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Richard Blumenthal, Mark Takano and Nikki Budzinski: Don’t blame unions for VA’s problems - The Washington Post
As senior leaders of Congress’s Committees on Veterans’ Affairs, and longtime advocates of empowering the Department of Veterans Affairs workforce to better serve veterans, we were concerned by the Dec. 7 editorial “America’s veterans deserve better care than government unions provide.”
The unionized VA workforce has consistently been an essential steward for patient safety and a voice against the executive branch’s potential despotism. Unions also give employees the confidence and safety needed to blow the whistle on their concerns. Federal unions cannot strike, nor can they negotiate their pay.