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Westchester Community College contract gets long-awaited county approval
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VALHALLA — When Westchester Community College Unit members and the college’s Board of Trustees finally ratified a contract after lengthy negotiations, the next step was for then-County Executive Rob Astorino to forward the deal to countylegislators.
Instead, the deal sat collecting dust in Astorino’s office until he was ousted from office by George Latimer, who promptly fulfilled his pledge to forward the agreement to legislators once he took office in January. The deal passed unanimously.
“We are thrilled that our contract has been approved by legislators
and the county executive,” said Unit President Carol Ann Zavarella-Vasta. “Our members are grateful and we hope to have an amicable working relationship with county government, which we have not had in the past.”
CSEA members at the college had been working without a contract
since Dec. 31, 2011. Once CSEA aIfnydou are i (such as a r
the college approved a deal, theoccupation unusual dual employer status of
the college meant that legislators also had to approve the contract in
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initially sent to his office for referral to legislators, which resulted in CSEA
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After working for more than three years in a CSEA-represented position
in Oswego County, Jovanina Tyrrell recently started working as an office
assistant at the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
in Syracuse. After taking her new job, she made sure that she signed up to
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re-join our union. She is now a member of our Syracuse State Employees Local.
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to represent members for injury-related matters. Call CSEA at 1-8
“I would never quit on our union because I remember why
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— Jovanina Tyrrell, office assistant, New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
March 2018
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