{"id":79781,"date":"2026-10-10T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/people-are-pissed-union-decries-tsas-removal-of-chairs-for-checkpoint-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:55:15","slug":"people-are-pissed-union-decries-tsas-removal-of-chairs-for-checkpoint-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/people-are-pissed-union-decries-tsas-removal-of-chairs-for-checkpoint-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People are pissed\u2019: union decries TSA\u2019s removal of chairs for checkpoint staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Order for workers to remain standing to \u2018reinforce professionalism\u2019 draws rebuke amid plunging morale<\/p>\n<p>Union officials have launched a campaign to allow airport security staff to sit once more after the Trump administration unilaterally removed all the chairs for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff at checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are pissed,\u201d said Johnny Jones, secretary-treasurer of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) TSA council 100 and president of AFGE local 1040, which represents TSA workers in Dallas-Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/10\/tsa-union-agency-checkpoints-chairs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order for workers to remain standing to \u2018reinforce professionalism\u2019 draws rebuke amid plunging morale Union officials have launched a campaign to allow airport security staff to sit once more after the Trump administration unilaterally removed all the chairs for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff at checkpoints. \u201cPeople are pissed,\u201d said Johnny Jones, secretary-treasurer of American &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018People are pissed\u2019: union decries TSA\u2019s removal of chairs for checkpoint staff\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/people-are-pissed-union-decries-tsas-removal-of-chairs-for-checkpoint-staff\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018People are pissed\u2019: union decries TSA\u2019s removal of chairs for checkpoint staff\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}