IFPTE applauds the Seante’s confirmation of Anne Wagner for Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) Member. IFPTE leadership and union delegates learned of the successful cloture vote for Wagner at the union’s 61st Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, and greeted the news with cheers. Wagner was confirmed with bipartisan support by a vote of 55 to 37, with eight Republican Senators supporting her confirmation. Her term as Member of the FLRA ends on July 1, 202
Read MoreIFPTE requested Senators and Representatives to cosponsor the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act (PSFNA), legislation that ensures that state, county, and local public sector employees will have unionization and collective bargaining rights.
Read MoreThe executive officers of IFPTE commended the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ) for voting to advance Anne Wagner, President Biden’s nominee for Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), favorably out of HSGAC with bipartisan support.
Read MoreIFPTE Local 121 was notified this week by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) that they prevailed against the Office of Civilian Human Resources (OCHR), San Diego, and the Overseas Processing Centers involving a representational dispute for Navy civilian workers represented by Local 121 living and working in Guam.
Read MoreThis week, as IFPTE union leaders and members were advocating for the union’s priorities and labor-backed nominees, including Anne Wagner for FLRA Member, IFPTE urged the leadership and the Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to back Wagner’s nomination.
Read MoreIFPTE commends the Biden-Harris Administration for nominating Anne Wagner to serve as a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) and for renominating Suzanne Summerlin to serve as FLRA General Counsel.
Read MoreEarlier this month, President Biden sent the nominations of Nancy Speight and Suzanne Summerlin for FLRA Member and FLRA General Counsel to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC). IFPTE sent a letter asking HSGAC Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member Rand Paul (R-KY), and Senators on the Committee to advance both nominees quickly.
Read MoreThis week, the Senate received nominations for Nancy A. Speight to serve as a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA). Ms. Speight currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy and IFPTE fully supports her nomination and swift Senate confirmation.
Read MorePresident Biden nominated Suzanne Summerlin to serve as the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s (FLRA) General Counsel. IFPTE, representing upwards of 25,000 federal employees, issued the following statements applauding Summerlin’s nomination.
Read MoreJeff Tanner, President of IFPTE Local 7, played a key role in the process and litigation that was recently decided by the Supreme Court of the United States dealing with federally employed dual-status technicians.
Read MoreIFPTE 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.
Read MoreIFPTE issued the following statement in response to the news that longtime FLRA member and recent former FLRA Chairman Ernie DuBester has declined another nomination to serve on the FLRA board.
Read MoreThis week, Rep. Linda Sánchez led a Congressional Labor Caucus letter to the Department of Justice asking the agency to acknowledge that immigration judges should be covered by the federal labor statute. NAIJ-IFPTE Judicial Council 2 recently filed for a union representation election to restore immigration judges statutory union rights.
Read MoreIFPTE’s Legal Sector Working Group (LSWG), an alliance of IFPTE Canadian and U.S. Locals representing legal professionals, sent a letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris in support of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ/Judicial Council 2) efforts to re-certify their union.
Read MoreEarlier this year, a Trump-appointed majority on the FLRA, bucking precedent, stripped immigration judges of their collective bargaining rights and union protections. Now, the judges are back filing a petition seeking the restoration of their rights with an FLRA board that includes a new member.
Read MoreIFPTE officers applauded the bipartisan Senate confirmation of Susan T. Grundmann, President Biden’s nominee for FLRA Member.
Read MoreJust before the Senate began voting to confirm Susan Grundmann, nominee for FLRA Member, IFPTE sent a letter urging Senators to confirm the highly qualified nominee in order to restore functionality and fairness to the federal labor board.
Read MoreIn response to the latest decision and order from the FLRA against the National Association of Immigration Judges-IFPTE Judicial Council 2, the Federal Workers Alliance sent letter to remind Senate Democrats that the Trump appointed majority on the FLRA is carrying out the previous administration’s anti-federal union agenda and other policy priorities as it attacks federal employees’ union rights.
Read MoreIFPTE responded to the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s revocation of NAIJ-IFPTE Judicial Council 2’s union certification, denying over 530 immigration judges employed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) their statutory union rights. NAIJ was recognized and certified as the exclusive union representative for immigration judges in 1979.
Read MoreAs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee prepared to consider the nominations of Ernie DuBester for FLRA member and Kurt Rumsfeld for FLRA General Counsel, the Federal Workers Alliance (FWA), of which IFPTE is a member, penned a letter of support to committee members.
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