Overview
- TSA says it will rescind the 2024 collective bargaining agreement and implement a new security-focused labor framework effective Jan. 11, 2026.
- Under the new framework, TSA policy will replace contract provisions, payroll deductions for union dues will stop, and the agency says alternative channels will address employee concerns.
- Homeland Security’s rationale rests on Noem’s memo declaring that employees performing screening functions may not engage in collective bargaining or be represented by a union.
- AFGE leaders call the move illegal and retaliatory and say they will continue litigation, with a trial over the earlier attempt scheduled next year.
- A federal judge in June issued a preliminary injunction blocking the first revocation effort and found the prior action likely retaliatory and arbitrary, and the current contract had been set to run through 2031.