Posts tagged Collective Bargaining
SOLIDARITY ALERT: The Ford Government Takes Aim at Public Sector Unions - LABOUR Fights Back

Doug Ford’s government is launching a full-frontal attack on basic labour freedoms in Ontario, specifically Education Minister Stephen Lecce’s efforts to pull the plug on bargaining with CUPE while it’s still underway, and use legislation to forcibly impose a contract on education workers.

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AALJ Meets in Washington, DC

The Association of Administration Law Judges (AALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1) held its hybrid meeting in Washington, DC. The meeting, chaired by AALJ President Judge Som Ramrup, focused on the internal business of the union, while also including discussions on bargaining, representational, legislative and communications plans moving forward.

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Anti-Union Majority on Federal Labor Board Throws a Wrench in the Gears of Justice -- FLRA Ruling is Contrary to the Position of Imm. Judges, DOJ, and the Biden Administration

In a cynical attempt to bust the union that has represented and given voice to the nation’s immigration judges for nearly half a century, two anti-union board members of the three-member Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) have voted to strip collective bargaining rights from judges and their union.

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Judges’ Union Says Social Security Leaders Refuse to Accept that Trump Era is Over

The Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1) has been in an ongoing labor dispute with the Social Security Administration (SSA). The union reports that it is extremely disappointed with the agency’s latest rejection of its contract offer. AALJ offered to resume negotiations if the agency would withdraw what it called a Trump-era union-busting order from the Federal Service Impasses Panel to impose nine disputed articles of the contract. SSA and AALJ-IFPTE have reached agreement on another 20 articles.

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IFPTE Calls on Congress to Pass the PRO Act, Urgently Needed Labor Law Reform

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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