Byline: Joe Picchi Staff writer
The state's largest public employee union took on some more legislative muscle Friday, in time for bargaining battles beginning next week for more than 100,000 state employees.
New York State AFL-CIO President Edward J. Cleary announced that the 250,000-member Civil Service Employees Association had just become affiliated with the state organization.
Though CSEA has been a member of the national AFL-CIO since 1978, affiliation with the state division means more lobbying clout in the Capitol corridors when the 1988 Legislature convenes in early January.
Stanley Hornak, a CSEA spokesman, said affiliation with …
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