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FBN’s Liz MacDonald: Government paying millions of dollars for federal workers to work on union duties, rather than on government projects.
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The and in 2011.
For federal workers to do no work at all for federal taxpayers well that's money well spent.
You know that -- with -- here is Elizabeth looked -- Bottom and it's.
That taxpayers do pay a lot of money for our federal government workers to do union work look at this and these numbers coming you just -- 156 million yeah look much it's up from 2009.
When it without a 129 million.
Now here's the deal the Office of Personnel Management has that data of federal workers spent 3.4 million hours and 2011 latest data available.
Working on union duties.
Basically not we're gonna protect taxpayers that's right and that it's up for that from three million in 2009 and in -- -- -- is.
That big what are they doing -- working on for union you know duties because I didn't federal worker pay is set by law by statute and federal workers not allowed to strike.
But when you dig into the numbers we've got nearly three dozen workers at the department transportation hauling in.
A 138000.
Average pay -- working on union duties -- that's nearly five million in taxpayer money spent there.
Three new York at air traffic controllers nearly a 180000 dollars a year they each get paid.
Working for official union duties seventeen EPA workers average -- nearly a 100000 dollars a year in federal worker pay.
Working on federal union duties that's nearly -- million dollars and taxpayer costs -- so here's a deal.
-- days -- about a dozen big federal union worker group yeah.
And then their sub sets of them and when I saw these numbers I was struck by this -- federal union groups and subgroups are in the federal government.
And a lot of these guys are just and women are working on a -- for nickel working for the union not working for the -- We'll -- a heck of authority that's yeah that's right.
That's up I want a job I get paid to do nothing basically announced that he does not exactly could you not want to strike anyway nearly benefit I think that by law anyway so it's an -- to pick -- I think Hillary live I think -- -- figure I think we've.
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