professional employees federation

• Afge Local 1533, Pearl G. Ruchman, Charles Coates, Elaine Posey, Afge, Afl-Cio; National Federation of Federal Employees (Nffe), and the National Federation of Federal Employees Local 795; Metal Trades Department, Afl-Cio, Plaintiffs, and International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (Ifpte), Afl-Cio and Clc, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Department of Defense, Et Al.; H. Lawrence Garrett, Iii, Secretary of the Navy, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees., 944 F.2d 503 (9th Cir. 1991)

Julia L. Akins, IFPTE, AFL-CIO, Silver Spring, Md., for intervenor-appellant. Lowell V. Sturgill, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for ...

• Federal Circuits

• Health Care Professionals at Hines Va Vote to Join Afge

VA union moves to charter new Veterans Affairs local at Edward Hines Jr. VA Medical Center HINES, Ill., Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Federation of Government Employees is now the exclusive representative for more than 700 professional health care employees at the Edward Hines, Jr. Hospital in Hines, Ill. Physicians, pharmacists, medical technologists and other professionals at the facility will join more than 208,000 VA employees who currently are represented by AFGE and its National Veterans Affairs Council (NVAC).

• U.S. Newswire
• November 02, 2011

• Rising Expectations

More than a year ago, about 20 employees from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) began meeting in the basement of Holy Rosary Church in Washington, charting their plans to bring in the first union in the agency's 86-year history. On September 19, the plan came to fruition. Out of an eligible bargaining unit of 1,800, analysts voted 897-445 to join the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, giving employees the ability to negotiate with management over pay and other personnel policies. Their mission at GAO is transparency and accountability, says Chris Langford, a PDP employee who voted in favor of the union. They believe the way they can achieve that mission at GAO is through organizing this union. The union posted several videos to its Web site showin...

• Government Executive
• August 21, 2009

• United Airlines Engineers Reject Union

CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --United Continental Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: UAL) today announced that United Airlines' and Continental Airlines' professional engineers and related employees rejected representation sought by the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE). We are pleased that our co-workers recognized the value of our direct working relationship," said Ken Burtt, United's vice president technical services. "Working together, we have a promising future, and we will now take steps to implement pay adjustments stalled by the representation and election issues.

• U.S. Newswire
• November 29, 2011

• Contract Win Highlights Core Teacher Issues

The result was that, after more than a year of often difficult negotiations, teachers and professional employees represented by the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers (PFT) secured a new three-year contract that includes across-the-board salary increases, extension of medical benefits, and new language to check school discipline problems and to promote effective administration at the building level.

• American Teacher
• Vol. 92 Nbr. 6, March 2008

• ; Gao Finds Other Ways of Coping with Expected Cuts to Its Budget.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Wednesday spared the jobs of employees at its Wright-Patter-son Air Force Base field office and other locations across the country as the GAO settled on other methods of coping with expected congressional cuts to its budget. The decision spares 37 jobs at the Wright-Patterson office whose employees are paid annual wages of about $45,000 to $135,000, said Keith Hudson, field representative there for Local 1921 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, the union of GAO employees.

• Dayton Daily News
• October 21, 2011

• Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (FACOSH)

The will meet May 3, 2012, in Washington, DC. This Federal Register notice also announces the appointment of seven individuals to serve on FACOSH.

... safety and health of federal employees. This includes providing advice on how to reduce a... Gregory Junemann, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers; and. ...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 22355, April 13, 2012
• Notices
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration

• Dino Loretangeli, Frank Forst, Thomas Stiglic, and Local 194, New Jersey Turnpike Employees' Union, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Afl-Cio, Appellants, v. Dominick Critelli, Michael T. Waske, Rudolph E. Thomas, Vincent C. Cacchiotti, Ralph J. Mcelfresh, Des Cupid, Gregory Junemann, John H. Dunne, and Rodney A. Bower., 853 F.2d 186 (3rd Cir. 1988)

David Tykulsker (argued), Ball, Livingston & Tykulsker, Newark, N.J., for appellants. David S. Barr, Barbara L. Camens (argued), Barr & Peer, Washing...

• Federal Circuits

• Pittsburgh Teachers Union Looks at Proposed Contract

The Executive Board of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers is meeting today on a proposed three-year contract with Pittsburgh Public Schools. If the board recommends ratification of the deal, reached after a 20-hour negotiating session that ended Tuesday, the provisions will be mailed to teachers and other professional employees Friday. The federation will hold a meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday in Hall B of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to discuss the terms.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• January 17, 2008

• Unions Trying to Engineer a Deal with Tech Companies

Main table negotiations between the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 2001, and The Boeing Co. are scheduled to begin Tuesday in Seattle. The union seeks new contracts for 12,096 engineers and 5,672 technical workers throughout the Puget Sound region, Oregon, Utah and California. SPEEA's Puget Sound contracts expire Dec. 1. A third SPEEA bargaining unit in Wichita, Kan., opens talks Nov. 8 for a contract covering 785 engineers. The Wichita contract expires Dec. 5.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• October 31, 2005