Today's Doomsday Alert

I know that some of my earlier posts sounding the alarm about the NLRB likening unions to terrorists may have sounded a little too dire. Okay, well how about plain old criminalization of unions? Does that bother anyone? Read this article about a Teamster president who was caught on FBI wiretap, taped by the employer he was negotiating with.

I know, you think: Teamster, wire tap, same old story - hookers, concrete, Hudson Bay, blah blah, Hoffa, blah blah. But in this case, the Teamster was not alleged to be engaged in any kind of racketeering (at least not so far as the article says). "Federal authorities say Partin threatened to report the company for illegally discharging ethylene dicloride into the Mississippi River if it didn't pay the wages of eight union members for hours of work they missed during the negotiations."

I am not giving a legal opinion about whether what he did is right or wrong. But it is very troubling that the FBI taped 8 contract negotiations meetings to catch him saying it.