One month into the federal government shutdown, Richmond International Airport Transportation Safety Administration workers are experiencing a second zero pay period impacting morale and pocketbook.
During the first pay period, the approximately 300 federal employees at RIC (officials from Customs and Border Patrol, Transportation Safety Administration and air traffic controllers) received partial pay. TSA workers are not receiving payment this pay period, however.
While TSA workers at Richmond International Airport would not speak on record about how the federal government shutdown has impacted them, Mac Johnson, local president for American Federation of Government Employees Local 0449 (a union that represents more than 800,000 federal and D.C. government employees) said TSA workers are feeling discouraged…