Teamsters Local 25 members Daniel Redmond (L) and Robert Cafarelli (C) enter the federal court in Boston, Massachusettes, U.S., July 31, 2017. REUTERS/Nate Raymond ‘Legitimate Union Goals’ Defense Pays Off For Big Labor Lawyers At a federal trial concluding August…
Monica Morgan’s Facebook page is loaded with photos of her with celebrities and politicians, such as Hillary Clinton (AUTOMOTIVE NEWS) Automotive News reports on scheme that skimmed millions from a UAW a slush-fund to UAW VP and other union officials.
The Massachusetts AFL-CIO hierarchy admits that the extortionate threats and violence allegedly perpetrated by Boston Teamsters kingpin Mark Harrington (pictured) and his cohorts are “deeply problematic.” Nevertheless, union lawyers insist, such crimes must not be prosecuted under the federal Hobbs…
A federal indictment issued last fall charges Boston Teamster bosses and militants with perpetrating an extortion scheme against a popular cable television show. Soon after the indictment came down it became clear that Ken Brissette (pictured), Big Labor Boston Mayor…
Union Honchos Collect Phony ‘Per Diems,’ Rip Off Firefighters (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) In the October 18 edition of the New York Times, a story by labor reporter Noam Scheiber described the bizarre and unconscionable…
Chicago Buckling Under the Weight of Government-Union-Boss Abuses (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) A little over a century after it was memorialized by poet Carl Sandburg as the “City of the Big Shoulders,” Chicago is struggling…
There is no doubt, as New York Times labor reporter Noam Scheiber said at the outset of a long and mostly unflattering article last weekend profiling Harold Schaitberger, the general president of the International Association of Fire Fighters union, that…
Even in Right to Work states, where Big Labor lacks compulsory-dues privileges, government union officials often wield inordinate power in the policy-making process. And taxpayers, students and other people who depend on public services, and independent-minded employees whose interests don’t…
On September 24, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued the latest of a series of decisions finding that bosses of Local 8 of the International Longshore Workers Union and the ILWU itself commenced ordering illegal employee slowdowns at the…