Rally in Support of Transportation Security Officers

Submitted by dcjwj on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 6:25pm.
23 Feb 2010 - 11:30pm

Rally in Support of Transportation Security Officers

Tuesday, February 23rd
11:30 AM
AFL-CIO - 815 16th Street NW

In the wake of September 11, 2001, the Congress created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to protect airline passengers from future terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, one of the first acts of the Bush administrations TSA was to prohibit collective bargaining for 41,000 TSOs. Despite being denied the right to bargain collectively for the last eight years, over 12,000 TSOs have joined the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).

However, one year into the Obama administration, these workers are still without collective bargaining rights. All it takes is the stroke of the pen by Secretary Napolitano to grant the TSOs the same rights that other federal employees are provided. TSOs have waited long enough. The time to act is now!