Posted on 01/10/2019 3:22:32 PM PST by Mariner
Some Transportation Security Administration employees are quitting their jobs as the partial government shutdown continues through its third week, leaving more than 800,000 federal employees without a paycheck.
The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union of federal employees, representing about 44,000 TSA workers, says some TSA employees have resigned, and others are considering quitting after working one of the busiest air travel periods of the year without pay.
Every day Im getting calls from my members about their extreme financial hardship and need for a paycheck, said Hydrick Thomas, the unions TSA Council president, in a statement. Some of them have already quit and many are considering quitting the federal workforce because of the shutdown.
Its unclear exactly how many TSA employees have left their jobs since the partial shutdown began on Dec. 22. But a number of workers have described the financial burden the shutdown has thrust upon them as many depend on each paycheck to make ends meet. TSA employees are some of the lowest paid federal workers, and, in interviews with MONEY last week, current employees said they are delaying car and insurance payments, and worried about paying rent and childcare during this shutdown. Employees also said morale among co-workers has hit a new low.
As far as were concerned, a lot of us still live paycheck to paycheck, Victor Payes, a TSA officer based in Los Angeles who represents his colleagues in the union, told MONEY last week. Its hard to plan a budget for these types of crises for any extended period of time.
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Let them quit, that's total bullshit. They haven't missed a paycheck yet until tomorrow............Sheesh!
Winning!
No, I do not believe it. Where else could they get an extra paid vacation for just waiting a while for a paycheck?
You could always return the job to the people who performed it before there was a TSA.
The United States has implemented this type of security in the past, after all.
Dump this redundant agency.
Balony. They will get paid in full when it ends. You know this is more bogus propaganda.
Am I mistaken, tomorrow will be the first day they did not get a check? Do I have that right?
Nobody has missed a paycheck yet..........BS news.......
Haven't missed one yet.
Government workers in danger of a shutdown work stoppage should be smart enough to build a reserve. Anyone with a job should work towards six months socked away in case of hardship. A government worker is not different. They get paid when its over, so its a matter of when not if.
Union says. Word is going out make travelers lives as miserable as possible.
Winning!
I can believe that things are tight for some...but quitting because of the shutdown? I doubt it.
Oh the huge manatee!
Who will grope the grandmas?
There's precedence for this which was explained to me by a close friend who is employed by the TSA in St Petersburg, FL
Ooops...somehow I read “TSA” to be air traffic controllers.
dispatchers, supervising an assembly line come to mind. going to another english speaking countries and getting same job
Or slightly worse that that.
Looks like McDonald’s will have no trouble finding part-time workers this year.
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