DONE DEAL — Members of PEF’s NDRI (National Development and Research Institutes Inc) Contract Team pause for a photo with management after signing their new collective-bargaining agreement in New York City in October. Pictured are: PEF member Jorge Lim, PEF Div. 500 Treasurer Lisa McCullough, NDRI Executive Director JoAnn Sacks, NDRI Human Resources Director Christina Donawa, PEF Director of Field Services (downstate) Marvin Moschel, PEF Div. 500 Council Leader Robbie Berry, PEF Div. 500 steward Heather Paradise and PEF member Conrad Dormeus. The members unanimously ratified the three-year agreement that was reached September 2. The bargaining unit at NDRI was the first private-sector unit organized and represented by PEF. — Photo by Nicole Sundheimer

PEOPLE POWER – Activists in PEF Regions 10 and 11 turn out October 8 at New York City Hall for a press conference held by Democratic and Working Families Party mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, the city’s comptroller, to call for a return to term limits for city officials. Thompson’s Republican opponent, incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg, previously persuaded the City Council to ditch the two-term limit so he could run for a third four-year term. The PEF members were among 200 representatives of labor and organizations that have endorsed Thompson who attended the press conference. — Photo by Richard Dillard