TSA GROPES FLEET AND CUSTOMER SERVICE DAILY

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Just cannot let the TSA be soley for FA and Pilots. We, the employee groups from fleet baggage and customer service are also the victims of this groping. They set up behind the doors we enter every day and usually about 5-10 minutes prior to hundreds of employees trying to swipe through secure doors while running for the Work Brain clock. There is no screen, they take your badge number, go through your belongings and make you stand on a mat with two yellow footprints for you to place your feet in. Next step, arms straight out from your sides and the patting begins, between your legs, your chest, your arms and your legs....MANY ARE LATE CHECK INS as there is no way to make the time clocks---that are few and far between. I must say, it is very disturbing...dare you act up or say something and your SIDA badge will be turned off and you willl not be able to work.
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE???
Next on to your gate where they set up a table to inspect random passengers which ultimately causes flight delays. They are everywhere, I mean everywhere.
Is there no justice for airline workers anymore? Who gives these orders to rape us daily? I think someone should try and pass a bill to stop this behavior.
 
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This HAS TO STOP. If they are touching "your junk" or anything else that would be assault on the street a leo needs to be contacted & the tso arrested & taken out.

As for our union(s) where the hell are they ? I pay dues & expect to see something about this.
 
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You cant fight the TSA. Senators and Congressman have tried and failed.
 
You cant fight the TSA. Senators and Congressman have tried and failed.
USAPA and Sullenberger did, and won. ONEPASS. Call Sullenberger for an endorsement of your cause. Airline workers have all been screened. We all need to be exempted from this harassment meant to give the appearance of safety and tying up our time.
 
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Actually it was ALPA, they gained a modification of the policy.

Release #10.048
November 19, 2010

ALPA Welcomes New TSA Screening Procedures for Pilots
Hails Commitment to Phase in CrewPASS Nationally

WASHINGTON–The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), today welcomed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announcement of expedited screening for airline pilots as important action to move the nation toward a threat-based strategy that focuses security resources where the risk is highest and away from a one-size-fits-all approach.

“Airline pilots are trusted security partners, given the level of background checks they must satisfy as part of employment and the responsibility they have for the safe operation of the flight,” said Capt. John Prater, ALPA’s president. “We appreciate the TSA’s recognition of this partnership with new procedures that will provide a higher level of security throughout the system while moving pilots efficiently through screening checkpoints.”

ALPA has long advocated a threat-based approach to aviation security that focuses limited screening resources on individuals about whom little or nothing is known while accurately identifying trusted travelers such as airline pilots and allowing them to be screened appropriately.

ALPA proposed the creation of a highly secure and effective security screening system that would quickly and accurately verify the identity and employment status of active airline pilots. As a result, ALPA’s Crew Personnel Advanced Screening System (CrewPASS) program would identify individual pilots as trusted and, as a result, enhance the overall security of air travel and reduce passenger delays.

In today’s announcement, the TSA acknowledged ALPA for developing the CrewPASS concept and committed to phasing in CrewPASS nationally. The CrewPASS system is currently operating at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International, Pittsburgh International, and Columbia Metropolitan airports.


“Airline pilots across this country are gratified by TSA’s announcement of new procedures and its commitment to implement the CrewPASS enhanced pilot screening program nationwide as critical steps to making our air transportation system more secure for everyone,” concluded Prater.

Founded in 1931, ALPA is the world’s largest pilot union, representing nearly 53,000 pilots at 38 airlines in the United States and Canada. Visit the ALPA website at www.alpa.org.
 
Actually it was ALPA, they gained a modification of the policy.

Sure, ALPA developed the system and let it all but die on the vine for lack of cojones.

It was the CAPA airlines that got TSA to actually start to implement the system on a nationwide basis, rather than just the three "test" airports that have been in the "test" mode for years with no end in sight thanks to ALPA's ineffectiveness.
 
Why would I not doubt that :rolleyes: the union needs to step up to the plate.

Regardless, President Barack Obama and his political appointees have been agitating to unionize the TSA since January 2009. In Senate testimony last December, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., that she supported collective bargaining for the TSA, even after DeMint said every previous Homeland Security administrator had opposed it on security grounds. This suggests that Napolitano’s primary concern is not security, but rather keeping Obama’s union allies — who contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to him and his party — in line for the 2012 campaign.

If each of the TSA’s 50,000 employees pays $50 a month, that’s $30 million a year in new dues revenue that will likely go to one of the two large federal employee unions vying to represent the TSA, the American Federation of Government Employees or the National Treasury Employees Union. Between them, the unions presently represent about 750,000 federal workers. AFGE is affiliated with AFL-CIO, which joined forces with SEIU to spend $88 million electing Democrats in the midterm elections. NTEU’s political action committee spent $577,597 in the 2010 election cycle, 97 percent of which went to Democrats.

LINK http://itmakessenseblog.com/2010/11/19/unionizing-tsa-employees-compromises-security/