President’s Message In the Spirit of Teamwork,
Maria Navarro
President CSEA Local 870
2025 Local 870 Team Navarro and Irving Flaumenbaum Memorial Scholarship, Pearl Insurance and MetLife Scholarships
The CSEA Local 870 Team Navarro Scholarship for 2025 is now open to applicants. Four scholarships of $1000.00 each will be awarded. The scholarship is open to children of CSEA Local 870 members.
It is also with great pleasure that we announce the 2025 Irving Flaumenbaum Memorial Scholarship Program. High School Seniors who apply for the Flaumenbaum Scholarship are automatically in the running for the Pearl Insurance and MetLife Insurance Company Scholarships.
Click here to learn more and download the scholarship applications.
Who says there is no free lunch!? During the month of May, every Thursday from 11am – 5pm, join us at the Local 870 office for lunch and a free gift. Click here to reserve a day and time or call us at (631) 475-8700. We look forward to seeing you!
Contract Negotiations Strategies – Maximizing Our Leverage (Medford)
This interactive workshop is designed for local government units and private sector locals union officers and activists; who want to maximize the union’s leverage in contract negotiations by organizing a contract committee, sometimes referred to as a Contract Action Team or CAT. A CAT is a representative group of local/unit activists who help to plan and implement both the contract negotiations and the contract campaign that accompanies the negotiations.
Tuesday, April 1 and Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Click here to download the flyer for Contract Negotiations Strategies training.
Representing Members in Discipline and Interrogations (Medford)
In this basic workshop, participants will review the elements of their contract disciplinary procedure and/or Civil Service Law Section 75, the categories of discipline and the basic steps and rights of union representatives and employees in disciplinary interrogations.
Tuesday, April 29 and Wednesday, April 30, 2025 – Click here to download the flyer for Discipline and Interrogations Training
Contract Negotiations – Team Training (Medford)
This interactive workshop is designed for local government units and private sector locals union officers and activists; who wish to develop a strategy for the Contract Negotiating Team that accompanies the Labor Relations Specialist to the bargaining table to negotiate the unit’s collective bargaining agreement.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 and Thursday, May 8, 2025. Click here to download the flyer for Team Training.
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.
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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