Trump Tries to Blow Up Airport Screeners Union

[Omaha Steve]

TSA workers won their union in 2011, after a decade of organizing. The Trump administration has just torn up their contract. Photo: Jim West, jimwestphoto.com

https://labornotes.org/2025/03/trump-tries-blow-airport-screeners-union

March 11, 2025 / Jenny Brown

In a memo that that one TSA employee said sounded like “a teenage blogger writing about someone they don’t like,” the Department of Homeland Security announced March 7 that it was cancelling the union contract for 47,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration.

The American Federation of Government Employees signed its contract with TSA in May 2024, and it wasn’t set to expire until 2031.

DHS also stopped deducting union dues, and ordered all union officers to immediately return to their TSO duties. Workers voted in the union in 2011.

“To have this thing that you fought for… wiped away at the speed of an email, without any notice, was devastating,” said Joe Shuker, who hired in 20 years ago and worked to build the union. “But look,” he said, “we’ve been here before.”

FULL story at link above.

[Wiz Imp]

1. Another slam dunk law suit

They won't get away with it. You can't just unilaterally break a legally negotiated and signed contract just because you feel like it.

[LakeVermilion]

2. I'm guessing...

that he doesn’t even know what in the contract. He found a place/issue that he doesn’t like. He doesn’t have to deal with litigation that follows.

[4th]

3. Pretty sure the endgame is to eliminate the TSA ...

... and turn security over to the airlines or airport authorities.

Just a hunch based on Republicans talking that way for a while.

But first bust the union. Trump has a history of union busting going back to his early career, when it was office building maintenance workers in midtown Manhattan.