ObamaNation: At least $177 Million In Tax Dollars Paid For Federal Workers To Do Union Business

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ObamaNation: At least $177 Million In Tax Dollars Paid For Federal Workers To Do Union Business

 

 

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | February 21st, 2013 at 03:15 PM |

 

 

Many taxpayers may not realize that their tax dollars are used to pay government workers to actually conduct union business–not the work of the government.

 

This practice has the official name of Official Time and is defined by the Office of Personnel Management as:

Official time is time spent by Federal employees performing representational work for a bargaining unit in lieu of their regularly assigned work.

Unlike the private sector, where companies or unions pay union representatives to conduct “union business,” our system of government unions allows union representatives who happen to be federal employees time away from their normal duties in order to conduct union business–all at taxpayer expense.