Union-Backed Company, Labor Department Settle for $20 Million
Whatever happened to the ULLICO scandal? Readers of this publication might have asked themselves that question more than once over the past few years. The answer: It’s been taken to a new level. On...
View ArticleDissidents to Head Chicago Local; Win Contested Election
Richard Berg has been vindicated. Convinced that a corrupt slate had stolen the officers’ election at International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 743 in Chicago three years earlier, he complained to...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Files Suit to Block New Financial Reporting Rule
Theft within a labor organization, like theft within a corporation, can go undetected for years. Union officials have become increasingly sophisticated in how they conduct financial transactions. And...
View ArticleNew DOL Rule Would Promote Transparency in Trust Funds
Unions exist with an understanding that they are bound to uphold the trust of their members. That principle, by definition, holds especially true for union trusts, which are designed to provide...
View ArticleCourt Upholds DOL Reporting Requirements for Union Lawyers
What union lawyers say to their clients in private is off the record. But how much they bill them, and for what services, is a different story. That was the view conveyed on May 5 in U.S. District...
View ArticleNew LM-2 Regulations Set to Improve Union Transparency
The Department of Labor’s financial reporting forms are a work in progress. And officials there have proposed some fine tuning they believe will make labor unions more accountable to their members and...
View ArticleDOL Clarifies ERISA Rules; Restricts Use of Benefit Plan Assets
Union officials have made little secret of their desire to use member benefit plans as leverage to achieve a higher social good. Such a goal, however, may conflict with another, overriding goal...
View ArticleLabor Department Issues Final Rule for Union Trusts
It was a regulation five years in the making, with organized labor filing two successful court challenges along the way. But the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its final rule regarding...
View ArticleObama Election, Mob Prosecutions, Tougher Rules Led Way
The year 2008 will be remembered most of all for the $7 trillion in stock market assets that evaporated. The losses were a consequence of the widespread attitude among Wall Street money managers that...
View ArticleDepartment Publishes Final Rule for LM-2, LM-3
Even before assuming power, the Obama administration had given signs of wanting to undo certain Department of Labor regulations written during the Bush years. But that didn’t stop the old regime under...
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Senator Hatch Seeks Restored Labor Department Oversight; Skewers Obama, Solis
The Department of Labor under President Obama appears to be doing everything it can to accommodate union interests, especially when it comes to investigating corruption. But a few members of Congress...
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Issa: Obama Abetting Union Corruption
From literally day one, the Obama administration has made clear its intent to back off from investigating corruption within organized labor. At least one member of the House of Representatives has...
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Labor Department Slow to Update Prosecutions Listings
Readers of Union Corruption Update may have noticed something recently: a shortage of references to criminal investigations by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS). That's...
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Solis Leads Cheers for Wisconsin Public Employee Unions
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has taken her gloves off in the ongoing war within the states. And her supporters are aching for more. In a speech before a partisan audience at the Marriott Wardman Park...
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Obama Withdraws Nomination of Paul Tiao for DOL Inspector General
As the Department of Labor's top cop, Paul Tiao would have been uncomfortably close to the unions he would investigate. That's why he didn't get the job. Last Monday on May 9 President Obama withdrew...
View ArticleUnion-Backed Company, Labor Department Settle for $20 Million
Whatever happened to the ULLICO scandal? Readers of this publication might have asked themselves that question more than once over the past few years. The answer: It’s been taken to a new level. On...
View ArticleDissidents to Head Chicago Local; Win Contested Election
Richard Berg has been vindicated. Convinced that a corrupt slate had stolen the officers’ election at International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 743 in Chicago three years earlier, he complained to...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Files Suit to Block New Financial Reporting Rule
Theft within a labor organization, like theft within a corporation, can go undetected for years. Union officials have become increasingly sophisticated in how they conduct financial transactions. And...
View ArticleNew DOL Rule Would Promote Transparency in Trust Funds
Unions exist with an understanding that they are bound to uphold the trust of their members. That principle, by definition, holds especially true for union trusts, which are designed to provide...
View ArticleCourt Upholds DOL Reporting Requirements for Union Lawyers
What union lawyers say to their clients in private is off the record. But how much they bill them, and for what services, is a different story. That was the view conveyed on May 5 in U.S. District...
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