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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: CG6468 on November 26, 2011, 12:13:34 PM
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Ah, yes. Gotta luv dem unions...
Ironworkers union official charged with bribery; son pleaded guilty to embezzlement last week
Published: Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 3:30 PM Updated: Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 3:30 PM
Ron Zeitlinger/The Jersey Journal By Ron Zeitlinger/The Jersey Journal
NEWARK -- A former official with an ironworkers union based in Jersey City accepted more than $14,000 in bribes to get non-union workers jobs at a union construction site in Hudson County, authorities said today.
James J. Kearney Sr., 75, of Belleville, former business manager and an employee of Local 45 of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers, was charged with soliciting and accepting bribes, the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey said.
Kearney, who faces up to five years in prison and a $500,000 fine, made his first court appearance in Newark this afternoon.
Honest and open - again (http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/11/ironworkers_union_official_cha.html#incart_mce)
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I am just so glad we have unions in our lives. Without them, those big bad corporations would be ruling THE WORLD!
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I am just so glad we have unions in our lives. Without them, those big bad corporations would be ruling THE WORLD instead of union thugs.
Finished that for you.
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I am just so glad we have unions in our lives. Without them, those big bad corporations would be ruling THE WORLD!
Hard to imagine that there truly WAS a time when unions were necessary to curb the abuses of management. That was what, about 80 years ago?
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Hard to imagine that there truly WAS a time when unions were necessary to curb the abuses of management. That was what, about 80 years ago?
No one has mentioned that this Union man's son embezzled $560,000 from the union funds.
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No one has mentioned that this Union man's son embezzled $560,000 from the union funds.
Peanuts, nothing much to complain about, look at all the good they did for the workers. They should have paid them more...blah-blah-blah [DU/mode].
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A New Jersey union official prosecuted for taking bribes? It is to laugh. The only reason this dumbshit is getting prosecuted is because he was cutting the union's throat on dues, taking bribes to get non-union workers on the jobsite. If he'd been forcing employers to put phantom employees on the payroll so the mob could collect the salaries and the union could collect the dues, he wouldn't have a care in the world.