Matthew Biggs
President

Matthew Biggs was elected President of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers (IFPTE) at the union’s 60th Constitutional Convention held in Washington, D.C., and online in August 2021, and was reelected again at IFPTE’s 61st Triennial Convention in New Orleans in July 2024. Prior to his election, Biggs had served as IFPTE Secretary-Treasurer since 2018 and as the Legislative and Political Director for IFPTE since September 2001. 

Biggs' career at IFPTE has focused on grassroots coordination with the union's Locals aimed at growing the IFPTE Political Action Committee (PAC), establishing the long-running annual IFPTE legislative advocacy week, and a concentrated legislative program aimed at preserving and growing union-represented jobs in IFPTE represented industries such as aerospace, energy, science, and defense. The repeal of the union-busting National Security Personnel System (NSPS); NASA appropriations and workforce concerns; a strong national industrial policy that protects workers from damaging trade laws; passage of labor law reform legislation to level the playing field for workers involved in union organizing efforts; protecting public worker pensions and jobs from privatization in both the United States and Canada; preserving and protecting government sector collective bargaining rights, and; bringing fairness to the employer-abused H-1B Visa program, among others, are just a few of the issues that Biggs has and continues to advocate for alongside IFPTE Local leaders and members.  

Before coming to IFPTE, Biggs spent several years working on Capitol Hill in the office of Congressman Albert R. Wynn (D, MD). In his duties for Congressman Wynn, Biggs specialized in labor, aerospace, energy, defense, foreign affairs, and civil rights issues, including those related to equal pay for equal work, and access to good jobs for all workers, regardless of race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.  

Biggs serves as an AFL-CIO Vice President, having served on the Executive Council since 2021.  He also serves on the board of the Department of Professional Employees (DPE), AFL-CIO, and is a member of the Department of Labor’s Labor Advisory Committee (LAC) on trade and labor.  

Biggs is a Washington, DC native, a product of the Prince George's County public school system, and a 1994 graduate from the University of Maryland at College Park, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.