American Federation of
Government Employees
Local 899
for Transportation Security Officers in Minnesota, North Dakota and
South Dakota.
AFGElocal899.org
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Proposed
Collective Bargaining Agreement
Between AFGE and TSA Management -
November 2016
Version 2.0
AFGE Council
100 Mark-ups are highlighted
in Yellow
Our
Grievances
are based on what’s in the Agreement.
Pluses
and
Minuses: This is as far as our negotiators were able to go.
If
we vote “YES”
– This is our second and FINAL bite at the apple.
If
we vote “NO”, THERE IS NO CONTRACT - ONLY MANAGEMENT DIRECTIVES
"Punch List" Comments are HERE
Voting
Schedule at MSP:
Monday - Nov 15, 2016 -
T-2
0900 - 1200 and 1600 - 1830
Wednesday - May 17, 2016 -
T-1 Lower Level Breakroom
0830 - 1100
1200 - 1400
1630
- 1900
Friday - May 19, 2016 -
T-1 Lower Level Breakroom
0900 - 1200 and 1500 - 1700
Voting at the Spoke Airports
in
Minnesota, North Dakota and South
Dakota
will be done by Mail-In Ballots
distributed at the work-place
IT
IS
IMPORTANT TO VOTE!
NOT
VOTING
IS
NEITHER AN AUTOMATIC “YES” OR “NO”.
NOT
VOTING MEANS “NOTHING”
YOU
CAN
VOTE BEFORE OR AFTER YOUR SHIFT
OR
DURING
YOUR BREAK.
YOU
CANNOT VOTE
WHILE
YOU
ARE ON DUTY!
ALL
BARGAINING UNIT MEMBERS CAN VOTE,
WHETHER
YOU ARE A UNION MEMBER OR NOT.
except:
Employees hired after 10/3/2016
are not eligible to vote on this contract
PLEASE
SUPPORT THE UNION EFFORTS –
PREVIOUS
ELECTION
Rejected by 90%
Proposed
Collective Bargaining Agreement
Between
AFGE and TSA Management - March 2016
Version
1.0
AFGE
Council 100 Mark-ups are highlighted in Yellow
Our
Grievances
are based on what’s in the Agreement.
Pluses
and
Minuses: Is this the
best we can do?
Celia Hahn's "Cliff's
Notes" Comments are HERE
If
we vote “Yes”
– we are stuck with this for 3 more years.
If
we vote “NO”,
We
are
telling TSA Management to go back to the bargaining table – We want
better!
The
Oversight & Government Reform
Committee of the US Congress House of Representatives held a three hour
Hearing
on April 27, 2016 which they called,
"Examining
Management Practices and
Misconduct at TSA: Part I"
Testifying were:
Jay
Brainard, FSD – Kansas, Office of Security Operations
Mark Livingston, Program Manager,
Office of
the Chief Risk Officer
Drew Rhodes, AFSD – MSP
Our AFGE Local 899
President Celia Hahn was present in the
audience. (above, middle row, left
side)
In the last couple
of minutes in his testimony, in order to improve employee moral and
trust, FSD Brainard asked the Committee to end high stakes annual
testing for TSA screeners.
There was no
commitment from any Committee members to do so during the hearing.
Committee
comments and a video
of the complete three hour hearing can be found here.
AFGE for TSA Screeners
AFGE
TSA Orientation Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8XKDcCr-WQ
Seeking Title 5 Rights for
TSO Screeners
Title
5 of the United States Code outlines the role of nearly
all government organization and employees (except TSO's) in the United
States Code. Title 5
was first enacted in 1966. TSO's were deliberately left out of these
rights and protections.
The Air Transportation Security Act
(ATSA) established the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in
2001. TSA management applied the ATSA to exempt TSO screeners
from Title 5 rights and protections, while all other TSA employees,
including managers, are
covered by Title 5 rights and protections.
Congress
Members Thompson and Lowey Introduce HR 4488
Ask
Your Congress Member to Co-Sponsor HR 4488
HR 4488 -
Introduced February 2016
HR 1881 - Introduced
in 2009
AFGE
White Paper - TSA, Still Troubled 2016-02
Airport security workers, TSA
in the throes of legal battles
Here
Photos from the Service at Ft Snelling National Cemetery for Jeff
Hayden,
VP AFGE Local 899
7 July 2015
Here
LOOKING FOR YOUR IDEAS TO IMPROVE OUR WORKING CONDITIONS [expired]
Survey Link here
The Collective Bargaining Agreement between TSA and AFGE will be
re-negotiated this fall.
For most Federal agencies, the rules and proceedures for Collective
Bargaining are established un Title 5 of Federal Law.
When Congress set up TSA, we were deliberately excluded from that long
established Law.
Instead, we must negotiate under the limited provisions of the
Determinations written by the past Administrator Pistole - our rights
are limited.
In any case - we will do everything we
can to negotiate a new Collective Bargaining Agreement that:
1) makes TSA a more livable environment to accomplish our mission,
2) betters our working conditions,
3) protects our rights to due process,
4) improves morale,
5) strengthens our team and communications,
6) rewards our commitment to our work.
Details of what we may negotiate are found on pages 7 and 8 of the Determination
- below.
There are many things we prohibited
from negotiating. Some examples are:
a) pay,
b) promotions and demotions,
c) security policies and procedures,
d) deployment,
e) "annual certification requirement, testing and consequences of
failure,"
f) and others. (See the Determination
page 8 - below.)
Additionally, we may have
opportunities to present new ideas for bargaining.
We are asking you for your suggestions.
Please use this "2015
AFGE TSA Contract Survey" or the link above to give us
your feedback and suggestions.
We are happy to hear from you whether you are an AFGE member or not.
Please
return your completed survey to us by August 1, 2015.
Negotiations will be starting aroung August 12, 2015 to be completed in
4 months - a very tight deadline!
The following are PDF files:
LOCAL
899 NEWSLETTERS
TSO Reporter, Number 8 -- November 2016
TSO Reporter, Number 8 -- November 2016 insert
TSO
Reporter, Number 7 -- July 2016
(There was no Number 6)
TSO Reporter, Number
5 -- May 2015
TSO Reporter, Number 4 -- November 2014
TSO Reporter, Number 3 -- September 2014
TSO Reporter, Number 2
-- August 2014
TSO Reporter,
Number 1 -- March 2014
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Treasurer, AFGE Local 899
updated 2020-04-22