Homeland Security says it will VOID the current TSA Union Contract?

This IS NOT gonna be a hard one for the Government to win….

Is a  judge gonna let the Trump & Co. throw out a collective bargaining agreement for 45.000 workers , just like THAT….

This IS straight from the Trump …’If you do NOT do what I want?…I’m going for your job…Don’t care what the rules are and , I don’t repect Unions….’

One can expect ANOTHER Federal Lawsuit to be filed….

 

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced that it plans to terminate the collective bargaining agreement that covers frontline workers at the Transportation Security Administration — a move likely to spark a court battle.

In a statement, DHS said its decision to invalidate a 2024 collective bargaining agreement that covers about 45,000 people — including its baggage screeners — “removes bureaucratic hurdles that will strengthen workforce agility, enhance productivity and resiliency, while also jumpstarting innovation.” The agency claimed that TSA employees are exploiting the current system by abusing sick leave policies, in turn overburdening other screeners who have to pick up extra shifts, among other tasks.

DHS said these employees will adhere to a new system based on “performance, not longevity or union membership.”…

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Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the agency will immediately cease using its payroll system for collecting union dues. In addition, McLaughlin said DHS will “conduct an orderly termination of any functions, processes, or obligations arising out of” the agreement.

The American Federation of Government Employees, the union representing baggage screeners at TSA, said the action flagrantly disregards workers’ rights and in a statement called it “clearly retaliatory” for the union’s lawsuits against the Trump administration over its crackdown on federal employees….

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…AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement. “This is merely a pretext for attacking the rights of regular working Americans across the country because they happen to belong to a union.”…

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The move to oust security officers’ union representation is the latest step by the Trump administration to exert control over the federal workforce. The Office of Personnel Management in early February asserted that collective bargaining agreement provisions on telework and remote work arrangements were invalid and that agencies did not have to abide by them as part of the White House’s return-to-office mandate.

Trump also signed an executive order aimed at preventing contracts from being completed toward the end of a presidential administration, such as an Education Department agreement that took effect Jan. 17….

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I would expect this try by Trump’s TSA will be pulled back when someone comes their senses….

If not?

The courts will most likely strike down the effoert to break an agreement with the union unilaterally….