Posted on 02/27/2011 3:42:47 PM PST by Brilliant
A union leader says the government has decided to grant collective bargaining rights to the nation's 40,000 airport screeners... Republican opponents say that could jeopardize national security.
James Sherk, a labor expert at The Heritage Foundation, calls the decision a huge loss for airline security and passengers. He says there is a reason that most national security agencies by law do not have unions -- and that is because the union contracts make it more difficult for them to do their jobs.
"Canada has a system where they allow their security screeners to unionize -- and they've had problems where, over Thanksgiving, they won't go on strike, but what they'll do is insist on hand-inspecting every piece of luggage," explains Sherk. "So you get enormous backlog and enormous delays for [airline passengers] because the unions are trying to exhort pressure on the company to give them what they want at the negotiations."
Sherk has other concerns as well. "With a union contract, it's very difficult to fire poor performers," he states. "It's difficult to move workers where you need them, when you need them. The potential for a labor action would be catastrophic."
TSA badgeKatie Gage, head of the Workforce Fairness Institute, says the Obama administration is paying back big labor for its support by agreeing to grant collective bargaining rights to airport screeners. "At the time that [Barack Obama] was first elected, it was made very clear by folks within the ranks of organized labor that they expected a payback on that front."
Gage does not think it is a great idea if the country started to unionize the Coast Guard, for example -- adding that it certainly does not make sense to put an agency responsible for the nation's security under control of big labor bosses...
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
Of course they are. Who did not see this coming?
Immediately defund the TSA....
When Bush started this Crap it was only a matter of time.
This was a KNOWN thing that would happen. I thought when TSA was started that Congress had it in law they could not unionize. Maybe I was wrong and presto Obama get more Democratic donors and worthless workers playing peek a boo with the public.
This article/column bears the date February 4.
No news or updates since on such a “populist” movement?
sickening
the unions collect their dues from the salary of the workers, which they use to donate to democrats. The more the workers, the higher the salary, the more tax dollars going to democrats
the unions collect their dues from the salary of the workers, which they use to donate to democrats. The more the workers, the higher the salary, the more tax dollars going to democrats
Another cancer grows in America.
Great! Let them unionize, let them demand outrageous salaries/benefits/pensions. Another roll of the dice at the US Fiscal Solvency craps table...
And, by the way, does anyone know of a single potential terrorist who has been prevented from carrying out his/her mission?
A civil war of sorts is being fought in the US right now. Behind every news story is a virtual troop movement. The public sector union issue is just the left’s latest offensive.
This will come back to bite them in the ass and us taxpayers will be the ones to feel the pain.
Not such a bad idea. I know the Sanford, Florida Airport is opting out of TSA screening, and letting a private company do it.
Public Sector Unions. Just follow the money and you will see why Democrats are up in arms about what is happening in Wisconsin!!!!
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