IFPTE Local 18 President Roy McCormick who represents workers at the South Jersey Port Corporation attended a check presentation event at the berth situated on the Delaware River waterfront.
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Members and leaders from the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1) and IFPTE Local 1 traveled to Washington, DC this week to attend the annual Society of Federal Labor Relations Professionals (SFLERP) annual symposium. President Biggs provided the keynote address to attendees on Thursday.
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AALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1 President Judge Som Ramrup and Secretary Judge Kimberly Schiro were joined on Capitol Hill this week by IFPTE Legislative Director Faraz Khan.
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IFPTE sent letters to Senators asking they cosponsor legislation that repairs the federal tax code to support American workers and union members and end public subsidies for union busting.
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IFPTE met with AFL-CIO President, Liz Shuler, to discuss the major legislative issues impacting IFPTE’s diverse membership, including but not limited to the labor movement’s continued support for federal investment in green nuclear energy technologies such as Small Modular Reactors, and the importance of restoring a Biden majority of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
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This week, Local 400 President/Northeastern Area Vice President Denise Robinson hosted her Local’s annual steward appreciation dinner this week in Providence, Rhode Island.
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IFPTE President Matt Biggs, Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson, Assistant to the Executive Officers Brian Kildee, and Legislative Director Faraz Khan met this week with John Podesta, President Biden’s top adviser on clean energy technologies and investments.
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IFPTE Local 196 President/Atlantic Area Vice President Sean McBride traveled to Florida this week to join Janet Gerhard, FHE HEALTH’s Director of Public Affairs, to support fellow union members seeking mental health and substance abuse treatment.
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Members of Newark Council 21, an affiliate of IFPTE representing more than 1100 white collar and professional employees in the City of Newark, New Jersey, have elected several new union officers to serve alongside Newark Council 21 President Sean Small.
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In anticipation of a March 9th hearing in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee to provide oversight of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), IFPTE provided a detailed statement to Committee lawmakers in support of OPM’s federal worker telework policy.
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IFPTE President Biggs commented that President Joe Biden has “lived up to his pledge once again by putting forward a budget that will decrease the national deficit, and do so while protecting and strengthening the programs that working families and retirees across the nation depend so heavily on. “
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IFPTE urged Members of the House to reject this misguided and confused Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act, legislation that would harm the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from fraud, misinformation, and disinformation while also unfairly threatening federal employees for doing their jobs.
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IFPTE will soon be scheduling the Spring Veterans Committee meeting. The committee, which is Chaired by Local 20/ESC President and Western Vice President John Mader addresses the major issues impacting IFPTE’s Veteran community, including but not limited to VA healthcare and benefits.
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IFPTE endorsed George Whitesides for California’s 27th Congressional District with IFPTE President Matt Biggs noting that Whitesides “led by example” when he was chief of staff for the NASA during the Obama Administration, “something that IFPTE has not forgotten, and something that we know he will bring with him to the halls of Congress.”
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IFPTE executive officers applauded President Biden’s nomination of Julie Su to be Secretary of Labor, noting that, “She understands firsthand the benefits that come with a union card and will no doubt work hard toward leveling the playing field for workers seeking to organize unions.”
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IFPTE welcomed the reintroduction of the Richard L. Trumka PRO Act, sponsored in the House by Education and Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair
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Although the Americans’ approval of labor unions is at the highest point since 1965 and union organizing is surging across the country, our broken labor laws desperately need to be updated to support workers’ democratic right to form and join unions and bargain collectively. To that end, IFPTE is asking Members of Congress to cosponor the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO ACT),which is expected to be introduced in the coming days.
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In an open letter to Congress, the American Federation of Teachers and dozens of unions, nonprofit organizations, and community groups, including IFPTE, urged Congress to raise the national debt ceiling.
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National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) Executive Director, Steve Lenkart, took issue this week with a Federal News Network columnist who said that he, “doesn’t think of federal employees as “workers,”…”.
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184 Members of Congress joined a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce requesting that federal investments flowing from the CHIPS and Science Act require strong labor standards, commitments to workforce development, support good paying union jobs, and benefit American workers.
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