You're Paying for 201 FULL-TIME IRS Union Representatives

Republican congressional leaders are demanding to know why the Internal Revenue Service pays hundreds of full-time employees to do union work. 

As reported last month by The Daily Caller, 201 IRS employees receive full-time pay while doing no actual work, instead devoting their entire work days to union business. (Related: FOIA: 201 IRS employees work full-time on union business)

The revelation came as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request from Americans for Limited Government. 

“Recently, it has come to our attention that the IRS pays a number of employees full time salaries, funded by taxpayer dollars, for work they do not perform. Instead, these employees spend their time working for government employee unions,” according to a letter sent to IRS acting commissioner Danny Werfel by Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey of Georgia.

These workers collect taxpayer salaries to serve full-time as exclusive representatives of a union in dealing with the Department of Treasury, according to information the IRS provided to Americans for Limited Government. 

More than 200 IRS employees spend 100 percent of their work time doing union work, according to IRS documents cited in the letter.

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