(12389) AFSCME, CSEA leaders at merger, 1978

AFSCME and CSEA leaders at a press conference announcing the merger of the two unions, from left to right: CSEA staff director Joseph J. Dolan, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy, CSEA Vice President Irving Flaumenbaum, AFSCME president Jerry Wurf, CSEA president William L. McGowan, CSEA state vice president James Lennon, and William DeMartino, first vice president of CSEA Metropolitan Region. The merger made AFSCME the largest union in the AFL-CIO.