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Latest on the PS&T Tentative Agreement

Contract FAQ now available | PEF Contract Administration has put together answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the agreement and you don’t need your Member Identification Number (MIN) to read them. Highlights of the agreement are also posted publicly. If you want to read an analysis of the agreement’s Gains & Trade-Offs or the entire agreement, you will...

2019-2023 PS&T Tentative Agreement Highlights

We are overwhelmed by your response to the 2019-2023 PS&T Tentative Agreement signed on June 4 and approved by the Executive Board on June 8 for a ratification vote by the full membership in July. Thousands of you are having difficulty logging in to the Members Only section of our website, so we are delivering...

Executive Board to debate, vote on tentative contract agreement

PEF President Wayne Spence will convene an emergency meeting of the union’s Executive Board on June 8 at 9 a.m. On the agenda: Presentation, debate and voting on the tentative four-year agreement signed by the PEF Contract Team and the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations last week. The following memo was sent to all PEF...

PEF Reaches Tentative Contract Agreement with State

PEF Reaches Tentative Agreement with State | The PEF Contract Team and negotiators from the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations reached a tentative agreement on a 2019-2023 PS&T contract today, June 4, 2021. Details will be released in the coming days, after approval by the PEF Executive Board. PEF President Wayne Spence has called for an...

Contract Team wants your input: What are your top priorities?

The PEF Contract Team is asking members across the state to voice their opinions on 13 questions and will use their answers to shape the direction of negotiations going forward. At a telephone town hall held Tuesday, May 18, PEF’s chief negotiator, Mark Richard, said that PEF is at a crossroads and needs to have...

PEF presents arguments on key issues as negotiations resume

The PEF contract team, joined by President Wayne Spence, met virtually with state negotiators April 27 to resume bargaining on a successor agreement after the state postponed talks for more than a year due to COVID-19. “We want to get this going as expeditiously as possible,” Spence said. “PEF members have been without a contract...

Update regarding PEF Dental Plan

PEF Members: PEF is taking action to address member dissatisfaction with the dental insurance provided by New York State. For years there have been complaints about the dental benefit, not only by the PEF membership, but by the membership of other participating unions as well as management-confidential employees. A major problem with the current dental...

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