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Worker: Why I sued Labor Secretary Hilda Solis

Nick Cote — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:36:23 -0400

Chris Mosquera, a Maryland county government employee filed a federal lawsuit in May with free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys to stop the Obama Administration from allowing union bosses to conceal lavish and corrupt union expenditures from workers.

In today's Washington Examiner, Mosquera discussed why he filed the lawsuit against Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis:

As a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, I'm more knowledgeable than most about the ins and outs of union finance.

In fact, I've learned some interesting things about my own local's spending habits over the years. Like the $2 million office condo they bought in Gaithersburg, or the fact that the president of my local makes over $200,000 a year, plus other undocumented benefits.

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Union Member Seeks to Block Obama Labor Department’s Efforts to Roll Back Union Disclosure Rules

Anthony Riedel — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:17:03 -0400

Union Member Seeks to Block Obama Labor Department’s Efforts to Roll Back Union Disclosure Rules

Department guts disclosure rule that has exposed numerous corrupt union boss schemes, let rank-and-file members know how dues are spent

Washington, DC (May 23, 2011) – With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a Maryland county government employee is asking a federal court to stop the Obama Administration from allowing union bosses to conceal lavish and corrupt union expenditures from workers.

Obama's Union Buddies Have Their Own Private Jets to Fly to Las Vegas (and Ireland)

Nick Cote — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:43:49 -0500

In all the recent "stimulus" hoopla, President Barack Obama and Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman have found themselves in something of a war of words:

Sin City's mayor wants President Barack Obama to apologize for saying companies shouldn't visit Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime.

Oscar Goodman spoke after a regular scheduled meeting with tourism officials where he expressed concern that federal lawmakers might be discouraging travel to the city...

"You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime," Obama said.

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Worker Advocate Warns Against Plans to Table Improvements in Union Financial Disclosure

Nick Cote — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:35:15 -0500

This week, National Right to Work Foundation president Mark Mix sent a formal letter to the director of the Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards, the federal agency tasked with providing union members and nonmembers with valuable information about how union bosses are spending their forced dues.

The letter is in response to the Obama Administration's apparent intention to delay (and ultimately cancel) some needed refinements to reporting requirements established by the Bush Administration which enhance union transparency and accountability of union expenditures.

Here are a few examples of union boss malfeasance the planned LM-2 revisions would elucidate: