Leaders 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 MoreIFPTE Locals across the country participated in the AFL-CIO’s Workers Caravan on Wednesday. The events, which totaled more than 300 in communities across the United States, demanded action by elected lawmakers to address the health & economic crisis and racial & economic injustices facing our nation
Read MoreThe IFPTE Women’s Solidarity Network (WSN) is spotlighting a short, but relevant article entitled 'Treated like crap' - Black women march for equality in U.S. protests. As worldwide protests continue for the Black Lives Matter movement, this article takes a look at Black women and their fight for racial and economic justice in the United States.
Read MoreOn June 23, join the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and the Fight for $15 and Fairness for online organizing meeting centered around wages and working conditions of front-line workers who keep us fed, cared for, and protected.
Read MoreManitoba’s labour movement has won an important victory for workers and their Charter-protected right to collective bargaining. In a major decision, a Manitoba judge threw out controversial legislation that sought to freeze the wages of more than 120,000 public sector workers.
Read MoreThe Society of United Professionals (IFPTE Local 160) was invited to present to the Ontario legislature’s Justice Policy Standing Committee on Bill 161, an omnibus law reform bill that will hamper access to justice.
Read More"We stand arm-in-arm with those calling for the demilitarization of police forces across the country with the money reallocated not only to support local communities, but also to build new infrastructure and to improve the training, culture, and community engagement of police departments." - IFPTE International President, Paul Shearon
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The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is calling on the Government of Ontario to fund, collect, and publish provincial data on the impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous, Black, and other racialized Ontarians.
Read MoreIn spite of Society leaders’ and members’ health and safety concerns, earlier this month Ontario Power Generation (OPG) began requiring employees who had been working from home to return to their normal work location.
Read MoreIFPTE is sad to report the passing of longtime IFPTE Local 1 member and officer, Brother Jimmy Blick. Brother Blick was a decades long worker for the United States Navy working at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
Read MoreThe Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) delivered a webinar in support of Black Lives Matter. The fight against anti-Black racism and police brutality is based in the long history of slavery, oppression, and colonization of Indigenous communities and Black people in North America.
Read MoreAre you familiar with cybermisogyny? This is your opportunity to learn more about it. The IFPTE Women’s Solidarity Network (WSN) is spotlighting an upcoming online presentation on June 17 at 5:30 EDT hosted by the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) and YWCA Canada on cybermisogyny and COVID-19.
Read MoreAs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee prepares for Bird’s nomination hearing this week, IFPTE signed onto the Federal Workers Alliance letter informing lawmakers that “Ms. Bird is not fit to serve as General Counsel to the FLRA and her confirmation to that position would have deleterious effects on the federal workforce.”
Read MoreIFPTE was one of 17 federal and postal organizations expressing concern with President Trump's nominees to serve on the Thrift Investment Board.
Read MoreThe Society of United Professionals (IFPTE Local 160) joins those around the world mourning the death of George Floyd and, here at home in Canada, Regis Korchinski-Paquet. The murder of George Floyd is shocking, it is saddening, and we join those who call for justice for the family of Mr. Floyd.
Read MoreJoin the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in calling on the federal government of Canada to ensure human rights are part of the COVID-19 response.
Read MoreDespite the CARES Act’s provisions to support working Americans, implementation of the law has allowed an unaccountable corporate bailout.
Read MoreSPEEA George Floyd Letter
Read MoreThe IFPTE Women’s Solidarity Network is continuing to spotlight resources and publications on Women & COVID-19. This week, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a study entitled “Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality”.
Read MoreAs the Trump Administration moves toward re-opening government, IFPTE was one of 24 FWA unions sending a letter to the president that includes comprehensive worker safety criteria, writing that “we hope you recognize that it is paramount that workers be protected while performing their duties.”
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