In 1959, well-meaning advocates of employee freedom secured passage of the Labor-Management Reporting Disclosure Act (LMRDA), a bill that promised disclosure of union finances with the (mostly unrealized) promise of weeding out corrupt union racketeers.
In 2009, President Barack Obama pledged his Administration would be on the side of disclosure -- but that has been revealed as a false promise.
The Obama Administration has moved to eliminate some modest union disclosure regulations that would allow American workers forced to pay union dues some basic information about the self-awarded “benefits” union bosses enjoy.
Of course, so long as forced unionism privileges remain intact, no amount of disclosure will meaningfully increase union accountability, but perhaps employees will gain a greater awareness of how their forced dues are spent.
Please watch the video below and then go to the Department of Labor's website to comment on these detrimental regulatory changes. All comments related to this issue must be made by March 5.
You can view the Foundation’s request for extension link or make your own comment regarding the effective date change. (Just click on the yellow comment icon in either of the above links to add your own comments about this cover-up of union boss corruption.)
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Comments
Union Disclosures
When is our government going to stop treating the American people like they exist only for the purpose of giving them (our leaders) obscene benefits. This country is mired down in so much greed and corruption that it is no longer "the land of the free, the home of the brave". The basic freedoms granted by our Constitution should allow the individual to decide whether he wants Union representation or not. People should be aware of what the leaders are doing at all time, which includes their compensation and benefits as well. There can be no trust nor patriotism without the assurance that it will be treated honestly and fairly. I, for one, am losing hope that we can find leaders, both in government and in private enterprise that will do what is best for this country and its citizens. I fear only a catastrophe, whether created by man or by God, will bring this country back to its original greatness.
UNION DISCLOSURES
RIGHT TO WORK, WHAT PART DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?THE PAYBACKS BEGIN,OBAMA BACKPEDDLES, WHAT A SURPRISE?CHANGE,MY ASS!IF OBAMA IS GOING TO USE THE WORD,HE BETTER FAMILIARIZE HIMSELF WITH THE MEANING FIRST, while your at it,remember the Constitution.
There should be no ROLL BACK
There should be no ROLL BACK of UNION DISCLOSURE RULES. The rules should be enforced. Workers forced to pay union dues have a right to know how their money is spent.
Right to work laws must be protected.
Forced to Comply with Unions
No one should be forced to join Unions, pay Union dues, required to reveal their denial to join, etc. It's unethical/Un-American, not to mention extortion. Enough said.
Disclosure
I am tired of not knowing where my money is going. Until the Bush Administration showed up, I did not even know that I had rights and there was thing called LMRDA. Not that the Bush types did much or than national security, this is one thing that they got somewhat right. I wish that they had done it years earlier.
Don't let them take the disclosure away.
NOT GOOD
THE RESSON I AM TEELLING U THIS OBAMA IS THAT WHY ARE YOU LAYING OF TEATHERS .THEY EVEN SAID LOG TIME AGO WHEN TEACHER SIGN THE FORM TO BE A TEACHER THEY WILL NOT LOSE THERE JOB THAT S MY COMMENT. P.S I AM 12 YEARS OLD
NOT GOOD
THE RESSON I AM TEELLING U THIS OBAMA IS THAT WHY ARE YOU LAYING OF TEATHERS .THEY EVEN SAID LOG TIME AGO WHEN TEACHER SIGN THE FORM TO BE A TEACHER THEY WILL NOT LOSE THERE JOB THAT S MY COMMENT. P.S I AM 12 YEARS OLD
Union Disclosure Rules Rollback
So, just another campaign promise broken. President Obama promised more government disclosure if he was elected. He was. Now, the administration is attempting to eliminate this? What about the promise? I think it is almost criminal to rollback this well placed, and needed,
check and balance.
My future votes will ride upon how this issue is settled.
Keep your Word!
Thank you in advance for listening to my opinion.
Best Regards;
Ed Klesack
Right to work
Do not bother me with this crap, the President knows what he is doing, a billion times more than Georgie/
Can't be bothered?
Apparently you are one of those leftist loons...you got your man in office and now you couldn't care less what he does. I could add that whatever he does isn't my fault (he sure didn't get my vote) but I care about this country and I think the President of the USA should be a man of Honor regardless of which party he belongs to, and I want to know what the president is doing whether he's a Democrat or a Republican. If you're not interested in what he's doing then how do you know you're getting that "Change" he promised?
Union Disclosure Rules To be Rolled back
The Truth, my friend, is that George Bush had no backing
in congress, they were mostly Damocrats! They were all out to make him look bad so a Damocrat majority could be elected as well as the Presidency. This President may think he knows what he's doing but he's not old enough nor has he had any bad dealings with unions like some of us older wiser citizens have had. He is a puppet on the strings of immorality, and he speaks out of both sides of his mouth. We,the older citizens of this country knew he would never,never do anything he promised and he's so far proved us right. In four years, if you still have the wool over your eyes, it may be the only thing you have left to keep you warm! Bush did not cause the country to slide downhill! It was the rich and greedy Wall Streeters and folks like Madoff &the Enron bunch! & Those Anti-American businesses who sent our jobs over the ocean! Heaven help us! The unions will help themselves! and help themselves, and help themselves. . .
you my dumb friend are deemed ignorant. You stupid sheep !
You my dumb friend are deemed ignorant. You stupid sheep !
Bam Bam's early life!
We are ALL going to pay for Barack Obama's MOTHER'S mistakes! You can see the pent up anger in his eyes!
He has proven time and time
He has proven time and time again that he doesn't know what he is doing, and is a puppet for big labor and Nancy Polosi.
Good point! BHO knows
Good point! BHO knows exactly what he's doing, partially demonstrated by his selection of cabinet nominees (of which a few who have unsettled tax matters). He's looking out for his own interests and as a "boss" he'd find it more appropriate and beneficial to side with the union bosses. What else is to be expected of a Democrat?
I hear how dumb the R are.
I hear how dumb the R are. You aren't even intersted in what your president is doing. We, the people, have a responsibility to care about what our leaders do. With people like you, the US is really in trouble. This is suppose to be a Democracy not a dictatorship. We are the checks and balances for whoever or whomever is in power.
You were elected to clean up government not to help cover it up.
Dear Mr. President,
It saddens me to think that you are not open to keeping your promise to openness and transparency of Government especially in regard to Union favoritism relative to the rolling back regulations on disclosure of perks and benefits given to union management. This appears to be simply a payback for the unions support and vote for you during your election.
Hopefully I am wrong, you were elected to clean up government not to help cover it up.
Dave Baker
Transparency begins with your birth certificate, Mr. President
Dear Mr. President,
Step number 1, many of us would like transparency in the matter of your birth certificate and your qualification to be President. If you are a natural born American, then just show your birth certificate and stop the lawyer game playing. It is your duty to show it -- actually before the Election.
There is scarcely transparency when bills"must" be passed QUICKLY, with little time for reading (even when a bill is over 1000 pages long). I am disappointed that neither a Representative, a Senator, nor you, Mr. President seems to be able to stop this folly that means that our elected persons to represent us are not given time for due diligence, let alone necessary discussion and improvement of measures to be passed.
Kindly begin the government clean up by rustling up a legitimate birth certificate.
Thank you.
YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO DO WHAT
YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO DO WHAT YOU PROMISED,AND MAKE PEOPLE PROUD,INSTEAD ,YOU SEEM TO BE RUBBING THE BACKS OF THE BIG MONEY PEOPLE'S BACK.YOU SURELY DON'T THINK THEY WILL KEEP YOU IN OFFICE,DO YOU? ITS THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S.A THAT PUT YOU THERE,SO DO WHAT YOU PROMISED TO DO,INSTEAD OF WIMPING OUT ON ALL YOUR PROMISES...
Politics as usual
Being that you politicians isolate yourselves from us after you get elected, I 'd like to see all of you be auditid by the IRS. Maybae then we can separate the Politicians from the Representatives of the People!!! I believe the time is fast approaching when Politicians will be voted out and Representatives will be in power. The present GANG should not be in haste to unpack their bags. The PEOPLE are fed up with no representaion!!!!
STOP THE FORCED UNIONISM--STOP UNIONS!
I am very opposed, extremelly opposed to Unions. They bought Obama and most of the Dems. They are underworld characters, abusive, mobsters. I worked for a week in an office of a union boss and it was like listening to the Mafia. Mr. Hussein O, friend of Blago, you came from the underworld of Chicago, and you're in bed with the Unions. We, the People, DO NOT WANT FORCED UNIONISM.
Are all of you insane!For
Are all of you insane!For starters all of you are already in a union "NEWS FLASH" the U.S.A.!!!Without it you probably wouldnt even have your basic freedom and rights.Taxes = dues to maintain what it takes to run our "UNION" AMERICA!To all of you wherever you work do you enjoy such benefits as job security,wage increases,overtime pay,insurance,paid holidays,bereavement pay,retirement plans,vacation time,I could go on and on but by now Im sure you get the point.None of these benefits existed before the formation of UNIONS!!!!So instead of bashing them you should be thanking them.Im sorry republicans did I let the cat out of your greedy little bag?Wake up people take your voice back,I cant take anymore Im getting of this communist webpage!