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    Abortion becomes union business

    July 26, 2022 // Typically, union release time is paid time-off used by employees who are conducting official union business. But according to In These Times, a pro-union magazine, Professor Rebecca Givan thinks union officials should be able to use release time to help union members get an abortion, by using the time off to provide assistance like childcare or transportation.

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    Taxpayer Victory! Gov. Ducey Signs Goldwater Institute’s Release Time Reform Act by GOLDWATER INSTITUTE

    April 12, 2022 // “Public funds should advance the public’s interest, not the political and lobbying activities of private labor unions,” said Goldwater Institute President and CEO Victor Riches. “This law will ensure that tax dollars cannot be used to pay government workers to lobby and engage in political activities for labor unions instead of working for the public.”

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    Flint Taxpayers Pay For Employees Doing Union Business, City Doesn’t Track How Much

    March 28, 2022 // In states like Michigan that permit public sector workers to unionize and engage in collective bargaining, some government employees also become officers in those unions. Michigan permits these union officer/public employees to use a specified amount of their hours on the job to do union work, rather than the job they were hired to do. This practice is called “union release time.”

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