• Meet your newly elected VP, Trustees, and RCs

    Meet your newly elected VP, Trustees, and RCs

    August 20, 2024 — Following the 2024 PEF Triennial Election, several top leadership roles have changed hands.  Bruce Giddings joins vice presidents Randi DiAntonio and Darlene Williams; Radhakrishna Mohan and...

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  • Fun for PEF Families and Friends at Six Flags

    Fun for PEF Families and Friends at Six Flags

    August 20, 2024 — Hundreds of members and their families came out on a beautiful Saturday, Aug. 10, for the PEF Membership Benefits Program’s Family and Friends Day at Six...

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  • Michele Rosello named new chair of PEF Statewide Women’s Committee

    Michele Rosello named new chair of PEF Statewide Women’s Committee

    August 20, 2024 — An ever-proud social worker from Region 11, Michele Rosello is the Council Leader at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens and served as the chairperson of the...

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  • Region 3 shows off its PEF Pride in Rochester

    Region 3 shows off its PEF Pride in Rochester

    August 20, 2024 — Although Pride Month is considered across the world to be in June, Rochester was one of the first communities to celebrate their LGBTQ+ community in July....

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  • PEF Region 1 awards four $500 scholarships

    PEF Region 1 awards four $500 scholarships

    August 20, 2024 — PEF Region 1 has announced the winners of their annual scholarship program. Applicants are the child, grandchild, stepchild or legally adopted child of an active Region...

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  • PEF member brings haunted past alive at State Capitol

    PEF member brings haunted past alive at State Capitol

    August 20, 2024 — In 1911, a fire at the New York State Capitol in Albany destroyed much of the irreplaceable collection of the New York State Library. It also...

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  • HEALTH NOTES: New York’s Surprise Bill Law provides protection for unexpected out-of-network billing

    HEALTH NOTES: New York’s Surprise Bill Law provides protection for unexpected out-of-network billing

    September 24, 2024 — Receiving an unexpected or “surprise” bill from an out-of-network (OON) provider can put an immense amount of stress on a patient and cause extreme financial hardships....

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  • Running a marathon in memory of member who died of leukemia and to support member battling blood disorder

    Running a marathon in memory of member who died of leukemia and to support member battling blood disorder

    August 20, 2024 — Elaine Morris, a PEF member at the State Education Department, is running the Walt Disney World’s Goofy Challenge on Jan. 11 and 12, 2025, in memory...

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  • Grateful and ready to keep working for you

    Grateful and ready to keep working for you

    This is my first President’s Message since PEF members overwhelmingly re-elected me to a fourth term. I am humbled by your support and more committed than ever to protecting your...

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  • State officials, labor leaders help usher in President Spence’s unprecedented 4th term

    State officials, labor leaders help usher in President Spence’s unprecedented 4th term

    August 7, 2024 — Top state officials, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, and NYS AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento attended the August 3 inauguration...

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