Who We Are
Click here for the CSA Retiree Chapter Membership Brochure.
WELCOME TO THE CSA RETIREE CHAPTER PAGES of the CSA website. The Retiree Chapter offers CSA members the opportunity to help influence union policy after they’ve retired from their supervisory positions as well as to actively engage in the political process in the city, Albany and even Washington DC. In return, the Retiree Chapter offers its members educational and social opportunities, an outreach program to assist members and their families with senior resources in their communities and supplemental health benefits to the city-provided plan and the CSA Retiree Welfare Fund.
MORE THAN 6,100 RETIREES and 4,000 spouses have joined our ranks since the CSA Retiree Chapter was founded in 2004. (In 2005, the Chapter formally merged with the Retired School Supervisors Association, a fraternal organization organized by CSA’s founders in 1971.) In addition to central office programs, the Retiree Chapter is proud of its Regional Units, hubs of activity in the five boroughs, the tri-state region, and Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, Arizona and California.
MANY RETIREE CHAPTER MEMBERS become politically active with the union. Our legislative committee is engaged at all levels of state and local politics, working with CSA’s Governmental Relations Department to develop, advocate for and protect legislation of concern to retirees including, but not limited to, health benefits, drug costs and pensions, cost of living adjustments, school issues. Experience is not necessary, just a commitment for a block of time and the ability to understand and disseminate information to legislators during visits. Members are encouraged to contact Legislative Liaison Dee-Dee Goidel at ddg@csa-nyc.org or telephone her at (718) 625-3434.
TO ENROLL IN THE CSA RETIREE CHAPTER New CSA retirees must enroll in the Retiree Chapter within 12 months of retirement to receive immediate supplemental medical benefits. Retirees who join the Chapter after the 12-month period must wait 18 months from his or her enrollment date to receive supplemental health benefits.
The Retiree Chapter office is located in downtown Brooklyn, upstairs from CSA Central. Gary Goldstein is the Director of the Retiree Chapter. He can be reached by e-mail at ggoldstein@csa-nyc.org or at (718) 625-3434.
16 Court Street, 7th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11241
(718) 625-3434
(718) 625-6973 fax
Office Hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
For information, contact Alana Segura, CSA Retiree Chapter Secretary, at asegura@csa-nyc.org
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