President Biggs joined radio legend and host of America’s Workforce Podcase, Ed “Flash” Ferenc, this week to discuss the Senate Republican majority’s efforts to ram through a budget reconciliation package.
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IFPTE leaders in New Jersey attended the New Jersey State AFL-CIO Endorsement Conference held in Atlantic City on June 16-18, 2025. Members from Locals 18, 194, 195, 196, and 200 were in attendance.
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The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that several anti-federal worker and anti-government provisions in the Senate's budget reconciliation bill violate procedural rules and must be removed.
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As Senate Republicans try to hastily assemble their version of a budget reconciliation bill that extends tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and for large corporations on the backs of working people, IFPTE and our coalition partners sent a letter to Senate Leadership opposing key provisions in the Senate bill.
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IFPTE weighed in with key Senators against the Senate budget reconciliation bill, particularly the draconian and ideologically-driven language from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) aimed at eliminating federal labor unions, turning the federal government into an at-will employer, and abrogating the co-equal branch of government constitutional responsibilities of the legislative branch over to the President.
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Lewis Engineers and Scientists Association (LESA/IFPTE Local 28) President, Dr. John Betterson, and Vice President, Samantha Yousef, hosted an information session this week for NASA workers employed at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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IFPTE’s executive offered comments condemning the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s (HSGAC) proposals for the Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill, which includes language that would eliminate official time and attack unions, among other things.
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This is our response to Trump's birthday military parade in DC, so let's make it really HUGE!!! Find an event or host one. Organize unions into a labor contingent.
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IFPTE issued an endorsement for James Walkinshaw, who is running to fill the seat left vacant after the sad passing of Congressman Gerry Connolly on May 21st.
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Nearly 200 Society members from Hydro One joined a solidarity rally in support of striking Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) workers, calling on the Ford government and the WSIB to deliver fair wages, end U.S. outsourcing, and improve workplace health and safety.
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On Thursday evening, Senator Josh Hawley and leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee launched an alarming and politically motivated campaign targeting over 200 non-government organizations (NGOs), announcing a sweeping investigation into these organizations' activities related to immigration, protest, and humanitarian support—without any evidence of wrongdoing.
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The House-passed budget reconciliation bill not only slashes Medicaid, but it also reverses energy tax credits for clean energy technologies supported by IFPTE, which were approved by Congress and signed into law by former President Joe Biden as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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The AFL-CIO’s Department of People Who Work for a Living (DPWL) recently held a series of hearings across the country to provide a platform for working people to express their views on the current administration’s policies, the impact of those policies on their lives, and what working people want from their government.
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IFPTE President Matt Biggs joined the Society of United Professionals (SUP/IFPTE Local 160) to hear remarks from the US Ambassador to Canada, the Honorable Pete Hoekstra, at an event hosted by the Empire Club of Canada.
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Members and leaders from Locals 194, 195, and Council 21, along with International Representative Karen Bellamy Lewis, rallied in Trenton this week to protest the state’s neglect of healthcare insurance reform for public sector and local government workers.
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IFPTE’s letter tells the House and Senate Appropriation Committee’s Subcommittee on on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies that “The President’s requested FY26 spending levels for NASA and the NASA Science budget are a call to willingly abandon American ingenuity, scientific leadership, and decades of investment.
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IFPTE held a press conference this week in New York condemning NASA’s closure of the Goddard Institute for Science Studies (GISS), located at Columbia University. The closure comes with no explanation from NASA and will leave upwards of 100 researchers and scientists, including 21 IFPTE-represented NASA workers, without space.
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, on May 19, signed a bill that extends unemployment insurance benefits to striking workers. With his signature, Washington became the third state (behind New York and New Jersey) to give strikers a financial lifeline.
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Despite IFPTE’s letter to all House lawmakers early Thursday morning outlining the historic immorality included in the Trump-backed House Republican budget reconciliation bill, the House of Representatives passed the bill by one vote at 6:55 am Thursday.
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The first budget tabled by Doug Ford’s Conservatives since the recent election is not a plan to protect Ontario; it’s a plan to reward Conservative insiders.
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