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CSEA Women’s Conference to build our voice, our power
Central New York DDSO Local Recording Secretary Aida Sands emerges from the chilly water at the recent Oneida Shores Polar Plunge, a fundraiser for the Special Olympics New York. Sands was part of our union’s Region 5 Polar Peeps Team. (Photo by Nicholas Newcomb.)
Jack Miller, 63, former DOCCS Committee Chair
“We are planning many exciting programs,” said Faye Wilkie-
Fields, chair of the Standing Women’s Committee. “Our main goal with this conference is to empower our union sisters.”
Wilkie-Fields
CSEA members will soon again have the chance to build knowledge and skills to use our voice and our power.
Our union’s Standing Women’s Committee is planning the 2023 Women’s Conference, which will be held in Saratoga Springs April 28-30. The biennial conference, which this year has the theme “Our Voice, Our Power,” is open to all members.
Secretary for 17
years, helped lead
our union’s fight to advance issues on
behalf of working
people, including expanding quality
child care,
workplace training opportunities and Carr pay equity. She
also encouraged women to pursue leadership roles.
After attending the National Women’s Conference in 1977, Carr was inspired to advance the fight
for what she called ‘work and family issues.’ She soon helped form our union’s first Women’s Committee and served as its first chair.
Carr retired in 1993 and passed away in 2004, but CSEA continually honors her legacy through Irene Carr Leadership Award, which was first awarded in 1988.
Watch our union’s website at cseany.org for more details on
the 2023 Women’s Conference and nominating a member for the Irene Carr Leadership Award.
CSEA is mourning the loss of longtime Southern Region activist John J. “Jack” Miller, who died Nov. 12. He was 63.
Up until his
retirement in 2021,
Miller was chair
of the statewide
Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Labor- Management Committee and president of the Shawangunk
Correctional Facility Local.
He was a CSEA member since
1988, working most recently as head cook at Shawangunk. In recent years, Miller chaired the Southern Region’s ad hoc DOCCS Committee and mentored many incoming officers of DOCCS locals within the region.
He is survived by his son and daughter, Cody and Ashley Miller; their significant others; several siblings; and extended family members.
— Jessica Ladlee
The conference
will also feature the awarding of the Irene Carr Leadership Award, which honors a CSEA member who takes the lead in advancing issues traditionally of concern to working women.
Carr, who was CSEA’s Statewide
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Miller
BRAINARD — CSEA is mourning the loss of longtime Capital Region activist Marie McArdle, who passed away
Nov. 12, 2022. She was 60.
After 38 years with the state, McArdle retired in 2017 and joined CSEA Capital District Retirees Local 999.
McArdle will be remembered for her strong work ethic, caring nature and dedication to CSEA members that continued into her retirement. She also loved animals, especially her “fur babies,” including her German Shepherds, Blue and Star.
McArdle is survived by her mother, son, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren as well as a large extended family of siblings, nieces, nephews and close friends.
Services were held Nov. 19, 2022.
— Therese Assalian
Marie McArdle, 60, former Capital Region activist
McArdle served
as president of our union’s Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) Local from 2006 to 2017, as well as in numerous local leadership roles before being elected president. At the state DCJS, McArdle had worked as an identification specialist 2 and later as supervisor of the Juvenile Unit.
McArdle
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