NLRB Official Suspended for Pro-Union Conflict of Interest

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Washington Free Beacon:

Bill McMorris

April 11, 2016

 

The National Labor Relations Board suspended a top-ranking Philadelphia official after receiving complaints that he helped raise money from unions for his pro-union charity.

 

Dennis Walsh, the regional director for the agency’s fourth district, was suspended without pay for 30 days in December after an inspector general investigation revealed that he had misled ethics officers about his tenure as chairman of the Peggy Browning Fund.

 

The nonprofit, named after a former NLRB board member, has close ties to some of the major unions that appeared before Walsh’s office, which handles unfair labor practice cases and local elections. The agency inspector general found that nearly 60 percent of Region 4’s casework “involved at least one prohibited source who made a contribution to the Peggy Browning Fund.”

 

Walsh and the NLRB did not return requests for comment.

 

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