Author: Glenn Thrush / Source: New York Times
Transportation Security Administration agents at Chicago Midway International Airport on Dec. 22, the first day of the government shutdown. Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
Transportation Security Administration workers at several major airports around the country, working without pay since the partial government shutdown began on Dec.
22, have been calling in sick in heightened numbers, according to union and airport management officials.More than 150 T.S.A. employees, many of them responsible for screening passengers, called in on Friday morning at Kennedy International Airport in New York to say they were ill or otherwise unable to work their shifts, according to a union official with knowledge of the situation.
The staffing gap was covered by other officers, who are also working without pay, the person said.
The so-called call-outs have spiked to three times their normal level at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where an average of 25 T.S.A. employees usually call in sick per shift,
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