Flight Attendants Union Upset over New Pat-down procedures

[katty]

more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/lifestyle/travel/flight-attendants-union-upset-over-new-pat-down-procedures

PHOENIX - A flight attendants union with 2,000 members is upset over what it calls "invasive pat-downs" recently implemented by the TSA.

"We're getting calls daily about peoples' experiences, our members are concerned," said Deborah Volpe, Vice President of the Association of Flight Attendants Local 66.

Volpe confirmed that the union is offering advice to its flight attendants, who mostly work for Tempe-based USAirways, involving the security moves.

According to a union email obtained by ABC15, it tells flight attendants if they opt out of using the body scanner through security and

[2Design]

1. it is molestation, rape by government - get their hands and eyes off my body

this is the government that called torture enhanced interrogation - this is molestation and no I am not going to a private area - I would prefer to get someone to film it and use it as evidence that our government is crossing the lines

[katty]

2. yeah, unecessary and has a sick Nazi prison camp undertone

to basically strip searching citizens before they get a on plane.