{"id":61639,"date":"2018-05-30T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-afge-endorses-californias-gavin-newsom-for-governor\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T21:04:02","slug":"la-afge-apoya-a-gavin-newsom-como-candidato-a-la-gubernatura-de-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-afge-apoya-a-gavin-newsom-como-candidato-a-la-gubernatura-de-california\/","title":{"rendered":"AFGE Endorses California&#8217;s Gavin Newsom 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 30, 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-californias-gavin-newsom-for-governor\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced its endorsement<\/a> of <span class=\"xn-person\">Gavin Newsom<\/span> for governor of <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg8c44left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg8c44left\" title=\"The nation's largest federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees, today announced its endorsement of Gavin Newsom for governor of California. More than 250,000 federal employees live in California \u2013 caring for veterans, supporting the military, guarding our borders, and getting Social Security recipients their benefits accurately and on time.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The nation's largest federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees, today announced its endorsement of Gavin Newsom for governor of California. More than 250,000 federal employees live in California \u2013 caring for veterans, supporting the military, guarding our borders, and getting Social Security recipients their benefits accurately and on time.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/698593\/AFGE_Gavin_Newsom.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;With public-sector employees across this country facing unprecedented attacks on their workplace rights, it&#8217;s more important than ever that we support candidates who will have our backs,&#8221; said American Federation of Government Employees District 12 National Vice President <span class=\"xn-person\">George McCubbin III.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Gavin Newsom<\/span> knows that workers covered by union contracts enjoy higher wages, better health and retirement benefits, and safer workplaces \u2013 and he understands that all employees have benefited from the gains achieved by unions,&#8221; McCubbin said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to supporting working people, <span class=\"xn-person\">Gavin Newsom<\/span> has literally walked the walk and talked the talk \u2013 from joining striking workers on the picket line to negotiating fair contracts at the bargaining table,&#8221; McCubbin said. &#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Gavin Newsom<\/span> 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 250,000 federal employees live in <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> \u2013 caring for veterans, supporting the military, guarding our borders, and getting Social Security recipients their benefits accurately and on time. More than 443,000 active and retired federal employees live in <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/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 represents about 80,000 employees 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><b><i>For the latest AFGE news and information, visit the\u00a0<\/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\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/afgeunion\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b><i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>,\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afgenational\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b><i>Twitter<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>, and\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/afgeonline\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b><i>YouTube<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgd058left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgd058left\" title=\"AFGE Logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AFGE Logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/329549\/american_federation_of_government_employees_logo.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/698593\/AFGE_Gavin_Newsom.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/698593\/AFGE_Gavin_Newsom.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> <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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 30, 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-californias-gavin-newsom-for-governor\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced its endorsement<\/a> of <span class=\"xn-person\">Gavin Newsom<\/span> for governor of <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg8c44left\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg8c44left&quot; title=&quot;The nation&#039;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61639","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\/61639","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=61639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}