Labor Agency Aims to Wield Its Data to Counter Anti-Union Groups

The Biden administration plans to have the federal office in charge of policing unions mount a more robust defense of organized labor in the face of well-funded conservative groups that seek to undermine unionization efforts.

Jeffrey Freund, the new director of the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards, told Bloomberg Law he’ll push back more aggressively against business-funded campaigns that use the department’s data to portray unions as bastions of corruption.

Freund, a veteran union-side attorney, said he’s planning a public outreach campaign to ensure workers are aware that the vast majority of unions are in compliance with rules ...