Posted on 03/27/2015 1:06:27 PM PDT by ThethoughtsofGreg
Prior to a court case ruling otherwise, taxpayers in the city of Phoenix paid $950,000 a year in salaries and benefits to send six city police officers to work as full-time union managers, 35 officers to work as part time union representatives and one to work as a union lobbyist. Including Phoenix, the state of Arizona was giving approximately $3.7 million in taxpayer dollars to public employees doing union work on “release time.”
Wednesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a new report, “A Remedy for Taxpayer Giveaway to Unions.” The report explains how public employees receive subsidies from the government in the form of release time, a practice in which public employees act as union activists while maintaining a full-time salary paid for by taxpayers.
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The logical answer would be for that time to be paid for by the people who employ them to work for union goals - the union members. Not the public. Silly me.
Let me get this straight, the city is PAYING a lobbyist to lobby them for more union benefits?
Sounds like a good idea to me. /sarc
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