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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @02:17PM
A few months ago I was at the Seattle airport and security was really backed up so they just ran a dog past everyone and skipped all the other BS.