Will say that this ended most of the collective negotiation agreements
The decision puts an end to the union protections of 377,000 employees, or more than three-quarters of VA’s workforce.
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The Veterans Department said on Wednesday that it ended most of its contracts with the federal employees of employees, one of the most important consequences on the date of a March decree which sought to eliminate collective negotiation on a large bunch of agencies for reasons of “national security”.
In a statement, the ministry said that he had informed five major unions that their collective negotiation agreements will end, with immediate effect. The affected unions are the US Federation of Government employees, the National Association of Government employees, the National Federation of Federal Employees, the National Nurses organizing the United National Committee / Nurses United and the International Union of Service Employees.
According to federal employment files, until Wednesday, will have more than 377,000 employees represented by unions on a total workforce of 483,000. The only exceptions to the places of contract were for the police, the firefighters and the security personnel who were exempt from the decree. Officials said there were around 4,000 employees in these exempt groups.
Although the March initial ordinance used a legal provision which allows the president to suspend collective negotiations for national security reasons, the announcement of VOIS on Wednesday made no reference to national security. Instead, the department officials said they were putting an end to the agreements because the unions “have repeatedly opposed important and bipartite reforms of the AV and have rewarded the wrong employees for fault”. They said that the end of collective negotiations for VA employees would allow these workers to spend more time with veterans.
“Too often, the unions that represent the employees of VA are fighting against the best veterans while protecting and rewarding the bad workers,” said VA secretary Doug Collins in a statement. “We ensure that the resources go and that the employees focus singularly on the work we have been sent here: provide first -rate care and services to those who wore uniform.”
The American Federation of Government employees, which represented the vast majority of the syndicated VA workforce – 319,000 employees – said in a statement that contract layers were “indignation”.
“The Real Real Reason Collins Wants Afge Out of the Va is because we have successfully ferght againstrous, anti-veteran recommendations from the Asset Infrastructure Review Which Would Have Shut Down Several Rural Va HospitalS and Clinics, Opposed the Trump Administration’s Plan To Dismantle Veteran Health Care Through the Cutting of 83,000 Jobs, and consistly Educated the American People About How Private, FOR-PROFIT VETERAN Healthcare is more exisseed and results in Worse Results for veterans, “said Everett Kelley, National President of Afge. to fight for our members and the veterans they are dealing with. ”
The unions sought to block the application of the executive decree, but the recent decisions of the Court of Appeal gave the Trump administration the green light to make the contracts of the contract while the prosecution continues to make their way into the judicial system.
Last week, the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request for administration to suspend a lower justice decision which concluded that the anti-Union work was a form of reprisals for the discourse protected by the first amendment of labor organizations. This statement was based, in part, on a white house information sheet which said that the president had signed the order because the unions were “hostile” to his policies, and that he “supports constructive partnerships with unions working with him”.
However, the Court of Appeal concluded that the president would probably have ended contracts even if the discourse protected by the unions were not a problem.
“At first glance, the order does not express any charges of reprisals. [Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute] In accordance with national security, “wrote the committee of three judges in its advice of August 1.” Even accepting for argument that certain declarations of the information sheet reflect a degree of animal reprisals towards the activities of the first amendment of the complainants, the information sheet, taken as a whole, also demonstrates the accent put by the President on national security. »»
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