SPEEA’s 2024 Wichita Engineering Unit (WEU) negotiations team was named this week. The team, which consists of Benjamin Blankley, Laura Dame Santry, R Matthew Joyce, Brennan Macklin, and Derek Milligan, was elected after the WEU Bargaining Unit Council (BUC) met and elected the negotiations team.
Read MoreThe governing body of the AFL-CIO held their Winter meetings this week in Washington, DC.
Read MoreTEAM/IFPTE Local 161 held two webinars on financial and retirement planning for members, geared especially for members who have been impacted by Bell Canada’s recent announcement to cut 4,800 positions across the country.
Read MoreSCMMA/IFPTE Local 222 Stewards and Executive Board Members gathered last week to develop a campaign plan for the upcoming round of bargaining with the City of Saskatoon.
Read MoreManitoba’s NDP Government introduced an important piece of legislation that will re-establish the Minister's Advisory Council on Workplace Safety and Health, which was eliminated by the former Brian Pallister Conservative government.
Read MoreA delegation of 10 SPEEA officers and staff were on hand to show support as Machinists Union members began talks with Boeing on a new labor agreement.
Read MoreDima replaces Ryan Rule, who had served two terms as SPEEA president and under the union’s governing documents was unable to seek a third consecutive term.
Read MoreIFPTE’s executive officers sent a letter this week to Vice President Harris and Labor Secretary Su urging them to step in to help reverse the Executive Office of Immigration Review’s (EOIR) gag order placed on IFPTE members represented by the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 2).
Read MoreAs part of TEAM/IFPTE Local 161’s ongoing campaign to keep telecommunications jobs in Manitoba, TEAM President, Dave Eyjolfson, sent a letter to the Honourable Hedy Fry, Chair of the Canadian Parliament’s Heritage Committee, to highlight concerns about Bell’s current round of job cuts and the impact of continued job reductions on our members, our communities, our economy, and the future of telecommunications work in Canada.
Read MoreThe Society of United Professionals was present at the Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA) Conference in Ottawa last week where President Michelle Johnston moderated a panel on Supporting Canada’s Next Generation Energy Workforce.
Read MoreThe Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL) welcomed news from Manitoba’s NDP government to lift the ban on project labour agreements (PLAs) introduced by the former Conservative government.
Read MoreThe United States Army notified IFPTE on February 7th of their intention to eliminate nearly 2,500 federal employee positions and cut their budget by 1.2%. In doing the so, the Army also stipulated that moving forward they intend to invest more resources towards Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Read MoreMembers and leaders from the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU/IFPTE Local 70) held their annual winter membership meeting during the last week of February.
Read MoreIFPTE President, Matt Biggs, and Secretary-Treasurer, Gay Henson, met this week in Chattanooga, Tennessee with the City’s Mayor, Tim Kelly, to discuss IFPTE’s efforts to stand up a STEM workforce training center.
Read MoreWe celebrate International Women’s Day with IFPTE Secretary Gay Henson who was interviewed by America’s Work Force Union Podcast.
Read MoreAhead of a vote in the House of Representatives to pass a package of six appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2024, IFPTE urged Members of the House of Representatives to pass a package of six fiscal year 2024 (FY24) government funding bills Consolidated Approrpations Act, 2024, H. Res. 1061. The House passed the appropriations package with bipartisan support by a vote of 339 to 85.
Read MoreIFPTE welcomed President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on “Scaling and Expanding the Use of Registered Apprenticeships in Industries and the Federal Government and Promoting Labor-Management Forums.”
Read MoreImmigration and border issues are leading the news, the overburdened immigration courts have a backlog of 3.3 million cases, but don’t expect to see quotes from the union representing federal immigration judges in upcoming stories. In an attempt to silence the judges’ union, the two immigration judges who currently serve as president and executive vice president of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) have been sent an unprecedented gag order by top management in the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review.
Read MoreSPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001, the union for Flight Technical and Safety Pilots with Boeing’s Flight Operations Group, says it has first-hand experience of the kinds of safety-culture problems an expert panel reported on earlier this week.
Read MoreMore than a dozen SPEEA members and staff joined more than 300 labor union activists for a rally on the steps of the Washington state Capitol on Feb. 28.
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