Wednesday, November 30, 2005
For Workers in America, Speaking Up Has Real Consequences.
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
John Summerour, 59, was fired in June 2005 from his job as a baggage screener at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after speaking out about inadequate training that was putting travelers’ lives at risk. “We weren’t properly trained to do the job we were hired to do,” he says.
Summerour was terminated after he and others wrote a letter to their congressional representative about lack of training and poor working conditions at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The firing came in retaliation for union activity and exercising his freedom of speech, according to an appeal filed by AFGE with the TSA Disciplinary Review Board, an internal TSA board that reviews terminations.
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Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
John Summerour, 59, was fired in June 2005 from his job as a baggage screener at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after speaking out about inadequate training that was putting travelers’ lives at risk. “We weren’t properly trained to do the job we were hired to do,” he says.
Summerour was terminated after he and others wrote a letter to their congressional representative about lack of training and poor working conditions at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The firing came in retaliation for union activity and exercising his freedom of speech, according to an appeal filed by AFGE with the TSA Disciplinary Review Board, an internal TSA board that reviews terminations.
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