Living our mission, vision, values

By ROGER E. BENSON
Last month, the Executive Board, officers and trustees were sworn in for a new three-year term leading PEF. As we begin this term, I would like to reflect on our accomplishments and renew my administration’s commitment to the principles that we have used to guide us over the past six years in our fight for job security, stronger contracts, and retirement reform.

Our mission
“Provide the leadership necessary for PEF members to achieve employment security, higher wages, better working conditions and improved retirement benefits.”

We have worked to make this a reality for our members. We have fought every state layoff tooth and nail and, as I write this, no permanent state employee has been laid off during the last six years of my administration. We have won sick-leave parity for all of our members in the PS&T unit, and have earned cost-of-living adjustments and the elimination of retirement contributions for our Tier 3 and 4 members.

Our vision
“That all PEF members believe their union is superior in representing them, that it strives to involve every member in organized union activities to achieve their workplace objectives, and that our union’s resources will be dedicated to dramatically increasing PEF’s influence on those who control employment conditions of our members.”

We have moved PEF from a service-oriented union to a more militant and mobilized organization that can effectively fight for its members. We have worked to build PEF into a leader in the state political arena and the state’s political leaders have heard us. PEF’s leadership has been a driving force in areas from retirement reform to revenue enhancement.

Our values
“Honesty, competency, diligence and responsiveness.”

We have worked to earn and keep your trust, through openness, hard work and competency.

Over the next three years, we will be faced with many very difficult challenges. I am confident that as we face these challenges we have built a union capable of meeting them. We have worked to build the strength of PEF, but as influential as PEF has become and as much as we have accomplished, these are the results of the efforts of our members, not just of the leadership of PEF. With your help and support, we all can look forward to even greater success over the next three years.”

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