Comment on Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 2 days agoThe 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.