Longtime Civil Service Employees Association President Danny Donohue was re-elected to a seventh term as the leader of the state’s largest public workers union.
The union announced Donohue had won the vote, via mail ballot, on Thursday afternoon.
The new term officially begins on March 1.
“These are challenging times as CSEA members and other working people continue to be squeezed and undercut by the manipulation of our economy to benefit the greedy few,” Donohue said in a statement. “My priority is a stronger union that can better stand up and push back.”
Donohue has guided the labor group through some complicated budget years, including a tough contract in 2011, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened mass layoffs unless public-sector workers agreed to less generous contracts.
Donohue and CSEA have since patched things up with Cuomo in recent years, though the labor group withheld its endorsement in the race for governor in 2014, as they did in 2010.
Donohue has also been staunchly critical of Cuomo, once calling him a “monkey” and “a moron” and was deeply opposed to the governor’s successful push for the Tier Six pension reform measure.