The new adverse action bill that President Trump signed into law in June makes several key changes to the disciplinary process for employees in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Here's a summary of the major changes that you need to know about.
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Only a few days before Congress went off on August recess, AFGE won several major legislative victories that protect the civil service, jobs, and taxpayer dollars. Here are our recent legislative victories you need to know about.
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Here are 5 bills that would open the floodgate of VA privatization and take away resources from the VA.
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The VA hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas has been severely understaffed for years, and management did little to improve the situation. To keep their patients safe, their nurses took to the streets to speak up.
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For veterans spending the final years of their lives at the Miles City nursing home, this is their home. But for some VA administrators, this nursing home is just a concrete structure that could be disposed of anytime.
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There’s a reason there are three branches of government – to create a check and balance system in which no one branch of our government could become too powerful. Our founding fathers had several goals, but the most important of all was to avoid tyranny and defend democracy. This concept is central to the creation of labor unions. Unions provide checks and balances in the workplace against bad management and an abuse of power.
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As Congress and the administration are expanding the use of private, for-profit hospitals under their "Choice" privatization program, veterans groups are making it clear that the program should only be just a temporary fix while Congress invests in a stronger VA.
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The Trump administration is pulling a reverse Robin Hood, stealing from veterans to funnel money to wealthy private hospital CEOs and special interests.
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Politicians’ years of anti-government rhetoric and cuts to employee pay and benefits is one of the main reasons the VA is having difficulty recruiting qualified individuals. Instead of making it easier for people to come work for the VA, politicians are doubling down on worker attacks.
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Politicians are lying about how public servants use 'official time.' This woman came to Washington to shatter the myth.
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Without fixing the current law, veterans who work at the VA have to take unpaid sick leave to receive medical care for their service-related injuries.
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A new bill targeting whistleblowers and union representatives is being considered in the House. Here are two ways it would punish whistleblowers and union reps who try to protect them.
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The VA is the best and only integrated healthcare system tailored entirely to veterans' needs. But to profit-hungry hospital CEOs and corporate insiders, there’s money to be made off veterans’ well-being...if only the VA could just go away.
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Thousands will be forced off the job when their appointments end due to the hiring freeze instituted by President Trump.
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2016 was a year of challenges and triumphs. Revisit photos of the moments that made 2016 memorable.
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