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 MoreIFPTE’s Communications Rep Candace Rhett represented the International this week at a labor event with Virginia Congressman, Don Beyer.
Read MoreIFPTE is proud to endorse Adam Hamilton to represent the citizens of Kansas in the United States Senate.
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 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 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.
Read MoreIFPTE Local 777 President Agan Smalley attended an event in Chicago for IFPTE’s longtime friend, Congressman Danny Davis, on the occasion of his birthday on September 6, 2026.
Read MoreIFPTE issued the following statements in response to today’s launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the wide field infrared survey telescope mission built and managed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Read MoreIn a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership, IFPTE requested that lawmakers deny funding for the Trump Administration’s 50% tariffs on certain Canadian imports.
Read MoreThis approach toward our Canadian siblings, along with the Trump Administration’s continued attacks on Canada are detrimental to working families on both sides of the border.
Read MoreRhode Island AFL-CIO President, Patrick Crowley, alerted his senior Senator, Jack Reed, that the entire labor movement in his state stands strong behind bipartisan legislative language authored by New Jersey Congressman, Donald Norcross, to restore collective bargaining rights for DOD workers.
Read MoreIFPTE was proud to lend our support to the members and leaders of one of Chile’s largest public sector Unions, and fellow affiliate of Public Services International (PSI), the National Association of Fiscal Employees (Agrupacion Nacional de Emploeados [ANEF]), who testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an autonomous affiliate of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Read MoreThis week IFPTE weighed-in against the Trump Administration’s latest attack on federal workers through the Promoting Employee Accountability proposed rule.
Read MoreThe Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), of which IFPTE is affiliated, honoured Emancipation Day on August 1st, marking the day in 1834 when Canada and other British Colonies abolished slavery.
Read MoreThe Federal Workers Alliance (FWA) resent a letter signed by 19 labor unions, including IFPTE, to all Senate offices urging Senators to reject the nomination of Charlton Allen, the Trump Administration's nominee for General Counsel for the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA).
Read MoreThis week IFPTE met with Maine Senate candidate, Troy Jackson, to discuss his candidacy and priorities if elected to represent the citizens of Maine in the United States Senate.
Read MoreIFPTE Local 195 recently scored a victory for members when they reached a settlement with the state of New Jersey to guarantee reimbursements to impacted workers for their Clothing Maintenance Allowance (CMA).
Read More
