The Public Employees Federation (PEF) is an American union representing 50,596 professional, scientific, and technical public employees in the state of New York. The union is one of the largest local white-collar unions in the United States and is New York's second-largest state-employee union. PEF also represents employees who work in private-sector jobs and local government agencies. The union publishes The Communicator, a newsletter with a 2007 distribution of 70,000, on a monthly basis.