AFGE will continue fighting the administration’s attempts to terminate the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 300,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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A federal judge intervened late last week to prevent the Department of Veterans Affairs from illegally terminating the labor contract covering 320,000 employees represented by AFGE.
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AFGE’s National Veterans Affairs Council (NVAC) went back to court last week to prevent the Department of Veterans Affairs from illegally terminating our collective bargaining agreement covering more than 320,000 VA employees.
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AFGE is urging members of Congress to reject legislation introduced last week that would undercut earned benefits for our nation’s military veterans, strip workplace rights and protections from thousands of psychologists at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and push more veterans outside the VA for their health care.
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In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit kept the largest collective bargaining agreement covering Department of Veterans Affairs employees in place.
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Noncompetitive pay and benefits are resulting in critical shortages of law enforcement officers across the Department of Veterans Affairs, an AFGE local leader testified before a Senate committee last week.
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In a significant win, a federal judge on Friday granted a motion filed by the AFGE National Veterans Affairs Council to enforce a preliminary injunction order reinstating the collective bargaining contract covering more than 300,000 employees.
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On March 26, Dennis “Sarge” Guerrero, of AFGE Local 3511, traveled to Capitol Hill to testify on the need for the Department of Veterans Affairs to stop its plan to downgrade VA police officers.
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AFGE and its National Veterans Affairs Council are calling on a federal court to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to comply with a judge’s order restoring AFGE’s master collective bargaining agreement with the VA and all subsidiary agreements.
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This Women’s History Month, AFGE proudly recognizes a labor giant in our movement, National Veterans Affairs Council President Emerita Alma L. Lee.
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A federal judge has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to reinstate the union contract covering 320,000 VA employees represented by AFGE in a major victory over the implementation of President Trump’s union-busting executive orders.
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AFGE’s National VA Council will soon begin bargaining over the Department of Veterans Affairs’ intention to resume the use of enhanced disciplinary measures that the agency previously used to wrongfully fire thousands of VA workers.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to eliminate as many as 35,000 unfilled health care positions this month, including doctors, nurses, and support staff.
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Senior members of Congress, along with the newly elected leader of AFGE’s National Veterans Affairs Council, are defending the right of VA employees to join and form a union.
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Delegates at the National Veterans Affairs Council (NVAC)’s 25th Triennial Convention recently elected new officers.
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