‘People are pissed’: union decries TSA’s removal of chairs for checkpoint staff

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The Transportation Security Administration has removed chairs from airport security checkpoints, ordering staff to remain standing in a move officials say is intended to reinforce professionalism. The union representing TSA workers has condemned the decision and is campaigning to restore seating amid concerns about declining morale.

Order for workers to remain standing to ‘reinforce professionalism’ draws rebuke amid plunging morale Union officials have launched a campaign to allow airport security staff to sit once more after the Trump administration unilaterally removed all the chairs for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff at checkpoints. “People are pissed,” said Johnny Jones, secretary-treasurer of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) TSA council 100 and president of AFGE local 1040, which represents TSA workers in Dallas-Fort Worth. Continue reading...