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Years of hard work by NFFE members and our brothers and sisters in fellow unions finally paid off this year.

On January 28^th, President Bush signed into law the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill included language which made sweeping changes to the National Security Personnel System (NSPS).

Significant victories in the bill include the restoration of collective bargaining and employee appeal rights for Defense employees. Blue-collar workers are also now exempt from the system. The law left in place the Defense Department’s authority to implement a pay-for-performance system; however, the measure would guarantee that NSPS employees get 60 percent of the annual pay raise given to most federal workers if they perform at a satisfactory level or above. Only the remaining 40 percent of the pay adjustment, which is set annually by Congress, would go toward performance pay.

While the new version of the system is still far from perfect, it is a vast improvement from the previous forms. By relentlessly working together to make our voices heard, we ensured that many of Defense workers’ rights will be maintained under this new system. This is a significant victory for Defense workers, for NFFE, and for the entire labor movement. Thank you to everyone who stepped up to the plate and helped bring about this important change.

Richard N. Brown

Federal Minimum Wage Raises After 10-year Wait

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

(National Federation of Federal Employees)

For the first time in ten years, minimum wage earners in the U.S. will get a long overdue raise. The 70-cent per hour raise ends the longest span without a federal minimum wage increase since it was enac ted in 1938. Raising the minimum wage was a top priority of the new Democratic-controlled Congress after the former GOP-controlled Congress repea tedly blocked any attempt to increase it.

Today’s 70-cent per hour boost raises the federal minimum hourly rate to $5.85 per hour and will be followed by successive 70-cent per hour increases in the summer of 2008 and 2009 until the federal minimum wage reaches $7.25 per hour. More than 60% of the estima ted 13 million workers to benefit both directly and indirectly from the increase are women and almost forty percent are people of color. More than half of the women who will benefit have children.

“It has been a long time," said Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) who led the fight in the Senate for the increase. "We have heard those that say, well, with the increase in the minimum wages, this will cost jobs. It will bring hardship upon these people. That's what they have said on every increase. This is the 11th increase in the minimum wage and they have been wrong every other time."

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