The Society of United Professionals/Local 160 President Rebecca Caron met with Ontario Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce last week to discuss the province's plans for expanding nuclear energy and the workforce needed to support it.
Read MoreIFPTE International joined several IFPTE Locals, including Local 777, rank-and-file members and others in the labor movement in providing comments last week in opposition to the Trump Administration’s efforts to force federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements.
Read MoreNegotiators for SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 began formal contract talks with Boeing on July 1.
Read MoreWorkers employed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Fisheries Pacific Islands Region in Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and CNMI voted overwhelmingly last week to be represented by IFPTE Local 8A.
Read MoreSPEEA members showed up strong for Seattle’s 52nd annual Pride Parade, which took place on Sunday, June 28th.
Read MoreSpeaking in her capacity as President of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), IFPTE Judicial Council 2, Judge Holly D’Andrea talked to The New York Times’ The Daily podcast to discuss the political, structural, and resource pressures that the immigration judges and the the immigration court faces.
Read MoreThe Society of United Professionals/IFPTE Local 160 proudly celebrates Executive Board member Sharon Archer on receiving the Individual Recognition for Indigenous Activism Award at the Bromley Armstrong Awards.
Read MoreThe Society of United Professionals applauds the federal government’s release this week of Canada’s Nuclear Energy Strategy, calling it the most significant federal commitment to nuclear workers and clean energy in a generation.
Read MorePresident Matt Biggs and Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson joined Valley Labor Report host, Jacob Morrison, earlier this month in Minneapolis while attending the AFL-CIO convention.
Read MoreSPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001’s Executive Board issued a letter of support to UNITE HERE Local 8, representing the Hilton workers at Embassy Suites, Seattle.
Read MoreIFPTE Local 21 released a Happy Pride video featuring their President, Bianca Polovina, to celebrate Pride Month.
Read MoreIFPTE urged all Members of the House Committee on Rules to advance a bipartisan amendment to an appropriations bill that supports IFPTE Local 98 members’ effort to keep U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) offices in New York City from being relocated.
Read MoreIFPTE is proud to endorse Congresswoman Suzan DelBene as she seeks re-election to represent Washington's 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Read MoreIFPTE international officers and staff, along with DC area Local leaders and members, gathered at the IFPTE Union House in Washington, DC to thank our colleague, Karen Nairn, for her 28 years of dedicated service to our Union.
Read MoreIFPTE is saddened to share that our Union Brother, Mike Calleo, passed away peacefully on June 8th.
Read MoreSPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 Council Reps from three states came together for the annual SPEEA Council Convention and Leadership Conference last week in SEATAC, Washington.
Read MoreIFPTE sent a letter to all House members this week urging them to vote in support of the pro-union bipartisan Faster Labor Contracts Act (H.R. 5408), championed by Democratic Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ) and Republican Congressman Pete Stauber (MN).
Read MoreIFPTE successfully worked last week to defeat legislation sponsored by South Carolina Representative, Nancy Mace, that would have lifted the moratorium on DOD A-76 competitions to determine whether federal work is appropriate for outsourcing and privatization.
Read MoreThe CLC spoke at the Int’l Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland calling on governments around the globe to ensure workers have a meaningful role in shaping their economic future, including artificial intelligence, while warning against efforts to weaken collective bargaining and the right to strike.
Read MoreMembers and staff of TEAM/IFPTE Local 161 gathered this week in Winnipeg for the unit’s annual Take-a-Break lunch events.
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