Stephanie
Diamond Member
- Jul 11, 2004
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Well Obama and Pelosi sure did clean up our govenment eh? this kind of stuff should upset more people. Instead we just hosed more and more by these people
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BYLUKE ROSIAK|SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 | 5:00 AM
TOPICS:WATCHDOGLABOR UNIONSLABORWASTE AND FRAUDFOLLOW THE MONEYJUSTICE DEPARTMENTOFFICIAL TIME
Two dozen $165,000-a-year Immigration Court judges are on the federal payroll under the...
Twenty-six Immigration Court judges who are paid as government employees also spend a lot of their working hours at theDepartment of Justice, taking care of business for their federal employee union.
Their union — the National Association of Immigration Judges — wants the government to make their courts independent of the Justice Department.
Justice Department officials don't like that idea, with one government lawyer reportedly saying “itwould take significant resourcesto recreate a court system that is outside of the department.”
Even so, the $165,000-a-year judges are on the federal payroll under the government's "official time" program, which enables them to do work for their union while hearing cases in the heavily backlogged system.
They are among 4,000 Justice Department employees who were on official time over the past four years, including 200 who spend 40 hours a week on union matters, according to official documents and data obtained by the Washington Examiner under theFreedom of Information Act.
The department refused to disclose the names of federal employees in data provided to theExaminer.
By comparison, theAFL-CIO, which has 11 million members,employs 459 peoplein its national headquarters.
Official time allows civil service employees to draw their tax-paid compensation while working part time or full time on union projects.
Civil service pay and benefits are set byCongress, so federal employee unions can only negotiate working conditions and represent employees in grievances.
But union representatives can also advocate for higher spending, more federal workers, and even expanded official time to enable more of their colleagues to do the same thing.
The number of employees within a federal department or agency who can be covered by official time and how many hours they can do so is also negotiable.
Justice Department employees drew $23 million in wages for 760,000 hours of union work — about 190,000 hours annually — under official time between 2009 and 2013. Other expenses, such as union-related travel and office supplies, are also paid by taxpayers.
At DOJ, official-time employees reported spending 100,000 hours working on grievances and 650,000 hours on "labor-management relations" — even though contract negotiations only take place every few years.
ALL of it here:
DOJ pays 4 000 employees to do union work at taxpayer expense WashingtonExaminer.com
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BYLUKE ROSIAK|SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 | 5:00 AM
TOPICS:WATCHDOGLABOR UNIONSLABORWASTE AND FRAUDFOLLOW THE MONEYJUSTICE DEPARTMENTOFFICIAL TIME
Two dozen $165,000-a-year Immigration Court judges are on the federal payroll under the...
Twenty-six Immigration Court judges who are paid as government employees also spend a lot of their working hours at theDepartment of Justice, taking care of business for their federal employee union.
Their union — the National Association of Immigration Judges — wants the government to make their courts independent of the Justice Department.
Justice Department officials don't like that idea, with one government lawyer reportedly saying “itwould take significant resourcesto recreate a court system that is outside of the department.”
Even so, the $165,000-a-year judges are on the federal payroll under the government's "official time" program, which enables them to do work for their union while hearing cases in the heavily backlogged system.
They are among 4,000 Justice Department employees who were on official time over the past four years, including 200 who spend 40 hours a week on union matters, according to official documents and data obtained by the Washington Examiner under theFreedom of Information Act.
The department refused to disclose the names of federal employees in data provided to theExaminer.
By comparison, theAFL-CIO, which has 11 million members,employs 459 peoplein its national headquarters.
Official time allows civil service employees to draw their tax-paid compensation while working part time or full time on union projects.
Civil service pay and benefits are set byCongress, so federal employee unions can only negotiate working conditions and represent employees in grievances.
But union representatives can also advocate for higher spending, more federal workers, and even expanded official time to enable more of their colleagues to do the same thing.
The number of employees within a federal department or agency who can be covered by official time and how many hours they can do so is also negotiable.
Justice Department employees drew $23 million in wages for 760,000 hours of union work — about 190,000 hours annually — under official time between 2009 and 2013. Other expenses, such as union-related travel and office supplies, are also paid by taxpayers.
At DOJ, official-time employees reported spending 100,000 hours working on grievances and 650,000 hours on "labor-management relations" — even though contract negotiations only take place every few years.
ALL of it here:
DOJ pays 4 000 employees to do union work at taxpayer expense WashingtonExaminer.com
