First on CNN: Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports
Washington (CNN)Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.
The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight.
"This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.
At New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, as many as 170 TSA employees have called out each day this week, Thomas tells CNN. Officers from a morning shift were required to work extra hours to cover the gaps.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/04/politics/shutdown-tsa-screening/index.html?utm_content=2019-01-04T21%3A11%3A53&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social
Trump is shutting down the government over a fake national security issue and creating an actual national security issue.
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...but there's nothing illegal about catching a cold, or about being so worn out by worrying on how to make ends meet that your workrate slows down to a crawl...
Even YEARS!
