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CONSTITUTION OF THE
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL
AND TECHNICAL ENGINEERS
AFL-CIO & CLC
Updated September 2006
ARTICLE 1
Name and Headquarters
ARTICLE 1 Name and Headquarters
This Organization shall be known as the International Federation of Professional and
Technical Engineers, hereinafter referred to as the Federation, one of the constituent
organizations of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations and Canadian Labour Congress with which it shall be affiliated.
Headquarters are to be maintained in the vicinity of Washington, District of Columbia.
ARTICLE 2 Jurisdiction
This Federation shall be devoted and dedicated to organizing into a national organization
and shall embrace within its jurisdiction all individuals who are professional,
engineering, scientific, technical, administrative, clerical and allied workers for the
purpose of representing them in collective bargaining and otherwise improving their
economic status and conditions of employment.
ARTICLE 3 Purpose
Section 3.1 The Federation shall strive to elevate the fields of endeavor within its
jurisdiction to their proper positions in industrial activity and in the ranks of all workers;
to encourage a higher standard of proficiency among its members; to cultivate feelings of
friendship among those who work in these fields and with those who employ them; to
assist members in securing stable employment; to assist employers in securing skilled
workers from among the membership; 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; to encourage and legislate for, or by economic means secure, such reduction
of daily and weekly hours of work as will guarantee the proper distribution of available
work to the greatest number of people in the field; to bring about increased opportunity
for recreation and rest, the proper freedom to observe the days set aside for holidays and
religious worship; to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of all members
by legal and proper means; to safeguard, advance, and promote the principle of free
collective bargaining, the rights of workers, farmers, and consumers, and the security and
welfare of all the people by political, educational and other community activity; to
provide assistance, financial, moral or other, to other labor organizations or other bodies
having purposes and objectives in whole or in part similar or related to those of this
organization; to protect and preserve the union as an institution and to perform its legal
and contractual obligations. It is recognized that the problems with which this Federation
is accustomed to dealing are not limited to "bread and butter" unionism or to organizing
and collective bargaining alone, but encompass a broad spectrum of economic and social
objectives as set forth above and as the union may determine from time to time; we,
therefore, determine and assert that the participation of this labor organization
individually and with other organizations in the pursuit and attainment of the objectives
set forth herein are for the sole benefit of the organization and its members...
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