and other Airline's hit,things will happen. BTW,TSA is at the mercy of the Airlines.

real soon.

that deal with these issues on a daily basis,you learn damn fast who calls the shots. And if your City has a International Airport,well,you have Secret Service,Marshall Service,TSO's,as well as ICE agents,all not getting paid.

Some of those folks won’t be coming back, and the gaps will need to be filled in by new workers without the years of experience. And all that takes time and resources they don’t have.

many of today's TSO's hired on during the last Recession because they needed a job. And once they finished their Background Checks and completed their Training,they signed on full time and because of Economic Conditions stayed on. And once you establish Seniority,hey,it is like any other job,you can move around the nation or were ever your Seniority takes you. Even though the pay sucks,many of the younger single folks loved it.


Scary thing is,the Economy is going south and Job opportunities are headed in the same direction. At that has the smell of 2006-2008 all over again.


Said this before,when the Airlines say they have seen enough,then this will end.

My big fear is that both the airlines and the administration will see this as an opportunity to push for more privatization of federal jobs.

but,the other is,the TSA could be abolished overnight. Lot of the money to support the TSO's come from ticket Taxes.

Your premise has been kicked around for several years. The TSA Union is run by the Airline Association. The formation of their Union was a joke from the get go. So watch for some ugly crap to come down on the Employees.

Who among the working class can afford to give away their time without pay.

Feeling under the weather, stay home just as long as they need to in order that their co-workers and the flying public don’t get sick.

the drizzling donnie shits.

Best they stay home, it's not like anybody coming here on airlines would overstay their visas or anything like that.

You'd think he was working for a foreign government or something...

...oh yeah...

that the TSA has caught.

Don't get me wrong, I want them to be paid to do their jobs, but that job seems to mostly consist of hassling people who have no possible reason or ability to screw with a flight.

So we can all be more afraid to fly anywhere? So we can find out that more are caught than we thought?

Of course they aren’t going to let the public know.

TSA has found plenty of people trying to board with handguns in their carry-ons. I doubt they were planning an attack on the flight, but who knows after a few drinks?

Link to tweet

A day or two of the airline industry being completely shut down and the rethugs will cave.

to get checked by airport security before boarding the planes! And worse when you have to empty your backpack while others get to finally move on.

It’s gotta be so much worse with the TSA being short handed.

I’m glad not to be traveling now!

Y'all stay warm and hydrated, now.

blame them for calling in sick. At this point they probably figure if they get fired they don't care anyway. Who wants a job that can be strangled every time a toddler has a hissy fit?

next expect to see a line up of airport authorities and airlines pushing for private security.