VOTE COUNT TODAY!

REMINDER: Ballots will be picked up today in Rochester and counted by members not on the negotiating team at 3019 Complex Drive at 5:30pm. 

ALL CSEA Members are welcome to observe the vote count.

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This Week in Albany

October 5 , 2015

Cuomo Wants to Hold Funding Flat Again

After years of cuts and artificially restrained budget growth for state agencies, Governor Cuomo is again asking agencies to propose zero-growth budgets for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

Instead of disparaging state workers (and all public employees) and the services they provide, the Governor should actually be managing the state workforce and looking at the needs of agencies. The State’s over-reliance on temporary, per diem, and part-time workers has reached a critical mass, all while overtime is on pace to reach an all-time high this year. Services are suffering because employees can no longer do more with less.

Our state should be investing in the services our communities depend on instead of bleeding them dry year after year. CSEA is prepared to fight to ensure that state agencies get the resources they need and deserve.

Elections

The deadline to register to vote in the November 3 General Election is next Friday, October 9.

Please visit our website to see the list of CSEA-endorsed candidates.

Federal Shutdown Avoided

Last week, Congress avoided a federal government shutdown by approving temporary spending legislation on the last day of the fiscal year. Despite efforts by House Republicans to force a shutdown if Planned Parenthood wasn’t defunded, the government will be funded through December 11.