Veterans Department Ends Labor Union Work
16 November 2018
Trey Kovacs, Policy Analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been paying certain employees to conduct labor union business on the taxpayer dime and how the agency announced it would be putting 430 medical professionals back to work for veterans.
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