Senate OKs Ridge 94-0
January 23, 2003
Senate OKs Ridge 94-0
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Senate OKs Ridge 94-0
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D.C. Officials Laud Headquarters Choice as Va. Leaders Stew
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Eagerly Anticipated, and Overdue, Record-Keeping System for TSP to Be Tested
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Homeland Security Dept. to Begin Work
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President Harnage comments on AFGE organizing efforts within TSA and the plight of baggage screeners
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Plenty of Tough Issues at New Homeland Security Department
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Union Sues to Organize Screeners at Airports
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A petition filed by more than 150 of the Pittsburgh-based screeners of passengers and baggage has been filed with the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Also, AFGE has filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., against Transportation Under Secretary James Loy that could make way for all of the nation's 55,000 airport screeners to become union members.
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First, Bush officials set up www.dhs.gov as a way to communicate with the more than 170,000 employees moving to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Passenger and baggage screeners at New York's LaGuardia and Baltimore-Washington International airports have petitioned to be represented by the American Federation of Government Employees.
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Pelosi Calls on President Bush to Reverse Decision on TSA Screeners
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Hoyer Disputes National Security Argument for Pre-Emptive Union Busting
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Small Agency To Mediate Homeland Disputes
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Labor Union Files Suit to Represent Baggage Screeners
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The decision-affecting roughly 56,000 workers checking passengers and luggage for weapons Or explosives at more than 400 U.S. airports-came in response to petitions filed with the Federal Labor Relations Authority by a federal-employees union seeking permission to represent the screeners. It is the latest sign of the administration's insistence on flexibility in managing the new Homeland Security Department, which will soon oversee the Transportation Security Administration and 21 other federal agencies.
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