The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) has published a formal proposal that would require companies that are subject to filing mandatory disclosure reports regarding certain expenditures they incur during a labor dispute to indicate whether they are federal contractors.
The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) of 1959, sometimes referred to as the Landrum-Griffin Act, was enacted among other things to curb the practice by some employers of using third-party middlemen and consultants to influence employees during union organizing campaigns, sometimes by the use of heavy-handed tactics. The law’s mandated disclosures require covered employers to notify OLMS of certain activities by completing and filing government “Form LM-10.” LM-10 filers are not currently required to disclose federal contractor status.
As discussed in more detail below, the OLMS proposal is consistent with other Biden Administration initiatives that are responsive to organized labor’s long-sought goal of increasing union organizing by using the federal procurement process to achieve pro-labor policy changes that labor has not been able to achieve through legislative change.
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