Your hard-earned tax dollars don’t just fund the salaries of federal bureaucrats, they also support public-sector unions who negotiate sweetheart deals between the bureaucrats and management. Federal bureaucrats feverishly renegotiated those deals just before President Donald Trump entered office, attempting to block his reforms.
Now, the Trump administration is demanding that each agency provide an accounting of just how much money it spent negotiating collective bargaining agreements with unions.
The Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the federal government’s workforce, sent a memo Monday to agencies across the bureaucracy, demanding and account of the dollars and cents taxpayers spent for collective bargaining agreements. (Collective bargaining refers to the process by which a union negotiates with management to secure employees certain benefits, such as raises, more paid time off, and other forms of compensation.)
“During the Biden administration, federal agencies spent millions bargaining sweetheart collective-bargaining agreements that imposed significant costs on the American taxpayer while impeding effective and efficient agency operations,” acting OPM Director Charles Ezell wrote in the memo. “Agencies paid for both the costs of their and their unions’ bargaining teams.”
While the federal government has previously tracked “official time”—the time government employees spend working for the union but for which they get paid by the taxpayer—Ezell noted that the government has not systematically tracked the specific cost of federal collective bargaining negotiations. […]
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