CSEA continued its ongoing fight for safer conditions for all workers, including demanding solutions to put an end to the violence against staff at state juvenile detention centers. In a huge lift for safety, CSEA was key in helping to secure safe patient handling legislation that will protect workers and patients from injuries related to lifting and moving, and has the potential to save millions of dollars in Workers’ Compensation costs. Despite difficult economic times, CSEA negotiated fair contracts for thousands of workers in hundreds of bargaining units across the state, including a state court pact that members approved by a 2:1 ratio and a contract for Erie County Unit members who had worked nearly a decade without one. The steadfast determination of Nassau County Local officers and members helped thaw a three-year long wage freeze that had brought great hardship to workers and their families. After an animated and energizing Annaual Delegates Meeting, CSEA activists emerged eager to use their time, energy and talents to help build strong communities throughout the state. Hunger and poverty were among the social issues activists vowed to tackle. CSEA members got out the vote in November, helping the majority of CSEA-backed candidates, including State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, score impressive victories. As the year was drawing to a close, the value and dependability of CSEA members was demonstrated, once again, by public health workers tapped to help fight the Ebola virus and by emergency responders and local and state highway workers who helped dig out residents from a devastating snowstorm that pounded many parts of Western New York. These workers accepted their responsibility willingly and professionally, like all CSEA members do, in times of emergency and every other day.
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