Pension Benefit Guaranty Employees Join IFPTE

by James Parks, Feb 26, 2009

Employees at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) protect the pensions of nearly 44 million workers and retirees in America. Now their rights on the job will be protected after more than 500 of the staff overwhelmingly voted to join the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE).

Donna Pentek, who works as a paralegal at the agency, says “PBGC employees work hard to help protect the pensions of million of Americans.”

Now as members of IFPTE, we will work to make sure our employees are happy and our benefits are being taken care of.

The PBGC employees are the latest in a growing number of federal technical employees to join IFPTE. Last year, more than 70 percent of the 1,800 analysts at the Government Accountability Office voted for IFPTE. The union also represents NASA scientists, administrative law judges working on immigration cases, researchers at the Library of Congress and engineers at the Army Corps of Engineers.

lFPTE President Greg Junemann adds:

Professional employees are increasingly looking for a collective voice on the job, and a union such as our guarantees them greater influence in decision making.

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