The OFL is urging all political parties in Ontario to support NDP MPP Peggy Sattler’s Private Members Bill, entitled “Stay Home If You Are Sick Act” of 2020.
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AALJ's survey of membership found that the leadership and policy direction at the Social Security has lost the trust and confidence of the agency's administrative law judges.
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Ahead of the House vote to pass the NDAA, IFPTE's letter called on representatives to support civilian DOD workers, federal employees, and uniformed service members.
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As federal agencies are planning for vaccinations of federal workers, IFPTE requests that the Trump Administration provide the union with “assurances in writing from that federal frontline workers are granted higher priority than either political appointees."
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Judge Melissa McIntosh, president of JC1, recently responded to the Social Security Administration’s latest attempt to erode the constitutional due process protections of disability claimants
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IFPTE responded this week to legislation (Bill 16) being advocated for by Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, aimed squarely at Provincial workers and their unions, declaring that the effort, “will lead to further divisiveness in labour relations with Manitoba’s public servants, and result in a disservice to taxpayers.”
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On Election Day, the Trump Administration's Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) issued a stunning decision that all members of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 2) would lose their collective bargaining rights because they are supposedly managers. In what was described by FLRA member Ernie DuBester, who dissented from the misguided ruling, called the ruling of his two FLRA colleagues, "the antithesis of reasoned decision-making."
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The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) said the Fall 2020 Ontario Budget fails to deliver urgent assistance for Ontarians and their families. The legacy of this budget will be its failure to prioritize the needs of the people of Ontario – robust public service investment, safety, and immediate income supports needed to get through this second wave of COVID-19
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IFPTE has joined in coalition with FWA unions in urging lawmakers to block implementation of Executive Order 13957. The FWA urged a defund of the order, warning lawmakers that it is intended to “eviscerate the federal government’s merit system principals, open the door to the politicization of the federal workforce, strip hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their due process rights, and give agencies carte blanche to dismantle collective bargaining units.”
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In response to last week's executive order "obliterating vast portions of the merit-based selection process for executive branch employees,” NAIJ/Judicial Council 2 released the following press release.
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President Trump issued an executive order that will allow political appointees to be embedded into the career federal civil service, open the door for the dismantling of collective bargaining units, and render workers, including IFPTE represented Administrative Law Judges, as at-will employees.
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The Pallister Government dropped a bill (Bill 16) to gut Manitoba’s Labour Relations Act. Among the most egregious provisions of the bill are the elimination of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process, mandating costly and onerous financial reporting requirements upon unions, and liberalizing the union decertification process.
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In a series of emails sent this week from IFPTE Secretary-Treasurer Matt Biggs updating Locals on a potential federal government shutdown, he shared that “we are just eight days away from the end of Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20), and none of the twelve annual spending measures has been approved by Congress… absent passage of a continuing resolution by the end of the month, the government will shut down.”
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IFPTE responded this week to a September 4th OMB memorandum to federal government agencies calling diversity and inclusion training “divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions,” along with a directive that agencies “cease and desist,” from funding the training.
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Following IFPTE's letter last week urging Congress to block implementation of the Trump Administration's fiscally irresponsible payroll tax deferral policy, Senators Van Hollen and Collins led an effort this week in the Senate urging OPM and OMB to allow federal workers to opt out of the deferral.
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House Government Reform Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly ramped up oversight of agencies across the federal government this week by releasing his 'IG response tracker'.
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While urging Congress to approve legislation to block implementation of the payroll tax deferral, IFPTE warns that the presidential directive, “will needlessly leave federal workers with a significant tax debt that will have to be re-paid next year,” and, “could be a dangerous step toward the slippery slope of dismantling Social Security altogether.”
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As House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders work to reconcile the final Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, IFPTE weighs-in with key lawmakers on several issues impacting IFPTE’s membership.
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In a decision and order upholding the union rights of Immigration Judges, the FLRA rejected DOJ's claim that NAIJ members are managers and create or modify immigration policy.
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The SSA moved to implement the FLRA’s union busting policy dealing with the collection of union dues, while concurrently attempting to illegally and unilaterally impose a partial a collective bargaining agreement onto the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ), IFPTE Judicial Council 1.
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