MOBILIZATION CLEARINGHOUSE
Find info on labor events, rallies, and Congressional email and call-in campaigns to defend federal government workers and union rights, make sure public services that working families count on are funded, stop the Trump/DOGE privatization agenda, and protect our democracy.
If you have an upcoming event or action that you’d like to add to this list, please send information to info@ifpte.org.
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Make a Call: Restore Federal Bargaining Rights Now
On March 27, President Trump signed an executive order that ripped the right to collectively bargain away from hundreds of thousands of federal workers. This was the single biggest act of union-busting in American history.
On April 1, Reps. Jared Golden (D-ME) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced a bipartisan bill in Congress that would nullify Trump’s executive order stripping the right to collectively bargain from hundreds of thousands of federal employees. This bill is called the Protect America’s Workforce Act, H.R. 2550, and has 222 cosponsors in the House of Representatives, including 7 Republicans and all Democrats in the House.
The Protect America’s Workforce Act deserves a vote on the House floor without delay.
It’s time for Congress to hear from supporters of working people on a bill that will help working people across the country.
Union-busting is wholly unacceptable—whether it’s on the shop floor or in the federal government. The Protect America’s Workforce Act is simple, bipartisan legislation that restores the rights of those who ensure we get our Social Security checks, care for our veterans, inspect our food, and protect our health and safety to have a union. Congress needs to get this done.
Read AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler’s statement on the Federal Collective Bargaining Executive Order: “Very Definition of Union-Busting”
Respect NASA’s Past, Protect NASA’s Future — Tell Congress to Fund NASA and Stop Budget Cuts that Destroy America's Scientific and Aerospace Leadership
NASA is threatened by an extinction-level event: Massive budget cuts to NASA will dismantle the world's leading space, aeronautics, scientific research, and engineering agency.
The President’s Budget Request asks Congress to shrink NASA’s budget by 25%, including cuts to the NASA Science budget and Space Technology budget by close to 50%, and cuts to aeronautics by 37%.
The President’s Budget Proposal also cuts all spending for NASA’s STEM engagement (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), meaning the work NASA does to educate schoolkids, provide internships, and encourage young Americans to pursue careers in aerospace and science would be destroyed.
The steep cuts to the NASA budget are deeply wasteful, cancelling 19 space probes and observatories that are successfully underway, and stopping numerous science, space, and aeronautics research projects that NASA’s business partners are close to delivering and launching. Cancelling these projects is a massive waste of the investments that taxpayers have already made.
Here’s the good news: So far, Senators in both parties support maintaining current funding levels for NASA and are rejecting cuts to aeronautics, science, space technology, and human space exploration.
Now Congress needs to hear from Americans that respect NASA’s legacy and want to protect NASA’s future: Tell your Senators and Congressional Representative to keep funding NASA to continue pioneering advancements and American leadership in space, aeronautics, engineering, and science.
America is facing another “Sputnik” moment, where foreign nations are competing with our nation’s leadership in science, engineering, technological development, and space – this is a time for national investment in NASA and in science, not retreat.
Getting NASA astronauts back to the moon, exploring Mars, and establishing lunar and Mars habitats requires funding basic science research, engineering, and developing technologies. And NASA will need scientists, researchers, and technologists on Earth who make human space exploration possible, and make scientific discoveries based on the work astronauts do in orbit, on the moon, Mars, and while traveling through space.
Read IFPTE’s letters to the House and the Senate and the Senate’s bipartisan support for NASA’s budget here.
“Hands Off TVA! Tell Congress to Oppose TVA Privatization -- Keep TVA Locally Run and Locally Accountable”
TVA works for the people of the Tennessee Valley, with a mandate to deliver reliable and affordable electricity to 10 million people in parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA serves the public by delivering power to the people of the seven-state service area, protecting the region’s natural resources, and supporting economic development of the Tennessee Valley.
Though TVA is government-owned, it funds itself by selling electricity and raising additional money through bond sales, the same as a privately-owned utility. It does not take in any federally appropriated funding.
TVA’s 9-member board of directors is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. In recent weeks, President Trump has removed several members of the TVA board, leaving just 3 members on the board, and has now sent 5 board nominees to the Senate. This would be a massive overhaul of the TVA board and could change TVA’s public service mission and even result in the privatization of TVA – selling TVA to the private sector would raise electricity rates and could harm service reliability, delay investments in clean energy, and change TVA’s foundation of economic development for the people of the Tennessee Valley.
America built TVA from the ground up in 1935, and TVA has delivered safe, reliable, efficient electricity for the Tennessee Valley service area for the last 90 years. Today, TVA is uniquely qualified to build America’s first Small Modular Reactor (SMR) or new advanced large-scale nuclear plants.
TVA workers are ready and able to move us into the future. We have the expertise and knowledge. TVA leadership is working in partnership with unions to power our 21st-century economy. We are ready. We do not need to be fixed! We need to be unleashed to do what we know how to do.
Let’s protect our low power rates that affect every working family in the TVA service area from 12-15% rate increases. Let’s protect those who have served the Valley residents and businesses, those who have lived and worked here for nearly a full century.
EVENTS
AFL-CIO LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ‘IT’S BETTER IN A UNION’ BUS TOUR
The AFL-CIO launched a nationwide “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour to demand freedom, fairness, and security for all working people. The summer of action and bus tour will spend nearly two months crisscrossing the country, leading into Labor Day with stops in 26 states (view the destinations for Bus A and Bus B). And as we gear up for our biggest Labor Day yet, please make sure to enter your events in Mobilize.
Find labor rallies and union events near you at the AFL-CIO’s mobilze.us page. View a map of labor events and rallies here.