PEF Fight-Back
01/21/2011
Budget Fight-Back Preparation and Activity
In a memo from President Brynien on 1/21/2011 " Governor Cuomo has until February 1st to present his Executive Budget to the legislature. As part of PEF's efforts to prepare our budget fight-back, our Legislative Office and Research Department has put together talking points for our leaders and members to use to respond to the many misrepresentations for the state workforce that are reported in the medial and have become the basis for many of the attacks against us.
Over the next two weeks we will be contacting our membership through robo-calls, e-mails, and our mobilization and steward networks to continue to help get out our message to friends and neighbors, the legislature, the media and the governor, that the state work force did not create the fiscal crisis and that the burden of the fiscal crisis needs to be shared fairly....:
To see the memo in its entirety, please click here:
Memo From President Brynien dated: 01/21/2011
Please familiarize yourselves with talking points and budget solutions and use them when you address attacks against us.
"We will need your help in identifying the specific impact of past cuts in the work force to assist in our efforts to fight any additional cuts that may be proposed in the the Executive Budget."
If you have an examples, please send them to Darcy Wells Director of Public Relations at dwells@pef.org
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