The VA and Unions

 The VA and Unions.
  Most of the policies that contribute to the inefficiency of the VA have been created by the 5 or 6 unions to which the VA employees belong and some work for as shop stewards. The unions through collective bargaining have set working policies that no business could ever survive and remain solvent in funds or operating efficiency.   
  These Collective bargaining agreements set policy and not the administrators. These contracts set policies in which ineffective employees can't be punished or fired from their position. If egregious enough they are temporarily put on paid administrative leave or transferred to another department taking years of administrative rigmarole and legal proceedings to permanently dismiss from their jobs and possible criminal charges. We have those before congress today costing thousands of dollars a day and will end up with little or no action taken..
  The only way to improve government including the VA is to remove the unions from collective bargaining power at all levels of government, at all administrative, legal, and law enforcement levels of jobs. All these people work for the tax payers not the unions nor their administrators. The administrators are hired to insure that the regular employees remain efficient and are capable in doing their assigned tasks and fire them when they become liabilities instead of assets. We have more ass settings than assets in government jobs. When an administrator is just a politically appointed figure head as most are in the governments of this country, they are ineffective toys for us to watch bumble through their term.
  So, they passed a bill that allows him to fire whatever VA employees they wish to clean up the mess. That means they will fire (or temporarily lay off) several lower level sacrificial lambs so he can brag that he has taken care of the problem. By the way, in 2008 when he was campaigning and raising Hell about Bush not taking care of the problem, there were 11,000 delayed cases. Today there are over 245,000. He really took care of the problem in the last 5 1/2 years???
  Remember in November, a vote for a Demoncrat is a vote for more of the same. A vote for a Demoncrat is a vote for Communism, Tyranny, Poverty, Oppression, Death and Despair. Use your brains people!!!