Veterans Affairs Nurses

Nurses and Veterans to Rally in Washington, D.C. to Protect Veterans’ Health Care at the VA

RNs and veterans with Vietnam Veterans of America are holding a rally to demand that Congress and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie work expediently to provide the VA the funding and staff necessary to ensure the highest quality of care for our nation’s veterans and to restore full labor protections to nurses, said National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU).

National Nurses United

March 13, 2019

• Veterans Affairs, • CNA/NNOC

• District of Columbia

RNs and Veterans Rally to Protect Veterans’ Health Care at the VA

RNs with National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) and veterans with San Diego Veterans for Peace are calling on the VA Secretary, Robert Wilkie, to fully fund and staff the VA, and reject the implementation of proposed rules that will divert billions of taxpayer dollars designated for the VA and veterans’ health care into the private sector.

National Nurses United

February 25, 2019

• Veterans Affairs

• California

RNs Applaud the Reintroduction of VA Employee Fairness Act

National Nurses United applauds Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) on the reintroduction of federal legislation that restores full collective bargaining rights for nurses and other clinicians at the Veterans Administration medical facilities, which they say is essential to assuring high-quality care for our nation’s veterans.

National Nurses United

February 13, 2019

• Veterans Affairs

• Nationwide

Listen Carefully... The Veterans Administration Is Already Engaged in Privatization

Ahead of Robert Willkie’s confirmation as the new Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Trump loyalists at the agency took aggressive steps to purge or reassign staff members perceived to be disloyal to President Trump and his agenda for veterans, according to multiple people familiar with the moves.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

August 21, 2018

• Nurse Talk

• Veterans Affairs

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

• Veterans Affairs

• Nationwide

Protect Veterans, Oppose Dangerous Bill

On behalf of National Nurses United, the nationâ€™s largest union and professional association of registered nurses, representing 185,000 nurses across the United States, including more than 10,000 RNs working at 23 Veterans Administration facilities, I am writing to urge you to oppose the draft legislation prepared by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers that would significantly endanger the health care of millions of veterans by shifting to a privatized system.

National Nurses United

June 21, 2016

• Veterans Affairs

• Nationwide

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

• Veterans Affairs

• Nationwide

Op-Ed: Veteran Wants VA System Saved

Here just after observing Armistice Day to mark 100 years since the end of WWI, and to mourn death and suffering, instead of glorifying war and using veterans as ad copy to sell consumer goods, a p

Ellen Barfield, U.S. Army Sergeant

November 29, 2018

• Veterans Affairs