Topic: Civil Service Employees Association

Editorial: Vote yes on labor deal

Members of the union for white-collar state employees have been granted a second chance to salvage the jobs of about 3,500 co-workers. They must...

3,500 union jobs may be saved

In a last-minute bid to avert nearly 3,500 layoffs, the Cuomo administration reached a tentative contract deal Sunday with the state's...

NY union leaders, state reach new contract agreement

ALBANY, New York (Reuters) - New York State's second largest union, the Public Employees Federation (PEF), on Sunday ratified a tentative contract with the state in a bid to avert the layoffs of thousands of workers.Governor Andrew Cuomo called on the ...

Editorial: Nothing to talk about

The leaders of the state employees union that accepted 3,500 layoffs rather than agree to concessions now say they want to present new ideas for...

Editorial: Thrown under the bus

Members of the second-largest union for state workers bullheadedly voted down a tight-fisted contract Tuesday - and wound up basically signing...
Gov. Cuomo's just-finalized contract with the Civil Service Employees Association marks a breakthrough for good government in New York - and one...
The state's largest public employees union is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to pension reform.. . A day after his members ratified a new...

New York governor pressures union with more layoffs

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ramped up the pressure on union officials to concede hundreds of millions of dollars in savings on Thursday with the delivery of layoff notices to more than 300 state workers.The 321 workers receiving ...
Fiscally conservative think tank projects that NY's pension costs could explode in 5 yearsTaxpayer-funded contributions to the pension systems for New York's public employees could balloon by billions of dollars over the next five years, diverting scarce resources in tough ...

Labor Not Happy with Smith Comments

ALBANYPublic employees unions were already girding for a fight to prevent the state from cutting some 3,100 positions - mostly through attrition, but also including 521 layoffs. a spokesman for CSEA said he's "extremely disturbed and disappointed" with comments made this ...