TSA plans to bust labor union despite court order blocking it
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Source: GovExec.com
The Transportation Security Administration on Friday announced that it will terminate its union contract and strip its workforce of their collective bargaining rights next month, an apparent violation of a court order against the agency that has been in place since June.
When TSA was established following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the agency had broad discretion to administer its own personnel system. But following years of poor morale and high attrition rates, the agency granted the workforce abridged collective bargaining rights in 2011 and expanded those rights in 2022, along with a new pay scale akin to the federal government’s General Schedule.
In March, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a determination seeking to unwind TSA workers’ collective bargaining rights, but U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman found that decision to be retaliatory against the American Federation of Government Employees, particularly due to the “threadbare justification” in Noem’s memo, and issued a preliminary injunction blocking the action.
But in a memo to Hydrick Thomas, president of AFGE Council 100, which represents TSA workers, acting TSA Assistant Administrator for Human Capital Thomas Regan wrote that Noem issued a revamped determination again banning unions at TSA, effective Jan. 11, 2026.
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Despite a Judge ruling she can’t do that, she just decided to disregard the Judge and did it again. They HATE employee unions.
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