This week, IFPTE urged the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee and Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee to reconcile the House-passed bill (h.r. 9497) with the Senate EPW Committee approved bill (S. 4949) and include IFPTE priorities.
Read MoreThe GAO Employees Organization (IFPTE Local 1921) sent a message to their members addressing the issue of a potential nominee to serve as GAO’s Comptroller General.
Read MoreWorld Day for Decent Work is an opportunity for the labour movement to take action for decent work to be placed at the centre of economic and government policy, including the protection of fundamental workers rights.
Read MoreIFPTE’s Communications Rep Candace Rhett represented the International this week at a labor event with Virginia Congressman, Don Beyer.
Read MoreMFL President Kevin Rebeck is calling for an independent review of the Workers Compensation Board’s injury prevention system, saying, “Manitoba workers deserve better than last place.”
Read MoreIFPTE International Representative David LaFemina joined Solvang, California public servants on the picket line last week.
Read MoreWith mixed emotions, we announce that Assistant to the Executive Officers, Brian Kildee, will leave IFPTE on Friday, October 2.
Read MoreThe Coalition of Labor Union Women held its National Executive Board Meeting and Educational Conference September 24-27 in Washington, DC.
Read MoreSPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 announced that the 17,000 members in the union’s Professional and Technical bargaining units have both ratified four-year contract offers from Boeing.
Read MoreOn September 30, 2026, IFPTE recognizes Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the annual national holiday committed to memorializing the victims and survivors of the Canadian Indian Residential School system, whose purpose was to strip Indigenous peoples of their cultures, identities, languages, and ways of life.
Read MoreIFPTE is proud to endorse Adam Hamilton to represent the citizens of Kansas in the United States Senate.
Read MoreIFPTE celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month and honors ESC/Local 20 executive director Frankie Preciado.
Read MorePresident Matt Biggs, along with AFGE president, Everett Kelley, NTEU president, Doreen Greenwald, and NFFE president, Randy Erwin, participated in a Capitol Hill press conference urging Congress to reject President Trump’s federal worker pay freeze proposal.
Read MoreCanada’s unions are united in opposition to proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code that would give the federal government broad new powers to end legal strikes in the “national interest.”
Read MoreLast week, members of the Society of United Professionals/Local 160 came together in five locations for the union’s Empowerment Day 2026, a day of learning, connection and reflection centered on the theme of Wellbeing, Psychological Safety and Belonging.
Read MoreThe Bargaining Unit Councils for SPEEA’s Professional and Technical units both recommended that their members accept the company’s latest contract offer.
Read MoreIFPTE joined members and leaders from dozens of unions and AFL-CIO staff and departments on Capitol Hill this week as a part of a Senate lobby day to advocate for defending the bargaining rights for federal workers and stopping the largest union busting effort in American history.
Read MoreOn the last day of the House of Representatives’ September session, IFPTE-backed Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) was passed with a overwhelming majority of support, by a vote of 415-9.
Read MoreMembers of The Society of United Professionals’ Bruce Local gathered for their Annual General Meeting to receive updates on local activities, bargaining, and the work underway to strengthen member engagement.
Read MoreIFPTE was pleased to see that 110 members of Congress, lead by Federal Workforce Caucus leaders, Reps. James Walkinshaw, Steny Hoyer and Brian Fitzpatrick, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, signed a letter to House and Senate leadership this week urging them to, “reject the Trump Administration’s proposed pay freeze.
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