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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Republican-backed check in a House designed to mislay a officer pretension from federal airport screeners does zero though supplement insult and disregard to workers behaving essential duties during an group pivotal to this country's security, a American Federation of Government Employees pronounced today.
"Every singular member of Congress should be ancillary sovereign employees, not perplexing to debase them," AFGE National President John Gage said. "This check has zero of significance, positively does zero to supplement to a inhabitant security, and--at a indicate where Congress should be focused on a budget, economy, jobs, etc.--is a finish rubbish of time.
"Reps. Blackburn, Mica and their other cohorts in a House need to stop bullying a TSA workforce, and maybe only worry about doing their possess jobs," Gage said. "Instead of indeed assisting to quarrel terrorism, they are moving a form of nonessential and unpleasant function by a few members of a open with an bulletin that in fact perts courtesy from securing American skies.
"These members of Congress should get an endowment for a biggest rubbish of time and money," Gage said. "Other than maybe a Google search, it doesn't seem like there was any investigate finished so we theory they saved income there. But for this absurd check to be grown and introduced contingency have compulsory staff writing, warn approval, perplexing to get cosponsors, staff briefings, and on. That's a lot of bid for a small pettiness. we consider a American open deserves to know how most of their taxpayer income went into this.
"If there are any legitimate complaints about TSA policies and procedures, take them adult with a group that combined them," Gage added. "TSA workers follow those procedures as instructed. Those who would conflict workers for following procession should consider twice and maybe take adult a hobby."
AFGE is a largest sovereign worker kinship representing 625,000 workers in a sovereign supervision and a supervision of a District of Columbia, including 44,000 during TSA.
SOURCE American Federation of Government Employees
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