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Re: shuttle disaster



On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:27:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I wonder if the old ones were fired?  Would adequate pay have attracted
> competent workers in the 1st place?  We'll never know...

Not necissarily.  The old ones working for private security agencies
were given preferential hiring with the TSA to stay on that post.  Not
all got hired by the TSA, and the only reason you wouldn't get hired
is if thier testing or your work history showed to them that you just
didn't have your shit together.  The ones not hired by TSA that stayed
with thier private company would have either been assigned to a
different post or laid off if losing the airport contract put them in
an overstaffed situation.  The ones hired by the TSA get to do roughly
the same work, but instead of something around minimum wage with most
security companies, they now do it for $35,000 to $48,000/yr depending
on performance and experiance.

Layoffs in the security industry tend to be done by raising the
performance bar, seniority be damned.  Because of this, I believe
private industry and the airports get better security officers.  This
was a big win for socialisation.

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