To the Editor:
I received my March issue of The Communicator today and was not happy to see “PEF attacks state budget cuts” on the cover.
In these difficult fiscal times, as always, it is important to stand up for workers’ rights, but it is equally important to pull together as much as possible with state administrators to try to find solutions to this great problem.
Let’s focus on cooperation, not confrontation. Save the war slogans for those times when labor is being exploited, not when labor and management should join to find realistic solutions.
The Communicator should try to follow President Obama’s advice and put partisan bickering behind us.
NED STANTON
Trim meeting, convention cost
To the Editor:
The other PEF trustees and I have reported the need for PEF to find ways to tighten our spending.
Reviewing how long and how often we have conventions is a primary way to do it. Ours are held annually. Many unions hold them biennially or triennially.
Also, two of our two-day, quarterly Executive Board meetings could be cut by one day each year, and a more economical hotel could be pursued.
If training sessions were held in off years and regionally, this would save money that could be used for job-security actions with our highest priority.
Some of these changes would require changes to the PEF constitution. I look forward to the administration bringing about these changes and using the savings to fight our future battles.
ROBERT REYNOLDS
PEF Trustee
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