AFGE commends President Biden for proposing a 5.2% pay increase for federal workers next year but insists more needs to be done to keep up with inflation and address the double-digit pay gap between public and private sectors.
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Federal workers are still underpaid compared with their counterparts in the private sector doing the same jobs. Last year, they made 22.47% less.
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AFGE is urging the Biden administration to adopt the Federal Salary Council’s pro-labor recommendations that would increase pay for tens of thousands of federal employees who last year made 22.47% less than their private sector counterparts.
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AFGE is asking the administration and Congress to compensate federal workers fairly.
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AFGE is calling on the White House and Congress to give federal workers a 5.1% pay increase in 2023 as called for in a bill recently introduced in Congress.
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The Biden administration has directed its agencies to increase the minimum wage for federal employees to $15 an hour.
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Passing this legislation will show federal workers how much they are valued and respected for the work they do.
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Two facilities will be getting a pay boost to help keep the severely understaffed prisons from losing even more employees.
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AFGE calls on the president and Congress to increase pay raise to 3.2% to compensate for losses over the past decade.
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Legislation to address the pay disparity was introduced both in the House and Senate on May 11 by Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) and Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.).
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The federal pay systems have an excellent structure. They just need to be adequately funded because federal workers deserve to be paid fairly.
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AFGE supports the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act.
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AFGE opposes motion to dismiss hazard pay lawsuit.
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AFGE applauds lawmakers for recognizing federal workers’ contributions to our country.
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To avert a government shutdown on Dec. 11, the House and Senate passed a short-term funding measure known as continuing resolution (CR), extending government funding until Dec. 18.
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