MEDIA ADVISORY

ROCHESTER, NY (07/27/2009)(readMedia)-- CSEA will hold a news conference at 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 27 to discuss a rare opportunity for reporters and the public to sit in on a Public Employment Relations Board hearing on the Improper Practice charges filed by CSEA against Monroe County. At the hearing, reporters can hear first-hand about the anti-union and anti-worker actions taken by this County Administration against CSEA-represented employees.

The news conference will be held at the Rochester Satellite Office, 3495 Winton Place, Building E, Suite 3, in Rochester, N.Y. 14623.

CSEA is New York State's leading union, representing employees of New York State and its counties, towns, villages, school districts, library systems, authorities and public corporations. Together with a growing population of private sector members and retirees, CSEA forms a union 290,000 strong. It is also the largest affiliate (and Local 1000) of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) which, in turn, is one of the largest affiliates of the AFL-CIO.

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