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Our MissionThe International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers is a union whose purpose is to embrace the needs of professional, technical, administrative, and allied employees. We seek to be innovative in our approach to the challenges and opportunities presented by the changes in technology and the organization of work. IFPTE strives to represent the concerns of our membership in a fair and equitable manner and to grow in size and strength. We seek to build ties with employees and organizations nationally and internationally to accomplish our goals. IFPTE seeks to engage in negotiating and consummating contractual relationships with employers, through which wages, hours and conditions of employment may be properly regulated to the benefit of both the membership and the employers. Our Organization seeks to encourage a higher standard of proficiency among our members; to cultivate feelings of friendship amongst those who work in the engineering, scientific, technical and associated fields and with those who employ them. IFPTE is opposed to strikes and lockouts for adjusting differences between employers and employees, where such differences exist, preferring the method of arbitration. About IFPTEWho We Are
Today, we are the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO & CLC, a progressive labor union representing more than 75,000 men and women in professional, technical, administrative and associated occupations. As an affiliate of the AFL-CIO & the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), IFPTE is a diverse union representing employees in a wide variety of occupations in three distinct business sectors. Our members are comprised of workers employed by federal, public and private employers. We balance the broad range of our members' interests by adhering to democratic processes and consensus decision-making. A Union principle taught by Samuel Gompers--"An injury to one is an injury to all"--guides our Union as we work to represent the full range of our members' interests, and to organize the unorganized.
Why
We Exist We exist to give our members an effective voice in the legislative process. All of our members are impacted by our national and state legislatures in one manner or another. We exist to advance the issues that affect working families. We assist candidates for government who advance those concerns unique to our membership. We exist to raise the standards by which all professional and technical workers are employed. Only when all workers are covered by a contract will employers begin to stop the cycle of outsourcing, right-sizing and downsizing as they seek financial benefits at the expense of workers. |
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