Two executive orders signed earlier this year seek to strip federal workers — including thousands of VA nurses — of their protected union rights.

This is a direct attack on workers' rights that will impact the hard-won collective bargaining agreement that covers over 15,000 union registered nurses in the Veterans Health Administration.

Call your U.S. representative to demand that they protect VA nurses’ right to advocate for patients with the guaranteed protections of a union by voting YES on the Protect America's Workforce Act (H.R. 2550/S. 2837).

A vote on this crucial bill could happen any day now, and we need all of us to step up. Please forward this email to ask three friends, family members, or coworkers to join you in taking action.

The Trump administration’s executive orders illegally revoking federal workers’ union rights are an outrageous attack on all workers and a blatant union-busting effort.

In addition to nurses at the VA, these executive orders target public health workers at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and hundreds of thousands more at other federal agencies. These orders will make it harder or even impossible for these federal workers to do their jobs safely and will negatively affect public health.

After you’ve called your member of Congress, please share why this is important to you in a Letter to the Editor of your local media outlets. We have created an easy-to-use tool to help you write and submit the letter.

All you have to do is click here and follow the instructions!

Protecting our union rights is urgent for VA nurses and our veteran patients: an Inspector General report found severe staffing shortages at the VA had increased by 50 percent in the last year, with nearly 4 out of 5 VA facilities having “severe shortages” of nurses. 

We need safe staffing now, and we need to be able to advocate for our veteran patients with our union protections to resolve safety issues and advocate for improvements to patient care.

So now is the time when our elected representatives must decide: Do you stand with nurses and our nation’s veterans, or are you against us?

Please call your member of Congress and urge them to vote yes on the Protect America’s Workforce Act. You can use the script below, and if you’re a veteran, federal worker, or other health care worker, please be sure to mention that in your call.

In solidarity,

National Nurses United