WASHINGTON. D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA), yesterday, in a letter to the Office of
Labor-Management Standards of the U.S. Department of Labor objecting to
plans to withdrawal a reporting rule for the nation's largest labor
organizations that offers union members an unprecedented level of
transparency through which they can hold their union and its officers
accountable.

"While the Administration continues to talk about improving transparency and
accountability of government and financial firms, it has taken the opposite
tact in seeking to aid and abet criminal wrongdoing by corrupt union
bosses," wrote Rep. Issa. "By dismantling reporting requirements and other
safeguards meant to stop embezzlement and other illegal activities, these
changes would deprive more than 8 million private sector U.S. workers of the
means to effectively and independently monitor their labor organization."

The rules in question involve reporting forms (LM-2 and LM-3) that create a
level of parity between union and corporate reporting. Reporting forms have
helped the Department of Labor's Office of Labor Management and Standards
(OLMS) successfully prosecute and convict 904 union officers, employees, and
representatives resulting in $91,524,704 in restitution to defrauded unions
and their members between 2001 and 2008.




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