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Vol. XXXVIII, No. 51

It’s up to you now. The PS&T
election is well under way. Ballots
have been mailed, you have read
and heard the arguments of both
sides, you have been urged and ca-
joled to vote one way or the other.
For all intents and purposes the
campaigning is over. The final de-
cision is now up to you.

Some of you may have even voted
already. For those of you who voted
for CSEA, my sincere thanks and
our ‘pledge to continue to do the
best job we can for you. For those
of you who have not voted yet,
please do!

The PS&T is your Unit. You are
in that Unit by law. The winner
of this election will have the ex-
clusive rights to speak on behalf of
all employees in the PS&T Unit,
including you!

The winner will present demands
to management on your behalf.
The terms and conditions of your
job are involved, It’s that personal!
Don’t you think that you should
help determine who will speak in
your behalf? If someone is going

Fight State's
Probation
PeriodIideas

ALBANY — The - state’s
largest public employee
union» has threatened the
state With improper practice
and grievance proceedings if it
attempts to lengthen the maxi-

Friday, March 24, 1978

PERB mailed out ballots to PS&T
employees’ homes on March 17. Ballots
must be completed and returned to
PERB before April 12. If you have not
received a ballot by March 23, you must
call PERB and report the error, Call
collect on the call-in dates of March 23,
24, 27 or 28. The numbers to call are:
Albany—(518) 457-2676; New York City
—(212) 488-4508; Buffalo—(716) 842-
2357.

to demand raises and other em-
ployment benefits in your name,
shouldn’t you play a part in deter-
mining who makes those demands?

It only takes a few minutes to
vote but you may have to live with
the outcome for several years. You
have a right by law to vote in this
election. You have an obligation
to yourself and your family to exer-
cise that right.

We've been your union for over
a decade. We have always tried to
do the best representation job pos-
sible for PS&T and I think we have
succeeded overall.

We've tried to stick with the

Price 20 Cents

' REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT

facts in this campaign despite the
non-stop distortions by the opposi-
tion. We've tried to express to you
in the clearest possible terms that
CSEA is the intelligent choice in
this election based on the facts.
Anyone can make “pie-in-the-sky”
election-day promises but we have
been doing the job for state work-
ers since 1910, the opposition
hasn't.

But all of our strengths and all
of our advantages don’t mean a
thing without the votes to back
them up. Two years ago in a con-
test for PS&T against the same
opponent we polled over 40 percent
more votes, but we can’t rely on
history now.

This is your unit, your union and
your future on the line. It only
takes a few moments to make your
voice heard and you don’t even
have to leave the comfort of your
own home. Take a few minutes to-
day and make the outcome certain.
Don’t take anything for granted,
Vote for real union representation
for the PS&T! Vote for CSEA!

* Me

private sector employees.

mum probationary period for
state workers in, what the union
alleges, is a violation of contrac-
tual agreements covering state
workers.

The Civil Service Employees
Association, which represents
some 300,000 public employees in
New York State, said its con-

(Continued on Page 3)

Solomon Bendet, president of the Civil Service Employees Associa-

tion’s Metropolitan Region I, addresses members of the state Senate
Civil Service and Pensions Committee at hearings regarding possible
Taylor Law legislation during the current session. In the background
are, from left, Senator John E. Flynn, William Sinnott, director of
the Committee, and Senator Richard E. Schermerhorn, chairman

of the Committee.

\ e e '
No Bargain Unit Change
ALBANY—Attorneys for the Civil Service Employees Association have made a motion

to the State Public Employment Relations Board to dismiss a petition filed by the state Of-
fice of Court Administration to exclude 4,000 court positions from judiciary bargaining

units.

At Leader presstime, it was ex-
pected that papers would have
been filed on Monday on the
grounds that OCA’s attempt to
change thousands of jobs into
managerial-confidential positions
is untimely and insufficient un-
der the rules of the PERB.

More than half of the 9,500
employees in the newly merged
judiciary unit as well as the or-
iginal state judiciary unit em-
Ployees received forms last week
Soliciting their signatures as con-
sent to being changed to mana-
Serlal-confidential status. Under

the OCA’s plan, almost 100 per-
cent of court employees in the
Appellate Division and the Office
of Court Administration would
be managerial-confidential.
William L. McGowan, presi-
dent of CSEA, termed the pro-
posed plan for exclusions as
“shocking and very strange, to
say the very least.” He cautioned
court employees against signing
the consent forms because “em-
Ployees now in the bargaining
unit stand to lose all of their
contract rights because, simply,
there would no longer be a con-

tract to protect the individual,”
he said,

“The consent forms are not
even valid, as far as we're con-
cerned,” Mr. McGowan said.
“The definition of employees
who are managerial-confidential
fare those persons who formulate
policy or who may reasonbaly be
required to assist in the prepara-
tion for and conduct of negotia-
tions on behalf of the public em-
ployer. Also, those persons who
may be required to administer
agreements or personnel matters

(Continued on Page 3)

Their remarks came during a
public hearing conducted by the
state Senate Civil Service and
Pensions Committee, held at the
World Trade Center, Manhattan.

Solomon Bendet, president of
the Civil Service Employees As-
sociation’s New York City region,
suggested revisions in three areas
of the law.

“Experience has shown,” Mr.
Bendet said, “that many public
employers provoke strikes in or-
der to secure revenue. By com-
pelling an employee organization
to go out on strike, the public
employer can effectively cause
the employee organization to pay
for any concessions won during
the strike.

“As the Taylor Law presently
exists," Mr. Bendet continued,
“there are no penalties which
may be imposed upon the public
employer no matter how repre-
hensible or provocative the con-
duct of the employer has been.
At the present time, the Taylor
Law is weighted so heavily in
favor of the public employer that
it is becoming almost impossible
to arrive at collective settle-
ments.”

Mr “ondet asked that provi-
sions which enable public em-

»roposed Changes In
Constitution, By-Laws

— See Pages 8&9

McGOWAN

Bendet To Senate:
Taylor Law Reform
Is Union Priority

By RON KARTEN
MANHATTAN—Labor leaders called the Taylor Law un-
fair to public employees last week and proposed legislative
changes to make equal the provisions governing public and

ployers to “automatically obtain
an injunction” to stop a strike
be changed to put the process on
a par with that of private em-
ployers,

Referring to the Taylor Law
provisions which puts striking
public employees on probation
for a year, Mr. Bendet stressed
that probation was designed to
evaluate the performance of new
employees and not for “union
busting.” He called this “an ar-

(Continued on Page 3)

Federal Tinkering
Threatens Merit
At Other Levels

By RICHARD KARP
Is President Carter’s so-

called “reorganization” of
the federal civil service
really a veil behind which
both the President and Con-
gress are attempting to subvert
the government's time-honored
Merit System and undermine
the integrity of federal agencies
down to the lowest grade of civil
servant?
(Continued on Page 5)

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, March 24, 1978

Group was on hand for first meeting of

Center for Women in Government which held workshop last

month, They are, from left, Kathleen Linnehan, assistant to Governor; Bruce Ennis, Civil Liberties
Union lawyer; Tom Linden, assistant to CSEA president William McGowan; James Heaphey, SUNYA;
Tom Frey, director, NYS state operations; Melinda Bass, NYS women’s division; Rosa Graham, assis-
tant to Assembly Minority Leader Perry Duryea.

Mashikian Wants 1,200 More Staffers

WEST BRENTWOOD—The
Long Island regional director
of the state Department of
Mental Health last week
called for an additional 1,200
staff positions and a 7 percent
increase in the state budget to
meet the needs of four psychiat-
ric institutions here that house
30 percent of New York's mental
patients.

Hagop Mashikian, the state

regional director, told a contin-
gent of Long Island Assembly-
men and Senators that the pro-
posed state budget was inade-
quate because state institutions
in his region have seen an in-
creased population and a de-
teriorating physical plant. He
added that additional staff and
budget were also needed to help
clean up Long Island's “impacted

Workers Tell Officials
CETA Abuses Overflow

BOHEMIA—More than 200
Civil Service Employees As-
sociation members com-
plained bitterly last week to

Caputo To Lead
CETA Exchange

NEWBURGH—CETA adminis-
tration problems and purposes
will be discussed by a panel in-
cluding Congressman Bruce Cap-
uto (R-Westchester) at a CSEA
Region UI educational workshop
to be held Wednesday, March 29,
at 8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn here.
Other speakers include Benjamin
Furman of the U.S. Dept. of La-
bor, Westchester County office,
and David Mance, statewide
chairman for CETA of the CSEA.

All members of CSEA units
and Locals in the Region DI
area are invited to attend. The
Panel is sponsored by the Region
TI educational committee with
Stanley Boguski, chairman, and
Harold Ryan, Robert Watkins,
‘Thomas Roth and Betty Kerney.

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York's weekly lottery:

The six-digit number in the
$10,000 column or in the
“millionaire numbers” box:

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The five-digit $1,000 num-
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The four-digit $100 number:
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In the three-digit $20 num-

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state and county officials
that Comprehensive Employment
Training Act (CETA) employees
were taking civil service jobs
away from permanent employees
and hindering promotions.

The scene was a recent CETA
hearing sponsored by Suffolk
CSEA Local 852 at the Dutch
Inn here, Among the officials
attending were Congressman
Thomas Downey (D-West Islip),
members of the U.S. Department
of Labor and Suffolk County
Legislators John Foley, Jane De-
vine, John O'Neil and Denis
Hurley.

Witnesses testified to CETA
program abuses including: the
use of CETA personnel kept on
the job beyond the legal train-
ing period, and advancements
blocked for permanent employees
because of the congestion of
CETA workers in county and
local governments. The witnesses
were from CSEA units through-
out Suffolk and Nassau Counties,

William Lewis, the CSEA’s
Suffolk Local 852 president,
claimed that hundreds of jobs
have been lost to CETA workers
over the years and that the
CSEA 1s concerned that county
governments are setting their
operating budgets in advance
after reviewing CETA personnel
allocations.

The Suffolk hearing drew wide
attention since it occurred two
days after Westchester County
District Attorney Carl Vegari
said he had begun a probe of
“pervasive corruption,” misuse
of funds and the hiring of in-
eligible employees in the West-
chester CETA program,

Irving Flaumenbaum, presi-
dent of the CSEA’s Long Island
Region I, was ill and unable to
attend the hearings. He said, in
® prepared text, that “CETA is
a regional concern, We commend
Mr. Lewis’ efforts and give him
the full backing of the Region,”

areas,” which are clogged with
former mental patients.

“In Pilgrim we have a dire
emergency. We have a power
plant that is supposed to provide
heat and electricity for 3,700 pa-
tients. The plant is currently op-
erating on a prayer,” he added.

‘The directors of King’s Park,
Hoch and Northeast Nassau, Pil-
grim and Central Islip Psychiat-
ric Centers also attended the
meeting and told of understaffing
and the need for more funding.

‘The current proposed budget
only provides about 107 new
staff positions. Projections for
the budget are based on a de-
clining population in the psy-
chiatric institutions. But Dr.
Mashikian told the audience that
at least 975 more positions are
needed “if we are to provide the
service the public demands.”

Flaumenbaum Hits

Suffolk Co. Action
On Dumping Study

HAUPPAUGE — The Suf-
folk County Legislature
voted last week to accept a
$672,000 state grant to study
how best to transfer mental pa-
tients from state institutions to
community care.

But the grant was immediately
attacked by Irving Flaumen-
baum, president of the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Association's Long
Island Region I, as a “possible
first step in county takeover of
Mental Hygiene.” Mr. Flaumen-
baum demanded assurances
there would be no layoffs of state
Mental Hygiene employees be-
cause of the study.

David Harris, Suffolk County
director of community mental
health, defended the move.

“The proposal is not a plan
for deinstitutionalization but a
study of the economic impact of
the state's plans,” said Dr. Har-
ris, “It will take into account job
security for state workers. The
money will be used to develop
new approaches to the problems
of community health resources
while protecting the fabric and
economy of the community.”

County officials said that the
grant is a response to Suffolk’s
recent problems with the Depart-
ment of Mental Hygiene'’s policy
of discharging mental patients
to Long Island communities to
receive them. Bayshore, Sayville

and Patchogue are among Suf-
folk communities plagued by
indigent former patients who
reportedly. wander aimlessly
through the streets, startling pe-
destrians and interrupting busi-
ness.

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NURSES COMMITTEE MEETS

At the Civil Service Employees Association's Professional, Scientific
and Technical Nurses Committee meeting are, from left, Susan
Feinberg, Clara Franklin, Tim Mullens, Barbara Chapman and H.

Hail. CSEA Rockland Nurses
In Professional Magazine

ALBANY-—Nurses represented by Civil Service Employees
Association’s Rockland County unit were the subject of an
article in this month’s issue of a professional nursing jour-

nal, “RN Magazine.”

The . nationally distributed
magazine titled the article, “Pub-
lic Nurses Take On New York's
Tough Anti-Strike Law— And
Win.” The article detailed how
the nurses and CSEA working
together won salary increases of
up to 26 percent after a ten-day
strike.

The article, complete with a
chart showing the gains of the
Rockland nurses, dealt with the
problems confronting New York's
public employee nurses with the

Negotiations To

ALBANY — Negotiations
are set to begin shortly in six
judicial bargaining units
comprised of merged court
employees represented by the
Civil Service Employees Associa-
tion, according to Joseph J.
Dolan, the union’s administrative

Taylor Law restrictions on their
labor rights. The nurses and
‘CSEA ‘also faced the unfair pen-
alties provided by the Taylor
Law.

“The gamble was well worth
taking as it turned out,” the
magazine reported. “The strike
ended after 11 days and the
nurses won a total package: a
general upgrading, across-the-
board raises, yearly merit raises,
and a 5 percent bonus. . .”

director of collective bargaining
and field services.

The first negotiating session
for Judicial Districts 3 and 4 will
be held on Friday, March 31, at
CSEA Headquarters in Albany at
10 a.m, Charles Haskins, presi-
dent of the CSEA’s Judiciary Lo-
cal 333, along with two negotiat-

McGowan Endorses
Jewish Appeal Campaign

ALBANY — Civil Service
Employees Association presi-
dent William McGowan has
wholeheartedly endorsed the
1978 United Jewish Appeal Cam-
paign, which had its kick-off
ceremonies Sunday in Albany.

At @ breakfast meeting of 300

CSEA Region Ill
Plans Workshop

NEWBURGH — Region III of
the Civil Service Employees As-
sociation will hold an educational
workshop on CETA at 8 p.m.
March 29, at the Holiday Inn,
Newburgh.

‘The pane) will include U.S.
Representative from the 23rd
District, Bruce Caputo; Furman
Benjamin of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Labor, and David Mance,
CSEA statewide chairman for
CETA.

Jewish state employees at the
Jewish Community Center on
Whitehall Road here, Steven
Windmueller, director of the Al-
bany Jewish Community Council,
read the following message from
Mr. McGowan:

“Jewish workers have always
been in the forefront of the labor
struggle, whether around the
corner or around the world. By
supporting the 1978 UJA Cam-
paign, we in the state's largest
public employees union have a
unique opportunity to show our
appreciation for this leadership,
and at the same time to invest
in the future of peace and pros-
perity for all. I urge that public
employees respond as unselfishly
to the UJA today as our Jewish
brothers and sisters have re-
sponded to the needs of unionism
throughout the years.”

Other speakers at the meeting
included the Israeli ambassador
to Mexico, Shaul Rosolio,

== Raskin =

Harry P. Raskin passed away
recently at the age of 65. He
was a retired employee of Pil-
grim Psychiatric Center and had
been living in Port Charlotte,
Fla., since his retirement. For

those who wish to remember
him, a donation could be made
to his favorite charity, The

Lions Camp for the Visually
Handicapped, Lake Wales, Fla.

Bendet On Taylor Law Reform

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bitrary, capricious and unfair
provision ‘of the law.”

Mr. Bendet also asked for an
end to the two-for-one penalties
imposed on striking public ser-
vants, which he said, “enrages
the workers. It’s like holding a
club over their heads saying, ‘you
better not do this.

Senator Richard Schermer-
horn, chairman of the Civil Ser-
vice and Pensions Committee,
noted that New York had far
fewer strikes than Pennsylvania,
where strikes are legal, and re-
ported that a Pennsylvania
spokesman had warned him not
to legalize strikes here.

Mr. Bendet countered that he
was not impressed by compari-
sons with other states. “Compare
New York before and after the
Taylor Law,” he said. “What
you'll see 1s that there were far
fewer strikes before the Taylor
Law. Negotiations and bargaining
may have been less formal,” he
added, “but we got our increases
and there were fewer strikes.”

Victor Gotbaum, executive di-
rector of the American Federa-
tion of Service and Municipal
Employees District Council 37,
New York City’s largest munici-
pal union, told the hearing that
“there is absolutely no way you
can justify the variation in treat-
ment of the public worker and
the private worker.”

Hitting the Taylor Law ra-
tionale that public workers may
not strike because they perform
critical, vital functions, Mr.

Judiciary Units

ors from Judicial District 3 and
two from Judicial District 4, will
represent court employees at the
bargaining table.

Judicial Districts 5 and 6 will
have their first negotiating ses-
sion in Syracuse on April 5,
1978. Eleanor Percy, acting pres-
ident of CSEA’s Judiciary Local
334, will represent court employ-
ees along with two negotiators
from Judicial District 5 and two
from Judicial District 6.

Rochester will be the locale for
Judicial District 7’s first nego-
tiating session on April 5, 1978,
while Judicial District 8 will hold
its negotiating session in Buffalo,
tentatively on April 6. The nego-
tiators from these Judicial Dis-
tricts will be joined by Elizabeth
Kohl, president of CSEA’s Judi-
clary Local 335.

Nels Carlson and Patrick J.
Monachino, CSEA collective bar-
gaining specialists, will assist in
these negotiations.

No Bargain
Unit Changes

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not of a clerical nature but
rather a job which requires in-
dependent judgment. I think it’s
safe to say that the majority of
job titles which are being sought
for exclusion from the bargain-
ing unit do not fall in this cate-
gory,” Mr. McGowan noted,

He pledged that the CSEA
would battle the plan “until no
employee is threatened with the
Potential loss of his rights. We'll
fight each case on its individual
merits, if need be,” he stressed.

Stephen Wiley, an attorney
with the union's law firm, Roe-
mer and Featherstonhaugh, has
been assigned to the case.

Gotbaum sald, “If you really
want to follow the courage of
your convictions, you ought to
state in law exactly which ser-
vices endanger life and which
ones don’t.”

He said that certainly a park
worker who strikes and is penal-
ized two days’ pay for every
day off the job 1s not going to
harm the public as much as a
utility worker who goes out on
strike. Yet the utility worker is
only penalized for the day he is
off.

“Give us the same disease you
visit on the private worker and
we'll live with it,” sald Mr. Got-
baum.

He also noted a case several
years ago in which fuel deliver-
ers, elevator repairmen and Con
Edison workers all struck at the
same time.

“Nobody said you have to kill
the first born son of a labor
leader to stop it. We survived it,”
he said.

Arvid Anderson, chairman of
the state’s Office of Collective
Bargaining, expressed views he
said were shared by the city and
the Municipal Labor Committee.

While the Taylor Law current-
ly vests the Public Employment
Relations Board with the power to
suspend dues checkoffs from any

public union on strike, (although
section 212 of the law creates a
local option whereby in New
York City the courts can take
over that power) Mr. Anderson
urged the legislature to write
into law a separation of the
prosecutorial functions from the
mediatory functions, He sug-
gested the prosecutorial powers
ought to be vested in the courts,
leaving the mediatory functions
to PERB and OCB.

In another area Mr. Anderson
called on the Legislature to re-
store OCB's jurisdiction over im-
proper practices. The jurisdiction
has, in recent years, been hand-
led by PERB.

McGowan Testifies

William L. McGowan, presi-
dent of the Civil Service Em-
ployees Association, was
scheduled to testify before the
Senate hearings on Taylor
Law reform on Tuesday,
March 21, at 11 a.m., in hear-
ing room A of the Legislative
Office Building, Empire State
Plaza, Albany. He will present
the position of the Public Em-
ployee Conference. CSEA Re-
gion IV president Joseph Mc-
Dermott will also speak.

Probation Fight

(Continued from Page 1)
tracts covering state workers pre-
vents any extension of the pro-
bationary period without nego-
tiation and it will enforce those
contracts as necessary through
appropriate contractual remedies
and legal action.

In a letter to the deputy direc-
tor of the governor's Office of
Employee Relations, John M.
Carey, CSEA’s director of mem-
ber services, told OER to notify
the Civil Service Commission
that if it attempts to tamper
with the probationary period,
“. .. it ts our intention to not
only file a grievance against the
state but it is also our intention
to file an improper practice

charge.”

CSEA said that specific articles
in its contracts with the state
prohibit any changes in rules
and regulations without prior ne-
gotiations with the union.

“We have a contract with the
state of New York which we live
by,” Mr. Carey said, “and the
state is going to have to abide
by it too. If they attempt to push
this probationary extension in
violation of our agreements we
will exercise the appropriate ac-
tion to remedy any violation.”

“They have no right whatso-
ever to modify rules and regu-
lations that are clearly negotiable
without prior negotiations with
us,” Mr. Carey said.

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MARCH

27—Binghamton aree retirees Locel 902 regular meeting: 2 p.m.,
Garden Village West, 50 Front St., Binghamton.

29—Region II! educational workshop on CETA: 8 p.m., Holiday Inn,

Newburgh.

29—Nassau County Retirees Local 919 meeting: I! a.m. East

Meadow Library.

"APRIL

34—Statewide Delegates Convention: Empire State Plaza Conven-

tion Hall, Alban’

7—Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center and Research unit, Local
421, ninth annual dinner-dance, honoring retirees of 1977 and

11-Creedmoor Psychiatric
5:30 p.m.

25-year employees, Singers Hotel, Spring Valley.
Center. Local 406; membership: meeting:

15—Cortland area coalition meeting of Locals including SUNY 605,
DOT 520, ENCON 119, Cortland County 812: 2-7 p.m., Ameri-

can Legion Post, Homer,

18—Livingston county unit of Rochester Retirees Local 912 mem-

bership meeting: 2

.m., Youth Center, Main St., Mt. Morris,

19—Nassau Local 830 board of directors meeting: 5:30 p.m., Salis-

bury Club, Eisenhower Park, East Meadow, L.I.

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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, March 24, 1978

Calls Contracting Out Main. Jssue

(The following article was
written by Barry Markman, third
vice-president, South Beach Psy-
chiatric Center Local 446, Civil
Service Employees Association.)
He writes as a member of the
Professional, Scientific and Tech-
nical Bargaining Unit.)

During March, South
Beach Psychiatric Center
Professional, Scientific, and

Technical workers and other
state PS&T workers will choose
between the Civil Service Em-
ployees Association and the so-
called Public Employees Federa-
tion.

The major issue facing state
workers is the contracting out of
services that are performed by
the workers, Five-year Mental
Hygiene and Mental Retardation
plans would do away with com-
munity services by state em-
ployees, turning them over to
private agencies, but leaving
chronically ill patients to state
workers’ care,

For two years, CSEA and Local
446 have been initiating a cam-
paign of job protection and qual-
ity services in institutions and
in the community,

The Mental Hygiene budget
calls for the layoff of approx-
imately 1,300 Mental Hygiene
and Retardation workers, The

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CSEA is defending the contract,
and lobbying throughout the
state to change the budget. The
campaign has already forced
Governor Carey to set aside $11.2
million for a pilot program to

reverse the detrimental effect of
“dumping.”

“Dumping” psychiatric pa-
tients into the communities with-
out adequate support systems has
already become the most explo-

SHORT TAKES

EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK ON UPSWING

An improvement in the hiring picture 1s forecast for the first
quarter of 1978, according to the results of the “Quarterly Survey
on Employment Outlook, Absenteeism, and Turnover,” by The
Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. a Washington, D.C. publisher of
specialized information services. Of the 282 employers responding
to the BNA survey, 32 percent report plans to increase the size of
their production force between mid-January and mid-April. This
{s a rise of 10 percentage points over the fourth quarter of 1977,
and 6 percentage points above hiring projections for the first quarter
of 1977.

LEHMAN'S ANNIVERSARY TO BE CITED

A special exhibition of the Lehman papers—documents, letters,
political cartoons and medals highlighting the career of former New
York Governor and U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman—will open at
Columbia University March 28, the 100th anniversary of his birth.
It will be on display for a year, Mondays through Fridays from 9:30
to 4:30 p.m, at the University's International Affairs Building. In
another Lehman centennial event, U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan
will deliver the annual Herbert H. Lehman Lecture at Lehman Col-
lege, the Bronx, on the 28th.

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NYCLU OPPOSES 'WELFARE CHEAT’ BILL

‘The New York Civil Liberties Union is on record as opposed to
a recently passed bill in the State Assembly requiring state agency
heads to submit quarterly reports to the State Social Services Depart-
ment in an effort to catch welfare cheats who may be on state pay-
rolls, The measure passed the Assembly 112-28, NYCLU says the bill,
which the governor supports, will enable the state to keep a file on
the life story of every state worker, an invasion of privacy, Assembly-
man Daniel Walsh (D-Erje) 1s the bill's chief sponsor.

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JERSEY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES WANT THE RIGHT TO STRIKE
The New Jersey Civil Service Association's board of trustees has
approved a move to seek new legislation in the Garden State giving
public employees the right to strike. The move 1s a dramatic depar-
ture for the group. It follows what association leaders described as
mistreatment from several County boards of freeholders and mu-
nicipal governments,

GO TO HEALTH

By WILLIAM R. WILLIFORD

Warning Signs

If you drink, chances are you are either a social drinker, a heavy
drinker, a problem drinker or an alcoholic.

Do you know your category? You might say heavy drinker, but
your friends might say problem drinker or even alcoholic.

As you might expect, these categories are the
subject of much controversy, Many professionals
are against labeling people, Other people say al-
coholism is not a neat illness that lends itself to
easy labeling,

However, all people in the field agree that the
earlier the drinking problem is recognized the bet-
ter the chances of overcoming the problem. With q
this theme in mind you might care to react to the gi”
following characteristics of a problem drinker:

® Anyone who must drink in order to function
or “cope with life.”

® Anyone who by his own personal definition, or that of his
family and friends, frequently drinks to a state of intoxication.

® Anyone who is intoxicated and drives a car.

® Anyone who goes to work intoxicated.

® Anyone who sustains bodily injury requiring medical atten-
tion as a consequence of an intoxicated state.

© Anyone who, under the influence of alcohol, does something
he contends he would never do without alcohol.

Other warning signs facing certain situations, frequent drinking
sprees, a steady increase in intake, solitary drinking, early morning
drinking and blackouts. For a heavy drinker, a blackout is not pass-
ing out, but a period of time in which he walks, talks and acts—and
does not remember, Blackouts may be one of the early signs of the
more serious form of alcoholism,

If you are concerned or even irritated by these statements, then
maybe you should check them out, What can you do? You can con-
tact your county or city council on alcoholism or attend an open AA
meeting or discuss your feelings about drinking with a friend who
will be honest with you.

The worse thing that you can do is ignore the early warning
signs,

sive issue in this year’s, duter-
natorial race.

State workers should be Mght~
ing against Department of Men-
tal Hygiene policies, and for bet-
ter-quality patient care and job
protection, But, instead, PEF has
our money and energy tied up
in a wasteful challenge cam-
paign which state workers re-
jected once before, What is even
more horrendous is that PEF has
never addressed itself to the
problems of staff shortages, vio-
lent patients, ineffective admin-
istration, unsafe working condi-
tions, and the lack of support
provided by state workers for
patients in the communities. PEF
knows nothing about the prob-
lems we face.

PEF is not an organization
with a membership, bvt is a

Dumping

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‘Under terms of the three-year
grant, the County and the state
Mental Hygiene Department will
concentrate on three areas where
“dumping,” the term eften used
to describe patient transfers, has
been most pronounced—the west-
ern part of Islip where Pilgrim
Psychiatric Center 1s located, the
eastern part of Islip where Cen-
tral Islip Psychiatric Center is
located and in Northwest Brook-
haven near the State University
at Stony Brook where a separate
study to provide services from
the Health Sciences Center is
under way.

The proposal’s key feature 1s
the establishment of local coun-
cils made up of government,
business, labor and civic leaders
who will give the program “local
sanction and leadership.” Pro-
fessionals from government and
voluntary agencies, as well as
private practitioners, will com-
prise a professional advisory
board to the councils, Both
groups will be appointed by Dr.
Harris. :

The grant will enable state of-
ficlals to identify current ser-
vices, project future service needs
and search for state and federal
funds, including 620° funds to
finance the transition from in-
stitutional to community care
for patients,

Under the plan, county offi-
cials will conduct a study of the
economic impact caused by pa-
tient transfers to community-
based programs. Data gathered
from the study will be used to
set up a model for other com-
munities to follow.

The State University of New
York at Albany is conducting a

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ers for its own selfish interests.

PEF's answer to our problems
4s to isolate us from our brothers
and Sisters at South Beach and

selves without real power because
we would only be speaking for a
small part of the work force.
Anyone who works in Mental
Hygiene or Mental Retardation
knows that the State can run
the institutions for long periods
of time without professionals.

‘The PEF campaign is aiding
the Governor and his bureau-
crats who would reduce the state
budget by reducing services to
those in need. Vote against PEF
and remain united!

Study Hit

separate study on the effect of
deinstitutionalization on state
employees. But, Hagop 8. Ma-
shikian, state Mental Hygiene
Long Island regional director,
testified at the March 14 meet-
ing of the Suffolk Legislature
that the State has no plans to
lay off state employees.

“If anything, we are going to
increase our facility staffs on
Long Island,” said Dr. Mashikian.
“In 10 to 16 years there may be
a shift of employees to new jobs
in community centers but not in
the immediate future.”

Before the grant was accepted
there was extensive debate in
the legislature. Mr. Flaumen-
baum expressed fears that ac-
ceptance of the grant was bait
that could lure the county into
full responsibility for 20,000
mental patients.

“This study could become «
Political albatross for the county
and could wind up raising taxes
to care for the thousands of
critically ill patients in state in-
stitutions,” he said.

The vote to accept came after
Dr. Harris and Dr, Mashikian
assured the legislature that the
grant was not binding and that
the County could “pull out any-
time it want

But Legislator Tony Noto (R-
Babylon) was wary of the grant.

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mobile during recent blood bank co-sponsored by Civil Service Em-
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Blood was collected by Red Cross crews from Albany and Glens Falls.

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for persons who are or will be discharged from State Psychiatric or Develop-
Centers, as well as those in the community with such needs,

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Are the oft-used expressions
“streamlining” and “efficiency”
mere cloaks to disguise an effort
to frighten and possibly corrupt
honest civil servants?

‘Will the much-touted “re-
form" drag back into the now
gargantuan federal establishment
all the self-serving that one as-
sociates with political patronage
and the discredited “spoils sys-
tem"?

‘Will it eventually create the
kind of job insecurity that will
render federal workers docile ser-
vants of arbitrary power?

And, will it soon have a chill-
ing effect on potential whistle-
blowers, and faithful civil ser-
vants merely trying to imple-
ment the laws of the land?

Buch, at least, are the deepest
suspicions of tens of thousands
of federal employees. James M,
Peirce, president of the inde-
pendent National Federation of
Federal Employees, calls the re-
organization plan “an erosion of
the Merit System that will lead
to a spoils system,” According to
Mr. Peirce, the President’s pro-
Posal to allow the successor to
the Civil Service Commission
(which will be abolished) to del-
egate rule-making authority to
separate government agencies
will put into the hands of po-
litical appointees on top the
power to hire and fire, reward
and punish according to whim.
‘The new dispensation will “open
new jobs to political appointees”
and “create new appointee posi-
tions" where none existed before.

Although the President's re-
form package—which Congress
is only too eager to pass—con-
tains a little rider about “pro-
tecting" whistle-blowers, the
general thrust is to demolish the
existing structure of due process.
‘Under the present law, a federal
employee who is fired has the
right of appeal, and an eviden-
tiary hearing must be held at
which the burden of proof is on
management. Under Mr. Carter's
“reform,” the old Anglo-Saxon
precept that a man 1s innocent
until proven guilty is turned on
its head.

In the future, a dismissed em-
ployee will have to prove to
someone that he has been wrong-
fully fired before he can get a
hearing. And, that hearing will
no longer be automatic, but
“may” be granted—as the po-
tical appointees see fit, of
course, Indeed, if the term “bu-
reaucracy” ever meant caprice
and irresponsibility, then Mr.
Carter's scheme to “de-bureau-

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Overlook Claims

ALBANY—Secretary of State
Mario M. Cuomo says some fami-
Mes of firefighters who died in
the line of duty are not filing
for their benefit claims.

The Public Safety Officers
Benefits Act (PSOB) of 1976
provides a $50,000 death benefit
to the eligible survivors of law
enforcement officers and fire-
fighters who were killed while on
duty,

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cratize the federal government
must mean to make it more bu-
reaucratic.

Insofar as U.S. Government
agencies and agents are the most
honest and least bureaucratic in
the world, is it not possible that
the powers-to-be are irked by
the integrity of civil servants
rather than the lack of it? Could

A News Analysis

it be that Mr, Carter and Con-
gress are a mite less anxious to
excise “deadwood” than to
squelch the moral outrage of an
all-too faithful servant of the
law?

Each year, the President pro-
posed and Congress disposes of
scores of ill-conceived bills. Bil-
lions upon billions of public
money is sent from the treasury
into thousands of rat holes via
pork barrels, boondoggles, give-
aways, hidden subsidies, etc.
Giant agencies like HUD (Hous-
ing and Urban Development) and
HEW (Health, Education & Wel-
fare) and DOD (Department of
Defense) are set up to funnel the

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vast wealth through a mirlad of
crooked channels. And hundreds
of thousands of honest and loyal
citizens are hired to man the
pumps and spigots.

Time and again, Jimmy Carter
has promised to restore the peo-
ple’s trust in their government.
His bill to “reform” the civil
service system, which Congress
at this moment fs so heartily en-
tertaining, looks quite like a ploy
to stifle criticism of public
abuses where those abuses are
most likely to be discovered
while at the same time deflect-
ing blame from those few who
foment corruption to the many
who are unwittingly ensnared in
its toils for a humble paycheck.

Unfortunately, tinkering with
the federal Merit System 1s a
matter of concern to more than
the federal civil service system.
In too many instances actions at
that level stimulate comparable
programs at the state and local
levels. Any program that disrupts
the federal civil service system
becomes a threat to all civil ser-
vice employees.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1978
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Merit’ More Than A Word
CRABBLE is one of the most popular games in America.

Crossword puzzles are practically a way of life for some
folks. Spelldowns are almost part of our national folklore.

When we hear talk of putting merit into the Merit Sys-
tem, we always listen with a degree of suspicion because
such rhetoric usually means that someone is playing another
word game.

This time we are reacting to President Jimmy Carter's
program to reform civil service, a 100-year-old system that
was developed under the guidance of two former Presidents
from New York State: Chester Arthur and Theodore
Roosevelt.

The heart and soul of the Merit System is competitive
examinations.

Yet, when President Carter proposes performance ap-
praisals for use in developing, rewarding, assigning, de-
moting, promoting and retaining or separating employees,
we wonder what that means, Throughout the President’s
program, there are well-sounding phrases that are, in truth,
word games,

It is easy to banter the word “merit” around, but without
“system” it takes on an entirely different meaning,

“Merit,” standing alone, is a term that implies that
someone's judgment will be imposed in place of the time-
honored exams. While there is no doubt that the tests fall
short of perfection, there is equal certainty that personal
judgments are not a proper substitute.

If such appraisals are felt necessary to properly sort out
those people who are best qualified to hold their civil service
positions, then those factors should be included in the test-
ing procedure . . . albeit this could be a prolonged effort.

At any rate, we warn Congress to be wary of word games
when they act on the President's proposals,

There is no need to warn the Civil Service Employees
Association in this state that upheavals in the federal civil
service system can have a dire effect on all levels of public
employees,

The CSBA, largest independent public employee union
in the nation, at its Board of Directors meeting earlier this
month, unanimously directed its president, William L, Mc-
Gowan to send a letter to Carter to express the union’s con-
cern with the President's attitude toward civil servants and
the Merit System, (M.0.B.)

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Letkowite ‘Quit
Many Contend To
Succeed Att-Gen

The announcement by At-
torney General Louis Lefko-
witz that he won’t run for
public office again removes a
rare ornament from the Albany
scene,

Lefkowitz had always regarded
himself as the people's lawyer.
He leaves behind a monument
of programs and activities de-
signed to protect the public
from consumer frauds.

His retirement hardly means
he will withdraw from the po-
litical scene. Lefkowitz 1s a vig-
orous campaigner who genuinely
enjoys mingling with people. He
can stay on the campaign trail
from sunrise until the sun is
ready to rise again.

His appeal to the voters crosses
both ethnic and political lines.
There is no doubt that Repub-
lican candidates this year will
be looking for his assistance in
the campaign. Nor is there any
doubt that Lefkowitz will re-
spond with the vigor he would
have applied to his own can-
didacy.

Many Hopefuls

“The king 1s dead, long live the
king” also applies to politics, and
Lefkowitz’ retirement announce-
ment has opened the Attorney
General office to many Republi-
can hopefuls, By the same token,
his retirement has made the
Democratic nomination for that
office more valuable. At least the
Democratic nominee will not be
running against one of the best
vote getters in the state's history.

A number of Republicans have
already manifested interest in
the nomination. These include
Senator Ralph Marino, chairman
of the Senate Crime Investigat-
ing Committee, a great spot from
which to attract headlines; Sen-
ator Joseph R. Pisani, veteran
legislator from Westchester
County; Herbert Roth, the for-
mer chairman of the State
Liquor Authority; Westchester
County District Attorney Carl
Vegari, and Rita Hauser, a for-
mer United States delegate to the
United Nations during the Nixon
Administration,

On the Democratic side,
the most active contender is
Bronx Borough President Robert
Abrams, who won the Demo-
cratic primary for that office
four years ago, only to lose to
Lefkowitz in the general election,
Nicholas Scopetta, New York
City commissioner of investiga-
tion in the Beame Administra-
tion, as well as Beame's Deputy
Mayor for Criminal Justice, is
another possible candidate.

Other Democrats who have in-
dicated some interest in the nom-
ination, or who have friends who
have been stirring interest in
their behalf, include Secretary
of State Mario Cuomo, Westches-
ter County Executive Alfred Del-
Bello, and special Prosecutor for
Nursing Homes Charles Joseph
Hynes,

No doubt when the time for
decision comes, other candidates
will surface in both parties. It
is not unlikely that Attorney
General primary contests may

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Civil Service
Law & You

By RICHARD GABA

Mr. Gaba ts a member of the New York Bar and Chairman
of the Nassau County Bar Association Labor Law Committee.

Past Service Credit

On April 4, 1974, 10th Judicial District Supreme Court
reporters were atlocated to grade 27 of the graded service
salary plan under Section 219 of the Judiciary Law.

Section 219 was enacted in 1972. It directed that non-
judicial gourt employees whose positions were not allocated
were to be placed in the plan.

A group of court reporters who had been employed for
more than 10 years were placed in the fifth step (maximum)
of grade 27. They argued that they should have been placed
in the graded salary plan as of April 1, 1972, and that they
should receive longevity and extra longevity credit for every
year of past service, The Judicial Conference held that they
were not entitled to credit for past years and not even en-
titled to credit for the period of April 1972 to April 1974,

An Article 78 proceeding was commenced in Supreme
Court, Albany County, against the Judicial Conference and
the State Comptroller which resulted in a decision adverse
to the employees. An appeal to the Appellate Division, Third
Department, was also unsuccessful except that one justice
dissented (Greenblott) making it possible to take the case
to the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest, which held that
the court reporters were entitled to have their time towards
longevity calculated from April 1, 1972, rather than from
April 4, 1974, when the positions were first allocated. The
court also held, however, that in order to reach longevity and
extra longevity, the employees’ time could be counted only
from the date on which his position was allocated to the
salary plan, i.e. April 1, 1972, and that service prior to allo-
cation could not be counted, The statute speaks of service
“thereafter,” which the Court of Appeals said relates to ser-
vice after allocation, , . “Thus, petitioners’ reach for credit
for past service prior to April 1, 1972, must fall.” The matter
was remitted to Supreme Court, Albany County, for the
entry of judgment in accordance with the decision. The chief
judge took no part in the decision because he is also a
Judicial Conference member. In the Matter of Louis Abou-
lafia v, Richard J. Bartlett (New York Court of Appeals,

February 9, 1978.) .
e e e

PETITIONER COMMENCED an Article 78 proceeding
challenging New York City Transit Authority's determina-
tion of Jan. 21, 1977, in which petitioner was dismissed from
his position a8 a conductor. It was alleged that he used co-
caine without the authority of the T.A. medical director.

The Appellate Division, Second Department, held that
a review of the record as a whole indicated that the respon-
dent's determination to dismiss the petitioner was supported
by substantial evidence, The court further found that the
penalty imposed did not constitute an abuse of discretion.

The respondent was willing to pay back wages to the
petitioner from Sept. 19, 1976 (the date 30 days after his
suspension) to Nov, 10, 1976 (the date of the hearing), minus
any earnings he received during this period from any other
sources, and minus wages for the period of delay in holding

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OPINION

| WHAT'S.

| ‘fy PAMELA CRAIG te!
THE PLACE:/Mabhattan. Peychiatric” Cénter, Wards Inland |
QUESTION: The Leader series about assaults against staff in the Mental

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Hygiene institutions was initiated after an incident at Manhattan Psychiat-
ric last June. Has there been any improvement in conditions?

Jeanette Breedy, Mental Hygiene therapy aide:

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sf

The patients know what they can do. .The;
tell you, ‘If I hit-you, I'm’erazy,
to happen." If a patient doesn’t
medication, he goes and gets his la
sit on the ward and protect the patient from
ing his medication. There will

provement unti] our protection is equal with
tents, 5

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Francis Seabrook, Mental Hygiene therapy
“No, there -have been no

af

hurt. I was injured in 1975 and
am unable to do strenuous
work. If we had enough help,
which includes doctors and
nurses, we might not have this
high rate of incidents. Our
ward is understaffed yet they
continue to transfer patients
from other wards. I've been as-
saulted many times, There are no reasons, They
Just attack you. They are possibly hallucinating,
Yet, if you are to defend yourself in a way which
may look like an act of aggression, you are brought
up on charges.”

Joseph Aiken, Mental Hygiene therapy aide: “No,
T do not feel that the conditions
have improved. They will never
improve until the criminal jus-
tice system is changed, We have
many patients sent from the
courts. When they strike a staff
member, we press charges and
the police come and pick them
up. What is going to keep this
person in jail if you press
charges against him? He can't
stand trial for the first crime
he committed. How can he stand trial for the
second? It's a catch-22 because of the revolving
door within the criminal justice system.”

lade.
wa.

Alfonso Marquez, Mental Hygiene therapy aide:
“No, I do not feel there has
been any real improvement.
‘They have never replaced peo-
ple who left or retired. This
situation causes undue hard-
ship on the rest of the staff.
"We have ho RN’s in the evening
or night shifts. They sald they
needed proper coverage on
‘other wards. What about our
ward? Our last LVN was in-
jured by a patient and has
never returned. We are never given an answer as
to why we have no charge nurse to make deci-
sions. We have a night administrator who is down-
stairs. If you. make # decision alone, you are cru-
cified, Yet there are no nurses to make the de-
cisions,”

Dorothy Miller, support service: “No, I do not
sea feel there has been an im-
° provement. Recently, in Kirby
11, there was an assault by a
patient. He used a spoon to cut
the face of one of the RN's. The
patient who cut her was trans-
ferred to another building. The
employee morale is very low
here. We are very short of staff,
especially on the evening and
night shifts. It's very danger-
“ous here during those hours.
‘Until the staffing problem is solved, the assaults
will continue, regardless of the guards hired after
the situation here became public.”

Charles Perry, Mental Hygiene therapy aide: “By
and large, I can’t really see
much visible improvement, but
I think that more people are
becoming aware of the problem.
I think that finally these acts
‘are out in the open and that ef-
forts are being done to remedy
the situation. They are not the
best remedies, but some are
_ being made. The rehgbilitation

here in the hospital is fine to
some degree, but I think it
could go much farther. All facilities should be
run collectively. It is vital to train the residents
and house them in their proper places.”

RETIREMENT

NEWS

& FACTS

A. L. PETERS

Strange Cases

Increased questioning on dis-
ability retirements, both ordinary
and accidental, is appearing all
over the country,

Disability pensions are tax
free and benefits are generally
at a higher rate than ordinary
pensions. In the District of Co-
lumbia, Michael Reynolds, 30,
who injured both shoulders, re-
tired in 1972 with a $9,300-a-
year pension. In 1977 it was dis-
covered that Reynolds was
coaching the Bowle State Col-
lege football team. He claims it
is an easy job.

About 20 cases were sent to
the Retirement Board in 1977 by
@ police unit looking into al-
leged abuses in disability pen-
sions in Washington. The unit
has uncovered some strange
cases, including a retired fire-
man working at the same job in
another jurisdiction,

ee

Advice for graceful retirement
is given in a new book “The Re-
tirement Handbook” by Joseph
C. Buckley, published by Harper
and Row ($9.50). It gives a little
more than the standard “how to
get ready—how to stay healthy”
information, including financial
Planning and leisure-time sug-
gestions, It goes on to suggest
ideas for small businesses, farm-
ing,where to live, and Social Se-
curity and Medicare program
details.

e ee @

As a public service, The Leader
continues to publish the names
of individuals who are benefict-
aries of unclaimed checks from
the New York State Employees’
Retirement System and the State
Policemen’s and Firemen's Fund.
The Leader or the New York
State Employees’ Retirement Sys-
tem in Albany may be contacted
for information as to how to
obtain the funds.

Following is a listing of those individ:
uals whose membership terminated pur-
suant to th
Paragraph 1 of tt
cial Security Law oa or before August
31, 1974,

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Other Side

cency,

you're not entitled to some de-

there she was, in Section C, wait-
ing ‘til they called her name, and

Editor, The Leader:

T am compelled to write con-
cerning your article, “No work?”
(March 10, 1978) about unem-
Ployment insurance workers,

It appears that your article is
biased in favor of the claims in-
‘erviewer. Although I am sure
‘that many interviewers are har-
assed by claimants and are un-
appreciated in their work, there
fs ‘another side to the story. I
have been there.

_ How about harassment of the
claimant? I had been called off
my line when I had to be unem-
Ployed and without explanation
‘told to wait in Section C, After
‘tWo hours (when, by the way, I
Missed a job interview and
couldn’t us¢ the time I had
planned to look for work), I was
told, okay, I could leave. Why
did I have to sit there? I was
never given the courtesy of a
reply. The prevailing attitude
seemed to be that if you're col-
lecting, you're a@ non-entity,
your’ time is unimportant, and

I had a friend who had to
work although she was pregnant.
She was called to Section C every
week to present a fresh list of
places where she had sought
work. If she brought 10, she was
told it wasn’t enough, If she
brought 15, it still wasn’t
enough, They always wanted a
few more than she brought. Par-
adoxically, she wasted a whole
day each week when she could
have been seeking work. Instead,

then waiting again while a hos-
tile interviewer called every name
on her list. Does being pregnant
make one unable to work? I
worked up until the very bast day.

The employment assistance I
received was also no help at all.
Each time I went they told me
to come back in four months.
No computer search, no nothing.

‘They marked up my card with
strange initials, and when I asked
what they were, I was told in an

withheld upon request.

LETTERS POLICY

Letters to the Editor should be less than 200 words.
The Leader reserves the right to extract or condense
pertinent sections of letters that exceed the maximum
length. Meaning or intent of a letter is never changed.
Extensive letters that cannot be edited to a reasonable
length are not used unless their viewpoint is so unique
that, in The Leader’s judgment, an exception should
be made. All letters must be signed and bear the
writer’s address and telephone number. Names will be

ominous voice, “If you are sup-
Posed to know, you'll find out.”

Again, although I am sure
many of the interviewers are
sincere in their work, I encoun-
tered many who were not. It
seemed they felt it was some
kind of crime to be out of work
and try to collect the benefits
to which we were entitled.

KATHY HARRIS
Brooklyn

Many Thanks

Editor, The Leader:

The Family of John E, Stoger
wishes to express its gratitude to
the many friends and relatives
who offered their condolences
during the family's time of need.
Sincere thanks are extended to
the Island Park Rescue Squad and
the American Legion Post 1029
for their special services and to
all the employees of Nassau
County and Town of Hempstead
for their respectful sympathy.

STOGER FAMILY

(Contiaved from tast week)
Woodridge, Karen L
Young, Rosalie F ..
Schilling, Gerald 1 ......
Schmidhuber, Carolyn
Schorin, Yenora ...
Schreiber, Anna A ..
Schreiner, Gunther L
Schuler, Ura B
Scott, Alfred ....
Scribner, Ruth M
Ray A

mon, Carolyn A
Sheehy, Timothy J
Show, Robert W
Sill, Albert F
Sims, Edward J Jr...
Smith, Beatrice R
Smith, Bernice P
Smith, William G

Stone, Sonia §
Soules, Adrian
Stearns, Luana B
Stott, Leslie Ann
Suber, Melvin D
Sutorius, Sharon
Tam, Kim Poon,
Tamm, Ravio
Taylor, Jeanns

(To Be

(Continued from Page 6)
overshadow all other races dur-
ing the year,

Unique Personality

The first of next year will see
@ new face in the Attorney Gen-
eral's office. Whoever emerges
from the donnybrook will bring
his own personality to the of-
fice. Whatever the qualities of
the new Attorney General will
be, they will not match the style
of Lefkowitz.

Lefkowitz is a unique personal-
ity. He brought exuberance and
enthusiasm to the office. He was
always ready to try new ideas,
even to the extent of drafting
legislation—which was approved
—to regulate electronic dating
bureaus so that the lovelorn
should not fall into the hands
of con artists,

Albany will not be the same
without Louls Lefkowitz.

Civil Service
Law & You

(Continued from Page 6)
the disciplinary hearing attrib-
utable to the petitioner.

‘The record indicates that the
determination to terminate pe-
titioner’s services was made on
Jan, 21, 1977, not on Nov. 10,
1976, the date of the hearing.
Pursuant to Subdivision 3 of
Section 75 of the Civil Service
Law, the petitioner 1s entitled to
recelvé back pay until the date
on which his services are ac-
tually terminated,

The court then directed the
respondent to pay the petitioner
back pay from Sept. 19, 1976
(the date 30 days after his sus-
pension) to Jan, 21, 1977 (the
date of the determination),
minus compensation the peti-
tioner may have earned in any
other employment or from un-
employment insurance during
this period, and less wages re-
ceived from Oct, 12, 1976, to Nov.
10, 1976, the period of delay in
holding the hearing. In the Mat-
ter of Isaac Burrison v. New York
City Transit Authority, 400 NYS
2d 364, Appellate Division, 24
Dept,, 1977.

8261 ‘FZ PEW ‘AepHa “MACVAT ADIAWAS TAD

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, March 24, 1978

Proposed CSEA Constitution And By-Laws Changes:

The following amendments to the Civil
Service Employees Association’s Consti-
tution and its By-Laws will be presented
to union delegates for action when they
meet in Albany April 2, 3, 1978. Chair for
the committee on revision of constitution
and by-laws is Kenneth Cadleux, of Nas-
sau Local 830, with committee members
William DeMartino, Earl Mayfield, Jon
Schermerhorn, Nicholas Cimino, Mary
Ann Bentham and Peter Blaauboer, Bold-
face Indicates material to be added, and
that in [brackets] is to be removed.

The Constitution and By-Laws Com-
mittee has met once since the Annual
Delegates Meeting in October 1977. Be-
cause of the limited time available at this
Special Delegates Meeting, the Committee
is reporting on completed work only and
all other amendments will be reported
out at the October 1978 meeting.

Constitution

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PRE-
SENTED TO THE DELEGATES FOR A
SECOND READING AND IF PASSED,
WILL BECOME PART OF THE CSEA
CONSTITUTION:

1, The following amendment to Ar-
ticle III, Section 2 of the Constitution
was submitted to this Committee by
Nathaniel Ackerman, President of New
York Metro Retirees, CSEA Local 910,
and by William Mensel, Nassau County
Retirees Local:

ARTICLE II “Membership”, Section 2:
“Section 2: RETIREE MEMBERS. Any
member of the Association who has
retired from the civil service of the
State of New York or any political
subdivision thereof or any public au-
thority, public benefit corporation, or
similar autonomous public agency may
elect to become a retiree member. [Re-
tiree members shall not be eligible to
vote or hold office but shall have other
such rights and privileges as the
Board of Directors may prescribe.]"

Explanation; The Committee again
recommends defeat of this amendment,
The purpose of providing for a retiree
membership in CSEA ts to permit those
who wish to remain affiliated with the
organization, but who cannot afford to
pay full dues, the privilege of participat-
ing in the activities of retiree locals. Any
individual who wishes to vote or hold
office in other than a retiree local may
elect to do so by paying @ full member-
ship, In addition, statistics provided by
CSEA Headquarters show that as of
11/30/77, retiree members numbered
17,514; only 54 have opted to pay full
dues, indicating that there is not an over-
whelming sentiment by retiree members
to vote or hold office. Other statistics of
interest show that there are 15 retiree
locals throughout the State with Region
4 having the largest number of retirees
(3,330),

2. The following amendment which
would add a new paragraph to Article
VIII of the Constitution was originally
submitted to this Committee by Robert C.
Smith, SUNY at Buffalo, Local 602:

ARTICLE VIII “Delegates”:

ENTIRE ARTICLE REMAINS THE
SAME,

New Paragraph:

“Regional officers not in the capacity
of Local delegates, shall be delegates
at all delegate meetings of the Assocl-
ation. They shall have all the rights
and privileges of delegates at the meet-
Ings except the right to vote. Allowed
expenses may be paid by the region,”

Explanation: The Committee recom-
mends approval of this amendment on
the basis that the amendment pertains
only to regional officers and, in all prob-
ability, will affect only a small number
of individuals, In addition, this amend-
ment is optional with regard to expenses,
1e,, “Allowed expenses may be paid by
the region.""

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PRE-
SENTED TO THE DELEGATES BY THE
COMMITTEE AS PROPOSED AMEND-
MENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. THE
PRESENTATION TO THE DELEGATES
AT THIS MEETING CONSTITUTES A
FIRST READING OF THESE AMEND-
MENTS.

1, This proposal was originally pre-
sented to the Committee for consideration
by the Methods and Procedures Commit-
tee (formerly the Restructuring Commit-
tee) and was presented to the delegates
at the October, 1977 Delegates Meeting.
The delegates referred the matter back
to the Committee for the addition of
certain language. The Committee has in-
serted that language and is recommend-
ing passage of the amendment by the
delegates. Since this is only a first read-
ing of the amendment, it will not take
effect unless it ts passed again at the Oc-
tober, 1978 meeting.

For the purpose of explanation, the
Committee has prepared a chart which
is attached to this report which shows
the gradual implementation of the three-
year term for all elected officials within
CSEA. It should be noted that a three-
year term for the four statewide officers
will take effect for the election to be
held in June, 1979, All other officers will
be elected at that time for a two-year
term, In 1981, the Region Presidents and
other Region officers will then be elected
for a three-year term. In 1981, Local and
Unit Officers, as well as the statewide
Board of Directors, will again be elected
for a two-year term. In 1983, these offi-
cals will be elected for a three-year term.
It should be noted that the Board of Di-

rectors will be responsible for amending .

Region and Local Constitutions to effec-
tuate implementation of this procedure.
However, since the Region officers below
the rank of region President will not be
affected until 1981, the Board of Direc-
tors has ample time, if this procedure is
adopted, to make the necessary changes.
(If this procedure is adopted at a second
reading in October, 1978, the Board will
have a year and a half to make the nec-
essary changes which may be made at
one meeting of the Board of Directors,
providing adequate notice of the pro-
posed Region and Local Constitution
changes is given.)

‘To implement this recommendation, the
following language 1s submitted:

Article IV, Section 5(a) of the Consti-
tution:

“(a) ELECTION. [Officers of the
Association shall be elected by secret

ballot in odd-numbered years in the
manner prescribed in the by-laws.
They shall hold office for a term of
two years of until their successors shall
have qualified, commencing July 1st
in an odd-numbered year.) The four
statewide officers of the Association
shall be elected by secret ballot tri-an-
nually (every three years) commencing
with the term of office to begin on
July 1, 1979. The six Vice Presidents
of the Association shall be elected for
‘a term of two years commencing July
1, 1979, Thereafter the six. Vice Presi-
dents of the Association shall be elected
for a term of three years commencing
with the term of office July 1, 1961.
They shall hold office for the term
for which they were elected or until
their successors shall have qualified.
Vacancy in the office of President shall
be filled by the Executive Vice Presi-
dent, Vacancies in the office of Exec-
utive Vice President shall be filled by
the Board of Directors by appointing
any one of the six Vice Presidents. A
vacancy in the term of any of the Vice
Presidents shall be filled according to
the Constitution and By-Laws of the
respective regions.” REST OF SECTION
REMAINS THE SAME.

Article VI, Section 1, STATE EXECU-
‘TIVE COMMITTEE:

“Section 1. STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE. The power and authority
to transact business relating to state
employees shall, except as provided
herein, be vested in a State Executive
Committee, The State Executive Com-
mittee shall consist of the officers of
the Association, and one representative
from each State Department. The Ju-
diciary, the State University, the Wat-
erfront Commission and state public
authorities as one unit, shall be deemed
State Departments. The Faculty Stu-
dent Associations and Teachers’ Re-
tirement System shall as a unit be
deemed a State Department. In addi-
tion to the foregoing, each State De-
partment with more than 3,000 mem-
bers as of January 1 in [an odd-num-
bered year] the year of an election,
shall for the term of office beginning
the following July, be entitled to one
representative on the State Executive
Committee for each 3,000 members or
major fraction thereof. The State Ex-
ecutive Committee shall elect from its
membership one member to be known
as the Chairman of the State Execu-
tive Committee. The State Executive
Committee may create one or more
subcommittees to perform such duties
as the State Executive Committee shall

delegate. Each department representa-
tive shall be elected by ballot by the
members in his department in the
manner prescribed in the By-Laws. No
person shall be eligible for nomination
unless he shall haye been a member in
good standing of the Association on or
before June 1st of the year preceding
the year in which the election is held.
"They shall hold office for a term of
two years or until their successors shall
have qualified. Commencing with the
term of office beginning July 1, 1983

partment at a special election
called by the Board of Directors within

established by the Board.”
Article VII, Section 1, COUNTY EXEC-

COMMITTEE. The power and author-
ity to transact business relating to em~-
ployees of the political subdivisions of
the State shall, except as otherwise
provided herein, be vested in a County
Executive Committee which shall con-
sist of the officers of the Association
and one representative from each
County Division Local, and one County
Educational Local Representative from
each CSEA Region elected by the
County Educational Local members
within each region. In addition to the
foregoing, each County Division Local
with more than 10,000 members as of
January 1 in (an odd-numbered year]
the year of an election shall, for the
term of office beginning the following
July, be entitled to one additional rep-
resentative. The County Executive
Committee may create one or more
subcommittees to perform such duties
as the County Executive Committee
shall delegate. The representatives of
a County Local shall be elected by
such local for a two-year term of office
to be coincidental with the term of
office for members of the State Exec-
utive Committee. Commencing with
the term of office beginning July 1,
1983 and each term thereafter, the
term of office shall be three years, The
County Executive Committee shall
elect from its membership one mem-
ber to be known as the Chairman of
the Executive Committee.”
(Continued on Page

4 STATEWIDE
OFFICERS

REGIONAL
PRESIDENTS

(Other Regional
Officers) * |

BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
(Locals, Units)** |

Proposed Official
CSEA Election Timetable

Foard of Directors have co change REGIONAL CONSTITUTION.

** Board of Directors have to change LOCAL CONSTITUTION.

(Continued ‘from Page 8)
Explanation; ‘The Committee exam-

would be preferred over the present pro-

(a) Under the current procedure, a
member receives several ballots at the
same time which leads to confusion and
uncertainty among the membership. For
example, a, State Division member now

Board of Directors. During this same
period of time, the member receives a
separate election ballot, usually by mail,
to vote for local officers and delegates.
The Committee has concluded that the
confusion created by the receipt of a
number of ballots from different entities
within CSEA to elect individuals to over
twenty-five offices ‘approximately © simul
taneously has: diseouraged a large seg-
ment of the membership from participa-
ing In the election process because they
are utterly and totally confused. The best
example to support. this conclusion is that
in the 1977 election for President of
CSEA, while ballots were mailed to ap-
proximately 220,000 members, slightly.
over 46,000 members voted in that elec-
tion, The number of members voting for
the highest office in the union equaled
21 percent of those eligible to vote! In
some cases the returns for Region Presi-
dents were even lower than the return
for the office of President. In the New
York Region, only 4,586 ballots were re-
turned out of a total of 23,123 mailed,
This represents a slightly less than 20
percent participation. In the Southern
Region, 6,748 votes were cast, while 33,153
ballots were mailed. This represents a
20 percent: participation.

(b) The establishment of this proce-
dure will provide for the staggering of
terms for elected officials in the union
which will lead to guaranteed continuity
when incumbents elect not to run for re-
election or are defeated during an elec-
tion, Under the current procedure, it is
possible for the ten statewide offices to
change incumbents at the same time.
While the event is unlikely, even a change
of six or eight officers would lead to an
undesirable turnover of a majority of
those individuals in the highest level of
administration within the union. This
Proposal would ensure that no more than
six of the top ten statewide officers
would be engaged in a re-election in the
same year, This procedure would also en-
able those top officers who are not run-
ning for re-election in a given year, while
others are, to continue to address their
primary role, namely, carrying out the
direction and policy for the union as es-
tablished by the delegates and the Board
of Directors. Currently, all ten officers
are campaigning simultaneously which
leaves little time for attention to press-
ing union matters. This is particularly
important when serious challenges exist
to our bargaining status in the major
bargaining units represented by CSEA.

(c) Under the current procedure, all
officers at every level within CSEA are
campaigning for re-election simultane-
ously, Consequently, the membership is
deluged with campaign material from
individuals at all levels within the or-
Banization, Consequently, the membership
1s voting for three CSEA presidents at the
same time but each at different levels.
This procedure would eliminate this ob-
Vious confusion since local officers, region
Officers, and statewide officers would be
elected in different years,

(d) Under the current procedure, it 1s
difficult for the membership to receive
enlightened recommendations from local
officials with regard to region and state-
Wide endorsements since the local officials
re busy running for re-election them-
Selves. The Committee believes that the
New procedure will encourage a more
healthy political climate within the or-

ined several reasons’ Why this procedure.

ganization and will provide for meaning-
ful endorsements from locals when the
region officers are being re-elected and
from locals and regions when the four
statewide officers are being re-elected.
‘The ultimate result, of this process is that
the elected leadership of the union will
become more responsive to the needs of
the regions and locals in order to receive
their endorsements and support upon re-
election.

(e) The membership ‘will also be able
to attend “meet’ the candidate" meetings
‘and hear presentations from a reasonable

! numberof candidates’ seeking . office,

Under the current procedure, a CSEA
“meet the candidates” night usually in-
volves meeting as many as 40 or 50 can-
didates who are running for office at all
levels within the Association.

(f) The. procedure proposed by the
Committee, which 1s different from the
procedure proposed at the last’ meeting,
will allow for the gradual implementation
of the three-year term of office. An ex-
amination of the attached chart shows
that implementation will take effect over
@ period of four years and will not be
complete until the election in 1983,

2. From the floor of the delegates
meeting in October 1977, Ms. G. Geral-
dine Dickson, Education Department, re-
quested the Committee to study Article
VI, Section 1 and Article VII, Section 1
of the Constitution with a view toward
@n amendment which would result in con-
sistency between the State Executive
Committee and the County Executive
Committee. The Committee, after review
of these two articles, submits the follow-
ing language:

Article VII “COUNTY DIVISION”

“Section 1. COUNTY EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE, The power and author-
ity to transact business relating to em-
Ployees of the political subdivisions of
the state shall, except as otherwise
provided herein, be vested in a County
Executive Committee which shall con-
sist of the officers of the Association
and one representative from each
County Division Local elected by the
members of that Local, and one County
Educational Local Representative from
each CSEA Region elected by the
County Educational Local members
within each region. In addition to the
foregoing, each County Division Local
with more than 10,000 members as of
January 1 in an odd-numbered year
shall, for the term of office beginning
the following July, be entitled to one
additional representative. The County
Executive Committee may create one
or more subcommittees to perform such
duties as the County Executive shall
delegate. The representatives of a
County Local shall be elected by the
members of such local for a two-year
term of office to be coincidental with
the term of office for members of the
State Executive Committee. No person
shall be eligible for nomination unless
he shall have been a member in good
standing of the Association on or be-
fore June Ist of the year preceding the
year in which the election is held. They
shall hold office for a term of two
years or until their successors shall
have qualified. Vacancies in the office
of the County Executive Representa-
tives may be filled for the remainder
of the term by members of the Associ-
ation employed in such Local at a spe-
cial election to be called by the Board
of Directars within fourteen days after
the first meeting of the Board subse-
quent to the time that such vacancies
occur under rules established by the
Board. The County Executive Commit-
tee shall elect from its membership one
member to be known as the Chairman
of the County Executive Committee.”

Explanation: The Committee recom-
mends approval of these amendments on
the basis that the language will be con-
sistent for both the State Executive Com-

Check Them Out Now Before Delegates Convention

mittee and the County Executive Com-
mittee.

3. By a motion carried at the Board of
Directors meeting on September 15, 1977,
it was recommended that the Constitu-
tion and By-Laws Committee study that
section of the Constitution which deals
with the Board of Canvassers with the
thought that it might no longer be re-
quired. After review of Article VIII, the
Committee submits the following lan-
guage:

Article. VIII “Delegates”

“Members of each local shall elect
from thelr membership one or more
delegates to represent the members of
the local at all meetings of the Associ-
ation, except that the local president
shall, by virtue of his office, automat-
ically be designated as a delegate. Prior
to June Ist of each year, each local
shall file with the Secretary of the As-
sociation an accurate list containing
the names and addresses of its dele-
gates for the ensuing year, and names
and addresses of alternate delegates,
may be submitted to the Secretary
thereafter, Such delegate or delegates
shall have one vote for each one hun-
dred members or fraction thereof in
such local, based upon the paid mem-
bership in the Association on the first
day of June preceding the meeting.
The number of votes each local or de-
partment is entitled to cast shall be
determined by the Membership Com-
mittee [a Board of Canvassers ap-
pointed by the Board of Directors).
Members in the State Division who are
not entitled to representation by Local
Delegates pursuant to this section shall
be represented at all meetings of the
Association by members of the State
Executive Committee as delegates rep-
resenting each of the State Depart-
ments, and each such delegate shall
have one vote for each one hundred
members, or fraction thereof, in the
department from which he was elected,
excluding those members who are rep-
resented by Local Delegates as provided
in this section.” REST OF ARTICLE
REMAINS THE SAME.

Explanation; The Committee recom-
mends approval of this amendment in
view of the fact that the information re-
quired to determine the number of votes
to which each local or department is en-
titled should be readily available to the
Membership Committee, which is already
@ functioning committee of the Associ-
ation. In addition, the Board of Can-
vassers has not been utilized by the Board
of Directors in the recent past since the
information has become more accessible
by use of the computer.

By-Laws

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PRE-
SENTED TO THE DELEGATES BY THE

1, By motion carried at the Board of
Directors meeting held on January 12,
1978, opinion of Counsel was accepted
that the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
does not permit the use of proxies by
members of the Board of Directors of
such a@ corporation. Since CSEA is gov-
erned by the Not-for-Profit Corporation
Law, that portion of its By-Laws permit-
ting proxies for members of the Board of
Directors is not valid. The Committee was
requested to review Article I, Section 8
“Proxies” of the By-Laws. The Commit-
tee has done so and submits the follow-
ing language;

Article II, Section 8 “Proxies”:

“Section 8: PROXIES. A member of
(the Board of Directors, the Directors
Committee,] the State Executive Com-

mittee, the County Executive Commit-
tee, or delegate to any meeting of the
Association who is unable to attend a
meeting is empowered to appoint, by
written designation filed with the Sec-
retary of the Association, a member of
his local or department to act in his
Place, except that delegates may not
appoint their own proxy if the local
which they represent has provided for
the selection of alternate delegates to
attend meetings of the Association
which delegates are unable to attend,
provided, that the Local has filed by
written designation with the Secretary
of the Association a description of said
Local selection process, However, no
officer of the Association shall be rep-
resented by proxy. [No member of the
Board of Directors who is physically
present at a Board meeting and who
is entitled to vote in more than one
capacity, shall have the right to a
proxy; provided, however, that he may
cast one vote for each office or ca-
pacity he represents.1”

Explanation: The Committee recom-
mends approval of this amendment to
conform with the Not-for-Profit Corpo-
ration Law. It should be noted that this
amendment does not preclude an in-
formal proxy or designee from attend-
ing a meeting for information purposes
if the Board elects to adopt such a pro-
cedure. Also, members of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee and County Executive
Committee may have proxies at those
meetings since the meetings are not meet-
ings of the Board of Directors.

2. The following amendment to Article
VI, Section 1, of the By-Laws was sub-
mitted to this Committee by Bernard C.
Schmahl, Chairman of the Special Elec-
tion Procedures Committee:

Article VI, “Committees”

“Section 1: STANDING COMMIT-
TEES. The Standing Committees of the
Association shall be as follows; Insur-
ance Committee, Legal Committee, Re-
vision of Constitution and By-Laws
Committee, Retirees Committee, Con-
vention Committee, Political and Leg-
islative Action Committee, Grievance
Committee, Pension Committee, Salary
Committee, Committee for Methods
and Procedure, [and] Education and
‘Training Committee, and Election Pro-
cedures Committee. Standing Commit-
tee chairmen and members shall be
appointed by the President for the du-
ration of his term of office or until
successor appointments have been
made.” REST OF SECTION REMAINS
‘THE SAME.

Explanation; The Committee recom-
mends approval of this amendment on
the basis that the Election Procedures
Committee functions in the interest of
all members of the Association, acts ‘n
both State and County Local elections
and the Statewide election of officers and
Board members.

3. In the event that the above amend-
ment pertaining to the Special Election
Procedures Committee is adopted by the
Delegates at this meeting, the following
amendment to Article VI, Section 4 “Spe-
clal and Ad Hoc Committees”, will be
necessary:

Article VI, “Committees”

“Section 4: SPECIAL AND AD HOC
COMMITTEES. The Special Commit-
tees of the Association shall be as fol-
lows: Armory, Auditing, Membership,
Human Rights, Memorial Scholarship
Pund, Plaque, Civil Service, Regional
Office, Platform, Social Services, Pro-
bation, Non-Teaching School District
Employees, [Special Election Proce-
dures,] Special Authorities, Work Per-
formance Ratings and Examinations,
and such other committees designated
by the President of the Association.”
REST OF SECTION REMAINS THE
BAME.

S261 “FS YEW ‘AepHy “YAGVAT AOAYAS TIAID

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, March 24, 1978

EXAM 39191

SR LIB AUD VIS TECH PROC
‘Test Held June 1977
List Est. Dec. 12 1977

Yakel Grace K Latham
Coonrod F E Cohoes
Dickerson L J E Greenbush
Britenbaker A L Albany
Hargrave Jean F Troy
Kokorzka Helen Albany
Flood Kevin
8 Roberts Donald Albany
12 Carpenter Joan, Albeay

Roberts Donald Albany
14 Wolff A M Guilderland
15 Jackel Adele D Albany
16 Legendre Sally Latham
17 Stanotn Lee W All
18 Carpenter Joan Albany
19 Closon EA Delmar
20 Ostrander $ V Elsmere
21 Esposito M A Albany
22 Cairo Margaret Waterford .
23 Suits Jamie K Albany
24 Carter Robert A Saratoga Sp;
25 Ransom Olive E

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2
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nt Legenore Sally Latha
12 Stanton Lee W Albany
13 Esposito M A Albany
14 Ostrander § V Elsmere
15 Ressom Olive B Albeny

seesessssescceeeesses

Pasternack M A Albany
22 Beach Alta H_ Schenectad;
23 Douglas Peter A Albany ..
24 Baker Pearl C Delmar ...

EXAM_ 39190

SR LIBRARIAN

Test Held June 1977

List Est. Dec, 14, 1977

Mace Henry L Averill Park

Coonrod F E Cohoes ....
Yakel Grace K Latham

Dickerson L J E Greenbush

Britenbaker A L Albany ..
Corsaro James § Albany

‘Welden § H Lebanon Spgs

$F

MINEOLA — Nassau County
Civil Service officials are recruit-
ing applicants for four jobs,
three of which require only &
high school diploma plus experi-
ence, and with salaries ranging
from $8,168 to $15,282 a year.

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28 Doyle Margaret Albany
29 Chung Chong C”Latham

33 Douglas Pever A Albany
34 Baker Pearl C Delmar

EXAM 39192
SR LIB (LAW) (LEGIS REF)

1 Lawrence Susan Albany
2 Flood Kevin P Latham .
3 Yakel Grace K Latham

4 Dickerson L J E Greenbush
5 Hargrave Jean F Troy
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Nassau Telephone,
Clerk Jobs Opening

Only assistant  toxicologist,
which pays $15,282, requires
more than a high school educa-
tion. Candidates for this post
must hold chemistry, biology or
biochemistry degrees and have
three years chemistry laboratory
experience. Filing closes March
29. There is no written qualify-
ing exam.

Filing for communications an-
alyst, an $11,973-a-year job, and
telephone operator-telephone op-
erator I, which pays $8,168, also
ends March 29.

Senior clerk, an $8,531-a-year
job, has a March 23 filing dead-
line.

Job hopefuls should contact
the Nassau County Civil Service
Commission, 140 Old Country
Rad., Mineola, for details.

LEGAL NOTICE

PENBER 9TH ST. GARAGE CO.
Substance of Certificate of Limited
Partnership filed in New York County
Clerk's Office, March 2nd, 1978: Name
and Location of Partnership: PENBER
9TH ST. GARAGE CO., 342 Madison
‘Avenue, New York, New York, Business
of Partnership: hold; operate, improve
and lease premises 220-228 East 9th
General

mocks Road, Larchmont, N.Y. $14.4
JACK DINOFFER, Union Avenue,
N.Y., $15,000; ARNOLD 8.
Willow | Avenue,

York, N.Y., $7,500; ROBERT SCHUR,
14650 SW, 60 Avense, i, Florida,
Term of Partnership: February
Se 1978 to December 31, 2006, On the
death, retirement, bankruptcy or in-
capacity of the General Partner, if Aroold
S, Penner is then alive and agrees to
act as the General Partner, he shall be-
come the General Partner and the Part.
nership shall coatinue and the interest of
the General Partner shall be changed to
that of a Limited Partner. If Arnold S.
Penner does not so qualify or dies, be-
comes incapacitated, withdraws or be-
comes bankrupt, the Partnership shall
dissolve unless all the Partners elect in
writing to continue the Partnership.
There is no priority in distributions
among Limiced Partners. Limited Partners

may be required to make additional
capital contributions as provided
Agreement, Limited Partners do not have
the right to substituce an assignee as
contributor in their place. General Part-
ner may admit additional limited part.
ners with approval of 50% of all
partners,

LEGAL NOTICE

ANCHOR REALTY COMPANY, 663
Fifth Ave,, N.¥.C. Substance of Limited
Partnership, Certificate filed in New
York County Clerk's Office November
15, 1977. Business: own and operate
real property. General Partner: Michael
J. Robinson, 200 East 50 Street, N.Y.C.
imited Partner and cash contribution:
Janice C, Griffith, 30 East 95 Street,
N.Y.C, $15,000. Partnership to continue
until Dec, 31, 1978 and shall continue
thereafter from year to year until ter-
minated as provided. No additional con-
tributions to be made. Limited partner
shall share in net profit as pi

. Limited partner
rest subject to restrictions in
. No additional limited part-
pers except on consent of original lim-
ited and general partner, If termioation
or dissolution limited partoer may re-
ceive property other than cash in return
for her contribution at the value at
which such property is then held as
shown on the partgersbip books.

19 Esposito M A Albany ..
20 Suits Jamie K Albany
2 2 Douglas Marilyn “Albaay
3 Yee Virginin T’ Schenectady
26 Beach Alta H» Scheneceady

5 Douglas Peter A Albany
36 Bauer Pea! Delmar

EXAM’ 39194
$R/LIB MED: SCI & TECH
June 1

Hehe

ae

A Saratoge
17 Yee Virginia T Schenectady
18 Douglas Marilyn Albany ..
Beach Alta H Schenectady

1

2 Mace Henry L Averill Pk
3 Yakel Grace K ees x ri ‘
4 Corsaro James $ Albany .. ergrave. Je

5 Dickerson L J E Greenbush Wolff Whmiacteed
6 Roberts Doould Albany \.
1 10, Lagnaden Selly Lasham
8 ‘Lee W Albany

Rhodes Mation E Scotia ..
Welden. $ H Lebanon. Spgs
‘Wolff AA M Guilderland

Jackel Adele D All

Stanton Lee W Albany
15 Legendre Sally Latham
16 Ostranders $V. Elsmete

17 Douglas Marilyn Albany
18 Douglas Peter A Albany
Bak 1 @ Delmar

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Senior Mechanical Stores Clerk
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All that will really change
would be the department name
and paraphernalia—a flag, a
seal, Executive Director Ray-
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have a-new title. Technically his
Job will be abolished, but he has
rights to another top federal
civil service job.

56 Westchester
Youth Jobs Open

WHITE. PLAINS — The
Westchester County Youth
Conservation Corps has re-
ceived an additional $12,000
from the state Department of
Environmental Conservation for
the country's summer program,

gins July 3, Each enrollee will
receive $2.65 per hour.

For additional information
contact Ann B. Spaeth, West-
chester County Youth at (914)
682-2663,

;
mitting divorcees to receive part
of their ex-husbands'* pensions
may be applied to military re-
tiree benefits. A bill has been
introduced by Rep. Patricia
Schroeder (D.-Colo.) to accom-
plish this,
eee

President Carter has approved
a law allowing special tickets for
older travelers on airlines. Alle-
gheny and Continental Airlines
offer one-third off for persons
65 or older on 4 stand-by basis.
However, to be eligible, the trav-
elers must purchase a special $20
identification card—valid for two
years. Discounts are available
except on holidays.

Hawaiian and Aloha Airlines
are offering a 85 percent dis-

count, requiring ® $5 lifetime:

identification. Their applications
with the Civil Aeronautics Board
are pending.

In Canada, senior citizens re-
celve @ 10 percent discount on
all airlines without the standby
requirement,

AWARD WINNER
Paul Lein, the Air Force's outstanding management analysis civil
service employee for 1977, chats with Staff Sergeant Judy Allen, a
member of his staff. The 38-year federal service employee competed
with approximately 300 other civil service workers for the award.

County Executive Alfred B. Del-
Bello has announced.

The additional funding in-
creases the state's allotment to

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$60,000 permitting the hiring of
56 youths.

The program combines envir-
onmental education with outdoor
work that includes streams, soil
erosion conservation, construc-
tion, wildlife habitat improve-
ment and selective tree thinning.
It 1s open to Westchester resi-
dents 15 through 18. Enrollees
are picked at random by a com-
puter,

Applications are available at
local youth employment services,
Ubraries and at the Westchester
County Youth Bureau at the
County Office Building. The ap-
plication deadline is April 1.

‘The seven-week program be-

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S261 “FZ Yew ‘epg “YAGVAT AOIANGS AID

12

March 24, 1978

Friday,

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER,

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James Moore, CSEA Central Region V president, underlines key
points during his officers training segment while Dick Brown, left,
and Richard Grieco, Local 823 president, look on, Officers and dele-
gates from 10 units, plus several state officers, attended the full-day
workshop held recently in Watertown.

James Moore listens as an officer asks a question during the question-and-answer period which followed
the speaker sessions at the recent workshop conducted by Local 823 in Watertown.

Hold Jefferson Grievance Workshop

WATERTOWN—Officers and delegates from 10 units of Jeffer-
son Local 823, as well as representatives from area state Locals of
the Civil Service Employees Association, attended a recent officers
training session and grievance workshop held here at the Holiday Inn.

Richard Grieco, president of Local 823, coordinated the full-day

Why The Taylor Law
Requires Reforming

A recent editorial in the Troy Times Record dismissing the
need for Taylor Law reform brought a long response from Civil
Service Employees Association Rensselaer Local president Sam-
uel P. Ciraulo, in which he detailed why the Taylor Law requires
reforming. Mr. Ciraulo’s remarks are excerpted below.

The Taylor Law as it exists becomes a very one-sided law
in favor of the employer if bargaining breaks down. The Public
Employment Relations Board (PERB) has worked very hard to
see that bargaining does not break down and, in most cases, is
successful. However, when the bargaining process reaches the
fact-finding stage, which is usually only after many months of
intensive negotiations, PERB can only make a recommendation
through @ fact-finder’s report for a settlement. If this recom-
mendation is acceptable to the union, but not acceptable to the
employer, a legislative hearing is then imposed. If the Legisla-
ture takes the side of the employer and also does not accept the
fact-finder's report, the employees are left with nowhere to turn
and must accept anything they are given by the legislators, no
matter what, This becomes very difficult, placing the legislators
in a position of having to do the job that management has
failed to do over many months, They are disadvantaged since
they have to absorb what was going on during the entire nego-
tlating process prior to their receiving the ball. In most cases
they get very Httle time to look into both sides. Also the legis-
lative positions are not full-time positions and sometimes they
have to depend quite heavily on what management tells them,
the same management that has been unable to (or simply did
not want to) resolve the problem,

There have been times in the past, because of the disad-
vantaged position legislators are placed in by management, when
public employees came out of a legislative hearing losing some
of the benefits that were negotiated in years past. If the em-
Ployees can not accept this and decide to fight back by going
on strike (which is what happens in private industry) we in
Public service are subjected to the following:

1, Loss of tenure for one year for each employee, thereby
denying him/her the protection of the Civil Service Law against
dismissal regardless of the number of years of service.

1, Loss of tenure for one year for each employee thereby
making the employee “pay” the employer the equivalent of two
days pay for each and every day on strike.

8. The leaders of the union can wind up in jail for par-
ticipating in a strike with their fellow employees.

4, If the employees’ union is found guilty of participating
in the strike, they could lose their dues-checkoff privileges and
be subjected to some very stiff financial penalties.

AS you can see, the employer can do very well if the em-
ployees are forced to go on strike, and yet there are no penalties
for an employer who is found guilty of negotiating in bad faith,
By no stretch of the imagination can this be considered as fair
treatment, especially when you consider (contrary to public
opinion created by the press) that no working man or woman,
public or private, likes to go on strike. Need, frustration, and
desperation are the creators of a strike when all else has failed
to resolve the problem,

session. Guest speakers included James J. Moore, CSEA Central Re-
gion V president, who ‘spoke of the importance of strong leadership
and improving communication between officers and union ‘member-
ship. Regional attorney Richard Hunt stressed the timeliness in filing
grievances and that special importance be placed on factual docu-

mentation.

Ercole Ventura, CSEA regional organizer, concluded the morning
session with a review of stewards’ duties with emphasis on proper

techniques.

Frank Martello, Region V supervisor, opened the afternoon seg-
ment with a discussion of the varieties of grievances and procedure
methods through the four steps. Mr. Martello also reviewed the
many services and educational information available to units and

locals.

Charles McGeary, regional public relations specialist, spoke to the
gathering and suggested methods to improve communication through
unit or Local newsletters. He also recommended ways of taking full
advantage of news media public service announcements,

A question-and-answer period concluded the workshop,

Plans are under way to repeat the successful workshop format
in other county and state Locals throughout Central Region V.

Announce Labor/Management
Committee: Parole Division

ALBANY—A statewide Civil Service Employees Associa-
tion labor/management committee for employees of the
new Division of Parole has been announced.

CSEA president William L. McGowan has named the
following persons to represent the

union at labor/management
meetings: Michael Bell, parole
officer at Edgecomb; Peter Blaau-
boer, senior parole officer at
Buffalo; Zelda Crane, senior ty-
Pist at Ossining; Joseph Early,
parole officer at Albany Area;
Lawrence Ibsen, parole officer at
Taconic; Robert Kent, parole of-
ficer at Binghamton; Nancy Mor-
ison, senior stenographer at
Syracuse; Paulett. Parfitt, parole
officer at Clinton; Sheldon
Swirsky, parole officer at Hemp-
stead; Alicia Fisher Yarter, sen-
jor data entry machine operator
at Central Office, and John Ever-
sley, senior parole officer in New
York City.

Additional people may be ap-
Pointed as needed, according to
Mr. McGowan,

CSEA collective bargaining spe-
clalist Jack Conoby will be the
staff representative at the ‘irst
labor/management committee
meeting, which will be held
this month. In attendance at
the meeting will be Edward R,
Hammock, chairman of the Di-
vision of Parole, and Henry
Bankhead from the’ personnel
department of the Division, ac-
cording to Mr, Conoby,

Mr, Conoby advised the more
than 1,000 CSEA members in the

Division to get in touch with the
committee member nearest them
with suggestions for topics to be
taken up at this and future labor/
management meetings.

Parole became the newest divi-
sion of state government on
Jan, 1.

Form New CSEA Unit
In Onondaga County

LIVERPOOL — The Onon-
daga County employees of
the Department of Parks and
Recreation, a newly formed
unit of the Civil Service Em-
Ployees Association, recently
elected their officers.

They are president Fred Ladou-
ceur, first vice-president James
Bishop, second vice-president An-
thony Sokolowalki, treasurer Helen
‘Windhausen and secretary Flor-
ence Spencer,

The election committee in-
cluded Palmer Burbidge, Dave
Moltion, Raymond Owens, Mi-
chael Cathers, James Abbott,
Jeanette Heldeffer and Anthony
Arnold,

Mary Matteson and Alan Cox
comprised the nominating com-
mittee, ‘ ae

the recent County workshop held
by Jefferson Local 823 in
Watertown,

Onondaga Local
Installs Leaders

SYRACUSE—Onondaga Coun-
ty Local 834 of the Civil Service
Employees Association has an-
nounced the installation of new
officers at a dinner ceremony
held recently at the Camelot
Restaurant, in Syracuse.

James J. Moore, president of
CSEA Centra] Region V, admin-
istered the oath to the new of-
ficers who will represent the 20-
unit Local for a term of two
years. Those installed Ro-
bert Obrist, president; Thomas
Murphy, first vice-president; Jo-
seph Caputo, second vice-presi-
dent; Pat Callahan, third vice-
president; Ventina Cerutti, sec-

RETIREES MEET
MARCH 27

BINGHAMTON—There will be
@ regular meeting of the Bing-
hamton Area Retirees Local 902
of the Civil Service Employees
Association 2 p.m., March 27, at
Garden Village West, 50 Front
8t., Binghamton,

Retirees from Broome, Che-
nango, Otsego, and Delaware
Counties are invited to attend.
Ben Fisher, director of Action
for Older People, will be thé
guest speaker; wi) HUMIARMin 9S

Field Asst, Jobs
At CSEA Open

ALBANY —The Civil Ser-
vice Employees Association is
seeking applicants for two
field service assistant staff
positions, one the CSEA Central
Region servicing St. Lawrence
County and the other at union's
Capital Region servicing Sara-
toga and Washington Counties.

Field service ‘assistants help
union members with employment,
problems, securing formal recog-
nition and certification prob-
lems, and help negotiate condi-
tlons of employment including
the contract writing. Field service
assistants also visit chapters and

Audit, Accounting

ALBANY—The state Civil Ser-
vice Department established an
eligible list for professional aud-
iting and accounting on Feb. 6,
as the result of a November 1977
open competitive exam. The list
contains 471 names.

Se eraummenmarcmmareaneral
WHERE TO APPLY
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NEW YORK CITY — Persons
seeking jobg with the City
should file at the Department of
Personnel, 49 Thomas St., New
York 10013, open weekdays be-
tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Special
hours for Thursdays are 8::
am, to 4 p.m.

Those requesting applications
by mail must include a stamped,
self-addressed envelope, to be
received by the Department at
least five days before the dead-
line. Announcements are avail-
able only during the filing period.

By subway, applicants can
reach the filing office via the
IND (Chambers 8t.); BMT (City
Hall); Lexington IRT (Brooklyn
Bridge). For information on
titles, call 566-8700.

Several City agencies do their
own recruiting and hiring. They
include: Board of Education
(teachers only), 65 Court St.,
Brooklyn 11201, phone; 596-
8060.

The Board of Higher Educa-
tion advises teaching staff ap-
plicants to contact the individ-
ual schools; non-faculty jobs are
filled through the Personnel De-
partment directly,

STATE — Regional offices of
the State Department of Civil
Service are located at the World
Trade Center, Tower 2, 55th
floor, New York 10048 (phone
488-4248: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.); State
Building Campus, Albany 12239;
Suite 750, 1 W. Genesee St.,
Buffalo 14202: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Ap-
Plicants may obtain announce-
ments by writing (the Albany of-
fice only) or by applying in per-
son at any of the three,

Various State Employment
Service offices can provide ap-
Plications in person, but. not by
mail.

For positions with the Unified
Court System throughout New
York State, applicants should
contact the Staffing Services
Unit, Room 1209, Office of Court
Admin., 270 Broadway, N.Y.,
phone 488-4141.

FEDERAL — The U.S. Civil
Service Commission, New York
Region, runs a Job Information
Center at 26 Federal Plaza, New
York 10007, Its hours are 8:30
am, to 5 p.m. weekdays only,
Telephone 264-0422, ,:

units to confer with, advise, and
aid chapter and unit officers and |
committeés on CSEA’s policies,
programs and services.

Minimum qualifications are a
high school diploma and two
years’ business or investigative
experience involving extensive
public contact; or a bachelor’s
degree or a satisfactory combi-
nation of training and experi-
ence.

Candidates must live within
reasonable commuting distance
from the areas to be serviced
and hold a driver's license and
have a car available.

Applicants must also submit to
a ‘physical examination, They
should contact Thomas 8, Whit-
ney, director of employee rela-
tions and personnel, CSEA, Inc.,
33 Elk St. Albany 12207, by
April 10.

State Open Competitive
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CIVIL SERVICE LEADER, Friday, March 24, 1978

PRISON

It's Foreboding First

By RON KARTEN

Richard Becker is a teacher. He arrives at work at
7:30 a.m., and says good morning to a guard in a glass
booth. The guard opens up three electric gates, which
are 50 yards from the administration building but fur-
ther than that from the classrooms.

A guard buzzes open another electric gate, and this
leads to the lobby. Half a dozen more electric gates get
him to the A-block gate, which is a manual gate re-
quiring a guard to open it with a key. It's 200 yards
through Cell Block A until he reaches “Times Square”
where the four main cell-block corridors come together.

He goes through another manually opened gate here,
turns right and heads down the hall to Cell Block D
where another manual gate has to be unlocked. Then
he’s at the chapel. He goes up three stories and down
the end of the hall to his office.

Mr. Becker, president of the Civil Service Employees
Association's Local 152, works at Attica Correctional
Facility, a 55-acre rural prison surrounded by a con-
crete wall that extends 30 feet above ground and 12
below.

Are all these gates—which slam shut with the finality
of death—disturbing?

“There's a very definite, psychological reaction when
you first go through,” said Mr. Becker, “and it's not
accidental. It's very foreboding and the feeling they
give is one of oppression. But after five years, I have
no feelings about them at all.”

Jeanne Westby, teacher of English at the Bedford
Hills Correctional Facility, has had similar experience.
“There are times when I forget I’m working in a prison
and times when it is very, very evident. When a resident
tries to escape, they lock everything down and I can't
move, and the residents can’t move. It's a very nervy
situation and then you know where you are.”

Edward Gorton, a math and reading teacher at Wall-
kill Correctional Facility, said he feels safer in the
Prison than on the streets. In 10 years, he’s only seen
two fighting incidents and neither were directed at him.
He explains his success with inmates saying, “I treat
the men like men.”

All aren't so equitably treated in the Corrections sys-
tem, however.

A problem that Attica shares with the general popu-
lation is that the facility is a recipient of dumped
mental patients. A few years back, when the state be-
gan releasing mental patients into unprepared com-
munities, a lesser known facet of that program was
that the state released the dangerous mental patients
into unprepared correctional facilities like Attica.

Institutional Teachers Committee Meets

“They send in the ‘bugs’ from Matteawan (State
Hospital) and they don't belong in prison at all. They're
heavily medicated. They have auditory hallucinations
in class. At least one third of them are psychotic or
in a state of remission.” (A state of remission, Mr.
Becker said, means they hayen't attacked anyone in a
week or two.)

“You can't deal with them in jail. It’s a potentially
volatile population to begin with, and the mental pa-
tients may strike out at any time creating a dangerous
situation for staff and inmates.

“We've complained consistently about the problem
but the (Corrections) department says they have no
money for separate facilities.”

Fred DePew, president of CSEA Local 156 and teacher
of building trades at the Elmira Correctional Facility,
cited the same problem there. “About 25 percent of the
population here (nearly 1,500 men) are mental hygiene
patients. There's a satellite unit for mental patients but
it only holds eight at a time.

“Those in my classes are highly sedated and hard to
control. They pay no attention to orders or directions.”

In response to this growing crisis, the CSEA's state-
wide institutional teachers committee, one of the most
populous titles committees, has held the first of a series
of labor-management meetings with the Corrections
Department,

Other problems faced by Corrections teachers, cited

Ossining Correctional Facility

by Ronald Marx, the State Correction Department CSEA
Board representative and president of Local 154 at the
Clinton Correctional Facility, are the political appoint-
ments made at the top echelon of the system.

“The three top men in the department,” he said,
“have less than five years of corrections experience
among them.”

David Miller, president of CSEA’s Local 151 at the
Albion Correctional Facility, attributed another prob-
lem to “political hacks at the top who don’t understand
how a prison works.” He said that the department is
planning to institute a “Comprehensive Day,” which
will mean that inmates will switch from a full day of
work activities to a half day of work and a half day
reserved for administrative purposes.

While this will prevent inmates from being called out
of work assignments and classes, Mr. Miller stressed
that it will leave most of them idle during the day.
“They'll have too much free time.”

In addition, this plan will involve a reduction in the
number of teachers and service people.

He also said that locally, the teachers are forced to
work from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. in violation of their contract.
When Mr. Miller brought this to the attention of his
supervisor, he was reportedly told, “If you don’t like
working here, find a job elsewhere.”

CSEA is currently lobbying feverishly in the
state Legislature, according to CSEA spokesman,
Gary Fryer, to insure that institutional teachers
have as close to a normal public school schedule as pos-
sible; to increase teachers’ salaries by one half during
July and August (optional teaching months); to insure
one sick day for every 28 days worked and 5 personal
leave days for teachers working a full 12-month year,
and to insure one sick day for every 28 days worked and
3 personal leave days for teachers working the 10-
month year.

Between the nearly predictable struggles that labor
traditionally fights with management, correction teach-
ers like their work and take pride in their successes.

Mr. Marx noted that there is plenty of money at
Clinton for books and supplies. He said that the school
building was renovated recently and that the class-
rooms are nice. In terms of teaching success, he said
that 75 percent of those who take the high school
equivalency exam pass.

“I've had immensely good luck. Many older men ac-
tually break down and cry when they receive their re-
sults. Pass or fail.”

While Alan Grosskopf, teacher of basic education at
Clinton Correctional, said that 80 percent of his stu-
dents are “going to school because it's the easiest job,”
Mr. Becker stressed that 80 percent of his students show
“real interest,” and this, he agrees, makes his work
gratifying.

Mr. Becker told of the success he had with one in-
mate. The man had raised four sisters by hustling cards,
drugs, anything, but after they were all grown up, he
got caught and landed in Attica.

“He had very little formal education,” Mr. Becker
said, “but a lot of native intelligence, Now he’s an
Edgar Allan Poe fanatic, He can probably quote the
first two paragraphs of “Ligeia” and he’s got a great
interest in Shakespeare plays and Arthur Miller. He's
taking a creative writing course and has come a tre-
mendously long way. He's a little guy with a lot of
determination.”

Ms. Westby cited the case of a young woman at Bed-
ford Hills who was reading at a third-grade level a
year ago. Last week, Ms. Westby said, the woman com-
pleted the test for her high school equivalency diploma.
She said that the resident was rated at an 1lth-grade
level just prior to taking the test and her chances for
passing were very good. “And there are many, many
like her,”

Peter Willis, vice-president of CSEA Local 162 and a
math teacher at the medium-security Coxsackie Correc-
tional Facility, called his work with inmates “emo-
tionally draining. I go home tired at the end of the
day. But many times,” he adds, “it is, in fact, reward-
ing."

He said that all instruction at Coxsackie is modular.
Assignments are tailor-made for the inmates and they
proceed at their own rate. During the most recent sur-
vey of school successes, 100 high school equivalency
diplomas were awarded in a one-year period.

Mr, Gorton said that he had an inmate who, in two
years, earned both a high school equivalency diploma

TEACHERS

Some Inmates Succee

and an associate degree in sociology. He added that he
never looks at inmates’ records because he does not want
to form prejudices about his students. He said that in
two cases he did look and regretted it.

In problem situations, Mr. Gorton tries to motivate an
inmate by dealing with his interests. “I:pull him over
to the side and talk to him, man \to man. I ask, ‘Are
you reluctant to get involved because you're afraid you
don't know anything?’ Then I tell him, “There’s noth.
ing wrong with not knowing anything now, but if you
stay here for two years and still don't know anything,
that’s your fault.’

Mr. DePew said that nearly all of his students at
Elmira come out of the facility with a trade they can
sell. His students worked on the South Mall project in
Albany and many get jobs as carpenters, electricians!
and plumbers when they leave. “In 13 years, I only
know of two men parolled from my shop who have
returned.”

Corrections teachers respond very emphatically to
claims that prisons don’t rehabilitate. ‘‘Horse—!" said
Mr. Becker from Attica. “On what criteria do you base
rehabilitation? There are a lot of reasons for recidivism,
Everything else has failed them, We can get an inmate
a high school equivalency diploma, but when he gets
out on the street, who's going to get him a job?

“If he gets out on a Friday and the welfare and em-
ployment offices don’t open until Monday, what's he
going to do. He knows he can make a lot of money
hustling one thing or another. Why should he take a
job pushing a broom at minimum wage? There needs
to be a more coordinated effort.”

Mr. Miller, at Albion said, “Personally, I think it's like
saying high schools are a waste just because they don't
guarantee you a job. You may not be able to demon-
strate that what we give them is rehabilitation, but you
can’t demonstrate the reverse either. If you give them
something positive while they're here, there's just that
much less chance that they'll do something negative
when they get out.”

Categorically, prison life is not good. One teacher
said that if the Governor's proposal for life sentence
without a chance of parole were to become law, he
wouldn't blame a prisoner so incarcerated for killing
anyone and everyone he had to in order to escape.

‘Things are lighter, however, at Albion, a minimum-

"security prison that looks like a college campus. It was

built out of public works funds in the 1930s. It’s a red-
brick facility where inmates may be sent if they are
well-behaved and on their way to parole. Two-hundred
fifty men and 50 women share certain facilities and
are due in the coming years to share more. The school

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FAMOUS BLACK AMERICANS

Jeanne Westby and Resident

rooms are blue and white and there are flower gardens
around the buildings. The chain link fence surrounding
the facility, says Mr. Miller, is more to keep people out
than to lock inmates in,

Take the case of an inmate who had a pet squirrel.
He made the squirrel a leash out of paper clips.

Take the case of a quiet little man in his fifties, who
sat in the corner of Mr, Miller’s class and for months
never said a word. He never missed a class and never
made any trouble. When one day he didn’t show uP
for class, everyone noticed. The lack of his silence
made too much noise, Someone said, ‘He probably es-
caped,’ and everyone laughed. Then they found out he
had used a ladder to climb the fence and make his
escape.

Women came to the facility last September, so before
they came, the administration built a fence between the
women's yard and the men’s. The fence wasn't up lons
before a terrific rainstorm washed over Albion. Light-
ning hit the fence and someone said, “That's a sign of
things tq come.” * i