Union Time on Taxpayer's Dime

New Mexico Watchdog - Many of New Mexico’s cities and counties give union officers paid leave to do union work. In Albuquerque, a union president’s entire salary is picked up by taxpayers when he reports to the union office each day instead of a the Solid Waste Department where his job is supposed to be driving a garbage truck. Santa Fe permits the officers of its firefighters union to participate in political activities while on the city’s clock. Across the state taxpayers pick up the bill for union activities regardless of whether they are in the public’s interest.
The City of Albuquerque is alone among New Mexico local governments trying to shake off a practice where unions’ overhead costs are subsidized by taxpayers. Albuquerque so far is having a difficult time with New Mexico judges who have relied on unproved presumptions to uphold the subsidies. Across the border in Arizona, a free-market think tank has been having better success in removing union bosses from the taxpayers’ dime. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Union Time on Taxpayer's Dime