assaults Archives

October 22

Union Bosses Charged for Brutal Assaults

Union Bosses Charged For Brutal Church Assault “LEGITIMATE” VIOLENCE? Union thugs are in many cases exempt from federal persecution for extortion. Credit: Fight Back! News/Brad Sigal But Controversial 1973 High Court Ruling May Derail Prosecution More than two-and-a-half years after…

February 21

'Targets of Violence . . . Included a Quaker Meetinghouse Site and Workers Building a Kids' Toy Store'

Even as testimony continues at  a trial 400 miles to the northwest in Buffalo, N.Y., regarding a decade-long pattern of violence, threats and vandalism allegedly perpetrated by officers of an International Union of Operating Engineers local and their agents, this…