Trump Just Eliminated Unions At This Key Federal Agency
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Union leaders have warned such a move would diminish working conditions and threaten safety at an agency infamous for low morale.

Summary

Trump is revoking collective bargaining rights at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), ending union protections for thousands of airport security officers.

The Department of Homeland Security claims the move will improve efficiency and security, but unions argue it is a retaliatory attack on federal workers.

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) plans to challenge the decision. TSA workers fear the rollback will worsen working conditions and retention.

The policy reverses union rights granted under Obama and expanded by Biden.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    Remember, it’s not a right if it can be taken away! Your right to collectively bargain comes from the fact that there are hundreds of you and one of him, not because he “allowed” it.

  • DevCat@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 days ago

    Okay, so he revoked the collective bargaining rights. He didn’t revoke the ability to go out on strike, though. It just won’t be an organized strike.

    Weren’t strikes the compromise to the other option, namely dragging the owners out of the factory and beating them in the streets? Maybe they just want to go back to the original system.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 days ago

    TSA could strike and airports would be better for it… That’s a dangerous game for the admin to play.

    • SippyCup@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      The way the TSA strikes is by causing massive delays for passengers going through security. The last time they did that, the security line at Atlanta international was 2 and a half hours long at times. It wound all the way back to the check in.

    • paranoid@lemmy.world
      0·
      11 days ago

      I think that’s part of the strategy here. “Look at this, I busted up this union and now flying is the most enjoyable it has ever been”

      Edit: another piece of this is how much money would be saved by liquidating the TSA.

      I know five or six people who work for the TSA, and every one of them are MAGA

      • metaldream@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        11 days ago

        That won’t happen though. They won’t be replaced with anyone, there will be massive delays instead.

        But very few people will side with the TSA on this anyway.

      • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        I know five or six people who work for the TSA, and every one of them are MAGA

        And yet it’s very likely they won’t put two and two together to figure out the sitting Republican president is responsible for their weakened union. Still, this couldn’t have happened to more deserving people.

      • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
        0·
        11 days ago

        TSA is way more like mall security than police tho.

        ACAB all the way, and TSA is little more than a hollow performance, basically security flavored LaCroix that ought to be abolished as genuinely wasteful and needlessly degrading and inconvenient to travelers.

        But I don’t really see TSA agents as cops. I’m sure the line blurs in some specific cases, but they’re not going around murdering people with impunity like cops do.

  • sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 days ago

    Pardon my ignorance, but how does this even work? Like, don’t they just walk off the job collectively until someone is willing to negotiate with them?

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      That’s how unions are supposed to work. It’s really the only bargaining chip workers have, at least until we can all be 100% replaced by ai and robots…

        • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 days ago

          We’re probably multiple centuries from robot labor replacing a meaningful amount of human labor.

          Modern “AI” can’t even run a call center, it’s not replacing real jobs anytime soon, despite how egar marketing teams are to gaslight C-Suite into paying for it.

    • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Americans are so corporatized that they mistakenly think the power of unions comes from the government

  • 0ndead@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    The TSA never provided any tangible increase in airport security. DOGE could have started here.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Yeah, planes have been falling out of the sky pretty regularly lately without assistance from terrorists.

      • ajikeshi@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 days ago

        without assistance from terrorists

        i would argue, that the terrorists are just in office now

  • P1k1e@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 days ago

    Hang on, I’m probably crazy but Im seeing a trend here… Are they hoping for another 9/11? Cuz I could totally see them trying for another 9/11. TSA ain’t even that effective so it’s not really about them existing or not, but more about the idea, that it could happen again