I have received the below video from Mark Mix of the Right to Work Committee. It presents a history of acts of union violence against workers and ends with a plea from Mark Mix to sign the petition to Congress to sign the Freedom from Union Violence Act. I have signed it. I hope you will too.
http://www.righttoworkcommittee.org/FUVA1a_video.aspx?pid=0305a
No way, Jose.
ReplyDeleteIf someone in a position of responsibility in a union is committing acts of violence, they can certainly be arrested, indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced. Its the same set of laws that apply to Wall Street brokers and CEOs. Making a special point of "union violence" is an ulteriorly motivated ideological agenda. By the way, were the guys who beat up Walter Reuther at the overpass arrested?
When you find police departments categorically refusing to investigate acts of violence because "it's OK, he's with the union" this act might be worthy of consideration. But history teaches that the opposite is more often the case.
Quick quiz, Siarlys: How many Teamsters presidents can you name that never went to prison ?
ReplyDeleteJimmy Hoffa Jr, for starters. As I recall, when he ran for the office, and was asked about Mafia ties, he responded, you're talking about the people who killed my father. Did Jackie Presser actually go to prison? Frank Fitzsimmons? The UPS driver who was the one-term TFD president? Even Daniel J. Tobin? Cornelius Shea was indicted many times, but he died in 1927.
ReplyDeletePresser was certainly well connected to the mob, but doesn't seem to have served time. He was also an FBI informant, and forged a close relationship with Ronald Reagan. :)
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteWell, based on your response, I take it all back. Clean as a hound's tooth as they used to say.
You take what back? You've changed the subject at least three times.
ReplyDeleteSing the freedom from union violence act...
How many Teamsters presidents have never gone to prison?
Is the union clean as a hound's tooth?
When are you going to stay on one point and actually try to defend or make sense of it, instead of dancing around the mulberry bush or tip-toeing through the tulips?
I didn't dance, tip-toe nor stutter. Unions are rife with corruption.
ReplyDeleteAh, you merely stumbled then, it wasn't deliberate. All human institutions are rife with corruption. The only way to eliminate it entirely is to shut down all human institutions. But then someone would start a protection racket in the resulting anarchy. The best we can hope for is to keep corruption down to a dull roar, whether in the AFL-CIO or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
ReplyDeleteIn my great-grandfather's time, the United Mine Workers of America had a clause in the union constitution barring from membership anyone who was a member of the Nazi Party, the Communist Party, or the Chamber of Commerce.