Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
I'm not sure anyone here is calling for a work stoppage other than saying they could understand the reasoning for such action. I've tried seeing myself in the shoes of the impacted government employees and fully understand the difficulties many are facing.
If 30,000 TSA screeners walked off the job security screenings around the country would be severely impacted and I'm guessing more workers would follow. There is no way that this many employees could be replaced in a manner fast enough to not have a long lasting impact on commercial passenger aviation so I'm not sure any serious punitive action would be taken. But guessing what could happen and taking that step are two different things.
Understood, my intent was not directed at most of the folks here, but more towards agency employees and the Union members that are pushing those employees to take a drastic action like a work stoppage.
Short term solutions are available, and would be able to be implemented probably within 5 days, but the impact would be felt. Most likely it would be damaging to efficiency instead of completely shutting down operations.