From the fruitful mind of LouDobbs.com:
Amazingly, some government employees don't quite
understand the outrage the private sector is feeling towards calls by federal
and state employee unions for raises.
The Commerce Department just reported the first contraction in the economy in more than three years, and the unemployment rate is creeping back towards 8% again.
Our Defense Department as well as the men and women serving our nation in uniform are preparing for the fallout resulting from the White House originated idea of sequestration cuts, which will slam the economy with $85 million in automatic spending cuts on March 1.
Yet on Saturday the president of the largest federal employee union scoffed at the idea of a 1% pay raise for his members, characterizing the increased pay as "simply not enough" and "absolutely unconscionable."
According TheHill.com, "The White House told labor leaders of the proposed increase in the 2014 fiscal year budget in a phone call late Friday night. That raise would come on top of the half-point pay hike, scheduled to take effect in late March, which has been delayed as part of the "fiscal cliff" deal struck last month. Federal salaries have been frozen since 2011.
Read more about the union leader's dissatisfaction on TheHill.com
The Commerce Department just reported the first contraction in the economy in more than three years, and the unemployment rate is creeping back towards 8% again.
Our Defense Department as well as the men and women serving our nation in uniform are preparing for the fallout resulting from the White House originated idea of sequestration cuts, which will slam the economy with $85 million in automatic spending cuts on March 1.
Yet on Saturday the president of the largest federal employee union scoffed at the idea of a 1% pay raise for his members, characterizing the increased pay as "simply not enough" and "absolutely unconscionable."
According TheHill.com, "The White House told labor leaders of the proposed increase in the 2014 fiscal year budget in a phone call late Friday night. That raise would come on top of the half-point pay hike, scheduled to take effect in late March, which has been delayed as part of the "fiscal cliff" deal struck last month. Federal salaries have been frozen since 2011.
Read more about the union leader's dissatisfaction on TheHill.com
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