Day of Action a Big Success as Capitol Hill, Media, Change Tune on Federal Employee Compensation Cuts
Wednesday, December 19, 2012(National Federation of Federal Employees)
The results from
Federal Employees Day of Action are in, and
they’re big.
In little more than
a day, federal employees wrote more than 1,000
letters to over 200 Capitol Hill offices, made
countless more phone calls, and put the issue
of stopping federal workforce cuts back on the
media map. In that same span, well over a dozen
media outlets published print, digital, and
radio stories on the event, including three
articles from the Washington Post, an interview
on Federal News Radio, and an article in the
Federal Times. (Read them
here)
Federal employees
from across the country stood up, spoke out,
and were heard where it counts. The message:
Federal employees have already sacrificed
enough, and we won’t take it anymore.
At a time when
federal employees are often portrayed as the
scapegoat for our budget issues, your efforts
effectively changed the story. It wasn’t the
usual anti-federal employee distortions making
headlines, but your message – the right
message.
This, brothers and sisters, is the power of collective action. When federal employees work together, when their unions work together, big things can be accomplished – things larger than any one person or one union could achieve on their own. We achieved something great Tuesday, and it was your efforts that made it all possible.