Bredhoff Obtains – and Enforces – Preliminary Injunction Protecting TSA Screeners’ CBA
January 27, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration have now twice sought to terminate the collective bargaining agreement protecting the working conditions of roughly 47,000 Transportation Security Officers working for the TSA.
Bredhoff, representing the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), AFGE TSA Local 1121, the Communications Workers of America, and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, filed suit challenging the AFGE-TSA CBA termination. In June 2025, Bredhoff obtained a preliminary injunction preventing TSA from denying AFGE and TSOs’ CBA rights and working conditions. In December, the government announced a renewed effort to terminate the CBA, contending it was not bound by the previous court order. Bredhoff quickly moved to enforce the previous order, and in January 2026 the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington granted the motion, clarifying that pursuant to the original preliminary injunction, “the 2024 CBA remains applicable and binding.” Litigation remains ongoing.