The Biden administration decided on a raise for all the federal wildland firefighters over the next two years.
, but they had been held up as federal agencies studied recruitment and retention data to decide where to deliver them.
The Biden administration in the end decided on a raise for all the federal wildland firefighters over the next two years, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity ahead of the formal announcement. The official said the infrastructure bill offered enough money to provide the raises but the administration was looking to work with Congress to provide a long-term fix on the firefighters' pay.
“This is incredibly good news for federal wildland firefighters all across the country,” said Randy Erwin, president of the union. “There has been a serious recruitment and retention problem for wildland firefighters at federal agencies this year." “These men and women are battling historic fires in NM and are on the frontlines of the climate crisis across the West,” Heinrich said in a Twitter message. “This is admirable, strenuous work and hard on their families.”
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