To amend title 38, United States Code, to affirm a collective bargaining agreement, and to nullify certain Executive orders that relate to, collective bargaining by employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Nullifies two executive orders that excluded Department of Veterans Affairs employees from federal labor-management relations programs and bars federal funds from implementing those orders at VA.
Who Benefits and How
VA employees and their unions could retain collective-bargaining and labor-relations protections that the executive orders would have limited.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA leadership could lose the ability to rely on those orders, and the department would be blocked from spending funds to carry them out.
Key Provisions
- Declares Executive Orders 14251 and 14343 ineffective as applied to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Bars federal funds from being obligated or spent to implement those orders at VA.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Nullifies two executive orders that excluded Department of Veterans Affairs employees from federal labor-management relations programs and bars federal funds from implementing those orders at VA.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans Affairs, Labor, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Nullifies two executive orders that excluded Department of Veterans Affairs employees from federal labor-management relations programs and bars federal funds from implementing those orders at VA.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Veterans Affairs employees and labor organizations
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Veterans Affairs leadership and managers responsible for labor-relations policy
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Blumenthal (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, and Mr. Schumer) introduced …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Department of Veterans Affairs management implementing labor-relations exclusions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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