IFPTE President Matt Biggs applauded its passage saying that, “it is nice to see that there is a core group of Senators on both sides of the aisle that understand how truly reckless the tariffs on Canada will be.”
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On March 26, SCMMA/IFPTE Local 222 held its quarterly membership meeting, with approximately 200 members attending in person and virtually. The meeting opened with a brief remembrance of Scott Jackson, a valued member who passed away suddenly.
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IFPTE authored a letter of support for S.J. Res. 37, legislation authored by Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, that aims to reverse the Trump Administration’s erroneous use of the national emergency designation under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to allow the President to impose senseless tariffs on good and services imported from Canada.
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Read IFPTE’s latest update on our continued fight against the illegal and unprecedented attacks by President Trump, the so-called DOGE, including Elon Musk and his associates, and the larger Trump Administration, against federal workers and the agencies they work for.
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The Society of United Professionals (SUP/IFPTE Local 160) President, Rebecca Caron, and their External Relations Officer, Mike Belmore, traveled to Washington, DC this week to join Secretary-Treasurer, Gay Henson, International Representative, Erin Spencer, and President Matt Biggs at a roundtable discussion hosted by the AFL-CIO on Wednesday.
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IFPTE’s executive officers and staff, along with our Union partners at the Federal Workers Alliance (FWA), continue to work in coalition on all fronts – Legal, Legislative, Grassroots, and PR – to fight against the illegal and unprecedented attacks by President Trump, the so-called DOGE, including Elon Musk and his associates, and the larger Trump Administration, against federal workers and the agencies they work for.
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Donald Trump has once again launched an economic attack on Canadian workers, slapping a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports.
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Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced legislation to reauthorize Trade Adjustment Assistance, a support program for American workers impacted by trade.
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This week, IFPTE President Matt Biggs and Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee leaders this week urging them to reauthorize the all-important Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program.
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IFPTE joined other unions and consumer, health, human rights, faith, and human rights organizations in a letter today to President Biden supporting his stated position against Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) and urging him to eliminate ISDS terms in existing free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties.
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IFPTE 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.
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Dozens of leaders from International unions representing a broad swath of jobs across the metal trades industry convened in Las Vegas to develop a plan to ensure that private and public investments in the sector create reliable, good-paying union jobs.
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As the high-level trade negotiators from 14 nations prepare, including the U.S., prepare to begin negotiations on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), a diverse group of over 100 organizations that includes IFPTE urged the Biden Administration to increase transparency and public participation during the negotiation process.
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Owen Herrnstadt, who was the longtime director of the Machinists union’s Trade and Globalization Department, was confirmed this week with bipartisan support by the U.S. Senate to serve on the Board of Directors at the United States Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank).
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As the nomination of IAM’s Owen Herrnstadt to the Export-Import Bank continues to wait for Senate action, IFPTE reinforced their support for the nomination this week in a letter to Senators.
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IFPTE officers applaud the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and provided comments regarding this historic infrastructure commitment as well as on the progress of the Build Back Better Act.
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IFPTE applauds the U.S. Trade Representative's comments and the Biden Administration's affirmative steps to realign U.S. trade policy with the interests of working people.
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IFPTE stands in solidarity with the courageous auto workers in Mexico and Susana Prieto Terrazas, a labor lawyer and champion for workers who herself has been jailed by Mexican authorities for advocating for workers’ rights, and who also represents the workers who have been denied basic labor protections promised by the three countries covered by USMCA.
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President Shearon and other labor leaders met this week with United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai regarding requests from some nations to ramp up COVID vaccine manufacturing through the issuance of a waiver to the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) protections.
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In a letter organized by the Citizen’s Trade Campaign, hundreds of organizing urged President Biden to reverse the U.S. government’s position and allow a waiver of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) so that people in developing countries can have access to COVID-19 medicines, diagnostics, medical equipment, and vaccines. Read more on Citizen’s Trade Campaign’s website
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