The AFL-CIO has put together a toolkit on the issues of importance to working families including detailed information on presidential candidates, voting rights, and Project 2025 as well as information on how Union members can get involved.
Read MoreIFPTE joined the AFL-CIO’s program to engage and turn out union voters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Read MoreThe International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) family was saddened to learn of the passing of labor and civil rights icon, Brother Bill Lucy. Brother Lucy sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 90.
Read MoreIFPTE was one of nine unions honored this week at the United States Department of Labor (DOL), which held a ceremony celebrating unions representing more than a century of service to workers.
Read MoreThis week the Republican-led House Oversight Committee considered several bills, including the so-called Protecting Taxpayers Wallet Act, intended to weaken, if not eliminate federal unions by forcing them to pay for the use of official time and other resources.
Read MoreNPEU/IFPTE Local 70 president, Amy Chin-Lai, and Secretary-Treasurer, Sarah Rawlins, hosted members of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU/IFPTE Local 70) this week for their general membership meeting.
Read MoreSPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 is strongly supporting Machinists Union members at Boeing, who voted by a 96% margin on Sept. 12 to go on strike against the company.
Read MoreThe Council of Canadian Locals (CCL) held its bi-annual meeting last week in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Read MoreIFPTE sent a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee leadership and members urging them to support the critical work that Navy civil service employees do at public shipyards and oppose efforts to grant the U.S. Navy the ability to use non-U.S. private shipyards for Navy ship repairs.
Read MoreIFPTE Locals from coast to coast celebrated Labour Day this week.
Read MoreLewis Engineers and Scientists Association (LESA/IFPTE Local 28), held their inaugural Officer’s retreat/training session this week at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
Read MoreSecretary-Treasurer Henson joined AT&T workers on the picket line this week in Chattanooga, TN.
Read MoreIFPTE's executive officers penned a Labor Day letter titled 'Thank a Worker'.
Read MoreAn administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union illegally terminated Kate Oh, a rank-and-file NPEU/IFPTE Local 70 member who was punished for raising concerns about managers' mistreatment of staff and poor working conditions at the ACLU.
Read MoreOn Wednesday night, IFPTE participated in a Zoom call hosted by the AFL-CIO in support of Vice President Kamala Harris’ candidacy for president of the United States.
Read MoreAbout a dozen SPEEA members and staffers attended a rally at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park on July 17 to support more than 20,000 Machinists Union members who voted nearly unanimously to support their union’s strike sanction vote.
Read MoreIFPTE applauds the Seante’s confirmation of Anne Wagner for Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) Member. IFPTE leadership and union delegates learned of the successful cloture vote for Wagner at the union’s 61st Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, and greeted the news with cheers. Wagner was confirmed with bipartisan support by a vote of 55 to 37, with eight Republican Senators supporting her confirmation. Her term as Member of the FLRA ends on July 1, 202
Read MoreThe House of Representatives considered the Defense Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2025 with floor amendments that seek to limit telework for some Department of Defense employees and defund President Biden’s Executive Order 14019, “Promoting Access to Voting,” which provides federal employees with needed time (up to four hours) to vote and engage in nonpartisan voter registration activities, as well as improve voting access for uniformed service members.
Read MoreThe House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee marked up their version of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) with a version of IFPTE-requested language that protects lock and dam operations and hydroelectric operations from being performed and controlled through remote offsite operations.
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