At the VA Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, nurses are leaving in droves to go work for other VA facilities or private hospitals in the area that provide better pay
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AFGE recently won reinstatement and two and a half years of back pay for a nursing assistant at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Long Beach Medical Center in California after an arbitrator ruled that she had been wrongly terminated.
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The fourth episode of AFGE’s new series, The Activist, highlighting our union members who have stepped up to help make a difference in the lives of their colleagues and our government.
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After six years of negotiations, AFGE’s National VA Council and the Department of Veterans Affairs signed a collective bargaining agreement that defends critical protections for VA workers while modernizing the hiring process.
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AFGE and the VA have reached a settlement in which nearly 5,000 VA employees were wrongfully disciplined and terminated under the controversial firing law enacted in June 2017.
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A new nationwide patient survey confirms what AFGE has been saying all along – that the Department of Veterans Affairs’ hospitals are superior to non-VA counterparts.
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Nearly one third of VA employees are veterans, and they are proud to serve one another in the nation’s largest and best health care system.
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After over five years of unwavering dedication, members of the AFGE National VA Council have ratified the 2023 Master Agreement with the VA.
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On Tuesday, June 6, AFGE NVAC National Representative Dave Bump testified before two subcommittees of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
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In a victory for AFGE and employees of the VA Roseburg Healthcare System in Oregon, an arbitrator ordered the VA to restore all vacation and sick leave and reimburse all leave without pay for employees who took time off or were told to stay home due to COVID-19.
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A bill has been introduced in the House and Senate to set minimum nurse staffing levels at hospitals, including federal facilities, to protect both patients and nurses.
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AFGE’s National VA Council and the Department of Veterans Affairs have reached a tentative agreement that defends critical protections for VA workers while modernizing the hiring process.
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The Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute and AFGE’s National VA Council last week released a report on the results of a survey which asked employees about the impact of recent legislation and administrative actions on employees, veterans, and their families.
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Whether working on-site or remotely, VA workers have been “showing up” to carry out the VA’s missions.
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In a major victory for AFGE National VA Council, an arbitrator recently ruled that the Department of Veterans Affairs has engaged in bad faith bargaining and ordered the agency to cease and desist its pattern of unlawful conduct.
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