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Airport screeners can sue over grievances at work
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Oakland Tribune
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September 6, 2007
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Transportation Security Administration airport screeners can take
their workplace constitutional claims to federal court, the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday in an Oakland case.
John Gavello, who worked as a screener at Oakland International
Airport in 2003 and 2004, and the American Federation of Government
Employees Local 1 had sued the TSA, the Department of Homeland
Security and various administrators, claiming Gavello was fired in
retaliation for distributing union information at work -- a
violation of his First Amendment rights.
The government convinced U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of
Oakland to dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction. Its argument
was that ...