I’ve never been in a VA hospital, but I have known nurses working at one.
its a federal government bureaucracy, pure and simple. One need not say anything more to understand the situation.
Are VA Hospitals also staffed by union employees like SEIU or AFSCME? Avoid those as well, if you can.
AFGE.
BTW, I was AFSCME when I was at the state unemployment office. Always wanted to get elected as a delegate to the RNC, as AFSCME would have had to pay all my expenses. They had that rule, of course, for their members going to the DNC, but I was prepared to sue them if they balked.