It was 42 years ago next month that a narrow U.S. Supreme Court majority found, to the shock and indignation of countless Americans, that extortionate threats, property destruction and assaults perpetrated to further “legitimate union objectives” do not constitute extortion…
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…
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…
Late last month, as the July 30 news story by Jason Laday for the South Jersey Times linked below explains in detail, a federal grand jury added multiple charges to an indictment issued early this year against top bosses of…
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…
As Jeremy Roeback reported for the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday (see the link below), in the “sweeping racketeering conspiracy case” against union officers and militants of Ironworkers Local 401 that was first made public last week, federal prosecutors are relying largely…
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…
How far will compulsory unionism bullies go? From the Washington Free Beacon’s Bill McMorris: The group of self-described THUGS—an acronym for “Those Helpful Union Guys”—allegedly burned down the meetinghouse as part of…