{"id":2917,"date":"2010-12-10T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T10:09:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:07:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:07:16","slug":"union-bosses-forced-to-drop-200-000-lawsuit-against-unemployed-carpenter-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/union-bosses-forced-to-drop-200-000-lawsuit-against-unemployed-carpenter-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Bosses Forced to Drop $200,000 Lawsuit against Unemployed Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Chicago, IL (December 10, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters (CRCC) union bosses have dropped a lawsuit against an unemployed carpenter for working to provide for himself and his family after union officials had no work for him.<\/p>\n<p>After he lost his full-time job, Richard Crenshaw \u2013 who specializes in door carpentry \u2013 was hired by a friend who was a contractor.  Up until then, Crenshaw was working as a handyman to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>A CRCC union official discovered Crenshaw was working at his friend\u2019s jobsite and union officials initiated internal disciplinary proceedings against him.  The union hierarchy levied a fine of $201,250 and filed a civil lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County.<\/p>\n<p>CRCC union bosses dropped the lawsuit after attorneys from the National Right to Work Foundation took up the case for Crenshaw providing free legal representation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unconscionable for union bosses to attempt to drive unemployed workers into the poorhouse in vicious retaliation for providing for their families,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, Legal Information Director of the National Right to Work Foundation.  \u201cConfiscatory fines and kangaroo courts are just some of the disturbing, yet increasingly-used tactics of union boss intimidation that are all too common in states like Illinois where there is no Right to Work law on the books.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Chicago, IL (December 10, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters (CRCC) union bosses have dropped a lawsuit against an unemployed carpenter for working to provide for himself and his family after union officials had no work for him.<\/p>\n<p>After he lost his full-time job, Richard Crenshaw \u2013 who specializes in door carpentry \u2013 was hired by a friend who was a contractor.  Up until then, Crenshaw was working as a handyman to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>A CRCC union official discovered Crenshaw was working at his friend\u2019s jobsite and union officials initiated internal disciplinary proceedings against him.  The union hierarchy levied a fine of $201,250 and filed a civil lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County.<\/p>\n<p>CRCC union bosses dropped the lawsuit after attorneys from the National Right to Work Foundation took up the case for Crenshaw providing free legal representation.<\/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-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Union Bosses Forced to Drop $200,000 Lawsuit against Unemployed Carpenter - 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\/union-bosses-forced-to-drop-200-000-lawsuit-against-unemployed-carpenter-0\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union Bosses Forced to Drop $200,000 Lawsuit against Unemployed Carpenter - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chicago, IL (December 10, 2010) \u2013 Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters (CRCC) union bosses have dropped a lawsuit against an unemployed carpenter for working to provide for himself and his family after union officials had no work for him. 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