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A long negotiatied labor agreement covering 300,000-plus Veterans Affairs workers was signed Tuesday in Salem.

The agreement comes just weeks after an arbitrator found that the Veterans Affairs Department engaged in bad faith bargaining with the federal employee ...

AFGE represents roughly 291,000 VA employees and nearly 80% of all VA public servants are bargaining union employees.

The largest federal employee union is claiming several Veterans Affairs Department facilities unfairly limited or denied administrative leave to employees…

Labor leaders are urging lawmakers to vote to repeal a longstanding bar against negotiating over matters affecting patient care before the end of Congre...

Despite edicts from President Biden and VA Secretary Denis McDonough to establish more collaborative labor-management relations and empower labor groups...

A bipartisan bill would effectively take two portions of the 2017 VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act that were nullified by federal cour...

By Natalie Alms   The lack of national direction from the Department of Veterans Affairs on issuance of pandemic "premium pay" has left regional VA networks and local facilities to decide which employees get additional pay for working on the front lines of the pandemic -- and how much. Premium pay is an umbrella term for additions to base pay, said Thomas Dargon, staff council at the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 260,000 VA employees. There isnt a national VA p...