Posts tagged TSA

    News Article ● Corruption Unions

    TSA Union Local Leader Gets House Arrest for Misappropriating Funds

    September 1, 2022 // LeClair was charged with one count of wire fraud in U.S. District Court in April, and she pleaded guilty in June. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced her to six months of home confinement, followed by three years of probation, and ordered her to pay restitution in the amount she stole from AFGE. The maximum penalty for a federal wire fraud conviction is 20 years in prison.

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    News Article ● Unionization

    ‘Unions benefit all of us’: new Biden plan encourages federal workers to unionize

    February 9, 2022 // Biden said the taskforce’s charge was to identify executive branch policies, practices and programs that could be used “to promote my administration’s policy of support for worker power, worker organizing, and collective bargaining”.

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