Local 2001 - Our Organization
Union Structure, Constitution, & Bylaws
Our diverse membership of nearly 25,000 active and retired State, municipal, school district, and public-private partnership employees includes:
- Transportation planners and inspectors who keep our roads and bridges safe;
- Teachers who work with our infants with developmental disabilities;
- Correction supervisors who maintain safe prisons in our communities;
- Paraprofessionals who provide one-one-one assistance to our special needs students;
- Commissioned police officers and criminal justice inspectors who investigate and apprehend dangerous criminals;
- Child care professionals who provide critical early education to our toddlers and pre-K children;
- Rangers, conservationists, and recreation coordinators who maintain and supervise activities for our families at local and state parks;
- Courthouse marshals who supervise our community's courtrooms;
- Biologists and engineers who keep our air safe to breathe and water clean to drink; &
- School bus drivers who transport our children safely and reliably to and from our homes.
Our organization began as the labor and political advocacy organization for Connecticut State employees in 1941. The Civil Service Employees Affiliates was founded by public workers in municipalities, townships, and school boards in 1969. We saw the opportunity to be stronger together, and over the past seven years have built a single, larger and more effective public sector union for Connecticut.
Much of the inspiration for state and local public service workers to
be "stronger together" came from our experience affiliating with the
nation's fastest growing labor union, the Service Employees
International Union (SEIU). Members working for local agencies
affiliated with SEIU as Local 760 in 1989, and in 2001, our State
employee members and retirees voted to charter with SEIU as Local 2001.
We
are organized in four divisions, and within each are Councils, formed
to allow workers in the same single or similar multiple agencies to
join together for political and workplace strength. Our larger Councils
are further made up of individual chapters.
CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 Constitution (September 2010)
Our Local's "Objects and Methods"
CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 Structure chart (May 2010 - print on legal-size paper)
New member "orientation" packet documents (December 2009)
"A Strong CT Union" brochure on our affiliation with SEIU
SEIU International Union's Constitution and Bylaws
