Obama Begins Paying Back Labor Unions
It is payback time for the Obama Administration. The president that has boasted about making government transparent to “we the people” is rolling back existing rules that require labor unions to report information about their finances and the compensation of union leaders. The Labor Department, decided that enforcement actions against the unions who do not comply with reporting rules passed in 2007, known as LM-30, is “not a good use of resources”. Obama’s Labor Department is also rescinding another regulation regarding financial disclosure, known as LM-2, which under the Bush Administration required unions to report information about the unions’ finances and the pay of its leaders.
The rescinding of these reporting requirements will aid the unions in concealing potentially corrupt financial arrangements. Mark Mix, president of the pro-business National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which provides legal services to workers who say unions have violated their rights, called the rollback of union financial disclosures troubling. However, Labor Department officials declared that the rules enacted during the Bush Administration were a mistake because not enough time had passed since previous reporting rule changes were passed in 2003. I for one think these rule changes are payback to the unions for their support during the presidential election.
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