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…
Despite testimony from multiple witnesses that Daniel Redmond (left), Robert Cafarelli (center), and their cohorts had threatened, strong-armed and intimidated the cast and crew of a reality show, the Teamster toughs had the legal deck stacked in their favor. Image:…
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…
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.
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…
Unfortunately, because of the 1973 Enmons decision, union officials are exempt from federal prosecution— as long as the campaign of violence they incite is in the name of “legitimate union objectives.” But passage of the Freedom from Union Violence Act…