Obama announces pay freeze for federal workers [View All]

Source: Washington Post

Bowing to Republican political pressure and growing budget concerns, President Obama will announce a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers Monday, according to administration sources.

The freeze applies to all federal employees -- including civilian employees of the Defense Department, and will not impact step increases or bonuses for federal workers, according to sources.

The administration had examined pay levels, "and the data we get back indicates that high-skilled workers in government are slightly underpaid. Lower-skilled workers are slightly overpaid relative to the private sector," Obama said.

"And that's not surprising," he added, "because it's a unionized workforce" in government, while the private sector's typically is not.



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Howzabout we get the vaunted private sector to cough up a little more in the pay envelope instead? The stockholders and corporate officers have been running away with the store.