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IFPTE Calls on Congressional Representatives to Sign the Discharge Petition to Uphold Federal Workers’ Collective Rights and Stop the Single Largest Union-Busting Effort in American History

The executive officers of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) joined with Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Congressional Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar (D-TX) to announce the discharge petition to bring the Protect America’s Workforce Act, H.R. 2550, to a House floor vote.

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IFPTE Locals Throughout New Jersey Join State Labor Movement in Opposing Governor Murphy’s 37% Healthcare Cost Hike – Urge Legislature to Return to Trenton

IFPTE and the New Jersey AFL-CIO were among the more than a dozen unions representing well over 140,000 workers in New Jersey calling on state lawmakers to return to the state capitol in Trenton and pass legislation mitigating Governor Murphy’s proposed 37% hike in healthcare costs for state workers. 

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IFPTE Executive Officers Released a Statement on the House of Representatives’ s Vote on the Republican Funding Bill

Congressional Republicans were barely able to scrape together enough votes from their own party to pass their bill that contains the broad policy agenda of their own president.  This political win for a handful of out-of-touch Washington insiders represents a devastating loss for American families living paycheck to paycheck. 

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IFPTE Condemns Senate Republican Bill That Extends Billionaire Tax Cuts on the Backs of Working Americans, Children, Veterans, and Seniors

The executive officers of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) commented on the Senate’s passage of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” H.R. 1, budget reconciliation, which extends President Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires and corporations and offsets some of the costs through cutting nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) while adding over $4 trillion to the national debt through 2034. Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is considering amendments and racing to pass this bill before July 4.

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IFPTE Urges Senate to Reject Budget Reconcialtion Bill That Wrecks Our Safety Net, State Budgets, the Economy and Jobs for the Benefit of the Very Wealthy and Corporations

As the Senate began debating a partisan budget reconciliation bill that will increase the national debt by $4.5 billion over 10 years to deliver tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the very wealthy and corporation, IFPTE told Senators to oppose this bill on the grounds that it “will deprive millions of Americans of health coverage, increase the cost of living and lower the standard of living for working Americans, hurt our nation’s health systems and health insurance coverage, burden on state and local governments with budget deficits.”

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IFPTE Asks House Appropriations Committee to Fund GAO and CRS So Congress Can Support Robust Oversight and Good Governance

This week, IFPTE sent a letter requesting the House Appropriations Committee and the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee provide funding for the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Research Service at adequate levels that allow these agencies “to provide nonpartisan, objective, and authoritative research and analysis that Members of Congress from across the political spectrum can trust.”

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IFPTE Condemns Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill Proposals to Bust Federal Employee Unions, Harm All Working Americans, and the Public Interest

IFPTE weighed in with key Senators against the Senate budget reconciliation bill, particularly the draconian and ideologically-driven language from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) aimed at eliminating federal labor unions, turning the federal government into an at-will employer, and abrogating the co-equal branch of government constitutional responsibilities of the legislative branch over to the President.

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