IFPTE Honours Canada Day on July 1st and
Independence Day on July 4th,
and offer our best wishes to our members, their families, and all working families across the United States and Canada!
We stand strong together in Solidarity!
IFPTE Local 8A Successfully Organizes NOAA Fisheries Workers
Local 8A President, Nick Tolimieri, commented on the successful organizing campaign: “Local 8A congratulates the more than 200 federal employees at the Pacific Island Fisheries location for voting to join Local 8A. It is as important now more than ever that federal employees band together and strengthen not only our working conditions, but protect the vital work that we all perform on behalf of American taxpayers. We look forward to getting the bargaining process started.”
IFPTE Provides Comments Opposing the Trump Administration’s Employee Nondisclosure Agreement
IFPTE International joined several IFPTE Locals, including Local 777, rank-and-file members and others in the labor movement in providing comments last week in opposition to the Trump Administration’s efforts to force federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements.
SPEEA Local 2001 Starts Bargaining with Boeing
Negotiators for SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 began formal contract talks with Boeing on July 1. SPEEA aims to negotiate two collective bargaining agreements, one for some 13,000 engineers and another for some 4,000 technical workers, with the majority of those aerospace professionals working at Boeing facilities in Puget Sound and several hundreds more working at Boeing sites in Oregon, California and Utah.
Society/Local 160 President Meets with Ontario Energy Minister Stephen Lecce
The Society of United Professionals/Local 160 President Rebecca Caron met with Ontario Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce last week to discuss the province’s plans for expanding nuclear energy and the workforce needed to support it. Following the meeting, Minister Lecce thanked Caron for her “good advice and partnership” as Ontario develops a workforce readiness strategy aimed at filling 150,000 net-new jobs across the province.
SPEEA Members Participate in Seattle PRIDE Parade
SPEEA members showed up strong for Seattle’s 52nd annual Pride Parade, which took place on Sunday, June 28th. The parade was attended by several Unions in addition to SPEEA, including the Washington State AFL-CIO.
Society/Local 160 Stands Proud at PRIDE Toronto 2026
The Society of United Professionals/Local 160 (the Society) proudly joined Pride Toronto over the weekend standing alongside over 3 million participants in support of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and reaffirming the union’s commitment to equity, inclusion, and human rights.
Working People Across North America Need a Workers-First Trade Policy
IFPTE issued a statement on the U.S-Mexico-Canada (USMCA or CUSMA) trade agreement’s six-year review period, commencing on July 1, 2026.
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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.
SAVE THE DATE!!!
IFPTE 62nd Convention
Toronto, ON, Canada
July 19-22, 2027
IFPTE Local 400 