Job Cuts Feared Over Port Security ID

[NVMojo]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Cargo industry officials are worried that a federal ID system aimed at boosting security could cost many port workers their jobs, something that would bottle up the flow of goods destined for virtually every U.S. community.

Details of the program - more than three years in the making - are still being worked out. But according to industry officials who have discussed it with the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard, illegal immigrants and people convicted of certain crimes might be barred from the positions they now hold.

At ports, that could mean thousands of people will be out of jobs, including dock workers and truck drivers.

"Of course there are concerns," said Chuck Carroll, executive director of the National Association of Waterfront Employers, a trade group for terminal operators. "You'd have the same number of boxes but fewer people to move them, and that could mean major congestion."

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/invest-corp/2006/apr/21/042106984.html

[Kagemusha]

1. Insert mafia joke here.

(Not even going to make one because people will go ballistic... so use your imagination)

[Robb]

2. We used to call that burying the lede

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Cargo industry officials are worried that a federal ID system aimed at boosting security could cost many port workers their jobs, something that would bottle up the flow of goods destined for virtually every U.S. community.

Details of the program - more than three years in the making - are still being worked out.

Feel safe yet? :eyes: