Dear John,
Today the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) turns 20!
AFGE members played a major role in bringing workplace rights to TSA and shaping the agency’s personnel policies, and we are proud to have helped improve TSA officers’ working conditions and in so doing, making air travel safer for the American people.
Created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during the George W. Bush administration, the young agency was first put under the Department of Transportation and then moved to another newly created department, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
As the U.S. was fighting the war on terror here at home and abroad, Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) shouldered the enormous responsibility of protecting air travelers and keeping our skies safe.
Despite this important mission, TSA failed to provide decent working conditions to the very workforce that kept America safe.
Looking back, we are proud to say that TSOs’ working conditions have enormously improved over the past 20 years.
In 2003, AFGE had just one local with 13 dues-paying members. Today, we have 39 TSA locals with nearly 19,000 dues-paying members and growing.
Our union’s presence empowered TSOs to demand the rights they deserve. TSOs have heroically fought for dignity on the job, and in so doing, they changed TSA forever.
Click here to read our union's journey with TSA over the last 20 years.
Thank you to all the TSA officers that have made AFGE their union home.
Solidarity now, solidarity forever!
In Unity,
AFGE
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