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More Details About Indicted IUOE Local 17 Union Officials
By Patrick Semmens
Created 15 Apr 2008 - 5:37pm

Here is a copy [1] of the indictment of twelve Operating Engineers Local 17 union officials we first discussed last week [2].

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
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[1] http://www.nrtw.org/files/nrtw/IUOE17INDICTMENT.pdf
[2] http://www.nrtw.org/blog/union-thugs-indicted-targeting-non-union-workers