TSA agents are losing their checkpoint chairs in a controversial new move

The new TSA standing rule at airport security checkpoints applies only to ID-check officers as the union warns of foot and back health risks for workers.

TSA says rule change is meant to keep officers ‘alert’, but union says it ignores safety and ‘common decency’ US airport security officers who verify boarding passes and IDs ahead of security checkpoints will no longer be allowed to sit down while working. The Transportation…