{"id":1630864,"date":"2022-09-02T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630864"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:19:11","slug":"union-deletes-document-after-report-shows-taxpayer-funded-collusion-with-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-deletes-document-after-report-shows-taxpayer-funded-collusion-with-biden-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Deletes Document After Report Shows Taxpayer-Funded Collusion With Biden Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funion-deletes-document-after-report-shows-taxpayer-funded-collusion-with-biden-administration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><em>By Casey Harper (The Center Square)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A national labor union representing over 100,000 federal employees pulled a document off its website after a report showed the Biden administration was using taxpayer dollars to help public unions grow their members, and as a result, their budgets.<\/p>\n<p>The Center Square\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/biden-administration-uses-taxpayer-dollars-to-help-grow-public-unions-critics-push-back\/article_b379ed0e-2315-11ed-8d2d-e7cad9a77ffa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the story, which cited a news release on the National Federation of Federal Employees\u2019 website where the labor group explicitly thanked the Biden administration for helping it recruit more federal workers.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration helped the unions by having the Office of Personnel Management alter the federal employee database FedScope to make it easier for unions to target and recruit non-union workers in the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis upgraded resource will be an excellent tool for our union to locate non-union employees across the federal government who are rightfully entitled to representation and a voice in their workplace,\u201d NFFE National President Randy Erwin said in the release, which has now been removed. \u201cNFFE specifically requested assistance in identifying the hundreds of thousands of unrepresented government workers, and today OPM delivered on its commitment to promote employee organizing and collective bargaining by rolling out the enhanced database. We are excited to help these federal employees who have not yet joined a union organize in their workplaces and obtain critical rights and benefits through unionizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics said OPM using taxpayer dollars to help the public unions grow their budgets is a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/largest-teachers-union-promotes-national-anthem-kneeling-book-other-diversity-selections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Largest Teachers Union Promotes National Anthem-Kneeling Book, Other \u2018Diversity\u2019 Selections<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting that neither the federal government nor the other major federal employee unions boasted about how the Office of Personnel Management was working with them to increase the unionization of federal employees,\u201d said Maxford Nelsen, a labor policy expert at the Freedom Foundation. \u201cThe fact that NFFE pulled down its press release on the subject after it started getting attention suggests they spoke out of turn and exposed behind-the-scenes coordination that those involved thought best left out of the public eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>The now-removed NFFE news release praised the Biden administration for opening up 300,000 new potential members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM) applauds the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for promoting union representation among 300,000 federal employees who are eligible to join a union but are not currently in a bargaining unit,\u201d the release said. \u201cOPM announced that FedScope, a public database of federal employees that does not list names or contact information, now has increased search capabilities and details on unrepresented workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Private companies often discourage unionization because it can send costs soaring. The federal government, though, has little incentive since those increased costs are simply passed on to the taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/unions-wrongly-received-36-7-million-in-ppp-federal-covid-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unions Wrongly Received $36.7 Million In PPP Federal Covid Aid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Critics also point out that unions traditionally support Democrats in a myriad of ways, including through campaign donations and ads, though there are restrictions on donations. Biden was vocally pro-union during the 2020 presidential campaign, and according to Open Secrets, labor organizations donated more than $27 million to Biden in that election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelping unions identify organizing targets in the federal workforce not only enlists taxpayers in promoting private, politically active organizations opposed to their interests, but exposes the reality that much union organizing comes from the top down,\u201d Nelsen said. \u201cIf federal employees were clamoring for union representation, unions wouldn\u2019t need the Biden administration to help them find the pockets of non-union employees hiding out in the federal bureaucracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Casey Harper (The Center Square) A national labor union representing over 100,000 federal employees pulled a document off its website after a report showed the Biden administration was using<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1630868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}