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CALL FOR ENTRIES
NDadra Floyd Award for Organizing
o you know a CSEA member, committee,
local or unit who has worked to grow CSEA’s membership by helping CSEA organize a new group of workers into the union? If so, they may be eligible for the Nadra Floyd Award for Organizing.
MDembership Achievement Award
o you know a CSEA member, group of
members, committee, unit or local that has done the hard work of signing up newly hired employees as CSEA members or converting agency shop fee payers into members? If so,
The award’s namesake, Floyd, was a longtime union activist who served as CSEA’s director of organizing from 2000 to her untimely passing
in 2001. At the time of her death, Floyd was working to grow CSEA’s membership and transform CSEA’s Organizing program.
they may be eligible for the CSEA Membership Achievement Award, which honors one or more members who have strengthened the union by growing the membership.
Nominations for both awards must be submitted by Aug. 5, 2016, and mailed to:
Left, Judi Knight of Erie County receives the 2015 Nadra Floyd Award. Right, Lynne Kramer of Nassau County receives the 2015 Membership Achievement Award.
Knight
Kramer
CSEA Membership Committee
Nadra Floyd Award for Organizing
c/o CSEA Organizing Department or 143 Washington Avenue
Albany, N.Y. 12210
CSEA Membership Committee
Membership Achievement Award
c/o CSEA Organizing Department 143 Washington Avenue
Albany, N.Y. 12210
Learn more and download nomination forms at: cseany.org/award-nominations
CEBF announces new Retiree Vision Plan
SEA President and CSEA The EBF’s Retiree Vision plan your regular service under the plan. Employee Benefit Fund Chairman allows for an eye examination and Dilation is included at a participating
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Local Government employees: A Retiree Vision Memorandum of Agreement must be signed by your employer and in place on
the date of your retirement
on or after June 1, 2016. To verify if your employer has signed the agreement, please visit cseaebf.com and click
on the Benefits Search link on our homepage. Select Local Government and click on your county and scroll to the name of your employer. Eligibility may be available if “Retiree Benefits” is noted.
Danny Donohue and the EBF Board of Trustees recently approved a new EBF Retiree Vision Plan.
The plan, which will take effect
for those members who retire on or after June 1, 2016, offers a flexible and smart way for retirees to save on vision care costs.
“We are always trying to find better ways to serve our members and provide benefit options to active members and our retirees,” Donohue said. “This new Retiree Vision Plan
is just one more way that we are demonstrating the value of your union membership.”
The EBF Retiree Vision Plan offers eye care services with no out-of- pocket costs when the member or eligible dependent uses the plan with a participating Davis/Visionworks provider. To maximize the value of the new plan and make it useful to retirees located all over the United States, the EBF’s provider panel now includes a national network.
one pair of glasses (lenses and frames) or initial supply of contact lenses once every 12 months from the date of the last appointment. The plan includes: plastic, polycarbonate, glass, standard or premium progressive no-line bifocals or trifocals, glass photochromic lenses,
cataract lenses, fashion tints, prescription sunglasses
and scratch guard coating.
Plan contact lenses
consist of soft planned replacement or disposable types. For non-plan contact lenses, the plan provides $125 toward the cost. Fixed co-payments are also available thru participating providers for certain items not covered by the plan. These are only available during
provider's office whenever medically necessary.
Who is eligible?
You must be a CSEA bargaining unit member
retiring on or after June 1, 2016.
In addition, you must
have
been a participant of a
negotiated vision program as an
active employee on your last day of employment. CSEA members who are retiring have a maximum of 90 days from your last day of employment to elect to join the new Retiree Vision Plan.
• New York State employees
in bargaining units ASU, ISU, OSU, or DMNA will be eligible on June 1, 2016.
CSEA members covered by
the EBF who retire will receive information (if eligible) on the EBF’s Retiree Dental and Vision benefits in their COBRA election notice.
16 The Work Force
June 2016