A Matter of Public Safety

Democrats are trying to sneak through a bill that will ensure mediocrity and complacency in an area where we can't afford it. WSJ:

Democrats figure they owe Big Labor for helping them take Congress, and now comes the payback. Tucked away in House and Senate bills that purport to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission is a provision that the Commission most assuredly did not recommend: collective bargaining rights for the Transportation Safety Administration's 43,000 airport screeners.

Congress created TSA in 2001 without union rights on common sense grounds that the agency overseeing airport security was more like the Defense Department than, say, Agriculture. Unionization, with its myriad work rules, would make it harder for the executive branch to hire, fire, train and reassign workers to best meet changing terrorist threats.

No way do we want screeners to feel like they work for the union, and not for the public. It's a matter of public safety and we need full flexibility and accountability.