I am assuming that he meant airport security. Many do not realize that those rent-a-cops were IN FACT government employees prior to 911. Airlines do not provide security the airports do. Airports are governmental entities and they have farmed out security to a few security firms. The real fact is that Bush did NOT want to federalize the security workers in the first place. He wanted to establish federal guidelines to standardize the national network. He lost, and rather than not do anything he signed the bill that federalized security. The situation as it now stands is that airport security will be under the Homeland Defense agency and he is threatening a veto of the HSA act if he does not get relief in weakening civil service protections for all employees within that agency.
If it was something he wasn't even lobbying for, and just incidental, that leads further ammo to my question of why the author of the article suggested that something like hiring baggage handlers makes Bush a New Deal Democrat.
Only constructive criticisms based on actual facts and faults leads to any good.