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Trump’s Quiet Campaign Against Government Workers

Posted On: Sep 26, 2017

Sept. 26, 2017 | WAR ON WORKERS | The president is keeping federal wages down, enraging public unions and their allies. On August 31, in an executive action that went largely unremarked upon, Donald Trump slashed automatic annual wage increases for most federal workers in 2018 from an expected 1.9 percent across the board, with substantial additional boosts for workers in certain locations, to just 1.4 percent across the board... At first blush, the cut looks tiny, especially compared to the senseless severity of Trump’s 2018 budget proposal. But this small move may be the prelude to a coming war on federal employee salaries and benefits... vice.com