Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act

Long title	An act to provide for the reporting and disclosure of certain financial transactions and administrative practices of labor organizations and employers, to prevent abuses in the administration of trusteeships by labor organizations, to provide standards with respect to the election of officers of labor organizations, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	LMRDA
Nicknames	Landrum–Griffin Act
Enacted by	the 86th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 86–257
Statutes at Large	73 Stat. 519
Codification
Titles amended	29 U.S.C.: Labor
U.S.C. sections created	29 U.S.C. ch. 11 §§ 401-531
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 1555 on March 25, 1959 Committee consideration by Labor and Public Welfare Passed the Senate on April 25, 1959 (90-1) Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 14, 1959

The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (also "LMRDA" or the Landrum–Griffin Act), is a US labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers.^[1]