Privatization is a Lose-Lose

And Democratic governor's expected veto delivers a win to bosses

News and Views

• Trump is looking to privatize airport security – which would be bad news for workers and air travelers alike. One only has to look to the 21 airports that already use private security companies to do screening, where wages are lower and benefits are worse than in TSA. Of course Trump’s privatization ambitions go far beyond TSA, including most recently to the National Park Service.

• Workers and allies are rallying against the detention of farmworker activists in New York and Washington.

• Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis is preserving his state’s conservative, anti-union legal status with his expected veto of a bill that would have made Colorado more union-friendly.

• The executive board of the United Food and Commercial Workers, a 1.3 million member union, has quietly appointed a new President.

• A federal judge has temporary blocked Trump from stripping collective bargaining rights from more than 18,000 Foreign Service employees.

Today’s Win

• 200 autoworkers are organizing with the UAW at Android Industries in Michigan.