Union Financial Disclosures Relaxed Under New Chief NLRB Lawyer

Unions that chafed under additional financial recordkeeping and disclosure requirements imposed during the Trump administration got relief when the NLRB’s new top lawyer rolled back a slate of his predecessor’s policies.

Peter Sung Ohr, the National Labor Relations Board’s acting general counsel, withdrew policy memos last week that insisted unions provide more detail about fees charged to nonmembers, and required them to open their books and explain their decisions if workers allege improper calculations of such fees, union lawyers said.

Those now-defunct memos were part of a multi-pronged effort by former GC Peter Robb to increase the NLRB’s oversight ...