• MBP Family Fun Days coming; Get your family day tickets beginning 4/5/2022

    MBP Family Fun Days coming; Get your family day tickets beginning 4/5/2022

    If you are sick of the cold and long for summer fun, the PEF Membership Benefits Program (PEF MBP) has just what you need. “We are very happy to announce...

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  • News You Can Use

    News You Can Use

    Contractual raises and performance awards   Your paycheck is about to get a little bigger!  Two percent contractual raises went into effect March 31 for Administrative payroll and April 7 for...

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  • Budget Negotiations Show PEF’s Power

    Budget Negotiations Show PEF’s Power

    This Communicator update comes just days after the first PEF Executive Board meeting of 2022.  Board members heard from three candidates running for New York governor, including the current...

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  • Nurses share stories of short staffing, mandatory overtime and toxic workplace culture with legislators during Lobby Day

    Nurses share stories of short staffing, mandatory overtime and toxic workplace culture with legislators during Lobby Day

    March 9, 2022 — Never has the spotlight shone so brightly on the health care profession than during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why now is the perfect time for PEF...

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  • Parole officers protect public from illegal guns, weapons

    Parole officers protect public from illegal guns, weapons

      March 9, 2022 — Illegal guns and other weapons are part of a growing problem of violent crime in communities nationwide. Getting them off the streets has created a...

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  • Back up and running: NYC members revitalize regional Women’s Committee 

    Back up and running: NYC members revitalize regional Women’s Committee 

    March 10, 2022 — With Women’s History Month in March, it’s fitting that PEF leaders in New York City are reviving the NYC Women’s Committee – with Michele Rosello chairing the...

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  • SUNY members share COVID stories; emphasize staffing woes and quality patient care at SUNY hospitals  

    SUNY members share COVID stories; emphasize staffing woes and quality patient care at SUNY hospitals  

    March 7, 2022 — The COVID pandemic shone a light on the state’s nursing and healthcare heroes, but it also highlighted the consequences of decades of austerity budgets and reduced...

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  • DOT Region 11 observes Black History Month; honors PEF members 

    DOT Region 11 observes Black History Month; honors PEF members 

    March 8, 2022 — The observation of Black History Month dates back to 1915, when Carter G. Woodson, now known as the “Father of Black History,” created an organization called...

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  • Latest news you need to know

    Latest news you need to know

    Put in to use your carried over vacation accruals  Eligible members impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and unable to use vacation accruals have until December 31, 2022, to use carried...

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  • Letters to the Editor – March 2022

    Letters to the Editor – March 2022

    Should she get 10-year longevity award? To the Editor: I have a general question regarding the longevity retro payouts. I’m an R.N. who worked 45 years at and retired from...

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