IFPTE President Matthew Biggs spoke to the Kansas City Star and the Washington Post this week to express the union’s grave concerns about the fallout a U.S. debt default would cause across the American and global economies.
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Owen Herrnstadt, who was the longtime director of the Machinists union’s Trade and Globalization Department, was confirmed this week with bipartisan support by the U.S. Senate to serve on the Board of Directors at the United States Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank).
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IFPTE President Matthew Biggs and Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson issued a statement in applauding the findings in the Congressional Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Democrats and the House Education & Labor Committee report titled, “Unions Provide Major Economic Benefits for Workers and Families.”
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IFPTE joined a diverse coalition of 529 national and local organizations that includes labor unions, civil rights groups, community organizations, student groups, and organizations representing Americans from all parts of the nation called on the Biden-Harris Administration to take immediate and bold action to cancel student loan debt.
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The enacted legislation provides $1.9 trillion of economic relief to help local communities, workers, families, and maintain jobs in parts of the economy severely impacted by the pandemic.
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The $1.9 trillion relief package includes IFPTE members’ most urgent priorities and provisions to help working families in every congressional district.
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As Congress prepares to consider the next COVID relief bill, IFPTE requested Congress include key priorities and address urgent needs of IFPTE members and American workers, families, and communities.
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IFPTE calls for “much more meaningful aid to working families, including providing robust funding to our State and Local governments.”
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IFPTE submitted a public comment arguing against any flexibility that weakens the Bank’s commitment to promoting and supporting domestic manufacturing and services and American workers.
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