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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.
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Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 07 2019, @02:44PM
Why? Its original meaning was specific to a discrete situation, the context of which is now mostly forgotten dust. They're still perfectly good words whose most obvious interpretation is quite useful though. It really doesn't matter much to me if Benji gets erroneous credit for wisdom this long after he died.
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