Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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…

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  • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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!?

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes. Reagan did it.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr…

    Quite a deal at the time.

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  • splinter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, he doesn’t. This is Trump just hurling executive orders at things he doesn’t like.

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Biden did it with the potential rail industry strikes, so yes.

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    • splinter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Boss: I’ve decided to pay you shit wages and expect you to work nightmare hours.

  Union: We’ve all banded together and would collectively like to tell you that we prefer better wages and more reasonable hours, or else we will strike.

  Boss: I’ve decided you can’t do that, or else.

  Union: Yes, or else, indeed. That’s the core concept here.

  Call his fuckin’ bluff, or else you don’t really have a union at all.

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  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I would love to hear about the day TSA simply didn’t show up. Make this happen, folks.

    All their options to deal with it are embarrassing for the stooges in charge.

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    • expr@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just sounds like a win-win. The fascists no longer have their travel cops, and people no longer have to deal with the useless bullshit of the TSA.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ronald Reagan did exactly that with air traffic controllers. Fired the lot of them.

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• RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TSA is part of the whole post 9/11 patriot act authoritarian push. It needs to end. It was a pointless unnecessary overreaction then, and it remains so.

  TSA are cops. And cops aren’t workers. They’re class traitors. The enforcement atm.of capital.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But that’s the spin. Trump didn’t try to break the TSA union.

    Trump is trying to break a cop union.

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• Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Y’all missing the point. Fuck cops sure. But an attack on one union is an attack on unions. Push to abolish the TSA AND support their collective rights.

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You want to piss off employees who keep terrorists, drugs, and weapons out of the country?

  On second thought… yes, he does, because he isn’t working for Americans.

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  • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Except the TSA has never shown to be remotely effective at doing any of that.

    I’m of the opinion that the TSA should probably be abolished, but keeping it while abusing its employees is the worst of both worlds…

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    • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Worst jobs program ever, all you need is a good metal detector and that’s it. The security theater after 9/11 has been and always will be a joke.

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Except the TSA has never shown to be remotely effective at doing any of that.

      So, we’d all be OK if these 6,000+ loaded firearms PER YEAR were allowed to pass through unchecked?

      There’s always room for improvement, but the idea that everything needs to be abolished, rather than improved, seems crazy.

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    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There is no way to quantify the number of attacks that would have happened without the TSA. “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bust data must be classified. I bet Congress has access to it, no?

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    TSA is worthless, my friend. Nobody should support their agency. Fire them all, please. I do, however, support workers unionizing and striking, and if that is TSA employees, high five.

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• surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ACAB includes TSA. Fuck them.

  Abolish the TSA.

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cops shouldn’t have unions. They aren’t workers.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TSA are cops. Do we show solidarity with cop unions?

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cop unions are just gangs.

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• TiggerYumYum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

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