IFPTE applauded the reintroduction of the Keep STEM Talent Act, S. 2384, legislation that provides international students graduating with U.S. STEM advanced degrees a pathway to permanence with STEM employment that pays above the median wage.
Read MoreIFPTE applauded the introduction of the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act, sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Senate Judiciary Committee Member Charles Grassley (R-IA), and cosponsored by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Read MoreAt a labor briefing for Senate staff, Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson shared the experiences of the TVA Engineering Association-Local 1937 members who successfully blocked their employer’s efforts to privatize their work to offshore-outsourcing firms replying on the H-1B work visa program.
Read More“Any national agenda that seeks to empower American workers and remove barriers to good-paying jobs in STEM occupations must include reforming the H-1B program so that it does not continue to harm American workers nor take advantage of H-1B workers.”
Read MoreIn urging all House members and Senators to cosponsor the Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies Act of 2020, IFPTE informed lawmakers that current bankruptcy laws, “permit, and even sometimes encourage employers to default on what has been earned by workers and abrogate hard-fought worker benefits won at the bargaining table, while at the same time awarding corporate executives with huge bonuses.”
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