Visit the improved CSEA eStore today! The CSEA e-Store offers you a fresh way to show your true CSEA colors! It’s a way to purchase CSEA branded clothing and other items that demonstrate your pride in being a part of this great union. Know that the items you are purchasing as an individual or for your local or unit are union made in the USA. It’s an important point as we make the case that STRONG COMMUNITIES WORK! The CSEA e-Store website product line has been revised to offer more of the apparel and items members and leaders have requested. The e-Store website has also been improved to make it easier for you to review products and make purchases. You can purchase single items or large quantities, tapping into the buying power of CSEA. You can also contact the e-Store for custom orders and special items. Visit www.cseastore.com today! Applications for CSEA’s Irving Flaumenbaum Memorial Scholarship will be available soon on CSEA’s website at www.cseany.org or through your region office. CSEA awards $1,000 scholarships each year to three eligible dependents of CSEA members in each region. The application deadline is April 15, 2015. Break in membership affects eligibility for union office, voting privileges A break in union membership status can have long-term future implications. Your membership status affects your eligibility with respect to: • Seeking or holding union office; • Signing nominating petitions for potential candidates; • Voting in union elections, and; • Voting on collective bargaining contracts. Only members “in good standing” can participate in these activities. To be in “good standing”, your dues cannot be delinquent. If you go on unpaid leave or for any other reason have a break in your employment status, your dues will not continue to be paid through payroll deductions. You must make arrangements to pay your dues directly to CSEA to continue your membership status. If you are either laid off or placed on leave without pay status due to becoming disabled by accident, illness, maternity or paternity, you may be eligible for dues-free membership status for a period not to exceed one year. If you are called up for active military duty you may also apply for dues-free status. Note, however, you must continue to pay dues to run for office. Dues-free or gratuitous membership allows members to continue their insurance coverage while out of work. It does not protect your right to run for or hold office. This does not apply to members who are on leave due to being called up for military duty. Members on active duty, upon return, are considered to have had continuous membership status for all CSEA election purposes. Please notify the CSEA Membership Department at 1-800-342-4146, ext. 1327, of any change in your status and what arrangements you are making to continue your membership in CSEA. 2014 McDonough Scholarship recipients announced CSEA recently awarded six $1,000 Thomas H. McDonough Memorial Scholarship for Continuing Studies (one per region) to children of union members. The scholarship is awarded annually to former Irving Flaumenbaum scholarship recipients who are pursuing higher education. The 2014 recipients are: Long Island Region: Emily Vigliotta, whose mother, Jane Vigliotta, is a senior clerk typist at the William Floyd School District. Emily Vigliotta is attending College of the Holy Cross. Metropolitan Region: Suraj Kumar, whose mother, Suresh Bala, is a food service worker at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. Kumar is attending Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Southern Region: Michelle Prakash, whose mother, Leelamma Prakash, is a social worker at Westchester County. Michelle Prakash is attending Siena College. Capital Region: Emily Hess, whose mother, Sandy Hess, is a special education aide at the Shenendehowa Central School District. Emily Hess is attending Hamilton College. Central Region: Zachary Manzer, whose father, Alan Manzer, is a member of the Syracuse Area Retirees Local. Zachary Manzer is attending the University at Buffalo. Western Region: Emily Flagler, whose mother, Karen Flagler, is a typist at the Newfane Central School District. Emily Flagler is attending Yale University. Smith is PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month Gloria Smith of the SUNY Upstate Local in the Central Region is the PEOPLE Recruiter of the Month for November. “Recruiting members for the PEOPLE Program is important,” Smith said. “It helps us advocate when it comes to having that voice in politics at the federal level. We like to recruit members when they are new, so we talk to them at the orientations to tell them how important it is that they join.” CSEA’s PEOPLE program protects and improves our jobs, benefits and pensions in Washington, Albany and Smith in your community. Your support and participation in PEOPLE strengthens CSEA’s clout in the workplace, in the legislature, in your community and in the labor movement. — Mark M. Kotzin January 2015 The Work Force 13
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