{"id":13514,"date":"2026-06-24T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/?p=13514"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:55:08","slug":"13514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/articles\/news\/13514\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Hall\u00a0covers\u00a0contract gains, tradeoffs, and ratification schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14467 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PEF-ContractTelephoneTownHall-MobileApp-1920x1080-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic: PEF Telephone Town Hall, June 23, 2026\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PEF-ContractTelephoneTownHall-MobileApp-1920x1080-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PEF-ContractTelephoneTownHall-MobileApp-1920x1080-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PEF-ContractTelephoneTownHall-MobileApp-1920x1080-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PEF-ContractTelephoneTownHall-MobileApp-1920x1080-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PEF-ContractTelephoneTownHall-MobileApp-1920x1080-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PEF President Wayne Spence led a Telephone Town Hall on June 23, 2026, for members of the Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PS&amp;T) Unit about the proposed 2026-2031 contract that they will now vote whether to ratify.\u00a0Joining him on the call were Chief Negotiator Mark Richard, PEF Vice President and Contract Chair Darlene Williams, PEF Contract Administration Director Ben Traslavi\u00f1a, and PEF Executive Director Deb Greenberg.\u00a0A subtitled video version of the audio recording is now available for playback in the PEF app.\u00a0<\/span>Only PEF members can download and install the app. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/contract\">Click here for download instructions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEF President Wayne Spence led a Telephone Town Hall on June 23, 2026, for members of the Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PS&amp;T) Unit about the proposed 2026-2031 contract that they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-townhall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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