Governor can’t shake off PEF protestors
PEF members never let Gov. George Pataki forget that he has still not met his obligation to reach a fair PS&T contract settlement with them.
While the main focus of the union’s contract campaign was on urging state legislators to press the governor for a contract settlement, PEF members have kept up their unflagging barrage of contract protests wherever Pataki goes.

PEF members downstate mobilized in Brooklyn in early March when the governor attended a luncheon at the Borough Hall. And they turned out again on March 21 to confront him at an appearance at St. John’s University Law School in Queens.
When Pataki showed up for a function at the Crowne Plaza in Albany, PEF members there were joined in their protest by supporters from other labor unions throughout the Capital District.

And on March 29, when Pataki went to Ryebrook, PEF Region 9 members were there to remind him of their need for contract justice.
April rolled in with still more rallies.
As this issue of The Communicator went to press, PEF Region 8 members rallied outside the annual Albany County Lincoln Day (Republican) Dinner.
And final preparations were under way for a massive rally on April 6, when bus loads of members from throughout the state would converge on the Capitol to mark the one-year anniversary of the state’s infamous four-years-of-zeros contract offer.

“Our members’ determination to achieve contract justice has resonated from Long Island to Niagara Falls, and from Elmira to Lake Placid over the last year,” said PEF Contract Chair Eric Miller. “It has forced the state to move off those zeros, and sooner or later it will produce a fair offer that we can accept.”
— Sherry Halbrook

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