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…
Several employees and the owner of D5 Iron Works, a union-free, Illinois-based construction company, charge that they were viciously assaulted at a northwestern Indiana church construction site in January 2016. According to police records, witnesses identified Iron Workers Local 395…
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.
Union Dons Insist Criminal Organizing Tactics Aren’t ‘Extortion’ (download the June-July 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) No court date has yet been set. But Mark Harrington, secretary-treasurer of Local 25 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and four of his henchmen…
Indiana tradesman Scott Kudingo charges that two local iron workers union officials and roughly 10 of their militant followers brutally assaulted him and several of his colleagues on January 7. His jaw, which was partially shattered and broken in two…
Appeal Based on Controversial 1973 Enmons Decision a Possibility (Source: February 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) On January 20, after several days of deliberations, a federal jury in Pennsylvania convicted…
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…
Looks like more people are waking up to the reality that the Freedom from Union Violence Act needs to be passed now. Weekly Standard: Last week provided a good reminder that…
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…