On May 15, TEAM/IFPTE Local 161’s Board of Directors traveled to the Manitoba Legislative Building to meet with the Opposition Labour Critic Malaya Marcelino and Opposition Environment & Economic Development Critic Mark Wasyliw to discuss the ongoing erosion of good unionized jobs at Bell MTS.
Read More“Any national agenda that seeks to empower American workers and remove barriers to good-paying jobs in STEM occupations must include reforming the H-1B program so that it does not continue to harm American workers nor take advantage of H-1B workers.”
Read MoreStatement from IFPTE Leaders Regarding President Trump's Executive Orders on TVA
Read MoreIFPTE notified key Senators that TVA notified another 38 workers that they will be losing their jobs to IT offshoring firms.
Read MoreMembers and leaders from the Engineering Association (EA/IFPTE Local 1937) and the IFPTE national travelled to Huntsville, Alabama to continue to bring transparency and community awareness around the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) reckless off-shoring of 220 IT jobs.
Read MoreLeaders and staff from the Engineering Association (EA/IFPTE Local 1937) were joined by the Knoxville and Chattanooga Central Labor Councils and other community organizations in the Tennessee Valley to protest the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) continued efforts to export as many as 220 federal jobs.
Read MoreEA/IFPTE Local 1937 President Gay Henson and IFPTE President Paul Shearon called in to the Valley Labor Report to share what the Tennessee Valley Authority is trying to do to its IT workers.
Read MoreIFPTE sent a letter to Congress alerting lawmakers that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will outsource hundreds of IT jobs to companies "based overseas, or otherwise outside of the US," and whose business model "relies heavily on knowledge transfer."
Read MoreAs Congress was just completing another spending package this week worth nearly $500 billion aimed at saving jobs, the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal government entity, was moving full steam ahead in outsourcing hundreds of IT jobs.
Read MoreEA/IFPTE Local 1937 met with lawmakers from the Tennessee Valley regarding the union's ongoing concerns with TVA's plan to outsource hundreds of IT jobs.
Read More
