Right to Work Alum Tapped for DOL Union-Auditing Office
The Trump Administration recently selected former National Right to Work Foundation attorney Geoffrey MacLeay to serve as policy adviser for the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS). Prior to his new appointment, MacLeay most recently worked as a professional staff for Republicans on the House Education and the Workforce Committee. There, he called for stricter OLMS oversight of labor organizing centers. The office is responsible for overseeing annual reports filed by labor unions detailing how their membership dues are spent. MacLeay’s appointment may signal the administration’s response to pressure from conservatives to take a tougher stance on the labor movement. The National Right to Work Foundation and White House labor policy adviser James Sherk reportedly called for an OMLS leader who would impose stricter standards for the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act by requiring worker centers to file more detailed spending disclosures.
See "Right to Work Alum Tapped for DOL Union-Auditing Office", Ben Penn and Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg Law, August 8, 2018