Getting a raise is one of those signs that your employer appreciates your work. And that sign of appreciation can motivate employees to work harder.

Crapping on employees has a way of dampening their attitudes and negatively affects their daily performance.

In four months, civilians who work for the federal government, people like mechanics on Air Force bases and in traffic control towers, were going to get a raise, but Trump told House and Senate leadership that

“federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases”,

So he is canceling the pay raises for most federal employees.

“I have determined that for 2019, both across‑the‑board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zero. These alternative pay plan decisions will not materially affect our ability to attract and retain a well‑qualified Federal workforce.”

Nothing attracts well qualified workers like non-competitive wages and an employer who waits until practically the last minute to renege on an agreement.

Trump said a 25.7% pay raise for localities, as well as a 2.1-percent pay increase for across-the-board pay would add billions to the federal deficit. The scheduled locality pay raise was going to cost $25 billion.

“We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases,” Trump informed the leadership. 

While claiming that he has the power to do this because Title 5 of the U.S. Code of Laws allows him to make such decisions when a “national emergency or serious economic conditions” affect “the general welfare”,

so

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he conveniently ignores that this “national emergency” and these “serious economic conditions” may have resulted from his $1.5 Trillion tax cut last December , which Trump considered  “very much a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs”, and his $1.3 Trillion spending bill that followed which together will produce  at least $1 trillion budget deficit for 2019.

The offset has to come from somewhere.

Congress had been considering cutting the 2.1% raise to1.9 %, which they can do by law, and the Unions representing the 2 million-member federal workforce were okay with that.

But as J. David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents some 700,000 federal workers, is against Trump’s action because,

“President Trump’s plan to freeze wages for these patriotic workers next year ignores the fact that they are worse off today financially than they were at the start of the decade.”

Tim Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) pointed out that these federal employees

“have already endured years of little to no increases and their paychecks cannot stretch any further as education, health care costs, gas and other goods continue to get more expensive.”

Since 2011 federal worker pay and benefits have been cut by more than $200 billion.

Trump’s grandstanding tax cuts that benefit the wealthy while throwing crumbs to the middle class who worship him like a starving dog does the person at the table who gives it the crumbs will exploded the deficit and will need the money intended for and needed by federal workers to balance the budget.

Happy Labor Day.

And thanks for all you do.