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Our members vow to Stay Union, Stay Strong
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Stay Union
Stay Strong
See pages 9, 10-11
May 2018 • Vol. 21, No. 5
Our members in the Long Island and Southern regions recently vowed to Stay Union, Stay Strong during recent member engagement visits.
On Long Island, CSEA Long Island Region member volunteers, statewide officers and staff recently visited our members’ homes and work sites in eastern Suffolk County to hear their concerns and build our union.
Even a nor’easter on eastern Long Island that had cut short one of the visit days couldn’t stop our member volunteers and staff from having conversations with
hundreds of members at their homes and workplaces.
In the Southern Region, member volunteers, statewide officers
and staff recently visited homes and work sites across Rockland County.
In just one example of our volunteers’ commitment to staying union and staying strong, member volunteers and staff, including Rockland Psychiatric Center Local officers and CSEA Statewide Organizer Jessica Riley, held 17 straight hours of work site meetings throughout the center’s campus to ensure that workers on
all shifts and locations throughout the campus had a chance to voice their concerns.
In both counties, many of our members vowed to stick with our union.
Nassau County Local members also committed to stay union, stay strong through a Never Quit member engagement meeting at Nassau Community College.
Visit cseany.org/neverquit to learn more about building our union.
On the cover, Suffolk Educational Local member volunteer Sonya Johnson leaves literature at a member’s home.
“I won’t quit CSEA because unions are important to setting a standard for working conditions, wages, benefits and overall quality of life for my family and me. Union benefits are superior to almost all benefits offered by non-union jobs. CSEA gives a voice to the common worker so that my co-workers an”d I can
continue to have peace-of-mind now and after we retire.
— Kenneth Young Jr., Town of Brookhaven Part-Time Unit member
Right, Kenneth Young Jr., shows off his artistic skills with a cartoon he drew shortly after a member engagement visit in Suffolk County.
Jean Clautiere, a member of
the Pearl River School District Unit and a cleaner for the
district, knows the importance
of a strong CSEA. He is happy
to have returned to a union job
in the public sector after being one of hundreds of Rockland County workers who lost their jobs through no fault of their own when County Executive Ed Day abruptly closed the Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center.
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— Wendi Bowie and Jessica Ladlee
We need our union so we are protected on the job.
— Nancy Valentin, Clarkstown Central School District Custodial/Buildings and Grounds Unit
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See more on pages 10-11.
May 2018
The Work Force 9
Photo by Wendi Bowie