Posted on 04/28/2017 5:06:43 AM PDT by george76
Texas Rep. Jody Arrington has introduced legislation to require VA to track the use of official time.
An estimated 346 employees in the Department of Veterans Affairs do no actual work for taxpayers. Instead, they spend all of their time doing work on behalf of their union while drawing a federal salary, a practice known as "official time."
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The lack of accountability at the VA when it comes to monitoring official time suggests it might be worse
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Pointing to the waiting list scandals at the department, Arrington said the official time situation is reflective of the "broken culture at the heart of the VA" and adds, "I haven't heard one good, acceptable reason why the practice has continued.
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At least 700 federal workers do nothing but work on official time, according to the GAO
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"Employees spent approximately 1,057,00 hours on official time for union representation activities … In addition, the data show that 346 employees spent 100 percent of their time on official time," the GAO found in a January report.
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Arrington argues that the practice has to change if the VA is ever to be truly reformed. He has sponsored the Veterans, Employees and Taxpayer Protection Act, which would require the VA to track the use of official time. It also would prohibit employees involved with direct patient care from spending more than a quarter of their work hours on union activities and bar any VA employee from spending more than half of their time on official time.
The legislation would effectively put VA employees under right-to-work protection. The VA would be prohibited from agreeing to union contracts that force workers to join or otherwise support a union as a condition of employment.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
How do these people live with themselves when vets are dying waiting for treatment? I really hate unions.
This goes on government wide, including among the DoD civilian workforce. .
And that union work is figuring out new ways to file grievances in order to extort money from the government.
I saw yesterday that VA employees that steal narcotics can’t be fired. Union insanity!
While the GOP has control of both sides of Congress, it would behoove them to start passing (and I mean soon) some bills reining in the labor union rules involving federal employees.
While I’ll admit that I don’t know where these kinds of arrangements came from, I certainly know where they should end: here and now. No way should taxpayers be paying for union activities - that’s what dues are supposed to pay for.
When I’m not coming off putting in an all-nighter at work, I’ll think of some other rules we need to change...legislatively.
An outrage......must be stopped.
DO THIS NOW --- CONTACT CONGRESS HERE---http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
DEMAND CONGRESS SEND YOU ALL AVAILBLE GOVT DATA ON GOVT SALAIRES AND PENSIONS INCLUDING ALL VOUCHERS UNION PERSONNEL SUBMITTED FOR REIMBURSEMENT:
<><> govt credit cards,
<><> govt expense accounts
<><> gift cards,
<><> cell phone/landline bills,
<><> electronic/wire transfers,
<><> detailed expenses,
<><> transportation expenses
<><> leisure travel
<><> office expenses
<><> office equipment expenses
<><> office supplies,
<><> unusual stamp purchases (a classic govt corruption MO)
<><> housing allotments,
<><> clothing allotments,
<><> entertainment including alcohol expenses
<><> official dinners,
<><> househld help,
<><> reimbursements for varied business interests.
<><> DEMAND TO KNOW HOW MANY GOVT CHECKS THESE PEOPLE ARE CASHING
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DO THIS NOW --- CONTACT CONGRESS HERE---http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Regardless of the fact that the 346 people represent less than 1% of the VA employees (298,000+), the practice should be stopped.
Doing work for the union should be a union’s expense, not the employers’ of the union members.
I saw full time union people at Pacific Telephone in 1980. They contributed nothing useful.
Soldiers blood poured out like water in every Muslim civil war just confirms American leadership still has no respect for lives, for the beating hearts of our military forces. They watched people die in Benghazi for hours like a movie.
As the decades of leadership have pawned military lives, so have these folks.
Having no conscience is a start and whatever a sellout’s equivalent of 30 pieces of silver helps.
There should be no government unions!
If Trump wants to drain the swamp that is what he will get done.
Fire these bums! I hope the Vets find them in the hallways and give them the “what for”. These union idiots are unpatriotic scum.
Look up the VA nurses who have Elder Care violations.
We had a VA employee at the Nashville VA years ago who stole more class II narcotics then the largest dealers sell.
okay, so there a few good ones who actually deserve what they get....
but so many are just fannies taking up space, and getting obscene benefits, wages, and pensions.....
What is the justification for Government unions?
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