To: UVAE Locals For many years, services to Canada’s veterans and their families have been eroded and reduced. This has happened through underfunding and inaction by governments of various political stripes. Now growing privatization and contracting out have steadily diminished these services and the work of PSAC/UVAE members has been transferred to the for-profit sector. …
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Internal documents obtained by the Union of Veterans’ Affairs Employees under an access to information request show that employees are worried about the new $560 million dollar Rehab Contract and the impact on the Veterans they serve. “While the Minister is silent and the Department is claiming that everything is great, employees are sounding the …
The UVAE Vice-President was interviewed July 11th about Veterans Affairs Canada’s efforts to contract out rehabilitation and vocational training plans (in french only).
Dear Minister MacAulay, I guess you must be having a busy summer. Maybe that’s why you got the Deputy Minister to respond to our letter to you of June 14. Just received July 14th. That’s simply not good enough. We expect that you as the political leader of this Department would respond personally and not …
Veterans Affairs saysUVAE response:“One national contract for all vital services “will cut the administrative burden on case managers, allowing them to spend more time with their veteran clients and less time on the paperwork.”They are removing the core of CM duties that gives them meaningful contact with their Veterans and maintaining the case loads at …
We recently received this letter in our office. It is from an anonymous Case Manager. We can’t respond personally so here is our public response. Dear Anonymous, We want you to know that we hear you. We know that you are overworked and feel burdened by the many pressures that the Department and your work …
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