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Union Financial Reporting
On April 10, 2002, and again on June 27, 2002, Phillip B. Wilson testified before the United States Congress' joint Employer Employee Relations and Workforce Protection subcommittees of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The purpose was to investigate current union financial reporting requirements and potential reform.

Unions in the United States are required to file financial reports with the Department of Labor each fiscal year. These reports are intended to provide union members detailed information that they can use to ensure that their dues money is being used wisely and responsibly. The law originally requiring these reports passed overwhelmingly in 1959 after extensive investigations proved pervasive corruption and criminal activity by unions. Congress and President Eisenhower concluded that the only way to effectively police unions was to ensure that they were democratically accountable. Unfortunately the record of compliance with these requirements by unions was (and remains) problematic.

Mr. Wilson proposed several changes to the reporting requirements to improve union democracy and allow the statute to meet its original intent. Ultimately the Department of Labor revised the reporting requirements through regulations adopted in October 2003.

To learn more about the hearings, or to read Mr. Wilson's testimony or writings on the issue, check out the links below:

Order a copy of Phillip Wilson’s monograph The Case for Reform of Union Reporting Laws: How Financial Transparency Could Have Prevented ULLICO and Other Abuses (LPA Monograph) for only $14.99 and receive a FREE copy of Phil's article "Conquering the Enemy Within: The Case for Reform of the Landrum-Griffin Act" reprinted from the Journal of Labor Research. Only $14.99 by clicking here.

Download a PDF copy of the congressional hearing text here (free).
View the Department of Labor's Revised LM-2 Information here.

Union Corruption
Phillip Wilson has authored an upcoming monograph on union corruption. In it they argue that the current legal framework for identifying and combating corruption is a failure. They identify a number of possible reforms to respond to effectively respond to corruption. Click here to download the PDF version for FREE.

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