Brother Sean McBride, President of IFPTE Local 196 and IFPTE Atlantic Area Vice President, paid a visit last week to the Mississippi to meet with the state’s Labor Federation President Robert Shaffer. McBride discussed a range of issues with President Shaffer.
Read MoreCongressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA), a steadfast supporter of workers’ rights and issues that matter to working Americans, is preparing to reintroduce the Tax Fairness for Workers Act and IFPTE is asking Representatives to cosponsor the legislation. This bill would restore the federal income tax deduction for union dues as well as the tax deduction for unreimbursed business expenses, both of which were removed by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Read MoreFor far too long, American labor laws and protections have needed to be updated to restore workers’ rights to form and join unions and negotiate with their employers. That’s why we need Congress to pass the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize, the PRO Act.
Read MorePaul Shearon talked this week directly to his fellow SPEEA/Local 2001 members about the importance of voting to pass a union referendum aimed at broadening the Local’s ability to organize in the aerospace industry.
Read MoreFacing a steady loss of members and The Boeing Company pushing more jobs outside SPEEA-Local 2001 represented bargaining units, the SPEEA Council recently approved a membership vote to remove roadblocks to expanding SPEEA’s membership.
Read MoreIFPTE is happy to share that, after nearly two years of negotiations, ESC-Local 20 members employed at the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) have ratified a first contract that achieves all of the union membership’s key bargaining priorities!
Read MoreThis week, OPM issued guidance to federal agencies to remove barriers to union’s access to represented employees, improve federal employees’ ability to join unions, and provide training to federal managers and supervisors that stresses maintaining neutrality during union organizing campaigns.
Read MoreThis week the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment released a report detailing 70 recommendations that the Biden Administration is pushing to, “promote worker organizing and collective bargaining for federal employees and for workers employed by public and private-sector employers.”
Read MoreRemarking on the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment’s report, IFPTE President Biggs thanked Pres. Biden and VP Harris “for continuing to make good on their commitment to working Americans by using the power of the Executive Branch to support the right to organize and bargain collectively.”
Read MoreJoin the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and Justice for Workers (formerly $15 & Fairness campaign) for their monthly online organizing meeting on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.
Read MoreThe EPI report, “New Evidence of Widespread Wage Theft in the H-1B Visa Program,” analyses an internal document from India-based IT staffing firm HCL Technologies and reveals an offshore-outsourcing model that abuses the H-1B program to hire foreign guestworkers at wages below what U.S. workers are paid. The HCL document shows H-1B workers at the firm were underpaid at least $95 million in just one year.
Read MoreMembers of IFPTE were represented at yesterday's White House tree lighting ceremony by Daniel Perez, Vice President for Organizing of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU/IFPTE Local 70). Brother Perez and other attendees were treated to a star-studded musical performance that included the great Patti LaBelle.
Read MoreIFPTE President Matt Biggs appeared on Federal News Network to discuss the impact of President Biden’s Executive Order on worker organizing, particularly with respect to federal workers.
Read MoreThe members of the Equitable Growth Union have ratified a collective bargaining agreement with Washington Center for Equitable Growth (Equitable Growth) management. This agreement is the first union contract for employees of Equitable Growth, who formed a union with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU/IFPTE Local 70) in July 2019.
Read MoreEvery Texan and its staff union, Every Texan United, part of the Nonprofit Professionals Employees Union-IFPTE Local 70 (NPEU), announced this week the ratification Every Texan United’s contract, marking the first NPEU contract in a right-to-work FOR LESS state.
Read MoreSPEEA-Local 2001 hosted its annual leadership conference on Saturday, June 12th. The conference, under the theme “Uniting for a Better Future”, was held virtually and attended by more than 100 elected council representatives.
Read MoreThe organizing committees of Brookings United and the Urban Institute Employees’ Union has issued a joint statement calling “on the management of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute to respect the right of staff to form a union and to refrain from any actions that could be construed as discouraging us from exercising this right.” The statement comes as the staff of these respective non-profits are organizing with NPEU/IFPTE Local 70.
Read MoreAnimal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) staffers have unionized! In late March, a super majority of staffers voted in an NLRB election to join the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU/IFPTE Local 70).
Read MoreIFPTE President Paul Shearon commented, “It is appalling that a corporation worth upwards of 1 trillion dollars, and owned by the richest person on the face of the earth, is going to extraordinary lengths to intimidate and threaten their workers in order to prevent them from forming a union.”
Read MoreFollowing 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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