Veterans Affairs

Tell Congress: Protect union rights of VA nurses and federal employees!

An executive order signed on March 27th seeks to strip federal employees of their protected union rights — this is a direct attack on workers' rights that will impact the hard-won collective bargaining agreement that covers over 15,000 union registered nurses in the Veterans Health Administration.

Additionally, the executive order targets public health workers at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and hundreds of thousands more at other federal agencies. This order will make it harder or even impossible for these federal workers to do their jobs safely and will negatively affect public health.

VA nurses provide high-quality, therapeutic care to our veteran patients every single day. We cannot stand by and allow this administration to intimidate and silence us.

Click here to call your U.S. representative and senators using our script to demand that they step up to protect health care workers’ rights to advocate for patients with the guaranteed protections of a union.

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