Comment on Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Does the president actually have the power to union-bust, or is he just continuing to do what he wants…? I realize it’s largely an academic question, since no one will resist this guy’s illegal actions…
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
splinter@lemm.ee 2 days ago
No, he doesn’t. This is Trump just hurling executive orders at things he doesn’t like.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Biden did it with the potential rail industry strikes, so yes.
splinter@lemm.ee 2 days ago
That’s incorrect, and these situations aren’t close to comparable.
When Biden was in power, eight out of twelve unions had already ratified the contract, and Biden forced the final four to accept it. Trump is attempting to ban unions altogether.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
OP’s point stands though, whether it’s right or not, it seems to be within the President’s power.
splinter@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I clarified further. In the rail strike case, it was a senate bill, not an executive action. And the bill passed 80-15. Biden signed the bill, but that isn’t the same thing at all.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He literally could have vetoed it if he wanted to and put it back in the hands of the Senate but OK.
splinter@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I guess technically, but with such a high majority it would have just been overturned immediately, so it wouldn’t have helped at all and might have just undermined future cooperation.
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The implication of the summary text is that the right were granted by executive mandate, not through legislation, so presumably they could be revoked the same way.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 days ago
I’m largely uninformed on the specifics, but it’s insane that he can use EOs to give himself the authority to do a thing, then go do the thing he previously wasn’t allowed to do. What the fuck, America!?
sleepydragn1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s a little bit confusing, but from what I’ve read, the collective bargaining rights that they previously enjoyed were granted by the agency’s administrator, so it follows that they can be revoked by the agency’s administrator in turn.
Here’s a 2011 NPR article covering when they were initially granted those rights.
As always, this is the danger in allowing such rules to be set by the executive branch instead of codified into law — when the next guy is in office, they can always undo it.