Taxpayers have every right to expect that when they pay unionized teachers, firefighters, and social workers a full salary with benefits, those public sector workers will then teach, fight fires, and provide social services. But thanks to a practice known as “release time,” unionized government workers fail to deliver.

Instead of working to serve the public, thousands of unionized employees work for their union on the taxpayers’ dime, recruiting new union members, lobbying the government that employs them, and working to elect Democratic politicians.