AFL-CIO: Federal Employees Already Have Given Enough
Friday, August 3, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)All efforts to privatize, outsource, reduce, undermine, politicize, underpay or
undervalue the work performed on behalf of working families by our federal
workforce should be vigorously opposed, the AFL-CIO Executive Council said last
week. The council adopted a policy statement, "Federal
Employees Already Have Given Enough," during its August meeting in
Washington, D.C. last week. A total of 2.6 million civilian employees in the
federal government do everything from making sure veterans receive their
benefits to processing Social Security payments, Medicare and Medicaid
reimbursements, collection, processing, and delivery of mail and so much more.
Salaries of federal employees, according to the council, are on average 24
percent lower than those of comparable jobs in the private sector and their
health care benefits are less generous, yet these workers have been the targets
of attacks to further freeze their pay and reduce wages and benefits. -
Jackie Tortora, AFL-CIO
Now blog; photo of AFGE rally against downgrades for VA employees on
6/13/2012 by Chris Garlock