Posts tagged aviation
Why Do TSA Employees Spend so Much Time on Union Business?
October 6, 2026 // That is why Americans should pay attention to a newly filed Transportation Security Administration record detailing the operational burden of the agency’s 2024 collective bargaining agreement. The federal government is now appealing a court injunction keeping that agreement in force. Americans for Fair Treatment, of which I am CEO, has been fighting this battle for years. Congress never expressly granted collective bargaining rights to TSA screeners. The current union system began with a 2011 decision by Obama-era TSA Administrator John Pistole.
Oakland Airport to Adopt Mandate Clearing Path for More Workers to Unionize
September 29, 2026 // Companies that handle baggage, clean airplane cabins, assist passengers and provide other services for airlines would be prohibited from interfering with employees’ efforts to organize.
Largest federal workers union warns ICE agents are not trained to replace TSA and putting them in airports ‘does not fill a gap. It creates one’
March 24, 2026 // TSA officers’ call-out rates reached their highest level of the shutdown on Sunday, with 11.76% of workers, or more than 3,450 employees, not showing up to work, DHS data showed. That included about 40% of TSA officers from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to DHS data.
Boeing hires replacement workers as defense unit strike enters second month
September 8, 2025 // The company had offered a 20% general wage increase, a $5,000 ratification bonus and other improvements. Boeing said the increases could average about 40% taking into account other improvements. The increases would bring average IAM 837 machinist pay to more than $102,000 from $75,000, according to a note from Jefferies last month. Boeing’s defense unit contributed about 30% of the company’s $42 billion in revenue in the first half of this year.
Contract negotiations continue between machinists union, Textron Aviation
October 14, 2024 // Contract negotiations are back on between the machinists union (IAM District 70, Local Lodge 774) and Textron Aviation amid the third week of a strike that began after workers overwhelmingly rejected the company’s contract offer.
GE workers rally for better pay, job security
October 26, 2022 // Hundreds of General Electric workers from plants around the country held a rally in Schenectady on Tuesday to call for better protection and compensation ahead of contract negotiations in 2023. Workers said the company needs to stop outsourcing jobs to other countries, raise wages in response to rising inflation, and protect retirement benefits. Employees are also concerned about the company’s plan to split into three next year. One will focus on aviation, another on healthcare, and another on energy.