IFPTE fully supports a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for workers in the federal sector. This country is in the middle of a terrible pandemic, more than 627,000 Americans are dead, and we don’t want any more of our members dying.
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As the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was preparing to consider the ALJ Competitive Service Restoration Act (HR 4448), to overturn the Trump Administration’s Executive Order politicizing the hiring of federal Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), IFPTE was one of 24 Federal Workers Alliance (FWA) unions signing a letter to Chairs Maloney and Connolly endorsing the bill.
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As the House and Senate deliberate on a budget reconciliation infrastructure bill that includes President Biden's American Families, IFPTE was among 17 labor unions asking Congress to include robust Medicare drug price negotiation, expansion of Medicare benefits, and lowering the Medicare eligibility age.
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SPEEA union members and allies across the U.S. participated in actions to demand the U.S. Senate pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act). This bill is a comprehensive and urgently needed labor law reform that restores workers' democratic right to form and join a union and bargain collectively.
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In a letter to Senator Diane Feinstein, IFPTE outlined concerns with NASA’s new policy for reviewing and approving human research.
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The Saskatoon Civic Middle Management Association-Local 222 (SCMMA) completed its most recent round of bargaining with the City of Saskatoon.
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This week the Council of Canadian Locals met to discuss key issues impacting IFPTE members throughout Canada.
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This week, IFPTE sent letters to Senators highlighting the union’s policy priorities for the proposed $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework and the $3.5 trillion budget resolution.
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Officers of IFPTE issued statements to accompany the union’s endorsement of Phil Murphy for New Jersey Governor.
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Just weeks after being elected President of the CLC, Bea Bruske took time last week to sit down with IFPTE International Representative David Sauer and discuss her vision for the future of Canada’s labour movement, share her take on the key Canadian industries that employ thousands of IFPTE members, and discuss how she see’s Canada’s unions working more cohesively together.
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President Biden fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul and Deputy Commissioner David Black. The Biden Administration’s decision to change comes after calls for their removal by IFPTE and the Association of Administrative Law Judges-Judicial Council 1.
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In a letter to the chairs of the House Committees with jurisdiction over NASA and federal civil servants, IFPTE shared concerns about the NASA provisions in S.1260, the U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness Act — which recently passed the Senate with bipartisan support. IFPTE urged the Committee leaders to build on the advantages of the civil service to make NASA careers more attractive to STEM graduates and federal workers.
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On this Canada Day, IFPTE Locals joined with communities, unions, and civil society groups across Canadians in a call to acknowledge the nation’s injustices to Indigenous peoples and commit to working toward reconciliation.
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Students from the Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School robotics team won multiple awards last month in the Kansas Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) robotics competition. Students and teachers from the winning team joined the virtual SPEEA Midwest Council meeting in May to thank the union for their longstanding support of the BEST program.
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Department of Justice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review has withdrawn its opposition to the National Association of Immigration Judges-IFPTE Judicial Council 2 (NAIJ) motion to reconsider the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s November 2, 2020 decision to decertify the immigration judges’ union.
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IFPTE Pres. Shearon called the framework “a good first step toward significant infrastructure investment to support millions of good paying, union represented jobs,” adding that Congress must work on adding “progressive offsets to pay for the larger package such as raising the minimum corporate tax, closing corporate tax loopholes that allow multi-nationals like Amazon to pay no taxes at all, and ensuring that our wealthiest wage earners finally pay their fair share in taxes, to help pay for the full scope of our infrastructure needs.”
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IFPTE Local 196/Atlantic Area Vice President Sean McBride and Local 196 business manager Jimmy Robertello traveled to Washington, DC this week to attend an event with New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith. The Local 196 leaders also met with Pennsylvania Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick.
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The Society of United Professionals/IFPTE Local 160 is continuing to pressure the Ontario government to save community courthouses in Scarborough, Etobicoke and North York.
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In our first Congressional endorsement for the upcoming 118th Congress, IFPTE lends its backing to Congressman Adam Smith, for a 14th term in the United States House of Representatives.
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Each scholar receives a $2,500 award that will go towards their tuition and expenses for their first year in college or technical school.
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