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

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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