Letters have been sent, or will be sent shortly, to CNN, the NY Times, the LA Times, 60 minutes, the Wall Street Journal, Whitehouse.gov, asking how a Pilot program that was to last 3 years has lasted almost 8. The letters ask the questions, why and what has prevented TSA from federalizing SFO. SFO is the sixth largest airport in the country. What political connections exist that allow a private contractor to continue to be responsible for security screening. CAS can do everything right, but if a plane goes down flying out of SFO how will TSA justify this arrangement? Why is TSA sticking their necks out for a private contractor? One of these organizations will get to the bottom of this. We would all be better off, salary-wise and benefit- wise, being part of the TSA workforce. It was not the managerial skills of our company that have kept this contract going, it was, and is, the dedication and hard work of the employees.
Good luck to us all!
H.Beale
A blog dedicated to the TSOs, LTSOs, and BDOs at San Francisco International Airport that work for Covenant Aviation Security, LLC (CAS).
Let the discussion begin about federalize SFO workforce.
ReplyDeleteI personally support SFO airport security should be direct supervision of TSA. Having a CAS as a private contractor, it creates bureaucracy between workforce and high management. There is always a way TSA wants to get things done, but CAS policy wants the other. So the workforce kinda caught in between. Homeland Security should be in the hands of federal government. When was the last time you heard about "privatize custom and border patrol", "privatize coast guard" and so on? Almost never! Besides that, being work in a federal government is better for our pensions, benefits, job security,and transfer/promotions? The only people i know would against federalize SFO is the Union. Once SFO security force is federalized, the union can not collect a single dime of dues from the workforce.
So, do we want the better for career wise or keeping let Union to collect dues for our hard earned money?
Not only would the union be against federalization, how do you think our distinguished management team feels? They would be pounding the pavement.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, i don't mind see the entire management team waiting in line @ EDD.
ReplyDeleteRegardless if TSA were to take over, we consider it our mission to send the entire CAS management team to the unemployment line. It's time for a regime change.
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