{"id":14389,"date":"2026-06-05T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/?p=14389"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:18:03","slug":"telephone-town-hall-june-10-6-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/articles\/news\/telephone-town-hall-june-10-6-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Telephone Town Hall, June 10 @ 6 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2895 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Townhall-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Telecommuting\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Townhall-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Townhall.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PEF President Wayne Spence will host a Telephone Town Hall for all members on Wednesday, June 10, at 6 p.m. The focus of the call will be contract negotiations and recent reforms to Tiers 5 and 6 of the State pension plan for public employees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/tele-town-hall-06102026\/\"><strong>Please RSVP using this form before 12 p.m. on June 9 if you have a specific phone number you would like us to call.<\/strong><\/a> Otherwise, we will call your phone number on file with the union.\u00a0All you need to do is answer the phone and say \u201chello\u201d to be entered into the call. We realize that some carriers block the call, so if you don&#8217;t receive it for any reason, please dial in directly using either of these two numbers: <strong>(800) 263-5977 or (518) 302-7860<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEF President Wayne Spence will host a Telephone Town Hall for all members on Wednesday, June 10, at 6 p.m. The focus of the call will be contract negotiations and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14389","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Telephone Town Hall, June 10 @ 6 p.m. - 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