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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBi-partisan deal would require federal workers to pay for half of unemployment benefits extension!
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February 15, 2012
AFGE PRESIDENT DENOUNCES CUTS TO FEDERAL EMPLOYEE PENSIONS
Plan to charge federal employees for extending unemployment benefits is wrong
WASHINGTON The head of the largest federal employee union today denounced efforts to pay for an extension in unemployment benefits by cutting retirement benefits of federal employees.
Working class men and women who have dedicated their lives to serve their country should not be on the hook for solving a crisis they did not create, American Federation of Government Employees National President John Gage said.
No group has sacrificed like federal employees. Congress froze their pay for two years, which cost federal employees $60 billion in lost wages. Continuing to attack federal employees pay and benefits doesnt create new jobs and only adds to the pain and suffering many working class men and women are experiencing, Gage said.
Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., has insisted that the extension in unemployment insurance be paid for on the backs of federal employees. Lawmakers are close to agreeing on a plan that would make $15 billion in cuts to federal employees retirement to cover half of the cost of extending unemployment benefits.
In addition, Congressional Republicans have proposed $45 billion in cuts to federal employee retirement benefits to pay for road and transportation projects in the highway bill.
If anyone should pay for extending unemployment benefits, its the big banks whose shady lending practices kicked millions of people out of their homes, and the millionaires and billionaires who continue to profit while millions of Americans are out of work, Gage said. Federal employees should not be asked to clean up their mess.
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Bi-partisan deal would require federal workers to pay for half of unemployment benefits extension! (Original Post)
Better Believe It
Feb 2012
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annabanana
(52,791 posts)1. Time to strangle that poor sap in the bathtub, huh?
This is the result of 30 years of "the government IS the problem"..
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)2. It's time for the unions to stop talkin' and start walkin'...out.
The politicians will sell them out in a New York minute.