You all have to walk from work

Transport Security Administration Workers, I know you and I have not always seen an eye to eye. I call your profession ‘security theater’, you touch me at JFK, it’s honest to say that we are not the best friends. But at the moment you are confronted with an attack on your rights that could change the form of employment in the United States radically forever, and you cannot leave it. The trade union contract that you fought so hard for last year has just been declared void and void by the federal government, which unilaterally ignores the process of collective negotiations. You have to fight this, and to do this, you must start by ignoring the government’s own rules: give the Taft-Hartey Act finger and go into strike.

Last May the TSA completed the negotiations on a seven -year collective negotiation agreement with the American Federation of Government Employees. The agreement increased salaries by no less than 31 percent, according to the Federal News Network, as well as extensive options for sick leave and grievances. It always did what CBAs do: life made more livable for employees. Now, with a simple press release, the Minister of Interior Security Kristi wants to call that work undone.

Biden Hamfestig Blowing up negotiations for railway workers was bad enough – it was the precedent that government bosses can ignore the collective negotiations of employees – but this new step is much worse. No boss may be able to ignore an SME, but that is exactly what DHS does. If this step is allowed, with what is left of the National Labor Relations Board, this will create an even worse precedent: that CBAs, signed contracts, can be ignored if they are uncomfortable for the bosses.

I may not love the job that the TSA does, but as an employee I am with colleagues against greedy bosses every day of the week (note: agents do not count as employees or people). Your management has decided to ignore the legal process of collective negotiations, so why would you honor their legal proceedings that you do? TSA employees, you must remind the Department of Homeland Security that actually does the work there: you. She dresses this anti-worker move with the language of national security, so why don’t you show them how safe they feel without anyone there to check bags and id’s?

Really, you would name Kristi in the coming years without giving a union a taste of the TSA. Before the MKBA, the TSA was already before the course of employees and had a difficult time to hire people – salaries and benefits were simply not worth the work, and other employers offered better deals. The killing of the trade union has a very real chance to completely kill the TSA, and the bosses deserve to know how that feels. Take the law, Trump and Musk ignore the law with all these fired, why should you follow the Taft-Hartey Act? Rules may not bind one party, but not the other. If they are void on the one hand and are void, they are void on the other.

I say this as a taxpayer who finances your salaries, someone who honestly is not very happy that I do that. But I prefer to pay you to take my balls every time I fly outside for a press strip than to live in a world where you could fall Domino and bring further trade union forces. The management movements such as this relying on your inactivity, they expect that you do not offer resistance. They forget that the workers, as always, have the power. The formal trade union process protects them against you, not the other way around. Remind them.