CSEA negotiating team members from the New York State Unified Court System and state officials signed the recently ratified contract. The contract covers more than 5,500 non-judicial employees in the state’s Unified Court System. The three-year agreement, retroactive to April 1, 2017, includes salary increases in every year of the agreement, improved downstate and Mid-Hudson Valley location pay, improved payments to the Employee Benefit Fund and a new Welfare Fund program and across-the-board cost of living adjustments.
Seated, from left, are Central Region Judiciary Local President Don
Lynskey, CSEA Deputy Director of State Operations Kathy Guild, and
Unified Court System management representatives Lauren DeSole and
Karen Grimaldi. Standing, from left, are Surinda Singh, supervisor of
support, CSEA State Operations; Southern Region Judiciary Local President
Kevin Mahler; Lisa McNeil CSEA contract administration specialist, Capital
Region Judiciary Local President Nicki Cohen; Region 4 Judiciary Local
President Scott Gartland; Western Region Judiciary Local activist Bob
Pazik; Long Island Judiciary Local President Diane Hansen and New York
City State Employees Local President Vinny Martusciello. Learn more about
the contract at cseajudiciary.org.
