"Gender Equality for Migrant Women and Gender-Diverse People in Canada – Reflections from the Middle of the Pandemic," asks what gender equality means for migrant women and gender-diverse people in Canada in 2021.
Read MoreCanada’s unions are marking Black History Month by calling for an end to systemic anti-Black racism.
Read MorePresident Biden continued to scrub the federal government of anti-union ideologues by requesting the resignations of all ten members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP)
Read MoreIFPTE urged Congress to pass this long-overdue legislation to level the playing field between workers who want to form unions and employers who exploit weaknesses in the current law to frustrate union organizing drives and deny workers' legal union rights.
Read MorePresident Paul Shearon issued a statement on behalf of the IFPTE family honoring former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney following his passing.
Read MoreFollowing this week’s introduction of the bipartisan PRO Act in the House of Representatives, IFPTE urged Congress to pass this long-overdue legislation to level the playing field between workers who want to form unions and employers who exploit weaknesses in the current law to frustrate union organizing drives and deny workers’ legal union rights.
Read MoreAs Congress prepares to consider the next COVID relief bill, IFPTE requested Congress include key priorities and address urgent needs of IFPTE members and American workers, families, and communities.
Read MoreCongressman Andy Levin (D-MI) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduce H.R. 308, the SAFE Workers Act, which demands the NLRB use the available technology of the 21st century to conduct elections remotely, allowing workers to organize while ensuring the safest workplace possible during the pandemic.
Read MoreJudge Ashley Tabaddor, president of IFPTE Judicial Council 2, was selected by the Biden administration to serve as chief counsel of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Read MoreThe letter to Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland urges him to “take all necessary actions to ensure that immigration judges can continue to be represented by their union.”
Read MoreIFPTE applauds the Biden Administration for wasting “no time in standing up for our nation’s civil service.”
Read MoreIn urging House lawmakers to sponsor the bipartisan bill, authored by Representatives Andy Levin (D-MI) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), which allows for electronic voting in union elections, IFPTE wrote that, “Pandemic or not, workers should maintain the right to organize unions, and form them in as safe an environment as possible.”
Read MoreIFPTE President, Paul Shearon, commented that “instead of pushing legislation to gut Manitoba’s public sector labour law, the Pallister government should instead be proud that Provincial workers have strong collective bargaining and due process protections, and urge Canadian jurisdictions elsewhere to emulate them, not the other way around. IFPTE urges members to join the Manitoba Federation of Labour’s campaign to defeat Bill 16.”
Read MoreIFPTE continued to urge Congress to approve a robust federal aid package for State and Local governments
Read MoreAALJ-IFPTE Judicial Council 1 President, Judge Melissa McIntosh, and Secretary-Treasurer/Legislative Director, Matt Biggs, participated in an act.tv panel discussion this week highlighting the need for President-Elect Biden to replace the leadership at the Social Security Administration (SSA) on day one of his administration.
Read MoreSign NPEU-IFPTE Local 70’s petition urging ALDF Executive Director Stephen Wells to fire their union-busting law firm, respect the ALDF staff, and voluntarily recognize ALDF United.
Read MoreIFPTE issued the following statements in response to President-elect Biden’s nomination of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for United States Secretary of Labor.
Read MoreIFPTE issued the following statements applauding the victories by Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff for Georgia’s two United States Senate seats.
Read More“IFPTE categorically condemns the violent act of insurrection by President Trump and thousands of his supporters.”
Read MoreWe are sad to report the passing of Byron Charlton, AFL-CIO legislative representative and friend to IFPTE.
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