Washington, DC – AFGE’ union council of prisin employees goes on attack against congress members failing to support law enforcement officers.
Within AFGE there are 33,000 members working in the prison system.The local unions representing those in law enforcement have taken out a series of billboards across the United States targeting members of Congress for failing to support law enforcement officers.
President Trump has issued a multitude of executive orders that harm law enforcement officers – specifically Executive Order 14251, which stripped more than a million federal employees at BOP and other agencies of their collective bargaining rights.
The billboard campaign, launched by the American Federation of Government Employees’ Council of Prison Locals, asks those members of Congress to stop attacking law enforcement officers and reject President Trump’s anti-worker executive orders. In addition, these lawmakers are supporting legislation that cuts funding for BOP correctional officers and removes or significantly reduces their benefits.
As the Federal Bureau of Prisons has faced a staffing crisis over a decade, these attacks are further crippling the already thin staffing structure.
“We stand firm on the demands that the members of Congress who campaigned on their love and support for law enforcement prove this through action and reject EO 14251, and oppose any bill that removes or reduces any benefit rightfully earned by those brave men and women of the Federal Bureau of Prisons,” Council of Prison Locals President Brandy Moore White said.
