The collaborative effort of the current administration and Big Labor to reduce scrutiny on labor mischief seems to be working! You may have noticed that our “Sticky Fingers” section at the end of each newsletter has been much shorter than in the past. According to the National Legal Policy Center (from whom we secure our information for that section), the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) hasn’t updated its website in over 3 months. The Solis DOL has relaxed reporting requirements – making fraud more difficult to detect – and shifted budget allocations away from monitoring labor corruption.
