{"id":2599,"date":"2002-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:30","slug":"worker-rights-advocate-comments-on-resignation-of-afl-cio-president-from-scandal-plagued-ullico-board-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/worker-rights-advocate-comments-on-resignation-of-afl-cio-president-from-scandal-plagued-ullico-board-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker Rights Advocate Comments on Resignation of AFL-CIO President From Scandal-Plagued ULLICO Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Washington, D.C. (December 3, 2002)<\/b> \u2013 The following statement was released by National Right to Foundation Vice President <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a> regarding AFL-CIO President John Sweeney\u2019s decision to resign from the board of directors of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company (ULLICO) after the board refused to release Governor Jim Thompson\u2019s report on insider stock sales: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it\u2019s encouraging to see John Sweeney now expressing outrage about the actions of the ULLICO board of directors, where was his outrage when the insider trading originally took place\u00bb   As a member of the board, Sweeney ratified the insider stock plan that enabled top union officials to make significant personal profits at the expense of workers and union pension funds invested in ULLICO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe frenzy by ULLICO\u2019s president and officers to block the release of Governor James R. Thompson Jr.\u2019s internal investigation suggests that the criminal wrongdoing by top union presidents may have been even more pervasive than originally suspected.  If these individuals are threatened by an internal report prepared by a governor who was widely known to be a union partisan, then we can only imagine how damning the full truth may be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal grand jury should hand down its indictments, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) should get moving on its investigation of unfair labor practice charges filed by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys against ULLICO and its union directors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. (December 3, 2002) \u2013 The following statement was released by National Right to Foundation Vice President Stefan Gleason regarding AFL-CIO President John Sweeney\u2019s decision to resign from the board of directors of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company (ULLICO) after the board refused to release Governor Jim Thompson\u2019s report on insider stock sales: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Worker Rights Advocate Comments on Resignation of AFL-CIO President From Scandal-Plagued ULLICO Board - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/news\/worker-rights-advocate-comments-on-resignation-of-afl-cio-president-from-scandal-plagued-ullico-board-0\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Worker Rights Advocate Comments on Resignation of AFL-CIO President From Scandal-Plagued ULLICO Board - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. 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