What kind of representation do TSA screeners receive before the Board?
There was a distinction drawn between screeners, who had no rights to go to the Merit System Protection Board, and the upper level screener managers, who do have rights to go before the Board. And the Board has upheld that distinction. Those who do go before the board can hire a private attorney like any federal employee could, and generally at that level they do. Q: How do you think the events of September 11th have affected labor and employment cases in the United States? A: I do know that it has directly affected the Department of Homeland Security because, as a result of those events, they did promulgate regulations to create an entire new personnel system. The Bush Administration was very big on saying that we need to reduce the rights of the unions to require us to bargain before we implement new changes. In other words, sometimes under the old labor laws that used to apply before Homeland Security came into existence, before the government could mobilize or deploy someone to ano
