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CSEA President William L. McGowan with New York State Senator Joe Bruno. New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno speaking at the annual AFSCME New York Lobby Day. Bruno is a Republican representing the 43rd Senate District. This photo appeared in the December 2005 edition of The Work Force.  The caption reads, Senator Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and CSEA President Danny Donohue meet with child care providers from across New York state attending a two-day child care advocacy summit in Albany hosted by CSEA and the Voice of Independent Childcare Educators (VOICE). VOICE is a professional association of more than 700 family child care providers working with CSEA to improve their profession and the quality of care for the children they serve. Bruno expressed his commitment to working with CSEA and VOICE on the challenges providers face. New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno shakes hands with AFSCME District Council 1707 Executive Director Josephine LeBeau at the 2001 AFSCME Lobby Day held at the Empire State Convention Center in Albany, NY. New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno speaks at the 2001 AFSCME Lobby Day held at the Empire State Convention Center in Albany, NY. Applauding Bruno is CSEA Statewide President Danny Donohue.   State lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, Senators Neil Breslin, Nicholas Spano and George Maziarz, Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco and Assemblymen Robert Reilly, John McEneny and Roy McDonald turned out in force to support CSEA's Campaign for Quality Care in New York's developmental disabiities system at an Albany news conference. The Quality Care campaign is necessary because of an epidemic in turnover rates — up to 40 percent annually among front line employees of many not-for-profit agencies that threaten the long-term quality standards of services and care. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter was the guest of the Foundation of Advocacy for Mental Health at an Albany Reception April 24, 2006.  The event helped focus attention on the importance of overcoming stigma and addressing mental health needs. CSEA President Danny Donohue is on the Board of Directors of the Foundation of Advocacy for Mental Health. From left to right are: Senate Majority Leader Joeseph Bruno, Albany Mayor Gerald Jennings, Carter and former First Lady of New York Matilda Cuomo.
CSEA President Danny Donohue poses at a Saratoga Springs, New York event sponsored by the Foundation of Advocacy for Mental Health along with Tom O'Clair of Rotterdam, State Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, former New York First Lady Matilda Cuomo, and New York State Sen. Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. Donohue and Cuomo are both members of the foundations board. O'Clair is the father of Timothy O'Clair, whose suicide sparked the effort to pass Timothy's Law, which would require health insurance companies to cover mental illness like other illnesses. CSEA has supported the legislation, which lawmakers expect to approve later this year. A photograph of New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno addressing CSEA delegates during the 2006 Annual Delegates Meeting. Bruno, who is endorsed by the union, reiterated the themes of fairness and respect in relaying how he grew up in a cold-water flat in Glens Falls and saw his family suffer the indignties of unrepresented workers. CSEA's 96th Annual Delegates Meeting in Manhattan drew more than 1,000 delegates to conduct the union's annual business. This year's theme, 'Meeting the Challenge,' focused on the challenges unions face with a business-friendly National Labor Relations Board and federal efforts to dismantle worker protections and strip union workers of their collective bargaining power. A photograph of New York State Governor George E. Pataki signing legislation awarding retired public employees in New York a supplement to their pensions. Among the dignitaries looking on are New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, Office of Management Confidential Employees President Barbara Zaron, CSEA President Danny Donohue, New York AFL-CIO President Ed Cleary and New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall. CSEA, New York State's largest union, fought long and hard for the bill which was a top legislative priority for years. A photograph that appeared in the September, 2007 issue of the CSEA's monthly publication The Work Force. The caption reads: State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, left, joins CSEA President Danny Donohue and members from the State Contract Negotiating Team during CSEA Night at a Tri-City ValleyCats baseball game in Troy (New York).

    

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