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Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports

posted by takyon on Monday January 07 2019, @09:11AM   
from the groped-into-it dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.

The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight. "This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.

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• Fear keeps the citizens in line Fear keeps the citizens in line (Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Monday January 07 2019, @03:03PM (1 child)

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Monday January 07 2019, @03:03PM (#783194) Journal

  Lack of money is a serious illness

  So is doing a phony-baloney job that accomplishes nothing it is advertised to accomplish, while at the same time serving as a form of agitprop designed to put inappropriate fear into the minds of the citizens it abuses.

  It would have been lovely if they'd simply armored the cockpits, provided an in-cockpit bathroom, a separate entrance to the cockpit from outside, replaced the passenger-area-to-cockpit area doors and passenger-area-to-cockpit comms with a solid bulkhead and a couple of buttons that fired off "in-flight-emergency, land now" and "passenger area good to go" indicators.

  Because that would have (a) solved the actual problem that 9/11 brought to the fore (hijackers using passengers as hostages to force the plane to go wherever and/or the pilots otherwise being compromised), and (b) not turned into an ongoing labor and financial drain on the country.

  But no. We got these useless, fear-inspiring drones instead.

  --
  Deceiving the young "to make them happy" conditions
  them to deceive others "to make them happy."

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• Re:Fear keeps the citizens in line (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:56PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:56PM (#783332)

  That should tell you something about the true purpose of what is actually done, no matter what pretenses the gaslighting assholes sell it under.

  When it comes to the gaslighting asshole masters of the universe, never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.

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