UNION STRONG - Pressure to Get DOD to ‘Do the Right Thing’ on Wage Grade Raises Works – DOD Wage Committee Reinstated and Worker Raises Implemented

Despite the actions of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to cancel the DOD wage survey committee, IFPTE learned last week that pressure from labor, including IFPTE, and Congress, most notably Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) staff, wage-grade workers employed by DOD will finally receive their long-awaited raises. 

The raises, which had been on hold due to the Defense Secretary’s actions of dissolving the wage committee, have resumed, and the wage committee is being reinstated.  IFPTE thanks all of those Locals, particularly Army Corps of Engineers Locals, who worked on this issue with their congressional lawmakers and the International.