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AFGE Asks for Extension of TSA's Nov. 22 Vaccine Deadline

By BOB HENNELLY bhennelly@thechiefleader.com
Posted 11/22/21

The union which represents the nation’s tens of thousands of Transportation Security Administration airline screeners has asked the Biden administration to extend the Nov. 22 deadline for all Federal workers to be vaccinated to correspond with the Jan. 18 deadline it imposed for Federal contractors.

The Nov. 9 letter from the Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, came a few weeks after TSA Administrator David Pekoske told CNN that 40 percent of his agency’s workforce was still unvaccinated, even as the holiday travel crunch approached. The agency more recently said 60 percent of its workforce had gotten at least one shot.

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