Monday was both Valentine's Day and Union Women Equal Pay Day - a full month before Equal Pay Day for all women - because of the union advantage
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The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) will be convening an Activist Assembly on Sunday, March 6.
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This week the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment released a report detailing 70 recommendations that the Biden Administration is pushing to, “promote worker organizing and collective bargaining for federal employees and for workers employed by public and private-sector employers.”
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IFPTE made it clear this week that all professional workers throughout the United States should have the right to organize, including Congressional staff.
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Remarking on the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment’s report, IFPTE President Biggs thanked Pres. Biden and VP Harris “for continuing to make good on their commitment to working Americans by using the power of the Executive Branch to support the right to organize and bargain collectively.”
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The staff union at the Center for American Progress (CAP) announced its membership voted to reject CAP management’s most recent offer on starting salaries and annual raises and to allow their collective bargaining agreement to expire.
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IFPTE issued the following statement after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reported favorably the nomination of Susan T. Grundmann for Member of the FLRA.
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In a cynical attempt to bust the union that has represented and given voice to the nation’s immigration judges for nearly half a century, two anti-union board members of the three-member Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) have voted to strip collective bargaining rights from judges and their union.
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Join the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and other organizations on January 26 at 7:00 P.M. ET for a panel discussion on building the fight-back to protect workers in the gig economy.
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Statement by President Joe Biden On Kellogg Collective Bargaining Negotiations
Collective bargaining is an essential tool to protect the rights of workers that should be free from threats and intimidation from employers.
The EPI report, “New Evidence of Widespread Wage Theft in the H-1B Visa Program,” analyses an internal document from India-based IT staffing firm HCL Technologies and reveals an offshore-outsourcing model that abuses the H-1B program to hire foreign guestworkers at wages below what U.S. workers are paid. The HCL document shows H-1B workers at the firm were underpaid at least $95 million in just one year.
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Today’s announcement of a settlement between the Department of Justice and IFPTE’s affiliate, the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 2), restores basic rights to the nation’s immigration judges and helps to protect judicial independence.
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DoorDash workers in San Francisco will receive restitution from $5.13 million dollar settlement.
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ESC/IFPTE Local 20 struck Kaiser Permanente in sympathy with colleagues from Local 39, alongside 40,000 other SEIU-UHW and OPEIU Local 29 union members. The sympathy strike was held on November 18.
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On Wednesday, November 17, 2021, the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for TEAM/IFPTE Local 161 took place virtually, once again taking full advantage of the products and services offered by Local members at Bell Canada. The membership has been dealing with the extensive workload the COVID-19 pandemic has added to the telecommunications industry.
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IFPTE urged Representatives to vote yes on the Build Back Better Act and the Senate-passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, “complementary bills that meet the needs of working people, support good-paying union jobs, strengthen our economy’s competitiveness and resiliency, and address immediate and future challenges that climate change presents.”
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IFPTE President Matt Biggs appeared on Federal News Network to discuss the impact of President Biden’s Executive Order on worker organizing, particularly with respect to federal workers.
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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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On Sunday, November 7th, 2021, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) will be hosting its annual fundraising brunch for the Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues in Winnipeg, MB.
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