TSA says rule change is meant to keep officers ‘alert’, but union says it ignores safety and ‘common decency’
US airport security officers who verify boarding passes and IDs ahead of security checkpoints will no longer be allowed to sit down while working.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was moving forward with this change in policy to keep officers “alert”, the agency confirmed recently.
The American Federation of Government Employees Council (AFGEC), the union representing TSA officers, pushed back on this decision and said in a statement that it was not involved in the decision.
“These chairs serve as basic ergonomic and safety support for officers that stand and walk on hard surfaces all day,” the union added. “TSA is treating this matter like it is a privilege – it is not; it is basic safety and common decency for the workforce.”
Additionally, the union is calling the TSA’s move a “disregard for employee rights and safety”.
Great, let’s make the people who hold our lives and futures in their hands furious and uncomfortable before we even talk to them. What could possibly go wrong?
they dont hold our lives in their hands, they are security theatre. They were tested in 2015 and they failed to detect mock guns and bombs in 67 out of 70 tests. They are utterly useless and expensive.
Yes they’re security theatre, but they still have guns and authority over us, even if they’re ineffective. I don’t know about you, but I act very differently around people carrying guns, especially those with the legal authority to use them without consequence.
They definitely do hold our lives in their hands, in that they can completely ruin (or end) anyone’s life by simply using their authority.
TSA dont carry guns. Attempts to let them carry guns have been rejected. Because they are untrained and not hired for their smarts. They are classified as security screeners not “sworn officers”. AKA, security guards doing “security” theater. To join TSA you need a GED and be over 18, and theres not a lot else.
I’m pretty sure the goal is to make people not want to fly. Making it harder to travel long distances in short timespans makes it harder to organize large national-scale movements/organizations.
I mean, the TSA has literally cause far more dead Americans than the 9/11 hijackers. I wouldn’t give them much credit.
How so? I was under the impression that the whole agency could be replaced with cardboard cutouts and nothing would really change except getting on planes might be smoother lol.
Tsa is bullshit made off the fear of 9/11. They should be fired and dissolved. We don’t need them.
Uh…. Fuck the motherfucking TSA what the fuck?
No argument here. The TSA are security theater. They don’t actually keep us safe, and their jobs are more or less pointless, but they still hold immense power over us. I personally want the people who have the authority to throw me in a box for no reason to at least have basic rights themselves (like chairs at work), so they can’t use the lack of those things as reasons for treating the rest of us even worse than they already do.
They’ve definitely re-upped their efforts to make federal workers want to quit in the past few weeks. There’s a pay freeze planned for next year (luckily inflation is so low /s) and, at my agency, they added a cap to performance evaluations limiting the number of positive reviews managers can give. They can give as many negative reviews as they want. Performance reviews affect bonuses, promotions, and a bad one can be a pretext for firing.
That’s federal government wide. As I heard it, the cap is that only 40% of the entire federal workforce can receive a 5 in any category on performance evals. Luckily for me, my worksite just got a 14.5% special rate table approved 6ish months ago, so the 0% raise will still hurt, but not as bad as it will for everyone else.
I really hate the “customer service orientation” of certain professions. Like I want them to be efficient and thorough, but I don’t care about how they appear/act etc as long as they aren’t raging dicks.
Damn, TSA agents are now going to be treated the same as your average supermarket cashier. The inhumanity.
Cashiers do more for us than the tsa.
This is already how it works at SeaTac airport. The only person I ever see sitting there is the person running the xray machine
They might as well be ones. Hate when they decide it’s time to touch my ass and dick.
TSA are as alert as their paycheck dictates. I told both TSA and CBP that I was attending a meeting for three weeks, so my tourist visa was fine. It was an obvious lie, and they obviously didn’t care. (It was before I got my C1/D).
“Business and meetings” is the magic phrase for when you haven’t gotten around to sorting out a work visa before hand. Take away their chair or any other source of work place comfort, and chances are they’ll care even less.
Show them the Epstein files, in full and unredacted, and they’ll do it!
Remember that these are the people who want you working into your 70s and 80s.
This is how I know my side lost the plot. FUCK THE TSA. Yall shouldn’t be in here acting upset or worse, scared, that the tsa won’t have resources. The TSA was made off the fear of 9/11. They should be dissolved. But it’s because dumb fuck republicans are accidentally doing it yall want to pretend that’s a good agency. Dumb fucks everywhere.
