News from New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF)

For more information contact: Darcy Wells, 518- 785-1900 Ext. 277 or 518-859-1274

Media Advisory

State employees to rally at Sunmount to protest nursing shortage

TUPPER LAKE, NY (05/27/2008; 1107)(readMedia)-- On Thursday, May 29, members of the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) will join members from the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) for a rally to draw attention to the nursing shortage at Sunmount Developmental Disabilities Services Office (DDSO), Tupper Lake.

The facility relies on overtime to fill nursing vacancies more than any other Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) facility in New York state.

PEF and CSEA members who work at Sunmount will gather outside the administration building, 2445 State Route 30, Tupper Lake at 4 p.m. to discuss the nursing shortage. Members are prepared to talk about the negative effect the shortage has on patients and staff at the facility, and will offer their proposed solutions to the shortage.

PEF is the state’s second-largest state-employee union, representing 58,000 professional, scientific and technical employees. For more information, please call Darcy Wells, PEF director of public relations at 518-785-1900 ext. 277 or 518-859-1274.

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