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
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
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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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
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
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
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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Hundreds march in annual Albany Labor Parade
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...
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PEF Organizing is on the ground every day supporting and advocating for you
September 15, 2022 — Did you visit the PEF booth at the New York State Fair? You weren’t alone. More than 1,100 active members and retirees stopped by the booth...
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