Uncategorized

PEF negotiates GEO raises for SUNY Downstate; works to close salary gap between private, public-sector nurses

January 6, 2022 BROOKLYN – PEF nurses at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Center will receive geographic pay raises (GEOs). The agreement negotiated last month between SUNY and PEF will...

Nurse uniform maintenance allowance in effect

PEF negotiated a win for nurses in the 2019-2023 PS&T contract, securing a $500 lump sum payment to be put toward uniform maintenance. The amount was prorated for eligible employees...

PEF negotiates HSCA, DCAA 2021 balance carryovers

Through PEF’s work with the state, the Dependent Care Advantage Account (DCAA) and the Health Care Spending Account (HSCA) plans have adopted carryovers for plan year 2021. Flexible Spending Account...

Remembering the Pemberton Mill collapse: Substandard materials and company greed

January 10, 1860: More than 500 people went to work at the Pemberton Mill in Massachusetts, entering the five-story high, 84-foot wide, 280-foot long building. Work was underway to reorganize...

2022 PEF Holiday & Payroll Calendar

PEF appoints new contract team for next PS&T contract

  December 14, 2021 — The PEF Executive Board endorsed New York’s senior U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for re-election in 2022 at the board’s quarterly...

PEF nurses to Assembly Committee: Health care sector needs better pay, better benefits and an end to outsourcing

As the saying goes, “Don’t make the same mistake twice.” That’s why PEF nurses appeared before the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Health, Higher Education and Labor last...

‘Less is More’: Less resources, less services, less funding, more crime

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — PEF parole officers and victims’ advocates rallied outside the Hall of Justice in Rochester November 22 to denounce the “Less is More” parole reform law and call out its serious repercussions for community safety, parole supervision and crime victims. “Less is...

Union steps in to protect local leader from agency rebuke

December 15, 2021 — When a PEF member at an Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) facility in South Kortright, N.Y., was injured on the job and transported by...

PEF helps new Colorado employee union ratify first contract

December 15, 2021 — In an act of solidarity, PEF sent its two top organizers to Colorado to help the state’s new employee union win ratification of its first contract....