AFGE TO LAUNCH NATIONWIDE RADIO SHOW
“Inside Government” to focus on 6-C, Homeland Security, Privatization,
Other Issues Impacting Federal Workers
WASHINGTON—The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the nation’s largest federal workers’ union, will launch a weekly nationwide radio/Internet program dedicated to issues that impact all federal employees. In launching “Inside Government” AFGE becomes one of the first unions and the only federal workers’ union to have a national broadcast program on the air.
“Inside Government” will be a one-hour weekly radio/Internet program produced and owned solely by AFGE. The program is scheduled to launch June 30, 2006, and can be heard Fridays at 10:00 a.m. EDT nationally on www.federalnewsradio.com or 1050 AM in the Washington, D.C., area. The show will be distributed nationally to radio stations across the country.
Guests for the first show on June 30, 2006, will be AFGE National President John Gage and Washington D.C., Democratic Congresswoman Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.
“Inside Government” will include interviews and commentary from several of the nation’s prominent political leaders, opinion makers and journalists, AFGE members, AFL-CIO union leaders and celebrities.
“Through Inside Government, we will be able to bring the issues which impact all federal workers to a wide national audience on a regular basis,” said Gage, who is the show’s creator and executive producer. “This show will give the real story on what is happening inside our federal agencies and the rights of federal employees.”
Scheduled guests on upcoming programs include:
July 7, 2006: AFGE Council of Prison Locals President Bryan Lowry and AFGE Council of Prison Locals North Central Regional Vice President Randy Martin.
July 14, 2006: AFGE National Council of Social Security Field Operations Locals President Witold Skwierczynski.
Attention Activists: Please e-mail questions you would like to be asked for shows on Bureau of Prisons and Social Security to InsideGovernment@afge.org.
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In her position, Cynthia will move full speed ahead and address some of the serious challenges currently facing the federal workforce. Issues such as personnel reform, contracting out, pay parity, the stripping away of bargaining rights, and continually rising health insurance premiums are just to name a few. Cynthia intends on tackling these and many other issues in order to provide federal employees the rights they so richly deserve.