A former Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center employee, who wished to remain anonymous, recently shared her experience after being fired.
The workers sacked on Monday were all "bargaining-unit probationary employees" in "non-mission critical roles," according to the VA.
Like thousands of federal workers fired by the Trump administration, those who lost their jobs at Zablocki were all probationary employees.
The scope of the layoffs locally are still unknown, but the VA has announced more than 1,200 workers would be terminated over the past two weeks.
Federal employees at the Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee were fired Monday as part of a Trump Administration push to reduce government spending.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) said at least two former Veterans Crisis Line employees have told her office they are in the process of being rehired at the VA.
The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday fired another 1,400 employees amid outcry over a lack of transparency from the agency after 1,000 workers were axed earlier this month. The VA
More than a half-dozen veterans service groups presented their legislative priorities at a joint hearing of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees and warned Congress that health care and other services that veterans rely on from the VA must be sustained and improved in a time of accelerated cost-cutting to government programs.
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Veterans Affairs leaders dismissed more than 1,400 additional probationary employees on Monday evening, the second round of mass layoffs at the department this month. Monday’s dismissals included bargaining-unit employees who have served less than two years in their posts.