Anyone who calls in sick now that the TSA folks are actually, you know, missing a paycheck (up til now it has all been theater) should be fired. The news reports of their agents suddenly being evicted or having to donate plasma are crap,
If you are an “Essential Worker” then you need to show up or be fired. Period. It’s a part of the game. Part of your terms of employment.
They only missed being paid, only didn’t get a paycheck, last Friday, so it isn’t like they have not been paid for weeks or months…they’ve missed a few days. And they knew it was coming. The news reports of their agents suddenly being evicted or having to donate plasma are crap,
And make no mistake, the TSA management is part of this “Sick-Out” bullshit. They know what is going on and are actually encouraging it, even if only by tolerating the behavior. They want long lines at airports and are hoping to close a major airport in order to make things as painful as they can for the public in order to get their funding restored as quickly as possible. They too should be fired for this allowing this crap.
When one third or more of the TSA workforce decides to suddenly call in sick (it is, apparently normal for 3-5% to be out on any given day) that is a job action, and it is illegal.
At this point, the TSA folks are breaking the law. If they can’t show up for work, then they should be fired at a minimum.
Their aim is, apparently, to have enough TSA “agents” call off in a single day that they ca shut down a major airport to force their funding being restored by making life as miserable as possible for the people they are supposed to be serving.
If the agency is truly “Essential”, then the management and our government needs to act like it, and enforce attendance. If they aren’t gonna do that, then we can see, they are demonstrating, that the TSA really isn’t “Essential”.
Anything else is just playing games.
Enough of this bullshit. Allowing these folks to stay home and to excuse that behavior is as false as the stupidity during the last two budget battles when the Parks Department coned off scenic overlooks and closed parks that never had Park Rangers before the budget battle just to inconvenience tourists and make the public as unhappy as possible. This TSA theater is the same sort of thing.
“Essential” or not. Get in or get out. Decide.
Simple as that.
