AFGE fights for protective equipment, additional staff in Bureau of Prisons – March 15, 2013

This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" Council of Prison Locals President Dale Deshotel advocates for additional staff and protective equipment for BOP corr...

Dale Deshotel
President, AFGE Council of Prison Locals

  • Advocating for additional staff and protective equipment for BOP officers
  • Remembering Eric Williams, an officer recently killed in the line of duty at the United States Penitentiary – Canaan

Jean Dearden
Director, Bonnie Ladin Union Skills Program
National Labor College

  • Degree programs and courses offered by NLC
  • AFGE’s JNS Scholarship
  • Upcoming union skills classes to benefit AFGE activists

Jim Dean
Chair, Democracy for America

  • Efforts to preserve Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
  • Thoughts on sequestration and federal employee furloughs
  • DFA’s agenda at the state level

Kelvin Flannery
President, AFGE VA Local 1843
Betty Conlin
Treasurer, AFGE VA Local 1843

  • Impact sequestration would have on veterans
  • Local 1843’s community service initiatives

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