{"id":156,"date":"2007-12-04T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:21:55","slug":"if-violence-occurred-on-the-picket-line-police-should-have-made-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/if-violence-occurred-on-the-picket-line-police-should-have-made-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf violence occurred on the picket line, police should have made arrests\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor union officials enjoy many extraordinary powers and immunities created by legislatures and the courts, including the powers to shake down workers for forced dues payments and even to wage campaigns of violent retaliation against nonunion employees.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, union violence is protected by judicial decree under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrtwc.org\/facts-issues\/fuva.htm\" title=\"Freedom from Union Violence Act (FUVA)\" target=\"_blank\">federal Hobbs Act<\/a>. Meanwhile, many states similarly restrict the authority of law enforcement to enforce laws during strikes. As a result, thousands of incidents of violent assaults by union militants have gone unpunished.<\/p>\n<p>A prime example today &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.ibj.com\/ASPXPages\/6iframes\/FrontEndArticlesDetailPage.aspx?ArticleID=08329&amp;NoFrame=1\" title=\"Non-union workers claim \u2018attack\u2019 at project\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Indianapolis Business Journal<\/i><\/a> chronicled union violence directed at nonunion workers a Hilton construction site:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\t\u201cPickets\u2026slashed 14 tires, cut a telephone line to a trailer and put glue in locks late last week\u2026. The superintendent, Kim Lackey, also said the union-based picket line hurled racial and sexual slurs at the construction workers, many of whom were minorities and women.\u201d \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But despite this thuggery and property destruction, law enforcement was AWOL:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\t\u201c&#8230;if violence occurred on the picket line, police should have made arrests.\u201d \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Union officials enjoy <i>numerous<\/i> exemptions and special privileges \u2013 and workers pay a high price which sometimes includes their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/node\/54\" title=\"Violence Event Data File\" target=\"_blank\">lives<\/a>. To read the full list of Big Labor\u2019s Top Ten Special Privileges, click <a href=\"\/d\/big_labor_special_privileges.htm\" title=\"Big Labor's Special Privileges\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor union officials enjoy many extraordinary powers and immunities created by legislatures and the courts, including the powers to shake down workers for forced dues payments and even to wage campaigns of violent retaliation against nonunion employees.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, union violence is protected by judicial decree under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrtwc.org\/facts-issues\/fuva.htm\" title=\"Freedom from Union Violence Act (FUVA)\" target=\"_blank\">federal Hobbs Act<\/a>. Meanwhile, many states similarly restrict the authority of law enforcement to enforce laws during strikes. As a result, thousands of incidents of violent assaults by union militants have gone unpunished.<\/p>\n<p>A prime example today &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/cms.ibj.com\/ASPXPages\/6iframes\/FrontEndArticlesDetailPage.aspx?ArticleID=08329&amp;NoFrame=1\" title=\"Non-union workers claim \u2018attack\u2019 at project\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Indianapolis Business Journal<\/i><\/a> chronicled union violence directed at nonunion workers a Hilton construction site:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\t\u201cPickets\u2026slashed 14 tires, cut a telephone line to a trailer and put glue in locks late last week\u2026. The superintendent, Kim Lackey, also said the union-based picket line hurled racial and sexual slurs at the construction workers, many of whom were minorities and women.\u201d \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But despite this thuggery and property destruction, law enforcement was AWOL:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\t\u201c&#8230;if violence occurred on the picket line, police should have made arrests.\u201d \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Union officials enjoy <i>numerous<\/i> exemptions and special privileges \u2013 and workers pay a high price which sometimes includes their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/node\/54\" title=\"Violence Event Data File\" target=\"_blank\">lives<\/a>. To read the full list of Big Labor\u2019s Top Ten Special Privileges, click <a href=\"\/d\/big_labor_special_privileges.htm\" title=\"Big Labor's Special Privileges\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cIf violence occurred on the picket line, police should have made arrests\u201d - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/if-violence-occurred-on-the-picket-line-police-should-have-made-arrests\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cIf violence occurred on the picket line, police should have made arrests\u201d - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Labor union officials enjoy many extraordinary powers and immunities created by legislatures and the courts, including the powers to shake down workers for forced dues payments and even to wage campaigns of violent retaliation against nonunion employees.Sadly, union violence is protected by judicial decree under the federal Hobbs Act. 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