Union boss goes off at meeting, prison guards say

The Washington Times ^ | Sunday, March 20, 2011 | Joseph Weber and David Hill

[midwyf]

And it is all non taxable since unions are “non profits”. It is past time to end the non profit status of every group with assets of half a million or more.

[GeronL]

These people are insane. Leftism is a real mental dosorder!

[dennisw]

The guy doesn’t get it. Democrats expect their rank-and-file to be mindless drones who do what they are told to do.>>>>>>>>>

And most importantly to pay pay pay those union dues that fund the lavish lifestyles of porky union bosses and the rest given to Democrat hacks to buy them off come contract negotiation time

[GeronL]

You can buy a lot of Democrats with that kind of loot.

They have. The NEA also takes some pretty insane stands, a lot of posts on FR about that

[chickadee]

Ah, glad you mentioned that - unions must pay taxes on funds used for political purposes. Landmark Legal Foundation has filed a complaint (again) with the IRS on the NEA’s lack of tax compliance.

[Abundy]

This guy's problem is his entire audience are pretty conservative as they live and work up here in Western MD...

with the exception of a few douchenozzles in the local union, most of them get the fact that when taxes go up they get hit along with the rest of us..

plus we cling to our guns and religion up here and don't care for the idiots down state

[ryderann]

This is merely the modern-day version of the mob shaking down the mom and pops for “protection” money.

[Walkingfeather]

“Prison guards at a Western Maryland correctional facility say a union boss berated and tried to intimidate them”
One has to wonder, how you go about intimidating a guy that gets paid to be intimidated by prisoners all day?

[spokeshave]

“At first, I thought it was some kind of act or Charlie Sheen moment,” said another guard, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal. “We just looked at one another, bewildered. These were legitimate questions. We’re supposed to go to Mr. Berger if we have concerns — and he called me a Republican.”

Welcome to the party pal.

[Leisler]

...and he called me a Republican.”

Well, how much can a man take, really?

[susannah59]

They filed a complaint, a grievance, on the union guy? I love it!

I worked in management in a unionized facility, and the union was a huge thorn in our sides.

This will probably open a lot of eyes about how things really are, especially the part about how non-members still have to pay into the union. Well, maybe a few eyes, anyway.

[oh8eleven]

Union boss goes off at meeting, prison guards say
Life imitating art ...

"A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as
security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union."

[digger48]

#12. Service Employees International Union— $29,140,232 (D)95% (R)3%

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000077

[digger48]

#8. National Education Assn-—$32,024,610 (D)93% (R)6%

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000064

[chickadee]

Thanks - a great resource. I bookmarked it for future use:)

[kittymyrib]

Ah...Nancy Pelosi’s home state is still promoting the old union/mafia life style that her crooked father was part of. She must grow nostalgic when she reads this report.

[talac_121]

Some things need clarified as the reporter was not able to or willing to put the entire quote. Berger said, “You must be a f**king republican, ya piece of sh**.” I was the one who he said that to. I asked him why AFSCME needs service fees if they spent $90 million on democratic campaigns last year. Good luck trying to intimidate a group of 80 correctional officers, but the only resource we had available to us to fight this forced unionization was to go to the media. Also the person he attributed the quote to wasn’t responsible for it.