Charging that DC Mayor Muriel Bowser “is attempting to balance the budget on the backs of front-line workers,” AFGE has launched a letter-writing campaign urging the DC City Council to reject the Mayor’s proposed legislation to set aside or freeze a pay increase for city workers. Bowser’s 2021 budget proposal “revealed that she doesn't intend to pay employees the 3.5% pay increase that we negotiated” and her four-year financial plan proposes to freeze city workers’ pay through FY 2024. The union says the move violates the contract and bargaining rights for workers “who are risking their lives each and every day for the District.”