For the third year in a row, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) placed number one among mid-size federal agencies in the Partnership for Public Service’s Best Places to Work rankings. This success is due in part to the excellent work of the GAO Employees Organization, IFPTE Local 1921.
Read MoreIFPTE President Matt Biggs commented, “Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Representative Tonko know full well the importance of good union jobs at KAPL and the importance of this work to national security and the economic prosperity of the Capitol Region” of New York.
Read MoreIFPTE officers, staff and Local leaders were honored this week to attend an AFL-CIO reception in honor of outgoing Labor Secretary, Marty Walsh. The reception was an opportunity for the American Labor Movement to come together and not only honor Secretary Walsh, but thank him for his steadfast leadership and support for working families.
Read MoreIFPTE Local 18 President Roy McCormick who represents workers at the South Jersey Port Corporation attended a check presentation event at the berth situated on the Delaware River waterfront.
Read MoreMembers and leaders from the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1) and IFPTE Local 1 traveled to Washington, DC this week to attend the annual Society of Federal Labor Relations Professionals (SFLERP) annual symposium. President Biggs provided the keynote address to attendees on Thursday.
Read MoreAALJ/IFPTE Judicial Council 1 President Judge Som Ramrup and Secretary Judge Kimberly Schiro were joined on Capitol Hill this week by IFPTE Legislative Director Faraz Khan.
Read MoreIFPTE sent letters to Senators asking they cosponsor legislation that repairs the federal tax code to support American workers and union members and end public subsidies for union busting.
Read MoreThis week, Local 400 President/Northeastern Area Vice President Denise Robinson hosted her Local’s annual steward appreciation dinner this week in Providence, Rhode Island.
Read MoreIFPTE President Matt Biggs, Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson, Assistant to the Executive Officers Brian Kildee, and Legislative Director Faraz Khan met this week with John Podesta, President Biden’s top adviser on clean energy technologies and investments.
Read MoreMembers of Newark Council 21, an affiliate of IFPTE representing more than 1100 white collar and professional employees in the City of Newark, New Jersey, have elected several new union officers to serve alongside Newark Council 21 President Sean Small.
Read MoreIn anticipation of a March 9th hearing in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee to provide oversight of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), IFPTE provided a detailed statement to Committee lawmakers in support of OPM’s federal worker telework policy.
Read MoreIFPTE President Biggs commented that President Joe Biden has “lived up to his pledge once again by putting forward a budget that will decrease the national deficit, and do so while protecting and strengthening the programs that working families and retirees across the nation depend so heavily on. “
Read MoreIFPTE urged Members of the House to reject this misguided and confused Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act, legislation that would harm the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from fraud, misinformation, and disinformation while also unfairly threatening federal employees for doing their jobs.
Read MoreIFPTE endorsed George Whitesides for California’s 27th Congressional District with IFPTE President Matt Biggs noting that Whitesides “led by example” when he was chief of staff for the NASA during the Obama Administration, “something that IFPTE has not forgotten, and something that we know he will bring with him to the halls of Congress.”
Read MoreIFPTE executive officers applauded President Biden’s nomination of Julie Su to be Secretary of Labor, noting that, “She understands firsthand the benefits that come with a union card and will no doubt work hard toward leveling the playing field for workers seeking to organize unions.”
Read MoreIn an open letter to Congress, the American Federation of Teachers and dozens of unions, nonprofit organizations, and community groups, including IFPTE, urged Congress to raise the national debt ceiling.
Read MoreNational Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) Executive Director, Steve Lenkart, took issue this week with a Federal News Network columnist who said that he, “doesn’t think of federal employees as “workers,”…”.
Read More184 Members of Congress joined a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce requesting that federal investments flowing from the CHIPS and Science Act require strong labor standards, commitments to workforce development, support good paying union jobs, and benefit American workers.
Read MoreIFPTE joined the AFGE members from across the nation this week in calling on Congress to pass the Federal Adjustments of Income Rates (FAIR) Act granting the nation’s over 2 million federal workers a 8.7% pay raise.
Read MoreIFPTE executive officers issued a statement supporting the Saving Our Civil Service Act, legislation introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate that limits a presidential administration’s ability to convert civil service positions into excepted service positions, undermine merit system principles, and fire federal employees without due process or cause.
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