{"id":61570,"date":"2018-05-24T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-afge-endorses-arizonas-david-garcia-for-governor\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:50:02","slug":"la-afge-respalda-a-david-garcia-para-gobernador-de-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-afge-respalda-a-david-garcia-para-gobernador-de-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"AFGE Endorses Arizona&#8217;s David Garcia for Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 24, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The American Federation of Government Employees today <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/publication\/afge-endorses-arizonas-david-garcia-for-governor\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced its endorsement<\/a> of <span class=\"xn-person\">David Garcia<\/span> for governor of <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg6f05left\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg6f05left\" title=\"The largest union representing federal and D.C. government workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, has endorsed David Garcia for governor of Arizona.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The largest union representing federal and D.C. government workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, has endorsed David Garcia for governor of Arizona.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/696564\/AFGE_David_Garcia.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">David Garcia<\/span> understands that working people in <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span> and across the country have been getting the short end of the stick for far too long,&#8221; said American Federation of Government Employees District 12 National Vice President <span class=\"xn-person\">George McCubbin III.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As governor, <span class=\"xn-person\">David Garcia<\/span> will fight to invest in public-sector employees and the services that Arizonans expect and deserve. As an Army veteran and lifelong educator, David has seen firsthand what happens when politicians care more about lining their donors&#8217; pockets than funding our schools and providing workers with a living wage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In April, David marched with <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona&#8217;s<\/span> teachers as they went on strike to demand higher wages and more funding for classroom education. He strongly supports the collective bargaining rights of all public-sector employees and as governor will oppose any effort to strip workers of their rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 56,000 federal employees live in <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span> \u2013 caring for veterans, supporting the military, guarding our borders, and getting Social Security recipients their benefits accurately and on time. About 106,000 active and retired federal employees live in <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>AFGE is the largest federal employee union in the country, representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers in all functions of government. District 12 has more than 40,000 dues-paying members in <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Hawaii<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Nevada<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><i>The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union, representing 700,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the <span class=\"xn-location\">District of Columbia<\/span><\/i><b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>For the latest AFGE news and information, visit the <\/i><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/media-center\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b><i>AFGE Media Center<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>. Follow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/afgeunion\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afgenational\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/afgeonline\" rel=\"nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpga947left\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpga947left\" title=\"american_federation_of_government_employees_logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"american_federation_of_government_employees_logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/329549\/american_federation_of_government_employees_logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/696564\/AFGE_David_Garcia.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/696564\/AFGE_David_Garcia.jpg<\/a> <br \/>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/329549\/american_federation_of_government_employees_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/329549\/american_federation_of_government_employees_logo.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  American Federation of Government Employees<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 24, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The American Federation of Government Employees today <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/publication\/afge-endorses-arizonas-david-garcia-for-governor\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced its endorsement<\/a> of <span class=\"xn-person\">David Garcia<\/span> for governor of <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg6f05left\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg6f05left&quot; title=&quot;The largest union&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}