It’s simply intolerable that Veach and Williamson could still ultimately get away with leading a brutal assault because of a misbegotten Supreme Court ruling nearly half-a-century old. That’s why National Right to Work Committee members are pushing for passage of H.R.4256, a common-sense legislative remedy known as the Freedom from Union Violence Act.
A lawsuit filed by the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority (PCCA) in May charges that carpenters union bigwigs launched a violent campaign in 2014 at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center. The campaign has allegedly involved “physical intimidation,” “stalking,” “assault and battery,” and…
Both the prosecution and the defense in the ongoing extortion trial of Joseph Dougherty, the former union boss of Philadelphia Ironworkers Local 401, agree that, over the years, a band of Local 401 officers and rank-and-file militants routinely terrorized construction…
“Time and again, federal prosecutors have amassed extensive evidence that Big Labor bosses have orchestrated, authorized, and/or ratified violence, vandalism and threats for the purpose of securing forced-dues contract clauses or other union demands."
Union ‘Criminal Enterprise’ Bullied Buffalo Hardhats For a Decade (click to download newsletter) In a federal trial beginning last month, former bosses of Local 17 of the…
Last month, 10 officers and militants of a Philadelphia-based local of the Ironworkers union were arrested and charged with “conspiring to commit acts of violence to force contractors to hire union members.” In a February 19 report for the Philadelphia…