1. Among those arrested were baggage screeners, people working in aircraft maintenance and cargo loaders. 2. And in his address he urged Congress to approve an airport security measure that has been mired in partisan dispute over whether to make all baggage screeners federal workers. 3. Armed National Guard soldiers will patrol concourses, and in some instances help supervise baggage screeners and search bags. 4. After two years of federalized security, individual airports can opt out of the system and hire private baggage screeners. 5. All baggage screeners, public or private, will have to abide by strict federal standards. 6. But on the matter of federalizing baggage screeners? 7. But they differ on whether to turn baggage screeners into federal employees. 8. Closer inspection of hand-carried luggage by baggage screeners has led to long lines and substantial waits at many airports. 9. Currently, individual airlines are responsible for security and tend to hire low-paid baggage screeners. 10. Current baggage screeners who failed the check would be fired. |