On September 30, 2026, IFPTE recognizes Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the annual national holiday committed to memorializing the victims and survivors of the Canadian Indian Resi...

Canada’s unions are united in opposition to proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code that would give the federal government broad new powers to end legal strikes in the “national interest.”

IFPTE joined members and leaders from dozens of unions and AFL-CIO staff and departments on Capitol Hill this week as a part of a Senate lobby day to advocate for defending the bargaining rights for f...

Last week, members of the Society of United Professionals/Local 160 came together in five locations for the union’s Empowerment Day 2026, a day of learning, connection and reflection centered on the t...

The Bargaining Unit Councils for SPEEA’s Professional and Technical units both recommended that their members accept the company’s latest contract offer. 

President Matt Biggs, along with AFGE president, Everett Kelley, NTEU president, Doreen Greenwald, and NFFE president, Randy Erwin, participated in a Capitol Hill press conference urging Congress to r...

On the last day of the House of Representatives’ September session, IFPTE-backed Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) was passed with a overwhelming majority of support, by a vote of 415-9.

The SPEEA Negotiation Team has concluded bargaining with Boeing and has received the company’s final offer.

Members of The Society of United Professionals’ Bruce Local gathered for their Annual General Meeting to receive updates on local activities, bargaining, and the work underway to strengthen member eng...

IFPTE was pleased to see that 110 members of Congress, lead by Federal Workforce Caucus leaders, Reps. James Walkinshaw, Steny Hoyer and Brian Fitzpatrick, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, signed a lette...

IFPTE Local 777 President Agan Smalley attended an event in Chicago for IFPTE’s longtime friend, Congressman Danny Davis, on the occasion of his birthday on September 6, 2026.

The Society of United Professionals has officially opened its new Oshawa, Ontario office, marking an important milestone in its growing presence across Canada.

Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson was one of countless IFPTE leaders and members that participated in Labour Day festivities across the United States and Canada.

IFPTE issued the following statements in response to today’s launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the wide field infrared survey telescope mission built and managed by NASA Goddard Space F...

In a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership, IFPTE requested that lawmakers deny funding for the Trump Administration’s 50% tariffs on certain Canadian imports.

This approach toward our Canadian siblings, along with the Trump Administration’s continued attacks on Canada are detrimental to working families on both sides of the border.

Rhode Island AFL-CIO President, Patrick Crowley, alerted his senior Senator, Jack Reed, that the entire labor movement in his state stands strong behind bipartisan legislative language authored by New...

On Saturday, August 1 over 50 Society Members participated and volunteered in the 59th annual Toronto Caribbean Carnival (TCC).

With the support of Public Services International (PSI) and affiliated trade union organisations in the United States, the national leader of ANEF, Nuvia Guajardo, presented to the Inter-American Comm...

Bell Canada continues to add to the huge number of job reductions they have undertaken since their acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS), recently announcing yet another 19 unionized telecomm...

IFPTE Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson, Engineering Association/IFPTE Local 1937 President Anthony Chorney, and IFPTE Assistant to the Executive Officers Brian Kildee attended the East Tennessee Economi...

This week IFPTE weighed-in against the Trump Administration’s latest attack on federal workers through the Promoting Employee Accountability proposed rule.

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), of which IFPTE is affiliated, honoured Emancipation Day on August 1st, marking the day in 1834 when Canada and other British Colonies abolished slavery.

OTTAWA — “The Bank of Canada has now been found twice in two weeks to have broken Canada’s anti-scab law. Parliament passed this law to protect workers’ right to strike and ensure collective bargainin...

The Federal Workers Alliance (FWA) resent a letter signed by 19 labor unions, including IFPTE, to all Senate offices urging Senators to reject the nomination of Charlton Allen, the Trump Administrati...

SPEEA’s Negotiation Team has received offers from Boeing on proposed four-year collective bargaining agreements for some 17,000 aerospace professionals. There are two agreements, one for the Professio...

Over one million federal workers lost collective bargaining rights by executive order. For the second year in a row, a union member in Congress has added bipartisan language to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to start reversing that for 770,000 Department of Defense employees. And IFPTE just organized approximately 200 NOAA fisheries workers in Hawaii. On today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast, IFPTE President Matt Biggs discusses the Norcross NDAA language and what happens next in the Senate reconciliation fight, why stripping DoD collective bargaining rights harms rather than protects national security, the SAVE Act's voter registration barriers and what the numbers on voter fraud actually show and an organizing surge producing more requests for union representation than IFPTE has organizers to handle. Visit ifpte.org for more.

IFPTE President Matt Biggs discusses the Norcross NDAA language restoring DoD collective bargaining rights, the SAVE Act and a Hawaii organizing win.

This week IFPTE met with Maine Senate candidate, Troy Jackson, to discuss his candidacy and priorities if elected to represent the citizens of Maine in the United States Senate.

The IFPTE International issued their latest endorsement this week in support of our longtime friend, Elaine Luria, who is seeking to again represent the constituents of Virginia’s 2nd Congressional Di...

As Bell Canada continues to offshore Union-represented telecommunications jobs, including jobs of TEAM/IFPTE Local 161 members in Manitoba, IFPTE leaders sent a letter this week to the federal Ministe...

As the House of Representatives considered HR 8800, the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, IFPTE sent a letter urging all House lawmakers to oppose amendments filed by Representative...

IFPTE’s executive officers jointly released the following statement in response the latest round of tariffs imposed on Canada by President Trump, and the American government’s failure to assist Canada...

The Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL), of which TEAM/IFPTE Local 161 and WAPSO/IFPTE Local 162 are affiliates, have released a new report examining the growing epidemic of workplace violence across ...

This week, the ill-named "Taking Care of America's Veterans Act," H.R. 9237, was stopped from passing in the House of Representatives after a "motion to recommit" showed that enough Republicans would ...