The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) is a non-profit group dedicated to investigating compulsory unionism and related abuses, such as union violence.
The NILRR database is the single best source for assessing the scope of union violence in America, but it is far from comprehensive, as NILRR itself and the study authors acknowledge.
For example, court records filed by the Caterpillar earth-moving equipment company include logs of over 4900 incidents of United Autoworkers (UAW) violence during its 1992-95 strike against the company, but the media reported only 42 of these incidents."
Thus, if anything, the incidents of union violence are UNDER-counted.
"While most union violence goes unreported, it is so widespread, that of the 146 labor organizations with membership over 1000 in America, 141 are associated with at least some media-reported violence," said Mr. Goodrick, Committee Vice-President. He further states, "The judicially-created loophole sanctioning heinous acts of violence under federal law exists today only because it has Congress' tacit endorsement."
This loophole/exemption must be closed. The exemption for violence committed for so-called "legitimate union objectives" is still violence.
The Supreme Court's 1973 Enmons decision established this dangerous precident. Specifically, it exempted unions from the 1946 Hobbs Anti-Extortion Act, which forbids the obstruction of interstate commerce through violence or blackmail.
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The information above, enclosed in quotation marks, came from The National Right to Work Committee. (www.nrtwc.org/201.html)
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