-—Do you know that I have been a paid up member of the IBEW for the last thirty years?
And you are proud of that? A compliant un-thinking lackey?
So did you threaten to beat people up?
How’s your pension doing?
The Ullico case is important because it involves the heads of some of the largest unions in the country improperly, if not illegally, enriching themselves at the expense of union members and retirees.
It’s also important because it illustrates the growing trend of union corruption involving pensions.
http://www.nlpc.org/olap/congress/020501.htm
Yet in 2006, the SEIU National Industry Pension Plan, a plan for the rank-and-file members, covering 100,787 workers, was 75% funded. That is, it had three-fourths of the money it needed to pay benefit obligations of workers and retirees.
http://www.poorandstupid.com/2008_07_06_chronArchive.asp
On Tuesday, state attorney general Eliot Spitzer announced a settlement with NYSUT that includes a union agreement to reform its pension practices and a modest fine for the union. From Mark Johnson’s Associated Press story:
http://www.knickerbockerblog.com/labor-issues/on-the-teachers-unions-pension.html
For years, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) failed to protect the members of its Washington, D.C. affiliate. According to a March 2003 AFT publication, Washington Teachers Union president Barbara Bullock — along with a small group of co-conspirators — illegally diverted $5 million from the union between 1995 and 2002. That amounts to $1,000 per teacher stolen, laundered, or used for the personal expenses of union officials.
http://teachersunionsexposed.com/embezzlementexcess_scandal.cfm
Against all expectations, the corruption scandal at New York City’s largest municipal union could end up transforming the union into a more formidable adversary in coming contract negotiations with the city, labor experts say.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E1D9173CF933A15751C1A96E958260
Another Nabbed in Mob Controlled NY School Bus Union Scandal
Posted on January 30th, 2008
by Warner Todd Huston in All News
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We’ve mentioned the little problem with the organized crime infested New York Transit Workers union Local 1181 a few times here on the Union Label. Well, we can report that another indictment in this growing and embarrassing scandal has been handed down.
Joseph Fazzia, owner of Jofaz Transportation was charged with making false statements to the FBI.
http://www.bloggernews.net/113472
Embezzlement, False Reports, Violence, And More
Most people don’t know just how many crimes are committed every year through which union officials hurt their own members. The number of reputed and verified crimes is staggering. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than the hundreds of indictments of union officials for violations of the Labor Management and Reporting Disclosure Act. According to the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS), those crimes include “embezzlement, filing false reports, keeping false records, destruction of records, extortionate picketing and deprivation of rights by violence.”
http://www.unionfacts.com/articles/crimeFraud.cfm
United States Attorney Terrance P. Flynn announced today the unsealing of an 8-count Superseding Indictment, returned by a federal grand jury, charging 12 members of Operating Engineers Local 17, based in Hamburg , New York , with engaging in a violent scheme to extort jobs and compensation associated with those jobs from both local and out-of-town, businesses and their employees. The Superseding Indictment specifically accuses the defendants, including high-ranking officers of Local 17, with conspiracy to commit racketeering, and 7 counts of extortion, conspiracy to commit extortion, and attempted extortion. Charged in the Superseding Indictment were:
http://buffalo.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/extortion040808.htm
Laborers’ Union official indicted on conspiracy charge
07:28 AM EST on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
PROVIDENCE — A ranking official of the Laborers’ International Union of North America yesterday became the third person to face criminal charges in an ongoing investigation into kickback payments on a development in the city’s Olneyville neighborhood.
http://www.projo.com/news/content/LABORERS___ARREST_11-25-08_HUCD7C7_v14.3d4ff63.html
Former Employee of Florida Ironworkers Union Indicted For Embezzling $30,000 From Welfare Plan
Atlanta, Georgia - The former office manager of the Ironworkers Local Union No. 808 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Fund in Orlando, Florida, has been charged with 42 counts of embezzling approximately $30,000 in assets from the fund, based on an investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/newsroom/pr1022a03.html
After a Decade of Clean-Up, Another Union Indictment
Back to the Mob
by Tom Robbins
Last Wednesday, exactly 10 years to the day after federal prosecutors filed a civil racketeering lawsuit aimed at ridding the powerful New York District Council of Carpenters of corruption, the union’s long and tortured relationship with organized crime was once again on public display.
http://www.thelaborers.net/newspapers/The%20Village%20Voice%20CityState%20Back%20to%20the%20Mob.htm
***And you are proud of that? A compliant un-thinking lackey?****
I wish you had to work under THE PLANT MANAGER FROM HELL. Even the shift supervisors privatly encouraged a union while publicly opposing it. It was that bad!
Un-thinking lackey? I have NEVER voted for a political candidate backed by the union.
There are several other Freepers who worked under that MANAGER FROM HELL. They agree it was bad!
***So did you threaten to beat people up?****
We never tried. The PLANT MANAGER FROM HELL was the best union organizer the company had. Without him the plant would still be non union.
How bad was he? Wehn he died we hoped he would be buried locally so we wouldn’t have to charter a bus to go all the way to Louisiana just to pi$$ on his grave.
Even his grandson became a union stewart.
How’s your pension doing?****
We have company pensions but never applied for union pensions. Didn’t want any.