bills that would weaken unions’ power. ................................... Union speak, it means less dues will come in and the good fellas on the top will not have enough to go around to keep them in the lifestyle they are accustom to.
Damned right we are. And it won't be limited to MI. And I won't be on your side, Mr. Hoffa, you Communist.
Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville. Good luck reconstituting the 24th Michigan, Jimmy.
Excellent......I've got your 5 1/3 cubic yards of concrete already picked out and set aside. Like father like son you wretched bastard.
“Under the Supreme Court’s 1973 Enmons decision, vandalism, assault, even murder by union officials are exempt from federal anti-extortion law. As long as the violence is aimed at obtaining property for which the union can assert a “lawful claim”—for example, wage or benefit increases— the violence is deemed to be in furtherance of “legitimate” union objectives. By the Court’s peculiar logic, such violence does not count as extortion.
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http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-316es.html
Freedom from Union Violence
by David Kendrick
David Kendrick is program director at the National Institute for Labor Relations Research.
Executive Summary
Under the Supreme Court’s 1973 Enmons decision, vandalism, assault, even murder by union officials are exempt from federal anti-extortion law. As long as the violence is aimed at obtaining property for which the union can assert a “lawful claim”—for example, wage or benefit increases— the violence is deemed to be in furtherance of “legitimate” union objectives. By the Court’s peculiar logic, such violence does not count as extortion.
The result has been an epidemic of union-related violence. The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) has recorded 8,799 incidents of violence from news reports since 1975. Those reports show only 258 convictions, suggesting a conviction rate of less than 3 percent. Moreover, local law enforcement authorities often get many more reports of strike violence than journalists can possibly cover.
Many states have taken a cue from the high Court by enacting their own extortion laws with exemptions similar to those established by Enmons. As a result, employees trying to support their families during a violent strike are now denied protection against extortion under both state and federal laws.
Because the federal government for six decades has immersed itself in labor law under the rubric of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), federal action is necessary to see that violence does not accompany the exercise of powers created by that statute. One avenue for relief is the Freedom from Union Violence Act (FUVA), which targets all extortionate activity, even if committed by union militants in pursuit of “legitimate” objectives.
Hey, Jimmy. Your old man still MIA?
Go ahead. Start that civil war. And your ass will find out just how pissed and violent we non violent people can be when it comes to knocking the hell out of unions.
Unions are the obama commies’ front line troops. Along with his citizen corp brown shirts, and tsa sadist rapists.
Forced union membership is like slavery
[ “We’re Going to Have a Civil War” ]
Bring it on... knothead...
The gene-pool needs serious filtration..
He’s threatening civil war with impunity.
It’s absolutely amazing how the left is allowed by the people to behave like irresponsible adolescents.
Absolutely amazing.
(If he’s such a macho-man, why doesn’t he start his civil war and live up to his words?)
Just asking.
FYI -
Since Wisconsin passed its budget reform law last year, union membership has plummeted.
the National Education Association, which represents teachers - fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme’s figures.
These cheap thuggees are protected by Holder-the-Unjust
and Obama-the-undocumented Moslem Tyrant.
I can say with a good amount of certainty that union bosses are physically incapable of manning a battlefield. When I worked in Michigan, i’d walk past the saloons and see these fat union bosses manning a bar stool at 7am. They’d plant themselves there all day, drinking shots and beers.
When I stopped at a saloon after work to drink a beer, these blobs would still be sitting there. At about 5pm, the wife would drop in to pick up fat union daddy so he could acquaint himself with his kids.
The vast majority of union bosses died before they hit 50 years of age of various alcohol-related degenerative diseases.
Unions on a battlefield? Nah! I don’t think so.
Moderator, Thank You!
Yeah, let’s put it on a ballot, Jimmy, so you and your fellow Marxists thugs can steal another election.
Yeah,
With a little luck,
the same group that grabbed his poppa and planted him in some building cornerstone meets this goober at some diner...