Tell your lawmakers to address PEF’s budget priorities!

With the FY 2025-26 State Budget cycle in full swing, it’s important that all PEF members make their voices heard about union priorities! We have 10 letter writing campaigns this year, ranging from pension reform to workplace violence to healthcare in retirement. Please use the links below to send issue-specific emails to your State Senator and Assemblymember.

• New York should not join the Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact
• Preserve the Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount (IRMAA) for retirees
• Increase funding SUNY Downstate & Upstate
• Expand ACT teams at OMH
• Support a capital plan for OPWDD facilities
• Expand the use of body scanners at OMH, OPWDD, OCFS and OASAS
• Better protect public employees from attacks on the job
• Fix Tier 6 – New York’s pension plan must be improved
• Funding for the New York Cultural Education Center

• Opposition to the expansion of the problematic Design-Build program
  
  Together, our collective voices really do make a difference.  If you read the PEF  “Fund our Future” campaign literature, you will see that many of our ideas were once again incorporated in the budget. Those Fund Our Future materials were provided to the governor and our voices were heard.