State Employees From Brooklyn to Buffalo to Rally Against Furloughs in Statewide Day of Action
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 1:00PM Albany - Members of the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) and members of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) will hold simultaneous rallies outside state offices across New York to protest the governor’s furlough proposal.
State employees representing every state agency will spend the lunch hour drawing attention to the effect the governor’s proposal would have on state services and the state’s economy.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Noon
West Capitol Park, Albany
Ellicott Square Building, 295 Main Street, Buffalo
Senator George Winner Office, 228 Lake Street, Elmira
DOT Office Building, 107 Broadway, Hornell
Rochester Psychiatric Center, 1111 Elmwood Ave., Rochester
State Office Building, 333 East Washington St., Syracuse
State Office Building, 44 Hawley St., Binghamton
State Office Building, 207 Genesee St., Utica
DOT State Office Building, 4 Burnett Blvd., Poughkeepsie
Federal Building, 90 Church Street, Manhattan
Bronx Psychiatric Center, 1500 Waters Place, Bronx
Downstate Medical Center, 445 Lenox Road, Brooklyn
Hauppauge State Office Building, 250 Veterans Memorial Hwy., Hauppauge
Dulles State Office Building, 217 Washington St., Watertown
The governor's plan would reduce state employees’ pay by $312 million ($39 million for each furlough day), which would take more than half-a-billion dollars out of the state’s economy. That loss of revenue has the potential to result in the loss of 17,000 jobs, mostly in the private sector.
PEF and CSEA have identified alternative budget solutions that would more than meet the savings the governor is trying to achieve.