01.25.11
Attack on Government Workers
We Are Not the Problem!
Since the economic crisis began, federal and public workers have been attacked as the crux of our financial problems. See what’s really happening in the states and on the national level.
Public Sector:
02.09.12 - San Jose City Employees Vote to File Ethics Complaint Against Mayor Reed & Retirement Department Director
02.08.12 - House Surface Transportation Bill Falls Short
02.01.12 - IFPTE Endorses the Marketplace Fairness Act
12.09.11 - IFPTE Joins Public Sector Unions in Support of State and Local Government Streamlined Sales Tax Legislation
11.29.11 - IFPTE Joins Union Coalition in Opposing Another House Bill to Preempt State Taxing Authority
11.09.11 - Ohio Voters Reject Ohio Union Busting Senate Bill 5
10.31.11 - IFPTE Joins with Public Sector Unions in Opposing the "Wireless Tax Fairness Act"
10.12.11 - Governmental Accounting Standards Board Proposed Accounting Changes Will Weaken Public Sector Pensions
06.27.11 - Democratic Controlled NJ Legislature Signs Off on Union Busting Legislation
06.22.11 - The Struggle in New Jersey Continues
06.21.11 - IFPTE Tells New Jersey Assembly Members to Kill the Bill
06.17.11 - Not All New Jersey Democrats Are Union Busters
03.11.11 - A Letter to Governor Scott Walker
03.07.11 - Wisconsin - A short film shot entirely on the top of State Street at The Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin
03.01.11 - Junemann on Wisconsin Protests "Labor Must Work in Tandem"
02.25.11 - Labor Unity Rally
02.23.11 - What You Can Do to Help the Public Sector Workers in Wisconsin
02.22.11 - IFPTE Stands In Solidarity with Wisconsin Public Sector Workers
01.29.11 - Why Privatize the New Jersey Turnpike?
09.17.10 - IFPTE Urges the Department of Transportation, NJ Legislature, to Block Privatization of NJ Emergency Service Patrol Program
The Feds:
02.13.12 - IFPTE Responds to President Obama's Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Proposal
02.08.12 - House Surface Transportation Bill Falls Short
02.06.12 - Rep. Dennis Ross' Bill takes a Sledge Hammer to Federal Pensions
01.23.12 - Conferees Begin Meeting to Extend Payroll Tax Holiday, Long Term UI
01.20.12 - Federal Employees Still Being Targeted
12.21.11 - House GOP Fine with Increasing Taxes on Workers, and Leaving the Unemployed Out in the Cold During the Holidays
12.14.11 - HR 3630 Passes House
12.13.11 - House GOP UI and Payroll Tax Extension Bill Once Again Targets Federal Workers and the Unemployed
12.09.11 - Payroll Tax Extension at the Expense of Federal Employees? The Federal-Postal Coalition Says No
12.01.11 - IFPTE Opposes Senate Bill 1931
11.04.11 - IFPTE Calls for Collective Bargaining Rights, Pension Protections, for Local 1937 Members
10.28.11 - Chairman Issa Recommends Slash and Burn Federal Employee Policy to Super Committee: IFPTE Says No
10.17.11 - Senator Akaka Sends Recommendations Letter to Super Committee
10.14.11 - OMB Recommends Increases in TVA Worker Pension Contributions
10.11.11 - IFPTE Testifies on Benefits of Federal Government Partnerships
09.14.11 - Coalition of Federal Unions Weighs in with 'Super Committee' to Defend Federal Workforce
09.02.11 - IFPTE Letter to the Congressional 'Super Committee'
08.16.11 - POTUS Remarks On Labor Unions and Government Workers
08.12.11 - 'Essential' and 'Excepted' Federal Workers Should Be Inherently Governmental
08.04.11 - Union Busting Fuels FAA Shutdown
08.01.11 - IFPTE Responds, Debt Ceiling Deal Reached
06.21.11 - Maryland Senator, Barbara Mikulski, Says No to Attacks on Federal Pensions
06.17.11 - IFPTE Calls on Obama Administration to Reject Federal Employee only Tax on Pensions
06.06.11 - Rep. Tim Scott Union Busting Bill Aims to End Federal Dues Deduction
05.25.11 - House to Consider HR 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act
05.24.11 - Senate Primed to Vote on Anti-Worker Budget Proposals
04.27.11 - Obama Strongly Disapproves of Public Union Limits
02.17.11 - Issa, Rokita Amendments to HR 1 Aim to Further Cut Federal Employee Salaries
02.17.11 - IFPTE Defends NASA Exploration Program
02.16.11 - Weiner Amendment to HR 1 Would Cause NASA Job Losses
02.15.11 - House Lawmakers Take Aim at Eroding Federal Efficiencies and Union Representation
02.15.11 - IFPTE Opposes HR1, the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution
02.03.11 - Federal Workers Keep America Running: Every Hour of Every Day
02.01.11 - IFPTE, FWA to the White House - reject the recommendations made by the Deficit Commission
01.20.11 - IFPTE Says No to Congressional Attacks on Federal Workers
12.13.10 - Rich are Rich Enough; Help the Middle Class
12.07.10 - As Congress Works to Finalize FY Spending, IFPTE Urges Congress to Reject Federal Pay Freeze Proposal
12.02.10 - Ron's Rant
12.02.10 - IFPTE Calls Deficit Commission Report an Attack on Working Families
11.29.10 - President Obama to Freeze Federal Employee Pay in 2011, 2012
10.18.10 - Dissatisfaction in Federal Employee Pay Sign of Disconnect