Joe Maniscalco at Work-Bites reports arguably the most potent and powerful figure in the Labor Movement today has just declared American Workers - no matter what you do or what sector you’re in - now have “very few options but to join together to organize for a General Strike.” Association of Flight Attendants President Sara Nelson says: “What we have to understand is the people in charge, the people doing this, are doing this to make the Federal Workforce miserable - to make us all miserable and demoralized and shrink into our own space - to inspire scarcity and competition among Workers so that we don’t rise up together to stop them.” Nelson made her comments after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it is stripping Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) Workers of their Collective Bargaining Rights.  “The attrition of the workforce will continue at TSA and anywhere else as long as Workers do not have their pay and benefits and Collective Bargaining Rights that gives them the ability to actually do their jobs,” she said.

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