Through the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, IFPTE joins with other unions to ensure working families' interests and concerns are addressed in legislative efforts to achieve a single-payer health care system.
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IFPTE and a number of labor unions and civil rights groups joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’ letter to Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC) in support of Julie Su’s confirmation as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Labor.
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The enacted legislation provides $1.9 trillion of economic relief to help local communities, workers, families, and maintain jobs in parts of the economy severely impacted by the pandemic.
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This week , the House of Representatives will vote on one of highest and longest held priorities for the U.S. labor movement: private sector labor law reform.
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The $1.9 trillion relief package includes IFPTE members’ most urgent priorities and provisions to help working families in every congressional district.
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IFPTE and AFGE sent a joint request the Biden Administration today, alerting the President that, “under the leadership of Commissioner Saul and Deputy Commissioner Black, SSA has achieved the distinction of being one of the most anti-labor agencies in the entire federal government.”
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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.
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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
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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.
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IFPTE “looks forward to a productive working relationship” with Kiran Ahuja as the OPM Director
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IFPTE Urges Congress to Approve Federal Employee Emergency Paid Sick Leave
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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.
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"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.
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Canada’s unions are marking Black History Month by calling for an end to systemic anti-Black racism.
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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)
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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.
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President Paul Shearon issued a statement on behalf of the IFPTE family honoring former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney following his passing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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