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(Fox News) - Big Three auto executives had to give up their private aircraft to get the government to provide a $17 billion federal loan. But executives at the UAW — the autoworkers union — have not given up one of their expensive perks: a $33 million lakeside retreat.

The Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center in Onaway, Michigan includes a $6.4 million designer golf course.

The retreat is one of the union's biggest fixed assets and has lost a whopping $23 million over the past five years — forcing heavy loans to keep the center afloat. Some critics are crying foul. Justin Wilson of the Center for Union Facts -- a union watchdog group -- says, "The union has bigger issues at hand than managing a golf course... investments are supposed to make money, not bleed money."