Call to Suspend Flights to U.S. after Guards are Filmed Sleeping on the Job (U.K.)

Daily Mail ^ | 3rd June 2007 | MARTIN DELAGO

[DogByte6RER]

This article just leave me speechless...

[DogByte6RER]

A guard reads a paper instead of checking the X-ray machine

[DogByte6RER]

A guard falls asleep at the gate

[DogByte6RER]

Bad snooze: A security supervisor asleep in the boarding gate area

[petitfour]

MS Ping

[csvset]

Do they have a British equivalent to our labor unions? If so, you couldn’t fire that guy. Union workers see sleeping on the job as one of their rights.

[SE Mom]

Wow.

[csvset]

Mate, this Birmingham is in England, not MS.

[petitfour]

MS Ping

[petitfour]

Well, duh. But Bennie is MS’s rep. And Birmingham is in Alabama, not Mississippi.

[BigFinn]

Why should they care? From these photos it appears that all the ‘security people’ were immigrants. My guess is that they hired at the lowest pay to save MONEY.

[Enterprise]

Look on the bright side. At least they’re not doing their shopping from the passengers’ luggage like the TSA does.

[WileyPink]

Mate, this Birmingham is in England, not MS.

No doubt...we still sleep on straw & feather beds and everybody knows that people from Mississippi can't read or use the computer!

[DogByte6RER]

ping

[gas0linealley]

Do they have a British equivalent to our labor unions? If so, you couldn’t fire that guy. Union workers see sleeping on the job as one of their rights.

Those are fighting words, and without merit.

[DTogo]

He said: "If what I saw is the rule of how passenger security is conducted...the flights should be stopped until we get better trained personnel to do the job required to guarantee the safety of passengers."

People in glass houses... As if America's "Homeland Security" (HA!) is any better, in the airports or at the border...

[Live free or die]

I flew from Nashville to Charlotte recently and forgot that I had left my bottle of Bay Rhum in my carry-on. I only remembered after getting through security because in spite of a fluid restriction, no one noticed.

[csvset]

Not with the union workers I've seen in action or inaction. Sleeping while on overtime at that. That's a fact.

United Steelworkers of America (Local 8888), Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard.

Trust me, I do know what I'm talking about here.

I saw it while I was in the Navy and while I worked at the yard as a contractor.

[WileyPink]

Those are fighting words, and without merit.

Sure, just look at the booming economy in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and all those other booming northern union towns. I don't know why we can't get auto makers to come to Mississippi and build new multi-million dollar factories. HMMMMMM!

With due respect, Wiley