Brutal union attack on workers at a church school leads to two plea deals.
From the Center on National Labor Policy (which has a related civil case still pending) news release:
On January 7, Union President Jeffrey Veach and Business Agent Thomas Williamson demanded that D5’s owner sign a union contract and hire only its members, free choice was not an option. D5’s owner refused the demand. Announcing to D5 they would take the matter “old school,” the union officers gathered union members and led a coordinated mid-afternoon assault on D5’s owner and its employees at the school. The attack occurred when parents were picking up their children.
When the owner of D5 refused, I became angry, calling him a “c..t” and a “scab bastard” and grabbing his jacket. I also said that we were going to have to “take things back to old school.” By “old school,” I meant committing acts of violence against D5 and its workers….
Veach and I then gathered up rank-and-file members of Local 395 to return to the jobsite that afternoon. Local 395 members attacked the D5 workers and beat them with fists and loose pieces of hardwood, kicking them while they were on the ground. As a result of the attack, one D5 worker sustained serious bodily injury in the form of a broken jaw, that required several surgeries, extended hospitalization, and medical treatment.
D5?