{"id":629,"date":"2010-01-07T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:25:13","slug":"jim-demint-let-s-keep-our-focus-at-tsa-on-security-not-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/jim-demint-let-s-keep-our-focus-at-tsa-on-security-not-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim DeMint: \u00abLet&#8217;s keep our focus at TSA on security, not politics.\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\nPro-Right to Work Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has a post up on RedState explaining how monopoly bargaining for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees could interfere with the agency&#8217;s ability to effectively respond to threats.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDeMint points out that union monopoly control of border patrol agents, and the wasteful and inefficient rules preferred by the union bosses, has made it difficult for the government to discipline, reassign, or terminate employees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo best protect our national security, the government must have the resources to remove egregious offenders from the positions and allocate resources as efficiently as possible.\u00a0 DeMint outlines how monopoly bargaining for TSA agents could weaken our national security:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Requiring TSA to get union bosses&#8217; permission before implementing security and workforce changes. If the unions decided the changes were too burdensome on their employees, weeks or months of negotiations could ensue, causing unacceptable delays in implementing new safety protocols.<\/li>\n<li>Requiring TSA managers to promote based on seniority, not merit, and making it more difficult to discipline failing employees.<\/li>\n<li>Requiring TSA to share sensitive intelligence information to third parties during negotiations with union bosses, making future leaks of classified material more likely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&quot;Lets keep our focus at TSA on security, not politics,&quot; DeMint concludes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead the full post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/senator_jim_demint\/2010\/01\/05\/collective-bargaining-has-hurt-border-patrol-tsa-shouldnt-make-same-mistake\/\">here<\/a>. And don&#8217;t forget, along with the important policy concerns raised by the Senator, union monopoly bargaining powers represent a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrtwc.org\/nl\/nl200809p5.pdf\">fundamental violation of the rights<\/a> (pdf) of all individual employees, TSA agent, or anyone else.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nPro-Right to Work Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has a post up on RedState explaining how monopoly bargaining for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees could interfere with the agency&#8217;s ability to effectively respond to threats.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDeMint points out that union monopoly control of border patrol agents, and the wasteful and inefficient rules preferred by the union bosses, has made it difficult for the government to discipline, reassign, or terminate employees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo best protect our national security, the government must have the resources to remove egregious offenders from the positions and allocate resources as efficiently as possible.\u00a0 DeMint outlines how monopoly bargaining for TSA agents could weaken our 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":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jim DeMint: &quot;Let&#039;s keep our focus at TSA on security, not politics.&quot; - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/blog\/jim-demint-let-s-keep-our-focus-at-tsa-on-security-not-politics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jim DeMint: &quot;Let&#039;s keep our focus at TSA on security, not politics.&quot; - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pro-Right to Work Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has a post up on RedState explaining how monopoly bargaining for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees could interfere with the agency&#039;s ability to effectively respond to threats.    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