• The Communicator: Celebrating PEF nurses and engaging all members

    The Communicator: Celebrating PEF nurses and engaging all members

    May 2022 Issue of the PEF Communicator is now available!! Find out about our Nurses-week press conference, PEF membership blitz, quarterly election results, end of session advocacy and other latest...

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  • PSWP professional writing course for non-native English speakers

    PSWP professional writing course for non-native English speakers

    The Public Service Workshops Program will offer a training on professional writing for non-native English speakers from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 14 and 15. Professional Writing: Composition...

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  • Legislators support PEF nurses’ call to boost pay, staffing

    Legislators support PEF nurses’ call to boost pay, staffing

    The state Legislature was in session Tuesday, May 10, but at least 16 lawmakers ducked out of meetings at lunchtime to join PEF nurses at a press conference outside the...

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  • Social workers, sign up for PSWP trainings on patients with PTSD and eating disorders in adolescents

    Social workers, sign up for PSWP trainings on patients with PTSD and eating disorders in adolescents

    PEF members can sign up for virtual Public Service Workshops Program trainings on facilitating health in traumatized individuals and eating disorder prevention for children and teens.  Facilitating Healing in the...

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  • PEF reflects on, mourns lives of members killed on the job

    PEF reflects on, mourns lives of members killed on the job

    In observance of Workers Memorial Day, PEF staff and union members gathered at the memorial outside PEF Headquarters in Latham to mourn those who have lost their lives at work. ...

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  • Capital Region members: That might be PEF knocking on your door!

    Capital Region members: That might be PEF knocking on your door!

    Dozens of volunteers from PEF and local American Federation of Teachers (AFT) unions throughout the country converged on Albany this week to take part in a week-long membership blitz to...

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  • Are you an aspiring leader? Sign up for a free virtual workshop!

    Are you an aspiring leader? Sign up for a free virtual workshop!

    PEF members can sign up for a virtual Public Service Workshops Program training for aspiring leaders. This six-session workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 11-12, 18-19...

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  • PEF Telephone Town Hall Recording

    PEF Telephone Town Hall Recording

    For members who could not participate on April 20, click here to listen to a 32-minute recording of the phone call.  PEF President Spence and Legislative Director Patrick Lyons...

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  • PEF statement on SUNY Upstate’s bid to acquire Crouse Hospital

    PEF statement on SUNY Upstate’s bid to acquire Crouse Hospital

    PEF President Wayne Spence issued the following statement in reaction to the proposal by SUNY Upstate Medical University to buy Crouse Hospital, a non-profit facility in Syracuse. “SUNY Upstate Medical...

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