As of Thursday, August 2, 2012, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to unionize. The agency, best known for groping and offending Americans as we attempt to fly from one part of the country to the other, has agreed to allow the American Federation of Government Employees to unionize its workers.
The AGFE union, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, announced the unionization agreement on its Facebook page.
“For 10 long years AFGE has fought hard so that Transportation Security Officers would have collective bargaining rights. We have often looked back and wondered why it was taking so long,” said AFGE National President John Gage. “Today we begin to look forward.”
When TSA was originally created in the aftermath of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, President Bush and the Congress agreed that the new agency should never unionize. That agreement lasted until 2011, when President Obama and the Senate Democrats pushed a unionization approval through.
The AGFE announcement means that the AFL-CIO is now inside America’s national security apparatus. It caps a long period in which the union’s boss, Richard Trumka, has been a frequent visitor and caller to the Obama White House, using his influence to push for an increasingly socialist vision in the United States.
According to the AGFE’s announcement, the TSA’s 45,000-strong workforce will vote on the collective bargaining agreement in the next few months.
Further cementing that they’ll never be held accountable for sexual assault. Disband the TSA.
Agreed.
When they were non-union, it was much easier (though still next to impossible) to rein in TSA misconduct. Now that they are unionized, that which used to be merely extremely difficult has now become the impossible.
Since oversight of this agency and any ability to push back by the people has now effectively been terminated, the only recourse left at this point is to disband the TSA in it’s entirety and start over – which ain’t such a bad idea anyway!
Hey Mitt, I have a suggestion as to where you can start cutting the federal budget come January……
I wonder if the Romney team has the chops to make a good campaign issue out of this. You’ve got broken promises, making the massively unpopular TSA unaccountable, and the increasingly unpopular pubsec unions spreading their tentacles. Seems like a sure winner.
I hope they go out on strike right away causing airports all over the country to privatize security.
I would so love to see a President Romney emulate the Reagan/Air Traffic Controller ballet – but with a modern twist!