Senate: Airport screeners can unionize (51-46)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/6/07 | Leslie Miller - ap

[Pukin Dog]

Bush has already promised a veto on this. This one, he will do, because the original laws written regarding these screeners was done with the promise that the screeners would not Unionize. This is Bush's PATCO. He will do this, or lose any remaining support, including my own.

[zarf]

lol. that was the entire point from the get go.

[Constitution Day]

"It's absolutely absurd," said Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. "Terrorists don't go on strike. Terrorists don't call their union to negotiate before they attack."

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[wolfpat]

Who woke him up, and what do you reckon made him grow a pair?

[CharlesWayneCT]

DOW is up?

[phillyfanatic]

Oh boy, another great law by Congress. Now our supposed safety aides in Homeland Security may go on strike if Muslims invade the Tampa Airport in great numbers. After all, unions love to strike when there is just too much to handle! Oh those Dems. We will not profile Muslims, but boy howdy, we will give strike permission to TSA. Yipe.

[Constitution Day]

Who woke him up, and what do you reckon made him grow a pair?

He's had a pair all along, despite what some on the NC board may think.

I think his ACU rating is about as good as you're going to see out of N.C.

We can't have perfection or 100% conservative ideological purity despite how much we may want or wish for it.

[Howlin]

What are you saying?

What has he done to make you say that?

[lilylangtree]

Yeah, all those people that went on the public payroll.

[paul51]

Can someone post some GOOD news today? :O)

I woke up today

[dannyboy72]

HONK HONK HONK....

[wolfpat]

Although I haven't criticized Burr like the others on the state board, I have wondered where he went to. He was elected and pretty much disappeared. I attributed this to his gathering the coins of the DC realm (favors), but I would have liked to see him make more public statements. I've sent him many messages, and gotten few replies.

Our other senator has replied to every message I've sent her. Her replies were insipid, but she replied.

[P-40]

to implement recommendations of the 9/11 commission

A quick scan of the 9/11 Commission Report has no mention of the word 'union' in the context of employment. The Commission must have not felt too strongly about union labor if they did not include it in their report.

[untrained skeptic]

Screeners "deserve our respect, not our indifference," said Sen. Sherrod Brown (news, bio, voting record), D-Ohio. Brown said collective bargaining rights wouldn't allow screeners to strike, and would grant them basic protections from overwork, dangerous conditions and retaliation if they report security breaches.

I guess Brown will be happy to eliminate the US Department of Labor once allowing workers to unionize since it would obviously be needlessly redundant.

[Vigilanteman]

When I was in Orlando the airport screeners didn't even understand English and could not respond to me except for nodding their heads. I found this completely disturbing.

I can top that. When I was in Detroit, I found a number of the airport screeners in the "Religious Reflections Room" praying toward Mecca. I kid you not.

[Bob Loblaw]

"John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said unions represent many other federal workers who protect the public from terrorism"

Unions also represent most of the civilian employees at Walter Reed who done such a wonderful job.

[cookcounty]

"Can someone post some GOOD news today?

The good news would be because they work in aviation-related jobs, they must organize nation-wide or not at all. For example, you cannot start a union and get negotiating rights for just the employess in Chicago. If there are 50,000 TSA people, you need to get 25,001 to sign on. And that is a lot harder than organizing local-by-local.

[Bigg Red]

Can someone post some GOOD news today? :O)

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There was no coverage of Anna Nicole on TV today.

[paul51]

There was no coverage of Anna Nicole on TV today

Dream on. It's still early!