MSP: 'Public at risk' because of retaliation [by TSA Management]
Feb 21, 2016, 10:25 pm
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MSP: 'Public at risk' because of retaliation [by TSA Management]
'Public At Risk'
MSP in the news again. Drew Rhoades states that conduct of TSA management puts the public at risk. The conduct referred to is retaliation by TSA management against those who report security violations. At MSP the FSD Cliff Van Leuven is under investigation by the Office of Special Counsel for ordering Rhoades transfered as retailition against an unknown who reported issues at MSP.
Reporter: "And you think around the country directed reassignments are used to punish people in TSA?"
Rhoades: "No doubt. It's happened in many cities."
"Marcene Grabenbauer, Van Leuven's former executive assistant, who pointed out security and policy violations to her boss. ... Van Leuven tried to fire her, but it was rescinded, she has since resigned."
Reporter: 'If management is so afraid of retaliation they won't blow the whistle if they see something wrong with security?"
Rhoades: "I agree, unfortunately that puts the public at risk."
Reporter: 'It puts people at enormous risk if you have managers of TSA who are afraid to speak up?"
Rhoades: "I would agree with you, unfortunately."
MSP in the news again. Drew Rhoades states that conduct of TSA management puts the public at risk. The conduct referred to is retaliation by TSA management against those who report security violations. At MSP the FSD Cliff Van Leuven is under investigation by the Office of Special Counsel for ordering Rhoades transfered as retailition against an unknown who reported issues at MSP.
Reporter: "And you think around the country directed reassignments are used to punish people in TSA?"
Rhoades: "No doubt. It's happened in many cities."
"Marcene Grabenbauer, Van Leuven's former executive assistant, who pointed out security and policy violations to her boss. ... Van Leuven tried to fire her, but it was rescinded, she has since resigned."
Reporter: 'If management is so afraid of retaliation they won't blow the whistle if they see something wrong with security?"
Rhoades: "I agree, unfortunately that puts the public at risk."
Reporter: 'It puts people at enormous risk if you have managers of TSA who are afraid to speak up?"
Rhoades: "I would agree with you, unfortunately."
Feb 22, 2016, 5:24 am
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And there's the new guard, senior managers who come from the airline industry, like Van Leuven, who was in charge of customer service for Frontier and Northwest. They are more obsessed with wait times at check points than security.
Feb 24, 2016, 8:29 am
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Since it all for show any way, those senior managers should be concerned with wait times. Keep passengers waiting too long to be groped and you will have very unhappy passengers who could either stage a mini revolution in line or make flight crews' lives pretty miserable.
This is all about 'growing' the organization and its already bloated budget.
Double the wait times, wait for the screams, and then claim that reducing wait times would be a security risk. Neffenger's proposed solution, of course, will be to double TSA's budget and hire more screeners, LTSOs, STSOs and BDOs to stand around jacking their jaws and playing with their cellphones.