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Even as public employee unions fight the Trump administration’s personnel cuts, a pair of GOP senators want to ban federal employees from belonging to unions.
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Association of Flight Attendants President SaraNelson made her comments following the Dept. of Homeland Security announcement on Friday that it is stripping Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) workers of their collective bargaining rights.
The Department of Homeland Security unilaterally ended the right to collective bargaining for TSA’s transportation screening officers in a press release last week.
Joseph A. McCartin
Dissent Magazine - Online Article
Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration. As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government’s labor relations policies inevitably ripple across the economy.
In a Monday memo, the Office of Personnel Management said allowing government employees to telework is a “management right” that lays outside of the bargaining table.
Teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers rallied against a proposed bill in Utah that will ban public sector unions from collective bargaining. Lawmakers ignored workers and moved forward with their bill.
Women in unions are paid higher wages and experience smaller wage gaps than non-unionized women. Unionized women who work full time are typically paid 19% more than women who are not in a union, resulting in them making roughly $10,000 more a year.
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