At the union’s annual Convention in Niagara Falls, Oct. 23-26, 2022, nurses represented by the NYS Public Employees Federation recorded messages for Gov. Kathy Hochul, who this month delivered the Nurse Title Restructuring the union has demanded for decades. It will make a difference in their professional lives and help the State recruit new nurses...
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PEF has negotiated an agreement with SUNY Upstate to waive the automatic 1% parking fee for all registered parkers in the main lots from Oct. 5, 2022 – Oct. 5, 2023. A second agreement was negotiated waiving the full parking fee for all employees who are assigned to off-campus lots and who pay the negotiated...
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PEF scored major wins for its nurses in this year’s legislative session, but now we need Gov. Hochul to sign these meaningful pieces of legislation into law. We’re asking all members to take a moment and add your name to two letters we’ve created. The first deals with the subject of mandatory overtime. Bills passed...
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On July 1, 2022, PEF announced the successful negotiation of geographic pay differentials (“geos”) for additional nursing titles statewide. This memo from the New York State Department of Civil Service Division of Classification & Compensation lays out the amount of the geos and which titles are covered at which agencies. (Note: XXXXX in the...
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The state Legislature was in session Tuesday, May 10, but at least 16 lawmakers ducked out of meetings at lunchtime to join PEF nurses at a press conference outside the Capitol. “Our nurses made a strong case for better staffing and better pay to meet a nursing shortage in state health care facilities that has...
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Albany, N.Y. – The Public Employees Federation, the Communications Workers of America, and the New York State Nurses Association issued the following statement on Jan. 5, 2022, in response to Governor Hochul’s State of the State address: “We applaud Governor Hochul for recognizing that our frontline healthcare workers are in desperate need of additional resources...
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PEF members can take advantage of upcoming Public Service Workshop trainings on defensive documentation for nurses and medication safety. The Defensive Documentation for Nurses program will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 27. This virtual workshop teaches the legal and ethical aspects of medical case documentation and record-keeping with a focus on litigation...
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PEF has negotiated an extension of the 2.5 Overtime Agreement for employees in specified titles at the three SUNY Hospitals and the SUNY Long Island Veterans’ Home, as well as youth counselors employed by OCFS. The terms are the same as in the previous 2.5 Overtime Agreement, but this one is for the period January...
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The New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) announced today (Dec. 17, 2021) that it reached an agreement with SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Center to provide geographic pay raises (GEOs) for the teaching and research center nurses employed by SUNY University Hospital of Brooklyn. The agreement will result in an average salary increase of...
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