TSA Chooses AFL-CIO Branch as Its Union
Airport screeners around the county have chosen the nation’s largest federal employee union to represent them in collective bargaining talks with the government.
The American Federation of Government Employees won a runoff vote to represent 44,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration.
Federal officials tallying the votes say AFGE received 8,903 votes, while National Treasury Employees Union got 8,447 votes. The runoff was held after neither union received more than 50 percent of votes during the first election earlier this year.
Must have had a few dead people vote as well.
The vote came after TSA head John Pistole agreed in February to grant screeners limited collective bargaining rights for the first time since the agency was formed a decade ago.
BIG mistake.
The AFGE is a branch of the AFL-CIO.
Airport screeners had been among the few federal workers without union rights.
What rights do passengers have?
June 23, 2011 at 2:43 pm
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June 23, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Thuggery triumphant: I’m in shock, I tell you.
June 23, 2011 at 8:38 pm
I’m sure it struck you like it did me.
June 27, 2011 at 2:33 pm
I hear the tipping point in the sell was the AFL-CIO’s answer to the TSA concerns about their low-paid crappy government jobs….
AFL-CIO responded “Well…..DEPENDS!”
“TSA makes 95 year old woman in wheelchair remove adult diaper”
….
“She said security personnel then came out and told her they would need for her mother to remove her Depends diaper because it was soiled and was impeding their search.
Weber wheeled her mother into a bathroom, removed her diaper and returned. Her mother did not have another clean diaper with her, Weber said….”
http://www.therightscoop.com/tsa-makes-95-year-old-woman-in-wheelchair-remove-adult-diaper/
June 27, 2011 at 7:23 pm
It’s sickening Buttered. The family should have stuck the old woman in a burka and no one would have bothered her.