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Worker Questions His Union, Then Reports a Threat (Thuggery Alert)
Detroit Free Press ^ | 04/28/04 | Sarah A. Webster

Posted on 04/28/2004 6:05:10 AM PDT by Kieri

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:13:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Federal and local authorities are investigating allegations from a Jeep employee who said a brick, five bullets and UAW stickers were thrown through the window of his family's home after he questioned the finances of UAW Local 12 in Toledo.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Michigan; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: lookfortheunionlabel; unionbosses; unioncorruption; unions
Keying foreign cars is small potatoes now.
1 posted on 04/28/2004 6:05:11 AM PDT by Kieri
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To: Kieri
Things might get to the point where it would be cheaper for car manufacturers to simply pay off the union members and start from scratch with non-union labor.
2 posted on 04/28/2004 6:09:51 AM PDT by Agnes Heep (Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
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To: Agnes Heep
I think that's what they have in mind.
Its called the Tony Soprano approach; pay me and I'll go away.
3 posted on 04/28/2004 6:13:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Kieri
after he questioned the finances of UAW Local 12 in Toledo

Well that wasn't very smart... why don't you just ask the Gambinos where they got all their money?!

4 posted on 04/28/2004 6:14:56 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
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To: Kieri
Hate Crime??? RICO??? Oh, I forgot, we don't enforce those laws on people on the left...
5 posted on 04/28/2004 6:20:10 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Kieri
Local 12 is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the crime, President Bruce Baumhower said.

And in related news: the reward offered by OJ Simpson for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who murdered his wife and Ron Goldman remains unclaimed...

6 posted on 04/28/2004 6:24:31 AM PDT by 70times7 (An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
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To: Physicist
Union Thuggery Ping.
7 posted on 04/28/2004 6:31:48 AM PDT by martin_fierro ("I actually threw away my medals - before I didn't" -- J Effin' K)
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To: Kieri
Local 12 is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the crime, President Bruce Baumhower said.

$5,000 and a bat upside your head if you come forward with information leading to a conviction. You only get the bat if there isn't a conviction.

8 posted on 04/28/2004 6:33:28 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. - Ann Coulter 4/1/04, How 9-11 Happened)
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To: Kieri
Union leadership from the local to the international level is populated by thugs and crooks. The left wing democrats are the enablers of these crooks. At some point the union movement has to be cleaned up or it will die (which hopefully has been happening). Now the crooked government unions have gained standing by buying democrats.

I have no love for the Kennedy family but must say that Bobbie Kennedy did take on Jimmy Hoffa and the teamsters but look what happened to him. It was poetic justice that Jimmy suffered the same fate when he crossed his masters.
9 posted on 04/28/2004 6:58:38 AM PDT by hgro
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To: Kieri
Typical.
10 posted on 04/28/2004 1:34:07 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("12 hours outta Mackinaw City, stopped at the bar to have a brew.....")
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