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Unions are THUGS

As democratic sponsored unions are becoming more and more obsolete they are still up to the old tricks of the trade.


FBI agents arrested several union members of Philadelphia’s Ironworkers Local 401 Wednesday on multiple counts including arson, violent crime in the aid of racketeering, and conspiracy under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

The 49-page indictment details how members of Local 401, who called themselves “the Helpful Union Guys,” or “THUGS,” allegedly extorted, intimidated and bullied businesses and contractors, forcing them to hire union members, even when they were “unwanted, unnecessary and superfluous.”

Members used arson, vandalism, sabotage and occasional violence to retaliate against those who chose to use non-union workers, the indictment says. Local 401 members were also allegedly behind the arson attack on a Quaker meeting house just days before Christmas 2012, which resulted in $500,000 in damage. The indictment also accuses two ironworkers of participating in a 2010 baseball-bat assault on non-union workers building a Toys R Us store in King of Prussia.

As unions continue to funnel money into the Democratic Socialist party it's not surprising the liberal MSM will not cover this story, or the ones before it, or the ones that will follow.

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As we proved with Public Unions here in Wisconsin, the only remedy to the cancer that is a Union is a classic beat down.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/371514/philadelphias-union-thugs-indicted-jillian-kay-melchior

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