In the wake of a Justice Department filing declaring that National Guard troops can form and join unions while serving on state active duty orders, a growing number of Texas troops assigned to the U.S.-Mexico border for Operation Lone Star have organized under an existing public sector union.<\/p>\n
The first meeting of the Texas State Employees Union\u2019s Military Caucus, which consists of troops on state active duty orders assigned to the border, is scheduled for next week, according to a soldier leading organizing efforts. The soldier requested anonymity due to fear of retaliation from Texas Military Department leadership ahead of the meeting.<\/p>\n
The soldier affiliated with the union, whose identity Army Times has verified, posted about the upcoming meeting in a Reddit community dedicated to sharing news about the border mission.<\/p>\n
They are the first-known troops to organize while in a state active duty status, though a small subset of full-time Guard troops, dual-status technicians, are already unionized in their civilian capacity as federal employees.<\/p>\n
Union officials did not immediately respond to requests from Army Times, nor did the Texas Military Department.<\/p>\n
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Operation Lone Star has been plagued with well-documented problems involving living conditions, equipment and pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to improve all [those] things,\u201d said the soldier leading organizing efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I wish them luck, but as the old saying goes, “Shit in one hand and wish in the other. See which fills up faster.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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