Campaign to Organize Federal Transportation Security Officers: A Model of Open Source Unionism

All discussions with people on the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE) campaign to organize federalized airport screeners—reclassified in 2006 as “Transportation Security Officers” (TSA), ultimately end with the adage that the mobilization effort is righteous. The author, who...

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Published in:Working USA 2007-09, Vol.10 (3), p.301-310
Main Author: Pinnock, Sharon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Airline security
Airports
Aviation
Employee turnover
Employment
Federal employees
Government agencies
Lobbyists
Passenger screening
Retirement
Security management
Security personnel
Unionization
Wages & salaries
Workers compensation
Workforce
Working conditions
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Summary:All discussions with people on the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE) campaign to organize federalized airport screeners—reclassified in 2006 as “Transportation Security Officers” (TSA), ultimately end with the adage that the mobilization effort is righteous. The author, who has organized over fifty organizing campaigns in nearly thirty years as a labor organizer, has never before worked on a unionization drive that feels as righteous as that to organize TSA workers.
ISSN:1089-7011
1743-4580
2471-4607
DOI:10.1163/17434580-01003004