The Veterans Affairs employee union helps torpedo a plan to even think about rearranging V-A facilities.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents a couple of hundred thousand Veterans Affairs employees, is gleeful these days. It helped shoot down a plan for an independent review board to look at VA’s proposals for rearranging its nationwide map of facilities. To find our why they oppose the planso much, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the First Executive President of AFGE’s national VA council, Mary Jane Burke.