IFPTE leaders across New Jersey expressed the Union's condolences on the passing this week of New Jersey Congressman, Donald Payne, Jr.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond convened over 100 union activists, environmental experts, civil rights leaders and other allies to celebrate the 54th anniversary of Earth Day.
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The ACLU Staff United, a bargaining unit under IFPTE Local 70 (Nonprofit Professional Employees Union) that represents ACLU lawyers and staff, held a unity rally on April 23, showcasing unwavering strength after two years of tense negotiations with management.
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Last weekend, representatives from IFPTE Locals attended the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. The Labor Notes Conference is one of the biggest annual gatherings of grassroots labor activists from across the country, and it has many international attendees as well. Thousands of union members, officers, and labor activists who are on the front lines in the workplace and across communities participate in the conference, sharing stories and methods of organizing and agitation.
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IFPTE met with AFL-CIO President, Liz Shuler, to discuss the major legislative issues impacting IFPTE’s diverse membership, including but not limited to the labor movement’s continued support for federal investment in green nuclear energy technologies such as Small Modular Reactors, and the importance of restoring a Biden majority of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
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This week representatives and leaders from the Society of United Professionals (SUP)-Local 160, Engineers and Scientists of California(ESC)-Local 20, and the Engineering Association (EA)-Local 1937 attended the 2022 Nuclear Energy Assembly in Washington, DC.
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“IFPTE joins union members and working families in enthusiastically applauding the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.”
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This week, IFPTE urged Representatives to pass H.R. 4 and ensure participation in our democracy is available to all American citizens and not constrained by discriminatory election laws and policies.
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IFPTE “looks forward to a productive working relationship” with Kiran Ahuja as the OPM Director
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IFPTE Urges Congress to Approve Federal Employee Emergency Paid Sick Leave
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IFPTE members at SPEEA/Local 2001 and throughout our federation are urging Congress to include Aviation Jobs Manufacturing Act in the upcoming COVID relief package.
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"Gender Equality for Migrant Women and Gender-Diverse People in Canada – Reflections from the Middle of the Pandemic," asks what gender equality means for migrant women and gender-diverse people in Canada in 2021.
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Canada’s unions are marking Black History Month by calling for an end to systemic anti-Black racism.
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President Biden continued to scrub the federal government of anti-union ideologues by requesting the resignations of all ten members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP)
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IFPTE urged Congress to pass this long-overdue legislation to level the playing field between workers who want to form unions and employers who exploit weaknesses in the current law to frustrate union organizing drives and deny workers' legal union rights.
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President Paul Shearon issued a statement on behalf of the IFPTE family honoring former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney following his passing.
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Following this week’s introduction of the bipartisan PRO Act in the House of Representatives, IFPTE urged Congress to pass this long-overdue legislation to level the playing field between workers who want to form unions and employers who exploit weaknesses in the current law to frustrate union organizing drives and deny workers’ legal union rights.
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Congressman Andy Levin (D-MI) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduce H.R. 308, the SAFE Workers Act, which demands the NLRB use the available technology of the 21st century to conduct elections remotely, allowing workers to organize while ensuring the safest workplace possible during the pandemic.
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Judge Ashley Tabaddor, president of IFPTE Judicial Council 2, was selected by the Biden administration to serve as chief counsel of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
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In urging House lawmakers to sponsor the bipartisan bill, authored by Representatives Andy Levin (D-MI) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), which allows for electronic voting in union elections, IFPTE wrote that, “Pandemic or not, workers should maintain the right to organize unions, and form them in as safe an environment as possible.”
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