Like communities across New York State, Long Island has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. As public health officials learn more about the virus, our members across Nassau and Suffolk counties have had to respond to the rapidly-changing situation.
Our members, including those employed in essential services such as health care, direct care, and many more
settings, are continuing to provide vital services to all New Yorkers.
They are also on the front lines responding to this pandemic, making sure our communities are as healthy and safe as possible, including continuing to provide basic needs to those who need it the most.
On this page are a few of many examples of how CSEA members on Long Island have been standing strong and working nonstop to help their communities.
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- Our food service workers in the Connetquot School District provide breakfast and lunch to children who still need nutritious meals while school is out. (Photo provided by Unit President Jayson Velez)
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- CSEA Long Island Developmental Center/Sagamore Children’s Psychiatric Center Local 1st Vice President Jennifer Colon, who works at the psychiatric center, volunteers at the Jones Beach COVID-19 testing site. She works 14-hour days. (Photo provided by Jennifer Colon)
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- Connetquot Central School District Unit members deliver school lunches curbside to students and their families.
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- Brookhaven Highway Department and state Department of Transportation workers deliver and unload hundreds of barricades and traffic cones, as well as electronic signs, to be used at Suffolk County’s drive-through COVID-19 mobile testing facility located at Stony Brook University’s South P lot. CSEA members also manufactured, and installed, custom signs in the town’s in-house sign shop to assist drivers navigating the site. (Photo provided by the Town of Brookhaven)
