STATEMENT OF FACTS SPFPA President David L. Hickey CANNOT DENY! International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA). is a labor organization based in Roseville, Michigan that represents protective security officers at federal workplaces. Pursuant to that representation, SPFPA executed collective bargaining agreements with several employers covering the security industry in several states.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Florida couple former SPFPA VP @ Large Rick O'Quinn & his wife Mabel O'Quinn pled guilty today to conspiracy to provide and receive prohibited labor payments, in violation of the Labor Management Relations Act, also known as the Taft-Hartley Act.

It is time for a leadership transition at SPFPA. ​​ David L. Hickey has led this union for decades, but tenure alone cannot justify the decisions that have put millions of dollars in member dues at risk. According to the Department of Labor Records filed by SPFPA, since 2017, SPFPA Hickey has spent more than $3,000,000 million dollars in legal fees from his dues paying members hard earned money pursuing legal action against a rival union—without recovering a single dollar.

March 18, 2026 - Florence Arizona - The 329 Akima Global Services LLC detention & transportation officers working at Florence detention center made their voices heard when they voted 105 to 1 to join the United Federation LEOS-PBA Law Enforcement Officers Security & Police Benevolent Association a rival union of the International Union, security, police & Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA)

ROCKFORD — A Whiteside County man has been sentenced to a federal prison term for embezzling from SPFPA Local 238, a labor organization.

SPFPA union officials continued to collect dues over workers’ objections despite majority vote by employees that ended mandatory payments

BRENT TOPPERT, 42, was the elected Financial Secretary-Treasurer of Local 238 of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA).  The SPFPA represented members engaged in providing security at a nuclear plant in Cordova, Ill.  Toppert admitted in a plea agreement that in 2018 he made an unauthorized withdrawal of $500 from a bank account owned by the SPFPA, and that the withdrawal was not for business purpose.  Toppert admitted that he converted this money to

Waynesboro, GA (February 10, 2026) -  – Nuclear security officers working for Southern Nuclear Operating Company have freed themselves from the control of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) union officials in their workplace.

At the order of officials from the International Union of Security Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA), AKAL suspended Juan without pay for over a year because he had exercised his right under Texas’ Right to Work law to refuse to pay union dues. Texas is one of 24 Right to Work states that prohibit compulsory dues.

Nuclear Security Officers at Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant collect enough signatures to prompt federal labor board to administer SPFPA union removal vote.

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