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Volunteer Member Organizers took center stage in 2021
In 2021, CSEA
members and
activists were
front and center
in CSEA’s external
organizing efforts.
Suffolk County Local
President Wally
Greene, full-time
Longwood Library
Unit President Melanie Cardone- Leathers, and the rest of the full-time Longwood Library executive board were instrumental in helping 89 part-time workers at Longwood Public Library in Long Island join CSEA.
Also on Long Island, Town of Oyster Bay Local President Jarvis
T. Brown worked with the local’s executive board to recruit, sign up, and organize 44 pool, bay, and sound lifeguards employed by the town into the local.
In the Southern Region, Sullivan County Jail Unit President John Wagner assisted and supported the 45 newly organized CSEA members
at Easter Seals
NY’s Project Excel Preschool in Monticello.
In this 2021 file photo, the CSEA Longwood Library Organizing Committee gather at the library to celebrate their successful organizing campaign. From left, Rebecca Goldstein, Jessica Leviness, Christopher Bendzel, Deborah Scheurich, Kelli Schuessler, Tory Young, Anthony Giansante and Jennifer Elflein.
Greene
In addition to these almost 200 new members organized
into CSEA, several more organizing efforts were led, and campaigns begun, by the following CSEA leaders and activists (in alphabetical order):
Anthony Adamo Jean Ahlert Emanuel Almodovar Monica Berkowitz Sirlentor Berry
Ron Briggs
Brian Burdick
Ralph Comitino
Jeffery Coyne
Nick D’Agastino
Ethan Darbee
Stacey Deyo
William “Bill” Doughty Tomilyn “Lynn” Gamache
Kenny Greenleaf Ron Gurrieri Beverly Healey Steve Healy Christopher Heath Kris Kalender Jerry Laricchiuta Kate Lambert Kevin Mahler
Matt Miller
John Mooney Bettina Morrissey Ed Pizzigati
John Phillips
Scott R. Rajczi
Jack Rohl
Mike Rottino
Scott Rowland Walter Sprouse Danielle Thompson Michael Traider Jamie Walker
Josh Walter Andrew Williams
March 2022
The Work Force
Wagner
Town of Oyster Bay Local President Jarvis T. Brown, along with the local’s Executive Board, has helped grow our union by helping other town workers, as well as workers in his community, form a union with CSEA. (Photo by Guadalupe Johnson)
Excited by what you read here? Volunteer Member Organizers (VMOs) help workers without a union join CSEA, which also adds to the overall power of our union. Any CSEA member can become a Volunteer Member Organizer. Contact CSEA's Organizing Department at 518–257-1400 for more information.
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