• Deadline extended for SUNY Downstate Advisory Board recommendations

    Deadline extended for SUNY Downstate Advisory Board recommendations

    April 3, 2025 — It has been one year since staff, doctors, nurses and students at SUNY Downstate joined with the Brooklyn community, PEF, UUP, and clergy leaders to strike...

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  • PEF leaders talk State Museum, staffing needs with local publication

    PEF leaders talk State Museum, staffing needs with local publication

    April 3, 2025 — PEF Division 194 Assistant Council Leader Aaron Noble and Executive Board member Mickey Dobbin recently sat down for an-depth chat with Timber, a public interest group...

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  • March comes in like a lion

    March comes in like a lion

    Last month I began this message with a remark about the accelerated pace of our work in 2025 and as March roars in, I hope for all of us that...

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  • PEF protecting members during correctional facility work stoppages across the state

    PEF protecting members during correctional facility work stoppages across the state

    March 5, 2025 — On Feb. 17, President’s Day, media outlets began reporting corrections officers (COs) at several statewide facilities were engaging in work stoppages in protest of working conditions...

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  • PEF to legislators: Act now to bolster the State workforce

    PEF to legislators: Act now to bolster the State workforce

    March 5, 2025 — At a joint State budget hearing on Workforce Development Feb. 26 in Albany, PEF Vice President Randi DiAntonio testified how the proposed Executive Budget can do...

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  • PEF members visit State Capitol for annual Lobby Day

    PEF members visit State Capitol for annual Lobby Day

    March 5, 2025 — PEF nurses and members from across the State visited the Capitol in Albany on March 4 to meet with legislators and discuss PEF’s budget priorities. At...

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  • Solidarity, political action, education on display at Regions 1-5 Leadership Conference

    Solidarity, political action, education on display at Regions 1-5 Leadership Conference

    March 5, 2025 — It was a full house at the Statler Hotel at Cornell University Feb. 21-23 as leaders from Regions 1 through 5 descended on the venue for...

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  • PEF, AFT, NYSUT rally to ‘Protect Our Kids’

    PEF, AFT, NYSUT rally to ‘Protect Our Kids’

    March 5, 2025 — PEF leaders and members joined AFT President Randi Weingarten, NYS AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento  and hundreds of NYSUT (New York State United Teachers) members on March...

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  • PEF member’s daughter is this year’s Celebrity Child for Variety Kids Telethon

    PEF member’s daughter is this year’s Celebrity Child for Variety Kids Telethon

    March 5, 2025 — When Evelynn was born in the spring of 2021, her parents had no idea that seven short months later their daughter’s doctors would find a tumor...

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