GOP Labor Lawyer Said to Be Tapped to Run Union-Auditing Office

Arthur Rosenfeld, a veteran Republican labor official, is awaiting final clearance to be named director of the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards, sources familiar with the decision tell Bloomberg Law.

Rosenfeld, who was general counsel at the National Labor Relations Board in the George W. Bush administration, would be the Trump administration’s first political hire at the OLMS. The fiscally hamstrung office enforces the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. The agencies priorities haven’t crystallized this year, but the OLMS drew criticism under prior Republican administrations for perceived labor movement harassment.

Some GOP lawmakers and members of the business community ...