Posts Tagged ‘union violence’
New Mexico Union Bosses Defend Alleged Violent Perpetrator
New Mexico taxpayers are at the mercy of public employee monopoly bargaining agreements which forced Bernalillo County officials to keep a corrections officer whose victims were awarded almost $1 million as…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, March 21, 2014
 Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking…
Read MoreBid to remove Pa. exemption in labor disputes advances
Pennsylvania union bosses have used a little-known legal exemption to avoid prosecution for stalking and harassment. With the recent spate of violence in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania House has voted to remove that…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 14, 2014
Right-to-work bill dies in Kentucky House committee wave3.com, March 14, 2014 A Kentucky House committee’s vote killed right-to-work legislation for the rest of the year, but both sides say…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Threaten Harm to Children
Authorities are investigating allegatons of threats and violence to workers as well as their children, in a year-long strike filled with violence and threats. Richard Read has the story on…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 07, 2014
The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs Wall Street Journal Online, March 6, 2014 It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody…
Read MoreIronworkers Local is Stuck at an Earlier Evolutionary State
Karen Heller delves into details of the Reign of Terror perpetrated by Ironworkers Local 401 bosses in the Philadelphia area, in Philadelphia Inquirer. The Ironworkers were such busy, industrious…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips February 21, 2014
Clock ticking for UAW to file objection in VW Chattanooga vote Times Free Press Online, February 19, 2014 Raudabaugh, who does work for the anti-union National Right to Work Foundation,…
Read MoreFormer Union Member Recounts Reign of Terror in New York
A former union member recounts union bosses’ reign of terror in Northern New York against nonunion contactors. Phil Fairbanks has the story in the Buffalo News. Even more important, perhaps,…
Read MoreUnion Boss: “By Signing the Negatives Go Away”
Operating Engineers’ union boss threatens a nonunion conractor who questions the benefit of using union labor. Michael J. Caggiano was also convicted of misdemeanor assault on nonunion contractor Timothy Such, whose business is now…
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