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Labor Notes - In a memo that that one TSA employee said sounded like “a teenage blogger writing about someone they don’t like,” the Department of Homeland Security announced March 7 that it was cancelling the union contract for 47,000 workers at the Transportation Security Administration.

The American Federation of Government Employees signed its contract with TSA in May 2024, and it wasn’t set to expire until 2031.

DHS also stopped deducting union dues, and ordered all union officers to immediately return to their TSO duties. Workers voted in the union in 2011.

“To have this thing that you fought for… wiped away at the speed of an email, without any notice, was devastating,” said Joe Shuker, who hired in 20 years ago and worked to build the union. “But look,” he said, “we’ve been here before.”

APWU - n a powerful show of solidarity, thousands of postal workers and members of the American Postal Workers Union rallied last week for a National Day of Action to say, “Hands Off Our Public Postal Service – The U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale!” From Fairbanks, AK to Honolulu, HI, from San Juan, PR to Bangor, ME, and throughout the country, postal workers and allies took action at over 250 locations to fight for our jobs, our service, and our future. Read more »