IFPTE Guidance on 'Resignation' Offer

1/30/2025 6:42 am

IFPTE Urges Members to Reject OPM "Offer" of “Deferred Resignation”

IFPTE is aware of and has received numerous questions regarding the “Fork in the Road” email (which is included at the bottom on this email) from the email hr@opm.gov (an email address that is itself currently the subject of a lawsuit).  

The email in question was sent to federal employees yesterday around 5 pm Eastern Time. 

AFEU recommends that Ames bargaining unit employees remain calm regarding the requested “deferred resignations” and refrain from responding to the email because of significant unanswered questions and concerns regarding the facts.  

Words from IFPTE Leadership

1/28/2025 6:21 am

The following is a statement from Matt Biggs, IFPTE President and Gay Henson, Secretary-Treasurer. 

To All IFPTE Federal Locals/Members:

Federal employees have been through a harrowing week. 

In just a handful of days, you all have seen the multiple communiques sent from the highest levels of government leadership that take a disrespectful, accusatory, and mean-spirited view of the federal workforce. They convey the message that the leadership of our nation is discounting the contributions of federal workers who are part of a vibrant workforce, one that is strong in no small part due to its multifaceted diversity.

Federal workers take an oath to defend our nation and the Constitution and to faithfully discharge the duties of their office.  The commitment, pride, and effort that federal workers show when they serve the American public stand in sharp contrast to those in our government who willfully sow fear among the federal workforce, seek to enact undemocratic and unaccountable structures, and are driven by an ideological understanding of government and government workers that is not grounded in reality. 

You are not and IFPTE is not alone. Your union, IFPTE,  is working with our union partners, with the AFL-CIO, the Federal Workers Alliance, and with organizations allied with labor unions to protect federal employees’ jobs and pay and benefits, uphold the civil service, and to maintain collective bargaining rights.

IFPTE Statement on EOs

1/23/2025 1:42 am

Future Of the Federal Workforce Discussion

1/23/2025 2:00 am

The following link is to a discussion with Max Stier- CEO and President, Partnership for Public Service and Everett Kelly- President, American Federation of Government Employees, hosted by Todd Zwillich, political reporter at WAMU, a public news-talk station in Washington DC.

Listen to the Discussion

Union Plus

9/15/2023 8:31 am

AFEU Member Benefit: Union Plus