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month's member's letters.
PEF
scholarship helps pay costs
To the Editor:
Thanks for the PEF scholarship. It will help me towards my
tuition for my last year at Yale University.
After that, I plan to attend medical school.
Thanks for your support.
JOYCE CHEN
Appreciates
one-page articles
To the Editor:
Thank you for printing articles on one page as much as possible,
rather than continuing them on to other pages.
It’s so much easier to clip, copy and save them.
STEVE CROSSEN
Wants
hazardous duty pay
To The Editor:
I do not understand why PEF has ignored the hazardous-duty pay
for all its members.
State Department of Transportation surveyors have to work on
dangerous, highly traveled highway centerlines with only signs
and survey flagmen to protect them.
These precautions are inadequate due to the rise of road rage,
cell-phone use while driving and other driver mistakes. It is a
matter of time before a tragedy occurs. They deserve the extra
pay for the type of work they do.
The leadership or committees of PEF that have been ignoring this
issue should come out and work with us on one of these dangerous
highways. I am sure they would quickly see that this type of work
is hazardous.
Any union member whose life is in danger from the work
environment while working for the state of New York, should be
paid extra.
Traian Cainaru
Members to
PEF: Job well done
To the Editor:
We, the recreation therapy staff grievants of Pilgrim Psychiatric
Center, would like to express our gratitude for the outstanding
legal representation that we received from PEF in our recent
grievance of out-of-title work.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of PEF field representative
Michelle Routi and associate counsel Elizabeth Schuster, we were
victorious in the final stages of our class action.
The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court in Albany
overturned the lower court judgement and ruled that the state
violated the PS&T contract and broke Civil Service Law when
it assigned out-of-title work to recreation therapy staff at
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center on Long Island.
The PEF legal department should be commended for a superlative
job performed.
We were most impressed with Schuster’s efforts that kept us
apprised every step of the way. She always made herself available
and routinely contacted us so that we were well informed of the
progress.
We cannot thank them enough for a job well done.
CLIFFORD SVOBODA
and P.P.C. recreation therapy grievants
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