Before the Senate voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act, IFPTE sent letter urging lawmakers pass the bill and highlighting key items of importance to IFPTE members included in the bill.
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With the House and Senate Armed Services Committees working to craft a compromise bill, IFPTE urged the Committees’ chairs and ranking members to maintain the union’s priorities that were included in NDAA bill passed by the House in late September, H.R. 4350.
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November 29 to December 3 is a week of action at the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)! Join thousands scheduling virtual meetings with Member of Parliaments’ around the country. The time is now! If we want a progressive plan that puts people first in this recovery, we need the government to listen.
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This week, IFPTE shared the union’s list of endorsed amendments to the Senate National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022.
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IFPTE was one of 21 FWA unions urging the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to approve FLRA Board nominees Ernest DuBester and Susan T. Grundmann and FLRA General Counsel nominee Kurt Rumsfeld.
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This week, after a breakthrough on the Build Back Better Act, IFPTE told Members of the House of Representatives “[t]he time to pass the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is now.”
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This week Society of United Professionals/Local 160 leaders brought together government officials, SUP union members, and leaders from the larger Canadian labour movement to tour the world’s largest nuclear power plant, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station.
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IFPTE officers made the following statements after the introduction of the Social Security 2100 Act, legislation sponsored by Rep. John Larson that strengthens Social Security’s finances while also expanding benefits.
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IFPTE officers issued the following statement in response to yesterday’s House introduction of the bipartisan Public Sector Freedom to Negotiate Act, sponsored by Congressmen Matt Cartwright (D-PA), and cosponsored by Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and over 150 other Representatives.
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Last week, IFPTE Western Federal Area Vice President/Local 121 President Jamie Uyeunten and IFPTE President Matt Biggs served as delegates to the 71st Convention of the Metal Trades Department (MTD).
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Elections have consequences. This weeks’ announcement by Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh on boosting union representation in the federal sector is a positive consequence that stands in stark contrast to the policies of the previous administration.
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This week , Immigration Judges received an email message stating that the performance metrics imposed by the Trump administration which violated judicial ethics are now “suspended.”
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The CLC President met this week in Ottawa with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to discuss the challenges working people are still facing as Canada starts on the long road to an economic recovery.
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IFPTE joined with the Federal Workers Alliance (FWA) this week in calling on the Senate to finally advance President Biden’s nominations to the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA).
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With a lapse of Congressionally appropriated funding set to shut the government down on October 1, IFPTE told Senators and Representatives that “The absurd threat of a government shutdown must be avoided in the next few hours.”
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IFPTE joined the larger labor movement this week in urging Congressional lawmakers to cosponsor The Public Sector Freedom to Negotiate Act, which will soon be formally reintroduced.
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IFPTE’s letter to the House applauded the bipartisan bill while informing lawmakers the legislation, “provides for our nation’s security, supports uniformed service members and their families, honors and meets the needs of our veterans, and addresses several important issues that directly impact IFPTE members.”
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The letter calls on Education Secretary Cardona to take immediate executive action to deliver on the promise of PSLF by cancelling debts owed by all public service workers who have served for a decade or more and to address to improve the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
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IFPTE shipyard Local presidents signed a letter last week urging shipyard lawmakers to back two key amendments being authored by Washington State Congressman Derek Kilmer to the House National Defense Authorization Act to make whole Navy workers who lost pay and other benefits as a result of the Accellerated Promotion Program (APP) loophole, and the expand the scope of overtime pay for civilian shipyard employees working abroad
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This week, the committees in the House of Representatives began debating legislative proposals for the 2022 Budget Reconciliation package. In a letter to the Ways and Means Committee, IFPTE advocated in favor of provisions to expand Trade Adjustment Assistance, strengthening the proposed paid family and medical leave benefit, expanding Medicare benefits, and for “progressive pay-fors to offset the cost of the bill’s investments in innovation infrastructure, resilient supply chains, housing, clean energy, education, healthcare, childcare, paid leave, labor law enforcement, and more.”
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