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Union whistleblowers: We were beaten and harassed after they accused bosses of looting
Daily News ^ | 05/15/11 | Brian Kates

Posted on 05/15/2011 7:37:17 AM PDT by AtlasStalled

Unionized phone company employees say they were beaten or threatened after they accused their labor bosses of looting their coffers through various scams. One member of Communications Workers of America Local 1101 said that after he reported a time-sheet padding scheme, a thug beat him so badly his spine was injured. * * * "This was union greed and that's worse than corporate greed," said Kevin Condy, a reform movement leader of the 6,700-member local that represents mostly Verizon workers in Manhattan and the Bronx. "These guys acted like they felt they were entitled."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: goonions; goonionthugs

1 posted on 05/15/2011 7:37:19 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: AtlasStalled

God-help-us bump


2 posted on 05/15/2011 7:39:36 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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To: AtlasStalled

Labor unions should be illegal under racketeering and anti-competition laws already on the books.


3 posted on 05/15/2011 7:43:17 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: TEXOKIE

So I can find it again link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/05/15/2011-05-15_clam_up_or_else_union_whistleblowers_we_were_beaten_and_harassed.html


4 posted on 05/15/2011 7:44:33 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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To: AtlasStalled

I was a service fee payer to the cwa for 40 years.

In 1970 I joined the union by choice, later in the 70s it became mandatory.

CCwa is anti white, pro wetbeack(big time), pro gay, full blown marxist organization that is currently involved a plot to overthrow the us government along with the comunist party usa. Why are the allowed to exsist in the USA


5 posted on 05/15/2011 7:57:08 AM PDT by devistate one four (United states code 10.311 Militia Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: AtlasStalled

Didn’t the US gov’t have to take over the running of the Teamsters in the early 70s because of the mob rip offs and theft to retirement accounts? Apparently they were stealing everything not nailed down. I suspect not much has changed.


6 posted on 05/15/2011 8:03:36 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: AtlasStalled

Labor bosses looting their coffers.It’s why unions exist.


7 posted on 05/15/2011 8:06:52 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

And some people wonder why companies leave union states for other states or for foreign countries. duh.


8 posted on 05/15/2011 8:08:38 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
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To: AtlasStalled

Great post. Thanks. The elitists of the anti-individual collective cannot have individuals (whistleblowers) / useful idiots standing up and questioning things now, can they?

Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians and their collectives.


9 posted on 05/15/2011 8:14:53 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: WKUHilltopper

Teamsters violence became so bad in Louisiana in the 1970s that LA became a right to work state. I think some other states went RTW then too.


10 posted on 05/15/2011 9:24:27 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: TEXOKIE

I guess every generation has to go through the abuse of the Left to learn about what it will do when empowered versus what it says when it is seeking power.

That is because the Left writes history and airbrushes the stupidity, abuse and failure of their Marxist ideology. So every generation just has to repeat the cycle.


11 posted on 05/15/2011 11:42:43 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

Well said!


12 posted on 05/15/2011 3:19:07 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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