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.

  • sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
    52·
    2 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
      58·
      2 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
          151·
          2 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
      311·
      2 days ago

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

        • med@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 day ago

          And that’s exactly why they’re in some part right. If you have enough money to buy scabs, and protection for the scabs, the union relies on the government making that illegal.

          It’s the break down of the pact. At a small scale anyway - obviously the longer it goes on and the further they go with the busting attempts, the more union actions will cause ripples in other industries, and solidarity movements. They can’t buy protection everywhere, and if they try, it’s escalation all the way to the bloodshed that wrote the pact in the first place.

    • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      16·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Let’s hope so and be vocal about our support for the union that this administration is trying to crush before our eyes.