‘We’re human beings who have to pay bills’: TSA workers protest at PDX, decry ongoing government shutdown

Transportation Security Administration workers are getting paid again, but that doesn’t mean things are back to normal for them.

As the weeks-long partial shutdown of the U.S. government drags on, members of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1127, which represents Portland’s TSA workers, say it’s long past time for Congress to reach a budget deal.

On Monday morning, about half a dozen union members stood in the median of the road in front of the Portland International Airport’s departures area, holding signs that read “Protect us, Respect Us, Pay Us” and “Pay us for our work.”…

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