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OPA News Release: [06/03/2002]
Contact Name: Sue
Hensley
Phone Number: (202) 693-4676
New Department of Labor Web Site Debuts
Access To Union Reports
Eased
WASHINGTON -- A new web site (http://www.union-reports.dol.gov)
that eases access to union annual financial reports is open to the public, the
U.S. Department of Labor announced today.
The new web site is maintained by the Department's Office of
Labor-Management Standards (OLMS). Individuals may now view, via the Web, union
annual financial reports and conduct data searches, displaying the results in a
number of preformatted listings, free of charge.
The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, as amended
(LMRDA), and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) require certain union
reports to be filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. All information and data
obtained from reports filed under the reporting provisions of the LMRDA or CSRA
are public information.
Until today the public was able to examine union financial and
informational reports and related documents, including union constitutions and
bylaws, free of charge (and purchase copies for a nominal fee), only at the
OLMS public disclosure room in Washington, D.C., or at the OLMS field offices
for reporting organizations and individuals within each office’s
geographic jurisdiction.
The new OLMS web site now provides interested individuals and
organizations with a choice. Individuals can view and print copies of actual
union annual financial reports (for year 2000 and later) in pdf format. These
reports are searchable by a variety of criteria, including union name, file
number, affiliation, designation name and number, and location.
The OLMS web site also features a powerful union data search system.
Step-by-step instructions guide users through selecting the unions to be
included in the search, the time period covered by the search, which data will
appear on the resulting listings, and how the data will be sorted. Users may
also conduct searches on union officers and employees, either by union or by
the name of the officer or employee. Enabling users to define the scope of
searches and to determine how the results are presented results in customized
listings tailored to users’ specific needs.
Users may also order copies of union information reports; union annual
financial reports (regardless of the year filed); and union
constitutions/bylaws from the Internet Public Disclosure Room for a nominal
fee. The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) is part of Department's
Employment Standards Administration.
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