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04-28-2009, 10:17 AM #1
Obama team reverses union transparency
Obama team reverses union transparency
The Obama administration, which has boasted about its efforts to make government more transparent, is rolling back rules requiring labor unions and their leaders to report information about their finances and compensation.
The Labor Department noted in a recent disclosure that "it would not be a good use of resources" to bring enforcement actions against union officials who do not comply with conflict of interest reporting rules passed in 2007. Instead, union officials will now be allowed to file older, less detailed conflict reports.
The regulation, known as the LM-30 rule, was at the heart of a lawsuit that the AFL-CIO filed against the department last year. One of the union attorneys in the case, Deborah Greenfield, is now a high-ranking deputy at Labor, who also worked on the Obama transition team on labor issues.
This is laughable.
By the way, during the Bush admin, Elaine Chao was the head of the Department of Labor. During that time, tougher rules and regulations were put into place regarding union financial reporting. Under Chao's leadership, the Office of Labor Management Standards helped uncover fraud by union officials, leading to 1,004 indictments with 929 convictions, and recovering more than $93 million on behalf of union members. Apparently, Obama doesn't care if union officials skim a little off the top...
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04-28-2009, 12:48 PM #2
I'm not mad about the issue itself because I'm used to it. Politicians being politicians. But I AM mad that it's a guy who swore to CHANGE things....
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04-28-2009, 12:54 PM #3
He is changing things...the Bush admin had made progress in fighting this type of corruption, now he's changing it back. Apparently he wasn't only promising good change...
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04-28-2009, 02:41 PM #4
how exactly is this a negative change for you?
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04-28-2009, 03:02 PM #5
Reversing regulations that prevent union officials from embezzling money and commiting fraud? How is that not a negative change? What good comes out of that?
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Originally Posted by OnePimpTiger 
