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…
National Grassroots Lobby Urges Congress to Pass Freedom from Union Violence Act 2.8 million National Right to Work Committee members call on Congress to protect rank and file workers Washington, DC (November 16, 2017) – Today, Congressman Steve King…
Teamsters Local 25 members Daniel Redmond (L) and Robert Cafarelli (C) enter the federal court in Boston, Massachusettes, U.S., July 31, 2017. REUTERS/Nate Raymond ‘Legitimate Union Goals’ Defense Pays Off For Big Labor Lawyers At a federal trial concluding August…
In January 2016, union-free construction workers were clubbed, punched, kicked, and trampled on by a squad of goons at a church-owned site where they were expanding the Plum Creek Christian Academy in Dyer, Ind. Multiple witnesses quickly ID’d two top…
When Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi arrived on the set in Milton, Mass., Teamster tough John Fidler allegedly reached into her vehicle and threatened, “I’ll smash your pretty little face.” (After this article went to the printer, these four union…
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Teamster multiple stabbing of UPS driver Rod Carter. Teamsters Union Bosses primarily called the violent strike to force UPS to continue in a Teamster-run multi-employer Ponzi-scheme pension fund. “My unlocked door was pulled…
In a fiend-of-the-court brief they submitted this spring to Judge Douglas Woodcock, who is presiding over the case, top Bay State AFL-CIO bosses conceded that the "actions alleged to have been committed" by the Teamster defendants are "deeply problematic . . . ." Nevertheless, claimed the union hierarchy, "these actions may not be prosecuted under the Hobbs Act" because the defendants sought to achieve "legitimate labor ends" through their thuggery.
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…