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• Now SF Mayor, Lurie Unveils Emergency Plans to Tackle Drug, Homelessness Crises

• 2 dead and more than 1,000 homes, businesses, other buildings destroyed in L.A. County fires

• Immigration enforcement operations taking place in Bakersfield area, local officials say

So much unfortunate news these days. As of this writing, the world is on notice. The countdown to the transition of presidents and incoming administration has a lot of people concerned.

Meanwhile, I much like the rest of ‘Murica’ just been trying to focus on surviving the daily life that hasn’t changed much since the pandemic. My writing has slowed down a lot because… well…that’s what the “powers that be” want.

So the “writing Gods” want me to share this information from a press release:

Security Screeners Hold Action at SFO to Demand Pay Raise that is Being Withheld and Millions in Back Pay. TSA screeners will be joined by San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan to raise attention to the unfair treatment by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Yes, the people that look at your IDs and look through your bags at the airport.

Yes, the same TSA agents that take your lighters, corkscrews, rummage through the lost and found to take items you can’t travel with home with them. The very same.

“The screeners, who work for a contractor called Covenant and are members of Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West (SEIU-USWW), will be picketing and leafleting passengers to bring attention to the continued inequities and mistreatment of screeners who work for contractors of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)” according to the press release. Depending on the region and the level of security clearance, TSA officers make $26.93 to $33.32 per hour. I naturally have questions about what happens when the workers who have not been compensated for their efforts to serve the people. I am the host of a podcast called “I Have Questions” so it makes sense.

In some respects, this work action looks to be the answer to that question. Maybe in the near future, we will have less “hot labor summers”.