{"id":455,"date":"2009-02-10T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:35:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:14:21","slug":"worker-advocate-warns-against-plans-to-table-improvements-in-union-financial-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/worker-advocate-warns-against-plans-to-table-improvements-in-union-financial-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker Advocate Warns Against Plans to Table Improvements in Union Financial Disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis week, National Right to Work Foundation president Mark Mix sent a formal letter to the director of the Department of Labor&#8217;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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe letter is in response to the Obama Administration&#8217;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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are a few examples of union boss malfeasance the planned LM-2 revisions would elucidate:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why a local UAW union bought a John Deere tractor for $18,000 before selling it the same year for only $678 <\/li>\n<li>Which Machinists union bosses are using forced dues during an economic downturn to fly to Ireland on a private jet<\/li>\n<li>How much union officials get paid in fringe benefits and whether those benefits comply with the union constitution <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nMix&#8217;s letter further notes the appearance of impropriety created by the Obama Administration&#8217;s quick action to table the new disclosure requirements.  Union bosses, who spent record sums electing Obama to the White House and who <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/stimulus-big-labor-02092109\">expect<\/a> <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/soliss-illicit-lobbying-02032009\">continued<\/a> <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/solis-undercuts-union-accountability-12222008\">payback<\/a>, have long opposed providing financial disclosure members and nonmembers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnfortunately, because of the incompetence of Bush Administration officials, these needed improvements to the LM-2 disclosure rules had not yet gone into effect &#8212; even though they had been in the works for two years.  Outfoxed by the bureaucracy once again, the outgoing Bushies missed the window of opportunity by a matter of days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor more, read the <a href=\"\/files\/nrtw\/NRTW%20Delay%20of%20Effective%20Date.pdf\">full text<\/a> (PDF) of Mix&#8217;s letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis week, National Right to Work Foundation president Mark Mix sent a formal letter to the director of the Department of Labor&#8217;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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe letter is in response to the Obama Administration&#8217;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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are a few examples of union boss malfeasance the planned LM-2 revisions would elucidate:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Worker Advocate Warns Against Plans to Table Improvements in Union Financial Disclosure - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/worker-advocate-warns-against-plans-to-table-improvements-in-union-financial-disclosure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Worker Advocate Warns Against Plans to Table Improvements in Union Financial Disclosure - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week, National Right to Work Foundation president Mark Mix sent a formal letter to the director of the Department of Labor&#039;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.   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