The New York Post is reporting that the New York Mets shelled out nearly $52 million for construction of their new baseball stadium to contractors with ties to the Mafia and labor corruption. Of course, the work was part of…
Obama’s Big Labor Department announced a $35 million construction project that forces all workers on the project to pay forced union dues or fees and then forces them (through their employer) to contribute to underfunded union administered pension programs. Because…
The North Branch Construction company of Concord, New Hampshire is standing up to the Obama Administration’s determined effort to ensure that ALL construction projects funded by the federal government benefit the union bosses. In what is apparently the first effort…
The New York Carpenters’ Union has a long history of connections to the mob and corruption — one which continues to this day. A new 29-count indictment charges the union’s boss and nine other officials with racketeering, bribery, fraud and perjury.
After bashing everyone else for decades regarding pension funding, the Washington Examiner has discovered: Almost half of the nation’s 20 largest unions have pension funds that federal law classifies as “endangered” or in “critical” condition due to being underfunded, an Examiner review of…
Paul Egan, in the Detroit News, reports on more Big Labor union boss corruption. Walter Ralph Mabry, the former Detroit-area head of the carpenters union convicted of corruption charges in 2006, is under federal investigation in connection with an alleged…
Some things just never seem to change. Forced unionism continues to breed corruption. An August 12 article by Steven Greenhouse and William K. Rashbaum in the New York Times is a case in point: Citing continued corruption, a federal judge…
Picketing isn’t what it used to be. National Public Radio [NPR] notes that the 30 people picketing in front of a bank in Washington, DC are not from the Carpenters Union, but, are homeless people being paid $8 an…