AFGE denounced the passage of H.R. 1994, legislation that will destroy the due process rights of more than 350,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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One in three VA employees are veterans, but that doesn’t stop elected officials from the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs from passing legislation that would give VA managers a green light to fire front line employees whenever, wherever.
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Since launching our Big Enough to Win campaign earlier this year, AFGE has been actively growing memberships both through existing units and new units. We have won several union elections the past few months, giving us an opportunity to represent and provide workplace protections to employees who serve our country.
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Thanks to AFGE’s excellent legal representation, the Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to place hundreds of VA Central Office (VACO) employees into the AFGE bargaining unit!
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The House Veterans Affairs Committee has only one job: make sure our country’s veterans are taken care of. But on Wednesday it did the opposite. The panel voted to allow retaliation and discrimination against the very people who take care of our veterans. That means VA employees can no longer bring up issues that hurt veterans such as understaffing and mismanagement without the fear of being fired.
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AFGE lauds legislation introduced by Rep. Mark Takano of California that finally addresses accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in substantive and comprehensive ways. H.R. 2999, the Fair VA Accountability Act, takes meaningful steps to reduce mismanagement, protect whistleblowers from management retaliation, and hold individuals accountable without trampling on workplace and Constitutional rights.
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When our troops come home, the VA health system keeps our nation’s promise to care for those who have borne the battle. These brave men and women served their country, and providing quality, veteran-focused VA health care and benefits is the least our nation can do to serve them in return. According to a shocking new report issued this week, however, not everyone sees it that way.
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Federal employees who are veterans will now receive full veteran benefits as the Department of Veterans Affairs is extending all VA benefits to same-sex veterans following the Supreme Court’s decision last week which affirmed that all Americans have the right to marry the person they love, regardless of their sexual orientation or where they live.
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AFGE Local 2028 President Kathi Dahl had been working as a registered nurse at the VA hospital in Pittsburgh for more than 20 years when she heard that her coworker’s husband needed a kidney transplant and had been put on a waiting list.
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Because of AFGE Local 1020’s relentless fight, the Department of Veterans Affairs Marion National Cemetery in Indiana decided not to contract out some cemetery work for good.
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The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday approved with a minor revision a bill that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire all employees, including non-management, at will.
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The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday approved with a minor revision a bill that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire all employees, including non-management, at will.
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The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday approved with a minor revision a bill that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire all employees, including non-management, at will.
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Now more than ever, we are witnessing a spike in misleading and mean-spirited attacks on federal employees’ right to due process. This is a vital and eminently practical system that holds employees and management accountable to our nation’s ideals of an apolitical civil service, and one that is worth fighting for.
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AFGE General Counsel David Borer last week testified before the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on three pending bills that would affect VA employees represented by AFGE.
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