Sept. 11 ceremony featured on Spectrum News
PEF held its annual Sept. 11 memorial ceremony, honoring and remembering the 34 members who were killed in the terrorist attacks in New York City. Click here for a story on remembrances across the region, featuring PEF’s event at the union’s headquarters in Latham.
President Spence recognized for labor contributions
Two prominent listings of top labor leaders recently featured President Wayne Spence.
The New York CaribNews honored President Spence as one of its Jamaica Power 100 and named him one of the country’s top labor leaders. Read the article here.
City & State also ranked him No. 13 on its “Labor Power 100.” The list features New York’s most influential union leaders and worker advocates. You can read that article here.
State Education Department leader writes newspaper commentary
PEF member Aaron Noble, a senior historian at the New York State Museum and the assistant council leader of PEF Division 194, authored a commentary in the Albany Times Union on the damage the Trump Administration is doing to cultural education by gutting funding and dictating programming at world-class museums. His essay echoes PEF’s legislative request for an increase in the Cultural Education Fee that is charged on property deed transfers in New York. The $15 fee has not increased since 2002. Read the article here.