The Tonawanda News recently reported that Laborers Local 91 official, Randall “Randy” Butler, 40, was finally sentenced to 34 months behind bars and two years of supervised release, “for his role in the fire bombing of a residence where non-union…
According to The Oregonian, something appears to be fishy at the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757: Two years ago, TriMet [Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon] filed an unfair labor complaint after it couldn’t find out whether a union-run program…
In any election, the truth tends to get lost in the mud. But the truth behind the charge and countercharge in the contest for President of Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers needs to be cleaned off…
According to a Newsline article, a U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York judge, on December 20, “sentenced former Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 91 president Mark Congi to 15 years in federal prison for…
The New York Times reported that the former manager of a pension fund for New York City’s main union of school bus drivers, who pleaded guilty last August to obstructing justice, was sentenced yesterday to five months in prison…
According to the Associated Press, two “national maritime union bosses accused of spending organizational funds on personal luxuries, including a bachelor party, have been convicted of corruption charges.” Michael and Robert McKay were found guilty Friday of racketeering conspiracy and…
Under what organizational structure does the President work for the Business Manager? That question came to mind when reading an article citing comments in a letter by Mark Congi, former President of Laborers Local 91 in Niagara Falls, to U.S.
Connecticut state law bans public unions from organizing strikes or similar work stoppages that could interrupt normal functioning. But when two Stamford police union officials were questioned about a statistically improbable absentee pattern over a nine day period during ongoing…
On November 30, the Pittsburgh, (PA) Tribune-Review reported two separate incidents of local union funds being embezzled. Under the headline, “Woman charged with embezzling from Pitt police union,” they reported the grand jury indictment of Carroll L. Phillips, who allegedly…