<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">You want to go to the airport 10 minutes before your flight leaves and breeze through security like it wasn't even there. It's selfish and it's a slap in the face of an organization that is trying to protect you.</font>
Huh? I'm selfish? I guess I am by your definition. Your organization is just trying to protect silly old me.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Do they make mistakes? You bet they do and they try to learn from them just like the rest of you do in your jobs. The difference? Our jobs are very public and yours is not. </font>
Well, yeah. I don't work for the govmint.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I'm sure I could find stupid decisions made by you or your employers but it's not posted here is it? </font>
No, I don't post my stupid decisions on FlyerTalk.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> You can pick on the TSA all you want but in the end, we are all you have to protect you from those who want to kill you. </font>
I don't think anyone wants to kill little old me,
SinJin. You seem very angry and resentful. I am very sorry that you feel this way.
Returning to the thread, my original point is that a union would bring the TSA more into established, permanent fixtures in our lives. The original law for Federal screeners is supposed to be open for overhaul in some years from now.
I am foolish enough to believe that there is a chance of privatizing this absurd new public intrusive police force. A union would make that even more of a distant unlikely reality than it is now. That is what I meant by my original comment.
I have been subject to the best security in places outside of the USA by contractors. I vastly prefer private people pawing through my luggage rather than Feds, if someone has to do it, and there is no reason why that can't be done efficiently by private companies.
Where I live, the people who collect the garbage are private and they do a fabulous job for a reasonable amount of money. If we don't like they, we can sign up with their competition.
The fact is that without competition, TSA is a monopoly. The last thing we need is a union representing this monopoly.
[This message has been edited by richard (edited 01-11-2003).]