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.
My love for unions eclipses my hatred for the TSA on this one.
Yeah, pig unions deserve to roast.
Police Unions are gangs. Not labor unions.
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.
Then striking workers have no legal protections, either. Better than no strikes, but we’ve basically lost 100 years of progress.
Lest we forget how we got here. Strikes and collective bargaining were the compromise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence_in_the_United_States
We need to go back.
The fun thing about wildcat strikes though is that you don’t need legal protections for them to work. See new York’s illegal prison strike for a good recent example.
That’s true, and it’s probably the only way forward at this point, but it sure makes things harder than they needed to be.
Yeap but apparently there are hundreds ofn thousands of sheep or wolves that like to be trampled
TSA could strike and airports would be better for it… That’s a dangerous game for the admin to play.
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
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.
Naw they’ll still be organized too. The strikers just don’t have legal protections anymore.
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?
The “protection” is the government not firing people for collective bargaining or collective actions. This is similar to when Reagan fired a bunch of ATC strikers and ever since then we’ve had a massive shortage of ATC personnel.
Let’s hope so and be vocal about our support for the union that this administration is trying to crush before our eyes.
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
Possibly, Putin had an allegedly staged terror attack early on to drum up support
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
And Trump seems to be following his playbook to the T.
I could it see it being a cyber attack. Like a ransomware or ddos of government systems.
considering how 9/11 made the American people so eager to embrace fascism, yeah why not?
I would so love for every single TSA worker to walk out in protest of this fuckery
Trump was open about his hatred for unions and worker rights leading up to the election and working Americans still showed up and made him president.
I can’t even blame this one on Trump. For once he was actually honest about his intentions. This is all on stupid Americans.
Fuck em. Shut down the airports.
How does anyone control one’s ability to collectively bargain. Seems like a demand the group makes and doesn’t require permission for.
How can he unilaterally do this? How has he been given or taken this much power?
How has he been given or taken this much power?
Well.
One of Congress’ jobs is to reign in the power of the president and make sure the branches of government are balanced.
Congress is controlled by Republicans.
Republicans are spineless cowards.
They’ve given up their Congressional powers to their felon rapist traitor daddy.
You are literally witnessing the collapse of the U.S. federal government to an authoritarian. Because it can, in fact, happen here.
so the orange skin bag with the tumbleweed toupee is the dude ‘in charge’, but his dom is actually the south african nazi so he holds the reins; nazi dom was given the role because he has money and no morals, which aligns with republican ‘values’ of being spineless, unintelligent, and greedy
Lol let’s see how proactive these power trippin fucks are about their jobs without union protection
