Taxpayers to Be Kept in Dark Over Cost of Public Sector Union Duties
24th December 2025
Taxpayers will be kept in the dark about how much public money is being spent so that union officials can have paid time off work, under the government’s workers’ rights reforms.
Despite new figures showing that last year almost £107 million was spent on so-called facility time, Labour has scrapped powers to cap it and removed the requirement for public bodies such as the NHS and schools to declare it in the future.
At the same time, the right to be paid to carry out union duties has been extended to equality representatives in workplaces to allow them to focus on equality duties.
Democrats pull this shit all the time in the U.S. Fortunately our Constitution gives is tools to pry this sort of information out of them, and a political system that enables people like Trump to erase it.