AWF Urges Support for Senator Sessions' Amendment
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AWF “WILL RATE” Yes Vote on Sessions Amendment to S. 1710
AWF Urges Support for OLMS Funding Restoration
Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF), a group dedicated to protecting the rights and freedoms of normal hard-working Americans, urges all Senators to vote “yes” on Senator Sessions Amendment to S. 1710, the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill.
S. 1710 cuts funding for the union financial monitoring agency the Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) by over $2 million. Senator Sessions’s amendment will restore funding to its FY 2007 levels plus an additional $3 million to continue fighting union corruption and crime.
„« Union members want to know how their dues are being spent. Last year there were 767,908 hits on the OLMS website; an average of 2,100 per day. According to a Zogby poll, 71% of union members want additional disclosure and financial transparency.
„« OLMS is the only agency devoted to protection the interests of dues-paying union members. Yet at a time when Congress and state governments are calling for increased transparency and accountability, the FY 2008 House and Senate Labor-HHS Appropriations bills gut the OLMS budget.
„« Union members should have the same protection as stockholders. The OLMS is to union transparency what the SEC is to corporate accountability – yet the SEC was funded over $900 million while the OLMS gets its budget cut.
AWF “WILL RATE” Yes Vote on
Sessions Amendment to S. 1710
