TSA Union to Celebrate Dallas Workers at Friday Event

DALLAS, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Federation of Government Employees, the union for Transportation Security Officers (TSO) in Dallas and across the country, will show its gratitude for the TSA workforce with an event Friday, July 23 at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.

"In gratitude of their hard work and commitment to protecting this nation, AFGE would publicly like to say 'thank you' to every TSO, and in particular, those in Dallas," AFGE 10th District National Vice President Roy Flores said. "TSOs are currently without even basic workplace protections, and it's long past due that they are given the respect they deserve."

"It is essential that TSOs are afforded the same rights to negotiate over important workplace issues, due process, whistleblower protections, veterans' preference, appropriate salaries, fair pay increases, and leave policies as other federal workers—including other Department of Homeland Security employees, including those working for the Border Patrol, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Coast Guard, Federal Protective Service, FEMA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement—all of whom are represented by AFGE," AFGE National President John Gage said.

TSOs in Dallas are members of AFGE Local 1040, which also includes both Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) and Dallas Love Field (DAL) airports.

AFGE is the only union to represent TSOs since the agency's inception, and currently has more than 12,000 dues-paying members in 38 AFGE TSA Locals across the country.

AFGE earlier this year filed a petition with the Federal Labor Relations Authority for exclusive union representation at TSA, and renewed its call for immediate passage of H.R. 1881, which would be a permanent, legal solution to the matter of collective bargaining rights at TSA.

WHO:

AFGE Local 1040

WHAT:

Will hold solidarity stand in support of collective bargaining rights at TSA

WHERE:

Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Terminal D, Gate 22

WHEN:

Friday, July 23; 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

AFGE is the largest federal employee union representing 600,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the District of Columbia, including tens of thousands of DHS employees in Border Patrol, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Coast Guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, FEMA, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Federal Protective Service, Office of Immigration Statistics and TSA.

SOURCE American Federation of Government Employees

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