An estimated 700 federal workers are paid not to do any work for the government and instead use all of their time doing activities on behalf of their union, allowed through a long-standing civil service practice called “official time.”

The estimate is from a study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, and based on publicly available federal data and information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The study is titled “It Is Time To End Official Time.”

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