On Feb. 10th, the New York Times had an article pointing out that union corruption in the Big Apple grows faster than Federal officials can keep up with prosecuting it. To we in the anti-union thug movement this is not news. It does, however, conform to our own mantra that unionism means corruption by its very nature.
For more than a decade, federal officials and court-appointed monitors have strained to clean up two New York-area unions, representing cement truck drivers and construction laborers, that prosecutors say were long under Mafia control.
Indeed, prosecutors once described the cement truck drivers’ union, Local 282 of the Teamsters, as a “candy store” for the mob that they say funneled $1.2 million a year to John Gotti, the longtime Gambino crime family boss who died in prison in 2002.
Well, more indictments have been handed down on the truck drivers union and business owners. This time over the embezzling of large sums of money from the union’s health care and pension finds by a trucking company owner, and another involving the business manager of local 325 who took bribes for favors.
As former prosecutor Robert Luskin said to the Times:
“For as long as we’re around, we’re going to have to fight a ground war in New York and New Jersey,” Mr. Luskin said. “It’s like World War I. We take some ground and then we have to fight to take it back again.”
Well, a really, really good solution might be to get rid of the unions, wouldn’t it?
In any case, unionism brings a constant stream of corruption, theft, graft and criminality and we will continue to monitor it for you here.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackTO FURTHER THIS BROKEN MOB THEORY (FANTASY), BUILDING SERVICE UNIONS HAVE BEEN INFESTED WITH MOB WANNABES FOR YEARS AND STILL IS. COMPANIES FLOCKED TO THESE SO CALLED “TOUGH GUYS” TO GET FAVORS SUCH AS REDUCTIONS IN STAFF, JOB SELLING FOR A FEE OF COURSE. UNION OFFICIALS HAVE PROFITTED FROM THIS HANDSOMLY FOR YEARS AND HD BEHIND A SHADOW. YEARS BACK IT WAS GUS BEVONA, THEN IT WAS THIS SEIU AND THIER HEAVY CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS THAT POLITICIANS CANT DENY SO THE AUTOMATIC GET OUT OF JAIL FREE AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH CARDS ARE DEALT. AS THE SO CALLED UNION OFFICIALS WHO TRY TO IMPRESS PEOPLE BY BRINGING THEM TO SOCIAL CLUBS IN GREENPOINT GET FAT ON LAVISH PENSIONS, JOBS FOR SALE AT 10K A HEAD, LOW WAGE WORKERS BEING DENIED COMPALINTS FOR A PRICE..POLTICIANS FLOCK TO LABOR FOR THERE BIG DONATIONS AND LABOR FORCING MEMBERS TO TAKE VACATION DAYS TO CAMPAIGN, WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW. SEE ROBERT MORGENTHAU VS MARK GREEN AND LOCAL 32BJ. BIG FAVORS CHANGED HANDS FOR THAT AND NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR OR KNOW BECAUSE OF THE MONEY MACHINE. ASK BILL DEBLASIO, HE WAS ON PAYROLL AT 32BJ BECAUSE HIS COUNCIL POSITION…TOWNES, WAS BIG ON THE PAC FUND FOR SEIU..AND ON AND ON..SO IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE CORRUPTION LOOKAT ALL OF LABOR NOT JUST ONE SEGMENT.
ALSO YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A CLEAR LOOK AT THE VANDERVEER ESTATE SITUATION. AS MICHAEL KONIG WAS INDUCTING TOUGH GUYS INTO HIS RELM HE WAS ALSO BUYING THE “NEW LOOK” LEADERS. TRYING TO GET HUGE REDUCTIONS AND NEGOTIATING WITH OFFICIALS FOR OWED PENSION PAYMENT REDUCTION S IN THE MILLIONS. AGREEING THAT “A PIECE’ GOES BACK. THE PERSON THAT DID HIS JOB AND FILED THIS TO GO TO FEDERAL COURT AND WINNING WAS “SWEPT OUT” AND EXILED FROM EVERY LABOR UNION. THIS IS THIER GAME..USE THE MONEY FOR SAVING THEMSELVES AND PAYING POLITICIANS TO GET THEM OUT OF INDICTMENTS…HOW DO i GET TO DO THIS?
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