‘IFPTE Wishes All of Our Members and Their Families a Safe and Happy Memorial Day Holiday’
ENVEST – IFPTE Partners with TVA, Paradigm in Establishing STEM Apprenticeship Program
Led by Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson, IFPTE made history last Friday by finalizing a first of its kind STEM apprenticeship program. The program is entitled ENVEST Jobs– Empowerment Network for Engineering, Science and Technology Jobs, and will help to fund worker training programs to meet IT, cyber-security, and other needs of employers like TVA and others.
Secretary-Treasurer Henson Talks Appreticeships at AFA Summit
Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson was a featured panelist this week at a summit hosted by Apprenticeships for America (AFA). The event, which was held in Washington, DC, featured a panel organized by the AFL-CIO’s Working for America Institute entitled, “Stronger Together: How unions and employers’ power successful apprenticeships!”
IFPTE and SUP/Local 160 Lead IFPTE Contingent at CBTU Convention
International staff, Candace Rhett, and Society of United Professionals (SUP/IFPTE Local 160) Board Member and past Chair of the SUP Racialized Professionals Committee, Leon Simeon, along with SUP/Local 160 members, Johanne Konan and Lilia Shillingford, represented IFPTE this week in Atlanta at the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) 55th International Convention. More than 1100 people attended the convention themed, “Cherish Our Legacy & Bend to No One.”
SUP/Local 160 Attends EHRC Agents of Change 2026
Last week, the Society of United Professionals (SUP/IFPTE Local 160) attended Electricity Human Resources Canada’s Agents of Change 2026 in Montreal, joining industry leaders and changemakers for two days of meaningful connection and dialogue.
Current and Former IFPTE Members Advocate for Repairing Talent Pipeline for NASA and Supporting Strategic Workforce Capacities
GESTA/IFPTE Local 29 leaders and members were on Capitol Hill this week to meet with Congressional offices and discuss the need for Congress to support NASA’s talent pipeline, advance policies that enable long term talent retention, and make sure federal hiring practices are not wasting the resources, time, and commitment that agencies and early career employees have invested.
MFL Calls to End WCB Surplus Payouts to Employers
The Manitoba Federation of Labour (MFL) is calling on the provincial government to legislate an end to the Workers Compensation Board’s (WCB) annual surplus payouts to employers until several concerning workplace health and safety trends are reversed. Read more here.
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IFPTE Urges Congress to Block Trump Administration from Accessing Personal Medical Data of Federal Workers
IFPTE responded this week to efforts by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to unilaterally implement a rule forcing health insurers to disclose the individualized, personal medical information of current and former federal employees to the Trump Administration. In asking both Congressional appropriators and authorizers to come together in a bipartisan way to prevent the Administration from accessing this data, IFPTE reinforced to lawmakers that, “Medical records invoke core cannons of personal, social, psychological, cultural, and religious privacy that are absolutely sacred to all Americans.” Read IFPTE’s letter to key Capitol Hill lawmakers and join IFPTE’s member mobilization letter writing campaign here.
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IFPTE 62nd Convention
Toronto, ON, Canada
July 19-22, 2027
IFPTE Local 400 