TSA could strike and airports would be better for it... That's a dangerous game for the admin to play.
The way the TSA strikes is by causing massive delays for passengers going through security. The last time they did that, the security line at Atlanta international was 2 and a half hours long at times. It wound all the way back to the check in.
I think that's part of the strategy here. "Look at this, I busted up this union and now flying is the most enjoyable it has ever been"
Edit: another piece of this is how much money would be saved by liquidating the TSA.
I know five or six people who work for the TSA, and every one of them are MAGA
That won't happen though. They won't be replaced with anyone, there will be massive delays instead.
But very few people will side with the TSA on this anyway.
I know five or six people who work for the TSA, and every one of them are MAGA
And yet it's very likely they won't put two and two together to figure out the sitting Republican president is responsible for their weakened union. Still, this couldn't have happened to more deserving people.
Pardon my ignorance, but how does this even work? Like, don't they just walk off the job collectively until someone is willing to negotiate with them?
Americans are so corporatized that they mistakenly think the power of unions comes from the government
That's how unions are supposed to work. It's really the only bargaining chip workers have, at least until we can all be 100% replaced by ai and robots...
How are we doing on that front, by the way?
We're probably multiple centuries from robot labor replacing a meaningful amount of human labor.
Modern "AI" can't even run a call center, it's not replacing real jobs anytime soon, despite how egar marketing teams are to gaslight C-Suite into paying for it.
Okay, so he revoked the collective bargaining rights. He didn't revoke the ability to go out on strike, though. It just won't be an organized strike.
Weren't strikes the compromise to the other option, namely dragging the owners out of the factory and beating them in the streets? Maybe they just want to go back to the original system.
Remember, it's not a right if it can be taken away! Your right to collectively bargain comes from the fact that there are hundreds of you and one of him, not because he "allowed" it.
Then striking workers have no legal protections, either. Better than no strikes, but we've basically lost 100 years of progress.
The fun thing about wildcat strikes though is that you don't need legal protections for them to work. See new York's illegal prison strike for a good recent example.
Lest we forget how we got here. Strikes and collective bargaining were the compromise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence_in_the_United_States
Hang on, I'm probably crazy but Im seeing a trend here.... Are they hoping for another 9/11? Cuz I could totally see them trying for another 9/11. TSA ain't even that effective so it's not really about them existing or not, but more about the idea, that it could happen again
Possibly, Putin had an allegedly staged terror attack early on to drum up support
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
And Trump seems to be following his playbook to the T.
But the thing about Trump, is that he'll have to out do 9/11, his ego won't allow anything less.
That is what terrifies me
Oh look, leopards at the airport
My love for unions eclipses my hatred for the TSA on this one.
The destruction of one union harms all unions.
The TSA never provided any tangible increase in airport security. DOGE could have started here.
Yeah, planes have been falling out of the sky pretty regularly lately without assistance from terrorists.
without assistance from terrorists
i would argue, that the terrorists are just in office now
STRIKE TSA!!!!! Don’t let them do this to you.
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