Labor & Employment Law

Be a Facebook Friend of TSA Workers

By Mike Hall

For more than eight years, the 40,000 uniformed officers at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have fought to win back the collective bargaining rights the Bush administration stole away from them.

You have the chance to join in their fight without even moving from your computer keyboard. AFGE member Lance Stewart, the creator of the Facebook page for TSA workers, just launched a drive to win 100,000 friends for the Transportation Security Officers (TSOs).

If a dog named Buddy can have a Facebook page with almost 125,000 members, I know we can also exceed 100,000 members in support of the TSO’s fight for justice….Let’s get the House of Labor behind this by having every labor supporter on Facebook join our page.

Be a friend. It would be a good way to answer back to Sen. Jim DeMint (D-S.C.) who irrationally claims that allowing TSA workers to join a union would threaten national security and allow terrorists easy opportunities to attack the United States.

For the latest news on the drive to win rights for TSA workers, be sure to visit AFGE’s TSA website here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).