Posted on 03/20/2015 12:17:17 PM PDT by mdittmar
Federal employees would see 5.5% pay cut under proposal, AFGE president says
WASHINGTON – Federal employees would be on the hook for billions of dollars in cuts to their take-home pay and benefits under a budget plan issued today by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. said.
“Senate leaders have doubled down on the vicious budget cuts proposed a day earlier by their House colleagues,” President Cox said. “Their vision for the future means more financial pain and sacrifice for millions of hard-working Americans who serve the public day in and day out.”
Both the Senate and House budgets for fiscal 2016 would require federal employees to contribute substantially more of their wages toward their retirement without getting any additional benefits in return. This would result in a 5.5 percent cut in salary for most current employees.
That 5.5% pay cut would mean a $1,757 per year loss for a nursing assistant caring for veterans at the Sheridan VA Medical Center in Sen. Enzi’s home state of Wyoming.
“If Chairman Enzi wants to talk about helping working class people with a straight face, he needs to explain how someone caring for our nation’s wounded warriors is supposed to support his or her family when their senator is so focused on cutting their pay,” Cox said.
“Federal employees already have seen their wages and benefits slashed by nearly $160 billion under the guise of fiscal austerity,” Cox added. “When is enough going to be enough?”
“Slashing the wages and benefits of government employees who have devoted their lives to serving the public isn’t a plan for growing the economy. On the contrary, it’s a sure-fire way to lower the living standards for working class people who have already paid a steep price during the economic recession,” Cox said.
Well,when the American Federation of Government Employees is no more would work for me.
> Federal employees would see 5.5% pay cut under proposal, AFGE president says
The worst part will be mathematical — they’ll try to do 5.5 percent less work.
Union lobbyist who worked one day as a teacher suing Illinois over $30,000 pension
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3270206/posts
Sure 5.5% less than the 10% raise they expected. Here’s betting the net is still an increase
Inside the Beltway math you know.
“If Chairman Enzi wants to talk about helping working class people with a straight face, he needs to explain how someone caring for our nation’s wounded warriors is supposed to support his or her family when their senator is so focused on cutting their pay,” Cox said.
Hey there President Cox!
The Feral Government slashes my pay by about $30,000 dollars every year.
I wouldn’t support a pay cut for the nursing assistant at the Wyoming VA, but strongly support firing the entire staff at the IRS, EPA, Education Department, Energy Department, HHS, Valerie Jarrett, Moochelle’s staff, and anyone associated with Obamacare.
It’s never a real ‘cut’. It’s always a smaller increase than the Democrats wanted, a 5% increase versus a ten percent increase, for example.
The Democrats have been using this gimmick to scare the voters for years and of course, the msm never enlightens the viewers about what the Dms. are dong to them.
Having them shore-up their own retirement funding so it doesn’t collapse is a bad thing? They should talk to some of the City of Detroit retirees who took it up the shorts when they declared bankruptcy.
American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. said.
Government Employees will never pay their fair share to help all the Illegal Aliens being given TAX MONEY by the President’s Amnesty
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