Some Executive Orders issued by President Donald Trump has some union employees at V. A. hospitals upset. Vicki Dodge is President of Local 1963 of the American Federation of Government Employees at the VA Illiana Health Care System in Danville. Dodge says the President signed three executive orders.
And Dodge says the President’s orders go against the master contract that has been approved with the union, so the union is taking the matter to court. Dodge claims the right to union representation is being taken away by the V.A.
Dodge had been spending 100-percent of her work hours in the union office at the Danville V.A. But now she says she must go back to her original career job, while continuing to handle union business. She also says the union has been told it must rent the office space and equipment at the V.A. if the union intends to continue to have an office there.
Representatives from the Veterans Administration were not immediately available for comment, but have since released a statement. (See other story on this website.) Meanwhile Dodge and some other union representatives are in Washington, D.C. for a hearing on the matter which is scheduled today (Wednesday, July 25, 2018).
