Veterans Affairs

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Nurse on picket line in the rain, wearing ponchos, holding signs "No Cuts: A Healthy VA = Health Veterans"

Nurses, federal workers at Atlanta VA Medical Center to urge protection of veteran services

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United and American Federation of Government Employees Local 518 (AFGE Local 518) will hold a protest on Saturday, April 26 in response to the current administration’s directive for large-scale reductions-in-force (RIFs) and elimination of union workers’ collective bargaining rights.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
April 23, 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

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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