Office of Governmental Ethics

FOIA Request: Ethics Waivers and Hatch Act Concerns (09/28/2011 )

Documents

2011-11-2 OGE – FOIA Request Granted letter

Production 1

Production 2

Executive Order Guidance, Ethics Pledge Compliance

2009-12-10 OGE – Memo re Reminder about Holiday Gifts and Fundraising

2010-12-7 OGE – Memo re Limited Waiver of Paragraph 2 of the Ethics Pledge

2011-9-7 OGE – Ethics issues re an employee running for or holding local nonpartisan elected office

2011-10-13 OGE – Definitions sheet

2009-1-15 OGE – Memo re Presidential Inaugural Events

2009-3-23 OGE – Certification of Public Interest Waiver for Margot Rogers

2009-4-28 OGE – Certification of Public Interest Waiver for James H. Shelton III

2011-11-2 OGE-Preventing Conflicts of Interest in the Executive Branch

2009-5-18 OGE – Certification of Public Interest Waiver for Naomi Walker

2009-5-26 OGE – Memo re ethics pledge issues-speeches and pledge paragraph 2

2009-8-24 OGE – Memo re Pres Obama’s Ethics Pledge

2009-11-10 OGE – Limited Waiver of Executive Order 13490 for Joseph Main

Office of Management and Budget

Office of Special Counsel

09/28/2011 – FOIA Request to OSC re Ethics Waivers and Hatch Act Concerns

Document Productions

Interim Production 1

Interim Production 2

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

CoA to National Mediation Board: Tell Us Who You Talked To

Cause of Action sent a Freedom of Information Act Request to the National Mediation Board asking for documents related to various labor unions’ involvement in recent Board rulemaking.  Specifically, CoA is concerned by the National Mediation Board’s recent decision to advance a rule which allows only a small minority of all eligible employees to determine union representation.  For over 75 years, the Board conducted union representation elections according to the principle that a union would be certified as the collective bargaining representative only if a majority of the eligible employees in the relevant craft or class voted in favor of union representation. This “Majority Rule” is stated directly in the text of the Railway Labor Act, which provides that “[t]he majority of any craft or class of employees shall have the right to determine who shall be the representative of the craft or class for the purposes of this chapter.  On May 11, 2010, the NMB issued a final rule, effective June 10, 2010, allowing a union to be certified as a firm’s collective bargaining representative based on a majority of votes cast, therefore abandoning the Majority Rule in favor of a Minority Rule.

CoA is particularly troubled by evidence tending to show that this change in the rule was the result of a predetermined effort to advance a partisan policy agenda.

Read the CoA FOIA Request.

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