Last month, Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole took steps to provide “payback” to Big Labor by allowing Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees to collectively bargain. This move dangerously mixed national security with the forced unionization agenda of the Union Bosses.
These Union Bosses would like you to believe this decision is about workers’ rights. Wrong. It’s really about collecting more union dues to bankroll the coffers of their political allies. At stake: union dues from 40,000 TSA airport screeners.
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Even with card check regulation, unions would have to spend money ramping up campaigns and targeting employers. Obama did a back-door card check by adding thousands of soon-to-be dues-paying government workers at no cost to big labor.
Two unions are fighting for the $18 million in annual dues that the TSA crew will provide: National Treasury Employees Union and American Federation of Government Employees. “Today marks the recognition of a fundamental human right for 40,000 patriotic federal employees who have been disenfranchised since the inception of the agency,” said John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees when the decision was announced.
Learn more about what the Workforce Fairness Institute is doing to stop this Big Labor Bailout here.