A group of senators demanded that the Department of Veterans Affairs abandon its dishonest acts during contract negotiations with AFGE and return to the bargaining table.
In a July 31 letter to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie, the senators laid out the anti-worker, anti-union tactics the department is engaged in an effort to gut VA employees’ workplace rights and their union.
“These extreme tactics are not in the interest of the VA’s front-line employees, nor are they in the interests of the veterans these employees serve,” said the 34 senators.
They laid out the most serious or dishonest acts the VA is engaged in to make sure the negotiations with AFGE do not succeed:
“VA employees provide medical care, process education benefits, and adjudicate disability claims and appeals on behalf of veterans and their families,” said the senators. “The harsh negotiating tactics currently being taken by your agency undermine VA’s mission and threaten the quality of the services it is entrusted to provide to our constituents, our nation’s veterans.”
The senators also demanded that the VA explain and provide documented evidence of why it needs these anti-worker proposals.
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