Unpaid TSA workers face 'exhausting anxiety' during shutdown
USA TODAY
While travelers have been inconvenienced, TSA workers are suffering the brunt of the partial federal government shutdown.
DENVER - Day after day, flight after flight: Cancun. Orlando. Honolulu. Happy families and college students heading off on spring break vacations are being helped every day by 61,000 unpaid TSA workers.
The screeners reminding travelers to remove liquids from their carry-ones? Unpaid.
Those scanning suitcases for guns and knives? Unpaid.
Those comparing IDs to prevent terrorists from boarding? Unpaid.
"We're basically invisible and we can't let you see that our guard is down," said Angela Grana, the Colorado-based regional vice president of the union representing TSA workers at 38 airports across the Rockies. "But we are desperate. The anxiety is exhausting."
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