A union goon’s attack blinded Victor Riesel, but didn’t deter him from exposing union-boss corruption. Riesel had been reporting on corruption in the International Union of Operating Engineers and its then-President, William C. DeKoning, Jr. The acid burning and blinding of Riesel is another…
Lawsuit: Racketeering Bilked Taxpayers of ‘More Than $1 Million’ (Click here to download the June 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Early this year, a federal jury in Pennsylvania convicted Joseph Dougherty, the former boss of Philadelphia-based Local…
Appeal Based on Controversial 1973 Enmons Decision a Possibility (Source: February 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) On January 20, after several days of deliberations, a federal jury in Pennsylvania convicted…
Lifting Federal Oversight of Teamster Brass Sends ‘Wrong Message’ (Source: February 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) For decades, Inside-the-Beltway politicians have again and again sullied themselves and the American public’s…
Two former presidents and a former delegate of a West Orange, N.J.-based local of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union have admitted that they conspired for many years to extort money from the very dockworkers they purported to “represent.” According…
New Year’s Eve 1986, a deadly reminder of why Congress needs to pass the Freedom from Union Violence Act: On New Year’s Eve, 1986, negotiations between Local…
Kate Andrews details how New York state labor laws make it impossible to prosecute abusive state workers: The New York Times released a follow-up report, revealing that only 25% of NY state home-workers found guilty of abusing disabled and mentally ill patients…
The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and the felony conviction of the person(s) responsible for damages at the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting in Philadelphia.
From Union Label’s Warner Todd Huston: Four union thugs belonging to the Sheet Metal Worker’s union, Local 33 from the Toledo, Ohio area were caught with dozens of stolen Romney/Ryan signs and charged with receiving stolen property by Perrysburg police…