January 10, 2007: Local 2617 President AJ Castilla explains the importance of restored employee civil rights, protections, and, a collective bargaining right for all U.S. federal TSA Officers nation-wide. Listening are: U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-MS; AFGE National President John Gage; and; Rep. Nita Lowey, D-NY 
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July 23, 2009: Local 2617 President AJ Castilla with acting TSA Administrator Gale Rossides at AFGE's TSO union and the TSA's first ever historic "Labor-Management" meeting.
February 23, 2010: AFGE petition to Federal Labor Relations Authority [FLRA] requests a national TSA employee election for a sole union representative take place
March 12, 2010: Copy
of TSA letter to FLRA
request an extension  
AFGE NST J. David Cox & D-2 NVP Derrick Thomas award Local 2617's permanent charter
April 15, 2010: A.F.G.E. Local 2617 President AJ Castilla questions DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on when she'll rescind her TSA sub-agency's ban vs collective bargaining for her 40,000 Transportation Security Officers working under her control.
March 2, 2010: Copy
of FLRA letter to TSA
April 12, 2010: Copy
of TSA response to
FLRA vs AFGE petition
January 7, 2010: Click to listen to the radio
interview with L2617 AJ President Castilla
March 16, 2010: Copy
of FLRA Okay of TSA Time Extension
April 13, 2010: Copy
of FLRA Show Cause Order to AFGE & NTEU
April 27, 2010: Copy
of AFGE Show Cause Response to FLRA
January 8, 2010: NPMHU's Bob Losi; GBCLC's Rich Rogers; Rep. Michael E. Capuano, D-MA; L2617 President AJ Castilla;
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, D-MA; MA AFL-CIO's Bobby Haynes;
and NH AFL-CIO's Mark McKenzie
TSA's anti-union F.S.D. George Naccara is our number one union organizer. He makes ups his own rules, ignoring TSA HQs policies. Nearly 1,300 TSOs quit  under his 8yr leadership. Talk about wasting everyone's tax dollars in a U.S. economy which really can't afford it.
2010 TSA Union
Election Request
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June 4, 2010: Copy of AFGE appeal to the FLRA Authority
July 28, 2010: FLRA Authority okays AFGE petition for review
August 3, 2010: Copy of AFGE request that FLRA Authority not delay issuing ruling to allow TSA election