Category: Updates

You Need Representation, The Time Is Now. The Need For Change Is Long Overdue.

You care so much about your patients, coworkers, and clients that you continue to provide the best care, dedication, and commitment you can muster each day, regardless of the disappointment and careless actions concerning policy, pay, and the balance between your career and life. It’s exhausting. I know this firsthand from working as a technician…
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Free College For IAM Members and Their Immediate Family

In addition to providing the services and resources that meet the needs of our members while on the job, the IAM is proud to offer valuable member resources outside the workplace. These include: Free College Veteran Services Retiree Programs Disaster Relief Union Plus Discounts. For more information on many other resources outside the workplace, please…
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Message from NVPU President Liz Hughston

VCA’s anti-union consultants may have told you that the employees at the practices that have voted to unionize have lost their pet benefits.  As with most of what these people will tell you, that is a lie.  No benefits have been taken away from any of the employees of the hospitals that have voted to…
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President Liz Hughston NVPU

Our union was started as a way to help veterinary support staff reclaim their voice in their practices.  The NVPU is fighting for better benefits, increased pay, transparent policies, and to give veterinary support staff more control over the direction of their work life.  Our movement is gaining ground across the country, and we are…
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Smear and Fears Campaign

The VCA Corporation has proven time and again they will spend an extreme amount of money to keep the workers in clinics and hospitals from having a voice on the job. We thought it would be beneficial to share just one of the many attempts by the VCA Corporation to scare, intimidate and mislead workers…
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