TSA chief will allow unionization, but only if it doesn’t affect “security”

Published February 4, 2011 5:00am ET



John Pistole, administrator for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will allow 50,000 screeners to engage in collective bargaining, but will prohibit them from bargaining “on any topics that might affect security,” according to CNN’s sources. It’s remarkable because all topics affect security at an agency where “security” is literally its middle name.

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