Solidarity with all federal workers!

Build A Fighting NALC stands in solidarity with all federal workers and echo the demand to Congress to stop the progress of these proposals that threaten to dismantle and weaken the federal workforce.

Decade after decade we have witnessed hiring freezes, pay freezes, healthcare reforms, retirement reforms, and various other attacks on the working and living conditions of federal workers. At the same time we’re told to “Pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” while the ultra-wealthy, the top 1%, continue to get tax cuts and givebacks. The federal workforce should not have to be kicked while already down to offset these handouts to the ultra-wealthy.

The labor slogan, “An Injury To One, Is An Injury To All” applies during these uncertain times and we need to take a stand, draw a line in the sand, and say Enough is Enough. We need to fight for Early out retirement(64th Biennial Convention), Abolishing the Hatch Act(49th Biennial Convention), Increase Retirees’ benefits(64th Biennial Convention), and push forward with the demand for a single payer healthcare system.

Federal workers’ healthcare and retirement benefits are modest and the narrative that they are the gold-standard is a method to divide the workforce. Attacking the retirement benefits of federal workers will not make any real progress toward reducing our nation’s deficit. We urge all workers to contact their politicians and urge them to stop any progress of these proposals.

•⁠ ⁠SEC. 90001. RAISE FERS EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS. –– Raises the FERS retirement contribution rate for many existing federal civilian employees and postal employees up to the new rate of 4.4% of their salary. ($30.716 billion revenue increase for deficit reduction)

•⁠ ⁠SEC. 90002. ELIMINATION OF THE FERS ANNUITY SUPPLEMENT. –– For new federal retirees, this reform eliminates the additional retirement annuity payment that those eligible to retire before the age of 62 currently receive until they reach the age of Social Security retirement eligibility benefits. Exempt from this reform are those in federal occupations subject to mandatory early separation (i.e., retirement). ($10.113 billion in savings)

•⁠ ⁠SEC. 90003. HIGH-5 AVERAGE PAY FOR CALCULATING CSRS AND FERS PENSION. –– Reduces federal pension benefit spending by basing a retiree’s annuity payment on their average highest five earning years (instead of highest three). ($4.750 billion in savings)

•⁠ ⁠SEC. 90004. ELECTION FOR AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT AND LOWER FERS CONTRIBUTIONS FOR NEW FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE HIRES. –– Gives new Federal employee hires the option to elect to serve “at will” in exchange for higher take-home pay. ($4.541 billion in net savings)

•⁠ ⁠SEC. 90005. FILING FEE FOR MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD CLAIMS AND APPEALS. –– To reduce frivolous employee appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) regarding agency disciplinary adverse actions, this reform would charge a modest fee for MSPB filings that would be refunded to those employees who win their appeals. ($2 million revenue increase for deficit reduction)

•⁠ ⁠SEC. 90006. FEHB PROTECTION.–– Requires a comprehensive audit of employee dependents currently enrolled in FEHB plans—such as verifying marriage certificates and birth certificates—and requires any ineligible individual found to be receiving FEHB coverage be disenrolled. ($1.5 billion in net savings)