TSA Chooses AFL-CIO Branch as Its Union
- Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:43am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — 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.
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.
The AFGE is a branch of the AFL-CIO.
Airport screeners had been among the few federal workers without union rights.
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Comments (140)
HorseCrazy
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:42amglad the only plane I fly in is my own. get a pilots license folks for North American travel. Way to pay back those unions barry. we are all on to you
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:41amNext, the feds will arm them.
Report Post »His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:41amJust practicing for the fair and rigged elections of 2012.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:39amnow we know why the tsa is changing the rules with regard to sexual molistation pat downs of children. the lawsuits will cost the union money.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:26amLOL Ok now pony up the dues…In the day you could decline to join the union…wonder if that is still the fed standard.
Any fed employee can join…this is BS…and if it is required to be a member they will need to change a law…gee Team O don’t need no stinking law, he got EO…BO got EO. executive orders.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:47amhttp://www.lmrcouncil.gov/meetings/handouts/EngagingFederalEmployeesThroughTheirUnionRepresentativesToImproveAgencyPerformance.pdf
^ pdf file
In part it states, “On January 8, 2003, the head of the TSA, Admiral Loy, issued a memorandum that showed just how far the administration was willing to pursue this new-found managerial authority to negate labor-management relations. Invoking statutory authority provided under the ATSA, Loy stated that ―I hereby determine that individuals carrying out the security screening function under section 44901 of Title 49, United State Code, in light of their critical national security responsibilities, shall not, as a term or condition of their employment, be entitled to engage in collective bargaining or be represented for the purpose of engaging in such bargaining by any representative or organization.‖
The memorandum did not forbid screeners from joining unions, but unequivocally denied them the inherent rationale for unionization in the first place, i.e. collective bargaining to negotiate agreements to establish rights and protections in the workplace beyond those written into statute.”
Report Post »Johnny Appleseed
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:18amUnionization of Federal employees is on its face corrupt. They are in the position to bargain for more of my money…not an individual company’s money – My money, and yours, of course.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:15amAttention Airlines!!!! I will not fly while the TSA is in charge!!!!!!
Report Post »shadowrider
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:14amWho gave Pistole the “authority” to allow collective bargaining for TSA employee’s considering that the union was voted for in an earlier vote ? Seems like someone needs to tell him immediately that he has no such power to spend the TAXPAYERS $$$$ in such a way !
Report Post »libloather7
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:11amMakes you want to puke!
Report Post »southernORcobra
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:11amnot suprised no one is willing to truly FIGHT to stop this.
Report Post »inexiletill2012
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:01amthis is news ?
Report Post »just waiting for the democratic caucus to join the AFL-CIO
Darla_K
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:59amHere comes the trolls. Change you can believe in.
Report Post »Banshee34
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:59amI am so frustrated and angry I can’t formulate a comment.
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:06amWell stated
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:42pmNeed to borrow some of my gun oil? Greasing blue steel these days is, I find, quite theraputic in these troubling times.
:-)
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:57amEveryone….get guns and ammo….just in case!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:57amOH, GREAT. Now I can have union thugs roughing me up at airports, too! Imagine how they will FEEL YOU UP now? UGH.
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:55amMy Golly we need another Reagan! I feel like the REAl American’s are screaming to deaf ears!
Report Post »LukeAppling
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:53amWhere are the Conservatives to stop this takeover of America by unions without votes or fair elections? How can this happen while we sit i9dle watching Obama pay off unions for his election, are we so stupid or simply lazy?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:01am@LUKEAPPLING ~~~ We can’t kill them. GOD’s orders.
Unless we declare war against them. THEN, we can kill them. They certainly have declared war against us, haven’t they? Am I missing something????
Until then, I don’t see this evil, vile group of maggots moving away, do you?
It isn’t that AMERICANS, esp. Conservatives don’t want them gone. We do. In spades. It is that Congress OUR ELECTED officials (barf!) aren’t standing up for us or representing us. So, it is left to WE THE PEOPLE. What was Patton’s declaration? “Lead, follow or get out of the way!”
PRAY ON, AMERICA. And/or declare war, and let’s git `er done. We cannot wait another year. There will be no AMERICA left to defend. IMHO
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:05amNot sure there will be
Report Post »Or if it will make any diff.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:19amKickagrandma:
Report Post »Declare war on the TSA so we can kill them? Do it ourselves as Americans, if Congress won’t?
How Constitutional is that? Your language leaves me confused as to what exactly you’re suggesting here,
Mil-Dot
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:46amHey Drako
Report Post »What the he!!! do you think Grandma meant? Can’t you read English? Read it again.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:35pmMil-Dot:
Well, her post begins with “We can’t kill them.”
There is no reference, but “them” must mean either kill the TSA, or the people who work for it, or unions, or the people who belong to them.
What else could she possibly mean?
And since she pretty much discounts Congress, and suggests that “we the people” should do the job. . . .
You tell me what you think she means, if you can cut through her somewhat disjointed verbiage and extract any meaning at all, beyond an emission of bile.
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:48amWTF !!!!!!!!!!!!! …National Civilian Police Force …………NCPF …..
Report Post »NJTMATO
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:56amI LIKE IT!!!!! I’ll join!
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:40pmI’m in.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:48amI‘m sure that was an honest election that will make our country even more more secure than it isn’t now.
Report Post »The drive is on, people…at every level they are taking away our freedomand liberty.
2012 can’t come soon enough.
knockered
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:48am44,000 emplyees and they only got 8,000 votes. hmmmm. The unions at work again.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:48amAnyone need any more reason NOT to fly? This won’t change until people stand up and hurt the airline business.
TEA!
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:57amThe only problem is then we will get a govt run airline bsns..Then it will be even more dangerous to fly…This is getting really scary!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:18amWhat? They going to “force” us to fly? Most business can be done with virtual meetings .. saving the business not only time but money .. you want to go on vacation either pick a place near you or take an extra day or two .. a family would save money either way. Other than medical emergencies (sick relative) or funeral .. do you really “have” to fly?
TEA!
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:41amCATB
Report Post »I agree with you. But the problem is that there are millions of weak-kneed, govt loving, prog creeps that have zero problem with going through the TSA garbage. They actually think “If you don’t like it drive instead.” Like it is their airline and if you complain, you are not a good German, er, I mean American.
Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:03pmyou will not need to fly ….gee in Indiana they can walk into your house also …
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/738/124/Surprise_TSA_Is_Searching_Your_Car,_Subway,_Ferry,_Bus,_AND_Plane.html
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:07pm@ mil-dot
driving wont be the answer for long …check this out …..the only thing that can come out this is checkpoints , “ zones ” , ” authorization papers for travel , …can you tell me agian what country I woke up in this morning ?
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:18pmHow true but also true is the sad fact about human nature. There’s always just a “remnant” that actually do the “right thing” – that take the time and effort, inconvenience, etc. Most will cave or justify it, believing the lie that it has to be done for our security – and bc it’s just easier not to fight it. I, for one refuse to fly anymore and proved it by driving to Ohio from Texas for our vacation and I’m sticking to it, even if it does “no good”. Fortunately, we live in a state that has actually had the guts to put forth a bill – an anti-TSA pat down bill on the agenda for the special session of the Texas Legislature at the urging of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Texas tea party activists. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110621/us_ac/8675589_bill_prohibiting_tsa_enhanced_pat_downs_back_on_the_texas_legislative_agenda
Report Post »Just after this, TSA came out saying “no more baby pat downs” — so they’re sensitive to what actions we take. Spread the word to get active and contact your Reps. to do the same.,…and pray for the Divine intervention we need to get this done.
plumberswife
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:47amWell now we’ll have the thugs at the gate to let the barbarians in…
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:47amNo big surprise.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:46amHopefully, a new POTUS spells the end of another failed government program, the TSA.
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:56amI’ll vote for anyone who runs on abolishing the TSA, Securing our borders, is in favor of drilling oil, and is a union buster
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:29am@ randy ..I second that
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:36amSomething tells me that no matter who we put into the office of POTUS, the TSA, EPA, Dept of Education will NEVER be eliminated. Once they get into office, it is business as usual. They all sell us out once they get in. I hope I am wrong.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:46amWorkers of the World Unite, against non-union workers.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:50am911 911 911 , popular mechanics , CIA, Mossad, fiat money,control, NWO
Report Post »MIND CONTROL and LIES
now it’s time for the FEMA camps to become mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vshXO0OS6L0&feature=related
YEAHYOURIGHT
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:53amGod help us. 2012 can’t get here fast enough.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:54amWho thinks this will work out good? The unions are destroying jobs in this country at an alarming rate.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaZeZBGD2c
booger71
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 10:56amAm proud to say I never paid a penny to AFGE in dues in the 21 years I worked for the Feds.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:05am.
TSA Chooses AFL-CIO Another Fluctuant Looser – Clueless Idiot Organs….
Ok I had a hard time with CIO
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:05amI said it last week, the treasury union was only speaking up for tsa to try to become their union.
They failed, but I was right about their motive!
At the time, I didn’t even know it was even POSSIBLE for tsa to be in a TREASURY union, but, everything pointed to that as being the motive.
Not even Glenn said what I was saying.
Sucks being right so often!
Unions are desperate now. Gasping for their last breath before passing into history.
Who is there left to unionize? They have artificially manipulated manufacturing costs so high, almost nobody can manufacture here and compete on price. The only things that cannot be outsourced to slave nations is service industries – even those are partly outsourced (ever call for computer help?)
When we regain our God-given, Constitutional rights, we need to eliminate tsa.
A headline yesterday suggested the post office can no longer afford to pay into its employees retirements. I’ll go read the full story later.
Govt should NEVER be in competition with pvt sector – to do so means the private sector must suffer for govt to succeed (direct competition). This is a conflict of interests. The govt exists to PROTECT our rights, not to compete. To PROMOTE general welfare, NOT to PROVIDE welfare checks. Our framers chose their words carefully.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:22amThe world id a no fly zone for me now. I refuse to let a Union thug pervert examine my junk.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:25amUnions are so efficient… when people can’t get fired and get paid double their private counterpart I am sure they will work to please us. Flying will be like going to the DMV or Post office. You have a complaint, too bad. Your are unhappy… too bad. Yes, customer service at its best!
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:27am@ tower …wow thats unreal ..what about a tea party response to that next time ? We are already marked because of church rolls , clubs , polictical org et al . so what doe it matter if they record a peacefull gathering now ? ..just an idea ..
Report Post »Chad79
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:31am@ Tower7 We already have these in our town. Have for a few years now. They are all over the mall parking lot.
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:32amWhat’s the difference? Deciding to joing the union mobster thugs or the union mobster thugs? Well, I’m sure that the union mobster thugs have plenty of sexual perverts in their midst so the TSA workers will fit right in.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:34amYour “friendly neighborhood Nazis” are consolidating!
Don‘t you think it’s time to consolidate? To stand in solidarity?
RESIST THE NAZI POLICE STATE!
V FOR VICTORY AGAINST THE NAZI POLICE STATE!
ABOLISH THE TSA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA
Report Post »Mike Westfall No Hiding
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:52am@DustyLuv
Just got back from a family vacation to the Dominican Republic. The security at the DR aiport coming back was just like pre 9/11. The DBag TSA agents going and returning were flat out rude and hostile not only to Americans but to other travelers who clearly had been to America multiple times.
I seriously worry about this direction we are taking. Guess what, Americans and others have already figured out how to stop flying planes into buildings… The solution? It’s as simple as “Let’s Roll” or kick the living crap like the Dutchman did to the Christmas Day bomber.
We, and I have started to, have to demand respect from these TSA agents. I firmly but politely ask them to explain theirs actions and question any redundant procedures. If enough people do this, they will be forced to be polite back because they don’t want to be shamed in front of hundreds of other citizens.
Right now we are a bunch of sheeple who let ourselves be shamed by a few, now unionized, thugs.
If we all stop flying, good hard working Americans will lose their jobs. We will take our country back by behaving like Americans inch by inch.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 11:56am80% are Non-UNION…………hows that work for ya……
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:02pmOkay, so another communist organization allied with the POTUS will gain control of the folks allegedly responsible for the safety of American transportation system? Sounds like a series of large bribes have passed hands via the union and POTUS…also once again we have been sold up the river by the administration to a communist system taking over another part of the government.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:09pmOh goody. I guess the TSA will be knee-capping travelers as well as molesting them now.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:14pmAFL-CIO IS COMPLETELY CORRUPT. I WORK UNDER THEM AND YOU SHOULD HEAR HOW THEY LAUNDER MONEY… AMAZING.
The TSA is going to need a union after all the lawsuits that are coming through over the pat-down. It will be the union that will keep those worker’s jobs. It is almost impossible to get fired by the union, though if they knew I was writing this they would get rid of me.
Did you see Rand Paul go after the TSA in Congress: http://tiny.cc/5dlwk . Now the TSA has changed it’s rules on child pat-downs.
Report Post »rellekcnav
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:16pmNo federal employee should be able to join a union, they are paid by the people and should not dictate pay, benefits, working conditions. I’m tired of paying for there healthcare and retirement,
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 12:21pmWell, with the U.S. on the eclipse of a Multidecade Depression, at least the TSA is well on its way to “Collective Fondling Rights”.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 2:38pmNo afl-cio thugs will toucn myself or my family ! Ever ! I would’nt let my mother thouch me as a TSA worker at an airport! guess i’ll be ridin with biden ! better yet drivin!
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 3:25pmAlways
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BGECc
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 5:27pmI worked in a union for 10 years. The only thing they did for us was to take our money each week. Contract time they never asked us what we wanted they only told us that they knew what we wanted. We only got to vote to accept what they had to offer. Always a yes or no vote no other choices. UNIONS = COMMUNISTS
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 6:27pmaha…the civilian army owe bummer was talking about….time to wake up people,this could be the beginning of the end…
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 23, 2011 at 6:57pmAnd C.A.I.R. FOR LEGAL DEPT !!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:31amAfter 2012 we’ll be abolishing all the federal employee unions.
Report Post »leary1
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:23pmPeople of the world DESTROY all unions before they destroy us
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:55pmcheck out this link ….Goverment sponsers racisism ..connect the dots ….Federal laws that faciliitate guns ….palin alaska and the @end Admendment …changing the way to change the way police do business ….
not good
Report Post »Libby Tarian
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:12pmhttp://www.newsherald.com/news/mother-94767-search-adult.html
TSA strip searches a 95 y/o woman in a wheel chair with terminal cancer.
I have not nor will I fly until this is stopped and we start strip searching Muslims.
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