Transportation Security Officers

TSA employees will keep their pay raises under 2024 spending deal

Pay at TSA was reportedly one of the crunch-time issues for lawmakers negotiating the contentious fiscal 2024 homeland security spending bill.

Pay

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How the TSA could improve the sense of job engagement of its line officers

Agency Oversight

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Hydrick Thomas, the president of TSA Council 100 for the American Federation of Government Employees, speaks about TSA pay raises during a July 27 press conference at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC.

‘Long overdue’ TSA pay raises bring salaries in line with rest of federal workforce

Pay

Congressman wants a billion dollars more for frontline TSA employees

Federal Newscast

Christmas in July: Omnibus would give TSA employees pay raise next summer

Pay

TSA hiring DEI chief to help tackle lack of diversity among senior ranks

Hiring/Retention

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FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Transportation Security Administration officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. The Biden administration says it is moving to increase the pay and union rights for security screeners at the nation’s airports. The Department of Homeland Security directed the acting head of the TSA to come up with a plan within 90 days to raise the pay of the screeners and expand their rights to collective bargaining. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

House advances bill to boost pay, benefits for TSA employees

Pay & Benefits

White House proposes major pay raise for TSA screening workforce in 2023

Workforce

FILE - Voters arrive to cast the their ballots on Election Day at City Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, in Alexandria, Va. The first major election day following a year of relentless attacks on voting rights and election officials went off largely without a hitch. The relative calm was a relief to those who oversee state and local elections, but election experts say that might not matter to the millions of Americans who now believe in conspiracy theories trumpeting rampant electoral fraud. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Federal employees can now take paid leave to vote and work at the polls

Federal Newscast

Federal employee union presses DHS to follow through on expanding collective bargaining for TSOs

Unions

White House makes fighting corruption a major focal point of national security policy

Federal Newscast

In this Monday, June 27, 2016, photo, a passenger passes by a sign for the Transportation Security Administration's TSA Precheck line in Terminal A at Logan Airport in Boston. By air or car, summer 2017 travel numbers are expected to rise over the previous year thanks to deals on airfares and stable gasoline prices. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Biden administration orders TSA to expand union rights, explore pay reform for screeners

The Biden administration directed the Transportation Security Administration to expand collective bargaining rights, begin negotiating a new contract and…

Workforce

Transportation Security Officers are carefully watching a bill in Congress that could change their lives

A bill under debate in Congress right how would move transportation security officers to Title 5 and into the General Schedule system, presumably giving…

Workforce

FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. The civilian official overseeing the Pentagon's campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in the Middle East has resigned in the latest jolt to Pentagon leadership in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Pentagon wants white hat hackers to try and penetrate all of its websites

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department has expanded its program of using external hackers to probe systems for cybersecurity vulnerability.