• Verify your contact information at the Department of Civil Service

    Verify your contact information at the Department of Civil Service

    Please ensure that the Department of Civil Service (DCS) has your current contact information. When you are taking a written test, your mailing address is used to assign you to...

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  • Ida Jane Anderson, New York’s first registered nurse

    Ida Jane Anderson, New York’s first registered nurse

    Oh, the graduates of 1902 We’re the kind That were always true blue Their work never shirking, With no interne’s flirting, Those nurses of 1902.  Those are the words...

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  • PEF Relief Fund collects more than $2,600 for Ukraine

    PEF Relief Fund collects more than $2,600 for Ukraine

    Fifty members donated a total of $2,373 and Region 2 donated $250 to support workers and union members in Ukraine as they continue to face hardships resulting from Russia’s ongoing...

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  • PEF Telephone Town Hall provides contract, state budget updates

    PEF Telephone Town Hall provides contract, state budget updates

    PEF President Wayne Spence and Legislative Director Patrick Lyons updated members in a telephone town hall April 20 on how the union’s preparations for contract negotiations are progressing, and how...

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  • Unions in the News

    Unions in the News

    Second Amazon facility eyes unionizing  After the successful union organizing campaign at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, the warehouse across the street, LDJ5, is following in their coworkers’ footsteps....

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  • PEF shares Fund Our Future info with other SEIU locals

    PEF shares Fund Our Future info with other SEIU locals

    The leaders of other SEIU local public employee unions throughout the country learned about PEF’s Fund Our Future campaign in a virtual meeting April 14, where PEF President Wayne Spence...

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  • Cultural resource preservation takes PEF member on a journey through New York’s history

    Cultural resource preservation takes PEF member on a journey through New York’s history

    To help ensure its preservation, the state Department of Education created the Cultural Resource Survey Program (CRSP) in 1958 to help other state agencies meet historic preservation mandates. Staff dig...

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  • New York State answers PEF’s call to Fund Our Future

    New York State answers PEF’s call to Fund Our Future

    Happy Spring PEF brothers and sisters!  This time of year always brings optimism, but the New York State Legislature and Governor have given us extra reasons to be hopeful this...

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  • State budget delivers big wins for PEF

    State budget delivers big wins for PEF

    State budgets are usually a mixed bag, at best, for PEF members, but this year the 2022-23 state budget is mainly good news. The last of the state budget bills...

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  • How do you keep public safe, but avoid over-policing?

    How do you keep public safe, but avoid over-policing?

    April 12, 2022 — Criminal justice and public safety weighed heavily on the minds of New Yorkers attending the 2022 New York State Association of Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic &...

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