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Nurses in hallway holding signs "No Cuts: A Healthy VA = Healthy Vets"

Cincinnati nurses denounce VA staffing cuts and attacks on federal workers, saying they will erode veteran care

Registered nurses at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center will hold a rally on Wednesday, May 21, to demand the administration abandon plans to cut some 80,000 workers from the VA, to reinstate VA workers’ full union rights, and to stop attacks on nurse benefits.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
May 19, 2025

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Veteran service member saluting

Opinion: Keep veterans’ health care out of the profit-making business

Military veterans beware. I am writing to let your readers know there is serious discussion by the current administration in Washington, D.C. to privatize the Veterans Administration’s health services and place the welfare of America’s veterans in the hands of corporate magnates like the Koch brothers and other profit-driven entrepreneurs.

John Spitzberg writing for Juneau Empire
January 8, 2019

Blog

Large group of nurses outside Capitol building holding banner "Strong Union, Nurses, Veterans"

Support the VA Employee Fairness Act

When ER nurses show up for work at the UC San Diego Hospital they don’t know who will come through the door needing care; an elderly woman having a heart attack, a newborn struggling to

National Nurses United
June 13, 2018