PEF Region 7 awards scholarships
August 8, 2025 — PEF Region 7 has awarded its 2025 Paul Normandeau Scholarship to Adrian Mirza and the 2025 Ellen Mainville Scholarship to Lilliana Morin. The Paul Normandeau Scholarship...
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PEF members work to rebuild Revolutionary War artifact found beneath World Trade Center
August 8, 2025 — In 2010, as construction crews in Lower Manhattan were building the new World Trade Center, they discovered a gunboat from the Revolutionary War beneath the soil...
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Don’t forget about your Article 15 benefits!
August 8, 2025 — Article 15 of the PS&T contract allocates money to PEF members for training courses and grants, as well as reimbursement for workshops and license exam fees....
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RETIREES IN ACTION: We must educate members and the public on the value of the labor movement
September 8, 2025 — I spent 33 years working for the New York State Department of Corrections (now the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, or DOCCS) where I learned...
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1 Executive Board seat filled; 4 headed to balloting
August 8, 2025 — One vacant seat on the PEF Executive Board has been filled, and four are heading to balloting after the July 2025 Special Election cycle. Biswajit Datta...
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President Spence named PEC co-chair
August 8, 2025 — After several years of active participation in the New York State Public Employee Conference (NYSPEC), a coalition of labor unions that fight for the rights...
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Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Proposed Constitutional Amendment The following proposed amendment to Article VII(C)(1) of the PEF Constitution will be presented for ratification to delegates at the 2025 PEF Convention. The amendment was approved...
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Ten students earn PEF Joseph Scacalossi Scholarship awards
July 18, 2025 — PEF started the Joseph Scacalossi Scholarship in 1988 to help children, stepchildren and wards of active, retired or deceased PEF members finance their education. Scacalossi was...
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