LaborLab Flags Walmart for Continued Union-Busting Spending, Delayed Disclosures

LaborLab singled out Walmart contextually in a four-week Union‑Buster Watch run in February, saying its weekly posts documented continued corporate spending on anti-union consultants and flagged “delayed disclosures” in the federal filings that track those payments. The posts ran February 3, 12, 19, and 25 and used specific daily and hourly rates in their headlines to illustrate the scale of spending.

The February 3 post carried the headline “Amazon Pays Union-Buster $2,200/Day, Healthcare Systems Spend $475/Hour to Fight Workers,” and the February 12 post headlined “Logistics Giant Spends $4,000/Day While Others Face Unfair Labor Practice Charges.” The February 19 post was titled “Union-Busting Consultants Cost Workers Transparency – Again,” and the February 25 post was headlined “Corporate Spend, Delayed Disclosures: Union-Buster Watch for the Week of February 23, 2026.”

LaborLab’s site says it bases those weeklies on federal filings, noting explicitly that “the data for the reports come from daily federal filings from employers that have paid these anti-union corporations.” The research notes supplied to this story identify the Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards as the federal filing agency that collects the underlying data LaborLab cites. LaborLab also states on its site, in exact language, that “LaborLab is the only nonprofit watchdog organization that tracks and investigates corporate spending on union-busting,” and that its work is “shining a light on the special interests hell bent on defeating workplace democracy.”

An individual identified only as Funk provided additional context for LaborLab’s recent activity and legal framing. “Funk pointed out, the workplace is protected by the National Labor Relations Act, and workers should be allowed to seek union representation without their employers' prevention,” the notes quote. Funk also stated that “So far, in 2024, there has been an increase in the number of anti-union campaigns by employers,” and that employers have used “several legal routes” to delay and intimidate workers.

LaborLab reported growth and organizing work in 2023 that it says underpins its February work: “In 2023, they improved compliance with the law that allowed them to distribute important information to workers hoping to organize with unions. They engaged in over 250 campaigns around the country and now have over 100 Local unions within their coalition,” Funk said, and LaborLab says it has communicated with over 20 International Unions and several more Locals in America.

The supplied materials do not name the unnamed “Logistics Giant” or the specific healthcare systems attached to the dollar figures, and they note Walmart only as “mentioned contextually as one” of the employers of interest rather than tying Walmart to a specific dollar amount. LaborLab’s February 25 headline and the weeklies together foreground transparency concerns tied to OLMS filings, and the organization frames its mission with site headings including “Protecting Our Right to Organize” and appeals to support its work as it continues to press for disclosure and to document employer spending on anti-union consultants.