The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is calling on the Government of Ontario to fund, collect, and publish provincial data on the impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous, Black, and other racialized Ontarians.
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In spite of Society leaders’ and members’ health and safety concerns, earlier this month Ontario Power Generation (OPG) began requiring employees who had been working from home to return to their normal work location.
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EA/IFPTE Local 1937 President Gay Henson and IFPTE President Paul Shearon called in to the Valley Labor Report to share what the Tennessee Valley Authority is trying to do to its IT workers.
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IFPTE was one of thirteen labor organizations signing a letter this week to Congressional leaders urging inclusion of funding and a directive in the next COVID relief bill, “for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to develop a system and procedure for conducting union representation elections electronically.”
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IFPTE sent a letter to Congress alerting lawmakers that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will outsource hundreds of IT jobs to companies "based overseas, or otherwise outside of the US," and whose business model "relies heavily on knowledge transfer."
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As Congress was just completing another spending package this week worth nearly $500 billion aimed at saving jobs, the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal government entity, was moving full steam ahead in outsourcing hundreds of IT jobs.
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House Federal Operations Subcommittee Chairman, Gerry Connolly, led a sign-on letter today informing FLRA Chairperson Kiko that, “It is unacceptable that the FLRA and the Trump Administration would take this radical and unprecedented action to restrict the rights of federal employees as they work around the clock to keep our country safe amid this global coronavirus pandemic.”
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The newly organized Union of Open Markets staff joins the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU/IFPTE Local 70).
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The Senators led a letter this week to Defense Secretary Esper in response to the Trump Administration’s efforts for the wholesale elimination of collective bargaining for DOD’s more than 700,000 civilian workers.
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