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Monday, February 14, 2011

Obama Green Lights TSA Union

As if groping and naked body scans weren’t enough, the Transporation Security Administration may soon be  a union shop. The Obama Administration recently announced the TSA would be permitted to engage in collective barganinig. This means that 50,000 new union members will be reep public pensions and benefits.

If anyone would care to recall, the public was assured that the "TSA Would Not Be Permitted To Unionize" when it was created. The unionization of the TSA would mean one of the largest federal-employee government unions in the country.

The Obama Administration has not layed out any examples of how TSA unionization would increase passenger security. Perhaps that is because it won't. Read More 

Meanwhile, three Republican Senators, Roger Wicker (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Tom Coburn (Okla.) are cosponsoring an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill that would prohibit TSA screeners from having collective bargaining rights. The legislation is necessary because TSA workers with collective bargaining rights could hamper national security, Wicker said in a statement announcing the proposed amendment. Read More
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