WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate will hold hearings next week on a provision in its new security bill giving union rights to airport security screeners.
The bill, scheduled to be debated on the Senate floor in the next two weeks, would repeal a provision of the 2001 law setting up the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, which gave its director wide discretion to decide issues of union and other labor rights for the thousands of passenger and baggage screeners it employs.
The hearing will "review the personnel system at TSA and the merits of the proposed legislation," said a notice from the subcommittee on government management and the federal workforce of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Witnesses tentatively scheduled to testify at the hearing next Monday include representatives of the TSA and labor unions.
