With mixed emotions, we announce that Assistant to the Executive Officers, Brian Kildee, will leave IFPTE on Friday, October 2.
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The Coalition of Labor Union Women held its National Executive Board Meeting and Educational Conference September 24-27 in Washington, DC.
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SPEEA/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.
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IFPTE is proud to endorse Adam Hamilton to represent the citizens of Kansas in the United States Senate.
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IFPTE celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month and honors ESC/Local 20 executive director Frankie Preciado.
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President 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.
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Canada’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.”
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Last 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.
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The Bargaining Unit Councils for SPEEA’s Professional and Technical units both recommended that their members accept the company’s latest contract offer.
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IFPTE 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.
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Members 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.
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IFPTE 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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The SPEEA Negotiation Team has concluded bargaining with Boeing and has received the company’s final offer.
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Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson was one of countless IFPTE leaders and members that participated in Labour Day festivities across the United States and Canada.
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The Society of United Professionals has officially opened its new Oshawa, Ontario office, marking an important milestone in its growing presence across Canada.
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IFPTE 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.
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Rhode 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.
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IFPTE 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).
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After months of work and weeks of negotiations with Boeing, the SPEEA Prof and Tech Negotiation Team unanimously endorsed the offers to both bargaining units. Details on voting are still being finalized.
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Bell Canada continues to add to the huge number of job reductions they have undertaken since their acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS), recently announcing yet another 19 unionized telecommunications jobs represented by TEAM/IFPTE Local 161.
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