Airport Screeners Gain in Senate Union Vote BRIEFING: WASHINGTON:
March 7, 2007
The U.S. Senate rejected a Republican proposal to prohibit airport security screeners from joining unions. The Senate voted 51 to 46 to defeat an amendment by Senator Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, that would strip collective bargaining for airport screeners from legislation to carry out recommendations of the commission that investigated the 2001 terrorist attacks.
President George W. Bush may veto the legislation, administration officials have said.
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