President’s Message In the Spirit of Teamwork,
Maria Navarro
President CSEA Local 870
Congratulations to Deborah Maya Melito for winning the Volunteer Member Organizing (VMO) award for organizing 82 Babylon School District Aides
Deborah Melito was awarded the Nadra Floyd Award for Organizing at CSEA’s recent 114th Annual Delegates Meeting.
After going 13 years without a contract, long time Clerical Unit President Deb Melito reached out to unit members suggesting they join CSEA . She then reached out to CSEA Organizing Team, Deputy director Jessica Riley, and Statewide organizer Grace Klein, who in turn reached out to Local 870 President Maria Navarro. Together with Babylon Unit Contact members Claire Joseph, Maria Gagnone and others, they worked together to help the members elect via membership vote to join CSEA.
Congrats to Deb for getting the ball rolling and to all Babylon Aides for voting CSEA
as their Union. They are currently in contract negotiations with the Labor Relations Specialist Adrianna Lara. Together, with the input of the membership they are working hard to get a great contract to improve their quality of life. Teamwork is the motto of Local 870 and it clearly paid off as we welcome and congratulate all members for choosing to become apart of CSEA Suffolk Educational Local 870, CSEA/AFSCME Local 1000.
Deborah Melito was awarded the Nadra Floyd Award for Organizing at CSEA’s recent 114th Annual Delegates Meeting.
Read the full story here at the CSEA Workforce site.
SAVE THE DATE!
Local 870 Holiday Celebration
Saturday, December 15 at 6:00pm
East Wind Long Island
5720 Route 25a
Wading River, NY 11792
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2025 Suffolk Educational Local 870 Annual East Wind Membership Conference
Saturday, February 3, 2025 at 8:00 am
East Wind Long Island
5720 Rt. 25A
Wading River, NY 11792
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IN PERSON TRAININGS!
- MEDFORD – Contract Negotiations Workshop – Wednesday, November 6 and Thursday, November 7 – A light dinner will be served. Please contact the CSEA Long Island Region 1 Office at (631) 462-0030 to register. Click Here to Download the Flyer!
- COMMACK – President and Vice President Training – Thursday, December 12 – A light dinner will be served. Please call the Region 1 office to register (631) 462-0030. Click Here to Download the Flyer!
A Reminder from Mary Sullivan, President CSEA NY
Membership Meetings are Constitutionally Required!
Local meetings:
General membership meetings of the Local shall be held at least two (2) times annually, however, Locals having more than 5,000 members are not required to hold two (2) general membership meetings per year if they require each Unit of the Local to hold at least four (4) general membership meetings per year and written reports of these Unit meetings are submitted to the Local Executive Board.
Unit Meetings:
General membership meetings of the Unit shall be held at least two (2) times annually, however, Locals having 5,000 members or more may require Units chartered by them to have four (4) general membership meetings a year and to file written reports of those meetings with the Local Executive Board.
Please make sure you are holding membership meetings regularly in accordance with the Constitution!
Members Voice Their Disapproval of Anti-union Groups Bothering Them
SUNY Oswego Local President Gary Thompson shares how he communicates to members – like janitor Gabe Gonzales, about how anti-union groups are targeting CSEA members across the state and what to do with their scam emails and mailings. Watch the video:
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