Dear Conservatives,
Thousands of veterans have waited months for basic medical care. Some even died waiting. The Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General found "systemic" scheduling problems within the VA.
So what were VA staff doing instead of taking care of those who willingly put their lives on the line for our freedom?
Hundreds of them were doing work for their union instead.
Can you believe it?
Under current law, labor union officials are paid by the federal government to push Big Labor's forced-dues agenda during work hours.
It's called Official Time, and it means instead of working for you, union officials in the public sector are using YOUR time and YOUR money to coerce even more government workers into dues-paying ranks.
And the Washington Examiner recently found that the "VA is by far the largest user of official time."
The VA "paid its top union employees more than $42.5 million to do almost 1 million hours of union work in 2011," the Examiner found, citing the most recently available numbers.
The VA is hardly alone.
Another scandal-plagued agency, the Internal Revenue Service, paid its bureaucrats $23.5 million to perform over 500,000 hours of union Official Time.
In total, last year alone, the cost of Official Time to taxpayers like you was over one BILLION dollars!
That's why your National Right to Work Committee will continue pushing for roll-call votes on Senator Rand Paul's Federal Employee Accountability Act (S. 785), which would put an end to this outrage.
You see, S. 785 would prohibit federal government workers from engaging in Big Labor activities on the taxpayers' dime.
And, in addition to defunding Big Labor's army of taxpayer-funded operatives, S. 785 would prohibit forced-dues activists from engaging in other forms of harassment when they are supposed to be working.
But you know as well as I do that in politics nothing moves unless it's pushed.
That's why it's vital you sign the petition to your U.S. Senators and Representative urging them to support this critical legislation.
Your petition lets them know you will not tolerate your tax dollars being used to expand Big Labor's forced-dues empire.
The American people deserve to know whether their representatives in Washington stand with union bosses – or with American taxpayers and veterans.
So please sign your petition at once, and after you do, please consider chipping in with a contribution of $10 or more today to help your Committee mobilize a groundswell of opposition to this union boss boondoggle.
No federal employee should get paid your hard-earned tax dollars to push Big Labor's agenda.
Together, you and I can stand against this union boss taxpayer fleecing.
Please act right away.
Sincerely,
Mark Mix
P.S. Union officials in the public sector are using YOUR time and YOUR money to coerce even more government workers into dues-paying ranks.
Senator Rand Paul has introduced the Federal Employee Accountability Act (S. 785) to put an end to this outrage.
Click here to sign your petition urging your Senators and Representative to support this critical legislation to prohibit federal government workers from engaging in Big Labor activities on the taxpayers' dime.
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