Damn right he is talking about trade unions and their criminal leadership!
Back in the early 70s I stood and watched a mob of Building & Trade council members burn the King of Prussia, Pa. Sheraton site to the ground.
Lennard Tose was making the unforgivable sin of hiring non union labor so they bused in their memebers from other states to "picket."
After the riot, the Feds stepped in and imprisoned quite a few of those leaders.
When I was working my favorite job as a steelworker, I knew damn well that Alan Wood Steel could not survive with the union demands. - and it did not.
I never forgave them for that.
As far as the trades went, I remember when I was working at Western Electric (CWA) that I tried to get a job as an electrician I had to be a union member.
When I went to the person in charge at the union hall, he simply told me. "You have to know somebody"
I started giving him the references of other union members when he broke in and said "You have to know me." - It will cost you a thousand bucks to know me."
Whats the difference between a union and organized crime? Ask Jimmy Hoffa.
Wow. I was going to post about my relatives not being able to get union jobs because they were black; this kind of crap is just as bad.
I left Philly just as the Convention Center was being finished. You may have heard about the problems Rendell had with the unions there; the whole thing almost hit the wall because the unions wanted to be paid for things like plugging in vendor displays.