House to Vote on COVID Relief, IFPTE Requests Representatives Pass This Urgently Needed Bill

The $1.9 trillion COVID relief provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act (H.R. 1319), including several of IFPTE’s top priorities, are expected to pass the House and head to the Senate as part of the budget reconciliation process.

Faraz KhanFebruary 26, 2021COVID-19, Manufacturing, Aerospace, State governments, Local governments

IFPTE Joins Over 430 Organizations to Call on President Biden to Support Waiver of COVID Medical Patent Rights

In 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

TradeFaraz KhanFebruary 26, 2021COVID-19, WTO, Fair Trade

Ahead of House Passage of Equality Act, IFPTE Sends Letter Urging Passage of This Key Civil Rights Bill

The Equality Act is an important and commonsense update to federal civil rights laws that prohibits discrimination against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity. IFPTE will continue to advocate for it’s passage in the Senate.

Labor RightsFaraz KhanFebruary 25, 2021Civil Rights, Equality Act

IFPTE Responds to Nomination of Kiran Ahuja for OPM Director

IFPTE “looks forward to a productive working relationship” with Kiran Ahuja as the OPM Director

IFPTEFebruary 25, 2021Kiran Ahuja, OPM

IFPTE Urges Congress to Approve Federal Employee Emergency Paid Sick Leave

GovernmentIFPTEFebruary 12, 2021Oversight and Government Reform, paid sick leave

IFPTE Member Advocacy Pushes House Committee to Include Aerospace Worker Payroll Support in COVID Relief Package

IFPTE members at SPEEA/Local 2001 and throughout our federation are urging Congress to include Aviation Jobs Manufacturing Act in the upcoming COVID relief package.

AerospaceIFPTEFebruary 12, 2021Aerospace, SPEEA, COVID-19, federal aid

Webinar: Gender Equality for Migrant Women and Gender-Diverse People in Canada – Reflections from the Middle of the Pandemic (WSN Spotlight)

"Gender Equality for Migrant Women and Gender-Diverse People in Canada – Reflections from the Middle of the Pandemic," asks what gender equality means for migrant women and gender-diverse people in Canada in 2021.

IFPTEFebruary 5, 2021WSN, Women's Solidarity Network

Canada's Unions Mark Black History Month By Calling for Racial Justice in Pandemic Response and Recovery

Canada’s unions are marking Black History Month by calling for an end to systemic anti-Black racism.

IFPTEFebruary 5, 2021CLC

President Biden Cleans House - Removes Anti-Union, Anti-Worker FSIP Members

President Biden continued to scrub the federal government of anti-union ideologues by requesting the resignations of all ten members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP)

GovernmentIFPTEFebruary 5, 2021FSIP, FLRA

IFPTE Calls on Congress to Pass the PRO Act, Urgently Needed Labor Law Reform

IFPTE urged Congress to pass this long-overdue legislation to level the playing field between workers who want to form unions and employers who exploit weaknesses in the current law to frustrate union organizing drives and deny workers' legal union rights.

Labor RightsIFPTEFebruary 5, 2021PRO Act

IFPTE Honors the Life of AFL-CIO President Emeritus John J. Sweeney

President Paul Shearon issued a statement on behalf of the IFPTE family honoring former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney following his passing.

IFPTEFebruary 5, 2021John Sweeney, AFL-CIO

IFPTE Calls on Congress to Pass the PRO Act, Urgently Needed Labor Law Reform

Following this week’s introduction of the bipartisan PRO Act in the House of Representatives, IFPTE urged Congress to pass this long-overdue legislation to level the playing field between workers who want to form unions and employers who exploit weaknesses in the current law to frustrate union organizing drives and deny workers’ legal union rights.

Labor RightsIFPTEFebruary 5, 2021NLRB, PRO Act, NLRA, ALDF, Legislation, Organizing, Collective Bargaining

IFPTE Urges Congress to Prioritize State and Local Aid, Support for Aircraft Manufacturing Jobs in COVID Relief

As Congress prepares to consider the next COVID relief bill, IFPTE requested Congress include key priorities and address urgent needs of IFPTE members and American workers, families, and communities.

Faraz KhanJanuary 29, 2021COVID-19, Economic Policy, Local governments, State governments, Aerospace

Representatives Levin, Fitzpatrick, IFPTE, CWA Discuss Bipartisan Labor Law Reform

Congressman Andy Levin (D-MI) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduce H.R. 308, the SAFE Workers Act, which demands the NLRB use the available technology of the 21st century to conduct elections remotely, allowing workers to organize while ensuring the safest workplace possible during the pandemic.

Labor RightsIFPTEJanuary 27, 2021SAFE Workers Act, Andy Levin

NAIJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 2 Names New President

Judge Ashley Tabaddor, president of IFPTE Judicial Council 2, was selected by the Biden administration to serve as chief counsel of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

IFPTEJanuary 27, 2021NAIJ, Press Release

IFPTE Applauds Chairs Maloney and Connolly for Standing Up for Immigration Judges' Collective Bargaining Rights

The letter to Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland urges him to “take all necessary actions to ensure that immigration judges can continue to be represented by their union.”

GovernmentFaraz KhanJanuary 26, 2021FLRA, NAIJ, Federal

President Biden to Overturn Draconian Workforce Executive Orders

IFPTE applauds the Biden Administration for wasting “no time in standing up for our nation’s civil service.”

Government, Labor RightsFaraz KhanJanuary 22, 2021Federal, Collective Bargaining, Executive Orders

IFPTE Endorses the Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) for Workers Act

In urging House lawmakers to sponsor the bipartisan bill, authored by Representatives Andy Levin (D-MI) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), which allows for electronic voting in union elections, IFPTE wrote that, “Pandemic or not, workers should maintain the right to organize unions, and form them in as safe an environment as possible.”

Labor RightsIFPTEJanuary 20, 2021NLRB

Pallister Government responds to IFPTE regarding their union busting legislation

IFPTE President, Paul Shearon, commented that “instead of pushing legislation to gut Manitoba’s public sector labour law, the Pallister government should instead be proud that Provincial workers have strong collective bargaining and due process protections, and urge Canadian jurisdictions elsewhere to emulate them, not the other way around. IFPTE urges members to join the Manitoba Federation of Labour’s campaign to defeat Bill 16.”

GovernmentIFPTEJanuary 15, 2021Canada, Manitoba, Pallister