18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable

Investigate worker centers and require them to file financial disclosures

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“Investigate worker centers and require financial disclosures. DOL should investigate worker centers that look and act like unions and bring enforcement actions to require them to file the same financial disclosures.”

What has happened

Jun 1, 2026 Not started
The Department of Labor has neither investigated worker centers nor required them to file union financial disclosures. It was asked to and declined: commenters on the Office of Labor-Management Standards' annual-financial-reports rulemaking urged the Department to require worker centers to file, arguing they "often function as de facto labor organizations while avoiding transparency requirements" and are used to channel union funds out of sight, and the final rule answers that "these recommendations fall outside the scope of this rulemaking."
- DOL/OLMS final rule: Labor Organization Annual Financial Reports (declines commenters' request to extend filing requirements to worker centers as outside the scope of the rulemaking)
  Primary Executive branch Jun 1, 2026

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

“Moved the other way” under §3b: the Status stays not started and the dated Primary refusal carries the Evidence. This is the clearest kind of negative — the Department was presented with the ask in a rulemaking record and put its answer in the Federal Register.
Read at govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-01/html/2026-10849.htm; the passage is in the response-to-comments discussion of the Form LM-2 Long Form.
No OLMS enforcement action against a worker center could be found; dol.gov, where OLMS publishes its enforcement statistics, refuses automated reads. Sent to the read queue.

Action: restrict
Object: Dues-funded worker centers
ID: 1655