The 2022 PEF Convention will be in Niagara Falls again this year and it will be held from Sunday, October 23, through noon Wednesday, October 26. Between now and then you may want to talk to your delegate about issues at your worksite, and matters they may vote on or want to raise at the...
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Updated Nov. 1, 2022 — Election Day is November 8 and it’s a good time for PEF members to familiarize themselves with the candidates and issues. New York residents will vote for governor, lieutenant governor, state attorney general, state comptroller, one seat in the U.S. Senate, the entire U.S. House of Representatives, the state...
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September 27, 2022 — In its early years PEF recognized the dangers its members sometimes face on the job and the union began providing insurance through the Membership Benefits Program (MBP) for members who are assaulted or taken hostage on the job. It was a national first. No other union had ever done that for...
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Happy Fall to my PEF family! This update of the September Communicator has a couple stories I want to point out off the top. First, have you heard of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program? If not, and if you have student loans, please check out this story about an important deadline at the end...
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Updated October 7, 2022 — If you have federal student loan debt, look into your eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program today – a limited waiver implemented last fall allows many borrowers to count previously ineligible payments toward forgiveness. Through October 31, 2022, you can get credit for past payments even...
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Employees with carried-over vacation accruals must use those accruals by December 31, 2022, or they will be forfeited. Employees may have banks of both carried-over vacation accruals and regular non-carried-over accruals. This is because PEF and the State previously reached agreements during the COVID-19 pandemic allowing eligible employees to carry over unused vacation accruals over the contractual cap that would...
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September 22 — It took eight days of suppression efforts for responders to knock down and contain the Napanoch Point wildland fire in Minnewaska State Park, a testament to the dedication of state and local partners who took swift action to combat the blaze. What started as a suspected lightning strike on August 27...
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Questions and Responses Regarding October 2022 Nurse Restructuring https://communicator.pef.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/NurseTitleRestructuring.pdf
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September 15, 2022 — The PEF Executive Board met September 8 and 9 in Albany, observing a moment of silence for those lost on September 11, 2001; deciding on a Convention location for 2023 and 2024; discussing membership, financial and organizing updates; and approving political endorsements for the November general election. Silence for the fallen ...
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It was a warm day and evening as hundreds of PEF and other union members marched through the streets of downtown Albany on September 9 in the city’s annual Labor Parade. Colorful shirts, hats, pennants and whistles were worn and carried by marchers, along with signs. Some of the signs carried by PEF members said:...
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