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Labor Law Update

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
April 27, 2006

Legislation & Politics

Members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council approved a political budget of $40 million for the 2006 political election, the largest budget in history for a mid-term election. The program will attempt to mobilize 11.4 million union households in 21 'battleground' states, focusing on 40 House races, 15 Senate races, and the governors' races in California, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards announ-ced on March 7 that employers whose fiscal years end on Dec. 31 will have until May 15 to file fiscal year 2005 LM-10 forms which disclose payments and gifts made to unions, their officers, and their employees.

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