Unions should lobby on their own dime

Unions should lobby on their own dime:
"For years, unions across Michigan have used school districts as personal piggy banks to fund a pricey privilege known as “release time.”
Here’s how it works:
The local union gets a school district to allow union officials to spend part or all of their time working on union business, instead of teaching students. 
These districts pay the salary and benefits for these officials in addition to having to hire an extra teacher to actually work in the classroom.
This release time scheme is nothing short of a rip-off from the perspective of taxpayers.
Many of these union officials make six-figures, and taxpayers have to pay those salaries, even though the person earning it isn’t providing a public service.
The Taylor school district, which has run deficits year after year, spends well over $100,000 for four union officials’ release time.
The president and vice president of both the teachers union and other administrative staff work part-time for the district and part-time for their unions.
At Chippewa Valley, the district spends $140,598 so that the union president can spend 100 percent of her time working on association business.
The vice president of the union spends 40 percent of his time doing the same.
Not all of these arrangements are full time.
Berkley pays $128,000 for its union president who splits his time, half with the union and half for taxpayers — each paying $64,000..."