National Nurses United

VA touts its largest nursing workforce, but union says they’re ‘chronically understaffed’

The VA employs the largest nursing workforce in the country. But a nurses union says VA is leaving positions unfilled, spreading VA nurses thin.

Unions

FILE - This June 5, 2014, file photo shows the Cincinnati VA Medical Center in Cincinnati. In connection with a probe of the Cincinnati hospital's management and veterans' care, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, that the director of the Ohio-based network that serves some 500,000 veterans including in Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, Jack Hetrick, is retiring after his proposed removal, and the Cincinnati hospital's acting chief of staff, Barbara Temeck, has been suspended pending administrative action. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers, File)

A group of VA nurses sounds the alarm on a new patient practice

Veterans Affairs

AP/Charles Dharapak

Years of negotiating and now a VA nurses union has a new contract

Unions

Unions want VA to educate employees on pandemic resources

Federal Newscast

Tim Kaine, Mark Warner

Senators want more tax help for federal employees who relocate

Federal Newscast