Public-Sector Union Financial Transparency
Workers need access to unbiased and candid information in order to make decisions about their families, finances, workplaces, and careers. However, union members are often uninformed about the actions of their unions.
Transparency – or workers’ right to know what their labor unions are doing with their dues money on their behalf – has existed in some form for private-sector labor unions for almost a half-century. Federal labor law requires private-sector unions to disclose financial information to their members by submitting the LM-2 and other pertinent forms to the U.S. Department of Labor. The department posts these public reports on a searchable website.
The federal regulations do not apply to unions representing state government employees and teachers. Instead, state laws govern these state and local labor relations. State-level transparency requirements similar to the federal regulations would allow unionized government employees to know how their money is spent.
EFF has developed model legislation to bring this amount of accountability to public-sector unions operating in Washington state.
In addition, EFF has collected financial and meeting documents from the Washington Federation of State Employees, one of the largest public-sector unions in the state. Click here to see the documents we have collected.
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