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…
Violence Committed For ‘Legitimate’ Union Goals Isn’t Extortion?? (Article first appeared in the September 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) This summer, pro-Right to Work U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) introduced in…