Monday, February 7, 2011

GOP Fights Unionization of Airport Screeners

GOP Congressmen led by Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) are moving to block legislation, which the White House supports, which would allow unionization of nearly 50,000 airport screeners, a move that could create one of the largest federal sector unions in the country and hand over $11 million in new annual dues to the Democrat's greatest ally and biggest donors, the labor unions.

In early November of last year, the Federal Labor Relations Authority announced it would let TSA employees vote on union representation. That vote is tentatively scheduled for March 9th through April 19th...

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