Posted on 09/01/2009 6:34:44 PM PDT by luckybogey
President Obama has decided to reduce pay increases for civilian federal workers from 2.4 percent to 2 percent, citing the economic downturn and the ballooning federal budget as reasons for the cut...
President Obama’s Defense Department wants to change, not eliminate, George Bush’s so-called “National Security Personnel System” for DOD civilian workers. The NSPS strips them of all collective bargaining rights, allows bosses to set pay amounts and rates, offers no protection for whistleblowers and eliminates most effective grievance procedures. The administration wants to fix these problems and freeze the NSPS at the current level of 205,000 workers it covers...
The president has overturned a whole series of Bush anti-worker executive orders, substituting for them his own pro-worker orders: These include restoring project labor agreements on federally funded construction, ordering federal agencies to post notices in workplaces that inform workers of their rights, including the right to join unions, and ending the Bush policy of contracting work out to private companies...
“In 2008, the average wage for 1.9 million federal civilian workers was $79,197, which compared to an average $49,935 for the nation’s 108 million private sector workers. The federal advantage is even more pronounced when worker benefits are included. In 2008, federal worker compensation averaged a remarkable $119,982, which was more than double the private sector average of $59,909.”
A 39-page “dimensions” document accompanying the White House’s 1,380-page appendix offers justifications for each new hire. Homeland Security says its new employees will “increase border security.” The Agency for International Development wants to improve “the management and stewardship of foreign assistance programs.” The Smithsonian Institution wants “additional security guards.” And so on…
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Add to that the virtual guarantee of lifetime employment, and one can see why so many are “eager to serve”.
Wow...a reduction: Lowering their wages not 2% but 2.4% Wow, just imagine, at this rate, in 1 trillion years the country will have saved a million dollars.
No, their wages were NOT lowered, only the payraise was lowered—from 2.4 to “only” 2 percent. And at 3 million federal employees...
Not if you build F-22’s.
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