Originally Posted by
deltabound
The TSA is currently non-union. This is likely to change over the next 3 years. Once it does, you can be sure that they'll negotiate far, far better salaries. They will use the same argument that pilots do ("awesome responsibility", "stressful", "zero mistakes" and all that), and I suspect it will be successful.
Then a contracting company will come in and say they can do it at a lower rate. Allllll because the screeners didn't have a tight enough scope. Sound familiar?