She created a Facebook page, while her wife has been on the phone to raise awareness and drum up donations for the 55 screeners.
“They haven’t been getting paid. They’ve been coming to work and not getting paid and still doing a good job, and it just isn’t fair,” she said.
Thomas-Karason said it was her wife’s idea, which came to them after watching news reports and a video about a struggling Georgia TSA worker facing eviction.
They reached out to a friend, Justin Spivey, who previously worked as a TSA agent at the Dayton airport. He put them in touch with upper management at the airport.
Kroger and Meijer gift card donations are best, and management plans to go shopping and divide everything equally among the 55 workers, Thomas-Karason said.
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She said they want to make as much of a difference as they can for the screeners.
“Our first goal is to deliver as many donations as we have by this Friday, but I think we plan on doing it as long as the government’s shut down or as long as the TSA workers want or need our help,” she said.
Donations can be dropped off at Spivey’s photography studio, J Spivey Photography, 206. E. National Road in Vandalia.
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