Posted on 11/09/2012 11:22:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With President Obama safely re-elected to a second term, federal workers feel comfortable to make their demands known. As debate rages over lowering the federal deficit, they want a pay raise.
As CNN's Money magazine reports:
[Union president Colleen M.] Kelley said her No. 1 issue right now is getting federal worker salaries unfrozen on Jan. 1, even if that means working out a deal later in the year and making pay hikes retroactive to Jan. 1.
In the midst of that, federal workers are also nervous about the fiscal cliff , which includes $1.2 trillion worth of spending cuts over a decade if Congress fails to act by Jan. 1. Some 277,000 workers -- 14% of the federal work force -- could lose their jobs in the next 12 months if the U.S. cannot avoid the cliff, according to a study by the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University.
A recent study by two scholars at the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation showed that the average federal employee currently makes significantly more than their private sector counterparts. As the authors wrote in the Wall Street Journal this past April, two additional studies supported their analysis:
When the public pay debate began to simmer two years ago, we were among the few analysts to show that many public employees—federal, state and local, including public school teachers—are paid more than what their skills would merit in the private economy...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Sure, demand it and see what you get. You do realize that the White House and the Senate are under the control of the Democrats and they are not the least interested in balancing the budget.
So, why say such things? Totally unrealistic.
The only private sector industry I see getting the money they want without any consideration for the jobless condition is home owner’s insurance companies.
I have seen over the last three years a 45% increase in my h/o premiums, with any accountability. This is the Florida Farm Bureau that claims to be a non-profit but all their staff gets raises every year while my pay is almost at a standstill.
What does it take?
I’m at about $2500 a year premium, up 45% in three years.
$30,000 hurricane deductible, and no sink-hole coverage.
Why say such things ? Because reason and sanity must prevail and we must demand such measures forcefully and unapologetically. Keeping quiet will not move us in that direction.
Obama Orders Pay Raise for Federal Employees
Govt by decree. No more representative democracy for us!!
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
Why not wait until there is a reasonable chance of success? Only when the Senate is in Republican hands and both houses have enough votes to override a presidential veto is there a prayer. You’re wasting your breath until then.
The likelihood of a veto-proof majority in either body for the GOP is next to none. A Balanced Budget Amendment needs to be done NOW.
I want a skittle dropping flying unicorn.
I didn’t say it was likely. Just pointing out the situation needed to pass a balanced budget amendment. But OK, OK. Let me know when you get it done.
So what’s your alternative ?
I have none, and there is none. That’s what I’ve been trying to convey to you.
There will be no balanced budget amendment, not in our lifetimes.
Well I’m trying to offer a viable solution. The alternative is to sit quietly and wait for a complete collapse with this continuous unrestrained spending.
Yeah what business would lose its butt every year but grant pay raises . . not to mention fail to downsize its workforce
Idiots
Let me just say first off, that I am a 15 year, non-union, federal worker for an agency that will not be affected by sequestration. This is my attitude...since 2009, I had been personally preparing for some kind of furlough to happen to fed workers for the last 3 years. (I’ve been living and budgeting based on 24 pay periods instead of 26) I seen the writing on the wall since local, county, and state employees have experienced 10 day furloughs the last couple years. I am thankful for my employment, and in this economy, the “expectation” of a raise is ridiculous. I really can’t believe how so many people could be so clueless.
Fire half of them. Give half of the fired workers’ pay to the unfired workers. Budget cut. Fiscal cliff avoided. Federal workers get pay raise. Done and done. Also legalize pot and tax it.
pay them all with food stamps
A ruling class of Morlocks, demanding ever new tribute from the Eloi.
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