CSEA UNIT 8785

    The CSEA Unit 8785 is a labor organization first chartered in 1969 with the State of New York.  At that time the Unit represented some 50 full-time members including officers of the Town Police Department.  Today, although we no longer represent the full-time police officers of the Town, we do represent some 150 full-time and part-time public employees of the Town of Southold.

    As a Unit of the Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Local 1000 AFSCME, AFL-CIO (CSEA), we are represented by the CSEA Suffolk Local 852 which represents some 3,800 public employees in various towns, villages and libraries throughout Suffolk County. 

    The Suffolk Local 852 is one of 23 separate CSEA Locals on Long Island which makes up the CSEA Region One (Long Island). There are six Regions throughout New York State representing some 300,000 members in the public sector.

    CSEA is one of the largest Locals within the American Federation of State County, and Municipal Employees Association (AFSCME), and yes AFSCME is one of the larger membership organizations within the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrialized Organizations (AFC-CIO).