The Reader's Digest used to have lots of articles about corrupt unions...

[Archae]

Usually with a "happy ending" of those corrupt union officials going to jail and the union disbanded.

And I'm sure we all still remember the Jimmy Hoffa days of the Teamsters.

Are there still unions that are corrupt?

[former9thward]

1. Yes unfortunately,many.

The Laborers Union in most areas is under mob influence.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-da-feds-smoke-mob-influences-liuna-union-article-1.122926

The Teamsters have never completely freed themselves. The Longshore Union in the East and South is mobbed up.

[WillyT]

2. WTF ???

Nice smear you have going...

[clarice]

3. Calm down...he/she just asked a simple question.

And yes, there are many corrupt unions. More good than bad thankfully.

[WillyT]

6. Ok... Fair Enough... But Let's Do It In This Order... 1) Clean Up Corrupt Politicians...

2) Clean up corrupt Politics

3) Clean up corrupt businesses

4) Clean up corrupt lawyers/judges/lobbyists

Then... we can work on cleaning up corrupt unions.

[Archae]

7. I agree.

BUT...

To listen to the right-wing, you'd swear any and every union is corrupt.
(Even though that isn't true, naturally.)

I mean heck, my BIL is the head of a local union!

The Reader's Digest used to be very right-wing, and that included anti-union attitudes.
(I don't know if they still are, nowadays the Reader's Digest is nearly unreadable due all the ads.)

[clarice]

8. agree 100%. nt

[Scuba]

4. Yes, there are corrupt unions, corrupt corporations, corrupt politicans, corrupt judges ....

... corrupt police, etc., etc., etc.


But only the unions get crucified in the press.

[TexasProgresive]

5. +1 divided by 0 or infinity

[Chorophyll]

9. Exactly this. nt

[El_Johns]

10. +1

[okaawhatever]

11. We have to remember that at the same time the mafia infiltrated the unions

they infiltrated the police forces, construction, trucking, shipping, the health care industry, waste industry, cigarettes, liquor and was taking a cut from most small businesses in New York, NJ, Chicago and other large cities. The younger folks have no idea what a death grip the mafia had on everyday life. The unions weren't any more willing participants than any of the other businesses they took over.


FWIW I read recently that the mafia in Italy was busted for infiltrating renewable energy sector.

Recent developments prove that the mafia has evolved and infiltrated industries that don’t bring Al Capone to mind. Case in point: Italian law enforcement has recently uncovered deep links between the Cosa Nostra and wind and solar power companies, seizing around 30 percent of the wind farms built in Sicily and freezing more than $2 billion in various assets. A dozen crime bosses have been carted off in handcuffs, along with corrupt officials and business people.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/stories/has-the-mafia-infiltrated-the-renewable-energy-industry

[demigoddess]

12. we have to remember

Reader's digest did slant to the conservative side.

[Rex]

13. Do you have any idea who is in charge of the Teamsters Union now?

Same as it ever was.