<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by richard:
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.
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While I do not know which side I fall on regarding unionizing, I do know that if my garbageman forgets to pick up my garbage or does it wrong, the results are somewhat less consequential than the work of the TSA screeners.
Your comparison is flawed.