Union vote coming for TSA agents?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.ajc.com/business/union-vote-coming-for-786378.html

Atlanta Business News 2:00 p.m. Thursday, December 23, 2010

By Kelly Yamanouchi

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Federal security screeners at U.S. airports could vote early next year on whether to join one of two unions, even though neither would have collective bargaining rights unless current policy is changed.

The American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union are waiting for an election to be scheduled, following a November decision by the Federal Labor Relations Authority to process their petitions for an election. Each union has already signed on some Transportation Security Administration officers as members, and the election would decide which one would be their representative.

Valyria Lewis, AFGE Local 555 president, said the union has 12,000 dues-paying members, including about 300 TSA officers in Atlanta. Members pay dues and are represented by the union in disciplinary actions, and they have other benefits such as a discount prescription drug program, she said.

NTEU national president Colleen Kelley said the NTEU counts about 400 officers as members in Atlanta. TSA has about 50,000 officers nationwide and about 1,100 in Atlanta, according to TSA spokesman Jon Allen.

TSA officer salaries in Atlanta range from about $30,000 to more than $43,000 a year. ..

FULL story at link.

[demosincebirth]

1. 43K doesn't do much, here, in the Bay Area with a family of four.