Unionized Airport Security?

by | Jan 26, 2011 | News

The National Treasury Employees Union and American Federation of Government Employees Union’s are duking it out to be the union of choice for nearly 40,000 TSA employees. The March 9th election will be the largest in federal government history and will determine if TSA employees want a union, and if so, which union they prefer. Many do not feel this is in the best interest of the country due to possible security issues that may arise, such as sharing critical intelligence with union leaders and the bureaucratic inflexibility common with unionized workforces. “Unionization typically means two things: higher costs  for employment and no change in productivity; in fact, maybe even a backsliding in productivity,” said Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato Institutes’s Center for Trade Policy Studies. “Bottom line is we’re going to get less security for the dollar, or pay more for the same amount of security.”

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