How Unions Are Chewing Through Taxpayer Dollars
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Did you know your tax dollars are financing unions? Thanks to what the federal government calls “official time,” government workers spent 2.4 million hours on union work in 2010. In fact, the Internal Revenue Service alone has 286 full-time employees who work exclusively for the National Treasury Employees Union. Check out the infographic below for more details on whose special interests (and pockets) your money is going. >>> Federal Agencies Spend Millions on Employees to Do Full-Time Union Work
Read a full breakdown on which agencies are using taking advantage of “official time” here. This post has been modified.