Kelley Calls Initial Meeting with Pistole Useful, Positive Step for Employees, Agency

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NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley characterized as a “very useful and positive step forward for both employees and the agency” her initial meeting last Friday with John Pistole, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

The NTEU leader was able to bring to the TSA administrator’s direct attention the results of an NTEU-initiated survey of TSA employees, conducted by a respected private polling organization, showing that fully 85 percent of them understand and believe that collective bargaining would help improve the effectiveness of their agency.

That figure was included in a document President Kelley presented to Pistole highlighting employee views on significant workplace issues.

“I appreciated the opportunity to meet with (the administrator) and to discuss issues important to TSA and to (Transportation Security Officers),” President Kelley wrote in a follow-up message to the agency’s chief of staff.

Pistole currently is assessing the question of the grant of collective bargaining rights for TSA employees; these rights have been denied since the agency’s inception in 2001, and NTEU has been leading the fight to see that TSA employees have such rights to allow them to address a number of workplace issues. More

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