NILRR Newsclips 09 12 2011

Union Violence of little interest to media

American Thinker Online, 9/09/2011

Over 500 people “storm” private property, break windows and
vandalize other property, wield baseball bats and crowbars, make death threats,
and allegedly hold six guards hostage. Fifty law enforcement officers respond.
U.S. Marshalls are placed on standby to enforce a related injunction issued by a
federal judge.

Union violence is not rare. The National Institute for
Labor Relations (NILR) has collected over 9,000 reports of union violence since
1975 and the actual number is much higher–by as much as a factor of ten. Only a
fraction of such offenses result in arrest and conviction.

Trumka the Chump

Weekly Standard Online, 9/09/2011

In sum, the leader of the nation’s largest union — who was
an honored guest of the White House at the president’s jobs speech last night —
thinks it’s appropriate to commemorate the tenth anniversary of horrifying and
deadly attack by foreign terrorists that killed thousands of Americans by
attacking a host of other Americans whose cardinal sin is not agreeing with
Richard Trumka.

Strikes and Violence: National Labor Relations Board Investigates Longshoremen
Union for Strike Gone Wrong

Fox News Online, 9/09/2011

They overwhelmed guards, smashed windows in the guard shack
and dumped grain. Six guards were trapped for a couple of hours, Longview Police
Chief Jim Duscha said. He initially referred to the guards as “hostages,” but
later retracted that after the guards clarified no one had threatened them.

“The guards absolutely could not get out,” Duscha said.
“They feared for their lives because of the size of the crowd and the hostility
of the crowd.”

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