(Cleveland) - The Federal Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is playing musical jobs across the country, which will end in a reduction of TSA staff at Cleveland's Hopkins-International Airport.
Congress puts a limit on total TSA personnel numbers, requiring the agency to move employees from one airport to another to accentuate security levels.
In this case, TSA has informed Hopkins International administrators that they will pull the equivalent of either ten full time jobs or twenty part time jobs from Cleveland, as part of a nationwide effort to build up personnel at large hub airports. Those smaller metro airport jobs will be headed to places like Dulles in Washington, D.C., Chicago's O'Hare International, Atlanta, Miami, and LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York City.
There are currently 300 TSA personnel in Cleveland. In comparison, Chicago O'Hare currently employees ten times that number.
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