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Apr 22, 2024
Happy Passover
To all who celebrate, we hope you have a prosperous Passover surrounded by loved ones. Chag Pesach Sameach!
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Apr 19, 2024
PEF celebrates New York State budget wins, vows to keep advocating
The Governor and the Legislature enacted the $237 billion 2024-25 New York State budget on April 20, 2024, and it includes significant progress on many of the priorities PEF advocates for in its ongoing “Fund Our Future” campaign. “Thanks to the unrelenting advocacy of PEF members and the amazing support of Governor Kathy Hochul and...
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Apr 15, 2024
Want to become a PEF Convention Delegate?
April 15, 2025 — The 46th annual PEF Convention is just five months away (Sept. 15-18, 2024) and now is the time for members to think about petitioning to become a delegate! It’s really quite simple and requires only a willingness to conduct the business of the union. To be eligible, members must be dues-paying...
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Apr 11, 2024
Joint Telephone Town Hall updates members on SUNY Downstate fightback
April 11, 2024 — Since learning earlier this year about a plan to close SUNY Downstate, PEF and UUP have orchestrated a fightback campaign to make sure it does not happen. The two unions, along with concerned clergy in New York City, legislators in Albany, and Brooklyn community leaders have held rallies, meetings and marches...
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Apr 10, 2024
Help for PEF member stabbed at Buffalo Psychiatric Center
On April 3, PEF member Edward Gordon was one of three staff members brutally attacked by a patient at Buffalo Psychiatric Center (BPC). Gordon works as a Residential Program Manager 2 at BPC. He suffered stab wounds to his abdomen and back and a laceration to his neck; one of his coworkers, a CSEA member,...
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Apr 10, 2024
PEF Telephone Town Hall: April 9, 2024
Thank you to the thousands who listened in on the PEF Telephone Town Hall on April 9. If you missed it, a full audio recording is now available below. Here are some general time codes indicating what was discussed and when: 01:30 to 8:40: Higher Education Differential submission of proof deadline extended from March 29...
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