New Video: Capitol Hill Rally Champions Government Workers as "Unsung Heroes"

AFGE members join with progressive unions, lawmakers to support government workers

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American Federation of Government Employees

Feb 13, 2015, 01:41 ET

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new video released today by the American Federation of Government Employees champions government employees as the unsung heroes of the American workforce who provide valuable programs and services to the public.

"Our members are the workers. They do the work, they perform the tasks," AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. says in the video. "They are the unsung heroes throughout the federal government."

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Federal and D.C. government workers from the American Federation of Government Employees rallied on Capitol Hill on Feb. 10 to advocate on behalf of government workers. Members from other public sector unions also participated in the rally in a show of solidarity, while several members of the U.S. Congress addressed the large crowd.
Federal and D.C. government workers from the American Federation of Government Employees rallied on Capitol Hill on Feb. 10 to advocate on behalf of government workers. Members from other public sector unions also participated in the rally in a show of solidarity, while several members of the U.S. Congress addressed the large crowd.

The video was recorded Tuesday during a noontime rally on Capitol Hill organized by AFGE, which is the nation's largest federal employee union, representing 670,000 federal and D.C. government workers. More than 500 AFGE members who were in Washington for the union's annual legislative conference attended the rally, joined by members of other government employee unions including the American Postal Workers Union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

"AFGE members are the people who make our federal government work," said Elizabeth Shuler, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO. "You deliver the services that America counts on."

Several lawmakers also spoke at the rally to voice their support for government employees and employee unions.

Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland said he sees unions as part of the solution to helping restore the nation's middle class, as President Obama has urged.

"Today as the president has pointed out, we are seeing a widening gap of wealth in America," Cardin said. "We need to have a growing middle class, a stronger middle class than we have today. Unions help us build that middle class."

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union, representing 670,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the District of Columbia.

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Video - http://youtu.be/9HqzgdGCseo 
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SOURCE American Federation of Government Employees

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