Federal Labor Management Forums are “Key to Making Agencies Model Employers and Creating High-Performance Workplaces”

IFPTE 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.”

Union Strong! President Biden Establishes Worker Organizing and Empowerment Task Force

IFPTE President Shearon says that President Biden is, “walking the walk by using his bully pulpit to promote and move policies that are geared toward increasing union membership here in the United States.”

Candace RhettApril 26, 2021Executive Orders, PRO Act

President Biden to Overturn Draconian Workforce Executive Orders

IFPTE applauds the Biden Administration for wasting “no time in standing up for our nation’s civil service.”

Government, Labor RightsFaraz KhanJanuary 22, 2021Federal, Collective Bargaining, Executive Orders

Latest Trump Administration Executive Order Aims to Destroy the Federal Civil Service - IFPTE, FWA Fight Back

IFPTE has joined in coalition with FWA unions in urging lawmakers to block implementation of Executive Order 13957. The FWA urged a defund of the order, warning lawmakers that it is intended to “eviscerate the federal government’s merit system principals, open the door to the politicization of the federal workforce, strip hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their due process rights, and give agencies carte blanche to dismantle collective bargaining units.”

GovernmentIFPTEOctober 29, 2020Executive Order 13957, Executive Orders

AIJ Condemns Trump EO Which Eviscerates the Neutrality of Career Civil Service Employees and Targets Immigration Judge

In response to last week's executive order "obliterating vast portions of the merit-based selection process for executive branch employees,” NAIJ/Judicial Council 2 released the following press release.

GovernmentIFPTEOctober 26, 2020NAIJ, Press Release, Executive Orders

Trump EO Calls for Union-busting, At-Will Employment - IFPTE Responds

President Trump issued an executive order that will allow political appointees to be embedded into the career federal civil service, open the door for the dismantling of collective bargaining units, and render workers, including IFPTE represented Administrative Law Judges, as at-will employees.

GovernmentIFPTEOctober 26, 2020Executive Orders, Press Release

Trump Administration Orders Halt to Some Diversity and Inclusion Training - IFPTE Responds

IFPTE responded this week to a September 4th OMB memorandum to federal government agencies calling diversity and inclusion training “divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions,” along with a directive that agencies “cease and desist,” from funding the training.

GovernmentIFPTESeptember 14, 2020OMB, Executive Orders, racism

IFPTE Weighs-In on FY21 National Defense Authorization Act Amendment Process

As the House Rules Committee gets set to consider amendments to HR 6395, the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act, IFPTE sent a letter to committee members flagging several amendments of importance to IFPTE’s members.

GovernmentIFPTEJuly 17, 2020Executive Orders, HR 6395

IFPTE Applauds Bipartisan Kilmer/Fitzpatrick, Cardin Executive Order Repeal Legislation

Key officers of IFPTE issued a statement applauding the Kilmer/Fitzpatrick bill to repeal the Trump Administration's Executive Orders aimed at eliminating collective bargaining rights in the federal sector rendering federal workers as at-will employees into the Houses COVID3 relief bill.

IFPTEMarch 25, 2020Executive Orders, COVID-19, Kilmer, Fitzpatrick, HR 6246