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Report: Taxpayers Potentially Paid Thousands of Union Officials
Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 19, 2017 | Bill McMorris

Posted on 04/19/2017 5:48:28 AM PDT by kevcol

Taxpayers spent $162.5 million on federal employees performing union activities in 2014, according to the Office of Personnel Management's most recent data. The Competitive Enterprise Institute used official budget documents and Freedom of Information Act requests to validate how many federal employees worked under such conditions
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The union workers included "nurses, therapists, pharmacists, a physician, and even a prosthetic limb specialist," according to Hice.

"Rather than helping our heroes, these individuals spend all their time engaging in union activities such as collective bargaining, filing complaints or grievances, and even grassroots lobbying," Hice said. "This is unacceptable and a grave misuse of valuable resources."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: taxes; taxpayers; unions; waste

1 posted on 04/19/2017 5:48:28 AM PDT by kevcol
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2 posted on 04/19/2017 5:48:35 AM PDT by kevcol
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That about covers it...


3 posted on 04/19/2017 5:52:01 AM PDT by null and void (Drain the swamp! Get rid of the mosque-itoes!)
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Need a law that anyone doing Union work on government time are fired without exception.


4 posted on 04/19/2017 5:58:16 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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Public employee unions should be banned outright, immediately.


5 posted on 04/19/2017 5:59:56 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (<---Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year)
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A simple revision of an EO would do it!


6 posted on 04/19/2017 6:08:13 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Public employee unions should be banned outright, immediately.


Agree. If they don’t like the job, someone else would do it.


7 posted on 04/19/2017 6:11:28 AM PDT by boycott
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