• PEF celebrates New York State budget wins, vows to keep advocating

    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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  • Joint Telephone Town Hall updates members on SUNY Downstate fightback 

    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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  • Communicator: Work Begins on Solving the Budget Puzzle

    Communicator: Work Begins on Solving the Budget Puzzle

    PEF hits the ground running to analyze what the union supports and what needs improvement in the governor’s FY 2024 Executive Budget. Read the entire February issue here.

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  • PEF’s advocacy against OMH, OPWDD, OCFS closures

    PEF’s advocacy against OMH, OPWDD, OCFS closures

    It’s no secret that New York’s safety net for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) as well as those living with additional mental health issues, is in crisis.  Stories about sudden facility closures and families having to uproot their loved ones with very little notice have been in the news quite a bit lately.

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  • PEF weighs in on state transportation budget

    PEF weighs in on state transportation budget

    New York is facing a massive budget shortfall and a deadly pandemic, facts that PEF Regional Coordinator Andrew Puleo pointed to in written testimony urging state leaders to carefully assess capital projects, implement a tax on the uber-wealthy, and revamp the design-build system, among other key issues, during his testimony before a joint budget hearing...

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