In any case, good for them!

never heard of calling out to work.

As in ‘the low paid TSA workers said “fuck it”, so they all called out throwing a real wrench in Trumps plan to let this go on forever.’

You get the idea.

... except when Trump speaks. Then we "call out" his stupid lies.

But, either way, the TSA workers are not working. I don't know if Trump can get some scabs to fill in, especially if he can only pay them with promises.

Good luck, to all who are flying somewhere.

I spent too much of my life working for the Feds and yes, it is "calling in sick".

I don't blame them one bit!

I wonder if the Federal employee's Union does any good at all? It seemed to me that they had very limited power when I was employed by them a number of years ago.

Seemed oddly not right (and others appear to agree).

CNN should be more careful, stuff like that distracts.

But their tweet promoting the article says "called in sick" instead.

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The Tweet was probably from an actual CNN employee. Odds are they'll fix it eventually.

She is the one of the two writers listed on the byline and she uses that same phrase in her tweet promoting the article.

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phraseology either.

As well as "stand on line"

It's a regionalism. NBD.

never in the East. But that is fine. I like learning something new.

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smooth.

I just hadn't heard the "calling out sick" variant.

Didn't really have anything else insightful to add to the thread.

they don't do much proofreading before posting these pieces, not even on headlines

Seems to get sloppier all the time.

Check this out:

I haven't heard that phrase anywhere except in the military and in certainly medical circles. "So and so" has "called out sick"

you say to-mah-to... same thing!

Hopefully this is the start of a very blue flu 😷.

Dems should use this opportunity to reform both agencies to avoid racial profiling, sexual assault, and blatant intimidation tactics and abuses of power. Some people get a little bit of power and they abuse people with impunity.

TSA has never caught even one terrorist. But they have let lots of weapons through and failed tests of their screening policies because they are the most useless agency. We need to debunk the myth that the TSA does anything for security. They exist to make white people feel safe watching brown people randomly selected for enhanced stop and frisk.

Truth!!

with turbans and start looking at the ones wearing MAGA hats and other gear not to mention Repugnant Senators and House members.

And thank you.

I'm not brown. But I am a white cis-woman with no after-market upgrades.

I have more than one time had to go through the "We Have a GROIN and CHEST ANOMALY!" Show.

Never had to go through anything like this woman though:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-panty-liner-triggers-a-tsa-pat-down-just-one-step-removed-from-a-pap-smear/2017/03/30/ec86c10c-154d-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d9df85a1baa1

it's disgusting. Attractive women are the other group their officers like to "randomly select" for enhanced screening for reasons that have nothing to do with security.

The Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute...does not grant this right (the right to strike) to federal employees. In fact, the Statute specifically excludes from the definition of "employee" those persons who engage in a workplace strike. It specifies that it is an unfair labor practice for labor unions to call or participate in a strike or a work stoppage that interferes with the operation of a federal agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_Labor-Management_Relations_Statute

That being said, there are other things they can do, like calling in sick, a la "blue flu".

indefinitely without a paycheck. You'd probably have a hard time finding an unpaid federal worker who thinks the border wall is worth it, but apparently that's what "they" are telling Trump. Does he honestly think anyone believes that?

News reports said last week's paycheck was issued. The next one is next week's, and the problem is that the hours for the prep work and funds for that one aren't there.

What's left is that they're calling in sick because they're told they won't get paid next week for what they're doing this week.

Let them call in sick. They're their sick days. They won't have them later if they do get sick and should have their pay docked. Of course, it punishes their supervisors for something the supervisors have no control over, but since when do we punish the guilty when we can punish those present?

As for public workers trying to lobby the public for the workers' good, that's true of any strike. But when it's government employees ...

If he's just *itching* for a terrorist attack ("C'mon in boys!" ) figuring he'll blame the Democrats for it if it does happen.

Takes lots of advance planning and getting various agencies on board, and issuing documents to explain it ahead of time and all. No, Trump can't pull it off. He probably hasn't even read Project for a New American Century docs. Cause, you know, he doesn't read.

somehow we have to build this stupid wall.

But it's okay to make air travel less secure, even though known terrorists have already breached security in the past and the TSA was put in place to prevent that.

I mean who else do we know that would use a phony health problem to keep from, oh that's right. Never mind.

Trump has all the best support from all federal workers. I mean he had all those skinheads up there talking about how great trump was and how important the wall is....just can’t be...

employer require people to work without pay? Is there a legal basis that has been challenged before that allows the federal government to do this?

I made a few posts to this effect last week.

I know people were TSA screeners. They don’t make much and the rules are real tight. And they all have the highest level background checks making the highly employabile.

It won’t take long for them to start quitting in droves.

This will catch the Senates attention.

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Maybe the Trumpsters would get scared enough to want the shutdown to stop.