Federal-employee union calls Obama’s proposed pay raise a ‘pitiful amount’

The Washington Post: Federal-employee unions have criticized a 1 percent pay raise President Obama plans to propose next week, with the largest of the groups calling the increase a “pitiful amount” and requesting a higher 4 percent salary bump instead.

Obama’s proposal, which is part of a 2015 budget blueprint the White House plans to release March 4, does little to make up for a three-year hold on pay rates for federal workers, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.

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