Longtime readers of this publication no doubt have a sense of which unions are most prone to internal theft. The U.S. Department of Labor certainly does. In separate letters dated October 6, the DOL warned United Steelworkers President Thomas Conway and American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) President Everett Kelley that their unions are “disproportionately […]
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Labor Department Seeks Tougher LM-2 Form to Fight Corruption
Despite all the legal disincentives, many of the people running our unions continue to engage in fraud and embezzlement. In response, the U.S. Department of Labor has come up with new forms of prevention. On September 30, the DOL’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) unveiled a series of changes to its LM-2 annual reporting document […]
Federal Judge Guts DOL Joint Employer Rule; Unions Cheer
Should a company be liable for negotiating a collective bargaining agreement alongside one of its contractors or franchisees even if it doesn’t set any workplace rules? U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods of the Southern District of New York thinks it should. On September 8, Judge Woods struck down a key portion of a rule change […]
Labor Department Issues Final Rule to Halt Union Trust Fund Abuse
Union health, retirement and other benefit funds all too often serve as incubators for fraud and embezzlement. The U.S. Department of Labor, after over 15 years, may be on the verge of realizing an oft-thwarted tool for dramatically reducing these thefts. On March 6, DOL’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) published a final rule requiring […]
Will Trump Labor Department Follow Through on Preventing Union Corruption?
The Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards, as NLPC readers well know, has identified and helped prosecute much union corruption over the years. But the agency’s efforts would be even better realized if it finalized a pair of dormant rules promised two years ago. The first would establish a new financial reporting form, T-1, […]