AFGE Local 138 President Linda Parker-Cooks urges VBA to improve their employee training techniques and to ensure quality claim processing methods.
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AFGE Local 17 Second Vice President Nicholas Keogh last week told lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to raise the salary cap of Board of Veterans’ Appeals attorneys so that the agency can retain experienced attorneys and attract the best candidates.
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AFGE Local 2823 President James Swartz identifies important reforms that the VA should make in its National Work Queue.
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Veterans’ trust in the work of Department of Veterans Affairs employees has reached an all-time high at 80.4%!
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Nurses working at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities in Northern California are slated to receive retroactive promotion and back pay as a result of a class settlement reached between AFGE and the VA.
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AFGE is urging Congress to extend law enforcement officer status to federal police officers so they can retire with dignity.
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Department of Veterans Affairs clinicians are one step closer to being able to file a grievance challenging errors in their paychecks.
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An AFGE representative last week testified before Congress urging lawmakers to pass a bill to ensure that all Department of Veterans Affairs employees are accurately compensated for working overtime, the night shift, weekend shift, or on a holiday.
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AFGE is working with members of Congress to pass H.R. 6538, the “VA Correct Compensation Act of 2023” that would allow Title 38 employees to challenge payment errors.
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AFGE Local 17 President Douglas Massey last week testified before a congressional committee, detailing issues that impede the work of attorneys who adjudicate veterans’ claims and making recommendations on how to improve the process and better serve veterans.
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Holding signs that read “Dignity, Fairness, Respect”, a group of workers Nov. 21 stood in the rain in front of the Cincinnati VA hospital calling for better working conditions and fair treatment of the VA staff.
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AFGE welcomed employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Clinical Contact Center (CCC) in California and Nevada to the AFGE family following a recent union election.
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A week of Veteran Employee Recognition activities is held at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center.
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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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