This Group of Feds Is Facing a $10,000 Pay Cut
October 30, 2015
If the Pentagon gets its way, these 12,000 employees could face a pay cut of at least $10,000 a year.
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If the Pentagon gets its way, these 12,000 employees could face a pay cut of at least $10,000 a year.
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Loan-shark lenders are out there, and they’re targeting federal retirees and veterans. They usually dupe retirees into borrowing against their pensions by marketing them as a sale and not a loan and failing to disclose high interest rates and fees.
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On a beautiful day in downtown Washington, employees at OPM and surrounding agencies spent their lunch hour visiting exhibit tables from area organizations.
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Many Americans may think of Washington, D.C. as the place where the majority of government employees work. In reality, more than 85% of federal workers live and work outside of the nation's capital. Those employees help power communities all across the country—like Fort Huachuca in Arizona.
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When he was in high school, National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran would do anything to get on the radio. Now he doesn't have to choose between homeland security and radio.
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Some elected officials and organizations, including the misleadingly-named, Koch brothers-funded front group “Concerned Veterans for America,” have bashed the Department of Veterans Affairs at every opportunity.
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AFGE and FEMA have just reached a tentative agreement on a first national master agreement that will greatly improve their working conditions.
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She was supposed to become a minister, but life circumstances changed her choice of vocation.
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While health care costs and food prices are soaring, retirees won’t get a cost of living adjustment.
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Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida’s attempt to exploit the VA crisis and Walmartize the VA and the entire federal government failed when his colleagues blocked an up-or-down vote on his extreme legislation.
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Obama vetoed and sent back to Congress the 2016 Defense Authorization Act which authorizes spending on defense programs.
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Deciding whether or not to pay the debts incurred to fund the previously approved spending is nuts.
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Federal agencies have more than enough flexibility within the current pay system to raise wages as needed to meet market demands. It’s Congresses and administrations that refuse to exercise that authority.
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If you and your co-workers work in the same building or on the same military base, your pay should be based on the same locality rate, right? Turns out, that’s not always the case for many hourly workers at several locations.
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AFGE’s first labor-management contract TSA was ratified in November 2012. Then this happened.
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