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In reply to the discussion: Obama Levels Cheap Shot At Unions - Again [View all]turbinetree
(24,703 posts)From the very beginning in my career it was about security---always---but now its about costs and this TPP will exacerbate this outsourcing, if I am wrong, I am wrong, but I do not think so, this is going to become and should be an issue for the flying public anyone can write the carrier /FAA and ask how many of there Flag aircraft are outsourced to third party maintenance and what is the record with compliance.
You get the same old song and dance that all the facilities are safe and the work is being done properly---that is not true.
The FAA is short handed it cannot inspect all international and main base facilities, or mainline hubs on the U.S Flag aircraft, it is impossible, and when they do, they notify the carrier in advance when there coming------really as courtesy.
For everyone out there on this thread, realize this, when someone works on a aircraft, there has to be so many technicians for that aircraft and depending on the check being performed, and to have a licensed FAA certificated technician(s) ----but in the outsourced firms this is not happening------its about costs and greed----and the paperwork being signed saying that they are in compliance-----there are not enough FAA inspectors to verify this, this is a fact--------we do not want this agency and what it has to do, to be outsourced----the transparency is gone.
Look no further than North Dakota and what is going on in that state.
They do not have enough federal and state inspectors (2) to check all the rail lines, because of this libertarian / republican AYN RAND concept, that the state should be left alone to check and fund this-------no, but not only hell------no------that state will not hire enough rail inspectors because of the oil and gas industry-------that is outrageous----we have human life and wildlife being placed on the wayside just so that a company and a political action Pac can make money.