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Former Union Official Sentenced for Violent Extortion Details Written by Justice Department Indianapolis, Indiana - An Indiana man and former business agent of Iron Workers Local 395 was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act extortion. Thomas Williamson Sr., 70, of Schererville, pleaded guilty on Jan. 24, 2020. According to court documents, Williamson organized and led an assault on a group of non-union ironworkers as part of an attempt to obtain a contract to perform construction work on the Plum Creek Christian Aca...

Thomas Williamson Sr., 70, of Schererville, pleaded guilty on Jan. 24, 2020 . According to court documents, Williamson organized and led an assault on a group of non-union ironworkers as part of an attempt to obtain a contract to perform construction work on the Plum Creek Christian Academy, a school affiliated with the Dyer Baptist Church in Dyer, Indiana. In January 2016, Williamson learned that a non-union ironworking company was performing work for the Dyer Baptist Church, which he considered to be in Local 395’s “territory.” On Jan. 6, 2016, Williamson visited the construction sit...

Endorsement. afl cio, it seems like they are waiting for joe biden or being swayed by bernie sanders. this is the stuff hillary planned to have locked down by now. >> i think within organized labor there's a collective sense of not jumping the gun. nobody wants to be taken for granted. they were against the trance pacific trade agreement and lost that fight and they are not happy about it. they are not happy about being taken for granted by democrats. i don't think any labor unit with possible exception of the national education people the teachers would make an endorsement. i do work for the ...

And into the 46 pages of school board operations we need to teach about the union's labor unit. and we don't know what they're teaching in the classrooms. i haven't been in the classrooms to listen to how the teachers are teaching it. i have my doubts. >> just moved back to wisconsin and now all this -- you also have not been disrupted for working through the strike. do you regret putting your kids back in the school system with this type of angst? >> absolutely not. i believe in the public school system. my husband and i are both, you know, came out of the public school system and i think it'...