The Department of Labor just finalized a rule making the biggest unions open their books wider — the first real modernization of the Form LM-2 since 2003. Quick background. Under the LMRDA, larger unions file an annual financial disclosure, the LM-2, laying out assets, spending, and salaries. The new rule from the Office of Labor-Management…

My latest article for Associated Builders and Contractors of Central Ohio discusses two prevailing wage rollbacks construction companies performing public work should follow. https://www.centralohioabc.org/News/prevailing-wage-rollbacks-to-watch-one-federal-one-in-ohio

This is the most consequential labor-law story going, and it isn’t really about one employer. It’s about whether the NLRB, as currently built, can keep doing what it does. A Texas federal judge just permanently blocked the NLRB from prosecuting an employer — not over the facts, but over the agency’s structure. Judge Mark Pittman…

Trump’s AI framework, unveiled last month, left out workplace safety and anti-discrimination protections. So unions are filling the gap the only way they can — at the bargaining table. The pattern is familiar. When federal law goes quiet, labor negotiates its own rules, then leans on those rules to pressure lawmakers to codify them. It’s…

Last month, five unions shut down the Long Island Rail Road — the country’s largest commuter line — over pay. More than 300,000 riders were stranded, at an estimated $61 million a day to the region. The argument: workers couldn’t keep up with the rising cost of living. Then the filings came out. Those same…

Chicago’s Signature Room closed three years ago. The company is dissolved. One owner has died. And the NLRB case is still very much alive — now aimed at an officer personally. Per the Board’s decision, Infusion Management Group, which ran The Signature Room at the 95th, shut down and laid off its UNITE HERE Local…