Issues mounting for TSA officers working without pay amid partial shutdown

TSA workers at BWI-Marshall Airport facing hardships amid partial shutdown

The head of unionized Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport said they are struggling as the partial government shutdown continues. Mac Johnson, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 0449, said the workers are beginning to struggle. “It’s not that these employees and their families are hungry. They’re beginning to starve,” Johnson said. “Literal…

Issues mounting for TSA officers working without pay amid partial shutdown

Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport looked like a typical Tuesday afternoon from the public's perspective.

Transportation Labor Demands Pay for TSA Officers Now

WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement condemning the failure of the federal government to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers (TSOs) for nearly 40 days:  “Each day that TSA officers’ paychecks are withheld further compromises the safety and security of our national airspace. The chaos ensuing in …