Is it over for the unions?

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

of course not that's why ALL GOV contracts bar the justice department and defense should be open for lowest bid? Save OUR money?

I don't understand what that has to do with unions and who is at the bargaining table, but I agree. Although I don't think lowest bid should always being the deciding factor (controversy over Lockheed using prison labor to assemble some Patriot missile parts for example)

I learned this today (Washington Post):

At a time when basic public employee union activities in state governments are under attack, Uncle Sam is staging what labor leaders say is the largest federal union organizing effort in history.

In contrast to Wisconsin and Ohio, where conservative politicians want to strip labor organizations of certain collective bargaining rights, 44,000 federal transportation security officers will be able to vote to choose a union, or no union, during a six-week period beginning Wednesday.

Two unions, the AFL-CIO-affiliated American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the independent National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), are on the ballot, as is the option of no union. If none of the three options gets a majority, there will be a run-off.

A win on this would be huge, for the union movement and for screeners, who've had to cope with terrible work conditions such as working split shifts—three hours on, four hours off, three hours back at work.

The vote ends April 19th.