US Invalidates Union Contract Covering 47,000 TSA Officers

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: US News and World Report/Reuters

Dec. 12, 2025, at 5:05 p.m.


WASHINGTON, Dec ‌12 (Reuters) - ​U.S. Homeland ‌Security Secretary Kristi Noem ​on Friday terminated ‍the collective bargaining ​agreement covering ​47,000 ⁠Transportation Security Administration officers.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents the ‌airport screening officers, said ​it will ‌file suit ‍to challenge ⁠the decision.

In June, a U.S. judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking Noem’s March ​7 attempt to end the collective bargaining agreement. DHS said it will implement a new labor framework on January 11 and will no longer be ​collecting union dues from TSA officers' paychecks.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-12-12/us-invalidates-union-contract-covering-47-000-tsa-officers

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Short article at post time.

[C_U_L8R]

1. ICE take notice

They'll kick you to the curb just as quickly when your time is up.

[NickB79]

2. A MAGA coworker's wife is a TSA employee at Minneapolis St. Paul Airport

He's got an expensive kidney disorder and gets regular, expensive treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

He declined the health insurance through our union contract to be on his wife's insurance, because her TSA union health plan was better.

This is fucking rich.

[jaymac]

3. This is horrid

Horrid horrid. I'm so tired of this regime getting away with this stuff.............threatening us with the repeal of programs that keep us an even keel. So immoral

[2na fisherman]

4. Blue Flu?

What if they all called in sick and no one manned the airports? If Homeland Security wants to engage in union busting, let them try to hire scabs to be TSA agents. Not going to happen. The TSA agents have the power to severely limit air travel in the country if collective bargaining is not honored.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "What if they all called in sick and no one manned the airports?"

They'll just illegally fire them (since they wouldn't be "on strike", which is forbidden by federal workers). Would make "great TV" for this "reality show" administration, while DOT would probably have to call for a nationwide ground stop.

[2naSalit]

11. The real crime...

On top of this bullshit is that the highest GS pay level most TSA workers are at is GS04 which comes to around $30K annually, not a great pay. My last gig with the government was GS05 and that wasn't above $35K annually back in 2016.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. I'm not surprised.

But am surprised that they weren't classified as "WG", so there's that! I had some coworkers in my agency who did certain administrative/custodian work and found that a WG category salary was coming in higher than the GS. One of our long-time secretaries who eventually retired after 40 years (and that was like more than 20 years ago), was a GS-2 when she retired.

I expect it's the "college credits" thing that makes a difference for starting anywhere above a GS-5.

I know when I first started as a fed (Chemist GS-1320 series) back in the '80s, I came in as a GS-5. Years later, that series had a starting of GS-7.

[2naSalit]

13. I do hold...

An advanced degree but didn't get me any higher classification. I had better pay as an AD with the Census Bureau than as a GS05 with NPS and USDA-FS but I did have benefits with the Census Bureau I didn't.

Some of that changed significantly after 2016 when shithead took over and fucked it all up.

[NotHardly]

6. Great idea ... we'll see if they have the balls to do it

Maybe TSA will just swallow it ... could be interesting. Throwing TSA under the bus, how typical of these Repugs bad behavior. No one is safe even if they do the bidding of these "overlords". Pretty petty of these official terrorists. Think TSA folks will notice it?

[travelingthrulife]

17. They've agreed to share our data with Puppy Killer so maybe this was her threat

satisfied?

She's nuts.

[travelingthrulife]

18. See Ronald Reagan.

[progressoid]

7. I know someone who is a TSA employee.

He said that the loud-mouths that voted for Trump suddenly got really quiet when this first came up months ago. Then they really panicked during the shut down because their leader fucked them again.

[wolfie001]

8. Guaranteed a high % voted for the fat orange imbecile

I hope they learned their lesson, but tRUMP voters are generally stupid and lazy thinkers.

[Roy Rolling]

9. Breaking a contract is a civil crime

Like stealing oil tankers.

[2naSalit]

10. Gee...

I wonder when they will all just decide that the job just isn't worth it without protections from the contract? And do they actually have jobs if the contract is nullified? Getting time to stop flying for a spell until this shit gets straightened out.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. It took almost 10 years after their creation

to get a union (under Obama in 2011 after a lot of lobbying, blood, sweat, and tears), So in the scheme of things, there should be a good chunk of them still there from when they first went under AFGE, although I expect that is also a high-turnover job too.

[Bengus81]

14. Trying one last shot of Trump ass kissing hoping he'll keep you around?

Look my Fuhrer...I'm trying to bust a union and it's allll for you!!

[travelingthrulife]

16. Wow. And expecting TSA to work with you, huh Puppy Killer?

She is exactly like Trump. She was humiliated and told to resign, now she is lashing out.