94% of Unions Fail OLMS Audits
Just a quick note about the “success” rate of unions and their audit compliance from Ed Morrissey.
The OLMS points out far too many “inconvenient truths”, as one Democrat might put it. For instance, it reported that only 43 of 643 union audits showed financial compliance. That’s a whopping 6%, meaning 94% of all unions can’t pass a financial audit. It doesn’t seem very surprising, since millions of worker dollars end up at the Democratic Party. If a group of publicly-held corporations had a 6% failure rate for their financial audits, the Democrats and unions would scream bloody murder, let alone a 94% failure rate.
Now, imagine how the left would be all over that if such a failure rate were to be had from groups supporting conservative causes. They’d be all over it with their “Republican culture of corruption” rhetoric, for sure.
Remember how the left was all up in arms about Enron? Amazing how silent they are about unions, isn’t it?
Restore Funding For Fighting Union Corruption
David Denholm of the Public Service Research Council gives us the update on the OLMS:
On Thursday, October 18 the Senate voted 47 to 46 to kill an amendment by Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions to the 2008 Labor-HHS Appropriation Bill, H.R. 3043, that would have restored funding for the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) to its 2007 level.
Two Republican (In Name Only) Senators, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Ted Stevens of Alaska, voted with the Democrats to defeat this amendment.
The OLMS is the only government agency charged with monitoring labor union finances and rooting out union corruption. It has been doing an excellent job. So excellent, in fact, that the Union Bosses’ friends in Congress are reducing its funding, despite the fact that they found reasons to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more than the President requested in other parts of the Labor-HHS appropriation bill.
Now is the time to begin urging President Bush not only to veto H.R. 3043 but, just as importantly, to mention the need to restore OLMS funding in his veto message
My fear is that if he doesn’t make a strong point of this the Democrats will cut a few hundred million dollars of fat from the bill and return it to him without restoring OLMS funding.
Folks, we need to get our representatives in Congress to understand that we won’t allow the Democrats to cover for union corruption anymore. If the Dems want to claim that they are the ones that want to eliminate the so-called “culture of corruption,” then we must hold their feet to the fire and actually live up to their words.
But, the defunding of the OLMS that the Dems are involved in certainly makes the lie to their claims to care about fighting corruption!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI have been a Member of a Union for almost 30 years. As of the last few years our Union has turned rotten to the core. The OLMS needs to be funded to the fullest to break the backs of these corruption Union Officals. I am beginning to believe Organized Labor = Organized Crime
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local 86 union ironworker are using there power to go after people they dont like by not giving them dispatches. unless you kiss up to or give a bottle to the dispatcher and he was appointed by the president of the local. the members are too afraid to speak up because they see what happens to people like me. and this is at most locals you go to. and the so called market recovery money is the locals golf money which is millions. when members talked about it at hanford site in washington local 14 steward told everybody if they talked about it they would bring up charges on you, june 2008. please somebody look into this. local 86 seattle is telling contractors to raise they bids because they run all the non-union companies out.
A lot going on with the IUOE General Pension Plan and none of it good.
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