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TSA Workers Are Now Quitting Because of the Government Shutdown, Union Says
Money via Yahoo ^ | January 10th, 2019 | Unattributed

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 I’m getting calls from my members about their extreme financial hardship and need for a paycheck,” said Hydrick Thomas, the union’s TSA Council president, in a statement. “Some of them have already quit and many are considering quitting the federal workforce because of the shutdown.”

It’s 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 we’re 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. “It’s hard to plan a budget for these types of crises for any extended period of time.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: morewinning; shutdown; trump; tsa
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To: 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.

Let them quit, that's total bullshit. They haven't missed a paycheck yet until tomorrow............Sheesh!

21 posted on 01/10/2019 3:33:23 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Mariner

Winning!


22 posted on 01/10/2019 3:33:54 PM PST by fruser1
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To: tcrlaf

No, I do not believe it. Where else could they get an extra paid vacation for just waiting a while for a paycheck?


23 posted on 01/10/2019 3:35:37 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: shelterguy

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.


24 posted on 01/10/2019 3:35:37 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Mariner
Why didn’t we do this years ago?
25 posted on 01/10/2019 3:36:09 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Mariner

Balony. They will get paid in full when it ends. You know this is more bogus propaganda.


26 posted on 01/10/2019 3:36:19 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Mariner

Am I mistaken, tomorrow will be the first day they did not get a check? Do I have that right?


27 posted on 01/10/2019 3:40:08 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Mariner

Nobody has missed a paycheck yet..........BS news.......


28 posted on 01/10/2019 3:41:48 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Mariner
I'm a Federal Employee (VA), and my pay check will be in the bank about midnight tonight.

Haven't missed one yet.

29 posted on 01/10/2019 3:43:25 PM PST by amigatec (2 Thess 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
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To: Mariner

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 it’s over, so it’s a matter of when not if.


30 posted on 01/10/2019 3:43:51 PM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates.)
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To: tcrlaf

Union says. Word is going out make travelers lives as miserable as possible.


31 posted on 01/10/2019 3:44:04 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Mariner

Winning!


32 posted on 01/10/2019 3:44:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner
And what other jobs do the skills that controllers have qualify them for? And IIRC ATCs make pretty good money...I've seen figures in the $80K-$100K a year.

I can believe that things are tight for some...but quitting because of the shutdown? I doubt it.

33 posted on 01/10/2019 3:44:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Mariner

Oh the huge manatee!

Who will grope the grandmas?


34 posted on 01/10/2019 3:45:54 PM PST by Califreak (Your Tagline Here)
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To: Mariner
Here's what's going to happen. The AFGE is going to file a law suit against the government, the judge is going to rule in their favor and all the employees who chose to use their vacation time to cover their layoff will ultimately be paid double time for their time off and able to keep their vacation days for use in the future.......

There's precedence for this which was explained to me by a close friend who is employed by the TSA in St Petersburg, FL

35 posted on 01/10/2019 3:46:16 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Mariner

Ooops...somehow I read “TSA” to be air traffic controllers.


36 posted on 01/10/2019 3:47:54 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Mariner

Bush should have never started this agency.
37 posted on 01/10/2019 3:48:01 PM PST by conservative98
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To: Gay State Conservative

dispatchers, supervising an assembly line come to mind. going to another english speaking countries and getting same job


38 posted on 01/10/2019 3:48:04 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"..they are useless anyway...."

Or slightly worse that that.

39 posted on 01/10/2019 3:48:30 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Mariner

Looks like McDonald’s will have no trouble finding part-time workers this year.


40 posted on 01/10/2019 3:50:04 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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