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NTEU Files FLRA Petition For Representation Election
NTEU filed a petition with the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) seeking an election to become the exclusive representative of a 40,000-employee TSA unit.
TSA is a unit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where NTEU already is the exclusive representative of its 24,000-employee Customs and Border Protection (CBP) unit.
 “We have enough support among Transportation Security Officers to meet the FLRA’s 30 percent criteria for filing such a petition and seeking an election,” said President Kelley. “I am confident that when TSOs examine the records, performance and expertise of the unions competing in such an election, NTEU will prevail. No other union can match our record of success for federal employees.”
The CBP election, conducted by the FLRA in 2006, was then the largest union representation election in the federal sector. NTEU won that election over the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) by a more than two-to-one margin.
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President Kelley said NTEU continues to have questions about the legal and practical effects of a previous 2003 FLRA decision rejecting an AFGE petition for a TSA election since employees did not then—and still do not—have collective bargaining rights. Nonetheless, NTEU chose to file a petition at this time to ensure it would be on the election ballot, if the FLRA reverses itself on this issue, thus giving TSA employees their choice of a representative. More
Congresswoman Calls for Improved TSA Training
TSOs may be in line for improved training combining both computer lessons and on-the-job training with full body scanners, thanks to efforts by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) who pursued an idea advanced by NTEU.
The subject of TSO training was one of the issues addressed today at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure Protection, chaired by Rep. Jackson Lee.
The congresswoman asked a TSA representative to prepare a report on the pending rollout and completion of training on the new technology, and referred to comments submitted to the subcommittee by NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley in which she called for “a major emphasis on training.”
The NTEU leader further said the union believes that “people, not technology, are our most important asset in combating terrorism.” She added that at TSA, “We need adequate staff, we need adequate training for that staff, and we need to treat them with dignity.”
Rep. Jackson Lee agreed with those views, and raised the training question with the TSA representative, who agreed that the training would be better with a combination of computer-based lessons and on-the-job training.
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NTEU
s Five-Point Plan for TSOs
 Securing
collective bargaining rights for you. Learn
more about the power of collective bargaining.
 Moving you into a pay system that is accountable and transparent, like the General Schedule.
 Fighting
for adequate staffing and a fair scheduling system.
 Improving
your training program and revising recertification.
 Granting
you whistleblower rights by law.
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