Here is a copy of the indictment of twelve Operating Engineers Local 17 union officials we first discussed last week.

The 62-page indictment details a brutal and sustained campaign by union officials to terrorize employees and employers, in an effort attack employers whose workers haven’t chosen unionization, and to force employees into forced-union dues paying ranks. Included in the indictment is a 33 page list of 75 individual acts of thuggery that includes:

• A stabbing
• A broken windshield that cut an employee’s face
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars in vandalized construction equipment
• Threats against nonunion workers
• Running the license plates of nonunion employees
• Slashed tires
• Threats against going to the police
• Locking employees in and out of their workplace
• Throwing coffee at employees and their vehicles
• Sabotaging construction equipment
• The use of "star nails" to flatten employees’ tires
• Death threats