The recent decision by the U.S. Department of Labor to post financial disclosure reports from hundreds of unions on its website, without posting the disclosure reports of employers, is being met with outrage from the American labor movement. Although the Labor Department defends the move as part of its ongoing attempts to increase transparency in labor relations---and insists that company records will be posted in the future---many unions feel that the failure to simultaneously post similar records of the money spent by businesses on anti-union campaigns is outright discrimination. Often referred to as LM?s, these labor-management records include data on union assets, officer salaries, expenses, political contribution, and spending on labor relations experts and organizations by businesses.
See KIRSTIN DOWNEY GRIMSLEY, The Washington Post, June 12, 2002