The Washington Examiner is reporting this morning that under the Obama administration, it will be harder to peek at what unions are up to in this era of "change."
Never mind about those revised union financial disclosure requirements President Obama inherited from his predecessor. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis now says she won't make union officials comply.
Unions officials complained for eight years that regulations issued by Elaine Chao, President George W. Bush's Labor Secretary, were more rigorous than required by the Labor Management and Reporting Disclosure Act (LMRDA), which calls for modestly detailed annual financial reports by unions with receipts of $250,000 or more.
The Bush-Chao regulations require union officials to disclose financial information that could aid union members’ seeking information on how their union leaders are spending dues money, and to help expose "no show jobs" that put paychecks for ghost employees into union coffers.
Before Bush took office, the reports were mostly ignored by the Labor Department. Now, it's back to business-as-usual.
On its website, the Labor Department announced that it won't be enforcing those Bush era reporting standards.
Under Bush and Chao, rank-and-file union members were looked after.
More change that I can't believe in...
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