{"id":14851,"date":"2026-09-18T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/?p=14851"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:40:15","slug":"pef-executive-board-votes-to-endorse-governor-kathy-hochul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/articles\/news\/pef-executive-board-votes-to-endorse-governor-kathy-hochul\/","title":{"rendered":"PEF Executive Board votes to endorse Governor Kathy Hochul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message x_skipProofing\">At its quarterly board meeting on Sept. 18, 2026, the elected members of the PEF Executive Board, representing 62,000 professional employees across New York State,voted to endorse Governor Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message x_skipProofing\">\u201cGovernor Hochul and her team negotiated a strong contract this year with PEF members, helping us secure a 5-year labor agreement that will deliver compounded raises of more than 19% for the public service professionals in our union,\u201d said PEF President Wayne Spence. \u201cSince taking office in 2021, she has lifted the state hiring freeze, allowing PEF membership to grow and enabling New Yorkers to access needed services more readily, supported Tier 6 pension reforms that provide greater pension parity for public servants and help offset inflation, invested in New York\u2019s public safety net hospitals, including $1 billion to modernize SUNY Downstate In Brooklyn and $450 million in capital support for SUNY Upstate in Syracuse, and expanded workers\u2019 compensation benefits to include job-related mental health injuries.\u00a0\u00a0While there is always more work to do, PEF recognizes that Governor Kathy Hochul has been a strong partner as we work collectively to rebuild state-operated programs and services after a decade of underfunding and understaffing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its quarterly board meeting on Sept. 18, 2026, the elected members of the PEF Executive Board, representing 62,000 professional employees across New York State,voted to endorse Governor Kathy Hochul&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6,479],"tags":[],"division":[],"allowed_regions":[],"allowed_divisions":[],"class_list":["post-14851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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