LEARNING HOW TO MOBILIZE — PEF Secretary-Treasurer Jane Hallum and Field Services Director Tom Privitere join members and staff at recent multi-regional leadership training held in Binghamton. — Photo by Denyce Duncan Lacy Under construction: PEF divisions build member mobilizer network By SHERRY HALBROOK PEF divisions throughout the state are working hard to achieve full member-mobilization status. Already, 21 divisions are fully mobilized and many more are nearly completed. ”Fully mobilized” means having one member mobilizer for every 10 members in the division. Each mobilizer is responsible for getting the word out to the other nine members when PEF needs their collective action to support stronger contracts, job security, better pensions or other goals important to the union’s members. “Over and over again, we have seen how quick, unified, powerful actions by our members have influenced local, state and even national policymakers at crucial moments to make the decisions that enable us to better serve the public, care for our families and build our communities,” said PEF President Roger Benson. He recognized PEF Division 222 at Elmira Correctional Facility for being the first to fully mobilize. “We are more successful when we are organized. Our goal is 55,000 ‘Active Informed Members’ connected through 228 fully mobilized divisions,” says Eric Miller, PEF’s assistant director of member mobilization and education. (For an up-to-the-minute count, go to AIM under Current News on the PEF website at www.pef.org/aim.htm Getting the required number of member mobilizers is the first and hardest part, according to Miller. However, he added that it actually takes more than just that to be a fully mobilized division. “It has to be a real, functional network in which each mobilizer knows his or her nine member contacts and how to reach them, and every member knows their mobilizer and how to check with them for updates,” Miller said. The Communicator Home Page

Fully mobilized PEF divisions Division Agency Reg. Leader 167 OMRDD 1 Tom Grace 311 OASAS 1 Marcia Kubiak 215 SED 1 Tino Mejia 384 DOCS 2 Richard Mason 359 DOL 2 Joe Cerio 222 DOCS 2 Jim Carr 246 OMRDD 3 Jeannine Dutcher 324 DOCS 3 Bob Skinner 278 DOL 3 Angel Cook 371 DOCS 4 Sharon Fehlman 397 DOCS 4 Ron Lavarnway 256 DOT 4 Don Kehoskie 227 DOT 5 Dan Majeski 399 OTDA 5 Mike Curry 242 OMRDD 7 Juanita Babcock 265 OASAS 8 Pat Lavin 380 DOCS 8 Ruth Rundell 386 DOCS 9 Chris Ambrosini 286 DOL 9 Judy O'Sullivan 186 T&F 12 Donna Rodriguez 341 T&F 13 Dan Zagorscak