Washington, DC (June 28, 2010) \u2013 The National Right to Work Foundation, a charitable organization that provides free legal aid to employees across the country, has submitted an amicus curiae brief urging the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to oppose two petitions that could force Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees into union ranks. If granted, the petitions would allow monopoly bargaining privileges for union officials seeking to organize TSA employees.<\/p>\n
In late May, a FLRA Regional Director ruled that American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and National Treasury Employees (NTE) union operatives could not organize TSA workers, but union lawyers appealed the decision to the FLRA proper. According to Foundation attorneys, the unions\u2019 arguments would leave workers vulnerable to aggressive union organizers and possibly compromise national security. <\/p>\n
The Foundation\u2019s brief argues that the FLRA has no authority to dictate the TSA\u2019s labor relations, noting that the Administrator of the TSA has jurisdiction over TSA employees and previously refused to grant union organizers monopoly bargaining privileges. <\/p>\n
Foundation attorneys also argue that subjecting TSA workers to union monopoly bargaining could compromise national security by risking union-instigated strikes and undermining security procedures with time-consuming union work rules. The TSA\u2019s ability to tailor its response to rapidly-emerging threats could suffer if administrative flexibility is hamstrung by bloated union bureaucracies.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the Foundation\u2019s brief notes that extending monopoly bargaining privileges to union organizers constitutes a serious breach of TSA employees\u2019 rights. Under monopoly bargaining, if union organizers acquire or coerce support from a bare majority of TSA employees, they can then dictate terms and conditions of employment to all workers in a given bargaining unit, including those who oppose unionization. <\/p>\n
\u201cDespite obvious risks to both national security and workers\u2019 rights, Big Labor is intent on forcibly organizing TSA employees,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, Director of Legal Information at the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cWe hope the FLRA will have the sense to reject this attempt to further extend Big Labor\u2019s monopoly bargaining privileges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC (June 28, 2010) \u2013 The National Right to Work Foundation, a charitable organization that provides free legal aid to employees across the country, has submitted an amicus curiae brief urging the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to oppose two petitions that could force Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees into union ranks. If granted, the petitions would allow monopoly bargaining privileges for union officials seeking to organize TSA employees.<\/p>\n
In late May, a FLRA Regional Director ruled that American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and National Treasury Employees (NTE) union operatives could not organize TSA workers, but union lawyers appealed the decision to the FLRA proper. According to Foundation attorneys, the unions\u2019 arguments would leave workers vulnerable to aggressive union organizers and possibly compromise national security. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n