Privatizing Airport Security: A Recipe for Disaster The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Gold+ program, which aims to privatize security checkpoints at three airports, has sent shockwaves through the labor union representing TSA workers.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is sounding the alarm over this new initiative, warning that it will compromise the safety and security of the traveling public.
Congress created the TSA in response to devastating terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.