AFGE Applauds Obama Action Giving Federal Employees 2.1% Pay Raise in January

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) ^ | December 09, 2016 | The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)

[mdittmar]

Move recognizes sacrifice of federal workers, maintains tradition of pay raise parity between military and civilians

WASHINGTON – The American Federation of Government Employees, the nation’s largest federal employee union, applauds President Obama’s decision to provide federal workers with a 2.1% pay raise in January.

“Federal employees certainly deserve this modest boost in their pay, following years of pay freezes and miniscule increases that have left them worse off today than they were at the start of the decade,” AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. said. “This pay adjustment will help employees pay their bills, reduce their debts, and cover the everyday costs facing working-class Americans.”

[mdittmar]

Well,we are $20 trillion in debt,the raise for 670,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the District of Columbia must be coming from obamas stash.

[DoodleDawg]

Congress applauds him as well.

[caver]

How much did social security recipients receive?

[SkyDancer]

Meanwhile SS recipients missed out on two or three COLA adjustments sometimes only ten dollars or so extra a month.

[BenLurkin]

Is this really up to a President?

What if she, or he, decides to double their pay?

[Paladin2]

I thought that the military was WAY underpaid vs. Fed bureaucrats.

[rktman]

Social Security recipients——meh. They’re retired. What do they need a raise for?

[Art in Idaho]

Will Trump do away with government unions?

[txhurl]

What are Trump’s layoff options for new hires at all the depts? You know zero is stuffing them right now.

[Cboldt]

Just lay off 20% of them to pay for the increase.

[txhurl]

Someone noted earlier that RWR’s firing the striking ATC was to bring this union to heel for the remainder of his admin.

[VideoDoctor]

Just lay off 20% of them to pay for the increase

Just lay off 20% 50% of them to pay for the increase

[angry elephant]

When we cut 50 percent of the federal employees maybe this will be more feasible.

Restaurant workers losing jobs due to minimum wage raise; federal employees losing jobs due to Barky’s raise.

[Lockbox]

WERE’S MY PAY INCREASE? I’m earning considerable less then 2015!

[madprof98]

I hope Trump fires at least half of them.

[Sacajaweau]

Five or six....and one of them, they raised Medicare Part B and I wound up with $1 increase a month.

[Logical me]

How much did social security recipients receive?

Not a damn penny. We got fuc-ed royally. Living on credit cards sure is great in this great communists State of, rotten tax to death, California.

[Gay State Conservative]

Would I be wrong to suspect that the Armed Forces will be getting a lot less?

[Buckeye McFrog]

The “42 Days till Trump” cramdown is in high-gear.

[MisterArtery]

0.3%, up from nothing the previous 2 (or more) years.