TSA officers are about to have a lot more in common with gym teachers, actually, when they unionize. You knew they would, right? Despite the claims of the original architects of the sodden, hapless Homeland Security Department — Federalizing airport security will make us safer! The disaster of 9/11 was the result of insufficient federal regulation! — the waddling classes that make up the Transportation Security Administration have been authorized by an act of the Pelosi Congress to organize into a union. Like teachers. Or post-office workers. Except with rubber gloves and a license to probe.
It’s not about job security. As long as the dusty slums of Somalia and Pakistan keep steeping their young folk in crackpot theology — and they show no signs of letting up — we’re all going to be pulling out our laptops and taking off our shoes and submitting to the glove. Unlike, say, auto workers, who face international competition and shrinking margins, TSA employees face an almost unlimited future of expanded opportunity. What unionization represents for them — as it represents for gym teachers everywhere — is impunity. Work-performance standards that make them unfireable, blameless, and unaccountable. A culture of entitlement—to breaks, to retirement benefits, to freedom from customer complaints or market forces.
It’s not about job security. As long as the dusty slums of Somalia and Pakistan keep steeping their young folk in crackpot theology — and they show no signs of letting up — we’re all going to be pulling out our laptops and taking off our shoes and submitting to the glove. Unlike, say, auto workers, who face international competition and shrinking margins, TSA employees face an almost unlimited future of expanded opportunity. What unionization represents for them — as it represents for gym teachers everywhere — is impunity. Work-performance standards that make them unfireable, blameless, and unaccountable. A culture of entitlement—to breaks, to retirement benefits, to freedom from customer complaints or market forces.
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