{"id":172470,"date":"2025-08-07T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172470"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:49:47","slug":"va-fires-federal-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172470","title":{"rendered":"VA Fires Federal Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172471 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/union-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/union-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/union-500x192.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/union-768x295.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/union.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Union Label<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>VA severs ties with most federal unions, terminating worker contracts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Leo Shane III<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Veterans Affairs leaders on Wednesday announced plans to terminate nearly all of its collective bargaining contracts with federal unions, upending employment agreements for hundreds of thousands of department workers.<\/p>\n<p>The move affects members of the American Federation of Government Employees, the AFL-CIO (AFGE), the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE), the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), the National Nurses Organizing Committee\/National Nurses United (NNOC\/NNU) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).<\/p>\n<p>AFGE alone represents about 300,000 employees working for VA. About 80% of the department\u2019s roughly 450,000-person staff are union members.<\/p>\n<p>Department officials said the move was made to \u201cmake it easier for VA leaders to promote high-performing employees, hold poor performers accountable, and improve benefits and services to America\u2019s veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, VA Secretary Doug Collins attacked the unions as inefficient and harmful to veterans\u2019 care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/08\/06\/va-severs-ties-with-most-federal-unions-terminating-worker-contracts\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has signed executive orders to strip union&#8217;s collective bargaining, fire probationary employees and those in DEI positions, and re-categorize political appointees to limit their civil service protections. Union leaders have protested proposed cuts at VA and other federal agencies, and have filed numerous lawsuits against the president\u2019s proposed changes to the federal bureaucracy. SCOTUS and multiple appellate courts knocked down injunctions against Trump\u2019s mandates to restructure the government clearing the way for his vision of reducing administrative bloat and government inefficiency. In other words, the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Label VA severs ties with most federal unions, terminating worker contracts By Leo Shane &hellip; <a title=\"VA Fires Federal Unions\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172470\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA Fires Federal Unions<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":172471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}