{"id":2471,"date":"2011-09-07T02:40:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2011-09-07T02:44:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:44:13","slug":"labor-day-redux-union-thugs-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/labor-day-redux-union-thugs-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Redux: Union Thugs Respond"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Union thug Richard Trumka and his buddy Barack <\/figcaption><\/figure>I’ve come under some fire from a few union lackeys over my Labor Day post<\/a> — teamsters who have contacted me to tell me how misguided my closing lines actually are. You see, in describing unions as having a long history of hatred and violence toward non-union members like me, I’m accused of being “unfair.” <\/p>\n

Well, I wonder.<\/p>\n

Via Michelle Malkin,<\/a> who has been indefatigable on this subject: <\/p>\n

Meet Eddie York. He was a workingman whose story will never scroll across Obama\u2019s teleprompter. A nonunion contractor who operated heavy equipment, York was shot to death during a strike called by the United Mine Workers 17 years ago. Workmates who tried to come to his rescue were beaten in an ensuing melee. The head of the UMW spearheading the wave of strikes at that time? Richard Trumka. Responding to concerns about violence, he shrugged to the Virginian-Pilot in September 1993: \u201cI\u2019m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you\u2019re likely to get burned.\u201d Incendiary rhetoric, anyone?<\/p>\n

A federal jury convicted one of Trumka\u2019s UMW captains on conspiracy and weapons charges in York\u2019s death. According to the Washington, D.C.-based National Legal and Policy Center, which tracks Big Labor abuse, Trumka\u2019s legal team quickly settled a $27 million wrongful death<\/a> suit filed by York\u2019s widow just days after a judge admitted evidence in the criminal trial. An investigative report by Reader\u2019s Digest disclosed that Trumka \u201cdid not publicly discipline or reprimand a single striker present when York was killed. In fact, all eight were helped out financially by the local.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Illinois, Trumka told UMW members to \u201ckick the shit out of every last\u201d worker who crossed his picket lines, according to the Nashville (Ill.) News. And as the National Right to Work Foundation<\/a> (pdf), the leading anti-forced unionism organization in the country, pointed out, other UMW coalfield strikes resulted in what one judge determined were \u201cviolent activities \u2026 organized, orchestrated and encouraged by the leadership of this union.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trumka washed off the figurative bloodstains and moved up the ranks. As AFL-CIO secretary, he notoriously refused to testify in a sordid 1999 embezzlement trial involving his labor boss brethren at the Teamsters Union. No surprise. Thugs of a feather: Trumka\u2019s violence-promoting record echoes the riotous Teamsters strikes dating back to the 1950s, when the union organized taxicab companies to target workers with gas bombs, bottles and fists.<\/p>\n

And now, Trumka is spearheading a Democratic Party get-out-the-vote campaign by far-left groups \u2014 publicized in the revolutionary Marxist People\u2019s World \u2014 to \u201cenergize an army of tens of thousands who will return to their neighborhoods, churches, schools and voting booths to prevent a Republican takeover of Congress in November and begin building a new permanent coalition to fight for a progressive agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Take those as literal fighting words. The bloody consequences of compulsory unionism cannot be ignored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, according to the FBI<\/a>, “four of the last eight Teamsters presidents have been criminally indicted and since FY 2001, racketeering investigations have yielded more than 2,000 indictments and awarded more than $3 billion in fines and restitution. In past union elections, Hoffa\u2019s team was caught laundering union funds for electioneering and for campaign polling on dues-payers\u2019 dime.”<\/p>\n

(Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

And here’s more:<\/p>\n