• PEF to legislators: Invest in your workforce, not in contractors

    PEF to legislators: Invest in your workforce, not in contractors

    PEF gave state legislators disturbing facts at a joint budget hearing February 10 and asked them to use their common sense and reject state proposals that will cost taxpayers more...

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  • PEF opposes OCFS consolidation, closures at budget hearing

    PEF opposes OCFS consolidation, closures at budget hearing

    PEF provided strong testimony against Executive Budget proposals that seek to close or consolidate four Office of Children and Family Services Multi-Services Offices (CMSOs) and to close four facilities for...

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  • PEF spotlights state budget concerns at workforce hearing

    PEF spotlights state budget concerns at workforce hearing

    PEF Vice President Randi DiAntonio testified about the union’s state budget concerns relating to staffing and service reductions at a virtual legislative hearing on the workforce February 2.  Although witnesses...

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  • PEF weighs in on state transportation budget

    PEF weighs in on state transportation budget

    New York is facing a massive budget shortfall and a deadly pandemic, facts that PEF Regional Coordinator Andrew Puleo pointed to in written testimony urging state leaders to carefully assess...

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  • Governor delivers State of the State over several days

    Governor delivers State of the State over several days

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo presented the first of several State of the State messages on Monday, January 11, with additional remarks expected throughout the week. PEF President Wayne Spence said, “While...

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  • PEF President Statement on NY Correctional Facility Closures

    PEF President Statement on NY Correctional Facility Closures

    Albany, N.Y. —  PEF President Wayne Spence issued the following statement on New York’s announcement that they will close the Watertown and Gowanda Correctional Facilities as well as the Clinton Annex,...

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