This week, IFPTE asked Senators to support the confirmation of current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chair Lauren McFerran as well as Joshua Ditelberg, nominee for NLRB Member, in a bipartisan nominee package. McFerran’s term on the NLRB expires on December 16, 2024. IFPTE’s letter urges Senators to confirm the nominees before the end of the year.
Read MoreAn administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union illegally terminated Kate Oh, a rank-and-file NPEU/IFPTE Local 70 member who was punished for raising concerns about managers' mistreatment of staff and poor working conditions at the ACLU.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the Senate voted to confirm Gwynne Wilcox to serve a full term on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with bipartisan support
Read MoreIFPTE reminded Senators on the HELP Committee that Ms. Wilcox has “demonstrated a clear commitment to workplace democracy and making sure workers have the right to form and join unions” during her the past two years she’s served on the NLRB.
Read MoreIFPTE urged Senators to pass the omnibus government funding package which includes several funding and policy priorities that IFPTE advocated for. The current short-term government funding measure expires on December 23.
Read MoreIFPTE signed onto an AFL-CIO executive council letter urging Congress to finally, once and for all, increase the funding for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Read MoreThis week, IFPTE reached out to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to urge, in the strongest terms possible, to avoid a government shutdown and pass a fiscal year (FY) 2023 government funding budget that supports the priorities and needs of working Americans and retirees.
Read MoreIFPTE President Matt Biggs and Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson issued a statement from in response to an effort by NLRB Region 10 Director to fleece the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA) of over $13 million for supporting their members who on strike against Warrior Met Coal.
Read MoreAhead of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee’s consideration of Jennifer Abruzzo’s nomination for General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), IFPTE sent a letter urging Senators on the Committee to advance Abruzzo’s nomination to a confirmation vote.
Read MoreThis week , the House of Representatives will vote on one of highest and longest held priorities for the U.S. labor movement: private sector labor law reform.
Read MoreFollowing this week’s introduction of the bipartisan PRO Act in the House of Representatives, IFPTE urged Congress to pass this long-overdue legislation to level the playing field between workers who want to form unions and employers who exploit weaknesses in the current law to frustrate union organizing drives and deny workers’ legal union rights.
Read MoreIn urging House lawmakers to sponsor the bipartisan bill, authored by Representatives Andy Levin (D-MI) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), which allows for electronic voting in union elections, IFPTE wrote that, “Pandemic or not, workers should maintain the right to organize unions, and form them in as safe an environment as possible.”
Read MoreAfter Members of Congress voiced alarm earlier this month regarding the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) undisclosed plans to consolidate the case assignment responsibilities, IFPTE requested Congressional Appropriators defund the NLRB’s nontransparent plan before it is implemented and harms the union rights of working people.
Read MoreIn response to the NLRB’s recent decision to force in-person voting for union elections during the COVID-19 pandemic, IFPTE endorsed the bipartisan Levin/Fitzpatrick SAFE Workers Act to reverse, “the NLRB prohibition of electronic voting for union elections.”
Read MoreIFPTE was one of thirteen labor organizations signing a letter this week to Congressional leaders urging inclusion of funding and a directive in the next COVID relief bill, “for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to develop a system and procedure for conducting union representation elections electronically.”
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