For the second time in five months, many TSA officers at Tampa-area airports are working shifts without a paycheck after Department of Homeland Security funding lapsed. As they keep screening passengers, union volunteers and local food banks have scrambled to get them groceries, gas cards, and toiletries so they can juggle rent, utilities, and other bills. The short-term aid is being handed out at Tampa International, St. Pete–Clearwater, and Lakeland as airport leaders try to head off major weekend delays.
Union Shops Groceries To Keep Officers Afloat
Joseph Groover, first vice president of AFGE Local 556, has been leading grocery runs straight to TSA checkpoints and says the goal is to “make sure coworkers don’t carry the burden alone,” as reported…..