A five-year investigation into the racketeering and extortion practices of Operating Engineers Local 17 has resulted in the indictment of 12 Big Labor Bosses. As reported in the Buffalo News: Some of the language in a 62-page government indictment reads…
For nine years, Don Adams has sought justice. This week, he got some. It was nearly a decade ago when Adams was assaulted by a group of Teamsters in Philadelphia while he protested a visit by then President Bill Clinton.
The Department of Labor (DOL) has confirmed that, over the last year, the number of cases of embezzled union dues has increased. As reported on CNS News, DOL’s: . . . Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) recently released its…
This is simply amazing. In one month, the Department of Labor Office of Labor Management Standards accounted for the following criminal activities by union bosses: On February 4, 2008, in the Douglas County, Wisconsin Circuit Court, John Sigafus, former Secretary-Treasurer…
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has released a new Right to Work Report video on Hollywood forced unionism abuse that you can view by clicking here .
And appears to have been running the show at New York City’s Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 1181. According to an article by Daily News staff writer Greg B. Smith: . . . [T]hat union’s corrupt president, Salvatore Battaglia, last…
The former boss of a New York area Teamsters local was arrested on Tuesday, the New York Times reports, “on charges that he forced his union members to do work for him personally, including building a new roof on his country home, squiring his daughter to her yoga class, and setting up a Christmas tree at his Manhattan apartment.”
The omnibus spending bill that is making its way through Congress increases federal spending on almost every government program except one — the Office of Labor Management Standards at the Department of Labor — the office that oversees union corruption.
In Wilmington, Delaware, “[t]he financial secretary of the United Auto Workers local 1516 in Middletown has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 embezzlement charges. According to prosecutors, Stephen Priest stole over $97,800 from the union that represents…