Article Title: Tool to stop illegal immigrant employment comes to Senate as border crisis rages
Snippet of Article: "...A border patrol agent speaking anonymously with CNN said that he has to allow illegal border crossings or risk losing his job. ..."
Article Title: Biden Proposes Tiny 2% Pay Raise for Federal Employees
Snippet of Article: "Civil servants would have a much smaller salary bump than years past under the president’s budget request. ..."
Article Title: President Biden Cancels Student Debt for more than 150,000 Student Loan Borrowers
Snippet of Article: "...President Biden announced the approval of $1.2 billion in student debt cancellation for almost 153,000 borrowers currently enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment plan. The Biden-Harris Administration has now approved nearly $138 billion in student debt cancellation for almost 3.9 million borrowers through more than two dozen executive actions. ..."
Article Title: Biden slammed for bragging he is bringing prices down - even though they are UP since he entered office
Snippet of Article: "FACT: Since Biden took office, airfare is up 21%, Thanksgiving dinner was up 25%, and gas prices are $0.86/gallon higher ...Inflation may have slowed and some prices may have dropped since last year, but most prices are still higher than they were before the pandemic. ...inflation raced out of control because of Biden's stimulus spending."
Article Title: Biden speaks with UAW head after tentative deals struck with Big Three
Snippet of Article: "The agreement, which must still be approved by union members, would include a 25 percent general pay increase over the course of a four-year contract, increased retirement benefits and more paid leave.
“I applaud the UAW and the leaders of the automobile companies for agreeing that all the workers on strike and all of those who were walking the picket lines on behalf of their UAW brothers and sisters can go back to work immediately, even before the vote is taken,” Biden said. ..."
Article Title: Maine asks for federal waiver to let asylum seekers go to work
Snippet of Article: "Maine's Department of Labor has asked the federal government for special permission to let asylum seekers get jobs...The agency on Wednesday formally requested a waiver of the federal waiting period for work permits. Although there is no provision in federal law for such a waiver, and no state has ever received one..."
Article Title: Federal Employee Union Calls Proposed Budget 'A Kick in the Teeth' to Workers
Snippet of Article: "..."It's frankly unbelievable that, given the pain federal employees have just gone through, the President is proposing massive cuts and another pay freeze. It shows a complete disconnect with the needs of the civil servants who are America's workforce.
"This budget is a kick in the teeth to the federal employees who have suffered through years of pay freezes, cuts to their benefits, and attacks on their rights at work. Federal workers have lost more than $200 billion from cuts to their pay and benefits since 2011..."
Article Title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the only House Democrat who voted against a bill to end the shutdown
Snippet of Article: "...Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was the only Democrat in the House of Representatives to vote against a short-term spending bill to end the partial government shutdown on Wednesday, because it would allocate funds to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), which she campaigned on eliminating..."
Article Title: Refusal to budge on border wall shows Dems still hung up on 2016
Snippet of Article: "...Like generals fighting the last war, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are fixated on the last presidential election. Their refusal to let it go and get on with governing in a divided Congress is a shameful sign of how radical their party has become since Trump’s election..."
Article Title: Trump’s orders show unwavering attack on federal unions, employees
Snippet of Article: "...The orders are in keeping with other actions to belittle federal unions and the pocketbooks of all federal employees. Trump wants to freeze federal pay next year and cut federal retirement benefits by $143.5 billion over 10 years. In March, his Education Department unilaterally imposed a contract on union members who had rejected it..."
Article Title: Supreme Court Decision Delivers Blow To Workers' Rights
Snippet of Article: "...The inevitable result, she warned, is that there will be huge underenforcement of federal and state statutes designed to advance the well-being of workers.
"[T]he edict that employees with wage and hours claims may seek relief only one-by-one does not come from Congress," Ginsburg writes. "It is the result of take-it-or-leave-it labor contracts harking back to the type called 'yellow dog,' and of the readiness of this Court to enforce those unbargained-for agreements. The FAA demands no such suppression of the right of workers to take concerted action for their 'mutual aid or protection.'"
She urged Congress to correct the court's elevation of the arbitration act over workers' rights..."
Article Title: House GOP Group Envisions Massive Changes to Civil Service in Budget Proposal
Snippet of Article: "...White House plans to reduce retirement benefits for feds, including increasing employee contributions to the Federal Employees Retirement System pension by 1 percentage point per year over five years, eliminating cost of living adjustments for FERS employees, and reducing COLAs for employees in the Civil Service Retirement System.
It also included plans to base pension benefits on the highest five years of an employee’s salary, instead of the current high three, and it would eliminate the FERS supplement for federal employees who retire before Social Security kicks in at age 62..."
Article Title: Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Koch Brothers, Bezos: Corporate Elites Determined to Flood U.S. with Foreigners
Snippet of Article: "...Wealthy Americans, specifically corporates elites — like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, the GOP billionaire megadonors the Koch brothers, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos — are determined to continue the wage-crushing mass..."
Article Title: White House Proposals For Civil Service Reform: What They Missed
Snippet of Article: "...The White House proposal increases the employee contribution to the annuity portion of the retirement plan, shifts from a “High 3” to a “High 5” annuity calculation, and eliminates the FERS Special Retirement Supplement for employees who retire before becoming eligible for Social Security..."
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Article Title: Bernie Sanders: We must end global oligarchy
Snippet of Article: "...Here in the United States, the top one-tenth of 1% owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. Incredibly, according to a recent report from the Institute for Policy Studies, three of the richest people in America -- Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett -- now own more wealth than bottom 160 million people in our country..."
Article Title: What Does the Tax Bill Do for Low-Income Workers?
Snippet of Article: "... it’s not fair that so many Americans, especially richer Americans, will benefit from the huge tax cuts while so many low-wage workers will be left out in the cold—and receive nothing from this budget-busting cornucopia..."
Article Title: Proposed Retirement Changes for Federal Employees
Snippet of Article: "...Currently, an employee’s annuity is calculated by using the highest three years of earnings. This is commonly referred to as the “high three.” The report recommends changing this calculation to using the highest five years of earnings instead of the high three...pay 4.4 percent of their salaries into the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)...Chained CPI and changing the high three to high five are significant for federal retirees..."
Article Title: Bill to Require OPM to Report Annually on Official Time Moves Ahead
Snippet of Article: "...there is movement in Congress to learn more about how much time is used by federal employees who are paid their full salary and benefits while representing a union. A bill has now been referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. The bill, as amended, would also require additional information on the amount of space provided for union..."
Note added by the Federal Employee News: Walmart is encouraging government subsidies by stealing away employee health benefits. In turn, this places a burden on the government and eventually an increase in taxes to pay for it. At the same time, hard working people lose a much needed employee benefit. Where you spend your money or don't spend your money makes a bold statement to retailers.
Article Title: Wal-Mart cuts health benefits for 30,000 part-timers
Snippet of Article: "...More of Wal-Mart's employees signed up for health benefits this year than the company expected, which boosted the company's costs. ... Employees who lost the Wal-Mart coverage option would now be eligible for government subsidies on Obamacare exchanges. ..."
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