Hi John,

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the backbone of support for our nation’s brave heroes, providing essential health care, benefits and services that veterans have earned through their service.

But the VA is under attack.  

This week, the Trump administration announced that it is ripping up the union contracts of more than 400,000 VA workers—a brazen act of retaliation against the workers and unions who have been standing up to the administration’s illegal actions in court and in the streets.

This union-busting decision is an ambush on the very people who care for our country’s veterans and their right to stand together in a union. It will undoubtedly harm the lifesaving services veterans desperately need. 

But we have a way to reverse this decision. 

There’s a bipartisan bill in Congress that would overturn President Trump’s executive order and restore collective bargaining rights to federal workers—including those at the VA. The bill already has a majority of members of Congress—Democrats AND Republicans—signed on as co-sponsors. 

We just need a few more members of Congress to sign a piece of paper called a “discharge petition” to bring that bill to the floor for a vote.  

Will you call your representative and urge them to sign the discharge petition and speak out in support of the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) right now? Enter your information on this form to receive a call back or dial 844-994-4554 to get started.

More than 1 million union members and thousands more union retirees are veterans. For our federal workers at the VA who depend on our unions to fight for them, and for all the working people who depend on a strong VA for their care, we must stop the job cuts and union-busting.

But this is also bigger than the VA. If Trump thinks he can rip up federal workers’ union contracts with the stroke of a pen, he can do it to every worker in America.

Make no mistake: This is an attack on every union member, every union contract, and the freedom for every single person to have a union on the job and the freedom to speak out. 

We have the bipartisan votes we need in Congress to undo this union-busting. We just need to get the bill to the floor for a vote. 

Call your member of Congress, and urge them to sign the discharge petition and speak out for the Protect America’s Workforce Act. 

Thank you for making a call to help us restore fundamental union rights to workers providing critical veterans’ services.

In solidarity, 

Team AFL-CIO

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