TSA vs DOGE... maybe they can both lose?
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Of course it would, doh, but you just say the opposite, that removing collective bargaining actually makes it safer, and then you move on
Just say white is black and all is fine. Font ask questions
Fuck the TSA and everyone that works there though, abolish the TSA.
Is this the time for unions to rediscover that their rights aren't given to them via the law, but the threat of shutting down the operation? 50,000 TSA agents walk off the job. Scabs can't take over because they don't have security clearances, the FAA ground stops every airport that doesn't have TSA checks. (this would be done by the administrators below the Cabinet, cabinet member doesn't actually have the power to do anything, neither does Trump.)
Shutdown works when you're actually doing anything productive. If TSA walks off everything would just run better lmao.
In all seriousness tho, yeah, organizing a FAA solidarity strike would be the way to go but Trump can just do the Reagan bit and say "go to work or get fired tomorrow". Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.
While I agree the TSA is garbage, they have to exist at passenger airports because of the post-911 laws. Otherwise the Airport can't function (legally). If the major airlines, and pilots, flight crew etc, just ignored the laws and operated anyway. Then sure things could be great, but that is a lot of individual risk that the pilots would have to take on as the consequences of their actions would be losing their pilot certification.
Anyway yea, they would all be fired Trump would try to pull a Reagan and then ???
It should be illegal and reversible by the courts, but with this administration hell bent on ignoring the constitution, it could go both ways really.
If he ends collective bargaining of cops next i'mma be laughing all the way to 2026
They would absolutely carve out an exception for their lapdogs.
You would think, but this mf already shanked USAID, wouldn't put it past him to shoot himself in the foot there and claim it's because of DEI.