Members of TEAM/IFPTE Local 161 gathered in Winnipeg and online this week for the union’s Annual General Meeting, with nearly a third of the membership taking part.
Read More
As bargaining gets underway at the Bruce Power Local, a solidarity video was created to show all Bruce members and their bargaining team that the SUP and IFPTE Union family has their back.
Read More
IFPTE Local 196-represented members employed by the Long Branch Housing Authority scored huge wins as a part of their recently completed contract negotiations.
Read More
IFPTE authored a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees (HASC and SASC) urging them to include certain provisions in the conferenced FY27 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill.
Read More
This week, IFPTE urged the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee and Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee to reconcile the House-passed bill (h.r. 9497) with the Senate EPW Committee approved bill (S. 4949) and include IFPTE priorities.
Read More
The GAO Employees Organization (IFPTE Local 1921) sent a message to their members addressing the issue of a potential nominee to serve as GAO’s Comptroller General.
Read More
World Day for Decent Work is an opportunity for the labour movement to take action for decent work to be placed at the centre of economic and government policy, including the protection of fundamental workers rights.
Read More
IFPTE’s Communications Rep Candace Rhett represented the International this week at a labor event with Virginia Congressman, Don Beyer.
Read More
MFL President Kevin Rebeck is calling for an independent review of the Workers Compensation Board’s injury prevention system, saying, “Manitoba workers deserve better than last place.”
Read More
IFPTE International Representative David LaFemina joined Solvang, California public servants on the picket line last week.
Read More
With mixed emotions, we announce that Assistant to the Executive Officers, Brian Kildee, will leave IFPTE on Friday, October 2.
Read More
The Coalition of Labor Union Women held its National Executive Board Meeting and Educational Conference September 24-27 in Washington, DC.
Read More
SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 announced that the 17,000 members in the union’s Professional and Technical bargaining units have both ratified four-year contract offers from Boeing.
Read More
On September 30, 2026, IFPTE recognizes Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the annual national holiday committed to memorializing the victims and survivors of the Canadian Indian Residential School system, whose purpose was to strip Indigenous peoples of their cultures, identities, languages, and ways of life.
Read More
IFPTE is proud to endorse Adam Hamilton to represent the citizens of Kansas in the United States Senate.
Read More
IFPTE celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month and honors ESC/Local 20 executive director Frankie Preciado.
Read More
President Matt Biggs, along with AFGE president, Everett Kelley, NTEU president, Doreen Greenwald, and NFFE president, Randy Erwin, participated in a Capitol Hill press conference urging Congress to reject President Trump’s federal worker pay freeze proposal.
Read More
Canada’s unions are united in opposition to proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code that would give the federal government broad new powers to end legal strikes in the “national interest.”
Read More
Last week, members of the Society of United Professionals/Local 160 came together in five locations for the union’s Empowerment Day 2026, a day of learning, connection and reflection centered on the theme of Wellbeing, Psychological Safety and Belonging.
Read More
The Bargaining Unit Councils for SPEEA’s Professional and Technical units both recommended that their members accept the company’s latest contract offer.
Read More