News

News Articles

• VA’s Real-Time Location System: A way to improve patient safety, or Big Brother? | Nextgov.com
• Psychologist cites waits at Wilmington VA | Delaware Online
• VA staff shortages still impacting care, PTSD experts say | Stars and Stripes
• Hospital Official: VA ‘Games’ Patient Schedules | Military.com
• VA May Get Audit After Official Testifies of Understaffing | ExecutiveGov
• Senators tell VA to speed up care for mentally ill vets | Miami Herald
• Critics: Overloaded VA should seek outside help for mental health care | Stars and Stripes
• Senate panel calls for probe of VA mental health services | Washington Post
• Senators slam VA on mental health appointments | Military Times
• Senate panel hears of battles for care by veterans with PTSD | USA Today
• Veterans Affairs to open new rehab center in Port Orange | The Daytona Beach News-Journal
• Stand down raises awareness of services available to homeless veterans |The Billings Gazette
• VA’s 11-day, $221k resort stay draws scrutiny | Federal Times
• Tester seeks funding for additional veterans center in state | The Billings Gazette
• Lawmakers praise progress on Arlington problems | Air Force Times
• New VA training video produced by Iraq vet | Washington Post
• House dem says GOP veterans bill violates Norquist tax pledge | The Hill
• House to VA: improve sexual assault reporting | Air Force Times
• The Miami VA effectively responds to mental health issues of veterans | The Westside Gazette
• Sioux Falls VA healthcare system launches campaign to help homeless veterans | KDLT.com
• U.S. House passes Foxx’s bill to give veterans’ spouses access to home loans | Winston-Salem Journal
• Beyond the Battlefield: as wounded veterans struggle to recover, caregivers share the pain | HuffingtonPost.com 
• Beyond the Battlefield: lack of long-term care can lead to tragic ends for wounded veterans | HuffingtonPost.com

News Releases

11/30/2011 – AFGE Testifies Before VA Senate Committee on Access Woes Plaguing the VA Mental Health Care System 9/21/2011 – AFGE’s VA Council Denounces Unfair Treatment of VA Employees 6/30/2011 – AFGE Applauds Senate VA Committee’s Passage of Collective Bargaining Law for VA Medical Professionals 6/27/2011 – AFGE Calls for Increased Mental Health Services and Staffing to Treat Veterans with PTSD 6/9/2011 – AFGE Testifies Before VA Senate Committee on VA’s Refusal to Follow Its Own Pay Laws 5/6/2011 – AFGE Celebrates National Nurses Week With Renewed Fight to Strengthen Voice at Work for Federal health Care Professionals 5/5/2011 – One Year Later: VA’s Refusal to Comply With Nurse Protections in Landmark Caregiver Law Persists 3/28/2011 – AFGE, VA Sign New Collective Bargaining Agreement 02/17/2011 – The WRONG Direction for Funding the Needs of America’s Veterans 01/03/2011 – AFGE Applauds Elimination of Federal Career Intern Program 12/15/2010 – Two AFGE Officials Named to Federal Salary Council 12/03/2010 – AFGE Urges Congress to Reject Deficit Commission Plan 12/01/2010 – Deficit Commission Cuts Target Federal Workers, American Taxpayers 11/10/2010 – Statement by American Federation of Government Employees National President John Gage on USA Today article on Federal Pay 11/05/2010 – AFGE Applauds MSPB Ruling Against Federal Career Intern Program 10/18/2010 – New Poll Gives High Marks to Federal Employees 10/13/2010 – Voters Beware of ‘Bumper Sticker Solutions,’ Union Warns 10/06/2010 – AFGE Urges Use of Federal Employees, not Contractors, if VA Takes Over Arlington Cemetery

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