cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26471893
Summary
Trump is revoking collective bargaining rights at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), ending union protections for thousands of airport security officers.
The Department of Homeland Security claims the move will improve efficiency and security, but unions argue it is a retaliatory attack on federal workers.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) plans to challenge the decision. TSA workers fear the rollback will worsen working conditions and retention.
The policy reverses union rights granted under Obama and expanded by Biden.
You want to piss off employees who keep terrorists, drugs, and weapons out of the country?
On second thought… yes, he does, because he isn’t working for Americans.
Except the TSA has never shown to be remotely effective at doing any of that.
I’m of the opinion that the TSA should probably be abolished, but keeping it while abusing its employees is the worst of both worlds…
So, we’d all be OK if these 6,000+ loaded firearms PER YEAR were allowed to pass through unchecked?
There’s always room for improvement, but the idea that everything needs to be abolished, rather than improved, seems crazy.
Considering the TSA frequently fails up to up to 95% of tests, I’m going to guess the number of uneventful loaded firearms on planes is much higher.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220128030412/http://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/minneapolis-airport-tsa-fail
🫢 Like I said, room for improvement.
But context matters:
So your run of the mill bad guy isn’t going to sneak by so easily. And one can only imagine that most bad guys aren’t some elite team of security experts… Unless they are in a Hollywood movie.
There is no way to quantify the number of attacks that would have happened without the TSA. “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. The TSA is a very effective deterrent.