 32 percent over three years in
addition to incremental and longevity payments, plus other major
gains, ; *
Ratification ballots were mailed to CSEA members on March 15
e state employees attending
i Region this week.
DTIATING TEAM
Bentham, left,
dd, center, discuss
hester meeting while
ector of collective
after exact contract language had been mailed to each meniber and
full details of the agreement had been spelled out in two editions of The
pe Sector and in contract highlight sheets (mailed with ratification
allots).
CSEA President William L. McGowan who led’ the union’s
negotiating teams through negotiations, has urged every union
member in the affected bargaining units to vote for ratification of the
agreement, described as the ‘best ever” for state workers.
Ratification ballots will be counted in Albany on April 1 under the
~ supervision of the union’s Statewide Elections Committee.
CSEA CHIEF NEGOTIATOR James W. Roemer, Jr., left, and CSEA President William L.
McGowan, right, answer questions from the floor during an informational meeting in Albany on
March 10 for CSEA’s state leadership. The meeting was called by President McGowan to
explain details of the union’s tentative agreement that provides state employees with salary
increases of 32 percent plus increments and longevity payments over the next three years.
g CRAIG DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER
? Local 405 members Betty Cappadonia and
Frank Palermo show deep interest in . ~
contract discussion. “i
Predict overwhelming
passage of contracts
FARMINGDALE — CSEA
President William L. McGowan
predicted here this week at a 3-hour
contract information session for Long
Island state workers that the
contracts will be ratified by a wide
margin.
The Long Island session was the
latest in a month-long series of
informational meetings held
throughout the state.
At the meeting at SUNY
Farmingdale, about two-thirds of the
session was devoted to questions and
answers concerning the lag payroll
situation. Atty. James Roemer, chief
union negotiator, said the state’s
three-year offer, which included the
first year lag, was made with the
stipulation that it was a take it or lose
it proposition.
The chief negotiator explained that
after careful study, it was felt that
last offer binding arbitration (LOBA)
~ could result in the loss of the last two
years of the offer and that it was also
probable that the union would not
obtain a 9 percent one-year raise
either under LOBA, based on the
state’s ability to pay.
He also said the negotiating teams
felt “‘it was more beneficial to receive
9 percent with a lag because the
9 percent goes into your base pay
after the first year.”
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982 Page 11
Layoff threat
still
fresh memory
for Labor Dept.
members
‘No one’s going to save our jobs for us if we
don’t stand up for ourselves . . . and I really
think the overall unemployment situation
will get even worse before it gets better.’
—Sylvia Ebersold,
president, CSEA Local 012
CHECKING STATISTICS — CSEA Local
012 President Sylvia Ebersold, right,
checks over Labor Department Statistics
with Employment Service Manager Ann
Bachorski.
Efforts under way to prevent reoccurrence in ’83
By Ron Wofford
CSEA Communications Associate
ROCHESTER — Region VI CSEA members who work for the state
Department of Labor are not taking the recent reprieve of federally-funded job
ser’ _ cutbacks complacently.
Rochester-area DOL employees who had earlier urged their U.S.
congressional representatives to vote against the Reagan-proposed cutbacks if
the bill reached Congress, plan to continue and intensify their efforts to prevent
a threatened 1983 duplication of the same cuts.
Rochester CSEA Local 012 President Sylvia Ebersold, who has ‘‘been on
the offensive since Reaganomics began,” wants more of her fellow members to
“take the initiative and stay in contact with your congressmen and senators
and let them know that you want the valuable services you deliver to the public
to remain uninterrupted.”
Ebersold, who earlier had joined in an effective letter-writing and
telegram campaign spurred by Region VI President Robert L. Lattimer, said
she plans to urge her members in upcoming local meetings and through Local
012’s recently-started newsletter ‘not to let our momentum falter.”
“No one’s going to save our jobs for us if we don’t stand up for ourselves
i
Dolores Carbone, left, and Senior
Employment Security Clerk Freda
Williams, both of Local 012.
CONCERNED EMPLOYEES — Two
Labor Department members con-
cerned about maintaining level of ser-
vices are Principal Security Clerk
and believe in the dignity of our jobs and the public’s needs,” she said. “And I
really think the overall unemployment situation will get even worse before it
gets better.”
Ebersold said all DOL employees were given “layoff packets’’ in
anticipation of the job service cutbacks she feels even the normally
complacent employees were sensitized to the potential loss of their jobs, or at
least massive disruption through bumping procedures that would have caused
many job site transfers as well as lower pay.
“Some of our members know they were almost on the other side of the
unemployment line,” said Dolores Carbone, a delegate for Local 012 and editor
of the “Union Reporter” newsletter.
eee eee
‘State workers have been suffering for years trying to
get even with the cost of living . . . it will only get worse
unless we mobilize.’
—Freda Williams,
senior employment security clerk
eee
“Our unemployment insurance lines are a lot longer now and everyone’s
aware of the poor state of the economy,” said Carbone, a DOL principal
security clerk. ‘We need to convert that knowledge to concerted positive
action.”
Freda Williams, a senior employment security clerk, has written letters to
her U.S. congressmen and state legislators and ‘“‘would be willing to march” to
underline her feelings about what she considers unfair treatment of public
employees.
“State workers have been suffering for years trying to get even with the
cost of living,” Williams said. ‘‘And it will only get worse unless we mobilize.”
“We've got the ball rolling but we’ve got to keep working to make as many
of our members as possible aware of what it means to be politically
conscious,” said Sylvia Ebersold. ‘The next step is underlining how that
awareness can help save our jobs. This most recent job threat cutback is a
great example.”
Pride in one’s job and the knowledge that a needed public service is being
delivered by one’s efforts should contribute to all public employees’ self-
esteem, “even in the face of Ronald Reagan’s continuous attacks on
government and its workers,” said Region VI President Lattimer.
“Political action by CSEA on many fronts has proven effective, from our
regional subdivisions through to our Albany connection, Lattimer said. ‘‘We’re
now working on building our Washington base even more because the future of
all our jobs emanates from D.C. through Albany to our counties, cities and
school districts.”
The regional president said it’s becoming increasingly important that the
union monitor what’s happening in Washington and Albany. “Then we must
transmit that information through the local leadership to the individual
members, who then must let their political representatives know their feelings.
“We're all fed up with attacks on public employees, but few people realize
that the union is the only full-time public employee advocate,” continued
Lattimer. ‘There are some public interest groups whose aims coincide with
ours, but, by and large, the union is the only entity that can and is working full-
time in behalf of the public employee.”
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TH 10] Helen Regis
F ederal court LL uling: OSHA inspectors must point out all safety Since the federal inspectors had issued no
hazards on the job site. If they don’t andaneglected _ citations for violations of the OSHA law, the
e a hazard later causes an injury, they can be held employee complained that OSHA officials had been
OSH A t i accountable. negligent in enforcing the act’s requirements at her
inspec 0 Ss That’s the gist of a recent court decision that worksite. She asked for monetary damages for her
s allowed an injured employee to sue the federal injuries from the federal government.
may be held liable “:-",., esto |
The story behind the case was that federal OSHA The government tried to dismiss her claim, but
inspectors had examined a worksite in a New the federal court upheld her right to sue for
for unreported Hampshire shoe factory several times. Each time, damages. The judge said that the Federal Tort
they neglected to point out an unguarded drive Claims Act cancels the federal government's
shaft on one of the machines. immunity from prosecution in cases of ‘personal
safety haza rds While working on that machine, one of the injury or aeath caused by the ralibenee or
@ employees was hurt when her hair became wrongful act or omission of any employee of the
entangled in the unguarded drive shaft. government,”
THE PUBLIC SECTOR; Friday, March 26, 1982 Page 13
|
a
Slate 1 (23 candidates)
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“Leadership Slate”
10 George Caloumeno
2L) Frances DuBose
30 Brenda Nichols
«CJ George Boncoraglio
sQAnn Worthy
s_JJoseph C. Johnson, Jr.
7K James Harrison
sLJCassell Brockett
eC Phyllis Fergusen
1oL] Lenora Lee
»nODennis Tobin
2O Stella Williams
3 Ernest Punter
«Bob Nurse
isL]Clinton Thomas
LJ Floyd Payne
1OWesley Baily
#sL]John Jackson
1s) Roy Johnson
2»C)Charlotte Rue
2 (Jackie Battle
2 Denise Berkley.
aO Priscilla Bullocks, »
O
{
Slate 2 (2 candidates)
2 Ci James Patrick Heekin
2sL] Madeline Sapio Keohan
Slate 3 (9 candidates)
“Downstate Medical Center
Leadership Slate”
aC Anita Schiowitz
aC Audley E. Batiste
aClAl Mirable
2L)Harry Frankiewicz
x») Lloyd Graham
si Janice Wood
xCJAl Davis, Jr.
33] LaVern Perry
The sample ballot reproduced
March 25. It is however, subject to change.
the actual ballot scheduled to be mailed to
Region II
Slate
|
C
4 (21 candidates)
“The Membership Slate”
uC Jimmy Gripper
3sC] Barbara Farrell
sxL]Willie Raye
a7 John Naro
zaL] Marjorie Reeves
3eC] Helen Carter-Cugno
«OKirk Scott
« Leroy Edwards
aC Felix Rodriguez
«(Keith Edwards
«OSaint Clair Payne
«CJ Everton F. Phillips
«CWarren Albright
«OF.W. Frazier
#()Sarah Johnson
_ 4eC)Charles Perry
sol) George Austin
s1C) Joseph Matons
s2L] Alexandra Rivera
ss] Maria Roman
ss1Yzon Destine
Slate
5 (3 candidates)
ssL] Robert Sage
«C]Rose Marie Bazemore
s7L] Isadore Morales
Slate 6 (2 candidates)
Oo
|
“Pick the Young
Speakers Slate”
ss_] Douglas L. Murphy
soL]Melvin Sheppard
Slate 7 (2 candidates)
O
L
eoL] Geraldine MacMillen-Cherry
s1L] Dorothy LaFrance
VOTE FOR NO MORE THAN 23 CANDIDATES
ez] Nancy Ann Gonzales-Unger
eC] Dolly Krampner
eC) Louis Gilmore
e5C]William Bear
eC) Edward Gray
e7_] Henry Reese
esCIrittia Dennis
«Ethel Sandler
7oL] Doris Johnson
Labor Department installation
Newly elected officers of the Department of
Labor CSEA Local 352 in Buffalo were installed
recently by CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene
Carr, seated left front. Standing from left are
President Elaine Todd, Second Vice President
Sharon Cordaro, Treasurer Doreen Lapis, and
dxecutive Board Members Rita Dietrich and
‘oAnne Occhino, Seated from left are Ms. Carr,
First Vice President Jacci Reed, Secretary
Helen Milliken and Board Member Shirley
)eBalski. Board Member Lena Fazio is missing
Mie is
from the photo.
i.
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Region Ill
reproduced here was accurate in content as of noon, Thursday,
, subject to change and any such changes will be reflected in —
led to be mailed to eligible members on April.”
Slate 1 (37 candidates)
“Unity Slate”
| 1 Raymond J. O’Connor
20 Pat Mascioli
sC)Harold Ryan
«(Rose Marcinkowski
sO Eleanor McDonald
sL]Grace Woods
7CEva Katz
sL] Patsy Spicci
wCI Ellis Adams
1Olrena Kobbe
12 Jack Cassidy
13) Robert Thompson
1s) Marie Romanelli
ssi Jim McNutt
1C]Carmine Ricci
17 Bob Watkins
wOAlex Hogg
1CRichard Riley
2») Gary Eldridge
2OWade Willis
2CJane Lewis
al John Lowery
aC) Martin Mesuda
2 Ray Zerberini
2 Ci Janice Schaff
aC Kay Cayton
xO Scott Daniels
2 ClJerry Barbour
2» O Jack Whalen
31C) Barbara Peters
x21) Marlene High
asGrace Ann Aloisi
ss) Hugh Crapser
as Bill Kenneweg
x» (Glenda Davis
a OJose Pedre
oC] Barbara Swartzmiller
VOTE FOR NO MORE THAN 37 CANDIDATES
Slate 2 (37 candidates)
|
O
“Workers Slate”
ss) Roger A. McLane
a»C]Thomas LeJeune
«l]Henry Brennan
«C1 Brenda J. Masterson
«OQ Brian Dalton
«(Kenneth Klinko
«(Sandra Klinko
asL] Michael Meinyk
«(]Chuck Allen
a7E] Jack Shaw, Sr.
«(Terri Pitcher
«1 Edwar Clark
»C) Doris W. Josephson
s1 James Pauline
seL] Deloris Bracken
ssC Judy Brusi
ss] John Koche
ss]Susan Carter
«CQ Jessie Riley
sy] Donald Lamb
ss()Sue Miller
se(William Hitsman
eoL)Ann Schooner
oC] Lee C. Mercado
e2Z] William Cahill
esCJohn J. Lupi
«L)Seth R. McNeil
esC]Gerard M. Lear
«(Mary Fryar
e7L] Nicholas Glamann
eC] Kuziyathu Thomas
eoLJOrpha Thomas
7»CSamuel R. Jones
2 C Josephine Swart
nO Carole M. Peets
7] Evangeline S. Rodriguez
(Madeleine Gallagher
CIE. Sands Frost
nw ClEstelle Schmidt
7C)Patricia A. Nealon
7() Bernard F. Cohen
»C]Solomon Williams
eoL]Cyrial Toomer
eo C]Samuel J. Zippilli
e2( Marie Tuthill
«(Barbara Higgins
«(Sallie J. Bauer
eC Anthony Fattarino
a (]Sean Egan
EAP agreement signed at Fredonia
FREDONIA — An Employee Assistance Program has
been established at the State University College at
Fredonia, jointly sponsored by CSEA Locals 607 and 627,
two other employee unions and the Student Affairs office.
More than 900 university employees will be covered by
the agreement, which provides confidential referral
assistance to employees with financial, medical, family,
alcohol, or drug-related problems.
Walter Zielinski has been named EAP coordinator and
will be based at the Rockefeller Arts Center, room 215. The
phone number is (716) 673-3586.
Those present at the recent agreement signing are
pictured in the accompanying photo. They are, standing,
left to right, Wendy Cummings, University Police Council
82; Mary Ann Bentham, president of CSEA Local 607;
JoAnn Kaufman, UUP president; and Christine Rhodes,
president of CSEA Local 627.
Seated, from left, are Pat Green, committee
chairwoman; Dr. Dalla K. Beal, college president; and
Zielinski.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982 Page 15
Slate 1 (38 candidates)
“United Slate”
O
10 Thomas McDonough
2L)Joe McDermott
s01C. Allen Mead
.O Barbara Skelly
sL]Shirley Brown
sL)Gerald Toomey
7OCarmen Bagnoli
sL]Jeanne Kelso
eC Fran Wilusz
1oL]William Zippiere
1) Kathryn Saddlemire
12] Betty Lennon
x3L]John Francisco
uC Jeanne Lyons
1sL) Louis Altieri
seL] June Robak
es wOJohn Gully
. szC)John McAlonan
: 1eL] Jeanne Pratt
aClJoseph Conway
2 (Susan Crawford
2QAl Oliver
2) Ruth Hathaway
2«CIE. Marilynne Whittam
21] Dann Wood
2s] Karen Murray
27] Marianne Herkenham
aC] Betty C. Collins
2OCindy Egan
2 Dolores Farrell
31CJ Earl Kilmartin
a2] Barbara Stack
3sL] Dominic Ruggeri
«(Gilbert Tatro
asL] Richard Canniff
2»C]Charles Staats
arWilliam Fetterling
as John Weidman
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Region IV
VOTE FOR NO MORE THAN 38 CANDIDATES
se Robert Lassone
«() Louise McGlauflin
aC] Judy Harrington
aC) Michelle ae
«CJ Ernestine Lafayette
-Slate'2 (3 candidates)
aCJSusan M. Smith
«CJ Donald M. Forchilli
«CIChristine L. Cossart
«OMike Rea
«(Leroy Holmes
«(John Wyngaard
so C]William G. McMahon
Slate 3 (4 candidates)
s:1 JEd Donnelly
s2L] Al Connors
ss) Barbara Bradley
ss] Willard Timmons
Efforts against Social Security continue, AFL-CIO warns
The Reagan administration is continuing its efforts to “gut” the Social
Security system, placing the economic security of millions ‘‘in jeopardy,” the
AFL-CIO has warned.
“The inflammatory and demagogic way that some spokesmen for the
administration, including the President, have painted Social Security as being
faced with bankruptcy and collapse is wrong,’ AFL-CIO President Lane
Kirkland told a press conference.
There is a short-term period of several years during which there will be a
shortfall in funds, Kirkland said, but after that a surplus will begin to build up
at a rapid rate.
Labor has proposed a general contribution to bridge the short-term gap
and after that the long-range financing projections are excellent, Kirkland
said.
The federation’s Executive Council warned that ‘administration efforts to
gut the program continue’ despite public support of Social Security.
The council noted that the 15-member National Commission on Social
Security Reform, which includes Kirkland, is weighted towards the
administration viewpoint. Reagan named five members, and five each were
named by the Republican and Democratic congressional leaders.
In addition, Social Security Commissioner John A Svahn announced the
Page 16 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982
administration would reject any general revenue financing even if the panel
recommended it, the council said. Thus it would appear the administration will
support only recommendations to cut benefits, the council concluded.
The administration already has achieved major cuts in Social Security
through the budgetary process, the council observed. These included phasing
out benefits for dependent children in school, eliminating minimum benefits
for new recipients and burial benefits for some and taxing sick pay. The
administration also wants to eliminate up to 20 percent of disability
beneficiaries from the rolls, the council said.
In the Fiscal 1983 budget, Reagan recommended major cuts in Medicare, a
basic part of Social Security, the AFL-CIO pointed out, despite his promise not
to call for further cutbacks.
The AFL-CIO said it supports all efforts to deal with Social Security
problems aimed at improving its financial stability and would oppose
“unwarranted cuts disguised as a rescue operation based on exaggerated
funding problems.”
The AFL-CIO said it favors removing Social Security from the Unified
Budget and for partial general revenue financing.
The Council said it would fight any further cuts in Medicare and oppose
administration efforts to deny benefits to the disabled.
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Region V
Slate 1 (37 candidates) Slate 2 (4 candidates) ————_,
| “Unity Slate” | “4 0.C.D. Slate”
LJ ,QJim Moore (1 »Quoe Chiarello
2C Pat Crandall 30L] Rosemary N. Baker
3) Ralph Young «() Bernice Nicotera
«Dick Brown «Karen Parkhurst
sL)George McCarthy L
«J Bruce Nolan
7 Helen Hanlon «i Ron Czepiel
sL)Mary E. Sullivan «(J Thomas J. Elhage
»C) Marjorie Coggeshall «eC Jack Haggerty
wC] Jack Gallagher O HP ane, «(Sharon T. Keesler
1()Tom Murphy si age P «(Roberta A. Bidwell
sOAddie Kelley ao Le fet 4s] Bob Shaller ~
130) Dolores Herrig’. | «J Doreen Reigles
«(Francis Mitchell) ~~ «Cl Judy Naioti
1sL]Arlene Evenden «s(] Bud Mulchy
seC] Hugh McDonald «C] Barbara Reeves
17 Carol Riggall soL]Sandy Delia
CJ Ed Lavin s:C]Sue Bucrzinski
(Carlo Guardi seJamie LaBoy
2(] Dale Dusharm
21) Mabel Wannamaker
z2( John Gieht Slate 3 (8 candidates) ————_
2O) Dale Mumbulo hy)
Binghamton City
2 Joan Brower local/o02 Slate”
zs John Premo
2( Bob Allen CL] «(Eleanor Korchak
2a Dick Grieco ss) Carol Stiner
21] Mary Lauzon ss) Robert Taylor
2(C)Richard Reno se) Sabina Lindsley
s»C)Chuck Whitney s7 Ed Lewis
3 OBill Krivyanik ss“) Peg Donovan
2(Claire McGrath soL]Annette Rezucha
3O Bob Vincent eo(]Margaret Campoli
sO Santo DeVito
3 Dorothy Penner ;
30 Chuck Eynon Slate 4 (2 candidates) ——__—__
wOlrene Carr “Hutchings Psychiatric
Center Slate’
(1) «sQSharon Connor
| ez(JLinda Brooks
VOTE FOR NO MORE THAN 37 CANDIDATES
TaN
HEMPSTEAD CONTRACT — Hempstead CSEA
Unit President Gus Nielsen, left, and CSEA Field
Representative Rigo Predonzan study new two-
year contract recently ratified by union members.
The contract provides raises of between 21 and 44
percent over the two-year period. Employees will
receive raises of 9.5 percent the first year, 8.5 per-
cent the second year plus a cost of living adjust-
ment, and the increment plan was restored for
employees hired after 1975. Other contract im-
provements include a new mileage allowance of 25
cents, and a $300 uniform allowance provision. A
new 10-year longevity step was also negotiated in
what Nielsen described as “one of the best con-
tracts ever negotiated in the Town of Hempstead.”
o)
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“Monroe County Slate”
sCJRobert L. Lattimer »
7O Genevieve Clark
eCJRobert C. Sm
e(]Gerald M. Pririce
+L]Sheila A. Brogan
1 (Barbara M. Fauser
12C)Patricia A. Pfleger
13 John Wallenbeck
Region VI
« OJ Frank Falejczyk
«QO Patricia Chance
(Slee el dames Bond «L]Mildred M. Lograsso
| 2C) David Kundin
Slate 3 (6 candidates)
sLJJohn Beaty “Local 3, Region VI,
.OGib Collins DFY Slate”
O «QO Gregory Brown
Slate 2(36 candidates) ————, a Gpatricla M Galineky
| “Region VI Slate” William A. Garey, Jr.
CJ .QWilliam L. McGowan William Jordan
«(LJudith Raybould
Slate
soLJJean Donegan
4(3 candidates)
“Local 405 C.D.C. Slate”
«Salvatore A.
aC June Ferner
«(Sara Sievert
uO Dominic Spacone, Jr.
aC] James Lindsay
a Florence Tripi
w»CElaine Mootry
. Be peste Cs QNorman Smith
«James Jayes se Kathleen A. Pontillo
Elaine Todd ssLIPhil Nasca
wO Leroy Freeman
SIGE Dunial ss Kathleen Gruber
2 CJ Debbie Lee ss Edith Jackson
2Mary Cartwright «(1 Venora White
aU Doris W. Williams ean
uCiMary Ann Bentham x» Edith (Vivian) Richardson
2CJLeland A. Winchell ssC Pauline M. Buczkowski
2s) Robert Painter eo] Pascal Bonavito
72 er ae
zCJohn P. Eiss ,
2»_1George Growney Slate 5 (3 candidates)
sx Richard Mcintyre | “Roswell Park Slate”
a Gn Oeeneld C1 :CElizabeth Watts
xO Jack Schlenker ee] Barbara Reese
es(]James H. Ewing
Castro
VOTE FOR NO MORE THAN 36 CANDIDATES
8.
Union fires up political action effort on budget
(Continued from Page 1)
would be the last day that thousands of state
workers could be expected to show up at their jobs.
“Our people don’t make enough money to be
generous to their employers,”’ the union leader
warned, ‘‘and if the pay stops so will the work.”
The union leader suggested an alternative to the
crisis, the passage of at least a portion of the ‘‘state
purposes”’ section of the budget prior to April 1. The
legislature could fight over the details later, but
state workers would continue to receive their nor-
mal paychecks without interruption.
Meanwhile, legislative leaders and the governor
were still fighting at Sector press time over a
budget. The governor said the legislature’s pro-
posal would cause 4,500 layoffs of state workers.
The reason, he said, isn’t because there isn’t
enough money, but because some legislators want
to spend money needed to fund state agencies on
local government expenditures which are political-
ly beneficial.
Legislators, on the other hand, were claiming the
governor was purposefully underestimating
revenues to hid money that could be used for local
4 THE PUBLIC.SECTOR, Friday, March.26,,1982 ..,
government expenditures.
On March 26, President McGowan sent telegrams
to hundreds of CSEA leaders representing state
employees, urging them to join already active
CSEA political action forces in contacting state
legislators and urging restoration of funding to pre-
vent the threatened layoffs.
Meanwhile, McGowan urged state employees not
to react to rumors and to remain calm while the
budget fight continues. ‘If state workers want to do
something to help,”’ he said, ‘‘the best way to do it is
by picking up a telephone, calling your legislator
and demanding that the budget protect state jobs.””
BRIDGING THE GAP
The transition
from institution
to community
By Ron Wofford
CSEA Communications Associate
ROCHESTER — Helping mentally retarded
persons bridge the gap from institution to
community is a task that involves a great
number of dedicated state employees.
A major component of that bridge is the
community residence home concept, which calls
for home-style satellites of the state
developmental centers that provide services and
care for retarded persons.
The community residence director (CRD) is
an important cog in the machinery that delivers
those services. At the Monroe Developmental
Center, two CRDs also function in critical roles
for their fellow CSEA local and regional
members.
Mary Cartwright, based at the Telephone
Road Community residence home, is president
of Local 439, and Ruby Everett of the Hatch Road
residence is co-chairperson of the Region VI
Women’s Committee.
Both bring a wealth of experience and
dedication to their jobs and have been cited as
“excellent examples” by the center’s director.
The community residence director is aided by
an in-house staff that includes two assistant
directors and seven community residence aides
divided between two daytime shifts, with one
aide on duty overnight.
Resource support from the main
developmental center includes physicians,
community health nurses, psychologists, social
workers, dieticians and recreational therapists
who meet regularly with the residence director
to assess clients goals and progress.
“Tt’s a lot like raising a large family,” said Ms.
Cartwright as she looked over a long list of
“things to do” for her workday.
Her list included items like ‘plan shopping
RUBY EVERETT chats with a resident of the community home she directs.
schedules, set up doctor’s appointment, prepare
for neighborhood advisory committee meeting,
post cooking plan, do timesheets,”’ and so on.
“Planning and scheduling are important, if
you’re to stay on top of things,” said Ms.
Cartwright, whose home houses about 12 senior
citizens, many of whom have jobs in community
programs where they work three to six hours,
five days a week.
The role of community residence director,
besides the obvious job qualifications, requires
“a lot of understanding, communications
abilities, flexbility, a clear idea of the center’s
goals and objectives and lots and lots of
patience,” according to Ruby Everett.
“And good relations with the surrounding
community is extremely important,” Ms.
Everett continued. ‘Usually when a home goes
LOCAL 439 Executive Board members meet to discuss issues important to the membership.
Standing from left are Local 439 President Mary Cartwright, First Vice President Creaola Shelton
and Second Vice President Charles Banks. Seated from left are Secretary Loleta Hollister, Third
Vice President Ruby Everett, and Treasurer Bette Lawrenz.
up in a neighborhood, the surrounding neighbors
are curious about the bustle of activity that goes
with setting up a community residence.
“Secondly, there are many misguided
apprehensions about retarded persons, and
that’s why we develop a neighborhood liaison
committee, that seeks to answer questions and
reassure everyone that there’s no need for alarm
because of our presence.
“We meet monthly with our committee to
update them about progress, and also enlist their
input about some of our needs, such as churches
and libraries as well as other community
resources,” said Ms. Everett.
Mary Cartwright places her job as a CRD on
par with her role as Local 439 president, calling
the two “equally important. The many details I
have to cover as a CRD help me in paying
attention to the details required of a local
president.”’ said the twenty-year state employee,
who has also served as a local vice president,
treasurer and steward.
“We have more than 700 members here and
my experience in the various jobs I’ve had, along
with the strong backing of CSEA is a prime
resource for the resolving of any problems,” said
Ms. Cartwright.
Women’s issues that concern committee chair-
person Everett include career ladders. ‘‘They
need improvement. So many women here have
remained grade 3’s for 16 to 18 years,” she says.
“We need more motivational sessions to
encourage them to try for some of the
promotional civil service exams, even prep
courses to prepare them. And the $5 exam fee
should be dropped.”
“Education about dealing with sexual
harassment is a continuing need,” Ms. Everett
said. ‘“‘And something should be one about
helping employees deal with job stress, which
isn’t spoken about very often.”
“The day-care issue looks close to being
resolved,’’ observed the ten-year state
employee, noting one of nine day-care centers
for state workers across the state is scheduled to
open soon at the Monroe Developmental Center.
“It’s long overdue,” she said.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, Mareh 26,1982" Page 197? 4
Disaster
averted
A potential disaster in the North Country Village of Malone was
erted last month when volunteers and employees of more thana
dozen village, county and state agencies contained and cleaned up
le evacuation of residents was
conducted as a preventative measure. Among scores of people
a large fuel spill. A large-sca
MALONE — The small Franklin County
Village of Malone drew national media attention
in mid-February when roughly 1,000 gallons of
volatile fuel seeped from a storage tank into
streets and storm sewers.
The publicity that Purdy Coal and Oil’s major
gas spill on Railroad Street sparked on Feb.
15-16, might have been 10 times greater if not for
the coordinated effort experts and volunteers
mounted to avert the highly-explosive situation.
Success of the massive evacuation, which
affected 200 homes and 500 residents in a 10-block
section, is best described by the fact no injuries
or thefts stemmed from the 18 hours of bedlam.
Considering nearly 74,000 gallons of fuel could
have ignited on the Purdy property, the record
speaks for itself.
County Fire Coordinator Elton Cappiello and
Malone Callfireman Chief Malcolm Jones
analyzed the situation to be extreme and the
order was given to evacuate. A dozen or more
agencies and departments rolled immediately in
team-like fashion.
Among them were the Village Department of
Public Works, Sheriff’s Department and Village
Police, all CSEA units. Each played an integral
part in the overall picture.
DPW Street Maintenance Foreman Ralph
Jessmer had just started dispatching the night
crew when word of the 10:50 p.m. spill was
received. He quickly re-routed heavy equipment
and had four dump truck loads of dirt delivered
within the hour. Some of the 15 men he
represents as CSEA local president built sand
dikes to direct the gas flow.
Large pools collected in neighboring fields and
were later mopped up by the Fourth Coast
Pollution Company of Waddington. That work
was made easier in part because of the
chanelling and chemical foam firemen spread to
seal in vapors.
Ray Sancomb Jr., meanwhile, hustled to the
village treatment plant along the Salmon River
half a mile from the spill. Vice president of the
DPW union, Sancomb carefully monitored the
system through the night for fear gas might
trickle in. Eventually it did, forcing an
immediate shutdown.
WELL-COORDINATED EMERGENCY
OPERATION — Firemen, left, wash fuel after
gas spill in Malone is contained by sand dikes
constructed by Department of Public Works
employees. Above, damaged fuel tank is examin-
ed. About 75,000 gallons of fuel could have been
ignited if a fire had broken out during the
emergency.
CSEA units play key role
in Malone gas spill cleanup
Between the methane gas by-product and
incoming fuel, a single spark could have “‘blown
up the whole plant,” Jessmer said. All furnaces
and burners in the huge building were stopped
until the danger passed.
Deputy sheriffs responded to the crisis in
force. Twenty-two of the 25 manned road blocks
while others conducted a door-to-door canvas to
alert residents. Frightened and confused, some
were reluctant to leave, making the task that
much harder. Officers also faced extinguishing
wood stoves and removing stragglers.
“Once we got them out,” Shop Steward Jerry
Noreault said, ‘“‘we established security in the
hazard zone”’ to prevent looting. With so many
deserted streets and homes, the threat of
vandalism and break-ins was great. “It was a
long night for everybody,’”’ Noreault added,
noting some deputies worked around the clock.
Until the order was given to return shortly
before 5 p.m., Village Police and Sheriff patrols
worked the area to discourage any such acts.
Police Sgt. Jim Phillips said he was impressed
RESIDENTS SAFE — 500 people were
evacuated from a 10-block area under the direc-
tions of deputy sheriffs and village police of-
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THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Friday, March 26, 1982 _
who faced high risk to contain the spill were CSEA members
employed by the Village police and public works departments,
and the Franklin County Sherift’s
article was written by Marc
Telegram-Post Standard.
epartment. The following
Pepin of the Malone Evening
with the overall emergency plan. “It’s good to
know if we ever do have a crisis, there are plans
set up so that something like this can be carried
out smoothly,” he said.
As president of the police union unit, Phillips
looked at the spill as ‘‘a good practice, but it
wasn’t really,” referring to danger passing
without incident. ‘We never had one complaint,”
he said, which he feels is a credit to everyone
involved.
Since the mammoth above-ground tank sprung
a leak and was pumped dry, operator Frank
Purdy has taken steps to remedy the situation. A
fiberglass layer will be installed inside each of
the company’s storage drums by an out-of-state
firm later this month. :
A one-inch thick wall will protect the tanks
initially, Purdy said, with a similar coating
added within the next five years to double the
strength.
Purdy said he hopes these measures prevent
spills from ever happening. again as rust and
other elements which affect steel will not harm
fiberglass.
i si eee r
ficers. Here, many of the residents wait out the
situation at an Army reserve center facility.
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