IAM Local 376 member Bob Blasi cutting down timber while working on a forest wildfire. Bill Blasi and Ron Pevny have never met, but both men have something admirable in common. They have spent their careers risking their lives fighting wildfires across the United States and they both serve as union stewards for NFFE-IAM. Blasi
Read moreA building formerly used by IAM District W2 to organize Service Contract workers at Red River Army Depot near Texarkana, TX is now being used by NFFE-IAM Local 2189 to organize more depot workers. From Left to Right: – IAM Organizer Joe Cicala, NFFE LL 2189 Vice President Jerry McCarty, NFFE LL 2189 President Shane
Read moreFrom left, Housing and Urban Development Department Deputy Secretary Nani Coloretti and Federal Labor Relations Authority Chairman Carol Waller Pope present NFFE-IAM National Vice President Elizabeth McDargh with an award recognizing their greatly improvement labor-management relations. McDargh received the award on behalf of NFFE-IAM Local 1450 Vice President Charron Alfonso. After years of strife between
Read moreNFFE News Release – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Drew Halunen, Legislative Director June 7, 2016 Phone: (202) 716-2204 Olympia, Wash. – Today, members of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), representing 110,000 federal workers nation-wide, including more than 20,000 U.S.D.A. Forest Service (USFS) employees, are shining a light on the
Read moreYou can still register for the June 26-July 1, 2016 Federal Employees Collective Bargaining Program at the IAM’s Winpisinger Education and Technology Center. The deadline for the class has been extended until Friday, May 13. The program will involve training in areas specific to the federal sector such as collective bargaining, the Hatch Act and
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