Thank you from the TSA

As the TSA Federal Security Director at Denver International Airport and for the other commercial airports in Colorado, I’d like to express my sincere thanks to our hardworking and dedicated team that continued to keep travelers safe throughout the partial government shutdown. Our officers remained focused, professional and ever diligent during a time that was difficult for many of them and their families.

But they didn’t do it alone. They received an unprecedented level of support and encouragement from the airport, airlines, business community and passengers. That support came in the form of donated food, assistance and goods, but it also came in the form of kind words, encouragement and recognition of the importance of officers’ jobs and service.

TSA Colorado is proud to serve travelers every day at DIA and airports across the state. Thank you for making us feel valued and appreciated. employee gets as a perk of working for them. Furthermore, this arrangement does not dictate what employees can or can’t do with their health care. Employees are still free to access care and services — on their own dime, of course — beyond what are covered by their employer-provided health insurance.

As I see it, there are two courses of action here. If you don’t agree with a company’s power to impose a particular set of religious beliefs on its employees — don’t shop there. Second, support access-for-all to public, single-payer health care, which, as a government-provided service would fall under the First Amendment’s mandate separating church and state.