IFPTE stands in solidarity with Asian and Pacific Islander communities across Canada and the USA. We call upon our members and their families, our brother and sisters in the labor movement, our elected leader, and our communities to join together for a national day of action and healing on Friday, March 26, 2021 to #StopAsianHate.
Read MoreThis week, 25 organizations, including IFPTE, sent a letter urging the Biden Administration to move toward nominating board members for the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), a small but critically important federal agency that hears and decides cases impacting the jobs of millions of federal workers.
Read MoreIFPTE President Paul Shearon commented, “It is appalling that a corporation worth upwards of 1 trillion dollars, and owned by the richest person on the face of the earth, is going to extraordinary lengths to intimidate and threaten their workers in order to prevent them from forming a union.”
Read MoreThis week marked the 110th anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York’s Greenwich Village in which 146 garment workers – most of them young women, many who were teenagers and immigrants – died in the span of 15 minutes.
Read MoreIFPTE reminded Senators that Marty Walsh has been a steadfast advocate for working people and understands workers’ issues throughout his career as a labor leader and in public service in the Massachusetts State House and as Mayor of Boston.
Read MoreIFPTE “looks forward to a productive working relationship” with Administrator-designate Nelson.
Read MoreIFPTE executive council members and New Jersey local leaders released this statement in response to today’s announcement that former Local 194 President Fran Ehret has been selected to lead CWA in the State of New Jersey.
Read MoreThrough 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.
Read MoreIFPTE 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThe $1.9 trillion relief package includes IFPTE members’ most urgent priorities and provisions to help working families in every congressional district.
Read MoreIFPTE 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.”
Read MoreThe $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.
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 MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIFPTE “looks forward to a productive working relationship” with Kiran Ahuja as the OPM Director
Read MoreIFPTE Urges Congress to Approve Federal Employee Emergency Paid Sick Leave
Read MoreIFPTE members at SPEEA/Local 2001 and throughout our federation are urging Congress to include Aviation Jobs Manufacturing Act in the upcoming COVID relief package.
Read More"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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