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Several CSEA activists were recognized at the Annual Delegates Meeting for their ongoing efforts to build and strengthen our union.
Receiving this year’s CSEA Mission Achievement Awards were Patricia Casler of the Auburn Correctional Facility Local, Dasie Lockett-Todd, a Erie-Niagara Chapter Representative, VOICE/CSEA Local 100A and Linda Stiefel of the Oswego County Local.
Capital Region Judiciary Local President Scott Gartland was honored with the Membership Achievement Award, while Maria Navarro, president of the Suffolk County Educational Employees Local and local executive board members, received the Nadra Floyd Award.
The work of these activists will be profiled in future editions of The Work Force.
Otsego County Local activist Linda Stiefel receives our union’s Local Governement Mission Achievement Award.
Auburn Correctional Facility Local President Patricia Casler receives our union’s State Mission Achievement Award.
Suffolk County Educational Local President Maria Navarro and members
of the local’s executive board accept the union’s Nadra Floyd Award for Organizing. Front row, from left, are CSEA President Danny Donohue, Navarro, Suffolk County Educational Local delegates Stephen Nocella and Victoria Smith. In back row, from left, are Long Island Region President Nick LaMorte, Statewide Membership Committee Chair and CSEA Nassau County Local activist Nancy Ianson, Statewide Treasurer Bill Walsh and Suffolk Educational Employees Local activist Joe Owens.
CSEA’s Constitution, By-laws and Resolutions, as approved.
WASHINGTON — CSEA delegates to the union’s 106th annual meeting approved the following changes to the By-laws, which go into effect immediately:
Article IV, Finance, Section 1(c),
increasing retiree membership dues to $36.00 annually.
Article III, Statewide Elections, Section 2(b)(1), permitting candidates for Statewide President, Executive Vice President, Secretary or Treasurer to submit nominating petitions with either the member’s last four digits of their Social Security number or their CSEA member ID number.
Article VI, Committees, Section 4, adding two committees that have already existed to the list of committees therein — LGBT and PEOPLE.
The CSEA delegates also approved the first reading of a change to the Constitution, which will require a second reading before becoming effective:
Article III, Membership, Section 3,
making spouses and domestic partners of current retiree members eligible to become members. Also, making certain retired CSEA employees, who are not already eligible to become retired members based on receiving a NYSERS pension, eligible to become retired members.
Delegates approved the following Resolutions:
1. Resolution CSEA Never Quit/ Member Engagement — Adopted as Amended.
2. Resolution for Workforce Bullying and Intimidation of CSEA Members by Management — Adopted as Amended.
3. Resolution for Uniting the Fight for Labor — Adopted as Amended.
4. Resolution for Recognizing the Opiod Epidemic in New York State — Adopted as Amended.
5. Resolution for CSEA Stands in Unity Against Discrimination in North Carolina and Mississippi — Adopted as Amended.
Western Region President Flo Tripi, left, and CSEA President Danny Donohue, right, congratulate Dasie Lockett-Todd, VOICE/CSEA Local 100A Chapter Representative, on receiving our union’s Private Sector Mission Achievement Award.
Capital Region Judiciary Local President Scott Gartland, second from left, is honored with our union’s Membership Achievement Award. From left are CSEA President Danny Donohue, Gartland, Capital Region President Ron Briggs and Statewide Membership Committee Chair Nancy Ianson.
8 The Work Force
November 2016
106th Annual Delegates Meeting ~ Building