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Wellstone ruled

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7. There are stories

Reply to HassleCat (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:00 PM

Jun 2015

circulating amongst various TSA groups,that all this garbage about failure rates is to set the agency up for Privatization and taken over by Securitas of Switzerland. Stories about lousy or zero training and up training are very true. Turn over is going through the roof and good old Delta is loving it.

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