Union leaders from across the state of Washington, including IFPTE Local 12 President Tiera Beauchamp, gathered in Solidarity this week in Vancouver, Washington, at the Washington State AFL-CIO’s 2025 Convention. The Convention theme was Our Voice, Our Power, Our Movement, and included several workshops ranging from how to build strong Union-driven campaigns to legislative advocacy to organizing.
Read MoreRetired IFPTE President, Brother Paul Shearon, joined a protest last week at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, in support of Union organizer, Lelo Juarez, where he and other immigrants are being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Read MoreIFPTE filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of the Army after identifying over 30 instances where both the DoD and the Army have failed to honor IFPTE’s National Consultation Rights (NCR).
Read MoreOver 75 workers at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are joining Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU/IFPTE Local 70) and have been fighting for voluntary recognition of their union since June 17!
Read MoreIFPTE Secretary-Treasurer, Gay Henson, along with Assistant to the Executive Officers, Brian Kildee, were in attendance this week at the annual AFL-CIO’s Secretary-Treasurers’ meeting in Washington, DC. The annual meeting is an opportunity for AFL-CIO affiliated Secretary-Treasurers to meet and discuss the major issues impacting working families, as well as to complete internal business matters.
Read MoreThe executive officers of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) joined with Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Congressional Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar (D-TX) to announce the discharge petition to bring the Protect America’s Workforce Act, H.R. 2550, to a House floor vote.
Read MoreIFPTE and the New Jersey AFL-CIO were among the more than a dozen unions representing well over 140,000 workers in New Jersey calling on state lawmakers to return to the state capitol in Trenton and pass legislation mitigating Governor Murphy’s proposed 37% hike in healthcare costs for state workers.
Read MoreJoin with fellow union members across America to tell President Donald Trump that TVA is perfectly capable of meeting the demands of new technology like AI.
Read MoreAhead of the Senate vote to proceed to consideration of the rescission package, IFPTE sent a letter to Senators warning them that, “Not only are the current rescission requests and upcoming rescission requests certain to dismantle federal government services that working Americans and our economy count on and surrender our national security and global leadership on science and innovation, but these rescissions, if enacted, threaten the bipartisanship needed for Congress to exercise its constitutional authority to fund the government.”
Read MoreThe Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is speaking out against Prime Minister Carney’s instruction to cabinet to identify deep operational savings, a dangerous step in the wrong direction, one that puts critical public services and the workers who deliver them on the chopping block.
Read MoreLast week, the Society of United Professionals (SUP/IFPTE Local 160) visited the picket line of CUPE Local 5525 to offer our support and solidarity to the striking frontline care workers at Villa Colombo Homes for the Aged Inc.
Read MoreNPEU’s Political Engagement Teams are continuing their Summer School Series on July 29th with a lecture and discussion featuring Dr. Van Metre, former Director for Peace, Climate, and Democratic Resilience at the National Democratic Institute.
Read MoreIFPTE is proud to give our full backing to SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 member, David Garrett, who is running for the Marysville City Council.
Read MoreThis week, the full Senate Appropriations Committee considered three fiscal year 2026 (FY26) appropriations bills to fund NASA, Commerce Department (including NOAA), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Congressional Research Service (CRS) as well as several other key agencies and departments.
Read MoreLed by AFL-CIO President, Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer, Fred Redmond, and several labor leaders across sectors, including IFPTE President, Matt Biggs, the American labor movement kicked off the “It’s Better In a Union” Bus Tour this week in Washington, DC.
Read MoreIFPTE President, Matt Biggs, Secretary-Treasurer, Gay Henson, and Assistant to the Executive Officers, Brian Kildee, attended the biannual AFL-CIO executive council meeting this week in Washington, DC.
Read MoreCongressional Republicans were barely able to scrape together enough votes from their own party to pass their bill that contains the broad policy agenda of their own president. This political win for a handful of out-of-touch Washington insiders represents a devastating loss for American families living paycheck to paycheck.
Read MoreIFPTE wishes all members and their families throughout the United States a festive, fun, rewarding, and safe 4th of July.
Read MoreIFPTE is proud to report that Local 21 Field Director, Kat General, was elected as the First Vice President to the national board of the AFL-CIO’s Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA).
Read MoreDespite the best efforts of IFPTE and IFPTE Locals nationwide, including Local 21, the Senate passed, by a single vote, their version of the budget reconciliation bill that will go down in history as one of the cruelest pieces of legislation that has passed in Congress in recent history, if not ever.
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