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Ohio Business Owner Shot For Being Non-Union, Police Investigating
Redstate.com ^

Posted on 08/16/2011 6:52:44 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear



With around 25 employees, John King owns one of the largest non-union electrical contracting businesses in the Toledo, Ohio area. As a non-union contractor, his business happens to be doing well at a time when unions in the construction industry are suffering. This, it seems, has made the usual animosity unions have for him even greater, making him a prime target of union thugs. So much so, that one of them tried to kill him last week at his home.

John King didn’t plan on being an enemy of unions. In fact, he says all he’s ever wanted to do is work at something he loves doing and be successful at it—something that most normal Americans would call ‘The American Dream.’

After high school and some college, Mr. King briefly worked for an IBEW contractor before being drafted into the military. Following his service in the early 70s, King became his own boss by going into business as the youngest electrical contractor in Toledo.

Over the years, King Electrical Services had always been a small business. However, during the Great Recession, King’s business has actually improved as his union competitors have priced themselves out of work.

Unfortunately, being a non-union electrical company, King has always been on the radar of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). In fact, in 2006, he won a significant case against the IBEW at the US Court of Appeals, after the union had improperly promised his electricians jobs on union sites if they voted the union into King’s company.

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1 posted on 08/16/2011 6:52:50 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Why so surprising? They were just acting out exactly what they are. Union neanderthal thugs.


2 posted on 08/16/2011 6:54:43 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach government employees how to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Toledo unions are the nastiest, rudest, lowest morons that walked the earth. Toledo won’t crawl out of its hole until the unions are weakened and the voters wake up from their stupors.


3 posted on 08/16/2011 6:56:46 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Minus_The_Bear

soetoro Approved

Government, or nothing.


4 posted on 08/16/2011 7:00:18 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Seems to be a strange lack of news about this.


5 posted on 08/16/2011 7:00:40 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Goonions should all be out of work.


6 posted on 08/16/2011 7:00:49 PM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: cripplecreek

This needs to go viral.


7 posted on 08/16/2011 7:01:33 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Obama’s communist thugs have their marching orders.


8 posted on 08/16/2011 7:03:07 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: KansasGirl

Keep bumping.


9 posted on 08/16/2011 7:03:37 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Drudge says the NY Slimes is doing a page 1 article on this incident tomorrow. SARC


10 posted on 08/16/2011 7:07:42 PM PDT by crusader71
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To: KansasGirl

I’m already spreading it around.


11 posted on 08/16/2011 7:08:00 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: Let's Roll

Bump for non union


12 posted on 08/16/2011 7:08:05 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( BHO....the destroyer)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
IBEW thugs vandalized my car in 1978. CWA goons cut my primary phone line in the central office in 1984. Piss on unions. I do...anytime I can.
13 posted on 08/16/2011 7:09:22 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Minus_The_Bear

I think I’m pretty much finished doing business with union contractors.

For now on, any work on my home/car, whatever, is going to be an independent non-union/non illegal alien contractor.


14 posted on 08/16/2011 7:10:05 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: Minus_The_Bear
And there are those that think Unions are still useful. They have outlived their purpose and now are communists organizations with a thug army.
15 posted on 08/16/2011 7:10:20 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: onedoug

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night.

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/10/obama-flashback-if-they-bring-knife-fight-we-bring-gun#ixzz1VFRVku9l


16 posted on 08/16/2011 7:10:20 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Toledo IBEW Local 245 President

Phil C. LaCourse
Union President
Assistant Business Manager
phil@ibew245.com
(419) 666-3350 ext.12


17 posted on 08/16/2011 7:13:54 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: SkyDancer
Union neanderthal thugs.


18 posted on 08/16/2011 7:15:19 PM PDT by magslinger (I love that the FR spell check still flags Obama as a spelling error.)
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To: Hammerhead

The prefix on that phone number seems appropriate, somehow.


19 posted on 08/16/2011 7:15:50 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Bookmark


20 posted on 08/16/2011 7:16:49 PM PDT by mmanager
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