TVA Engineers Join IFPTE

by Seth Michaels, Nov 10, 2009

EA President Gay Henson (left) and IFPTE Secretary-Treasurer Paul Shearon sign the agreement affiliating EA with IFPTE.

By a nearly 10-to-1 margin, members of the Tennessee Valley Authority Engineering Association (EA), employees at the nation’s largest public power supplier, voted to affiliate with the Professional and Technical Engineers union (IFPTE) today.

The EA includes more than 2,600 scientists, engineers, technicians and other professional TVA employees.

EA President Gay Henson says joining IFPTE will make EA a more effective advocate for its members:

“We are extremely excited about moving forward together with the IFPTE. This partnership provides us with new connections to Washington, to the labor movement and to other engineers and professionals. IFPTE also will lend expertise to help us with legislation and negotiations. As a result of today’s vote, it’s a new day for the EA.”

IFPTE represents more than 80,000 professional employees in both the public and private sector, including technical experts and skilled workers at power-generation facilities across he country. IFPTE President Greg Junemann says he’s honored that EA, first formed in 1937, decided to affiliate with IFPTE.

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