BREAKING NEWS: VA Has Ended Payroll Deductions

We have received word, through a VA congressional liaison, that starting April 25, 2025, the Agency (VA) will cease processing 124,000 union members through payroll deductions. The VA will continue to process police officers, firefighters, and security guards.

VA STATEMENT:

“As of the April 25 payday, VA will stop withholding union dues from employees’ paychecks. The decision comes in response to President Trump’s executive order excluding certain federal agencies from labor-management relations programs.

More than 370,000 VA employees are in positions subject to a collective bargaining agreement, and this decision will affect the roughly 124,000 of those employees whose union dues are automatically deducted from their VA pay checks. This move will not impact the roughly 2,000 VA police officers, firefighters or security guards whose union dues are deducted from their VA pay checks.

Moving forward, VA employees are free to contribute to unions on their own, but VA will not automatically deduct union dues from employees’ paychecks except for the positions referenced above.”

Don’t Delay! It’s Time to Make the Switch to E-Dues