{"id":26625,"date":"2015-10-01T13:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26625"},"modified":"2015-10-01T13:15:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:15:55","slug":"massachusetts-holds-teamsters-local-25-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26625","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Holds Teamsters Local 25 Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Globe<\/a> yesterday\u00a0posted the indictment of five members of Teamsters<\/a> Local 25 for their attempts at shutting down a film crew in the Boston Area.<\/p>\n

Some excerpts from the Indictment:<\/p>\n

Company A was not a signatory to any collective bargaining agreement<\/a> with Local 25. Company A hired its own employees (“the Crew”), including drivers, to produce and participate in the filming of the show and did not need any work performed by Local 25.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…On or about June 9, 2014, an individual from the Omni Parker House<\/a> notified Company A that, despite their prior agreement, the Omni Parker House would no longer permit Company A to use its location to film because the hotel did not want to be associated with a Local 25 picket. As a result, Company A found a new location for filming outside the City of Boston<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Restaurant A is a restaurant<\/a> located in Milton, Massachusetts<\/a>. At around 9:00 a.m. on June 10,2014, defendants<\/a> REDMOND, HARRINGTON, JOHN FIDLER (“FIDLER”), ROBERT CAFARELLI (“CAFARELLI”) and RICHARD JEFFREY (“JEFFREY”) showed up at Restaurant A. REDMOND, HARRINGTON, FIDLER, CAFARELLI and JEFFREY are all members of Local 25. Two or three of the defendants entered the production area and began walking in lockstep toward the doors of the restaurant where they chest-bumped and stomach bumped Crew members in an attempt to forcibly enter the restaurant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout the morning, the defendants continued to use and threaten to use physical violence<\/a> against members of the Crew and others. The defendants yelled profanities and racial and homophobic slurs at the Crew and others. The defendants blocked vehicles from the entryway to the set and used actual physical violence and threats of physical violence to try and prevent people from entering the set. On one occasion, the defendants prevented a food delivery truck from delivering food. The defendants were also observed by the Crew standing in close proximity to cars belonging to the Crew, nine of which were later found to have had their tires slashed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unions have a place in America when they act within the law. This sort of behavior is simply unacceptable. Unfortunately there are unions who do this sort of thing during election campaigns. While working on a campaign in Massachusetts<\/a>, I encountered union political activists that blocked supporters of other candidates from entering the\u00a0parking lot of a building where a candidates’ debate was held. I also witnessed attempts to intimidate supporters of the candidates the union did not support.<\/p>\n

I have no problem with protest. I have no problem with picketing, but I do have a problem with threatening people and damaging their property. Unfortunately, if these men are sent to jail, the union will support their families while they are away, and they will pay no lasting penalty for their misdeeds. The men involved need to be required to make serious restitution for the tires they slashed and any other property they damaged. If that happens, it will come from union funds, but it still needs to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Boston Globe yesterday\u00a0posted the indictment of five members of Teamsters Local 25 for their attempts at shutting down a film crew in the Boston Area. Some excerpts from the Indictment: Company A was not a signatory to any collective … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[785,3344,9441],"class_list":["post-26625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston","tag-greater-boston","tag-teamsters-local-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26626,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26625\/revisions\/26626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}