The GAO Employees Organization (IFPTE Local 1921) recently issued their Spring member newsletter.
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Applications are now open for the Canadian Labour Congress’ Labour College of Canada. Apply today to the Labour College of Canada’s certificate program. Classes begin June/July 2023. Application deadline: April 30, 2023.
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On the 55th anniversary of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, AFSCME invites union members and all those interested in the American labor movement, civil rights, and the fight for racial and economic justice to hear the stories of working people at the center of the the monumental events that marked the last days of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life.
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Former IFPTE President Paul Shearon joined Starbucks workers in a protest last week at the company’s corporate headquarters in Seattle. This latest worker-led action protesting Starbuck’s ongoing union-busting efforts against their employees seeking to organize unions came a day prior to the company’s annual shareholder meeting.
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IFPTE applauded the introduction of the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act, sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Senate Judiciary Committee Member Charles Grassley (R-IA), and cosponsored by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
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IFPTE 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.
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After hearing from IFPTE Local 147 leaders during IFPTE's legislative week about the unjust movement of work from the Local's bargaining unit to non-represented workers elsewhere, New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, along with Congressman Paul Tonko, issued a strong letter to the Department of Energy (DOE), with a statement of support for the union and their members.
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IFPTE 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.
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AALJ/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.
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IFPTE 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.
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IFPTE 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.
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This week, Local 400 President/Northeastern Area Vice President Denise Robinson hosted her Local’s annual steward appreciation dinner this week in Providence, Rhode Island.
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IFPTE 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.
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In 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.
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IFPTE 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. “
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IFPTE 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.
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IFPTE 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.”
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IFPTE welcomed the reintroduction of the Richard L. Trumka PRO Act, sponsored in the House by Education and Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair
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Although the Americans’ approval of labor unions is at the highest point since 1965 and union organizing is surging across the country, our broken labor laws desperately need to be updated to support workers’ democratic right to form and join unions and bargain collectively. To that end, IFPTE is asking Members of Congress to cosponor the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO ACT),which is expected to be introduced in the coming days.
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184 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.
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