A financial analysis of major unions: implications for financial reporting reform under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
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The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA) requires annual financial disclosures from labor unions. These are useful since union finances can reflect much about how well the organizations are being managed and performing their duties. Unions experiencing financial problems may want to increase dues, and the Department of Labor should expand financial reporting requirements to include information which might be helpful in making this decision. This would include data on programmatic and functional union expenditures as well as a managerial accounting statement.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1993
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Worker participation and representation in the United States and the European Union: a comparative legal analysis
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Participatory management is becoming accepted as a method for improved productivity, quality and morale but the US National Labor Relations Act prevents employee participation in decisions that involve collective bargaining. The European Union model in the European Works Council Directive can give some guidance to possible labor law reforms to allow employee participation without undermining the benefits of collective bargaining. Both systems are analyzed, with the emphasis on social interests, communication, decentralization and employee rights.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1996
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Unions, politics and power: the ideology of paycheck protection and proposals
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Efforts to enact so-called paycheck protection laws took place in Congress and in California in 1998. Ostensibly, these proposed laws promote political free choice by allowing union members to withhold dues that support political activities they oppose. Historical analysis reveals that the conservative forces behind these proposals trace back to the antiunion right-to-work movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The true purpose is to strip the unions of their remaining political clout.
Publication Name: Labor Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0023-6586
Year: 1998
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