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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThose same people who voted a scant few months ago to cut COLA increases for service members and military retirees are now considering a 3.3% pay raise for Federal employees who are not members of the uniformed services according to the Washington Post<\/a> (who have blocked me because I used up my allocation of free articles this month so I found an alternate source<\/a>)<\/p>\n American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. today applauded legislation introduced by Reps. Gerry Connolly<\/a> and Jim Moran<\/a> of Virginia to provide federal employees with a 3.3 percent pay raise in 2015.<\/p>\n “Federal employees have seen their standard of living deteriorate in recent years due to a three-year pay freeze, unpaid furloughs, and higher retirement contributions for newer workers,” Cox said. “A 3.3 percent pay raise would help federal employees recoup some of that lost income and ensure the government is able to recruit and retain the high caliber workers that taxpayers expect.”<\/p>\n The Obama administration has proposed a 1 percent pay raise for federal employees in 2015, a pitiful increase in light of how much federal employees have sacrificed these past few years. Federal employee wages were frozen for three straight years. New federal employees are paying between four and six times as much for their retirement without getting anything in return. Roughly 750,000 federal employees lost up to a week of pay last year due to sequestration-related furloughs, costing them $1 billion in lost salary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n They vote to reduce pay raises for the troops, but raise what the president asks for in regards to Federal employees? Really? I guess the two Congressmen from Northern Virginia value their federal worker constituents more than their military constituents. But that inebriated sot, Moran is retiring this year, so I guess he’s feathering the bed for his replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"