Since April of 2022, Trey Kovacs, a former Special Assistant at the US Department of Labor, has been working for Amazon as a union-busting consultant. He has been holding captive audience meetings at ONT8 in Moreno Valley, California.
SourceKovacs may identify himself as a policy expert on "union corruption," but it looks like he may have broken the law he was hired to enforce while employed by the US Department of Labor: Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) of 1959.
Under the LMRDA, union-busters must inform the Department of Labor and, by extension, workers when they are hired by an employer. They must report this information using a Form LM-20. You can read more about LM-20s, what they are, and why they matter here.
Despite union-busting for Amazon since April, Kovacs has never notified the Department of Labor. In fact, according to the LaborLab database, Kovacs has NEVER filed with the Department of Labor even though he appears in other union-buster's reports. For example, Trey Kovacs union-busted for SW Steel USA Ohio, but the only reason we know that is because Kovacs was identified in a report submitted by another union-busting firm.
The fact that a Department of Labor Special Assistant turned union-buster is denying workers their right to know under the LMRDA highlights the lack of enforcement and accountability currently facing the union-busting industry.
President Biden's Department of Labor must do more.
Published December 28, 2022