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posted by takyon on Monday January 07 2019, @09:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the groped-into-it dept.

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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by richtopia on Monday January 07 2019, @11:13AM (5 children)

    by richtopia (3160) on Monday January 07 2019, @11:13AM (#783115) Homepage Journal

    I am sitting at gate A70 now. Perhaps as the traffic increases security will slow, but for now I did not see any difference in the TSA experience.

    I am nervous for my flight home Friday; another week without pay and a Friday evening departure sounds like a recipe for no TSA agents.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @11:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @11:21AM (#783118)

    Now you see these guys will grope you even for no pay – they just love their work.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 07 2019, @12:20PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 07 2019, @12:20PM (#783131) Journal

    Is that a typo? DTW should be DFW? Or, maybe not - duckduckgo search for "US airport DTW" gives me Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. I learned something!!

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by SomeGuy on Monday January 07 2019, @02:10PM (2 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Monday January 07 2019, @02:10PM (#783169)

    I am nervous for my flight home Friday; another week without pay and a Friday evening departure sounds like a recipe for no TSA agents.

    Why? You have a fear of NOT being groped, prodded, scanned, tracked and inconvenienced?

    People used to fly all the time before the TSA. The few bad things that happened back then are unlikely to happen today due to other changes that have nothing to do with the TSA.

    Fuck TSA.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:06PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:06PM (#783298)

      Wooosh!
      He has a fear of the TSA line being around the block (due to low TSA headcount), and missing his flight because of spending hours in the security line.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @08:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @08:04PM (#783339)

        That isnt what they do. They just do sane security screening like described above (dog + metal detector + short convo). Some airports do this by default and there is no difference in your safety.