The bill expands collective bargaining rights for TSA’s non-supervisory screeners. Image: Jim Lambert/Shutterstock.com
The TSA has said that it will boost pay for screeners—which it said have been paid up to 30 percent less than employees of other agencies in comparable jobs—effective July 1, under funding provided in the recently enacted wrapup budget bill for the current fiscal year.
The bill increased the agency’s funding by nearly $400 million to make their pay scale more comparable to that of the GS, although not formally moving them into the GS as had been proposed in a bill that passed the House but was not finally enacted.
“The bill also included funding for expanded collective bargaining rights for TSA’s non-supervisory TSOs [transportation security officers; screeners] as well as new computed tomography and credential authentication technology acquisitions that will significantly enhance our checkpoint screening capabilities,” the agency said.
The AFGE union, which represents most of the TSA’s 44,000 employees, praised both the pay boost and the widened bargaining provision, which it called “a positive development for an agency that has long been plagued by low retention, high turnover, and difficulties in attracting employees.”
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