Taxpayers Are Forced To Pay Union Salaries

All across our country, government workers are performing work for labor unions while the taxpayers are paying their salaries. This little known practice is kept hidden from the voters because the mainstream media and Democrats do not want the taxpayers  to become aware of this practice. 

The scam begins when a state or local governmental entity negotiates with a union representing government workers. The union representative demands that  the governmental entity give the union workers a carve  out that is called “union time.” This carve out allows government workers to spend part of their workday doing work for the union. (What Democrats do never ceases to amaze me)

In practice this allows teachers, health officials and other government workers to go and work for the union while they are being paid by the taxpayers. 

One place this practice is occurring is Miami-Dade County. Unbelievably, Miami-Dade has 10 collective bargaining agreements that allow 42,000 hours of “union time” where the taxpayers are  paying for government workers to work for their union.

Tampa, Florida has 5 contracts that allow for 10,000 “union hours.”

These unions for government workers are political groups that overwhelmingly support Democrats.These unions give 90% of their political contributions to Democrats.

Many of these unions support leftist causes like ending school choice or tax increases. The union workers are paid by taxpayers to go door to door imploring taxpayers to vote for leftist causes. This is wrong!

In Manatee County, the head of the teacher’s union is a school board employee who is paid by the county taxpayers while she is doing work solely for the union.

The time has come to end this ridiculous practice. Let the union members volunteer their time to work for the union. Don’t force taxpayers to pay union salaries.

Read more on the Release Time Scam here: https://cei.org/the-florida-release-time-scam/