President Obama freezes pay for federal employees

ChrisDTC Senior Member Texas on my mind

The president will freeze pay for two years for non-military federal employees.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/us...freeze.html?hp

DanielEtvs Trusted Member hank krakowskis

true. effects on ATC are to be determined

lunchbox Asst to Regional Manager Port Orange, FL

Yeah I'd like to know how that will affect us.

mjh55404 Senior Analyst OKC

NATCA members are represented by the contract so that would stand for pay purposes. Locality and COLA being frozen would affect everyone.

Just another reason to get representation.... DOD people for example would be frozen.

DanielEtvs Trusted Member hank krakowskis

no word yet from any of the NATCA lawyers or hierarchy. everybody is waiting to see the exact and official way this will be applied.... and whether or not it could nullify the red book "make whole" pay bands for younger controllers.... i am cynical though and fearing the worst

DanielEtvs Trusted Member hank krakowskis

you have no way of knowing this yet, that is pure speculation and wishful thinking

mbalunda Epic Member

I'm certainly fearing the worst as well. I'm just a dev now, and I'm hoping this won't effect D1, D3, or CPC raises I'll get in the somewhat near future. I hope that it won't, but the Gov. has already shown their willingness to hose controllers in the past.

mjh55404 Senior Analyst OKC

I bet we will get more details later.... like if this is a freeze of just locality and cola or pay steps or both.

I am so tired of hearing the crap about private sector raises being so low....maybe for unskilled labor but I know many private sector people who were not laid off and still getting raises. My friend working for CitiBank that has only a GED just got a 4% increase in a lead position making 50K. He is also working tons of overtime. If everyone got rich in the public sector then there would be thousands of overqualified applicants lined up to go work there. This is company we even just bailed out.

Crazy

mjh55404 Senior Analyst OKC

oh btw.... My friend works in suburban Detroit.... not the hottest labor market.

jrgruters42 Rookie