VIOLENCE:
ORGANIZED LABOR’S
UNIQUE PRIVILEGE
Sixty years after the rise of organized labor’s political machine during the New Deal, union officials remain the only class of citizens allowed, under federal law, to commit violence against their fellow citizens.
Under the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Enmons decision, union officials may destroy property, assault employees, and even murder them, and escape prosecution under federal extortion laws, so long as such violence is undertaken to secure what the Supreme Court called “legitimate” objectives, such as wage increases.
Our investigation of labor violence has revealed thousands of incidents of vandalism, arson, assaults, threats and murder perpetrated by union officials and their agents compiled from newspaper reports over the past two decades. As discovered from an in-depth investigation of the New York Daily News strike of 1990, such violence is often planned by union officials who seek out an employer’s vulnerable points, and move on to other points when they fail to exact enough punishment.
The scope of this crisis is underscored by the fact that while the Institute has compiled about 500 reports of union violence since 1975 in New York state, the New York City Police Department recorded more than 500 violent incidents in the 1990 Daily News strike alone.
http://thelaborers.net/HISTORY/violence_union_privilege.htm
Illegal Labor is the Feds out for preserving the status quo regarding Taxes and Regulation..
Predatory tax and regulatory policies-actions that basically serve to perpetuate and grow governments-leave what business is left in the country seeking disposable labor.
Union Labor..as long as it involves the corporatist companies that are part of the fascist government gets to enjoy some degree of the illusion of privilege-as long as it is willing to function as the hammer to those organizations refusing to support the fascists.