12/27/2011

UAW Bosses use strike to hire UAW bosses' sons

Real Monopoly Bargaining Power: Two UAW Bosses Guilty of Extortion

Danny Douglas and Jay Campbell, have been sentenced to 18 months and 12 months plus one day, respectively, after being convicted of extortion. It seems the two former United Auto Workers bosses agreed to end an 87-day strike at a GM plant in Pontiac, MI back in 1997 – but only after General Motors agreed to hire Campbell’s son and the son of another UAW official for high-paying jobs they were evidently not qualified for.

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Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”

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Stealing With ‘Absolute Hubris and Entitlement’

On June 5, a federal jury in Kansas convicted former Boilermakers President Newton Jones, who had headed the union from 2003 until 2023, his wife, Kateryna, and two other IBB bosses of embezzling millions of dollars in union dues extracted from workers as a condition of employment.

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How Forced-Dues States Lose Trillions in Income

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UAW Bosses use strike to hire UAW bosses' sons

Real Monopoly Bargaining Power: Two UAW Bosses Guilty of Extortion

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