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The bipartisan bill aims to maintain current wages for federal wildland firefighters, who will see their base pay cut by 50 percent, up to $20,000, if a permanent pay solution is not passed by Congress.

NFFE is once again calling on Congress to appropriate resources to hire more federal wildland firefighters and to pay them a fair wage.  

Lenkart was elected to the permanent position of Academy Fellow for his professional contributions as a federal senior executive, labor leader, and workforce policy expert.

The press conference was a call to action for the Senate to pass through unanimous consent, legislation that would safeguard the federal workforce from “Schedule F” and protect essential services for the American public.

NFFE is urging lawmakers to pass the Saving the Civil Service Act (S. 399/ H.R. 1002) before the 118th Congress ends its work on January 3rd, 2025.

Reducing the federal workforce to a quarter of what it is now would be catastrophic to not only veterans, but the entire American public.

The next four years will be crucial to safeguarding the civil service and American democracy.

The rule is based on a recommendation from the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FPRAC), a national labor-management committee of which NFFE-IAM is a member.

NFFE is calling on the White House to increase it’s proposed 2% pay increase for FY25, in addition to urging Congress to pass the FAIR Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Matt Dorsey (202) 550-6987 September 25, 2024 Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) endorses the VA Employee Fairness Act, reintroduced by…