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Senate Democrats want to give Transportation Security Administration employees collective-bargaining power. Apparently their solution to recent TSA failures is to make incompetent employees even harder to fire. Last October, TSA screeners at Newark Airport failed 20 of 22 undercover security tests in a week (though many dangerous sets of tweezers were confiscated). The Democrats’ plan to grant TSA employees broad new protections would only make matters worse. Firing unionized federal workers is so difficult that the inept ones stick around forever. Such inflexibility should not be imposed on the agency tasked with protecting Americans from airplane hijackings. If the Republicans were doing this kind of favor for one of their biggest campaign contributors, the Democrats would be screaming about the “culture of corruption.” Now that the majority’s on the other foot, we’re supposed to believe that this sop to organized labor is merely part of the Democrats’ historic concern for the working man. We’ll believe that . . . when tweezers fly.

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