Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: AFGE, Airport Screeners, John Gage, Transportation Security Administration, Union Organizing
As we shuffle–or maybe that’s scuffle–into the weekend, a small ray of good news: The government will grant collective bargaining rights to the nation’s 40,000 airport screeners, the head of the largest federal workers union said Friday. John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told the Associated Press he was informed […]
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Posted on 13 July 2007. Tags: AFGE, Airport Screeners, EFCA, Labor, Organizing
   This kind of slipped under the radar screen–but it’s a small sign that makes me skeptical that the Employee Free Choice Act will ever pass. In a small brief, The New York Times reported an Associated Press story that said: Democratic leaders in Congress said they had dropped their demand for union bargaining rights […]
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