THIS WEEK IN ALBANY

Week Ending October 15, 2010

2010 Annual Delegates Meeting

CSEA will hold its Annual Delegates Meeting in Albany next week. CSEA welcomes over a thousand delegates to our centennial anniversary. Assembly Speaker Silver and Congressman Paul Tonko will present resolutions from Congress and the State Assembly honoring our historic milestone.

Comptroller DiNapoli will also address the delegates. As the sole trustee of the state pension system, the state comptroller's judgment and decisions have enormous implications over the retirement security of more than 300,000 retired and active CSEA members. Delegates will be taking home door hangers to remind people to vote for Tom DiNapoli on November 2nd.

Remember, the State Comptroller’s race is about protecting our guaranteed pensions. This affects all of us, state or local. Contact your CSEA regional coordinator to request door hangers and volunteer for Tom DiNapoli:

Region 1 Gretchen Penn - (631) 462-0030

Region 2 Matt D'Amico - (212) 406-2156

Region 3 Chris Ludlow - (845) 831-1000

Region 4 Bryan Miller - (518) 785-4400

Region 5 Rick Noreault - (315) 433-0050

Region 6 Courtney Brunelle - (716) 691-6555

CSEA Endorses Schneiderman for Attorney General

CSEA endorsed Eric Schneiderman for the New York State Attorney General’s race. Eric Schneiderman has a proven track record of fighting for public employees.

No Social Security COLA Next Year

The Social Security Administration announced that more than 58 million retirees and other Social Security beneficiaries will not get any cost-of-living increase in 2011, the second year in a row without a raise.

The cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, are automatically set each year by an inflation measure that was adopted by Congress back in the 1970s. Inflation has been low in the past two years because of the recession.

To offset the COLA freeze, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in November the House will vote on a bill that will provide $250 checks to Social Security recipients. We will you keep you posted as we get updates.