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FBN's Liz MacDonald on unions spending millions in tax-free funds to buy resorts, hotels, and jets.
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Than 1% to -- talk about the unions.
-- -- us -- companies for not paying their fair share in taxes talks about things like fat cat executive pay.
But Fox Business is uncovered government documents proving that unions has spent tax free dollars.
To buy their own luxury resorts and even we're jets -- -- -- is and Hollywood Florida has been investigating.
This rake in millions of dollars each year end tax free do spread members' paychecks at a 27 states he can't even say no but at a time -- thousands of Americans and union members are losing their jobs.
-- teachers cops and firemen really know where -- union dues are going in Florida the plumbing and pipe -- union dues and union pension money to buy a dilapidated -- in the late nineties.
Since then this union has spent more than 800 million dollars in union money renovated hotel.
200 million dollars more than what it was works.
In Michigan the UAW bought and now runs a 33 million dollar lakeside resort.
That's hemorrhaging millions of dollars every year and the machinists union well they -- -- Lear -- to ring around the country.
So here's -- -- deal -- and dig and basically union dues -- -- funds are supposed to be used for things like collective bargaining are safer work conditions for their union members.
But now the IRS is telling Fox Business is looking into nonprofits across the country unions are at nonprofits they do pay earnings on their non business related activities like owning hotels which -- sending a product right here.
But whether or not they are going to probe deeper is a question that Fox Business is going to be -- back to you guys.
