{"id":22447,"date":"2026-05-09T21:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-department-of-labor-is-right-to-make-union-spending-transparent\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:22:32","slug":"the-department-of-labor-is-right-to-make-union-spending-transparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-department-of-labor-is-right-to-make-union-spending-transparent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Labor is right to make union spending transparent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Labor has released a new tool to help union members and the public track how $11 billion in union dues are spent, including political activities&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/congress-blog\/labor\/5870396-labor-union-dues-transparency\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Labor has released a new tool to help union members and the public track how $11 billion in union dues are spent, including political activities&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}