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Does anyone remember what the unions did during the snowstorm in New York?
Imagine this at a busy airport. Ineptness from union goons who are now inept
T.S.A. security officers. Obama is nodding his head in approval as the
unions make out more checks for his 2012 presidential campaign.
WASHINGTON <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/05unionize.html?hp> —
Seeking to end a debate that has brewed for nearly a decade, the director of
the Transportation Security Administration announced on Friday that a union
would be allowed to bargain over working conditions on behalf of the
nation’s 45,000 airport security officers, although certain issues like pay
will not be subject to negotiation.
The question of whether unions can negotiate on behalf of airport security
workers has been a repeated topic of partisan debate on Capitol Hill, at
times threatening to hold up major pieces of legislation or even the Senate
confirmation of the agency’s director.
John S. Pistole, the former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation who has served as head of the transportation agency since last
June, announced Friday that he would used the power granted to him by
Congress to authorize collective bargaining by airport security personnel on
a limited set of topics, including rules governing who gets priorities for
vacation time and shift assignments, how workplace transfers take place and
how employees are recognized for commendable work. The negotiations will
take place on a national level, not with state or local union affiliates.
The nation’s security officers are tentatively scheduled to vote in early
March for one of two unions that have competed for the right to represent
them, or not to have a union at all. But if they choose a union, they will
not be able to turn to it to bargain on their behalf for such traditionally
negotiated topics as pay, retirement benefits, job qualification rules,
disciplinary standards or issues related to security procedures, like what
security equipment they must use or when and where they are deployed.
This would allow the agency — a division of the Department of Homeland
Security — to rapidly reassign security officers in response to a particular
threat or to change security procedures or equipment without having to
consult collective bargaining rules, an agency official said.
The security officers are also not allowed to strike or have any
work-related slowdowns as a form of union demonstration. There will be
set limits on how long negotiations on topics subject to union bargaining
can drag on. And the officers will not be required to join a union or pay
dues.
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