Stop the expansion of misleading VA Accountability & Whistleblower Protection Act the attack on the due process rights of VA and other Federal workers and their unions’ ability to defend them.
2017 ELECTION RESULTS FOR THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OFFICERS The following Executive Board Officers were elected by acclamation: President: John Mader, PG&E Electric Distribution Engineer Vice President, Optometry Unit: Joan Mah, Kaiser O.D. Vice President, Medical Professional Unit: Connie Savoy, Kaiser CLS Congratulations to all!
ESC Local 20 condemns violent, hateful, and racist speech and actions, like that which occurred recently in Charlottesville, by white nationalists and other hate groups…
A bill (H.R. 1716) has been introduced in the House of Representatives to prohibit the Administration from imposing its government wide hiring freeze on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The bill’s sponsor is Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY-7), and co-sponsored by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA-2).
IFPTE urges decision makers to oppose cuts to Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections, including gutting the pre-existing conditions protections, and ending the Medicaid expansion to states that has provided millions of our most vulnerable citizens health coverage and the so-called American Health Care Act that would leave at least 24 million Americans without healthcare coverage.
It is with great sadness we share the passing of Wendell Smith, former ESC Local 20 EPA Unit President and veteran EPA Region 9 Water Division engineer. With more than 25 years of service as an elected leader of ESC Local 20, Wendell also received ESC Local 20 highest honor, the Ben Hudnall Award, in 2015.
HR 1461 starts with attacking the use of Official Time at the VA… but who is next?
“…This misguided bill places significant restrictions on the ability of elected union representatives to use official time for representational purposes. In fact, the restrictions are so harsh and so broad, that they would essentially dissuade union representatives from using official time at all, which is the intended outcome of HR 1461…”
More than 700 former EPA employees sign on a letter to Congress on the current Administration’s climate denial.
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IFPTE letter calling on Representatives to oppose the ACA repeal bill. “HR 1628 will leave 24 million people without health coverage, make it very difficult if not impossible for States to replace federal Medicaid dollars, lead to the loss of State government jobs, and be yet another corporate tax giveaway to already profitable heath industry companies. IFPTE urges you to oppose this bill.”
