The Public Sector, 1978 October 18

NYC blackout day restored

STATEN ISLAND — New York City-area state

employees who worked on the day of the July 14, 1977
power blackout will receive one day of compensatory
leave added to their accruals, effective immediately.

Gov. Hugh L. Carey announced last week during a
speech at the Willowbrook Developmental Center that
he has ordered the State Civil Service Commission to
add the day of comp leave to the accruals of those
affected employees who worked that day. He had
previously restored time to those state workers who
did not show up for work that day and who were forced

to use their own leave accruals.

Gov. Carey made the announcement while in-
specting the Willowbrook facility last week with Civil
Service Employees Assn. President William L.
McGowan and CSEA Local 429 President Felton King.

Court grants PS&T

ALBANY — The Appellate Division
of State Supreme Court has un-
animously granted a continuance of a
lower court order maintaining the
Civil Service Employees Assn. as the
exclusive bargaining agent for some
45,000 state employees in the
Professional, Scientific and Technical
bargaining unit.

The decision last week grants CSEA
a hearing on its legal objections to an
order issued by the state’s Public
Employment Relations Board on
September 27 to decertify CSEA as
bargaining agent for the unit and
blocks decertification of the state’s
largest publi¢ employee union ‘until
the court resolves CSEA’s appeal.

In a,one-page unanimous decision,
the Appellate Division, Third
Department continued a stay barring
PERB from decertifying CSEA which
was issued September 27 by State
Supreme Court Judge Con Cholakis.
The Appellate Division ordered CSEA
to submit its written arguments for
the appeal by October 25, directed the
Public Employees Federation — the
union attempting to decertify CSEA —
to respond to CSEA’s briefs by
November 10, and set proceedings on

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the appeal for the court’s term com-
mencing November 13.

The continuance of the injunction
against PERB will be in effect on Oc-
tober 24 when the Executive Council
of the AFL-CIO convenes in
Washington DiC., to decide whether
the Public Employees Federation
engaged in an illegal raid under the
AFL-CIO’s Constitution when it

Pay raise gets

ALBANY — A sizeable pay increase
is certainly a top priority of the Civil
Service Employees Assn. as it is
about to enter negotiations with the
State for new contracts covering over

100,000 state employees.

But State Budget Director Howard
Miller surprised many people late last
week when he told reporters his top
prierity also is a pay raise for state
employees. And Governor Hugh L.
Carey, the same day, provided room
for cautious optimism when he said,
“My first priority is for increased
local aid to reduce the cost of
government, so we can have tax
savings,’ but quickly added, “The

stay

attempted to decertify CSEA as the
unit's representative.

Under the original stay, and con-
tinuance, all dues collected from
employees in the unit are being held in
escrow pending the outcome of the
appeal. CSEA has agreed to continue
to represent the employees in any
grievance or disciplinary pro-
ceedings.

priority support

money is also there for decent raises
for public employees.”

Budget Director Miller said he ex-
pects the State to have ‘‘disposable in-
come’’ of between $250 million and
$400 million next fiscal year, and “I
think the first thing that should come
out is a salary increase’’ for state
workers. It should be, Miller said, a
“moderate, inflation-fighting in-
crease.””

CSEA President William L.
McGowan reacted to the development
by saying, “Our preliminary analysis
of the state’s fiscal condition in-
dicates that Mr. Miller’s estimate of
disposable income is correct. It now
appears the State is publicly recogniz-

CSEA seeks to represent State Police units |

ALBANY — The Civil Service Employees Assn., successful in
its effort to have State Police employee bargaining units restruc-
tured, has launctied an election campaign to gain representation
rights for State Police personnel in two units in elections that have
been ordered by the State Public Employment Relations Board.

“State Police personnel asked us to help them end the ineffec-
tive representation they have with the Police Benevolent
Association,” said CSEA President William L. McGowan.

CSEA had petitioned PERB to create separate bargaining units

for New York State Police personnel contained in a single statewide
unit represented by PBA. PERB last week ordered the
reorganization, creating three new bargaining units, and further
ordered that elections be held.

CSEA, with a 60 per cent ‘‘showing of interest” from State
* Police personnel already on file with its earlier petition, immediate-

ly launched a campaign for State Police personnel in two of the new-

' ly created units. CSEA is challenging the PBA in Unit B, consisting
of BCI Investigators, Senior Investigators, and Investigative
Specialists; and in Unit C, comprised of Sergeants, Chief Technical
Sergeants, Staff Sergeants, Lieutenants, Captains and Majors. Com-

* missioned officers in Unit C have been represented by CSEA for
several years as a separate unit. — : :
PERB ordered ballots in the three elections be mailed out on

November 1, and all ballots to be valid must be returned to PERB
by November 17, the day they will be counted. All personnel in the

State Police Set. ‘Thomas units as of October 11 are eligible to vote. Persons who have not

Kirwan is working on the
CSEA campaign.

received their ballots should call PERB collect on November 8, 9 or
10 to request a replacement ballot. 2

discuss strategy.

ing that state workers carried a most
heavy burden and cooperated to the
extreme when the state was in the
midst of a severe fiscal crisis in
recent years.”

The union chief called the public
statements by Mr. Miller and Gover-
nor Carey “encouraging, of course,”
but said CSEA will follow through
with bargaining plans previously
developed ‘until we see if those
positions are carried over to the
bargaining tables.”

And Mr. McGowan hinted that in
addition to a substantial salary hike,
the union will be pushing for improv-
ed benefits, especially in the area of
health insurance.

-

BCI Investigator Wayne Beyea
and CSEA’s John Naughter

*

Career grant to benefit thousands

Training grant to benefit thousands

ALBANY — Career planning
seminars for women in New York
State jobs will be held in five different
cities between now and April, 1979,
thanks to a $75,000 grant for that pur-
pose bestowed by the legislature on
the Center for Women in
Government.

Civil Service Employees Assn.,
President William L. McGowan, a
member of the Center's Board of
Directors, applauded the
appropriation.

“We expect at least 2,000 state
employees to benefit directly from
this training, and many others will
benefit indirectly, from the dis-
cussions and information imparted
there,’’ Mr. McGowan said.

The seminars will take place in Buf-
falo, Syracuse, Suffolk and
Westchester Counties, and New York
City, according to Nancy Perlman;
divector of the Center.

“These programs have three goals:
to enable the state to meet its
obligations under the Civil Rights
Laws and its own Affirmative Action
policy; to produce a group of better-
trained women employees,’ Ms.
Perlman said

The first career-planning seminar
run by the Center was held last spring
in Albany.

CSEA Statewide Secretary Irene
Carr, who chairs the union’s Women’s
Committee and represents CSEA on
the Center’s Union Task Force,
agreed that the appropriation was
welcome.

“I attended the first Center Career-
Planning Seminar in Albany, and it
was so well-attended and helpful that
we were all hoping there would be
follow-up seminars like it across the

state,” she said.

The $75,000 was granted during the
one-day Special Session of the state
legislature that Gov. Hugh Carey call-
ed last month to pass the state’s
Supplemental Budget. It was included
in the funding granted to the State
University of New York at Albany,
with which the Center is affiliated.

CSEA lobbyist, James J. Feather-
stonhaugh wrote the memorandum in
support of the funding, which subse-
quently was approved by both houses
of the legislature.

“‘We’re proud to have helped obtain
this money for these important
programs,”’ the union president said.

The money will help defray the ex-
penses of Center staff for accom-
modations and travel to and from the
five cities in which the one-day
seminars will be held; the cost of
utilities and rental of the space need-

dical Center, demonstrates new fire extinguisher
to CSEA member Dustin Cole, while display volunteer Karen Cole looks on.

Display increases awareness of fire dangers

SYRACUSE — Fire Prevention Week is more than
a slogan te the more than 1,200 safety-minded
members of CSEA Local 615, State University at
Syracuse. Fire prevention is, and will continue to be, a

vital part of every work day.

As a public service to increase awareness of the
hazards of fire and preventive measures, Local 615

tests and prizes.

sponsored and totally financed a Fire Prevention
Week program, complete with lobby displays, awards
for fire prevention, quizzes, children’s coloring con-

According to William O'Neill, President of Local

615, the display is viewed by more than 2,500
employees, patients and visitors daily.

Country music month? In N.Y.?

Government is a serious business,
involving billions of dollars and
affecting the lives of every man,
woman and child in one way or
another.

But it has its less serious side too.
Although they are undoubtedly im-
portant to the individuals or
organizations directly involved, the
routine proclamations issued out of

Callendarr
& EVENTS

OCTOBER
13-14—Western Region VI meeting: Holiday Inn, Batavia.
17—Livingston County unit of Rochester Retirees Local 912, 2 p.m., Youth Center,

Main Street, Mt. Morris,

Center, Room 5890, Manhattan

the governor's office hardly have a
profound impact upon the population
as a whole.

For instance, did you know that, by
official proclamation of the governor,
October is Country Music Month? It is
also Child Abuse Prevention Month,
and VD Awareness Month. Some
designations obviously have a more
serious tone than others.

Not everything receives an entire
month as recognition. The following
are among days or weeks proclaimed
during October by the governor as
well: School Lunch Week; Jogging
Day; Quality Control Week; Pulaski
Day; Leif Ericson Day; Mahatma
Gandhi Peace Day; CB Recognition
Day; and Radiologic Technology
Week.

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17—Capital District Retirees Local 999 general membership meeting: 1 p.m., Polish
Community Center, Washington Ave. Ext., Albany.

17 —Central Region, region officers and local presidents meeting: 6:30 p.m.,
Regional Headquarters, Syracuse.

17—New York Metropolitan Retirees Local 910 meeting: 1 p.m., 2 World Trade

18—Long Island Region 1 PS&T Unit workshop: 5-11] p.m., site to be announced.

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

Eisenhower Park, East Meadow, L.I.

20 — Statewide Board of Directors meeting; budget discussion: 9 a.m., Quality

Inn, Albany.

21—Nassau Local 830 30th Anniversary dinner-dance: Carl Hoppl’s Malibu Club,

tide Beach, Lil.

22—Statewide Board of Directors meeting: 1 p.m., Concord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake.

23-27—-Statewide Delegates Convention: Concord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake.
NOVEMBER

3-4 — Central Region, state workshop, Holiday Inn Downtown, Syracuse.

29—Long Island Region | special elections seminar: 5-11 p.m., site to be announced,

ed to house the conferences; and the
cost of printing, postage, honoraria,
communications and incidental ex-
penses entailed by the seminars, such
as day care for the children of the par-
ticipants.

“We are currently organizing
planning committees, which will find
potential workshop leaders, speakers
and role models; make program
recommendations; and assist the
Career Day coordinator as the need
arises,’’ Ms. Perlman said. The com-
mittees will be comprised of a cross-
section of women state employees,
representing many different grade
levels and job titles. There are
approximately 44,200 women state
workers in the area of the five cities
where the seminars are to be held.

Wilton is on
CETA alert

WILTON — The_ Wilton
Developmental Center, like other
areas of the Civil Service Employees
Assn., has expressed concern in
recent months about the employment
of persons under the Comprehensive
Employees Training Act.

The CSEA Local has accused the
administration of bringing in CETA
employees to work in the
maintenance and direct patient care
areas, without considering the
CSEA’s position on the matter, says
Local treasurer and spokesperson
Henry Kuczynski. They have met with
administration officials in five coun-
ties served by the Center, objecting
mainly to CETA employees working
directly with patients.

“CETA employees are time limited
in most cases, with most staying only
six months to a year, and therefore
have no continuity of contact with
patients as regular employees do.
This obviously is not good for the
patient. We also feel that State
employees are better trained and
qualified for the job,” said Mr. Kuc-
zynski. ‘“‘And we want to protect
regular employees in other jobs as
well.”

The meetings have resulted in an
agreement with Saratoga County of-
ficials that no new CETA ap-
pointments will be made without the
consent of the local bargaining unit.
Mr. Kuczynski reported that no new
appointments have been made in any
of the counties since the meetings and
at this point the Local’s position is to
be ‘“‘concerned and watching.”

Constant pressure
leads to contract

By Marti Madory
WHITE PLAINS — Under
pressure brought by two week’s of
daily demonstrations by CSEA
members in front of City Hall, the

City of White Plains has signed a
tentative three-year agreement
with the City of White Plains Unit
of the Civil Service Employees
Assn.

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intensive last-minute negotiations
demanded by the Unit in an
attempt to head off a one-year
settlement imposed by the City’s
Common Council. A ratification
vote by the membership will be
held and a ratification vote will
also be taken by the Common Coun-
cil.

If ratified by both parties, the
agreement would take effect im-
mediately, retroactive to July 1,
1977. It is the result of more than 16
months of negotiations.

The final negotiating session,
which ran for nearly six hours, was
“long and arduous,”’ according to
the Unit’s chief negotiator Joseph
O'Connor. For the first time,
members of the Common Council
were accessible during the
negotiations.

The hard-won settlement was a
direct reflection of the 500-member
Unit’s internal strength, according
to Joseph Roche, Unit president.

“We dragged the City kicking
and screaming to the bargaining
table,” he said. ‘‘That final session
was a tribute to the negotiating
committee’s strong position, and
the total support and unlimited
patience shown by the
membership.”

CITY OF WHITE PLAINS CSEA UNIT members demonstrate in front of
City Hall. The employees demonstrated for two weeks to put pressure on
management to negotiate with the union rather than force an imposed

settlement on the workers.

The idea of daily demonstrations
was the brainstorm of the Unit’s
job action committee, which was
made up of the Unit’s shop
stewards. After the membership
rejected the City’s previous offer
on September 14 by a resounding
vote of 230 to 16, the committee ex-
amined alternative methods of per-
suading the City to return to the
bargaining table. They decided on
mass demonstrations in front of
City Hall, during regular Common
Council meetings and during
employee's lunch breaks.

Eager for an opportunity to vent
their frustrations, hundreds of
members turned out to carry color-
fully worded picket signs, chant,
sing, and circle the City Hall

Public hearings set

The Office of Court Ad-
ministration has announced a
series of public hearings concern-
ing the proposed classification plan
and title standards for non-judicial
employees of the unified court
system dated September 20, 1978.
Copies of these documents are
available at all court locations for
examination, The hearings will be
held at the following times and
places:

9:00 AM — October 23 — The
Ceremonial Courtroom 7th Floor,
Buffalo City Court, 50 Delaware
Avenue, Buffalo, New York.

9:00 AM — October 24 —

Courtroom No. 6, Main Floor, Hall
of Justice, Exchange Street,
Rochester, New York.

9:00 AM — October 25 — County
Legislature’s Chambers, 4th Floor,
Onondaga County Courthouse,
State Street, Syracuse, New York

9:00 AM — October 26 —
Courtroom No. 2, 7th Floor,
Judicial Building, Empire State
Plaza, Albany, New York.

9:00 AM — October 27 — The
Ceremonial Courtroom, 1st Floor,
Westchester County Courthouse,
111 Grove Street, White Plains,
New York,

9:00 AM — October 30 — The

De Paula killed in Erie County mishap

BUFFALO — Leonard DePaula, an employee of the Erie County Water
Authority, and one of the organizers of the Civil Service Employees Local 815
unit there, was struck and killed by an automobile on Tuesday, October 10.

Mr. DePaula reportedly was struck by an automobile on Route 5 in
Blasdell as he started to cross the street after checking water pressure at a

fire hydrant

WILTON — 100 new voters have b+ en signed up so far by the Wilton Developmental
Center voter registration coordinater Wary Anne Bagan, and the committee hopes to
make an ongoing effort even after the elections.

“This is a good number of sign ups from a Local of only 515,"" commented politica:
action committee chairman Henry Kuczynski. ‘Ms. Bagan had to see workers on three
different shifts and put much time and effort into the project,”

Legislative Hearing Room, County

Center, Riverhead, New York

9:00 AM — October 31 — The
Auditorium

November 1 — Police Head-
quarters

November 2 — 1 Police Plaza,
New York, New York

Also to be considered at these
hearings are:

(1) Proposed administrative policy
of the Chief Judge concerning
the establishment of a
classification plan and an
appeals procedure.

(2) Proposed revision of 22
NYCRR 25.7 of the Rules of the
Chief Judge concerning the
removal of Housing Court
Judges and Hearing Examiners
from the classified service

Persons wishing to make a
statement at a hearing should call
Susan Duffy at 212-488-5599 to
reserve a time for speaking.
Written statements may also be
submitted at the hearing.

Persons wishing to submit a
written statement without appear-
ing may do so by mailing the
statement to Vito Soranno, Direc-
tor of Personnel, Office of Court

Buoyed by the frequent presence of
CSEA’s mobile unit, the group
persevered even when the weather
turned cool and rainy

A last-ditch demonstration had
been planned to begin at 6:30 p.m
on Oct. 4, in an effort to influence
the outcome of the legislative hear-
ing scheduled by the Mayor for that
evening. Announcement of the ten-
tative settlement at 6 p.m. made
that final show of force -un-
necessary.

In addition to the Unit's
president, Joseph Roche, the
negotiating team was made up of
Stanley Boguski, chairman; Dan
Armstrong; Joyce Bush; Mike
DeMasi; and Tony Guiffreda.

Cleaning OK,
but no ironing

POTSDAM — If the president of
State University of New York at
Potsdam wants his clothes washed
and ironed, or help with table
arrangements when entertaining
guests, he won’t be able to get it

done by cleaners (grade 4).

The Civil Service Employees
Assn., which had filed grievances
on behalf of the SUNY cleaners for
being assigned such duties, won a
step 4 decision from the Governor’s
Office of Employee Relations after
the grievances were denied at
earlier stages,

CSEA filed out-of-title
grievances on behalf of the
cleaners, and when it reached the
fourth step in the grievance
procedure, the director of
classification and compensation
was asked to review the situation,
in turn recommending to OER that
washing and ironing clothes and
helping with table arrangements
were, in fact, out-of-title work for
cleaners. OER’s Jerry J. Dudak,
on behalf of OER Acting Director
James B. Northrop, has directed
university management to im-
mediately discontinue such
assignments.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, October 18, 1978

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About those
letters, calls

The Civil Service Employees
Assn. has received numerous
letters and telephone calls
regarding the union’s publication
for members and the union’s
proposal to restructure its dues for-
mat. In most cases the writers
and/or callers tied both items
together due to a misconception ap-
parently created in the final issue
of CSEA’s former newspaper.

By now, of course, members are
receiving weekly copies of ‘‘The
Public Sector,” the union’s official
publication. This should dispel any
misconception created in the final
edition of the union’s former
publication that members would no
longer receive a publication as part
of their union dues. It’s unfortunate
that the former paper may have
created such an impression as the
result of a promotional effort to
solicit direct subscriptions from
CSEA members.

Secondly, the proposed dues
structure change was covered fully
in the very first edition of ‘‘The
Public Sector’. Changing to a
percentage dues structure will be
considered by CSEA delegates
meeting later this month at the
union’s 68th annual meeting.

Directory of
Regional Offices

REGION 1 — Long Island Region
(516) 691-1170

Irving Flaumenbaum, President

Ed Cleary, Regional Director

REGION 2 — Metro Region
(212) 962-3090

Solomon Bendet, President
George Bispham, Regional Director

REGION 3 — Southern Region
(914) 896-8180

James Lennon, President osc,
Thomas Luposello, Regional Director

REGION 4 — Capital Region
(518) 489-5424

Joseph,McDermott, President
John Corcoran, Regional Director

REGION 5 — Central Region
(315) 422-2319

James Moore, President

Frank Martello, Regional Director

REGION 6 — Western Region
(716) 634-3540

Robert Lattimer, President
Lee Frank, Regional Director

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A feather in

The redeployment of 350
Department of Mental Hygiene
employees who formerly worked at
two Manhattan Developmental
Center units which closed this past
summer, without the loss of any
jobs, deserves recognition.

It is certainly a feather in the cap
of the unique Continuity of
Employment Committee, a joint
committee of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. and the State of
New York formed via
labor/management negotiations in

The Stevens

It’s encouraging to note that the
Civil Service Employees Assn. has
chosen to take an active role in
organized nationwide rallies set for
November 30 to show support of
J. P. Stevens Company workers in
their long, difficult battle to
achieve social and economic
justice against the textile giant.

The action is a positive example
of CSEA’s emergence as an ac-
tivist union befitting its position as
the largest local in the largest
labor union in the AFL-CIO.

A confusing

When the State Supreme Court,
Appellate Division, Third
Department ruled last week that it
will review CSEA objections to the
confusing PS&T representation
election at the November 13 term
in Albany, it actually shifted
attention away from Albany and to
Washington.

the cap

1976. The committee was actively
involved in making the
redeployment of the Manhattan
workforce a successful venture.

And a tip of the hat to those
legislators who earlier this year
voted to enact amendments to the
Mental Hygiene Law to require
effective planning for the retrain-
ing .and continuation of
employment of persons affected by
a reduction or termination of state
programs.

The fruits of effective
negotiations are found throughout a

boycott gets

CSEA in the past has often been
little more than a sleeping giant in
such affairs, partially because
when it was an independent
organization its sphere of influence
was limited by the state’s borders.
But as the biggest unit of the
leading nationwide union, it is no
longer limited to just the Empire
State. The union now has direct in-
put into national affairs, and
reaching out to support the trou-
bled textile workers of the mostly

election gets

And it’s entirely possible that by
,the time the November term of the
Appellate Division rolls around the
whole matter may be moot.

It all boils down to how the Ex-
ecutive Council of the AFL-CIO
rules on the situation in
Washington on October 24. And how

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Opinion

labor agreement, in such areas as
job security, and are not limited to
wage and direct employee benefits.
And cooperation between labor and
management can achieve more
than direct confrontation any day.
The successful redeployment of
Manhattan Developmental Center
employees proves both those
points. (R.A.C.)

a boost

Southern mills of J. P. Stevens
Company takes its range of in-
volvement and influence into the
mainstream of union activities ona
much bigger scale than would have
been possible even just a few short
months ago.

«
CSEA President Bill McGowan
recently pointed out that CSEA is a
major labor union and should start
acting like one. We think the J. P.
Stevens Company action shows
that it is. (R.A.C.)

moreso

PEF, if the ruling in Washington
goes against it, reacts.

Until at least October 24, the
whole PS&T situation will go on be-
ing one of the most confusing
situations in memory. After that
date, one or the other union would
probably like to forget the whole
thing ever happened.

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‘Good fight,’
Battle told

MARCY — Joan Battle, long-
time chairperson for the
membership committee of CSEA
Local 414 at Marcy Psychiatric
Center, was honored by fellow
members at a recent general
meeting. Mrs. Battle presented a
special framed certificate signed
by CSEA statewide President
William L. McGowan, as well as a
flower spray for her many years of
dedicated service.

In paying tribute to Mrs. Battle,
Charles Noll, President of Marcy
Psychiatrie Center, Local 414,
cited her self-education in CSEA
insurance programs and other
benefits available to members.
Mrs. Battle who will leave
employment due to illness, ‘‘will
carry with her the gratitude of
fellow state employees for her un-
selfish devotion to maintaining a
strong CSEA Local,’’ Mr. Noll said.

Joan Batile receives a special cer-
tificate of appreciation from Local
414 President Charles Noll (right),
while husband Frank Battle looks

on.
Photo by: Joseph Vrooman

Quick action wins exam right

ALBANY — Many employees in the
State Department of Labor will not be
prevented from taking two
promotional civil service ex-
aminations offered late this month
because of quick action by the Civil
Service Employees Assn. against
attempts by two state departments
to restrict the field of persons eligible
for the exams.

In an Article 78 proceeding, the un-
ion had charged the State Department
of Labor and the State Department of
Civil Service with ‘‘arbitrary,
capricious and unreasonable”’ actions
when they attempted to exclude
employees from six specific job titles
from taking the October 28, 1978 ex-
ams for the positions of Employment
Security Manager and Senior
Employment Security Manager (nos.
36-438 and 36-439). The suit was
halted, however, when the
Department of Civil Service agreed to
a stipulation that they mail con-
ditional applications for the exams to
permanent employees formerly ex-
cluded from taking the exams.

The Department of Labor job titles
originally excluded from eligibility
are Employment Service Represen-
tative, On-the-Job Training
Specialists, Occupational Analyst,
Senior Unemployment Insurance
Hearing Representative, Senior
Unemployment Insurance Investi-
gators and Associate Unemploy-
ment Insurance Investigators.

According to Edward T. Stork, an
attorney with Roemer and Feather-
stonhaugh, CSEA’s law firm, the
Department of Civil Service agreed to
mail the conditional applications to
permanent eligible employees in
those six job titles on October 12.
They must be completed and returned

to the department so that they are
received by October 23, The attorney
emphasized the need for interested
employees to return the applications
once they are received early this
week because of the firm Oct. 23
deadline.

The conditional applications will
allow eligible employees to take the
examinations which will be graded,
although those who pass will not be
placed on the resulting eligible list un-
til a final determination favorable to
CSEA is rendered by the State Civil
Service Commission or the courts.

While the Article 78 proceeding has
been discontinued, the same
arguments will be submitted to the
Civil Service Commission for its
review during the Commission’s
November term. When the Com-
mission renders its decision, CSEA
will have the right to go to court to

review the decision. The Civil Service
Department has agreed that if CSEA
commences a second proceeding
within thirty days of the Com-
mission's determination, they will not
make any permanent appointments
from the eligible list until the legal
actions are finally resolved.

Mr. Stork said that should
employees in the six job titles be ex-
cluded from taking the exams, the
field of titles for which they will be
eligible for promotion would be
severely restricted.

Department of Labor employees who
have not received their applications
to take exam numbers 36-438 and 36-
439 by October 18, 1978 should call a
Civil Service Staffing Representative
for a replacement application at the
following numbers: 518-457-5566 or
518-457-6678.

CSEA
favored on
six counts

JOHNSTOWN — A fact finder in the
contract dispute between the Fulton-
Montgomery Community College Ad-
ministration and the Building and
Grounds unit of the Civil Service
Employees Assn., Fulton County
Local, has ruled in favor of CSEA on
six major issues.

A 17-page report issued by fact
finder Charles E. Leonard supported
CSEA’s demands for salary in-
creases, agency shop, sick leave,
overtime for holidays, overtime and
leave credits and the upgrading of
licensed personnel.

The CSEA has requested pay in-
creases of $600 for 1978 and $500 for
1979, amounts which it contends are
justified and which the College can
pay, due to a budget surplus of over
$250,000.

According to John Cummings,
CSEA field representative, the union
accepted a $300 bonus in each of the
two years covered by a contract
which expired August 31, 1978,
because it believed the ad-
ministration when it said there were
no funds to pay more. After signing
the contract, however, CSEA found
out about the surplus, through news-
paper articles, and is now de-
manding that the $300 bonus be add-
ed to the salary schedules for 1978 in
addition to another $300 increase.

Mr. Leonard agreed that the sur-
plus does exist and rules that the
College can pay what the CSEA is
demanding. In addition, he
recommended the increase be
retroactive to August 31, 1978.

The report also supported the
CSEA’s demands for an agency shop
fee, an additional sick day per year,
double time for working on major
holidays, improvement in other over-
time language and the payment of a
yearly stipend to sewage treatment
licensees.

The report has gone to the College
administration for its approval and
the CSEA is awaiting a reply. ‘If the
College decides to accept the fact
finders report we will have an
agreement, since the CSEA unit has
met to review it and has unanimously
agreed to accept the findings,”’ sai
Mr. Cummings.

Village workers sign 3-year pact

CHATHAM — Village of Chatham
workers represented by the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Assn. have approved
a three-year contract which includes
agency shop in addition to salary in-
creases in each of the three years.

Scheduled raises, including in-

crements, are $550 in the first year,
$350 in the second and $350 in the
third. The CSEA unit also obtained an
agreement with the village ad-
ministration officials for a new
promotion procedure, which, in
effect, establishes a set salary
schedule in relation to promotions.

“The negotiating team worked hard
to obtain an equitable contract and
did a good job of it,’ commented
Aaron Wagner, a Capital Region field
representative who assisted the com-
mittee in negotiations. ‘‘Winning
agency shop is a plus for the union, as
well as the employees,’’ he added

Final training session for exam

NEW YORK CITY — The last in a
series of training sessions for
members preparing for upcoming
promotional exams for Employment
Security Manager and Senior
Employment Security Manager will
be held at 6:30 p.m. October 19 at LO

410, 3rd floor, 255 West 54th Street
The training sessions are sponsored

by the Civil Service Employees Assn

Local 350, Metropolitan Department

of Labor. Local President William J
DeMartino said that although three

previous sessions have already been
held, pers who those
sessions would benefit from the up-
ming one and are invited to attend.
There is no charge to dues paying

members for the sessions, Mr
DeMartino noted
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Suffolk referendum a
‘‘no-tax nuts’’ delight

HAUPPAUGE — William E.
Lewis is, to put it mildly, upset at
the Suffolk County Legislature. As
president of the big Suffolk County
Local 852 of the Civil Service
Employees Assn., Mr. Lewis has
found plenty to be upset about in
the past, and he has always spoken
out defiantly and boldly when he
felt his members were being
abused.

At the moment, the object of his
anger with the county lawmakers
is a proposed initiative and
referendum law which the
legislature has voted to place on
the November 7 ballot. If passed by
Suffolk County voters, it would
become the first Proposition: 13-
type law of its kind in New York
State.

In fact, Mr. Lewis is as upset
with the manner in which the
county legislature handled the
situation as he is with the proposed
law itself. And he’s been in contact
with CSEA’s regional attorney in
the Suffolk area to discuss the
possibility of legal action to get the
proposed law off the ballot before
election day.

In a recent interview with CSEA
regional public relations associate
Hugh O’Haire, Mr. Lewis,
forthright as usual, charged the
bill, as structured, ‘‘will play into
the hands of the ‘no tax nuts,’ the
anti-government crazies and other
special interest groups and
political bosses who will use this
procedure to dismantle county
government.’ He told members of

the Legislature the same thing
when he appeared before the law-
makers at a special meeting to con-
sider the proposed law earlier this
month.

Under the proposed law,
petitions containing just 1,000
signatures, including at least 50
from each of the county’s 10 towns,
could bring amendments before the
County Legislature for action at a
regular meeting. If the legislature
rejects that proposal, amendment
proponents could then force a
county-wide referendum by sub-
mitting new petitions containing
signatures of just 5 per cent of the
number of people who voted in the
last gubernatorial election in the
county, and it would be enacted if it
received a plurality of at least 30
per cent of the total number of
voters in the election.

Citing grave danger for public
workers in the 1,000 signature re-
quirement, Mr. Lewis says,
“How easy it will be for a politician
to avoid accountability for voting
for an amendment claiming it was
the will of the people after one of
his flunkies rounded up the
signatures.””

Even worse, the union leader told
Mr. O’Haire, is the potential threat
to the civil service system itself in
Suffolk County. ‘Are the political
bosses planning to use this
measure to abolish the legislature
through the signatures of 1,000
party faithfuls? Does this mean a
return to the town boss patronage
system in Suffolk?-If so, it would

mean the end of the civil service
system created to insure that tax-
payers get competent and
professional public employees,
fairly screened and tested ac-
cording to ability,’ he said

Mr. Lewis warned against tax
cut advocates who would “blindly
cut taxes and spending,’ noting
that in neighboring Nassau County
a similar group had urged a 25 per
cent cut in the general fund taxes.

Praising the Nassau County
board for voting against putting
such a referendum on the ballot
there, he said, ‘‘They gave up their
chance for easy popularity and
chose to be statesmen.”

And the outspoken Mr. Lewis
ripped what he termed ‘‘partisan
politics’ used to get the proposed
new law on the ballot. He called it a
case of ‘‘political football’
between ‘‘two undeclared can-
didates for county executive,
Democratic legislator Martin
Feldman who sponsored the
legislation and current County Ex-
ecutive John V. N. Klein.’ The
union leader said Mr. Klein wanted to
take the political advantage away
from his undeclared opponent, ac-
counting for the issuance of ‘a
midnight Certificate of Necessity
that resulted in a weird 1:15 a.m.
emergency public hearing
before a clique of senior citizen tax
cut advocates.”’

Mr. Lewis says the legislators
were intimidated by the
screaming, sign waving senior
citizens, but that ‘‘not only were

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public employees excluded from
addressing their legislators . . .
other groups, both for and against
it, were likewise excluded.’’ The
union leader continued, ‘The en-
tire process smacked of contempt
for democratic government, the
very thing initiative and referen-
dum is supposed to address.”’

Mr. Lewis said, ‘‘We want to get
this bill out of the arena of partisan
politics. The damage done in a
political campaign today can haunt
future generations of Suffolk
citizens. If we are to have initiative
and referendum, we want all of the
people to understand it and discuss
it fully and openly before voting on
it.’ And that, he said, is why the
union is looking into legal action to
keep it off the ballot this November
— to give the issue time to be
presented properly.

Manhattan redeployment is going well

legislation which amended the Mental

NEW YORK — Not so long ago, the
closing of a state work facility would
have resulted in at least one in-
evitable action, the layoff of large
numbers of employees. But now,
thanks in large part to the unique Con-
tinuity of Employment Committee, a
joint venture of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. and the State of
New York, it doesn’t have to be that
way.

The spirit of cooperation between
the union and the State through the
Committee set up jointly in 1976 has
no better example than at Manhattan
Developmental Center here, where
earlier this year two facilities of
Manhattan were closed, affecting
about 350 employees of the Office of
Mental Retardation and Developmen-
tal Disabilities.

But today all 350 state employees
have been successfully transferred,
most of them to positions they
selected at other area facilities as
openings became available. About 100
remain working at the Manhattan
Developmental Center either
awaiting openings at area locations or
preparing, with CSEA working to in-
crease the level of employment at
Manhattan, to be permanently ab-
sorbed into the Manhattan workforce.

And, too, the situation constitutes a
ease study of newly-enacted

Hygiene Law to “ensure the con-
tinuity of employment of State
employees” whose jobs are jeopardiz-
ed by ‘‘contractions’”’ in programs.
The legislation, enacted in late
July, requires the commissioners of
the various offices of the Department
of ‘Mental Hygiene to consult with
Continuity of Employment Com-
mittee and prepare reports for the
governor and the State Legislature
“concerning the retraining and con-
tinuation of employment of persons
whose employment in a program of a
facility . . . may be terminated’
because of program reductions.
Speaking of the experience at
Manhattan, CSEA Metropolitan
Region President Solomon Bendet
calls the joint union-State effort ‘‘a
most worthwhile program that sets a
precedent for similar transfer
problems throughout the state.””
When the Gouverneur unit was
shuttered in June and Keener unit
closed in July, the employees
affected were reassigned to the
Sheridan unit at Manhattan, with
many immediately going to other
facilities. Sheridan CSEA Local
President Clifton Lewis, and former
Gouverneur Local President Eddie
Gagnon, both were very actively in-
volved in the transfer situation at the

grassroots, and CSEA Field
Representative Larry Sparber, who is
assigned to the unit, said the transfer
would not have been nearly as smooth
or successful ‘‘without their help and
cooperation, in fact it might not even
have gotten off the ground without
their aid.”

The massive redeployment of the
block of state workers with the loss of
jobs was well planned. The Office of
Mental Retardation issued advanced
notice of the closing to employees,
held meetings with them to advise
them of their employment rights, and
gave them the opportunity to register
their preference, on the basis of
seniority, for available jobs in
facilities in the New York City area

The joint Continuity of

Employment Committee supported
the transition included funding for
two counselors who met with a labor-
management committee to assist in
the redeployment, conducted inter-
views and offered other help to the
employees affected.

“The efforts of the Office of Mental
Retardation in this program of
redeployment represents a very
significant step toward achieving the
objective set out in the agreement
between the State and the Civil Ser-
vice Employees Association which
resulted in the formation of this Com-
mittee in 1976,’’ says the committee
chairman, Dr. Robert B. McKersie

The joint CSEA/State Continuity of Employment Committee is comprised
of an equal number of union and State representatives, and is chaired by an in-

dependent representative

CSEA is represented on this all-important committee by four statewide
vice presidents. They are Solomon Bendet, president of the Metropolitan
Region; Joseph McDermott, president of the Capitol Region; James Lennon,
president of the Southern Region; and Robert Lattimer, president of the

Western Region.

State representatives are John B. Cross of the Civil Service Department,
Thomas Gibbs of the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations; Jeremy
Schrauf of the Division of Budget, and John McKenna of the Office of Mental
Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.

Chairman of the joint committee is Robert B. McKersie of the New York
State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wedneiday, Ociober 18,1978 Page?

Developing a chapter
in a proud history

By Roger A. Cole

For more than two years now, the
Civil Service Employees Assn. has
been working on adding a major new
chapter to its 68-year history, already
drenched with scores of important
and often precedent-setting
achievements. In its own way this
newest chapter is as significant as
any that precedes it.

Deinstitutionalization! A word that
burst upon the scene about ten
years ago, it describes the basic
‘approach carried on by the then-new
Carey administration toward revamp-
ing the state’s mental hygiene
department and programs, Early in
his initial term of office, Gov. Hugh
Carey proceeded to dismantle the
structure of the huge Department of
Mental Hygiene, reorganizing it into
three autonomous offices. At the
same time, he developed plans to
meet the Willowbrook Decree re-
quirements of reducing the numbers
of patients confined to the state's psy-
chiatric centers and developmental
centers by discharging thousands
upon thousands of clients.

CSEA immediately saw serious
flaws in that approach for the patients
involved, for the communities which

and for a very large block of the 60,000
employees in the Department of Men-
tal Hygiene, most of whom CSEA
represents. A projected plan released
by the state at about that time, in
fact, showed that from 15,000 to 20,000
employees could lose their jobs over
the next five years as the patient load
decreased.

CSEA immediately took to the
offensive, launching a bold program
in a dual capacity as a labor union and
a patient/public rights advocate. It
hired a recognized mental hygiene ex-
pert, Dr. James Cohen, as a con-
sultant. And it coined a catch-phrase,
“dumping”, to describe the state’s
policy.

CSEA unveiled an aggressive,
statewide political action campaign,
that blitzed the media for over three
consecutive months, calling attention
to the flaws in the ‘“‘dumping’’ policy
proposed by the state. Meanwhile, the
union was applying pressure at every
level to reverse the policy. State
legislators grew accustomed to see-
ing CSEA lobbyists in their Albany of-
fices week after week. And, urged on
by the union’s public advertising cam-
paign, the general public responded
with letters and phoné calls to the

The main thrust of the union’s cam-
paign was that deinstitutionalization
was a good idea, that patients should
not be institutionalized unnecessarily,
but that the state’s approach was
wrong. Released patients should be,
must be, provided with a system of
adequate followup care. And the one
group of people most qualified is the
state employees who provided the
care in the facilities and those
already working in community-based
centers who would become available

‘to work in the communities as the

patients load decreased. And CSEA
took as it’s primary position that
state-run, community based facilities
would be the best possible method of
providing the adequate follow up
care needed.

The union did accept the premise
put forth by high ranking state of-
ficials that releasing of patients in a
less than well-planned manner was a
situation existing over many years
and under previous administrations.
But, said CSEA, the newest state plan
would not correct those problems and
would, in fact, create more and
bigger ones. And the union pressure
continued.

Until, in mid-June of this year, the
reversal the union battled so hard and

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Morgado memorandum
spells it all out

They refer to it simply as “‘the
Morgado memo.” It’s dated June 15,
1978, and it’s from Robert J.
Morgado, Secretary to Governor
Hugh L. Carey. It’s directed to
Howard F. Miller, Director, Division
of the Budget; James Prevost, Com-
missioner, Department of Mental

-Hygiene; and Thomas A. Coughlin,

Commissioner, Office of Mental
Retardation and Developmental
Disabilities. It's subject is listed as

“Implementation of Major Mental
Hygiene Initiatives.”’ It’s the basis of
the new state policy of dein-
stitutionalization, virtually identical
to what CSEA had battled for, and a
policy now strongly endorsed by the
union.

the patients would be relocating to,

legislators.

so long to bring about, occurred.

Policy working, but union still watchful

ALBANY — Dr. James Cohen,
recently appointed Assistant to the
President of CSEA with policy
responsibilities in the areas of mental
hygiene deinstitutionalization and tax
reform issues, was at the very heart
of the union™fight to reverse the
state’s previous policy, serving as a
special consultant to the union.

“Right from the start our position
was a progressive one showing how
staff and patient needs and interests
were the same, Dr. Cohen says. ‘‘A
lot of CSEA people were involved,
staff collective bargaining spec-
ialists, legal people and lobbyists’,
public information and advertising
specialists, and literally hundreds of
members and local officers. And I can
tell you that every one of us is very
pleased the effort resulted in turning
the state around.”

He went on to state, “‘CSEA was
fortunate in having some very effec-
tive leadership in our Mental Hygiene
Locals, and those dedicated people
deserve a great deal of credit.”

CSEA President William L.
McGowan, Dr. Cohen says, ‘‘always
supported the strongest possible stand
on issues throughout the long fight.
He was truly a militant leader and led
the campaign in every way.”’

With the changes just now begin-
ning to take shape, Dr. Cohen said

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, October 18, 1978

CSEA is watching very closely how
the new policy is being enacted.
“We're very vigilant on this thing. We
intend to monitor the state’s ac-
tivities closely.
He said it’s important to adapt to
the coming changes that will put
more emphasis on community-based
services, but that the union is also
adamant as ever in preserving and
protecting necessary institutionalized
services and employees. ‘‘The
backbone of the whole state program
is still the employees, whether at
community-based centers or in the in-
stitutions. And the crucial part of the
whole system is the close to 40,000
mental hygiene therapy aides, the
people who provide the bulk of the
direct care services. As a union, we
want to push the state to pay more
attention to the special needs of the
MHTAs, especially in the areas of
training and decent supervision.”

He noted that many projects under
the new policy were funded under the
state’s supplemental budget, which
only recently was approved. ‘‘Now
it’s up to us to make sure those things
we worked so hard to achieve are
begun, and we will be doing exactly
that. We're keying on getting many of
the items in next years regular budget
since it was too late to make this
year’s,”’ he concluded.

“WE’RE VERY VIGILANT”
says, Dr. James Cohen,
CSEA’s expert on policy
matters concerning dein-
stitutionalization. He said the
union will closely monitor the
state’s implementation of the
new policy that the union
fought to achieve.

“policy was outlined in
great detail in this exten-

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And on June 30, 1978, Gov. Carey
publicly unveiled the new policy out-
lined in the Morgado letter during
remarks at the Hutchings Psychiatric
Center in Syracuse. ‘‘... we are
ready for the first real integration of
the state, local, and voluntary
systems and the formation of a com-
prehensive service network,’’ he an-
nounced. ‘‘As we move ahead,
significant numbers of state
employees now working in
psychiatric and developmental
centers will be available to enrich the
community service program.”

Here are some of the main
elements of the current policy:

a, 50 new state-operated community
residents will be opened during 1978-
79. (a 200 percent increase over the 25
state-run community based programs
currently in operation).

b. Up to 500 new employees will be
hired for the new community centers,
and by 1982 an additional 1,250 state
workers will be reassigned to the
community programs.

THE MORGADO LETTER, dated June 15,
1978, represented the first comprehensive
indication from the State that it was
reversing the former policy and would im-
plement a policy strongly supported by
CSEA.

Gov. Hugh L. Carey

c. By 1982-83, a minimum of 6,000
state psychiatric center workers will
be employed in community programs.
And 50% of all monies for community
based programs will go to state
operated programs.

d. By the end of 1981-82, the ratio of
staff to resident will be one-to-one in
every state psychiatric center, and in
the interim no facility already at or
above that ratio shall be allowed to
fall below it

e. By April 1, 1981, every effort will
be made to achieve a 1.78 staff to 1.0
patient ratio in every state
developmental center, and no center
already at or above that ratio shall be
allowed to fall below it.

f. Training and retraining programs
will be conducted for employees who
will be relocating to community-
based centers

g. For employees who will be
affected, but not assigned to
community-based locations, all
rights, privileges and benefits will be
preserved, and employees to be
transferred elsewhere will not be
offered jobs at less pay, more hazar-
dous, reduced in rank or status, or
outside a reasonable commuting dis-
tance from their residence

It's a chapter in the union’s book of
history that everyone can be proud of

Reiterates plans
on state policy

ALBANY — Gov. Hugh L. Carey
this week reiterated his plans to
follow through with the state’s new
policy of deinstitutionalization, noting
that he allocated more than $13
million this year to implement the
first of the new community support
systems.

The governor told ‘‘The Public Sec-
tor’ that he will open the 50 new
state-operated community residences
promised, and that by 1982 he plans to
have at least 6,000 current state men-
tal health workers fulfilling com-
munity service needs under the

CSEA ADS LIKE THESE were spread
across the state over a three-month period
and helped greatly in the union’s effort to
gain public support for its fight to reverse
the state’s then policy.

guidelines first appearing in the
“Morgado letter

He also said he fully expects to
comply with earlier announced plans
to improve ratios of staff to patient at
state psychiatric centers and
developmental centers.

And as to training of current state
employees to meet the needs of the
new policy, Gov. Carey stated, ‘state
workers will receive extensive job
training for their new posts to provide
the best possible service for the men-
tally disabled who are placed in the
community.”’

DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION—__—

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Grievance results in evacuation plan

By Deborah Cassidy

ALBANY — Employees occupying
the Education and Cultural Center
Building of the Empire State Plaza
have been provided with a long
awaited emergency evacuation plan
approximately one month and a half
after the State Education Department
Local of the Civil Service Employees
Assn. filed a grievance against the Of-
fice of General Services for its delay
in formulating such a plan.

Henry Weaver, president of the
Local, says that he received the plan
in late September. ‘‘The plan which

ALBANY — The Civil Service
Employees Assn., with 260,000
members the largest public
employee labor union in New York
State, will lend its support to a
growing nationwide protest of the
anti-labor, anti-union policies of
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some minor changes in the future, but
the OGS has recognized this and has
promised to make those changes as
needed. For now it is complete and
satisfactory and I can forsee no
problems with its implementation if
necessary,’ he said. The OGS is
currently distributing copies cf the
plan to employees and all should have
one shortly.

In late August the employees com-
plained that after occupying the
building for six months they still had
no instructions for evacuation. It has

CSEA lends boycott muscle
against J. P. Stevens tactics

Earlier this year, CSEA
delegates demanded that the state
comptroller sell any shares in J. P.
Stevens held by the state
employees retirement system
because of the company’s policies
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} up effort to draw attention to work-

been a past practice of the State to
provide written details for all
buildings and the CSEA Local accused
the State of ‘‘being slow”’ in this case.

They expressed concern that most
of the employees were unfamiliar
with the layout of the building outside
of their own office areas, and that
much of the building was still un-
finished, leaving many hallways and
offices leading to deadends. In ad-
dition, CSEA pointed out, as a
security measure with the State
museum and library being located in
the same building, the employees

did liquidate all holdings in the
company recently.

Now CSEA, demonstrating an in-
creasing air of miltancy, is becom-
ing active in rallying public support
against the company, long
notorious in labor circles for its
staunch anti-union positions.

Last week, CSEA sent an official
staff representative, public
relations associate Geni Abrams,
to participate in an Albany-area
meeting of the activists from
several labor unions. The com-
mittee of union activists are coor-
dinating regional plans for rallies
locally that will be in conjunction
with a nationwide series of rallies
on November 30 as a show of sup-
port of the J. P. Stevens workers in
their on-going organizational effort
to achieve social justice.

The November 30 rallies
nationwide will indicate a stepped-

ing conditions at and union-
resistance efforts by the giant tex-
tile company. They are also design-
ed to renew support from all walks
of society for a worldwide boycott
of J. P. Stevens products.

were not allowed to use stairways on
a daily basis, but would have to use
them, instead of elevators, in an
emergency and would be unfamiliar
with their route.

“In view of these factors,
evacuating without a plan probably
would have caused mass panic,’’ com-
mented Mr. Weaver.

Local 429
set meetings
October 17

STATEN ISLAND — The Staten
Island Development Center CSEA
Local 429 has called three urgent
meetings of the Local membership
for Tuesday, October 17, according to
Local President Felton King.

Mr. King said membership
meetings will be held at 3:30, 8:30 and
11:30 p.m., all in the Building 3
auditorium, on that date. Purpose will
be to discuss, he said, the proposed
change in the CSEA dues structure to
be presented at the CSEA annual
delegates meeting Oct. 22-27 at
Kiamesha Lake.

Orange County unit

ratifies contract

MIDDLETOWN — The Orange
County Unit of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. has a new 3-year
contract following overwhelming
ratification by the membership and
subsequent approval by the Orange
County Legislature.

Ratification and approval narrowly
averted having a settlement imposed
by the legislature under the
legislative hearing provision of the
Taylor Law.

The new contract provides for a 5
per cent raise this year, 6.13 per cent
next year, and another five percent in
1980. Beginning with the second year
of the agreement, the county will take
over employee social security con-
tributions which are currently shared
between the employees and the
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AFSCME scores in Michigan,
wins institutional employees

LANSING — The nation’s largest
union of public employees — the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME) — has scored another
overwhelming election victory for
the right to represent approximate-
ly 10,000 institutional employees of
the State of Michigan.

In mail ballot voting, AFSCME
received 62 per cent of the votes
east. Out of 10,000 eligible voters
the independent Michigan State
Employees Association (MSEA)
received only 1,729.

The bargaining unit comprises
institutional workers across the
state, including service aides,

training aides, practical nurses,
attendant nurses, and other blue-
collar and white-collar employees.

The Michigan election victory
continues the spectacular
membership growth that pushed
AFSCME past the one-million-
member mark this year, making
the union the largest in the AFL-
CIO. With more than 80,000
members in Michigan, AFSCME is
also the largest AFL-CIO union in
that state.

“In Michigan as in other major
states, public services are coming
under heavy attack, and public
employees know that they need a
strong union,’’ said AFSCME

President Jerry Wurf. ‘‘That’s why
Michigan state employees voted
overwhelmingly for AFSCME. Our
union will continue to work hard to
give the Michigan state employees
the most competent and most
dedicated representation humanly
possible.’

“AFSCME will be meeting soon
with representatives of the State of
Michigan to win improved pay,
working conditions and benefits for
these employees,’’ Walter Oliver,
AFSCME Michigan Area Director
said, ‘‘and we will be stepping up
our efforts to organize other state
employees.”

Contract negotiations for the in-
stitutional unit, which represents
20 per cent of Michigan’s state
employees, are expected to begin
soon. y

The Civil Service Employees
Assn., an affiliate of AFSCME as
Local 1000, is the largest local in
AFSCME. It was CSEA’s af-
filiation that pushed AFSCME over
the one million membership mark
in April.

Suit charges political appointees

NEW YORK CITY — A class action
lawsuit charging the Commissioner of
the Division of Housing and Com-
munity Renewal with illegally
creating positions in his agency and
filling them with political appointees
has been brought by a group of State
employees against the commissioner
and the State Civil Service Com-
mission.

The lawsuit was filed by the Civil
Service Employees Assn. Division of
Housing and Community Renewal
Local 258; the Organization of New
York State Management/Confidential
Employees Inc., and others. At press
time the suit was scheduled to be
argued at a Special Term of Supreme
Court in Albany before Supreme
Court Justice De Forest Pitt.

The petitioners are seeking a
judgment declaring the positions in
question are in the competitive class
of Civil Service and that an im-
mediate competitive examination be
conducted to fill the position with
qualified persons.

The lawsuit was begun after the
Commissioner created positions and
filled them with political appointees
and not by competitive civil service
employees. Historically, employees
in similar positions have performed
duties which do not require any truly
unusual skills not measurable by or-
dinary testing and do not require any
special expertise so much in demand
that an ordinary advertisement of a
civil service opening is unlikely to
attract candidates. None of these
positions contain any truly confiden-
tial relationship to the head of the
agency nor contain any power to.exer-
cise authority at a high level, the suit
charges.

The lawsuit seeks to enforce the
provisions of Article 5, Section 6 of
the New York State Constitution,
which provides that appointments and
promotions in the Civil Service of the
State shall be filled and made ac-
cording to merit and fitness, ascer-
tainable by competitive examination.
Pursuant to this constitutional man-

USUI ERS

to the editor

We encourage letters from readers pertaining to items which
have appeared in THE PUBLIC SECTOR or which are of interest
to public employees. Letters must contain the name, address and
telephone number of the writer for verification purposes.
Telephone numbers will not be printed, and names may be
withheld upon request. Send all letters to THE PUBLIC SEC-
TOR, Clarity Publishing Inc., 75 Champlain Street, Albany, N.Y.

date, sections of the Civil Service Law
were enacted creating the com-
petitive class of the State Civil Ser-
vice. That statute also outlined those
offices and positions which would be
exempt from any competitive ex-
amination. The positions in dispute
here do not meet the constitutional or
statutory test for exemption, ac-
cording to the petitions.

Instead, they claim, the action of
the Commissioner has interferred
with, impeded, limited and aborted
opportunities of persons in the com-
petitive civil service to better
themselves professionally and
economically. The political ap-
pointees who are filling these
positions do not have a special talent
or qualifications which makes them
unique and suitable for the task which
must be performed by the person who
fills the positions, the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit further claims these
appointments are counter to the need
to attract and retain in the Civil Ser-
vice persons of demonstrated

Editor, The Public Sector:

capacity, training, and fitness, who
may be permitted to perform their
functions disinterestedly and impar-
tially and it encourages the hiring of
those persons with average ability
and political in their approach.

Briefs filed

in Syracuse

SYRACUSE — Legal briefs are in
the process of being prepared by both
the Civil Service Employees Assn.
and Onondaga County officials con-
cerning a bid by CSEA to represent
nearly 350 members of the Onondaga
County Sheriff's Department

The Onondaga County mini-PERB
recently named Irving Markowitz to
consider CSEA’s petition, and at a
recent meeting he directed both the
union and county to prepare legal
briefs. The employees are presently
represented by their own independent
organization.

I have just received the first publication of the newspaper.

It is very good, up to a point — where is the listing of the Federal
and State positions that are available? I am very interested in this
listing — aren’t you having them listed in this newspaper?

Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis
Middletown

12204 (Editor note: The first edition was produced under extreme time

. 5 limitations, hence no job listings appeared. The second issue did con-

Editor, The Public Sector: ‘ fe ag tain a listing of state competitive promotional exams and a calendar of
T read with pleasure your article on credit unions in the October 4,

i . ‘ open competitive state jobs, and this edition expands that coverage to
1978 issue of The Public Sector. You are performing a great service to inehide listing of consiuuarety open state lobe and eligible alate as
your readers by advising them about their credit unions and the part
your readers can play in them.

There was, however, an inaccuracy in your account. The credit
committee must be voted into office by the credit union members at
the annual meeting (Federal Credit Union Bylaws — (FCUB) Art. IX
Sec. 2). The committee chooses from among their members a
secretary and a chairman (FCUB Art. IX Sec. 3). The credit com-
mittee may appoint loan officers to serve at its pleasure (FCUB Art.
IX Sec. 4). It is plain, then, that the credit committee is not appointed
by the board of directors and the loan officer is subservient to the
credit committee

provided by the Civil Service Department. We will continue to expand
that type of information.)

Editor, The Public Sector:

I received the first issue and must say what an enormous im-
provement over the old publication. My compliments to you in helping
to produce an eye appealing, professional media.

The feedback from the members in my Riverhead Unit has been
positive.

Dorothy Victoria
Chairwoman, Public Relations Committee
Suffolk Local 852

Louis A. Lencin Manager

Employees of Pilgrim Federal Credit Union
Deer Park, L.1.

Page 12 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wadnesdoy, October 18,1978,

Public employees need to

A CLASSIC EXAMPLE: of TV's poor image of public vi be
employees occurred on “‘All in the Family” when the Soap
Bunkers encountered a computer snafu and had to deal with a

harried Veterans’ Administration official.

By James Breig
Special to the Public Sector

Last Spring, when the CBS
television network announced
its Fall programs for 1978, it
took a deep breath and ner-
vously revealed that “In the
Beginning’’ would be on the
regular schedule.

The chance the network
was taking — and the reason
for its nervousness — was
that this series would involve
a Roman Catholic priest and
nun who work in a storefront
mission in a big city. Acutely,
aware of ABC’s problems the
year before when it ran
and encountered
viewer complaints for in-
delicacy (including a priest
character who fell in love),

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Name

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ASST. BUSINESS OFFICER

Test Held January 14, 1978
List Established September 15, 1978

1 Smits, Stephen M., Newport... ees Oh:
2 Wolf, Dennis E., Holbrook..... 91.9
3 Whitehead, James, Syracuse ..... 3
4 Fischer, Robert, E. Farmingdale. 91:
5 Seligson, Harold, Staten Is. . + 91.2
6 ‘Peters, Michael, Gowanda........ 911
7 Scott, John R., Fayetteville eseAINTCCION HON Hits
8 Greenberg, Mark, Flushing.................. Dest GOS.
9 Milas, Leroy A., East Le ar 86.4
10 Troy, Peter J., Pawling .. “ Welieionie 84.8
11 Daly, David, Pawling. oe SOB Seen e BAD
12 Gardner, Wakeman, Voorheesville . ay eonasisn Ak)
12A Vinograd, Jon E., Salisbury Ct.................. +++ 83.8
13 Meyer, Walter, Brooklyn ........... 83.0
14 Walsh, Alexander, Pleasant Val. , 82.9
15 Barton, Thomas A., Shortsville . +» 82.8
16 Ryan, John M., Massapequa . - 82.5
17 Schiliro, Gary J., Flushing .... 81.6
18 Salamack, Joseph, Clifton Park B15
19 Tierney, Thomas, Staten Is. ... 81.3
20 Shaut, Robert B., NYC .. B11
21 Boccio, Michael, Willard . 81.0
22 Church, Rodney G., Poughkeepsie . 80.8
23  Carucci, Joseph, Lake Grove ..
24 Zeppetello, A. M., Syracuse ... - 80.
25 Jarnot, Daniel A., Cheektowaga . 80.6
26 Martin, Marcia L., Tully .. ay 80.4
27 Coffey, Robert A., West Ser 80.3
28 McNamara, T., Staatsburg + 80,3
29 Thompson, C. R., Troy .... 80.1
30 Linn, Margaret R., Richford + 19.8
31 Godoy, Paula D., Westbury... 19.8
32 Linder, Stuart M., Brooklyn ...... 19.7
33. Owczarzak, E. J., West Seneca 79.5
34 Regina, William, Brooklyn .. 119.2
S Germain, Edgar J., N. Tonawand: Aare
Begin, Michael J., Tonawanda. . Pry. Hd
SN Baumgold, Jed, Poughkeepsie 1 TBA
37 Grenier, Paul 0., Latham . +6 TB.2
38 Newberg, Robert, Staten Is. + TB
39 Krafmer, Albert, Alden . 719
40 Patricia, Kevin, Oneida . GE
41 Greene, Robert T.; Middletown . LeU
42 Johnson, Stephen, Troy 18
43 Reit, Shimon, Brooklyn ede)
44 Peterson, Robert, Pearl River poeti(er
45 Boxwell, Lewis T., Albany 1 166
46 Bukovac, V., Port Ewen.. 785
47 Reynolds, John J., Poughkeepsie : - 76.5
48 Weisman, Kenneth, Albany ...... 1 164
49 Deet, Donna L., Perrysburg . 1 BB
50 Behrle, Peter D., Schenectady 16.2
51 Brockett, Laura, Middletown ...... 75.7
52 Griffith, Ellen, Bridgeport 100 98,7
53 Wagner, Don J., Utica .... 154
54 Kimma, Jeffery C., Pawling Wadia.
55 Oneil, Michael F., Rome .. 45
56 Dudla, David E., Shirley .. 74.1
57 Voneeden, Horace, Bronx Ad
58 Glover, Reginald, Lisbon .. ++ 73.1

CBS waited for the shock
waves.

They have not come. Not
from Catholics, anyway. But
perhaps public employees
should be writing the angry
letters instead. In a recent
episode, for instance, there
were several put-downs of
government agencies and
civil servants.

Says a nun counseling a
woman who wants a lost alien
card replaced, ‘‘Let’s go
down to the office and get the
run-around in person.” This
followed a remark about not
being able to reach the office
by phone because the
department had ‘“‘lost the
man in charge of lost alien
cards."”

Later in the same episode,
a priest tells a woman who
wants a job, ‘‘You’ve got no
skills; maybe you can get a
job with the government.”

In recent years, many
minority groups have
pressured television to im-
prove their images on the
tube. Blacks, women, even
homosexuals have made their
views known to the TV
powers in an attempt to end
ridicule and stereotyping.

Perhaps it is time public
employees did the same.
Jokes, put-downs, sneers and
snipes are constantly being
made at the expense of public
employees. On ‘‘Good
Times,” welfare case
workers are the targets. On
“Carter Country and
‘“‘Barney Miller,’’ city
workers get a going-over. In
any number of courtroom
programs, everyone from the
judge to the stenographer is
fair game

It is reminiscent of the days
when blacks were easy prey
for insults. Those days are

gone. .
Ihe image of the public

employee might also be serv-

ed by a regular series based .

on their problems and goals,
their efforts and struggles.

After all, plenty of current
shows center around work
situations. ‘‘Welcome Back,
Kotter,’ takes place in a
school. “WKRP in Cincin-
nati’’ revolves around a radio
station while a magazine of-
fice is the locale for
“American Girls.’’ Other
shows take place in airplanes
as stewardesses ply their
trade, in law offices as legal
whizzes solve mysteries, in
cab garages where drivers
trade one-liners.

Why not, then, a series in-
volving a mix of people work-
ing in some government agen-
cy?

It is obvious public
employees need a better,
shinier TV image. The age of
the quick slam against the
bureaucracy should have
passed. In its place should
come the reality of dedicated
people doing their jobs and
making the everyday lives of
their fellow citizens more
liveable.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, October 18, 1978 Page 13

ita

Petition
hearing

CORNING — An informal hearing
on the certification petition of about
60 employees at the Corning Com-
munity College, Corning, was
scheduled to be held October 17 at the
offices of the New York State
Department of Labor, Rochester.

The workers who wish to be
represented by the Civil Service
Employees Assn. include clerks,
typists, account and library clerks,
secretaries, stenographers, keypunch
and computer operators, research
and administrative assistants and
messengers, according to CSEA
Organizer Michael G. Painter.

CSEA currently represents the
college’s laborers, cleaners,
custodians, stores clerks and
maintenance personnel

Directors
mending

Two members of the Board of
Directors ~of the Civil Service
Employees Assn. are recovering, one
in a hospital for injuries received in
an automobile accident and another
at home following an illness that
hospitalized him for several days.

Martin Koenig, President of the
Monroe County CSEA Local and a
member of the Board of Directors, is
confined at Strong Memorial
Hospital, Rochester recovering from
injuries received recently in an
automobile accident. He is expected
to be hospitalized for at least a week

Meanwhile, Ed Wilcox, Saratoga
County CSEA Local representative to
the Board of Directors, is recovering
at home from an illness that
hospitalized him for several days
recently at Saratoga Hospital. He is
expected to remain at home, 278
Nelson Avenue, Saratoga Springs,
N.Y, 12866, for several days

A dream
continues

CLARENCE — The dream which
came true for five school workers
July 14, when they won the $2 million
Olympic lottery, continued this month
as they were flown from Buffalo to
New York for a day with actress Mitzi
Gaynor, who drew the lucky ticket.

On the agenda were dinner at
Rothman’s East Norwich Inn and
Miss Gaynor’s show at the Music
Fair, Westbury, L.J

The lucky winners from Ledgeview
Elementary School, Clarence, are
cafeteria workers, Mrs. Rose Marie
Szczublewski, Mrs, Natalie B. Kroth,
Mrs. Lorraine Corbett, Mrs. Mary J
Kranz and custodian, Mr. Joseph M
DePalmo, who is also vice-president
of Local 868, which represents
Erie Educational employees. All five
winners are represented by CSEA

By Deanne Louis

ALBANY — Explaining, in
laymen’s terms, the complex laws
which now protect minority
workers in their quest for equal
employment opportunities was the
difficult task of Daniel Murnane
Mackey, an employee relations
consultant, who addressed a Civil
Service Employees Assn. group
comprised of staff administrators
and union members at CSEA head-
quarters recently.

The purpose of the day-long

Equal employment statutes
subject of union seminar

seminar, which was attended by
CSEA headquarters staff
managers, regional field directors,
and union members of the Per-
sonnel and Minorities Committees,
was to study the obligations of
CSEA as an employer itself as well
as CSEA as a union representative
of this state's public employees.

Mr. Mackey, an attorney and
former Director of the United
State Equal Employment Oppor-
tunity Commission of New York,
examined various legal cases and
their implications as they relate to
Equal Employment Opportunity
statutes which now exist at state
and federal levels. A look at the
recent, precedent-setting Bakke
decision and other successful legal
suits brought against employers
who did not comply with EEO
statutes were a part of his talk
which was conducted on an infor-
mal basis to allow for questions
from an audience anxious to apply
legal complexities to their local
situations

“What race discrimination was
to the 1960's, sex discrimination is
to the 1970’s,’’ Mr. Mackey said as
he gave examples of legal suits
successfully brought by women

DANIEL M. MACKEY gestures to make a point during a recent workshop for CSEA staff

of the Central Region.

REGIONAL DIRECTORS Thomas
Luposello, left, of the Southern Region, and
John Corcoran of the Capital Region share
in a lighter moment of a serious discussion.

PHOTOS BY COLLEEN BRESCIA

Page 14 THE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, October 18, 1978

: me at
LISTENING INTENTLY are Ella Wadsworth, staff Supervisor of Membership Records,
and Timothy McInerney, chairman of the union's Personnel Committee.

FOCUSING ATTENTION on the presen-
tation is Regional Director Frank Martello

n members on equal employment opportunity laws.

et

GEORGE BISPHAM, CSEA Regional
Director for the Metropolitan Region, asks
for clarification of the complex laws sur-
rounding EEO.

against firms which had denied
them, the court agreed, equal pay
for work of equal value to that of
higher-paid men in their
organizations. Mackey illustrated
his discussion with numerous cases
of illegalities committed against
blacks and other races,
nationalities and religions, many
the result of treatment by
employers who were unaware of
the extent of equal employment
laws. He cautioned that no
employer in either the private or
public sector should attempt to cir-
cumvent today’s laws and that the
Federal Equal Employment Op-
portunities Commission was itself
the subject of legal suits brought
about by a high ratio of complaints
about its own employment policies.

To act as a watchdog over its
own practices, the consultant
suggested that CSEA supervisors
check the employment history
from 1967 to the present of the job
slots in their departments to deter-
mine what, if any, specific type of
individual usually filled the job
title. Employers, he explained,
should be conscious of the poten-
tially illegal aspects of hiring per-
sons traditionally by their sex,
ethnical background, or geographic
location to fill specific jobs.

For CSEA union representatives,
Mackey said that a simple visual
inspection of their job sites would
probably point up major inequities
in staffing. ‘“‘Just a walk through
your offices may show lop-sided
employment practices which
should be directly reported to the
State or Local Government
employer,’ Mr. Mackey advised.

va
.

F teal

State employee negotiations
discussed on radio interview

NEW YORK CITY — CSEA Ex-
ecutive Director Joseph J. Dolan, was
a recent guest on ‘‘Press
Conference,’ an interview program
broadcast by WABC, ABC’s flagship
station in New York City. Mr. Dolan
told his interviewers that money will
be a major issue in CSEA’s upcoming
contract negotiations with the state.

Asked what kind of money package
CSEA is thinking about, Mr. Dolan
said ‘‘no dollar amount has yet been
set, we will be hearing from our
membership on their views before
any dollars and cents figures are put
on the table’. Some other issues in
the negotiations Mr. Dolan said will
be improved health insurance and
retirement programs.

He also attacked the general prac-
tice of ‘‘contracting out’. When asked
by the interviewers how he can attack
the practice against some
management claims that it's a money
saving device, he answered by saying
“initial costs of contracting out may
come in at a low price, but then come
the increases.”’

The CSEA executive director, also
pointed out that contracting out, not
covered by the Taylor Law, can lead
to strikes which cause interrupted
services and other inconveniences for
taxpayers. Mr. Dolan went on to say
“contracting out’’ is no money saving
device,’’ but that ‘‘better
management is’’.

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Title Salary Exam No.

Pharmacist (salary varies with location) , .
Assistant Sanitary Engineer ........... $
Senior Sanitary Engineer .. Bee dumieeurc salar 5 $
Clinical Physician I .... ORR ge id einen tase bieh Bee ante Olea

+ $14,388-$15,562

14,142
17,429
27,942

Clinical Physician ........060050.560. eee ' - $31,055
Assistant Clinical Physician . wate * seve $25,161
Attorney ...... aieeancdaa suber ee@lai00,
Assistant Attorney... Seiecsae cet. Aqeehodcenroncnannnecoate: Leth
Attorney Trainee ....... ‘ $11,723

Junior Engineer Cioacnt Ghakenestmonuemurees ey. }
(Bachelor's Degree)
Junior Engineer ................. pattem
(Master's Degree) |
Dental Hygienist . .
Licensed Practical Nurse. aoe
Nutrition Services Consultant fein penne.)
Stationary Engineer . . $
Senior Stationary Engineer ...... $
Occupational Therapy Assistant I
Occupational Therapy Assistant I
(Spanish Speaking)
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor ..... : 8.
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Trainee $
Medical Record Technician...
Histology Technician P
Professional Positions in Auditing and Accounting $
Computer Programmer....... $
Computer Programmer (Scientific). Reeser etre ce Pores |
Senior Programmer ...... $
Senior Computer Programmer (Scientific) $
Mobility Instructor Baden euwee ces cies)
Instructor of the Blind ... Suenen SESOy $
Health Services Nurse. “$11,250-8
(salary varies with location)
Senibr Heating and Ventilating Engineer ........................$
Senior Sanitary Engineer (Design) ....... $
Senior Building Electrical Engineer $
Senior Building Structural Engineer .. : $
Senior Mechanical Construction Engineer SES ciate iri, 3
Senior Plumbing Engineer : $
Assistant Stationary Engineer .
Radiologic Technologist
(salary varies with location)
Medical Record Administrator ................... Deere)
Food Service Worker ......
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee
Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide Trainee
(Spanish Speaking)
Associate Actuary (Casualty) o.iec.s.cee cissdeevivescvensse en
Principal Actuary (Casualty) .................. < Peer *
Supervising Actuary (Casualty) : $

“$8,454-8

11,904

12,890

« «$8,950
. $8,051

13,404
10,042
11,250
$9,029

- $9,029

14,142
11,983

+. $9,481
» $8,051

11,250
11,250
11,250
14,075
14,075
11,904
11,250
12,025

18,301
18,301
18,301
18,301
18,301
18,301
$7,616
10,369

11,904

. $6,148

$7,204
$7,204

18,369
22,364
26,516

Assistant Actuary ‘ lees eee $10,714

8
Nurse II (Psychiatric) ....., ; as

10,624
11,904
11,904

Nurse II (Rehabilitation) . rocxmonnacnonccamcntans Obl.)
Medical Specialist II ... ae i die eadisleloicinaie ec auiclets ale Op LOD.

Medical Seslallet I Troan tty Mae eins n°
Psychiatrist I. Fi é Meaet tes ORT.
Psychiatrist 1G els nee ged
Social Services Management Trainee

Social Services Management Specialist .....

27,942
27,942

«$33,705

$10,824

» + $11,450

20-129
20-122
20-123
20-118
20-119
20-117
20-113
20-113
20-113
20-109

20-109

20-107
20-106
20-139
20-100
20-101
20-174
20-174

20-140
20-140
20-143
20-170
20-200
20-220
20-222
20-221
20-2
20-224
20-225
20-226

20-227
20-228
20-229
20-230
20-231
20-232
20-303
20-334

20-348
20-352
20-394
20-394

20-416
20-417
20-418
20-556
20-584
20-585
20-586
20-587
20-840
20-841
20-842
20-843
20-875
20-875,

Assistant Heating and Ventilating Engineer

hes Assistant Plumbing Engineer G-19..

| Assistant Mechanical Construction 1 Engineer G-19.
Assistant Architect G-19 .
Assistant Civil Engineer G: 19.

| Associate Civil Engineer G-27.

} Chief Lock Operator G-12.

| Canal Electrical Supervisor G-14..

Canal Maintenance Supervisor 11 G-17

Senior Health Care Fiscal Analyst G-18.

| Associate Health Care Fiscal Analyst G-18

| Associate Health Care Fiscal Analyst G-23

| Supervisor of Tax Compliance Field Operations G-25

| Principal Tax Compliance Agent G-23 .
Supervising Tax Compliance Agent G-21
Associate Tax Compliance Agent G-18. . 36-566
Senior Tax Compliance Agent G-14.. . No. 36-565
Highway Maintenance Supervisor 11 G-14 . . No, 36-571
Social Work Supervisor 1 G-22........ . 36-575
Social Work Supervisor 111 G-25...... , 36-576
Resident Engineer A G-27 : 36-533
Resident Engineer B G-27 . 36-532
Regional Highway Maintenance Engineer C G-27 36-534

. 36-519
. 36-521
. 36-520
. 36-526
. 36-528
. 36-529
. 36-538
. 36-539
, 36-540
, 36-544
. 36-544
. 36-545
. 36-569
. 36-568
. 36-567

Social Services Management Trainee
(Spanish Speaking)
Social Services Management Specialist
(Spanish Speaking)
Industrial Training Supervisor ..
(salary varies depending on specialty)
Physical Therapist .
Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking).
Senior Physical Therapist ....
Senior Physical Therapist (Spanish Speaking)
Speech Pathologist
Audiologist .......
Assistant Speech Pathologist .
istant Audiologist

$10,824 20-876
$11,450 20-876
$10,624-$12,583 20-877

» +. $11,337 20-880
- $11,337 20-880
$12,670 20-881
. $12,670 20-881
. $12,670 20-883
. $12,670 20-882
. $11,337 20-884
$11,337 20-885
++. $10,118 20-888
$10,714 20-887
eevee $12,670 20-886
Stenographer ................5 $6,650 20-890
Typist ....... pis san aR orecince te ane ee LN Se aOBOL
Senior Occupational Therapist ~. $12,670 20-894
Senior Occupational Therapist $12,670 20-894
(Spanish Speaking)

Parkway Maintenance Supervisor 11.

Electronic Computer Operator Trainee 7

Section Maintenance Supervisor 11 .....
Division Maintenance Supervisor 11.

$11,250
$ 7,997
$15,314
- $14,479

36-572
} 36: 525

For more information about these and other state jobs, contact the state Civil Service Department,
Albany State Office Building Campus; | Genesee St., Buffalo, or 2 World Trade Center, New York City.

Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapist (Spanish Speaking) .... $11,337
You may contact the following offices of the New York State Department of Civil Service for an
nouncements, applications, and other details concerning examinations for the positions listed above
State Office Building Campus, First Floor, Building |, Albany, New York 12239 (518) 457-6216

2 World Trade Center, 55th Floor, New York City 10047 (212) 488-4248

++ $11,337 20-895

20-895

Suite 750, Genesee Building, West Genesee Street, Buffalo, New York 14202 (716) 842-4260.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR, sday, October 18, |

1978

Page 15°

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Vote for endorsed candidate

learned a long time ago that the
makeup of the State Legislature has a
direct effect upon the union's
membership. And so, as it has done
many times in the past, the big public
employee labor union has endorsed
eandidates for the Senate and
Assembly seats in the upcoming
November 7 general election.

Candidates were endorsed on the
basis of personal interviews by the
regional Political Action Committees
of CSEA. In a few districts, no en-
dorsements were granted, and in a
few others endorsements are still
pending.

The candidates endorsed by CSEA
were selected in the main on the basis

closely identified with, the position of
the union on a number of crucial
questions asked of all candidates. En-
dorsed candidates in most cases
qualify for political donations, and in
all cases for volunteer support ser-
vices, from CSEA.

To be most effective, the union’s
political action program depends
upon the unified support of the can-
didates selected for backing. As a
registered voter, you, the individual
member, can help determine the
makeup of the State Legislature by
casting your vote for the union-
endorsed candidate election day. The
following candidates, by district, are
endorsed by your union

CSEA’s POLITICAL ACTION PROGRAM is broadbased, with many Locals
having political action committees. Each CSEA region also has a regional
committee, and a statewide political action committee has statewide respon-
sibilities. Martin Langer, at right, is chairman of the union’s statewide com-
mittee. Bernard Ryan, at left, CSEA’s Director of Legislative and Political
Action, has the primary union staff responsibilities.

Hochbrueckner (D)
Bianchi (D)
Wertz (R-C)
. Harenberg (D)
Cochrane (R-C)
Flanagan (R-C)
|. R. McGee (D)

Yevoli (D)
Healey (R-C)
. Parola Jr. (R-C)
Gulotta (R-C)
. Reilly (R-C)
. Orazio (D-L)
Blankman (R-C)
. Hannon (R-C)
. P, D'Amato (R-C)
J. McGrath (R-C)
. J. Kremer (D-L)
Madison (R)
E. Lipschutz (D)
. A. Esposito (R-C)
Weprin (D-L)
. Nicolosi (D-C)
P. Stavisky (D-L)
. J, Cooperman (D-L)
. G. Hevesi (D-L)
. Jenkins (D)
. Goldstein (D-L)
Seminerio (D)
, Abramson (D)
J.T. Flack (R-C)
1. C. Lafayette (D)
J, Lopresto (R-C)
36, D, J. Butler (D)

SSSSRLASSSSSLSRLSRSSSSERSSSSSHSSES

. C. A. Wilson (D-L)

F. D. Schmidt (D-R-C)

. S. Fink (D)

E, Griffith (D-L)

. §, Steingut (L)
. H, Smoler (D)

Rhoda Jacobs (D-L)

. M. Miller (D)

B. Schumer (D-L)
Lasher (D-L)

J. Barbaro (D-L)
Hirsch (D)

. DiCarlo (R-C)
F. Albanese (D)
Ferris (D-L)

. Pesce {D-L)
Lewis (D-L)
Boyland (D-L)
Fortune (D-R-L)
, Vann (D-L)

. Strelzin (D)

R, Lentol (D-L)

SEP IzTO

eE>an

L. F. DeSalvio (D)

S, Silver (D-L)

Wm. Passannante (D-L)
8, Sanders (D-L)

M. A, Siegel (D-L)

R. N, Gottfried (D-L)
A.B. P, Grannis (D-L)
J, Nadler (D-L)

E. C. Sullivan (D-L)
G. W. Miller (D)

A, Deltoro (D-R)

Page 16 ThE PUBLIC SECTOR, Wednesday, October 18, 1978

E. Lehner (D-L)

H. D, Farrell Jr. (D-L)
J, Serrano (D-L)

© R. Johnson (D-L)
A. Montano (D)

E. B. Diggs (D)

L. Nine (D)

G. J. Velella (R-C)
EL, Engel (D-L)
S, Walsh (D-C)

G. Friedman (D-L)

. G. 0. Koppell (D-L)

John Dearie (D)

V. Marchiselli (D-L)
T. J. McInerney (D)
R. Ross (R-C)

. W. Finneran (D-L)
|. G. Burrows (R-C)

. J. M, Perone (R-C)
. P.M. Sullivan (R-C)

J. S. Fossel (R)

|. W. Stephens (R-C)
. E, Levy (R-C)

R. Connor (D-L)
M, Sanders (D)
D. Greenwald (D)
(Pending)
(Pending)

M, Hinchey (D-L)
C. Lane (R-C)

M. Hoblock (R)
Richard Conners (D)
(No Endorsement)
N. Kelleher (R-C)
C. Wemple (R-C)
(No Endorsement)

G. Harris (R-C)
R. Cronin (D-L)
‘A. Ryan (R-C)
D. O'B Martin (R-C)
A. Casale (R-C)
H. R. Nortz (R-C)
W. R. Sears (R-C)
N. Calogero (R)
J, W, McCarthy (D-L)
K. Putzer (D-L)
J, Buzzard (D)
M, N. Zimmer (D)
W. Bush (R-C)
©. Rappleyea (R-C)
J, W. McCabe Sr. (D)
J. Tallon Jr. (D)
Lloyd Riford (R-C)
(No Endorsement)
Henderson (R-C)
Dennis (D)
P. Kehoe (R-C)
Colombo (D)
Proud (D-L)
‘. Cooke (R)
Virgilio (D)
Robach (D-C)
F. Nagle (R-C)
. J. Emery (R)
(Pending)
(Pending)
M. Murphy (D-C)
R. L. Schimminger (D)
G. J. Fremming (D-C)
142. S. R. Greco (D)
143. A. O. Eve (D-L)
144. W. B, Hoyt (D-L)

145, R. J. Keane (D)
146. D. T. Gorski (D-C)
147 (Pending)

SENATE DISTRICT

1. K.P. LaValle (R-C)
2. J.J. Lack (R-C)

©. Trunzo (R-C)

0. H, Johnson (R-C)

R. J. Marino (R-C)

(No Endorsement)

J. D, Caemmerer (R-C)

N, J. Levy (R-C)

C. Berman (D)

J. 8. Weinstein (D-R-L)
Padavan (R-C)
Lackerman (D)
Gold (D-L)

. Gazzara (D-R-C)
J. Knorr (R-C)
. Babbush (D)

M. Owens (D-L)

. T, Bartosiewicz (D)

M. Markowitz (D)

. D. Halperin (D)

. C. Mega (R-C)
M. Solomon (D)

. V. Beatty (D-L)

J, Marchi (R-C)

M. Connor (D-L)

R. Goodman (R)

M. Ohrenstein (D-L)

2, McCall (D-L)

F. Leichter (D-L)

0. Mendez (D)

(Pending)
D. Walsh (D)

. R. Kidder (D)

1. Ruiz (D)

J. Galiber (D-L)

A. Bernstein (D-R-L)
J. D. Calandra (R-C)

. J, Flynn (R-C)

4. Pisani (R-C)

M. Goodhue (R-C)

L, Winikow (D-L)

J. P. Rolison Jr. (R-C)
R. Schermerhorn (R-C)
J. L, Bruno (R-C)

H, Nolan (D)

R. Stafford (R-C-L)
H. TT. Farley (R-C)
H. D. Barclay (R-C)
J. H. Donovan (R-C)
W. M. Anderson (R-C)
(No Endorsement)
(No Endorsement)

J. R. Lockett (D)
(No Endorsement)

F. L. Warder (R-C)
J, Perry (D)

E, Wurz (D)

(No Endorsement)

R. Gallagher (D-C)

J. J. Present (R)

D. M. Volker (R-C)
E. O'Grady (D)

J.B. Daly (R)