IFPTE stands in solidarity with the courageous auto workers in Mexico and Susana Prieto Terrazas, a labor lawyer and champion for workers who herself has been jailed by Mexican authorities for advocating for workers’ rights, and who also represents the workers who have been denied basic labor protections promised by the three countries covered by USMCA.
Read MorePresident Shearon and other labor leaders met this week with United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai regarding requests from some nations to ramp up COVID vaccine manufacturing through the issuance of a waiver to the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) protections.
Read MoreIn a letter organized by the Citizen’s Trade Campaign, hundreds of organizing urged President Biden to reverse the U.S. government’s position and allow a waiver of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) so that people in developing countries can have access to COVID-19 medicines, diagnostics, medical equipment, and vaccines. Read more on Citizen’s Trade Campaign’s website
Read MoreIFPTE submitted a public comment arguing against any flexibility that weakens the Bank’s commitment to promoting and supporting domestic manufacturing and services and American workers.
Read MoreIFPTE joined more than 100 organizations urging the House Financial Services Committee to move the legislation to “require large, publicly‐traded corporations to disclose key financial information (e.g. profits, revenues, taxes, number of employees, etc.) on a country‐by‐country basis to better inform taxpayers, investors, policymakers, academics and other stakeholders and ensure that we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic on the path to a sustainable and equitable economy.”
Read MoreSPEEA/Local 2001 recently teamed up with the International Association of Machinists (IAM) 751 in filing for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), also known as Trade Act, with the U.S. Department of Labor, resulting in additional federal support for SPEEA and IAM members in Washington state and Oregon who were laid off by Boeing.
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