The Prime Minister’s Office privately consulted with industry lobbyists on a bill that would require unions to disclose their finances under threat of $1,000-a day penalties, Blacklock’s has learned. Eleven senior Conservative staffers and MPs, including the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, met with the same construction group that earlier successfully lobbied for repeal of the 1930 Fair Wages and Hours Act. “Those are big hitters,” said Labour Congress president Ken Georgetti.
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