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AFGE: On Your Side From the Beginning
AFGE: The Time for TSA
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AFGE Launches Innovative Video Series
AFGE earlier this year launched a video series detailing its involvement at the TSA, including federalizing the TSA workforce, the right to unionize, organizing efforts, attorney representation and pay.
Episode 1: AFGE's Fight to Federalize TSA |
Episode 2: AFGE's Fight for TSOs to Unionize |
| AFGE is excited to announce the release of the first in a series of videos explaining AFGE's role as the only union to stand behind TSA employees from the beginning. AFGE, in fact, was involved before TSA was created, arguing the need for a federalized workforce. | The second video in AFGE's five-part series highlights AFGE's insistence that the TSA workforce be allowed to unionize--a right guaranteed to them by the U.S. Constitution. |
Chapter 3: AFGE's Fight to Organize at TSA |
Episode 4: AFGE's Fight for TSOs to Receive Representation |
| With TSA mistreating its employees, AFGE stepped in to organize at the agency, and provide those employees with as much protection as possible | With seven full-time attorneys dedicated only to TSA cases, and dozens more in AFGE's Office of General Counsel, AFGE has taken on TSA in the courts, and before the International Labor Organization, Federal Labor Relations Authority, TSA Disciplinary Review Board and the EEOC. |
Episode 5: AFGE's Fight to Make Fair TSA's Pay System |
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| Collective bargaining at TSA would resolve many of the problems facing TSOs and would ensure for a fair pay system. AFGE has fought to do away with TSA's PASS and put TSOs under the General Schedule, where they belong. |
TSA News
AFGE Efforts at TSA Recognized in Huffington Post Article
AFGE National Organizer Bill Lyons talks all things TSA on The Union Edge radio show
AFGE First to Take Action on TSA Uniform Issue
Barrack Obama's Letter to AFGE Stating Support for TSA Bargaining Rights
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The Transportation Security Administration Union
As the only union to represent Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees since the agency's inception, AFGE is widely recognized as THE TSA union.
With multiple full-time TSA-dedicated attorneys on staff, AFGE is the only union to offer to its members FREE legal assistance. AFGE has taken on--and beaten--TSA in the courts, before the International Labor Organization and with the Federal Labor Relations Authority over issues including collective bargaining rights, fair personnel systems, merit-based pay and promotion policies, and regular and reasonable work schedules.
Join the thousands of your coworkers who already know that AFGE is the union for Transportation Security Administration employees.
AFGE has members in airports across the United States and in Puerto Rico. See where your closest local is located.
All TSOs who are AFGE members, please ensure that AFGE has your current contact information by logging in and updating your profile.
Swine Flu/H1N1 WatchAFGE is first and foremost concerned with the safety of every Transportation Security Officer across the nation. AFGE is proactively taking action to ensure that each and every TSO is protected on the job.
What to do if you contract swine fluIf you experience symptoms of the swine flu, stay home from work and get immediate medical attention. If you are found to have contracted swine flu while on the job, get a CA-2 from your supervisor. If you are refused a claim form, get the form here (OWCP Form CA-2). Fill it out and submit it to DOL with a note stating that your agency refused to provide one. For more information, including information from the Office of Personnel Management and the Centers for Disease Control, visit AFGE's information page on the swine flu. |







