• Statewide Tour – Photo Gallery

    Statewide Tour – Photo Gallery

     

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  • Pensions support us and our communities

    Pensions support us and our communities

    Working people face difficulties and dangers in the workplace all the time. Unfortunately with labor laws and OSHA regulations as they stand, workers are often put in dangerous situations just to put food on the table. The last two years however has seen this long-standing problem get considerably worse. Low-wage workers and essential workers have...

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  • DMV members: Our goal is ‘No Empty Chair’ at graduation

    DMV members: Our goal is ‘No Empty Chair’ at graduation

    May 17, 2022 — Graduation season is underway, and students are donning caps and gowns to join their fellow graduates on bleachers, stages, and in seating areas inside and out, ready for their names to be called and to take their first steps into the larger world.  Too often, there are seats that remain unfilled:...

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  • Shelby Wisneski – Region 2 Coordinator

    Shelby Wisneski – Region 2 Coordinator

    May 17, 2022 — Shelby Wisneski, a social work assistant 3 for OPWDD Finger Lakes DDSO Regional Office, was elected Region 2 Coordinator in April 2022.   Wisneski has been a PEF member since 2007, with a four-year break while she worked in a CSEA position.  She has served as a PEF Steward, Treasurer, Division leader...

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  • Photo Gallery – “Women for Tish” Event

    Photo Gallery – “Women for Tish” Event

     

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  • Membership ‘blitz’ brings PEF organizers to doors and worksites across the Capital Region

    Membership ‘blitz’ brings PEF organizers to doors and worksites across the Capital Region

    Dozens of volunteers from PEF and local American Federation of Teachers (AFT) unions throughout the country converged on Albany at the end of April to take part in a week-long membership blitz to build PEF membership and unity.  It was an impressive effort that reached nearly 1,200 members at 39 worksite meetings and led the...

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  • United Way honors PEF members at Upstate

    United Way honors PEF members at Upstate

    The United Way of Central New York recently recognized PEF members at SUNY Upstate University Medical Center for their hard work and service to the community.  “It’s more than just a career, this is a calling,” said Region 4 Coordinator Gina M. Corona in a video released by United Way. “The strength that the community...

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  • New regional coordinator,  Executive Board members elected

    New regional coordinator, Executive Board members elected

    The results of PEF’s April 2022 Special Elections are in.  Shelby Wisneski was elected Region 2 coordinator, taking over for Andrew Puleo, who joined the PEF staff as an organizer in Western New York.  Eight seats on the Executive Board were also filled. The board next meets on June 9-10, 2022, when those members will...

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  • Unions in the News – May 2022

    Unions in the News – May 2022

    President Biden praises union organizers Six union organizers from Starbucks to Amazon visited the White House this month and sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who chair and co-chair the Biden administration’s taskforce on supporting unions. President Biden joined the guests for a surprise visit. Read more here....

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