Paying the Unions to trash the country (update)

Back in September I blogged about

'the Union Modernisation Fund, which lives on despite its growing notoriety... uncovered 2,493 full time Union employees who are paid for by public sector bodies at a cost of £67.5 million a year.'

So I was interested to read today in The Telegraph that:

'Some unions have been caught out telling their members to lie to their employers so they can attend anti-cuts demonstrations during office hours'

Apparently:

'An undercover investigation by Priti Patel, Conservative MP for Witham, found that officials at unions were telling members how to campaign against the Government's cuts programme on the taxpayers’ time.

...

Ms Patel set up a bogus email account and contacted the officials, asking whether it was possible to attend demonstrations on “facility time" to carry out their union duties during office hours.

One official said she could be “economical with the truth about your use of the time you may be able to claim facilities time” while another suggested she could “pop it down as a union meeting and be creative about how you spend your union time”. '

Why do we allow the Trade Unions to get away with such practices? Why do we let the 'left' walk over us? And of course why are the BBC so singularly uninterested in reporting this story?