{"id":94608856,"date":"2011-06-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/tsa-screeners-choose-their-union\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T10:00:00","slug":"tsa-screeners-choose-their-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/tsa-screeners-choose-their-union\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Screeners Choose Their Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe airport screeners of the Transportation Security Administration have chosen the American Federation of Government Employees as their official union. The AFGE is under the AFL-CIO and will now represent over 40,000 workers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAFGE beat out the National Treasury Employees Union just barely in a runoff vote. Screeners now have limited collective bargaining rights, with pay and security issues being the two exceptions. Workers are also banned from striking.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>TSA screeners made plans to join a union months ago after the Obama administration granted they could do so.&nbsp; A first vote between the AFGE and NTEU was held in<br \/>\nApril, but neither achieved a decisive majority. <\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airport screeners of the Transportation Security Administration have chosen the American Federation of Government Employees as their official union. The AFGE is under the AFL-CIO and will now represent over 40,000 workers. &nbsp; AFGE beat out the National Treasury Employees Union just barely in a runoff vote. Screeners now have limited collective bargaining rights, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}