Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 02/04/2011 11:59:49 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Seeking to end a debate that has brewed for nearly a decade, the director of the Transportation Security Administration announced on Friday that a union would be allowed to bargain over working conditions on behalf of the nation’s 45,000 airport security officers, although certain issues like pay will not be subject to negotiation.
The question of whether unions can negotiate on behalf of airport security workers has been a repeated topic of partisan debate on Capitol Hill, at times threatening to hold up major pieces of legislation or even the Senate confirmation of the agency’s director.
John S. Pistole, the former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who has served as head of the transportation agency since last June, announced Friday that he would used the power granted to him by Congress to authorize collective bargaining by airport security personnel on a limited set of topics, including rules governing who gets priorities for vacation time and shift assignments, how workplace transfers take place and how employees are recognized for commendable work. The negotiations will take place on a national level, not with state or local union affiliates.
The nation’s security officers are tentatively scheduled to vote in early March for one of two unions that have competed for the right to represent them, or not to have a union at all. But if they choose a union, they will not be able to turn to it to bargain on their behalf for such traditionally negotiated topics as pay, retirement benefits, job qualification rules, disciplinary standards or issues related to security procedures, like what security equipment they must use or when and where they are deployed.
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DEFUND THE TSA!
I knew the unionization push was coming from the time DHS was talked about being created...what better reason to grow gubbamint and great excuse to hide behind “it’s for the children” (like everything else is- “to keep us safe”)
Our FedGov is a joke where the punch line just keeps coming and it never gets to the funny bit.
Thank God I will be taking a car everywhere I go from now on. Sorry, Europe, I can’t get to you by car.
Their new union will be called The muslim brohood
Not much chance of employees passing on this travesty.....
I want the Uber Steath Ultra Wild OMG Hyper-Dyper Super Duper Mega Cool Sub.
Oh, good, THAT's what I was worried about. Random and arbitrary harassment, threats to deny gate access, same sex child molestation, or the capture and distribution of revealing body scans. That stuff wasn't even on my radar.
Oh, ‘cause they’re not STANDIN’ AROUND WITH THEIR THUMBS UP THEIR BUTTS ENOUGH ALREADY?!?!?!?!
Sorry. Didn’t mean to yell.
Colonel, USAFR
Wonderful.
I was just thinking that we needed another lazy, overpaid government union. :)
So, they are going to be forced to join and pay dues to a union that is unable to negotiate pay raises for them?
Wow, I guess those TSA people really ARE that dumb!
“Oh, ‘cause they’re not STANDIN’ AROUND WITH THEIR THUMBS UP THEIR BUTTS ENOUGH ALREADY?!?!?!?!”
Look on the bright side ... now they can stand around with their thumbs up OUR butts.
Another huge sector of our liberty dropped into the hands of worthless union goons. The only thing worse than the incompetent slugs in the TSA is a mob of TSA slugs wrapped in layers of union cronyism.
The first time these rats strike, We the People should club them right back into their holes.
D’oh! Jeez, I hadn’t thought of that...
If George W. ever winds up in Hell, it will be for his blatant failure to secure our border with Mexico.
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