• HEALTH BENEFITS: Highlights of NYSHIP 2025 Empire Plan preventative care coverage 

    HEALTH BENEFITS: Highlights of NYSHIP 2025 Empire Plan preventative care coverage 

    February 12, 2025 — Preventive care can help you avoid potentially serious health conditions, obtain early diagnosis and treatment, and is covered by the Empire Plan. Preventive care includes annual...

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  • Record COPE contributions in 2024 

    Record COPE contributions in 2024 

    January 30, 2025 — PEF members, retirees, and PEF’s M/C staff broke records with their contributions to the Committee on Political Education (COPE) in 2024. Active members gave $203,587, an...

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  • PEF leader interviewed at People’s March

    PEF leader interviewed at People’s March

    January 29, 2025 — PEF leader Michele Rosello, chair of the Statewide Women’s Committee (SWC), was the first person at Foley Square in New York City on January 18, preparing...

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  • Excelsior scholarship open for spring term

    Excelsior scholarship open for spring term

    January 30, 2025 — Students beginning college in Spring 2025 from families with annual incomes of $125,000 or less may qualify for free tuition at state-operated SUNY or CUNY colleges...

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  • Books for babies: PEF’s staff union hosting book drive for Project: Cameron’s Story

    Books for babies: PEF’s staff union hosting book drive for Project: Cameron’s Story

    January 30, 2025 — “Before I could hold him, before I could touch him, I read to him …” When Cameron Jace Quartiers was born in February 2009, he weighed...

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  • UNION LEADER SPOTLIGHT: Keith Browne

    UNION LEADER SPOTLIGHT: Keith Browne

    How long have you been a PEF member?  Since 1989, so 36 years. Time flies when you’re having fun!   Briefly, what do you do in your state role?  I work...

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  • Caribbean American Committee charts new future

    Caribbean American Committee charts new future

    February 15, 2025 — For PEF member Keith Browne, leading the Caribbean-American Committee means more than just business as usual. It is a chance to show members of the union...

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  • Employee Spotlight: Vincent Cicatello

    Employee Spotlight: Vincent Cicatello

    February 18, 2025 — You are currently celebrating 25 years of NYS state service. 24 years which have been at BPC. Are there any words of advice you’d like to...

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  • Stay informed during the budget season; be ready to take action! 

    Stay informed during the budget season; be ready to take action! 

    February 12, 2025 —  Dear Retirees and PEF Members,  As we enter a new year with budget negotiations happening from now until April, I believe it’s important to keep ourselves...

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  • A look back on a busy year for PEF

    A look back on a busy year for PEF

    January 9, 2025 — 2024 was a busy one for PEF – from the fight to save SUNY Downstate, to financial wins for members amounting to thousands of dollars, to...

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