AFGE’s contract covering 47,000 employees at the Transportation Security Administration remains in effect – despite a partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security.
AFGE has heard numerous reports of TSA managers using the funding lapse to spread misinformation and stoke confusion in order to convince transportation security officers that their labor rights have been terminated.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
“Let’s set the record straight: AFGE is still your union and your union rights are still intact! Agency leaders and the Trump administration have made numerous attempts to terminate our contract and they have not succeeded,” AFGE Council 100 President Hydrick Thomas said in a recent email to all of TSA’s union members
