union corruption

    UFCW Bosses Busted For Racketeering, Extortion, Money Laundering & More…

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 28th at 02:30 PM  | 

    A powerful United Food & Commercial Workers local union (348s) in New York was closed for business on Thursday as police arrested three family members who run the union local. Police arrested the president, former president, and treasurer of Local 348 United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) on Thursday. Anthony Fazio Sr., John Fazio Jr., and Anthony Fazio Jr. were charged with racketeering, | Read More »

    CWA Members Seeing Red After Union Bosses Blow Dues Money on Themselves

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 7th at 08:00 AM  | 

    There’s an internal war going on in one of the Communications Workers of America’s largest locals, New York City’s Local 1101.  Accusations of poor, absentee leadership has caused a group of rank and file stewards and chief stewards to start a campaign to reform the local. Now, the issues have involved the CWA International in Washington, which has placed a monitor over the local due | Read More »

    AFSCME official admits embezzling $180,000 intended for ACORN affiliate

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 26th at 12:25 PM  | 

    It’s been said that there is no honor among thieves… An AFSCME official stole $180,000.  Big news?  Not really.  Union corruption in the form of union bosses stealing from their members happens all the time.  What is surprising  is when union bosses steal from one of their own. A former union official from Milwaukee has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling about $180,000 of union | Read More »

    The Union Protection Racket: Union members need protection…from union bosses

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 21st at 08:25 PM  | 

    Remember that piece we posted the other day about the 400lb union boss who stole $300k to blow on hookers and gambling? Well, on Saturday, the New York Post had a great piece on union corruption that started with this: Remember why unions were formed in the first place — to protect workers from being taken advantage of? Nowadays, the rank-and-file mostly need protection from | Read More »

    Violent & corrupt NY Laborers’ Local 91 can’t seem to shake its past

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 27th at 01:47 PM  | 

    With 60 to 65% of its members unemployed, things are heating up inside Niagara Falls’ infamous Laborers Local 91 (of the Laborers International Union of North America or LIUNA). According to the Niagara Falls Reporter, the union has local leadership elections going on and the union bosses are at war with each other. Leadership of Laborers Local 91 here has become so fragmented that current kingpins | Read More »

    The Teamsters & the Mob: Just when you thought we were past all that…

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 10th at 02:18 AM  | 

    Just when the SEIU was starting to dominate the union press these days, the good old Teamsters have to come along and steal the show for a few minutes. Yeah.  They’ve got a history they’d just as soon forget…except when it’s not really history. From a Justice Department press release on Tuesday: Indictment Unsealed Charging Colombo Family Administration Member Theodore Persico and Seven Other Defendants | Read More »