§461 Reports

Summary

Labor unions that take control of a local must file a report with the Secretary within 30 days after September 14, 1959 or within 30 days after they took control, and then every six months. The report must give the local’s name and address, the date the trusteeship began, the reasons for taking or keeping control, and how members help choose delegates and officers. The first report must also include a full picture of the local’s finances when control began. While the trusteeship continues, the parent union must file the annual financial report called for in section 431(b), signed by its president and treasurer and by the local’s trustees. Other listed reporting rules (sections 431(c), 435, 436, 438, and 440) apply to these reports. Anyone who willfully breaks these rules, makes or hides false statements, or destroys records can be fined up to $10,000, jailed up to one year, or both. Each person who signs a report is personally responsible for filing it and for any false statement they know is untrue.