Posted on 09/25/2020 4:34:30 AM PDT by ptsal
A former iron workers union president was sentenced to 42 months in prison Wednesday for ordering and participating in the violent extortion of non-union workers at a construction site.
Jeffrey Veach, 57, the former president of an Indiana chapter of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers (BSOIW) was charged for his role in the incident in 2018, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). He and co-defendant Thomas Williamson, a business agent for BSOIW, each pleaded guilty in January to one count of extortion conspiracy, the DOJ said.
“Under the pretext of serving their union, [Veach] victimized the very type of people [he was] supposed to be fighting for; innocent, hard-working iron workers, who were just trying to do their jobs,” said DOJ organized crime attorney Alexander Gottfried, according to the Northwest Indiana Times.
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How much money does the BSOIW donate and to which political party?
Did Veach and Williamson forfeit their accumulated union retirement funds?
Seems like the natural follow-up story.
More proof of the adage that these days, unions are mostly for thugs & slugs.
I had to supervise some union plumbers on a generator fuel system once. I was threatened not to so much as pick up a wrench.
Ugliest people I ever dealt with.
I was not union, but I was licensed by TCEQ to install fuel tanks.
The iron workers Union is nothing more than an extortion racket. Screw them.
My father was a union guy when he returned from the service and when people were being shot for union participation.
By the time he retired he hated them. He said: “Unions are ‘hide-outs’ for bad workers.”
Agree. There was a time and place for ‘em but that time has passed.
Unions are in large part responsible for US auto manufacturers not being competitive with the imports IMO.
I was in a warehouse and notice a conveyor was jammed up because a box tilted and blocked the chute. I moved the box to unjam the conveyor. A union guy watched me do it and filed a formal grievance against me.
I asked him why didn’t you just move the box instead of watching me? He said the conveyor section was not his job.
Same thing happened to one of my relatives.
I worked in a steel mill that was union where that grievance would not have occurred. The reason for that was the tonnage bonus was a significant part of the contract agreement. If you knew how to fix it, but it’s “outside your area”, you fixed it. The agreement was that someone from the appropriate craft would check and continue the fix if necessary.
Compared to the past, unions are a non factor politically speaking. Union workers account for a paltry 7% of the work force and that number is shrinking. In their hey day union participation rates reached 25-30%.
In a marginal sense then yes that is correct. Maybe in the 2% to 3% range over non union made vehicles..
My wife, working in a southern cotton mill, wrote up a union employee for almost killing another worker. The shop steward threatened to report her for sleeping with a married union employee(not true). She told the shop steward that “the dogs will find your decayed body in a holler in the Appalachian hills on the first day of hunting season” .
The union employee was given a stern lecture on “not killing your fellow union members” and sent back to work.
Imports?
Japanese and German cars are made in the USA
“Japanese and German cars are made in the USA”
In NON union factories ... yes?
You are correct about industrial unions but even there it depends on where you live. The growth area for unionization is government unions, primarily state and local. If you pay attention you see them exercise their political power almost on a daily basis. Of those local government unions the one’s that in recent years that have become the most radical & belligerent are teacher’s unions. They are very powerful in my state. In the southern part of the state property damage and personal threats by them is not uncommon.
That guy should go to a union doctor; “that part of your body is not my job”.
What awful people they are
“Maybe in the 2% to 3% range over non union made vehicles..”
How do you come up with that figure?
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