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…
Readers of this blog are well aware that Federal law essentially protects union-led violence campaigns against prosecution. But when Don Adams, a Philadelphia resident, protested a visit to City Hall by then-President Bill Clinton, the last thing he expected was…