Trump administration filed a lawsuit for TSA officials to end union bargaining


Seattle, Washington, US, the US on November 24, 2021, conducts passenger process through a security post at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport before Thanksgiving Holiday.

Lindsay Vasan | Roots

The largest federal staff union filed a lawsuit on Thursday, in which the administration of President Donald Trump was barred from abolishing collective bargains for about 50,000 Transport Safety Administration Officers, which looks at the outposts on the US airports and other transport hubs.

Employees of the American Federation of Government filed a lawsuit in Seattle, Washington, Federal Court, claiming that the US Homeland Department of Security Security Security canceled a bargain agreement, covering TSA officials as a vengeance against the Sangh to challenge another initiative of the Trump administration.

The lawsuit wants to prevent TSA from cancellation of the seven -year collective bargaining deal, which was implemented last year, and the bar DHS to save again.

“This ventilative action is in line with the wider Trump administration policy of ending the contracts in vengeance for protected speech,” said AFGE.

The Sangh left Trump’s executive order to the law firm Perkins Koi, which represented Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016 President’s campaign, from the federal contractors and depriving its lawyers from access to government officials and buildings. A judge blocked the order on Wednesday.

The White House and DHS did not immediately respond to the remarks requests.

Two unions representing flight attendants and other airline workers joined the AFGE in the trial.

Due to the sensitive nature of their jobs, TSA authorities are not ruled by the Civil Services System and they do not have equal rights to unionization and collectively bargain on the situation of working as other federal employees.

During the administration of former President Barack Obama, the TSA provided the officials the ability to bargain on certain subjects, and the former President Joe Biden’s administration expanded the scope of bargaining in 2021.

The agency last year reached a new seven -year labor deal with the American Federation of Government employees, the largest federal activist Sangh. Workers received shift business options, increased allowances for uniform and in addition to the weather and security holidays as part of the parents and part of the agreement.

On 27 February, Homeland’s Security Secretary Christie NoM canceled the instructions to allow TSA officials to form the union and directed the agency to cancel the bargain agreement within 90 days. He said that the instructions were misunderstood and “the American federation of American employees has been fully benefited at the expense of officials (officials).”

Nom also said that he had asked the lawyers at DHS to give TSA workers the right to bargain for any future administration without taking action from the Congress.

The NOEM memorandum came on the same day when AFGE won the order of a court to the Trump administration, ordering agencies to set fire to the recently hired employees, of which about 25,000 have ended in recent weeks. The same judge on Thursday ordered six agencies to restore thousands of expelled employees.

AFGE and other unions sued on Thursday said that NOEM failed to provide a rational explanation for its decision in its memorandum, and TSA had the lack of power to separate the bargain agreement.

“NOEM is not, and cannot address the reality of the situation: AFGE is a chosen representative of transport safety officers and is counted as most of the members of these officers,” the unions said.

Trump forced TSA administrator David Pekose on 20 January, nominated for a job in 2017 and was re -appointed by Biden. Trump has not yet named a candidate to replace Pekose.

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