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Current Issue
February 7, 2022 | Volume 40. No. 1
Table of Contents
- This year’s budget fightback theme? Fund Our Future!
- PEF to legislators: Support parole, protect public safety
- 11 vacant seats filled on PEF Executive Board
- Keeping OPWDD running takes staff and commitment to clients
- PEF set to observe Women’s History Month
- REMINDER: Retroactive reimbursement deadline is March 1
- Black women led the way in organizing labor
- PEF member oversees DEC youth summer camps program
- PEF updates members at Telephone Town Hall
- PEF scientists study COVID vaccine effectiveness, inform public health response
- Proposed state budget has potential, but will it work?
- Members’ Workers’ Comp questions answered
- VP DiAntonio testifies on workforce development at joint legislative hearing; urges state to Fund Our Future
- Retro longevity payments coming this month
- What you need to know about state weather emergencies
- 2022 PEF Convention Delegate Rules
- Letters to the Editor – February 2022
- Retirees in Action: Do you know what to do if your partner dies?
- Is there a new hire at your worksite? Have they had a PEF orientation?
- We can all be PEF, Fund Our Future campaign ambassadors
- The pitfalls of privatization: A discussion with Donald Cohen
- Nurses For Our Future Scholarships will fund the education of 1,000 new nurses in New York
- 2.5 overtime agreement extended for certain PEF titles
- PEF retiree pens book about the cost of education
- PEF negotiates GEO raises for SUNY Downstate; works to close salary gap between private, public-sector nurses
- Nurse uniform maintenance allowance in effect
- PEF negotiates HSCA, DCAA 2021 balance carryovers
- Remembering the Pemberton Mill collapse: Substandard materials and company greed