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The "unions'" history of violence? Talk about re-writing history.[/QUOTE]
Rewriting what history?
I worked as non-union office staff at a manufacturing company a number of years ago. The union at that company went on strike for four months. I still had a job to get to, and I was chased by pickets a couple of times because I dared to try to get to my job.
Then there's these references. Feel free to prove they never happened.
Union violence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Examples of union violence include:
- 2004 AFL-CIO push their way into a Republican field office in Orlando FL, breaking the wrist of one staffer. AFL-CIO member Van Church is unrepentant: "If his wrist was fractured, it's a result of his own actions in jerking the door the way he did."
- 1999 - During protests by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1547 against a non-unionized workforce getting a contract, picketers threatened and assaulted workers, spat at them, sabotaged equipment, and shot guns near workers. The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the union had engaged in "ongoing acts of intimidation, violence, destruction of property".
- 1999 - During protests by Laborers' International Union of North America Local 310, picketers punched a worker, and threw coffee cups at workers.
- 1999 - Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 120 were convicted of striking a worker, and imprisoning another one in a truck trailer.
- 1998 - Teamsters Orestes Espinosa, Angel Mielgo, Werner Haechler, Benigno Rojas, and Adrian Paez beat, kicked, and stabbed a UPS worker (Rod Carter) who refused to strike, after Carter received a threatening phone call from the home of Anthony Cannestro, Sr., president of Teamsters Local 769.
- 1998 - During the Communications Workers of America U.S. West strike a worker was threatened with a gun, and a manager was hit in the head with a rock.
- 1990 - on the first day of The New York Daily News strike, trucks were attacked with stones and sticks. One union member was immediately arrested for transporting Molotov cocktails. Strikers followed replacement laborers and threatened them with baseball bats. Strikers then started threatening newsstands with arson, or stole all copies of the Daily News and burned them in front of the newsstands. Independent sources estimated over a thousand reports of threats. The newspaper recorded over two thousand legal violations. The Police Department, recorded more than 500 incidents. 50 strikers were arrested. Bombings of delivery trucks became common, with 11 strikers arrested on one day in October.
- 1984 - Taxi driver David Wilkie was killed by NUM strikers while driving a non-striking worker during the UK mining strike
- 1983 - Eddie York was murdered for crossing a United Mine Workers (UMW) picket line.
- 1926 - Striking workers derail The Flying Scotsman train with over 100 passengers on board
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Union Violence Victim Wins Settlement Against Teamsters Union | National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
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National Right to Work Foundation attorneys have forced Teamsters Local 769 to pay a monetary settlement for its direct involvement in a bloody attack on Rod Carter during the 1997 nationwide Teamsters strike against United Parcel Service (UPS).
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The SEIU and Union Violence: When will the violence stop, Mr. Stern? | RedState
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According to the Center for Union Facts, an average of nearly 300 incidents of (reported) union violence occur every year. In one example, a three-year strike conducted by the Teamsters against the trucking company, Overnite Transportation (now UPS Freight), produced 55 shootings and prompted the Teamsters to settle with the National Labor Relations Board by posting a four-page notice on the union’s website where the union agreed that (among other things):
“WE WILL NOT brandish or carry any weapon of any kind, including, but not limited to, guns, knives, slingshots, rocks, ball bearings, liquid-filled balloons or other projectiles, sledge hammers, bricks, sticks, or two by fours . . ..
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Government, at any level, is not in the business to make a profit.
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No, but it has to live within the budget that taxpayers are willing to support. Obama and his buddies are discovering that now. |