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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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To: Minus_The_Bear

Just sickening!


61 posted on 08/17/2011 6:03:56 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

If this is the true facts, I would not trust the police to “investigate” this at all.

I work in a union town, and have been disgusted on how the police turn a blind eye toward union thuggery.


62 posted on 08/17/2011 6:15:02 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

What’s the difference between Organized Crime and Organized Labor?............


63 posted on 08/17/2011 6:15:24 AM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Wait, wait, wait. I’m confused. A Union member did this or a Tea Partier?


64 posted on 08/17/2011 6:17:50 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Fred Hayek
My brother in law is a new electrician, and a member of the IBEW.

They regularly lay him off 6 months out of the year, to protect their “senior” members. I have been talking to him about things for a while, and telling him to get out before they ask him to do something that he will regret.

65 posted on 08/17/2011 6:20:11 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Who has this Union thug been listening to? Who has filled his head with hate? Rush Limbaugh? Sarah Palin? Rick Perry?


66 posted on 08/17/2011 6:20:48 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Excellent summation about the unions!! Bookmarking for future reference. Thank you.


67 posted on 08/17/2011 6:42:18 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Point of Order:

This business owner and his employees are not "non-union".

They are "free".

The opposite of "union" is "free".

Unionism is opposed to Freedom.

Semantics matters.

68 posted on 08/17/2011 6:45:22 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

You are too kind.


69 posted on 08/17/2011 6:48:16 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: BenKenobi; SkyDancer

That is the point I was making. SkyDancer is the one who insulted the cavemen.


70 posted on 08/17/2011 7:57:34 AM PDT by magslinger (I love that the FR spell check still flags Obama as a spelling error.)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Thanks for the ping. Glenn Beck has picked up this story too: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ohio-business-owner-terrorized-shot-for-being-non-union/


71 posted on 08/17/2011 8:00:09 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: Brilliant

this is what emperor zero wanted.

Why do I think this is just the start of the 2012 violence?


72 posted on 08/17/2011 8:15:42 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Democrats: debt, dependence and derision)
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To: ArrogantBustard

very good points!

Freedom vs. Union

I like it!


73 posted on 08/17/2011 8:18:23 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Democrats: debt, dependence and derision)
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To: Loud Mime

Isn’t attacking and assaulting someone due to idealogical differences considered a “Hate Crime”?

They should charge his attacker with a hate crime and throw some liberal social justice back at them.


74 posted on 08/17/2011 8:22:20 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

Unions kill jobs.


75 posted on 08/17/2011 8:30:54 AM PDT by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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To: NoDRodee

[ Unions kill jobs. ]

And if they cannot kill jobs they attempt to kill the people who create them.....


76 posted on 08/17/2011 8:38:30 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: magslinger

Hey! It’s not my fault they joined a union. Actually I thought the guy was cute, sorta, in a way, perhaps, meh.


77 posted on 08/17/2011 8:41:31 AM 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

Wonder what Eric “my people” Holder has to say about this?


78 posted on 08/17/2011 8:55:14 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Those who love liberty love Sarah)
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To: All

bump...


79 posted on 08/17/2011 9:01:42 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Nice post, Doc. Spot-on.


80 posted on 08/17/2011 9:07:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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