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Thursday, September 05, 2013

Obama Gives Pay Raise To Federal Workers, Union Complains

President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Friday to end a three-year freeze on federal pay scales and give federal workers a one percent pay raise.

Union boss J. David Cox Sr., head of the American Federation of Government Employees, called Obama's pay raise "inadequate" and "pitiful" but a step in the right direction.

"Although the 1 percent is a pitiful amount that doesn't begin to compensate for the furloughs and three years of frozen pay, it is a welcome development," said Cox. "To call this raise inadequate is an understatement, but it is good news all the same."

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Anonymous said...

Considering what I have seen - they should all take a cut. The majority of them are in 'gimme' jobs and are incapable of performing to the actual standards required...