Embezzlement Plagues Union Offices Around U.S.
These reports address indictments, charges, convictions, and other criminal-enforcement actions related to alleged and proven illegal activity by union officials and their hired hands.
The union boss of the New York/New Jersey Port Authority has admitted embezzling $300,000 in workers dues money.. Daniel Hughes, 49, the former head of the Port Authority Field Supervisor Association, Local 111-S, stole the cash during a 5-year period beginning in January 2005 and ending in December 2009, he said as he pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court. Members of this union are still prohibited from leaving the union as New York does not afford workers the Right to Work.
These reports address indictments, charges, convictions, and other criminal-enforcement actions related to alleged and proven illegal activity by union officials and their hired hands.
On November 15, a federal jury found that Philadelphia union kingpin John Dougherty, commonly referred to as “…
“It’s easy to see why Mr. Avola and his coworkers want to oust MNA operatives from St. Vincent Hospital: Union bosses forced nurses to endure a gruelingly long strike, while those who went back to work and refused to abandon their patients faced harassment and intimidation tactics,” observed National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. “Foundation staff attorneys will fight to ensure that St. Vincent hospital nurses can freely exercise their right...