The agreement rolls over the remainder of the union’s 2011 master collective bargaining agreement for the next three years. Image: DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe VA and the AFGE union have reached a contract agreement which, if ratified by the union’s members and receiving the department’s final endorsement, would end protracted and often contentious negotiations involving one of the government’s largest bargaining units.
The agreement “modernizes VA hiring procedures and rolls over the remainder of the union’s 2011 master collective bargaining agreement for the next three years,” said the union, which represents some 290,000 VA employees.
The then-Trump administration in 2017 had unilaterally opened the contract, leading to a series of legal challenges that continued until the Biden administration reached a settlement with the union in mid-2021 settling the complaints and setting ground rules for continued negotiations.
However, the union later filed a new complaint alleging violations of that settlement and asserting that the department was bargaining in bad faith. Earlier this year an arbitrator ruled in favor of the union on that complaint.
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