<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SEA_Tigger:
My beef is with the policies being generated and handed down to the screeners.
From what you are saying, UnknownScreener, it appears that while the uniforms will be changing, the policies those uniforms are enforcing will not be. Nor will the people drafting those policies.
If that truly is the case, then it's another 600 or so letters expressing my displeasure with the policies and those who draft them (but not those who enforce them).</font>
Thats exactly what is going to happen. They will revert to private security companies, who will retain the current screeners as they are in place and trained to TSA standards. The screening managers and above will remain at each airport to ensure that TSA policies are being followed. Those will be the only TSA employees at each airport.
This should not surprise anyone as this is exactly what the Republicans wanted to do right after 9/11. Increased federal oversight of existing screeners. Of course the contracts will be awarded and paid for by the TSA so costs will more than likely go up instead of down since the contractor now has to make a profit, that profit coming from the taxpayer. Screener pay will remain the same and benefits will be similar. This will be done to prevent screeners abandoning their positions leaving airports without screeners thus bringing the airlines down with them. Hopefully they will do better by the current screeners than they did by the previous ones. They were lied to and promised bonuses to stay on the job until the TSA was in place. Then they were not paid the bonuses in many cases.
Pandoras box has been opened and cannot be closed again....
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[This message has been edited by The Unknown Screener (edited 10-16-2003).]