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American Federation of Government Employees
Veterans' Affairs Employee Union Urges Congress to Strengthen Collective Bargaining Rights at VA Hospitals
March 7th, 2009
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today applauded the efforts of Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Representative Bob Filner, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs for authoring legislation to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, expanding the workplace voice and negotiating rights of physicians, dentists, registered nurses and other frontline health care employees in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Sen. Rockefeller and Rep. Filner introduced legislation, S.362 and H.R. 949, clarifying Congress' clear intent to afford VA health care professionals the same collective bargaining...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-03-07)
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