[Mercat]

Are the VA employees all civil service union types?

[Robert DeLong]

Yes

[airborne]

That's one of the biggest hurdles for the new VA head, "Bob" McDonald.

The unions protect the employees at the expense of the veterans.

[Safetgiver]

Are the VA employees all civil service union types?......I believe so. Elsewise, how do they get away with this crap?

[hanamizu]

Don’t know about union, but civil service, yes. Between real jobs I worked for a few months at a VA, raking leaves. The pay was easily twice minimum wage. We’d rake the leaves, fill a pickup truck with them and take them to the city dump. We’d then sit at the dump, for an hour to avoid raking more leaves. When we got back, we’d take a break, load another truck load and go back to the dump. Then it was lunch time. There were three of us and we might make four trips to the dump a day.

The same work-ethic applied to the guys who inside. A guy might take an hour mopping one landing of a stair case. I assume the same attitude went all the way up the food chain to the guy sitting in hospital’s director’s chair.