It’s Official: TSA Granted ‘Fundamental Human Right’ to Unionize
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government will grant collective bargaining rights to the nation’s 40,000 airport screeners, the head of the largest federal workers union said Friday.
John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told The Associated Press he was informed of the decision at a meeting with John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration.
TSA workers have tried for nearly a decade to win the same union protections as other federal employees, but Republican opponents have balked over worries that union demands could jeopardize national security or slow response times in a crisis.
Union officials call those arguments an insult to the hundreds of thousands of public safety officers that already have collective bargaining rights, including Border Patrol agents, firefighters and the Capitol police.
“Today marks the recognition of a fundamental human right for 40,000 patriotic federal employees who have been disenfranchised since the inception of the agency,” Gage said.
Pistole had spent months studying the unionization issue since he was confirmed to the post in June. The move comes just days after Pistole said the agency would not hire private contractors to screen airline passengers, despite calls to do so from some Republican lawmakers and frustrated passengers.
When the agency was created in 2001, it was excluded from regulations that give other federal workers the right to union protections. The law gave the TSA administrator the authority to decide whether collective bargaining should be allowed, and under the administration of President George W. Bush it was always prohibited.
President Barack Obama had pledged to get the screeners collective bargaining rights during his campaign. But the effort was delayed after Obama’s first two choices to run the agency dropped out during their confirmation processes.
Earlier this week, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss, offered an amendment to the FAA authorization bill that would bar the screeners from gaining union rights.
“Burdensome and costly union demands could limit the ability of those responsible for security at some of the most high-risk targets to do their job,” Wicker said. “The FBI, the CIA and the Secret Service do not have collective bargaining rights for good reason.”
The Federal Labor Relations Authority has already set union elections at the TSA to begin in early March. TSA employees will choose between AFGE and the National Treasury Employees Union for representation.
AFGE already has more than 12,000 dues-paying members among the screeners’ ranks, but the union has not been allowed to bargain on behalf of its members.
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Comments (238)
the hawk
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:29pmNo Gov Pensions 401k’s only!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:08pmDon’t worry…they will get paid by the tax payers and then they will get BIG tax payer pensions. That is what ‘collective bargaining” is all about……just like collective salvation !!!
Report Post »ares338
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:26pmI know…..let’s give serial killers the fundamental right to unionize!
Report Post »ctate970
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:26pmI wonder if they will go drink beer and smoke weed during their breaks like the autoworkers?
Report Post »markgl
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:25pmHow much more are they trying to piss Americans off about flying???
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:55pmt.h.e.y.d.o.n.t.c.a.r.e
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:25pmMy only comment to this madness is. My father told me when I was a young boy. Human Rights will destroy this country. Looks like he was right on
Report Post »PatriotDaze
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:14pmHisemiester,
Now that’s downright funny!
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:24pmSo people, do you think Obama wants our Economy to collapse? I’ve been emailing Glenn since OB was elected, and stating this! Does BO not get that the Unions are our problem?
Report Post »psst
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:18pm@Doc who asks
Does BO not get that the Unions are our problem?
UM. Hussein IS THE problem. union thugs are his foot soldiers.And his campaign financiers.
Report Post »Iowa_man
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:22pmCan someone PLEASE explain how being unionized is a fundamental human right? I guess the left is so desperate for votes they just bought 40,000. Of course at our expense in the long run.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:51pm40,000 plus family members.
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:22pmOne more Government function to privatize, among many.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:21pmI didn’t thnk this week could get any worse, and then I hear this! OMG, does anyone in the US think were on the verge of people having a Nucler Meltdown? I guarantee Immigration will somehow pass, and this piece of SH_T president, if thats what you want to call him, will get re-elcted! Does anyone in our Govt., or out there disagree?
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:45pmif we ad the “I” then i would like to call him that. just horrible. i thinks we in big trouble….
Report Post »Zorba53
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:21pmI can see it now. The first strike and the ENTIRE air travel industry is COMPLETELY shut down. That means the tourism industry, MANY businesses and corporations that depend on air travel for meeting with customers and strategy sessions, AND part of our military travel!!! Good job, OBOZO!!!!!
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:21pm“Today marks the recognition of a fundamental human right for 40,000 patriotic federal employees who have been disenfranchised since the inception of the agency,” Gage said
Bozo. That means it’s time to unionize the Army and the rest of the armed services, too.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:20pmJust the current administration securing more votes.
Report Post »walker1812
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:20pmI worked for the Federal Government for 37 years and a manager for much of it. I worked for Treasury, DOD in a couple of their agencies and the Veterans Administration. I know for a fact that the people who decided to join the unions (wasn’t mandatory) did not work as hard as non-union. I trust they will not allow them to walk off their jobs in a labor dispute. Also they should not be made to join the union if they don’t want to. They will probably make it mandatory. This administration is owned by the unions. It was just a matter of time.
Report Post »Grumpy old Flight Nurse
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:19pmNudge
Report Post »straytrooper
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:48pmYeah, mmm, mmm, mmm the chant goes…..and it WAS a chant, I looked it up!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:22pmI am NUDGING BACK … boycott the airports!
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:18pmNo Federal worker should be able to form / join a union and hold the public hostage to their demands It is my dundamental human right not to be extorted by the gov’t or its workforce!!!!
Report Post »mgibs363
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:18pmThere goes the neighborhood.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:17pmHmmm – this nnouncement just a day or 2 after the TSA says that they won’t allow private securty in the airports any more – sounds like the scenario playing out that was feared to happen
Report Post »oljw00
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:16pmI actually rather adore watching the left FURTHER alienate itself from mainstream America..
Report Post »RamboTheDog
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:15pmMore leeches to suckle blood from the taxpayers.
Unions have no place in the Public Sector period.
Report Post »2gether
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:59pmamen…I didn’t realize that the being able to unionize is a FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT? Did I mss that one in the Constitution? Hmmmm maybe we should now allow the armed forces to unionize. I mean if any group of federal employees should be allowed to unionize it would be the armed forces. They have been abused the most, Then they could say, sorry, I refuse to go to Iraq, it’s not in my job description. I was told that I was protecting the USA, yet you want me to go on the other side of the world. Sorry, I am not going, when would I be able to take my paid hoildays or comp time?
Report Post »integrican
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:15pmThey will soon “bargain” for the right to take an extra few minutes to grope the “good lookin’ patrons.”
Report Post »Thankfully, I have nothing to fear.
Slobaphobe
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:48pmOMG! Will this spur private airport service–kinda like UPS vs post office? I hope…
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:15pmAndy Stern must be happy…..another example of cronyism
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:47pmDo any of those “base tards” SLEEP?
Report Post »Madisonian
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:13pmHi, NetJets, how much is a membership? (Does this fall under if you have to ask, you can’t afford it?) In all seriousness, we have a unionized screening process and a unionized air travel industry. If you live in the northeast, you’d have the option of rail, but that’s a steaming sinkhole of inefficiency with our bailed out friends at Amtrak. I wonder how much it would cost to priority overnight myself via FedEx….
Report Post »integrican
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:17pmIf you fit you’ll ship….oh wait that’s the USPS.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:08pmSee the USA in a Chev…. oh wait a minute .. Government Motors … See the USA in FORD!
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:11pmForm a union, shut down private competition, what more could they want?
Report Post »OneFunR6
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:19pmA war!?
be glad to give it to them………
I will NOT fly until the stop violating the Constitution’s 4th Amendment
U.S. Constitution – Amendment 4
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am4.html
Report Post »PatriotDaze
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:13pmOneFun,
excellent. More room on the plane for me. A couple more knee jerkers reacting in similar fashion and I’ll have the whole row to myself. can’t wait!!
Report Post »what4
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:22pmThe people Of America will take the country back and we wont have to stoop to Egypt style peacefull demonstrations….Vote as if your life depends on it, Because it does!
Report Post »LSX
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:34pm“excellent. More room on the plane for me. A couple more knee jerkers reacting in similar fashion and I’ll have the whole row to myself. can’t wait!!”
Boy the lefties don’t like it when “their” favorite son (union workers) gets boycotted.
Remove the parasites – Make unions illegal.
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Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:15pmOf course that’s what Comrade Bama wants to do.
The tragedy is that pretty much conservatives can get nothing done because of the Socialist majority in the Senate and the Socialist veto in the White house.
Plain and simple is it’s up to the people now, we have to keep spreading the word in our communities about the danger of the Democrats and how it is just a front for extremists that want to collapse our country. Only by spreading the word and getting united and involved we can get more real conservatives elected like in the Nov. elections.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 2:58amSo what happens when a federal govt that “protects” us from monopolies creates their own monopoly?
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:10pmThat’s just insane. Unionization is not a “fundamental human right.” More socialist garbage.
Report Post »IM_UR_HUCKLEBERRY
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:38pmHey GAMMA B… this may not be a totally bad thing…
Report Post »Now, when we SUE for having our privates “handled” by these folks, we can get into not only the GOVT’s funds, but also the deep pockets of the UNION.
I would LOVE to see the UNION sued to He!! and back for some of this stuff.
8jrts
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:39pmGramma
Report Post »Come on….Don’t you know?? Everything is a fundamental right….except to have a conservative point of view. That will be punishable by law if this regime has it’s way.
mhills51
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:04pmBut breathing is not a fundamental human right and will be charged acordingly
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 3:18pmYou have to look at this in a certain light. I am against Unions, I think they’re given too much power as it stands today. Do i believe employees have the right to “unite” among themselves to redress grievances against their employer, yes! Can they unit and call for a strike, yes! It’s their labor and their wages. The Employer also has the right to ignore them and FIRE them all and hire a whole new batch of workers. Or if those workers are important enough to listen to, he can choose to negotiate with them to keep them working.
There shouldn’t be an overall union nor should there be permanent unions that sit and wait to start a fight. Employees do have the right to say “We won’t take this anymore!” as a group but that’s as far as they get. They shouldn’t be protected from being fired or anything like that.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:10pmLunch break , we will be back in an hour , do not check in .
cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:14pmThat‘s exactly what’s going to happen Robert. That should make things so much better……not. So now no matter how much they cross the line and grope people, they can’t get fired. I love how liberals always make everything about human rights. Were the TSA workers not being treated humanely? If they weren’t, I never heard anything about it.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – conservative news and political humor
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:14pmWe are so screwed. Bush purposely fought unionization when he started the TSA for a reason. It’s going to take a real Reaganesque leader in the future to undo the damage.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:18pmYeah, tell that to the people who died in NYC. Unbelievable! Obama continues back door padding for the next election. Where is the GOP on this?
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:23pm@XCORI8R
No it will not, It will take the PEOPLE in EVERY location that has a TSA screen airport to petition their LOCAL government agency that control these airports (and most TSA airports are quasi pubic or outright public agency’s) to remove the TSA screeners and replace them with private ones.
The TSA bill gives the airports the ability to do this, and there is NOTHING the new tsa union can do to stop it
Report Post »byehlik
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:25pmUnions are the scum of the earth. I guess my flying days are over. So much for anything resembling professionalism. Not that the current workforce at TSA has ever displayed it. Brown shirts are coming.
Report Post »LSX
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:30pmMore Obamanomics to destroy our American way of life.
Time to purge the White House.
Impeach the Communist in Chief
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Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:31pmI feel like TSA agents will now be deployed exclusively to harass their critics, in the name of security ofcourse.
Report Post »Imagine SEIU thugs watching Palin and her family on the noodie scans and hitting “ print” .
Imagine union goons roughing up Beck and his family .
And getting away with it
pajamash
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:32pmAnd you thought it was expensive to fly now……JUST WAIT!!!!
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:34pmIf you play your cards right you can spend 13 years sitting in a time out room at full salary.
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:44pmGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Report Post »Ronald Reagan
Wake up We are Broke! A union? nothing surprises me coming from this regime.
not funny
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:45pmI think Obama has just sealed his reelection…..shameful.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:45pmWell, that will shut the airlines down. No one is going to want to fly.
Why is Obama trying so DAMNED hard to tear this country down? Why doesn’t he just pack up and go back to Indonesia or Kenya? Or over to Egypt, where his protesting buddies are!
Report Post »Ellie
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:46pmYet one more reason to support a National Right To Work law: http://www.nrtwc.org/
Once that is in place individuals will no longer have to comply with union thugs bleeding them dry in order to get or keep a decent job and the national union membership totals will tank to near zero in a matter of a few months.
The national unions always have been, and always will be, shills for Sociopathic Socialist Organizations that are Anti-self determination, Anti-freedom, and Anti-America.
Single shop and single industry unions, such as the NFL player’s union, are the only ones that still actually work for the improvement of their member’s working conditions whereas the National/International SEIU, AFL-CIO, etc. are nothing more then mobsters holding the worker’s right to work ransom via union dues that are then used to fund the Union bosses pay, benefits, retirement, and parties instead of providing any real, long term, tangible benefit to the members who slave under forced union membership.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:46pmTSA is the reason I don’t fly anymore. That’s lost business to the airlines, which translates to lost jobs for Americans. Thanks, Obama!
Report Post »Too bad the airlines didn’t have enough clout to persuade Odumbo to do the right thing when it came to airport security.
Xcori8r
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:50pmthe_ancient
Report Post »I don’t hold much hope for that happening in many places any time soon (i.e. California, Illinois New York or any other “blue” state). In the mean time there will be at least 50,000 (40,000 is bogus) new dues paying, junk groping union thugs supporting Democrats. That translates easily into over $1,000,000 PER MONTH to Democrats AFTER the union skims its take.
Echad
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:56pmHow about the fundamental human right not to pay tribute to the union just to get or keep a job!
Report Post »legendarytwo
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:00pmNow that we are finding out how progressive the Bushes are it’s clear. We wouldn’t have had this massive agency if not for George. We would have used 9/11 to profile terrorists not patriots and told the left to take a hike.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:05pmThe nightmare of flying just got worse … WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS! More Obama stimulus.to the unions …. for VOTES .. .guess what — I would not fly now if it were free! Not even if they PAID me!
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:07pmSeems to be fulfilling BHO’s prophecy of a civilian national security force just as powerful just as well funded….
http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:13pmWhy can’t we ask the airports to fire them, then, do it themselfs!…..
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:41pm@not funny
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 3:45pm
“I think Obama has just sealed his reelection…..shameful.”
No, no, “Not!” Obama CANNOT be elected again. There are ten states — Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticit, Montana, and others that are introducing legislation requiring certified paperwork proving eligibility for POTUS or congressional seat befopre they can be placed on the ballot. This includes the long-form birth certificate that Obama has spent millions of dollars to keep hidden, to be ATTACHED to the request to be placed on the ballot.
Get enough states to do this in order to amass enough Electoral College votes to block him, and you will see Obama and family, and their little dog, too, ride off into the sunset
If your state has not already joined the bandwagon, get on the horn with your state representative and senator!!! NOW!
Report Post »12 gauge
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 4:53pmCome on people! Of course it’s a fundamental right for all federally comrades to unionize. TSA, like their commie federally bothers and sisters, want to gorge themselves at the public trough and crap in your hat and tell you it’s just raining…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:20pmHey Benny, stop feeling that woman up and take your break, I don‘t care if you’ve only done one breast, union rules. Take your break now.
Sorry ma’am, union rules say you can’t sue me for posting your pictures on the internet, ya go ahead and sue, we’re a union, you can’t touch us.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:26pmWhere are all the trolls on this one?
Oh that’s right, it is Friday, they do not work on Fridays
because their Union allows them long weekends.
Where is my buddy MTNCLIMBERJIM ??
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:30pmfundamental human right=union member. now that’s funny.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:56pmThis is a good thing, because travelers want those surly, incompetent boobs to feel like they can get away with anything without being fired. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY?!? I FEEL LIKE I’M IN A BAD TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE!
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:22pmwho’s going to pay the pensions when they come due?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 6:25pm@Cobra Blue
Report Post »They won’t be collecting pensions for another 10 years, that will be the Chinese’ problem then.
jcldwl
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:12pmJust think how much easier it will be for unions to shut down air traffic now. One long TSA strike and no flights. That is what this is all about. Control.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 8:00pmThose of us in a right to work state won’t join anyway. Those who are in labor union controlled states are already mostly brainless liberals who do the bare minimum they have to keep their job anyway. I don’t like it, but I don‘t think it will make the difference you’re concerned about. We’ll see.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 8:01pmDid the Nazis need a union ?
Report Post »that was the Commies
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 9:05pm@tower7femacamp
Report Post »Didn‘t the Nazi’s have the SSEIU?
jzs
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:01pm“President Barack Obama had pledged to get the screeners collective bargaining rights during his campaign.”
To those who object to I’d ask: Americans don’t have a right to talk about what they want and join together a common purpose? Isn’t that what the colonists and Founding Fathers did when America broke free from England? Isn’t that what the Tea Party is? A group of citizens who promise to vote together?
TSA employees can’t join and challenge the Government about their pay and working conditions and what the Government requires them to do? TSA employees must be subject to whatever the Government decides and follow whatever they’re told utterly without a voice?
You guys are against Government control and support the power. I say that We the People have a voice. You can’t be in favor of We the People and be against people organizing to promote their common interest.
Report Post »CowboyExpat
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:14pmMore assured voters for the left…and they will be excluded from the Obamacare provisions.
Report Post »CowboyExpat
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:17pm@cheezwhiz…yep, the time is upon us. This is the official harrassment tool of the FED now. Next, they‘ll be at your door because it was ’something you said’. They’re all about to dye their shirts brown.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 2:57amThe TSA should be abolished. Let the airlines hire or do their own security. Let pilots carry a weapon to defend the cockpit.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 6:46amWhat happens when the unionized TSA security personel decide to go on strike, no security screening, no flying ? Oh I know, that’s never going to happen. Yea well, never say never !
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:29am@jzs
Right……the tea party is the same thing? So the tea party collects a salary from the federal government which derives all of it’s funds from taxation? You didn’t do too well on the analogy portion of the SAT did you?
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 9:30amDarmok I did try to post you a response but it was censored or
Report Post »deleted.
Jesus the Righteous
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 12:37pmYes Robert, you are correct in your take on this. Watch how they start to sloooowly copy the the brothers and sisters in the USPS. Just as the sun rises in the east you know the TSA was going to be unionized. Now how are we as taxpayers going to handle this as states are bankrupting as we speak. If the company I work for received taxpayer dollars and became unionized by the Federal Government this would be a heaven sent proposition. When do you think us taxpayers will stop being taken advantage of? I still love you all and peace be with you.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 12:51pmGreat, yet more ‘public servants’ who will now be our masters whom we must serve.
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 1:31pmFederal Employees should not be allowed to unionize. Hell screw unions in general. If you don’t like your employer, quit and find a new job. If you not capable of finding a better job then suck it up and earn that pay check. It‘s not anyone else’s fault that you fail to diversify your skill set. In the job market today, if you quit because you feel like you weren’t making enough, as an employer I can replace you in a heart beat.
Report Post »Sergio Q
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 2:58pm~GREAT~ …more union trash bleeden’ dry the taxpayers dollars & pinchen’ the pockets of the public.
Report Post »( “recognition of a fundamental human right” I dont recall that in The Bill of Rights ~but do KNOW thats some socialistic/comunistic tatics ,and do recall obama had pledged to get the screeners collective bargaining rights during his campaign ,and can only call this bullcrapp a payback for votes) .