• Contribute to COPE for a chance to win Bills tickets!

    Contribute to COPE for a chance to win Bills tickets!

    PEF members and retirees have a shot at attending the Buffalo Bills home game against the Cleveland Browns on November 20 if they do any of the following: Active members...

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  • 44th Annual PEF Convention starts October 23

    44th Annual PEF Convention starts October 23

    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...

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  • Get ready to vote!

    Get ready to vote!

    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...

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  • New, free trauma counseling benefit offered to PEF members

    New, free trauma counseling benefit offered to PEF members

    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...

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  • Celebrating Labor in Advance of PEF’s Annual Convention

    Celebrating Labor in Advance of PEF’s Annual Convention

    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...

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  • Time is running out to apply for student loan forgiveness under temporary PSLF waiver 

    Time is running out to apply for student loan forgiveness under temporary PSLF waiver 

    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...

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  • Carried-over vacation accruals: Use or lose in 2022!

    Carried-over vacation accruals: Use or lose in 2022!

    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...

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  • At operations command and on the digging line, PEF members helped fight Minnewaska State Park fire 

    At operations command and on the digging line, PEF members helped fight Minnewaska State Park fire 

      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...

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  • PEF Nurse Title Restructure Q&A October 2022

    PEF Nurse Title Restructure Q&A October 2022

    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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  • Executive Board discusses Convention, improving the dental benefit, and efforts to increase membership

    Executive Board discusses Convention, improving the dental benefit, and efforts to increase membership

    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...

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