AFGE COUNCIL, LOCAL PRESIDENTS ON "INSIDE GOVERNMENT"

BUREAU OF PRISONS, CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES, AND FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE UNION LEADERSHIP TO APPEAR

WASHINGTON - Leaders from the American Federation of Government Employees’ (AFGE) Council of Prison Locals (CPL) 33, National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council (NCISC) 119, and Federal Protective Service (FPS) Local 918 will appear this week on AFGE’s radio program “Inside Government”. CPL 33 President Bryan Lowry and Legislative Coordinator Phil Glover, along with NCISC 119 President Michael Knowles and FPS Local 918 President David Wright will all discuss the most recent issues facing their agencies. The show will air on Friday, May 11 at 10:00 a.m. EDT nationwide on www.federalnewsradio.com and 1050 AM in the Washington, D.C., area.

“Inside Government” is a one-hour weekly nationwide radio/Internet program dedicated to issues that impact all federal and D.C. government employees. In launching “Inside Government”, AFGE became one of the first unions and the only federal workers’ union to have a national broadcast program on the air.

The program, hosted by AFGE Assistant General Counsel Ward Morrow, can be heard Fridays at 10:00 a.m. EDT nationally on demand (available anytime) at www.federalnewsradio.com or 1050 AM in the Washington, D.C., area.

Programs are archived on the Federal News Radio Web site and can be heard on demand (available anytime) at http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=300. Federal News Radio is one of the most popular online news stations in the country, according to the Baltimore Sun/New York Times Syndicate.

“Inside Government” is also available to more than 70 million iPod users through Apple’s iTunes music download software. The program is available via podcast, located at the following link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=212048686. Users must install iTunes on their computers before accessing “Inside Government” via podcast.

For more information, please e-mail InsideGovernment@afge.org or go to www.federalnewsradio.com.

Please note there will be a short advertisement prior to the start of the program.

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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union, representing 600,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the District of Columbia.