The Executive Officers of the IFPTE issued the following statement in response to the House’s adoption of a rules package to govern the proceedings and operation of the House of Representatives over the next two years.
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The Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA) applauds the new provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. President Biden signed the act into law last August, which IFPTE strongly supported.
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The Ontario Federation Labour (OFL) blasted the Ford government’s move in late December to appeal the Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s decision to strike down Bill 124, finding that the legislation violated the fundamental constitutional rights to collectively bargain and to strike.
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SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 Director of Strategic Engagement, Rich Plunkett, was selected this week to the FAA’s Organization Designation Authorization Expert Panel.
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Before the 117th Congress adjourned in late December, IFPTE and OPEIU joined forces in calling on the Senate to confirm President Biden’s nominations to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board.
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IFPTE urged Senators to pass the omnibus government funding package which includes several funding and policy priorities that IFPTE advocated for. The current short-term government funding measure expires on December 23.
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IFPTE issued the following statements applauding the Senate’s confirmation of Robert H. Shriver, III, President Biden’s nominee to serve as Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel.
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IFPTE applauded today’s release of the annual report of the President’s Pay Agent, which approves recommendations made by the Federal Salary Council that would add locality pay for over 33,000 federal employees in the General Schedule (GS) pay system.
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Ahead of a vote in the House of Representatives to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, IFPTE asked Representatives to vote for the legislation which includes “continued infrastructure investments for Navy shipyards, depots, and other DOD facilities,” the Water Resources Development Act, and other IFPTE priorities.
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Sean McBride, who serves as IFPTE Local 196 President, Atlantic Area Vice President, and New Jersey AFL-CIO Vice President, joined New Jersey public sector union Brothers and Sisters calling for an immediate solution to the slated 20% increase in healthcare premiums for New Jersey municipal workers.
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The Society of United Professionals’ (SUP/IFPTE Local 160) Coalition of Racialized Professionals hosted their last Lunch and Learn virtual meeting of the year, focusing on “Christmas in Canada and Around the World”.
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IFPTE signed onto an AFL-CIO executive council letter urging Congress to finally, once and for all, increase the funding for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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December 14, 2022 marks 10 years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy took the lives of 20 children and five staff . IFPTE has mourned these innocent victims each year and is doing so once again on this very sad, ten-year anniversary.
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As Congress makes progress on an omnibus federal spending bill for Fiscal Year 2023 and passing a week-long continuing resolution to allow needed time to finalize the omnibus package, IFPTE reminded Members of Congress that IFPTE members and working Americans are counting on them to deliver on union members and workers priorities.
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IFPTE asked the Biden Administration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to support Senator Maria Cantwell’s legislative proposal to modify the December 27, 2022 deadline for certification for the flight crew altering system on Boeing MAX-10 and Max-7 passenger airplanes.
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This week, IFPTE reached out to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to urge, in the strongest terms possible, to avoid a government shutdown and pass a fiscal year (FY) 2023 government funding budget that supports the priorities and needs of working Americans and retirees.
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The Engineering Association (EA/IFPTE Local 1937) hosted their annual Designated Union Representative (DUR) training in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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IFPTE President Matthew Biggs and Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson issued the following joint statement congratulating Senator Raphael Warnock (D) on his reelection to the U.S. Senate for Georgia and acknowledging the efforts of former State Senator Stacy Abrams support Georgians’ access to voting.
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IFPTE joined the Federal Workers Alliance letter to Defense Secretary Austin, Deputy Secretary Hicks, and Under Secretary of Defense Cisneros requesting DoD weigh in with Congress and support inclusion of language in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prevent “Schedule F” or any similar effort from a presidential administration to weaken and politicize the federal civil service and circumvent merit principles, due process and competitive hiring for federal workers.
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The Society of United Professionals (SUP/IFPTE Local 160) joined the larger labour movement in applauding this week’s Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s ruling striking down the Ford government’s Bill 124.
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