Just 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.
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This week, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced and IFPTE endorsed the No Tax Breaks for Union Busting At, legislation to prevent businesses from writing off expenses incurred to bust union organizing drives.
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IFPTE has been vocal in its support for extending the right to organize to Congressional staff and sent a letter a day before the vote urging all Representatives to vote for H. Res. 915. The resolution passed by a vote of 217 to 202.
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Following up on last week’s meeting with the staff of Senator Cory Booker, NJCSA 21 President Sean Small and Secretary Jerusha Schulze, along with IFPTE international officers and staff, met with staff from United States Congressman Donald Payne.
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Workers all across Ontario gathered together in over 20 locations provincially to show disdain for Ford’s anti-worker actions, to celebrate workers across the province who deserve better, and to demand a workers-first agenda after Ontario’s June 2 election.
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Canada’s unions welcomed progress in Monday’s Budget Implementation Act on a number of vital issues the labour movement has long pushed for but were disappointed with new delays and restrictions implementing the new paid sick leave policy for all federally regulated workers.
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Accountable Northwest - an organization that fights anti-union tactics, organizations and employers - has an interesting piece on its blog that discusses why and how anti-union employers use this popular union-busting tool when their workers want to organize.
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As Parliament returns, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) urges MPs to back workers and reject the push for a low-wage austerity agenda.
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May 1, or May Day, is the traditional workers’ holiday, a day that working people celebrate the gains they have won over the years and commit to fighting for a better future for everyone.
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IFPTE NJCSA 21 President, Sean Small, along with IFPTE national officers and staff met this week with the Washington, DC office staff of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.
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At a labor briefing for Senate staff, Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson shared the experiences of the TVA Engineering Association-Local 1937 members who successfully blocked their employer’s efforts to privatize their work to offshore-outsourcing firms replying on the H-1B work visa program.
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In 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.
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IFPTE 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.
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IFPTE leadership sent a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights requesting the Commission recognize that California Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which was signed into California state law in 2019, protects labor rights of women, people of color, immigrant workers, and all workers by requiring a straightforward three-part test to make sure that independent contractors are not in fact employees who have been misclassified.
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April 12th marked Equal Pay Day in Ontario. Equal Pay Day is dedicated to raising awareness of the gender pay gap. It highlights how many extra months into 2022 the average woman must work to earn what the average man earned in 2021.
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This week, OPM issued guidance to federal agencies to remove barriers to union’s access to represented employees, improve federal employees’ ability to join unions, and provide training to federal managers and supervisors that stresses maintaining neutrality during union organizing campaigns.
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Workers secured a historic victory in British Columbia, where the BC NDP government introduced Bill 10, legislation for single-step certification. Once adopted, workers in British Columbia will be automatically certified when 55% of workers have signed union cards.
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As 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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During her address to convention delegates, Shuler spoke about increased worker frustration, the "great resignation", and what it means for the labor movement.
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In an apparent effort to chip away - yet again - at workers' rights, the conservative-dominated Court is considering a challenge to a state provision used to remedy instances of wage theft and unpaid overtime.
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