In a major legal victory for IFPTE's federal membership and for all federal workers, a federal judge granted our petition for an injunction protecting IFPTE-represented employees working at the Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency from the Trump Administration’s March 27th union-busting executive order.
Read MoreThis week, IFPTE and other labor unions worked with Senators and a bipartisan group of Congressional Representatives to make sure Congress had a strong response supporting federal workers’ collective bargaining rights and told President Trump that his executive order (EO) to deny collective bargaining for 1.5 million federal workers is a illegitimate overreach, totally outside the law, and hurts the federal government.
Read More“Our union was formed in in U.S. Navy’s shipyards around the time of World War I and since then, every day, for more than a century, our members who are employed by the Department of Defense, The Department of Justice and other federal agencies have worked tirelessly to defend this nation. “
Read MoreIFPTE issued the following statement in response to last night's sweeping and illegal action by the Trump Administration to eliminate collective bargaining rights for federal workers across agencies, including the Department of Defense (DOD).
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