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AFGE Applauds Bill to Provide Federal Employees with 3.3% Pay Raise in 2015
American Federation of Government Employees ^ | American Federation of Government Employees

Posted on 05/24/2014 9:08:39 AM PDT by mdittmar

Bill by Sens. Schatz, Cardin would provide federal employees with fair increase

WASHINGTON – American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. today applauded legislation introduced by Sens. Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Ben Cardin of Maryland to provide federal employees with a 3.3 percent pay raise in 2015.

“Federal employees have seen their standard of living deteriorate in recent years due to a three-year pay freeze, unpaid furloughs, and higher retirement contributions for newer workers,” Cox said. “This legislation by Sens. Schatz and Cardin would help federal employees recoup some of that lost income and ensure the government is able to recruit and retain the high caliber workers that taxpayers expect.”

The Senate legislation is a companion to a House bill introduced in March by Reps. Gerry Connolly and Jim Moran of Virginia.

The Obama administration has proposed a 1 percent pay raise for federal employees in 2015, a pitiful increase in light of how much federal employees have sacrificed these past few years. Federal employee wages were frozen for three straight years. New federal employees are paying between four and six times as much for their retirement without getting anything in return. Roughly 750,000 federal employees lost up to a week of pay last year due to sequestration-related furloughs, costing them $1 billion in lost salary.

“Federal employees are on the hook for $138 billion in lost earnings thanks to years of policies that put slashing the deficit ahead of creating new jobs,” Cox said. “A 3.3 percent increase would provide employees with a fair and meaningful raise for the first time this decade.”

The bill would apply the 3.3 percent raise both to General Schedule employees and hourly workers under the prevailing wage system.


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Well,we are their boss,and seeing as we are 17,488,395,174,401.72 trillion dollars in debt.I would have to say,sorry,we're broke.
1 posted on 05/24/2014 9:08:39 AM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

They will cut military pay and benefits and defense spending enough to make sure these union workers can get their 3.3% increase.


2 posted on 05/24/2014 9:20:52 AM PDT by ImNotLying (The Right To Bear Arms: Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless!)
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To: mdittmar

Every stinking ‘federal brat and bratess’ that works for all those lovely IRS, ATF, USDA, V.A. and TSA agencies, just squealed while at the teat, that YOU, John/Jane Q. Public, are forced to pay, to support.


3 posted on 05/24/2014 9:28:38 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: mdittmar

Cut all non-military salaries 20%.

All I want is the hankie franchise - ‘cause Libtards will be buying lots of them to wring and stomp on.


4 posted on 05/24/2014 9:34:26 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: mdittmar

My company has had 4 record-breaking years in a row for profitability, yet the hourly employees have received 1.5% TOTAL since 2008—and we’re doing better than just about any other hourly, non-federal employee in this city.

Giving raises to any federal employee is a kick in the face to all taxpayers.


5 posted on 05/24/2014 9:45:42 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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Before the pols reform military pay and benefit they first should look at Federal Employees...Theirs is much larger than the military's could ever be.

Unions can go to hell. They only exist to protect the incompetent.


6 posted on 05/24/2014 9:55:07 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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The company I work for is doing well,best 1st quarter ever,will probably get 2% raise next year.

That's fine,and not one taxpayer dollar needed.

7 posted on 05/24/2014 9:55:31 AM PDT by mdittmar
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To: GladesGuru

They are already doing that for the Border Patrol and other immigration enforcement agencies.


8 posted on 05/24/2014 10:08:35 AM PDT by Ajnin (Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.)
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To: mdittmar

They almost all get performance bonuses too!


9 posted on 05/24/2014 10:13:00 AM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Bryanw92
Neither MGD nor I have seen a raise in many many years. Pay cuts, yes....raises, no. Pension? Forgeddaboutit. Happy to be employed, nonetheless.

If federal employees had even a smidgen of a taste of real life, they'd never be able to handle it.

10 posted on 05/24/2014 10:36:06 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (No Mo (zilla). I'm going to the Opera instead.)
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Appointed Senator Schatz from the Socialist Republic of Hawaii is doing what he was sent there to do - take care of the unions, screw the country.
11 posted on 05/24/2014 10:49:56 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: mdittmar

it is a conflict of interest for government employees to be unionized


12 posted on 05/24/2014 11:08:45 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: Bryanw92

I was pondering this today, I had a job for a time in college which paid 10.00 an hour. This was the late 70’s and good pay, that pay now is considered above average pay for many, is truly amazing given the cost of living increases over that time period.


13 posted on 05/24/2014 11:41:52 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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Heaven forbid federal employees see their “standard of living deteriorate”...

(expressive colorful metaphors self-censored...use your imagination)

I gotta go yell at something now...


14 posted on 05/24/2014 1:58:50 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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