Posted on 08/01/2013 11:29:47 AM PDT by Nachum
This sort of thing ought to be left to the Westboro Baptist Church.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that a Chicago judge has intervened on behalf of SCI Illinois Services, Inc., a national funeral-home chain, and ordered the local Teamsters chapter to suspend picketing at 16 funeral homes in the area. What prompted the legal action?
The company testified in its filing that union members blocked grieving family members from leaving its parking lot, used bullhorns to shout obscenities at workers and mourners, and unleashed a German Shepard on a dead woman’s daughter and husband.
The funeral home was eventually forced to call the police when picketers allegedly disrupted a child’s funeral with laughter. The officer asked the Teamsters to leave, but protesters returned when he drove away.
“We will be here for the visitation; we will be here for your funeral,” Teamster driver Lester Plewa allegedly shouted into a bullhorn as a funeral director met with a dying man planning his arrangements with family members.
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Unions. Crude mannerless thugs out to destroy America. And they wonder why we don’t buy anything that’s union made anymore.
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REeeeeallllly want to say some stuff that will likely will get my post removed.
Union thugs. Excuse the redundancy.
War is coming to our land, and soon.
Obama union thugs.
What did the ‘16 funeral homes in the area ‘ do that they were picketing them and harassing mourners for??
The Teamsters are negotiating for higher wages. They rejected a proposed 9 % raise for all union members over the next two years. This is at a time when many would be happy to stay as they are.
Never expect a union member or a Chicago resident to “keep it classy”. Lowest form of life.
Wow! Greed. They should have proposed a 10% decrease and then a 2% increase would look good.
What does the teamsters have to do with funeral homes?
They were disallowing the dead to vote.
Union have jobs split up so that you have to deal with five or six unions to get a job done that one person could do under normal conditions.
Protesting funerals is inhuman.
Westboro has a labor union?
LOL!!!!
I hadn’t thought about the drivers. Never thought unions were involved with the funeral business in any way.
Maybe they should picket westboro for not being unionized. They certainly are impressed by them that they are so hell bent on imitating them.
You can bet your *ss if this was a Tea Party it would make national news every night!
Yes, soon every flash mob will have to be unionized too
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