Carpenters Union Bolt AFL-CIO

In a sharp slap in the face to AFL-CIO bosses John J. Sweeney and Richard L. Trumka the United Bhd. of Carpenters pulled out of the federation on Mar. 29. A continued affiliation with AFL-CIO not only was a distraction for UBC, said UBC boss Douglas J. McCarron, but an impediment. McCarron said UBC needs […]

Ohio Local Settles DOL Suit with New Election

Int’l Union of Electronic Workers Local 801 in Moraine, Ohio, has agreed to hold a new election for officers under the supervision of the Dep’t of Labor in Nov. The agreement, approved Jan. 23 by U.S. Dist. Chief Judge Walter H. Rice, was reached in a lawsuit filed by DOL in Sept. 1999 accusing Local […]

Boss Wilhelm Defends Chicago Trusteeship

Just before a hearing focusing on the trusteeship imposed on Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Int’l Union Local 1 in Chicago, HERE boss John Wilhelm justified his actions. In a Mar. 13 statement, Wilhelm alleged financial and managerial deficiencies with Local 1, which for decades had been HERE’s flagship. Wilhelm pointed to a sharp decline […]

Coia Suspended From Law Practice in Rhode Island

Arthur A. Coia, ex-boss of the Laborers’ Int’l Union of N. Am., was suspended from the practice of law for two years by the Rhode Island Supreme Court in an opinion dated Nov. 20 because he engaged in “a serious crime involving dishonesty.” The court declined to issue a lesser penalty that Coia requested–a public […]

Jury Convicts Boxing Boss in New Jersey

On Aug. 17, a federal jury in N.J. found Robert “Bob” Lee, Sr., ex-boss and founder of the Int’l Boxing Fed’n, guilty on six counts of union corruption. He faces 37 to 46 months in jail for convictions on three counts of racketeering, two counts of tax evasion and one count of money laundering. U.S. […]

Pension Funds Sued for Self-Dealing

Three retired carpenters — Horacio Grana, Phillip R. Helsius, and Walter J. Sprenger —  filed a suit Jan. 14 seeking the removal of penion plan directors and advisors for alleged self-dealing and other ERISA violations.  The federal suit charged that Douglas McCarron, UBC president, and other directors of the Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for S. […]

Las Vegas Boss under Attack

Unidentified dissident members of the Clark County Education Ass’n in Nevada have recently circulated bulletins under the name the Committee to Impeach Sue Strand. Strand is the top boss of CCEA. They accuse Strand of greed and utter incompetence. One bulletin focused on Strand’s apparent indifference to union corruption. It quotes some of her published […]

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