Donald Trump Is Trying to Bust the Airport Screeners’ Union
Last week, in a particularly flagrant act of union busting, Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security canceled the union contract for the Transportation Security Administration’s 47,000 employees.
Travelers go through a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint at the Albany International Airport on November 25, 2024, in Colonie, NY. (Lori Van Buren / Albany Times Union via Getty Images)
In a memo that that one TSA employee said sounded like “a teenage blogger writing about someone they don’t like,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced March 7 that it was canceling the union contract for 47,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) signed its contract with TSA in May 2024, and it wasn’t set to expire until 2031.
DHS also stopped deducting union dues and ordered all union officers to immediately return to their transportation security officer (TSO) duties. Workers voted in the union in 2011.
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