Syracuse’s airport will hold a food drive this week to support air traffic controllers and TSA agents who have worked without pay since the federal government shutdown began Oct. 1.

The Syracuse Regional Airport Authority said it decided to collect food in response to requests from Central New Yorkers who wanted to know how they could help nearly 200 federal employees at the airport.

The unpaid workers include 24 air traffic controllers at Syracuse Hancock International Airport who have been working mandatory overtime shifts, six days per week and 10 hours per day, syracuse.com | The Post-Standard reported Monday .

The shutdown has placed unprecedented stress on the understaffed controllers, who are working at 54 percent of their authorized capacity, according to the National Air T

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