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Metropolitan, Capital Region members pledge
to Never Quit
During recent member engagement visits to each area, Metropolitan and Capital Region members recently showed they plan to Never Quit our union.
In the Metropolitan Region, teams of members volunteers and union staff recently visited members’ work sites to hear our members’ concerns and discuss issues facing our union.
Similarly, member and staff volunteer teams met with our members who live and work in the Capital Region’s Schenectady and Montgomery counties.
While the outreach visits differed, one thing was the same: the majority of our members pledged to Stay Union and Stay Strong!
CSEA member volunteers and staff gear up for the final day of member outreach during our recent member engagement visit in Schenectady and Montgomery counties. Our staging area during that visit was at the Beukendaal Volunteer Firehouse in Scotia, which was arranged with the help of Schenectady School District, Municipalities and Towns Local President Josh Walter, who also serves as the firehouse’s president. “Getting out there to talk to our members, bringing information to our members, letting them know they are not alone and that our union is standing right there with them is important,” Walter said.
Left, Allison Card,
a registered nurse
at the Schenectady City School District, discusses issues
facing our union
with Schenectady School District School District Secretaries and Registered Nurses Unit President Beverly Healey, center, and CSEA Statewide Organizer Shane Quandt, right.
“My union represents us to the fullest. We get all these great benefits and they”make sure we keep our jobs.
— Mary Holder, direct support assistant, Brooklyn Developmental Center
Brooklyn Developmental Center Local 1st Vice President Ed Holder and his wife, Brooklyn Developmental Center Local activist Mary Holder, are committed to staying union, staying strong. The Holders met and married while working at the center.
State Insurance Fund Local members pack a conference room in midtown Manhattan and commit to staying union and staying strong.
Members employed at the state Department of Financial Services are vowing to Never Quit our union. The workers are joined by Metropolitan Region President Lester Crockett, second from right, back row.
6 The Work Force
June 2018