Chamber Turns Up Heat on Labor Dept. to Probe Worker Centers (1)

The nation’s largest business lobby is renewing its push for the Labor Department to investigate and regulate more worker organizing centers.

The DOL should probe whether a specific set of influential nonprofit organizations have been unlawfully skirting union disclosure requirements, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says in a report released April 25. Further, the Chamber wants the department to issue new legal guidance that would have potentially damaging implications for a growing subset of the labor movement that aids workers without negotiating labor contracts with employers.

The Chamber is repeating recommendations it made during the Obama administration for the DOL ...