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<blockquote data-quote="unionman" data-source="post: 545855" data-attributes="member: 21107"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px">This week a letter was sent from Airline Division Director David Bourne to Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS, 2nd District) expressing the Directors concerns and strong support for H.R. 2200, the Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act. Congressman Thompson, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, has been a strong proponent and supporter of ensuring that foreign facilities that are being used to service U.S. registered aircraft must be held to the same rigorous security standards as our American facilities. “For U.S. carriers to continue using these offshore facilities employing workers that are not held to the highest security standards and in many cases don’t have the level of training required to do the same job in the U.S., but work for much less than a trained U.S. worker is unconscionable,” said Bourne. “The loopholes in the current U.S. law must be closed, not just for the trained professionals who should be making sure these aircraft are well maintained, but more importantly for the travelling public, flight crews and others who face the potential dire consequences of poorly done work.”</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="unionman, post: 545855, member: 21107"] [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=2]This week a letter was sent from Airline Division Director David Bourne to Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS, 2nd District) expressing the Directors concerns and strong support for H.R. 2200, the Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act. Congressman Thompson, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, has been a strong proponent and supporter of ensuring that foreign facilities that are being used to service U.S. registered aircraft must be held to the same rigorous security standards as our American facilities. “For U.S. carriers to continue using these offshore facilities employing workers that are not held to the highest security standards and in many cases don’t have the level of training required to do the same job in the U.S., but work for much less than a trained U.S. worker is unconscionable,” said Bourne. “The loopholes in the current U.S. law must be closed, not just for the trained professionals who should be making sure these aircraft are well maintained, but more importantly for the travelling public, flight crews and others who face the potential dire consequences of poorly done work.”[/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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