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Union ad campaign targets federal pay and benefits legislation


A federal employee union is launching a nationwide advertising campaign to push back at the increasing number of Republican bills in Congress that call for federal pay freeze extensions and cuts to federal benefits.

The American Federation of Government Employees said it would roll out new ads that build on the “Explain it to me, GOP” public relations campaign the union launched in December. The new effort will debut Feb. 12 with a television ad in the Washington area during the Sunday morning talk shows, AFGE said. The effort is timed to coincide with the union’s annual legislative conference in Washington next week.

The new ad features three federal employees from AFGE locals that represent Veterans Affairs Department nurses, Defense Department workers and federal corrections officers. In the ad, each of the employees asks GOP lawmakers for an explanation of how cuts to federal pay and benefits help put people back to work.

The TV ad also will appear early next week on a number of TV news networks, and a print ad will appear in a political newspaper distributed on Capitol Hill. AFGE said it also is providing the TV spot and print ad to AFGE locals for use in their communities.


 

Reader comments

Mon, Mar 5, 2012 driz

After all the Right Wing propaganda ballyhooing how the average fed makes $125K we need all the correct information out there we can get. Rest assured the Republicans are going to defend their 1%ers as they have "pledged" and bury us all in the process. Lies and exaggeration are all just window dressing for the campaign. A little truth never hurt anybody if they haven't anything to hide.

Tue, Feb 14, 2012 Ron Washington, DC

It doesn't really matter who proposed it but, it needs to be vetoed. I'm not sure where it all started that the federal government employees are one of the causes of this deficit but, where I work, I am doing the job of at least 3 people and being paid for one. It's really unfair to the government employees to have the pay increases frozen because we are suffering just as much as the next person. Most of the government employees are middle class people trying to keep their heads above water; we are all effected by this recession brought on by Bush is this pretend war he started; where none of the republicans stood up and said, "show me proof that they have weapons of mass destruction". They just went along with the plan because they had their hands in the pockets of the companies making all the money off the war. Now they want to question everything Obama proposes! So hypocritical.

Mon, Feb 13, 2012 D-Stiney Severn

You are as wrong as three left shoes!!!! The pay freeze didn't start out with Obama!!! Check your research before you make such comments.

Mon, Feb 13, 2012 kevin

It's not a "democrat or republican thing" it's a FINACIAL thing. We need to stop the bleeding...

Mon, Feb 13, 2012

Let's not forget the initial idea of the pay freeze started with Obama!

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