Posted on 12/19/2014 8:12:48 AM PST by Rusty0604
Three more members of Ironworkers Local 401 in Philadelphia pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiracy, extortion, and racketeering in an ongoing RICO case against the labor union. They join eight others who have pleaded guilty in recent months to charges related to arson, sabotage, and violent intimidation of contractors who used non-union labor.
The union’s business agents would visit foremen and threaten them with assault and sabotage if they did not agree to hire 401 members, prosecutors claim, although often such workers “often performed little or no actual work” and were paid “merely to prevent further acts of sabotage.” If the foreman did not concede, union members would use a series of tactics, from picketing to physically barring workers and materials from entering the site, to increase the pressure. If this did not work, things would escalate to violence and vandalism: “actions included assaulting non-union employees with baseball bats, slashing the tires of vehicles, smashing vehicles with crow bars, cutting and changing the locks on construction sites, filling the locks with superglue, damaging construction equipment, [and] stealing construction materials.”
If the contractors still resisted, more severe sabotage – what members referred to as “night work” – is alleged to have followed, including setting fire to the site, destroying machinery, and “using an acetylene torch … to cut through the steel support columns of the building.”
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It is all OK as unions are the all time top political money contributors and give 99% to democrats.
What is a little sabotage, violence and extortion when it is for the children...?
More and more movies and TV shows are filmed in Canada so as to get out from under unions' extortion, thuggery, and racketeering. A relative in Hollywood told me how unions force movie companies to hire two or three people to do one job. Insane.
union scum, muzzies, child molesters,registered Democrats alert!
Obama’s kind of people.
Our “public servants” unions are thugs also.
I’m guessing they stiffed Obama’s cronies and failed to make adequate campaign donations.
Check out the Sopranos, which spells out exactly how this goes.
“More and more movies and TV shows are filmed in Canada so as to get out from under unions’ extortion, thuggery, and racketeering. “
Got news for you. The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers are in Canada, too.
Unions as protection racket
nobody is shocked
And how did Pennsylvania vote in 2014?
And how many indictments have been brought against the riot-inciter and murder-inciter and tax evader Al Sharpton?
Riddle: How many communists can You fit on a church pew?
Answer: About ten fat arse union members.
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