‘Billing Taxpayers For Union Work Is Our Right’ Veterans Affairs human resources officer Jacquelyn Hayes-Byrd: Union “official time” harms sick veterans. Credit: VA.GOV So-Called ‘Official Time’ Negatively Affects Patient Care Less than a week after Donald Trump was elected as…
GAO: taxpayers dropped $61 million for federal workers’ union organizing activities last year As a taxpayer, ever wonder why someone does not pick up the phone when you call the government? It could be because that someone is being paid…
According to a new report, the Federal Government paid government employees for 3.43 million hours that they worked exclusively on union activities. Using the Washington Post’s…
How many federal employees does AFL-CIO Boss Dick Trumka control? Official Time creates a shadow government workforce controlled by union bosses and paid for by taxpayers. Taxpayer Paid No-Show Jobs From the…
When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001, several New York-New Jersey Port Authority police officers were being paid by the Port Authority to do union business on a full-time basis. In fact, the Port…
The IRS paid union officials for 521,725 hours though they were working for the IRS union the entire time. That’s the equivalent of over 260 full-time employees, yet the IRS claimed that only 201 employees were paid by the IRS. If the IRS claim…
Committee Fights Against ‘Official Time’ For Federal Union Bosses (click to download newsletter) One critical early milestone in the rise of government unionism in America was President John…
Your tax dollars are working for Big Labor. The Washington Examiner looks at how Big Labor uses tax-funded official time to build its political machine.
In many cases, “official time” is no more than taxpayer-funded no-show jobs. When union officials are on official time, they are without any direction or control from the the federal government even though taxpayers are paying. Many federal employees who have official time status work all year…