Under its 'Forward Together' campaign, the Canadian Labour Congress held a webinar discussion to talk about what needs to be done to ensure that Canada's income support programs work better, work for everyone, and are built to withstand the next economic crisis.
Read MoreAs the campaign for the provincial election officially gets underway, Saskatchewan citizens, including those represented by IFPTE, have a clear choice: re-electing a government that has made cuts to health care, education and public services, sold off crown corporations and made life harder for working people, or choosing a new government that will put workers first, and make investments in the public services we all depend on.
Read MoreEvery September 30, communities and organizations all over Canada participate in Orange Shirt Day. Established in 2013, Orange Shirt Day was created to educate people and promote awareness in Canada about the Indian residential school system and the impact it has had on Indigenous communities for over a century.
Read MoreWAPSO/IFPTE Local 162 is proud to announce the arrival of their new Labour Relations Officer, Tracy Schmidt.
Read MoreMembers of IFPTE Local 121 and the Hawaii Federal Employees Metal Trades Department sent a heartfelt note of gratitude to the IFPTE headquarters in appreciation for the support of IFPTE Locals and members throughout North America for the victims of the tragic shooting at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard last December.
Read MoreSPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 issued the following press release: The Boeing Company delivered layoff notices to its remaining seven Flight Training Airplane (FTA) pilots and will instead send the critical work of providing on-site training to airline customers to an overseas contract house. The 60-day notices of layoff eliminate all direct Boeing FTA pilots by the end of November – a critical moment in Boeing’s plan to return the 737MAX to service and start delivering the roughly 400 airplanes now parked around the West Coast.
Read MoreThe Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) will be hosting a webinar focused on “Replacing Lost Jobs With Better Ones” as part of the organization's Forward Together campaign.
Read MoreThe Ontario Federation of Labour has (OFL) sent an open letter to Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Health Christine Elliot, calling on them to declare racism a public health crisis.
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic is stretching Millennial parents to the breaking point and may set women in the labor force back decades.
Read MoreIn a series of emails sent this week from IFPTE Secretary-Treasurer Matt Biggs updating Locals on a potential federal government shutdown, he shared that “we are just eight days away from the end of Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20), and none of the twelve annual spending measures has been approved by Congress… absent passage of a continuing resolution by the end of the month, the government will shut down.”
Read MoreIn a letter to key lawmakers who are finalizing the Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA), IFPTE recommends permanent adoption of the 65/35 cost-share practice for inland waterways infrastructure modernization, as it “will provide even more stability for these projects, and, simply put, will continue to be a strong engine of job creation.”
Read MoreThe union representing engineers, pilots and other technical workers at Boeing sharply criticized the aircraft manufacturer today for its decision to fire the company’s U.S.-based training pilots and replace them with contract workers from Cambridge Communications Limited, a company located on the Isle of Man, a tax haven in the middle of the Irish Sea.
Read MoreOfficers of TEAM/IFPTE Local 161 informed members this week of union related news items and updates, including encouraging members to apply for eight scholarships available to members and family.
Read MoreIFPTE recently appointed new officers to Union Council 8 and the union moved their office from Roselle, NJ to Elizabeth, NJ.
Read MoreIn a statement from the union, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001) commended the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on their comprehensive investigation and report regarding the design, development and certification of the 737 MAX.
Read MoreIFPTE announced this week that the union has added Washington State Representative Beth Doglio to their bipartisan list of Congressional endorsements.
Read MoreJoin the Ontario Federation of Labour for a workshop on October 13 & 15 to discuss health and safety in COVID-19. This 2-part series will bring health and safety activists together to explore, find, and harness our inner knowledge activist self for the COVID-19 battle we are embroiled in.
Read MoreCanada’s unions applauded last week’s decision by the BC Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of the country’s single-payer health care system. The Cambie Surgeries Centre case put Canada’s public medicare system on trial and threatened the principle of universal and equal access to health care.
Read MoreIn a letter to committee members, IFPTE points to “our unbalanced corporate bankruptcy laws that have left workers at the mercy of a system that prioritizes corporate executive and Wall Street profits over that of employee wages, pensions and retiree health care benefits,” as one of several reasons for lawmakers to support the Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies Act.
Read MoreIFPTE responded this week to a September 4th OMB memorandum to federal government agencies calling diversity and inclusion training “divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions,” along with a directive that agencies “cease and desist,” from funding the training.
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