• 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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  • TOC

    TOC

    • The President’s Message • PEF to legislators: Support parole, protect public safety • Keeping OPWDD running takes staff and commitment to clients • Black women...

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  • PEF to legislators: Support parole, protect public safety

    PEF to legislators: Support parole, protect public safety

    No part of supervising state parolees has ever been easy, but the combination of a highly contagious pandemic and political crosswinds focused on changing criminal justice statutes are making the...

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  • 11 vacant seats filled on PEF Executive Board

    11 vacant seats filled on PEF Executive Board

    PEF’s first quarterly special elections of 2022 filled 11 vacant seats on the union’s Executive Board.  The candidates for these seats are automatically seated as the only certified candidates.  They...

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  • Keeping OPWDD running takes staff and commitment to clients

    Keeping OPWDD running takes staff and commitment to clients

      Members working at the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities provide a host of services to New York’s most vulnerable population. During the October 2021 PEF Convention in Niagara...

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  • PEF set to observe Women’s History Month

    PEF set to observe Women’s History Month

    Women’s History Month was established by Congress in 1987. In his March 1987 proclamation, President Ronald Reagan stated: “I call upon all Americans to mark this month with appropriate observances...

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  • REMINDER: Retroactive reimbursement deadline is March 1

    REMINDER: Retroactive reimbursement deadline is March 1

    The deadline  for applying for retroactive reimbursement through PEF’s Article 15 Educational Benefit programs is quickly approaching.  Members applying for retroactive reimbursement for the CTR, NECTR, WSR, NEWSR, and CLEFR...

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  • Black women led the way in organizing labor

    Black women led the way in organizing labor

    Domestic workers organized some of the earliest labor unions, and Black women who knew the importance of workers’ rights stepped up to lead them. With Black History Month recognized in...

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  • PEF member oversees DEC youth summer camps program

    PEF member oversees DEC youth summer camps program

      Safety, fun, learning. That’s the unofficial motto of the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) summer environmental education camps — Camp Colby, Camp DeBruce, Camp Rushford and Camp Pack...

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