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As the MSM whitewashes Big Labor’s ugly threats, Tea Party smears, and history of coerced dues-subsidized racketeering this Labor Day, what better way to mark the holiday than with an illustrated list of top 10 union thug moments of the year.9. February 23, 2011, Washington DC. CWA union thug strikes young female FreedomWorks activist.
Most people don’t know it, but the Supreme Court’s 1973 Enmons decision exempts union officials from federal prosecution for violent activities “used to gain legitimate union objectives.” This baffling immunity gives union thugs license to harass, intimidate and even attack independent-minded workers.(full story at washingtontimes.com)According to figures compiled by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, the media has reported more than 12,000 instances of union violence over the last three decades. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg - incidents that didn’t make the morning paper point to a much larger, unreported total.
Union violence reflects Big Labor’s coercive approach to organizing. Instead of relying on persuasion, union officials have increasingly resorted to threats and compulsion to swell their forced-dues-paying ranks. In states without right-to-work laws, non-union employees can be fired if they refuse to pay union dues.
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York (1901)
South Africa declares war on Germany (1939)
9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian 'Black September' terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt; 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day (1972)
The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007 (1983)
b: Jane Addams (1860), Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (1888), Vulko Chervenkov (1900); d: Hendrik Verwoerd (1966), Margaret Sanger (1966)